"From My Soul To Yours" - Michelle Langone's debut Full-Length Album

Released November 1, 2024

It is hard to put into words how much this project means to me. Every single step along the journey of creating this changed the fabric of my soul and my reality forever. I became a completely different person in the process. This project asked so much of me, and required me to surrender every last part of myself that held me back in any way. It asked me to step into my highest, most embodied self, and to have the courage to share that with the world when for all the years prior to this moment in time, it felt much safer to hide in the dark. When I made the decision to commit to this project, which ultimately was the commitment to a lifelong career as an artist, I experienced many setbacks, but equally, many extraordinary miracles along this hero’s journey. I want to take you all back in time with me for a moment to help set the stage and prepare to listen to this album.

My story begins in 2019.

I spent an entire semester in college chronically fatigued, with a conglomeration of debilitating physical symptoms no doctor could ever figure out the root cause of, but deemed “incurable” and “of an autoimmune nature.” I stayed in bed most days, skipping class, writing poems from my bed while battling fevers, and dreaming of a better life. A life where I had the energy and vitality to express all of the magic I felt bubbling up from within me. A life of freedom, not stagnation. A life uncaged. A limitless life.

On April 22, 2019, I received a phone call that literally changed the course of my life forever.

See, I always had the desire in my heart to do exactly what I do now - to be someone who shared their creative gifts with the world as an artist. But at this time, I was studying History because I thought that going after my dream was not the logical thing to do, and that I would not be supported. That my dream was impossible, and I needed to do something more practical, like being a lawyer. I was taking pre-law classes and fully preparing myself to go to law school after college, despite every cell in my being screaming “no, don’t go down that path, you are not meant to!”

Cue the soul transformational journey of a lifetime—I finally surrendered to the highest plan for my life. What felt like true divine intervention to take me off the path that I was currently walking on out of fear and obligation, and place me onto my true, heart desired soul-led path came into my reality and shocked me like an electric jolt. It was at this point, that the belief I had in God as a child that I later rejected as a teen and young adult experiencing life’s troubles, came back in full force, because I witnessed what I deemed to be a miracle. A gatekeeper in the music industry had discovered 20 year old Michelle’s instagram video of her singing a cover of Lady Gaga’s song, “A Million Reasons.” They wanted to work with me to develop me as an artist.

At this time, my entire world took on a surreal, cinematic quality, as if I had just exited out of a dull, black and white silent film and entered into a world of vibrant, ethereal color. I suddenly felt like I was about to walk right into my destiny, something the deepest part of me knew I wanted all along but was too afraid to ask for it, or to take the action needed to position myself in that direction. Higher benevolent forces gently nudged me to take this path, and without fear or trepidation, I answered the Calling.

Through this extraordinary, ineffable experience, that can only be described as a “spiritual awakening” - more miracles ensued. I realized that I was not alone anymore in the universe - that somehow I had made contact with something much bigger than me, that heard my inner spirit’s deepest yearning and prayers. A soul longing to be expressed. To heal, to feel, and to come out of the darkness, and into the glorious light. I felt like God had called me back Home, after eons of feeling disconnected, fragmented, and separated from that divine unity with the Creative force that formed me and all that exists…

This experience (and the experiences that ensued) began an explosive timeline of RAPID transformation. Overnight, I dropped my addictions to alcohol, marijuana, a one-sided relationship, (all of which I had been struggling with since age 15), and corticosteroids I had been using since infancy to suppress my body’s chronically inflamed allergenic condition, and committed to a life of holistically healing my body, mind, and soul, commiting to my one, true, highest-aligned soul-based love, with whom I had began writing music with only a couple of months prior for fun and discovering my voice and message through those early experiences, and fully stepping into my soul’s purpose as a music artist here to serve in the collective awakening of humanity.

With this massive quantum leap towards changing my life in the positive direction, came a ton of clapback—I suffered my most intense NDE (near death experience) to date on May 31, 2019, only about a month after the news, as I began my holistic healing journey and was accidentally exposed to one of my deadly allergens. I was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance with the most intensely excruciating and severe case of anaphylactic shock which left me marred with necrotic tissue in my left deltoid from one of the myriad injections given to me that night. If you know me, you know this story.

But that did not stop me from living June-December 2019 as if I was no longer a human being in a limited body. Through my near death experience, I got in touch with the limitless, eternal part of me, who I truly am behind the ego construct that you know as Michelle Langone—my soul.

I learned that my soul was, is, and will always be. That I am a soul, and that I have a mind, and I have a body. And that suddenly, my mind and my body were finally being used properly as the vehicle for my soul, to live out an epic human existence and tell the story, through poetry and song.

From June 2019-June 2020, I simply trained my vocals by taking a weekly voice lesson, took dance classes, wrote some poems, and started a holistic healing journey that focused on diet, exercise, supplements, and energetic healing practices like acupuncture, yoga, and meditation. This was the time where I was “freeing up the space,” in my mind and body, to be able to be used as the vessel for these massive, divinely inspired projects to come through. During this time I did not write any songs, but instead only wrote potential song titles, and amassed a very large list of titles that I later referenced in my first songwriting sessions that began in August 2020 with my collaborators in Nashville, TN.

The first song of this project that you heard from me this year, “A Million Stars,” was that very first song we wrote at the first writing session, and the vocals you hear on the record are the first and only take ever recorded—at the actual songwriting session in my producer’s home studio. It was as if the momentum of my life’s experiences from the entire year prior all culminated in that moment. The irony of it all is, I hated the song at first, I felt it was too “poppy”. So I decided not to put it out…until much later. I had a complete change of heart, because this song really describes the origin of this epic journey.

After my first day of writing though, I was immediately met with disapproval by the leader of my team at that time, and was discouraged from bringing my own unique song ideas, concepts and poems to the writing sessions—I was told to “let the professionals do their thing, and don’t say anything. Just let them write for you.” Needless to say, this deeply upset me, as someone who cared so deeply about my own message as an artist and wanting to say exactly what I wanted to convey in each of my songs, knowing my music will outlive me when I am gone; each of my songs is my legacy.

I came home from that first series of writing sessions with a mixed bag of emotions, but overall content, because through my persistence in not listening to the leader, I was able to execute my own vision to the best of my abilities. However, some months went by, and my team at the time went quiet.

“Hello? Guys? Are we still making this EP?”

A couple months went by and I finally heard back:

“We think you need to write some more - not enough good pop/commercial records came from this first round to make the EP—let’s schedule 4 more writing sessions over zoom”

A little discouraged, I did as I was told. It turns out, only 1 song out of the 4 next writing sessions were “approved” to be on my EP. I had no idea who was “approving” or “disapproving” my songs, I was just being told what to do by the human being I established as my authority at the time to guide me in my journey in the music industry. I didn’t make a move without his approval.

January 2021 comes around, and I’m finally then “approved” to record a 5 song EP in Nashville. I complete the task, and return home, awaiting my next steps. More time goes by as I wait…

“Guys? I recorded my EP a couple months ago, are we going to put it out? I need some album art for it don’t I?”

At around this time, I was starting to realize something was fishy about this operation. I tried to keep my hopes up, but as more time went by, my project kept being put on the backburner with extremely slow response rates, and I started to feel like I needed to take matters into my own hands…my voice and my image and even worse, my life’s timeline and trajectory were no longer in my control and this deeply upset me.

In April of 2021 I was then asked for a copious amount of money upfront for one of his team members to create album art for me. I received back something that looked extremely unprofessional and at this point, felt like I had been stolen from. We got a lawyer involved.

In a feverish attempt to keep my dream of bringing my music into the world afloat, I teamed up with my high school friend Carlos Doce, who went to NYU for film to help direct my first music video for my single, “Made To Be,” a project that took us 8 months because it was the first time we had ever done something like this in our lives, and because I cared so deeply about that particular song, its message, and what I wanted to convey in the storyline of the visuals. Looking back, working on that project with him and my director of photography (who I still work with to this day) Angelica Bourland, truly kept my spirits up as I was facing a rather hopeless situation with the initial team I thought was going to help me reach my goals but pretty much abandoned me at this point.

By September of 2021, my chronic health issues reared their ugly head, and over a year had gone by since my first writing session. At this point, my original producer was no longer interested in working with me, and so I found the courage to use my voice and specifically ask my original leader (who was long gone at this point from guiding me in my journey) to find me a new producer to work with, because I was not happy with the current version of my EP and I was told not to put “The Sound of Your Voice” - a song I wrote on my second writing day in Nashville - on the album. I demanded that it be put on the album, because it was personally, my favorite song. It felt more authentically true to me than any of the others, and reflected the story of my soul’s awakening through love, creativity, and music - the legacy and message I wanted to build my entire career upon.

By October of 2021, he finally answered my request, and found me the guys I create with to this day, who helped me bring both “Coming Home” and “From My Soul To Yours” to life - the dynamic duo, Jake and Austin of Bhavior Music. This was the turning point of my entire journey. I use the exact vocal take from the original songwriting session in August of 2020 (yes, the one and only vocal take) of “The Sound of Your Voice” and let Jake and Austin work their magic. Simultaneously, I reach out to my angel co-writer Kayliann Lowe, who I met on day 2 of my writing sessions in Nashville (who was ironically the substitute writer that day assigned to me because I was originally scheduled to work with someone else) - and I express to her that I am not happy with my current EP. In the month of November 2021 I wrote out a vision for a whole new one - one with 7 songs on it - and she brought her brother Doug onto the project, and the three of us add 4 more songs - Heart and Head, Out The Dark, Home, and Freedom. Now I felt my EP was something I could be proud of thanks to the help of this particular team of angels that stayed with me into the next phase of my creative journey.

I make the decision to create another music video for this EP for “The Sound of Your Voice” with my friends Angelica and Carlos in the same month, and decide to put this single out first on February 11, 2022 (the date my team chose for me), followed by the single “Made To Be” and its music video on March 25th. I recorded the new songs for the EP in the months January-March, and by June 1, 2022, “Coming Home,” with the album art as a blank canvas representing the blank slate I became through the process of delivering my whole heart and soul into that project, was finally birthed.

Finally. A three year long process - for 7 songs. I felt drained to say the least, but content. That is, until I realized, my heart had many, many more songs to share, yet to be written, and I was out of funds, strategy - and my original team had left my reality completely at this point.

June 2022-September 2022 were spent in a liminal no-man’s-land where I truly did not know what was next for me. I made a split second decision to apply for UCF’s MBA program back in March because I did not have faith at this point that my music career would ever become a thing. I was so mentally, emotionally, financially, and spiritually drained from the process I underwent in the early years that led to the creation of that EP album, that I felt heavily discouraged from moving forward. I figured, “well, you went for it, and it didn’t pan out. You tried your best. Now go back into the real world and be practical…”

So I move to Orlando, FL, fully prepared to say goodbye to music and hello to a two year long MBA program.

After a couple of months of moving in and getting settled, the literal day before the program began, I froze. Something much bigger than me took over me and started directing my actions, acting quite erratically and irrationally, frankly upsetting my parents and frightening myself. I dropped out before classes began. I felt humbly surrendered to a force much, much bigger than the little me that had been steering the ship this whole time. I remember vividly hearing my assignment given to me in my spirit:

“You are going to write a 17 song album. You are going to name it, “From My Soul To Yours.” You will share your story of Finding Me in depth. It will be like the soundtrack to the movie about your awakening. You will write it from the perspective of expressing yourself to your true love, to God, and to all of humanity. This is an album about Divine Union. These are the titles of the tracks. Write these down:

A Million Stars The Flame Limitless The Key Breath Of Life The Anthropologist The One Connection Remember No Words Imagine This Under Our Tree Uncaged A World Of Our Own Original Heaven On Earth Eternal

I got to working as fast as my earthly self could gather the resources to begin.

“Kayliann!!! I have an idea for the next project… let’s write a single called, “Limitless!”

The single that officially began this project, “Limitless” was written with just Kayliann and I through zoom back in September 2022.

Two months later in November 2022, I propose the full album to her. She loves the concept and brings two angels onto our team: her brother Doug, who we worked with on the last 4 new additions to “Coming Home,” and the incredible Bill DiLuigi, her long time friend and collaborator she felt was the perfect match for my artistry because of his innate unique poetic lyricism that is on par with my vision. We formed our dream team together and the next song we worked on ended up being the finale track on the album — “Eternal.” During the writing session, Bill suggested we write the bridge in Italian, paying homage to my ancestry and bringing in my soul essence through my operatic singing in that portion of the song. I knew from that day forward he would be a collaborator of mine for life.

The rest is history. We wrote not only this album, but a whole other album coming next year, in the time span of November 2022-May 2024. During that time, a whole new team formed around me, as I suddenly took back control of my life’s purpose, destiny, and direction, and became the captain of my ship again as I decided to share the truth of my soul through these songs with the entire world. This was the year I decided to become Limitless, to break free from every chain holding me back, and inspire others through sharing this story of overcoming every battle to share the light that God placed inside each and every single one of us. Through God, all things are possible. I pray you find your deepest self through each one of these songs. God bless you eternally, and thank you for being here, witnessing the journey.

From my soul to yours,

Michelle