Defining Beauty

Danielle Rose (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 2001)
• Original Release Date: July 1, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Heart Beat Records
• ASIN: B00005NDN9
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,005 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Danielle is the 2005 United Catholic Music and Video Association (UCMVA) Unity Award Winner for Female Vocalist of the Year! Occasionally an artist will come along and simply wow you with the scope and depth of her artistry. In Defining Beauty, Danielle gives us fresh, lyrical writing with perceptive and mature reflections on God's beauty. Electric. Stimulating. Provocative. This WLP artist is truly one of a kind.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the voice of an angel..., July 25, 2001

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TJ (Notre Dame, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Defining Beauty (Audio CD)

Danielle Rose's debut CD is superb in every way. The lyrical content is both spiritually comforting and challenging - some of the most insightful, truthful songwriting I have come across. Danielle's music is played in a simple, folksie style, reminiscent of Jewel, Sarah MacLachlan, and the Sundays...and the quality of her voice is certainly on par if not better than those artists. The overall sound is fantastic, and at times rather diverse, spanning from Pop, to Gospel, and even to a bit of Country on one track. Songs like "God Is", "No Greater Love", or the strikingly beautiful acapella tune "Shelter Your Name" will stick in your head through their catchy refrains, while other tracks such as the title track, "Defining Beauty", are deeply reflective and meditative. Do your self a favor and buy this album! The music will touch your soul, I promise you.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Musical prayers of Christian mystical theology, April 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Defining Beauty (Audio CD)

This is an extraordinary CD in every respect. I say this as someone who does not normally like Christian popular music at all. The 12 "songs" on this CD are in fact prayers set to music, they are hymns of praise and profundity. Danielle Rose has written highly original, moving lyrics about central Christian themes, set them to expressive melodies in a variety of genres, sung them with a voice of beautiful, crystalline clarity, and tastefully enriched them with sensitive accompaniments. This young woman's obvious, overflowing love for God is interwoven with and channeled by mature theological understanding, much in the tradition of great mystics like St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. One sees it in her poetry of paradox ("You are all I am not / Oh, you are all that I am"), in her unexpected images ("Can you squish religion into your black hole of truth?"), and in her extended, incisive metaphors that manage to be at once simple and many-layered, as in "Sonrise." "One Day Love Came to Me" is a profound reflection on the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel to Mary, seamlessly wedded to the way in which God comes to all of us, soul by soul, and challenges us to do his will rather than our own. "Bleed to Heal" probes the mystery of Christ's redemptive suffering on the cross, referenced to his body and blood in the Eucharist in the CD notes. And "Give and Take," the final song on the CD, captures uncannily what it means to let nothing separate us from the love of God in Christ: if you [Christ] made me deaf and mute, "I would praise you for the silence"; if you made me blind, "I would praise you for the darkness"; if you shattered my existence and identity, "I would praise you for the brokenness." And yet it is not we who sacrifice for Christ, it is he who "gave everything up / So that nothing . . . / not even death, can stand between our love." One cannot fail to be impressed and moved by the way in which Danielle Rose has given beautiful expression to the tradition that she has inherited. To my mind, this CD was a wonderfully unique and creative example of what Pope John Paul II has called "the new evangelization." May Danielle's musical ministry prosper!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A one-of-a-kind artist praises God from her soul!, September 28, 2001

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Paul A. Tate (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Defining Beauty (Audio CD)

Danielle is an exciting, new artist who I had the pleasure of meeting and working with this summer. Her music is sincere and full of emotion. She has an obvious love of God that she wishes to share with all those around her through her music. The production is simple and straight-ahead, with glistening acoustic guitars and simple, soaring harmonies. To hear and see her in person is truly a gift, but owning this CD is the next best thing. Order yours today -- you won't be disappointed.