Listen to "Rhythm of Our Hearts" by
Grammy-Nominee
Bill Pere, , the 2012
Voices For Hope finals song on YouTube
Rebekah Philip &
Kelly Masotta
2011 Voices For Hope winner Rebekah Philip came to the studio to
record "Hope". She also came along with 1st runner-up Kelly
Masotta, and the duo recorded "When People Care"
Our 2010 Voices For Hope winner is 15 year old Santana Roberts, of
West Greenwich RI. Santana participated in the 2007 competition, and
she placed third. In July 2010, Santana came to the studio
and recorded "Time at the Table" which was the final audition song for
the 2010 event. She has sung the song several times
in live performance with Bill and Kay, and had some radio play as
well.
Listen to Santana on YouTube
Angel Martin &
Mackenzie Ackley
Our 2010 second place winner, is Angel Martin age 12, from
Brooklyn, CT. Our 3rd place winner , 11-year old Mackenzie
Ackley, is from Mystic, CT. These two young girls with big
voices were perfectly suited to join us in the studio as a duo to
record "The Orphan's Lament", a song from Bill's children's musical
"Pegasus".
Listen to Angel & Mackenzie on YouTube..
Jaclyn Sabogal
Voices For Hope '06 winner Jaclyn Sabogal, from
Massachusetts (center) visits Bill Pere and Kay Pere at their
studio to work on recording. Jaclyn sang "The Dream Held
In Your Eyes", released on the CD "Dare to Dream", January 2007
In June 2008,
Samantha And
Stefanie Schaufler,
VFH '07 winners from Rhode Island, recorded a special song written for them called S.A.S.S
(Sisters Against
Sad Societies), released as a
special CD-single,
July 2008, and distributed throughout Europe, 2009
In August 2009, Caroline Zocco, our 2009 VFH
Winner recorded "All of Us God's Children", which was the finals
audition song for the 2009 competition. Bill Pere, as
Official Connecticut State Troubadour, was asked to write the song for
the Special Olympics World Games in New Haven, CT, in 1995 . Listen to Caroline
on You Tube
Julie Lavery
Julie Lavery, the 2007 winner from Whitman, MA visited Bill and Kay in August 2007 to
record "Angels on Horseback", released as a special
CD-single, Summer 2007
Kayla Bogan
Kayla Bogan, a Voices For Hope 2006 winner from Brick, New Jersey, came to work with Bill and Kay,
recording a new version of "Jump Start (All of Your Dreams)", released on the CD "Dare to Dream", Spring 2007
Julie Novak
n June 2007, Julie Novak, along with several other
Voices For Hope entrants joined with the LUNCH Ensemble for a concert
at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, with the original members Harry
Chapin's Band
