Terri's music
"I always sang or hummed it seemed to calm the anger in my house while growing up. I got yelled at and hit growing up but never for singing or humming.
It was always curious to me when I would meet people that I could always hear music coming from them, you know like their personal scent. I figured every one could hear music and it applied to people, places, and things. The music was like chants around people - usually has no words, just vocal sounds which makes them very powerful and personal. It helps me 'see' people better…if some thing is missing in their soul, it's like an unfinished phrase."
In her youth she sang at many pow-wows and continues to sing at colleges and schools as well as write and record songs.
She has several CDs to her credit.
Blue Moon - Tribal Chants and Songs
By Terri Rivera and Laney Goodman
Time : 60 minutes
Submitted for nomination to the Tenth Annual Native American Music Awards (2008).
In the Arms of The Mother - A Wellness Meditation
By Terri Rivera and Laney Goodman
Time: 21 minutes
Price: $10 + $3.50 s/h
Please email Terri to order this meditation.
Contemporary Native American Music
By Terri Rivera
This is Terri's first recording. The album was chosen as a runner up in the world category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 1999.
Email Terri for more information.
Terri's music has also been featured on two DVDs:
- Max Dashú's "Women's Power" from her Suppressed Histories Archives dedicated for more than 30 years of research and gathering of information to put a global perspective on women's power.
- The award winning documentary "Metis - Of Mixed Blood." Produced in 1999 by Barbara Cook, the film documents the life of Mechi Garza, a Native American Elder and Medicine Woman.
Current projects
- New cd release scheduled July 1st 2008.
- World Music Seminar - Wilmington College
Terri gives a presentation in world music every semester at a local college.
As part of the presentation, the students get to experience a sweat lodge.