Alexandra Lajoux Welcome, Friends! This singer-songwriter and producer writes and recruits as the Spirit moves! For links to my most recent recordings, please visit my label's website, americanclassicrecordings.com (ACR), or look me up on places like itunes.com. ACR has released several albums over the past several years, alternating between original secular songs and classic hymns. Many of the tracks feature yours truly. The first project, My Country (2006), was a singer-songwriter album featuring yours truly. To its glory, it featured guest vocalists Doc McKinsey and Eric Townsend, as well as inspired instrumentals from Andrew Acosta, Jeff Severson, Christopher Sexton, Steve Magnusen, and others. See more details at AlexisMusicStudio.com, dedicated to veterans and active-duty military. Our song "We Thank You" is posted at americasupportsyou.mil. Please visit and express your appreciation for our brave men and women in uniform. The next album released under the ACR label was "Day of Praise," released in April 2007. Guest stars included Wesley Robinson, Noreen Freeman, Angel Sheppard and daughters, Jarvis Smith, Jonathan Hopkins, Kendra Miller, Aaron Bunche, and Emmanuel Jackson. The album features familiar hymns and two originals--"Break the Yoke" by Angela Sheppard and "Holy Spirit" by Alexandra Lajoux. For the rest of 2007 and 2008 your heroine returned to songwriting, releasing two maxi-singles: Texas/Liberty and I Relove You/Je Retaime, featuring songs about my two favorite subjects--my country and my husband! In early 2009, I recorded a rock version of "Danny Boy" as a tribute to a friend. Later in 2009, my direction returned to religious music, singing hymns with singers and musicians from several churches in the greater Washington, D.C. area. In early 2009, we released What a Friend We Have in Jesus (in a new arrangement by Joe Warfield)/He Is Great (original composition), featuring singers from Macedonia Baptist, Arlington, VA; First A.M.E., Alexandria; Woodstream, and Hunter Memorial A.M.E. Featured singers, arrangers, and songwriters included Joe Warfield, Dorothy Thomas, and many others. Next to come that same year was One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus, with vocals by Rayshun LaMarr, Robin Walker, and (leading track 1) yours truly. This album has been well received around the world. The title track, featuring Lajoux and LaMarr, has received more than 1,000 paid downloads and many more streams from all over the globe! In 2010, a sacred silence reigned. I stopped recording music to spend more time with my sweet mother Stella Swingle Reed, who was battling cancer and other ills with a grace that left me forever astonished at her courage and the goodness of God. In 2011, with my mother's encouragement, I returned to the studio and for the next year, thinking always of her, recorded hymns with the amazing tenor Chris Dennard working with gifted co-producers Jarvis Smith (keybord) and Jeff Severson (guitar). Please look for our 2012 Blessed Assurance tracks on any major music retailer on the web. A final word: Mes Amis, Meine Freunden, Miei Amici, Mis Amigos, if you have suggestions for future recordings, or comments on any here, please drop me a line. (I read French, German, Italian, and Spanish, and can decipher a number of other languages, so if you are too shy to write in English, go ahead and write your own language. I will write back.)