Belinda Underwood is a life-long musician and dancer who brings elements of the world's folk art traditions together with her own Western training and luscious soul-creation. An artist and traveler, she has enjoyed visiting other lands in order to study the roots and living masters of those traditions. She considers dance to be one of the most natural expressions of music and the body to be the instrument for that expression. Belinda got her earliest musical training from her jazz-pianist mother, followed by years of childhood lessons in classical violin. She is adept at artfully blending the elements of her training along with folk and world music influences to create art that is uniquely her own. A believer in music without the borders created by genres or cultures, Belinda composes and writes equally passionately about love and human evolution as she does trees and animals, using a clever wit to reveal the interconnectedness of all things.