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Shirlie Roden
Shirlie Roden is a Welsh singer / actress / composer and Sound Healer.

Shirlie graduated from Warwick University with a BA (Hons) in English and European Literature.

She began her career with Ray Davies and The Kinks, touring America for three years as an actress / singer during their concept musical period. She left The Kinks to join the Gordon Giltrap Band for whom she also wrote lyrics.

The move to the theatre began in 1981 when she wrote her first musical Jeanne, based on the life of Joan Of Arc. A through composed piece, it opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and later transferred to Sadler's Wells Opera House as the first rock opera to be performed in that theatre. She wrote the family musical Paddington Bear's Magical Musical which toured successfully for a year for producer Bill Kenwright. This was released as Paddington Bear's Gold Record on vinyl and cassette. A second Paddington musical was commissioned, Paddington And The Seven Wonders, which has yet to be premiered.

Other works include T.S. Eliot's The Waste land which is set to music and underscored; new music and lyrics for Sue Townsend's Bazaar and Rummage;  The Miracle Of Trees, a forty minute music and poetry environmental piece which was performed at Lifestyles 2000 at Olympia. Other works include Celebration, a light hearted look at the Old Testament - her first collaboration with Royal Shakespeare Company writer and actor, John Kane.

As an actress Shirlie's diverse credits include playing Musetta in La Boheme at the Kammer Opera, Vienna and Frumah Sarah opposite Topol at the Manchester Opera House. Shirlie played prison officer Meg Jackson in the 1990 UK tour of Prisoner Cell Block H. She also played all six wives in a musical version of Six Wives Of Henry VIII.

Currently Shirlie is an experienced and acclaimed Sound Healer with a number of books and CDs to her credit.