Artist Information Biography BIOGRAPHY Lynette Yetter was born in Los Angeles, California and lives in La Paz, Bolivia. Renaissance woman Lynette is a musician/artist/writer who fell in love with the sound of the panpipes. The haunting sound resonated deep in her soul, stirring a seemingly genetic memory of what it is like to live at one with each other, the earth and the infinite. Following that call of these bamboo reeds, Lynette has been seeking to learn all that she can about the people and culture that created this instrument. In her process she has studied panpipes, kena and charango with Andean musicians in California, Guatemala, Peru and Bolivia. Lynette has recorded two CDs. Songs from her CDs have been used on television and in films on two continents, and are being played regularly on the radio in Bolivia, Ireland, and the U.S. Ms. Yetter is a member of the Society of Ethnomusicology, speaks Spanish and Quechua, and has conducted informal research in the collection of prehispanic musical instruments in the Museo de Archeologia, Antropologia e Historia del Peru in Lima. Lynette also is a member of the award winning indigenous autochthounous panpipe group Los Sikuris Huj Maya of Puno, Peru. Lynette is currently developing "Tales of the Andes" (working title), a feature-length film about a California free-spirit who goes to the Andes to follow her dream to be a panpipe player and gets tangled in political intrigue. Instrumentation Lynette Yetter is a soloist with invited musicians.  The line up on the recording is: Lynette Yetter - Composer/arranger, panpipes, kena, voice, drum, spoken word, antara nazca, kena chincha, percussion Hiroyuki Akimoto - Co-composer/arranger on Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, guitar, voice Juan Carlos Cordero - Co-arranger on Noqa Minero Kani, guitar, spoken word Rosario Paredo - Charango Alejandro Alarcon - panpipes, kena Discography AWARDS ACADEMY AWARD Nominated, Best Documentary, RECYCLED LIFE, (played panpipes on the opening title credits) BEST MUSIC VIDEO International, for "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo," Garden State Film Festival, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, March 2007 Music used in award-winning educational CD "Middle Ages, The Building of Nations", Teaching for Thinking, British Columbia, Canada. Named to the "Best Software of 2003" list at Children's Software Revue. FILM / TV CREDITS Heart of Art, Indie Film by Gail Bates and Carol Dunne Instrumentos Musicales Pre Hispanicos, tv show, Lima, Peru Life & Times, tv show, Los Angeles, CA Promo spots, interviews and performances on many tv and radio stations in Bolivia, South America DISCOGRAPHY Lynette Yetter, Inka Spirit / Espiritu Inciaco, AYNI Studios, Bolivia Lynette Yetter, Music of the Andes and More, Los Angeles, CA "World History, A Comparative Civiliaztions Perspective"; Teaching for Thinking, British Columbia, Canada "The Middle Ages, The Building of Nations"; Teaching for Thinking, British Columbia, Canada Aztec Stories Part 2: Tonalmachyotl, Los Angeles, CA Links http://www.musicandes.com Berklee