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Video location:
Mathews Business Center, Champaign, IL;
Wesley United Methodist Church, Urbana, IL
Video production:
Prairie Production Group, Champaign, IL
Hair: Erica Fultz-Boswell, Hair Teasers, Detroit,
MI
Melanie Robinson, Melanie's Creations, Champaign,
IL
Makeup: Erica Fultz-Boswell, Hair Teasers, Detroit,
MI
Charlesetta Smith, Champaign, IL
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Pictured (starting top, l-r): Cynthia Turner, Scharema Daniels, Lawrence Haynes, Karla Clark, Raphael Smith, Natalie Hamler, Whitney Keaton, Kimberly Keaton, and Vince Elam (not pictured: Stephanie Hamler)
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The group, "Cynthia Turner and Heartspeak", was formally created
in the summer of 2000 when husband-and-wife team, Kevin and Cynthia
Turner, chose to finally be obedient to a calling that had been
beckoning them for several years. The name, Heartspeak, was placed
on their hearts after reading Luke 6:45, "A good man out of the
good treasure of the heart bringeth forth that which is good...for
(out) of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." Heartspeak
is a small ensemble currently consisting of Karla Clark (Lansing,
IL), Scharema Daniels (Waukegan, IL), Vince Elam (Champaign, IL),
sisters Natalie and Stephanie Hamler (Chicago, IL), Lawrence Haynes
(East St. Louis, IL), mother-daughter duo, Kimberly and Whitney
Keaton (Champaign, IL), and Raphael Smith (Chicago, IL). The leader,
Cynthia Turner, is currently a professor of accountancy at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but considers music
ministry to be her ultimate calling.
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Seeking to reach the masses, their debut project, "Just Because,"
incorporates the contemporary and urban elements of jazz/hip-hop/r&b
music and combines them with a substantive lyrical message from
the Word. Written and produced exclusively by husband-wife team,
Kevin and Cynthia Turner, singles from the cd project are receiving
critical acclaim from insiders in both the gospel and urban music
industry. In 2002, Bobby Jones featured Cynthia Turner and Heartspeak
on his "Bobby Jones Presents" series, and Russ Parr of the
"Russ Parr Morning Show" featured cd single, "There's Not Another"
on his nationally syndicated program indicating that the cd project
was "like that!" More humbly, however, leader, Cynthia Turner,
accounting professor/singer/songwriter sums up the cd project as a
"testimony of what God honors most--one's avaiilability to Him." The
album also features the rap artistry of the Chicago-based rapper known
as E-Dilla.
A music video of the cd single, "There's Not Another," was released
in September 2002. Cynthia is married to Kevin Turner, the producer
and co-writer of this album, and is the mother
of two sons, Julien and Justen, and adult stepdaughter, Kialana.
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