Sonia Lee

Chance To Start Over

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Best Selling CDs

Price: $14.99

Other CDs By Sonia Lee

• True
• From The Heart

Songs and Samples

Chance To Start Over*
God's Time, Not Mine
Let Me Lean On Your Love
Trouble
Wild Flowers In The Grass
The Woman I Meant To Be
Finish Line
God Shaped Hole (In My Heart)
Everywhere I Go (There I Am)
Trail of Light**
I Still Miss You
God's Been Good To Me

* SoberCafePodcast.com Theme Song
** Heard on 12StepRadio.com

Some Nice Things People Have Said

Sonia's new CD, "Chance to Start Over," is full of messages of peace, hope and metamorphosis. Sonia intimately speaks of the multitude of emotions that one goes through when moving through a life changing transformation - grief, fear, faith, joy and ultimately a new found sense of peace. Her beautifully written songs leave you feeling inspired and wanting to hear more.
- Debbie Carroll,
MusiCares

Sonia Lee's latest CD is not only for people in recovery. It is for anyone wanting to grow spiritually in this adventure called life. Because it nourishes the soul and frees the heart, it may be required listening for the women at my retreats!
- Jane Marzoni, Director,
Soul Spring Retreat, Bon Aqua, Tennessee

Wow! I'm in the middle of my first real undistracted listening of your CD ... and it's REALLY great! I love the songs, the lyrics are very moving, your vocal delivery is touching and compelling ... I'm a bigger fan than ever!
- Lance Hoppen,
Original member of Orleans ("Still the One")

Sonia's talents uplift and inspire everyone who is lucky enough to hear her.
- Jeff Moyer, Music Director,
Unity Church of Christianity, Chesterland, OH

About Sonia Lee

Rochester, New York native, Sonia Lee moved to Nashville with a dream to write songs. That dream began as a first generation Ukrainian American with parents that preserved their heritage of music in their daughter's upbringing.

She began to sing at the age of three and to play the guitar at age twelve (at Ukrainian camp when the guitar player didn't show up!). Sonia learned to carry on the family tradition of decorating Easter eggs (pysanky), Ukrainian folk dancing, and embroidery of beautiful Ukrainian patterns.

Her heritage was not her only influence. She loved music from the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, and the American folk music she grew up around in upstate New York.

For years following her move, Sonia sat in the audience of the famous Nashville songwriter mecca, the Bluebird Cafe, dreaming of being a songwriter. During that time, she relied heavily on alcohol, and Sonia now often talks candidly about the problems that reliance caused in her life.

In her quest for recovery, Sonia met a network of support and friends that helped her learn a new set of principles for living and a totally new outlook upon life. From that moment, Sonia Lee's life changed for the better, one day at a time.

Sonia began to write by herself, as well as with co-writers who held like beliefs in themes of love, forgiveness, and recovery. And she began to sing in songwriter rounds at the Bluebird, where she'd watched so many great songwriters perform in the past.

Sonia's producer, Kim McLean, was one of the songwriters with whom she formed a friendship, and later a creative partnership in the studio with her first project, From the Heart, a fresh collection of traditional Ukrainian folk songs.

With great critical acceptance, and a successful tour of Ukrainian audiences across America, and even a visit to Ukraine, Sonia's dream was not yet completely fulfilled. She still felt an ever present need to express her own creative voice in music.

So, a heartfelt conversation with McLean, led to the recording of her second CD, True, an album of self-penned and co-written anthems and touching ballads composed from the tapestry of Sonia's own "True" life.

In 2006, Sonia performed at the world renowned Kerrville Folk Festival, hailed as the festival for up and coming songwriters. She earned the prestige of being chosen as one of thirty-two finalists out of the more than 800 applicants.

As a singer/songwriter, Sonia writes from personal experience - - she has been sober and in recovery from alcoholism for eleven years. So it's not surprising Sonia drew a standing room only crowd during her CD release party for her third CD, Chance To Start Over, at Nashville's Bluebird Café in January 2007.

Chance To Start Over carries a positive message of the faith and strength that Sonia has found in recovery. Anyone who has faced difficult times, regardless of the challenge, will find an uplifting message in each of the CD's twelve songs.

A Message From Sonia Lee

If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you are someone who has had to overcome a significant challenge in your life. Eleven years ago my life came to a crossroads – I had to make a decision. I chose a new path, and that's when my journey beganp.

This CD is dedicated to all the other earthlings I met on the path (God knows I'm an earthling, so He speaks to me through you!) who gave me their time, love, support, and most importantly who taught me how to use the spiritual tools that have transformed my life. I no longer have a deep regret over my past because it has made me who I am today – imperfect as that may be. But I'm OK with that because today I know how to live . . . one day at a time.

Being sober has allowed me to follow my dreams, one of which was to make this CD. I thank you for buying it, and now we are part of each other's journey. Whether your journey began years ago, or is just now starting, my hope is that you will hear something in my songs that will help you grow, heal, find serenity, and inspiration.

Eleven years ago I found a quote by an American actress, Mary Pickford (1893 – 1979). I wrote it down and have read it over a million times: "If you have made mistakes, you may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." Years later, it inspired the title track, Chance to Start Over. Don't give up before the miracle happens.

With much love,
-Sonia Lee