“Whisperers is about my daughter Tamara who passed shortly before her second birthday of a sudden illness. I wrote the song after passing her urn every day and feeling sad for her. I thought about all the life she missed, the love, school, everything. My son Oskar has been growing up - getting bigger. Her pictures remain the same as his go through all the various stages of childhood. Tamara is perpetually two-years old. She lost her voice. She aches for love in Whisperers.Fiona has the perfect voice for the song. She is also approximately the same age that Tamara would have been. She is an old soul. She has both beauty and pain in her voice. For me, Fiona bridges the gap between our world and the one that Tamara is sadly in.” David Baron, 2020
Whisperers (album credits)
Fiona Glenn was born and raised in the beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley. She is thirteen years old and has been singing and writing songs since she could talk. She has had the honor of sharing the stage with quite an array of talented artists including: Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, and Amy Helm.
Donna Lewis is a Welsh singer-songwriter and record producer from Cardiff, Wales. She is best known for the 1996 pop hit single "I Love You Always Forever", which peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart, and also peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States. In the United States, "I Love You Always Forever" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks, having been held off the summit by the Bayside Boys Remix of "Macarena" by Los Del Rio. It also became the highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 by a Welsh artist since Bonnie Tyler topped the chart with Total Eclipse of the Heart in 1983. Additionally, the single holds the record for being drawn for third place among songs with the longest runs at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and at second for most weeks at number one on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart. Lewis teamed up with Richard Marx in the 1997 adult contemporary hit "At the Beginning." In 1997, Lewis was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Female.
Lettie is a London based singer songwriter composer who has, since 2008, released three albums with David Baron to much critical acclaim. She is a obsessive postcard collector, film obsessive and photographer and has collaborated with Anthony Phillips, John Cooper Clarke and toured as a support for Peter Murphy over the years.
Dan Whitehouse is an acclaimed English singer/songwriter who’s classic sounding songs have been described succinctly as ‘Black Country Soul’. Dan has toured and collaborated with Joan as Police Woman, Kris Drever, Boo Hewerdine and Eddi Reader and The Little Unsaid alongside his own sell out headline shows and festival appearances.
Cindy Mizelle is one of the most in-demand session singers of contemporary popular music. She has toured and/or recorded with Whitney Houston, Dave Matthews Band, and on The Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, and Bruce Springsteen.
Ruth Unger Known for her earthy folk/soul vocals, Ruth Ungar co-fronts Americana quintet The Mammals with her husband Mike Merenda. When not on tour with their band and 2 kids in tow, they record and create near Woodstock, NY where they host a bi-annual music festival called the Hoot. Ruth's educational background is in theater, which accounts for her character-driven songwriting and vulnerable-yet-centered performance style. As a young child she was only exposed to traditional roots music and then was quickly launched forward thru the grunge era onto the East Village "anti-folk" scene of the late 90's where she and Merenda first met. Her parents are folk and country singer Lyn Hardy and fiddler/composer Jay Ungar (known for his tune Ashokan Farewell which was the theme for Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS.)
Madeleine is 11 years old and based in London. Her interests are many and varied but she loves singing, playing the guitar and gymnastics when she is not busy revising for her 11 Plus.