God Sees You: Music, Faith&Mental Health featuring Shanta Atkins - a podcast by Fireflies Unite

This week’s episode features Grammy Award Winning Gospel duo "Mary Mary" baby sister Shanta Atkins. After overcoming her person struggles with depression, being a support to her peers who overcame suicide and providing counseling to teen girls, Shanta’s shares why she birthed her new single “God Sees You” that tackles mental health. The words to the song are powerful and needed for such a time as this. It will encourage you to hold onto your faith and remind you that your life is worth fighting for.

Meet Shanta Atkins!

Shanta is the youngest of nine children and is no stranger to the world of the music. Sister to the Grammy Award winning Gospel duo "Mary Mary", she has always been surrounded and intricately involved in the music industry since childhood. She has performed on the Soul Train Awards, BET Awards, Jay Leno Show, Arsenio Hall Show and for Oprah Winfrey. She can be heard on recorded projects with Kanye West, Mary Mary, Jason Champion, Al Green and Dorinda Clark-Cole. She has sung background for Natalie Cole, U2, Yolanda Adams and BeBe Winans. Shanta penned & produced her second single “God Sees You” which is available on all digital music outlets.

With life wrapped in her voice, her spiritual upbringing inspired her to lend her gifts and talents to the forgotten and emotionally wounded. She can be found in impoverished communities across the globe serving and empowering women, men and children. She uses her natural and spiritual gifts and talents to help heal hearts and empower souls.

Shanta is an avid promoter of education and her professional career encompasses the work of an educator, missionary, and activist. She is Executive Director of Love Changes Lives Inc. which is an organization that offers spiritual counseling, personal empowerment, vocal coaching, summer music programs & biblical education.

Shanta Atkins:
http://www.shantaatkins.com
Shanta’s IG & TW
@itsshantaatkins
CNN Article On Music Therapy:
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/health/music-therapy/index.html

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