Joyful: The Voice Artists
Greetings!
Today I’m so excited to share a little bit about my voice artists from my new album, Joyful: A Rosary Companion. I met Rocco Ambrosio in the theatre department my freshman year at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where I also met his future wife, Sarah. The three of us collaborated on many theatrical productions over the years we crossed paths at college. One of my favorite projects we worked on was The Living Stations of the Cross (in which Rocco directed and I composed both instrumental and vocal compositions).
As I started to plan my album, I knew that getting the right voices to pray the rosary was going to be vitally important, just as important as the music! We all know the experience of listening to an audiobook or course where by the end where the narrator’s speaking voice has grated on your last nerve!
In all of school plays in which Rocco acted, I remembered his voice, and I had a feeling he would be great for the album. In addition, he has a great Marian devotion. The next step was finding the album’s second voice. I asked Rocco’s wife, Sarah, if she would send in an “audition“ recording of her praying the rosary, and the vocal quality of her voice blew me away! Again, it was important to find someone who not only had a clear and nice-sounding speaking voice, but someone who was heartfelt and 100 percent sincere, and Sarah was all those things!
While I originally didn’t intend to have a husband and wife praying the rosary, I feel like it works incredibly well for the Joyful Mysteries, which revolve so much around the experiences of Mary and Joseph. Also, the rosary is a prayer that my own husband and I turn to time and time again, both separately and as a couple.
Now, introducing, Sarah and Rocco!
Sarah Ambrosio
Sarah Ambrosio works as an actress and voiceover artist in Los Angeles, CA. For the past eight years she's pursued performance centered around the Human Condition. With a Catholic lens, she's able to bring a level of depth and morality to her work that would otherwise simply entertain, and as a contemplative by nature, Joyful: a Rosary Companion, is a natural outlet for the collaboration of her faith and art. Sarah hopes you find peace and draw closer to the Lord through this Rosary.
Rocco Ambrosio
Rocco Ambrosio is a Los Angeles based filmmaker with deep theatre roots. Inspired by St. Pope John Paul II's Letter to Artists he works to uphold the dignity of the human person while exploring the human condition through the stories he tells. He hopes that you encounter our Lady's heart through this Rosary and let the fruits of each mystery bring you closer to Jesus through Mary.