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- Perched upon folding
chairs in a convention hall in Mesquite,
Nevada, a blister of a town
located 75 miles north of Las Vegas, an army
of truth seekers -
ponytailed dolphin-communicators, walking conspiracy-theory
encyclopedias in fatigues, cyberdelic technophiles, and skittish-looking
women in natural fibers - has gathered for one of the country's largest
UFO conferences. Pen and paper in hand, they are transfixed by the
statuesque
platinum blond who has taken the stage before them. Her
rhinestone-encrusted
lizard lapel pin dances under the spotlight as she
tells of a personal
journey of extraterrestrial contact, humanity's
reptilian origins and the
transcendental power of music.
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- Pamela Stonebrooke is
a professional jazz singer who
happens to be in touch with higher
beings. Her resonant contralto has been
described as a more aggressive
Billie Holiday, chased with Shirley Bassey,
and has a language unto
itself. Inspired by Holiday (whose birthday she
shares), Stonebrooke
assembled her first rock band at 16, and put herself
through Kent State
by singing six nights a week at Salem Topless Lounge
in Akron, Ohio.
After a sojourn through the cabarets of New York, Stonebrooke
moved to
Southern California in 1975. Soon after, she was invited to open
the
Playboy Club in Roppongi, Japan, which led to performances with the
country's top jazz musicians for the next eight years.
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- Returning from Japan to Los
Angeles, Stonebrooke carved
a reputation for herself within the local
jazz circuit. Not yet cognizant
of her otherworldly visitors, she
subconsciously expressed the experiences
in her music, performing as
Lilith in Exile (her dark, one-woman project
named for Adam's heretical
seductress) and as one half of Incubus, an atmospheric,
jazz-inflected
beat-box hybrid named for reptilian supernatural beings
that
materialize in the night to seduce humans.
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- "Reptilians are not a
politically correct species
in the UFO community," she says. Their
visits are often marked by
sexual liaisons and telepathic communication
with humans. Many UFO researchers
believe that the reptilians, while
both sinister and calculating, are the
ancient guardians of humankind,
interdimensional beings - deified by the
cultures of Babylonia,
Sumeria, India, Japan and Central America - that
genetically
manipulated man in prehistory and have been making return visits
ever
since.
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- A
practiced astral traveler, Stonebrooke had no interest
in
extraterrestrials until an unprovoked physical journey deposited her
in
the hull of a metallic spacecraft six years ago. Since then, she has
had numerous encounters with reptilian beings, who she believes are
preparing
her for an apocalyptic planetary unheaval: "I think
we're close to
having a global near-death experience - whether it's
brought about by Y2K,
solar flares, nuclear warfare, polar shifts or
suitcase bombs, something
has to wake us up."
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- To watch Stonebrooke perform is
to feel instantly evolved.
Clad in salmon silk, she packed the
Cinegrill for a recent concert, backed
by bassist Tom Warrington,
pianist Rich Eames and drummer Dick Weller,
trolling out smoky
renditions of Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under
My Skin," Van
Morrison's "Moondance," a number of originals,
and
improvising on Miles Davis, "All Blues." "Roger [Leir,
local podiatrist-cum-UFO researcher] got five phone calls from people in
the audience who had experiences that night," she says.
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- The favorite
entertainer of the late Gene Roddenberry,
Stonebrooke has only given a
handful of performances recently, some coinciding
with such UFO-related
events as the 50th anniversary of the space-saucer
crash at Roswell.
Much of her time has been devoted to writing Experiencer:
A Jazz
Singer's True Account of Extraterrestrial Contact, an entertaining
personal account of her reptilian encounters.
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- "When I first woke up to
these experiences, I had
a real hard time for about a year and a
half," she says. She retreated
from music and focused on
unraveling the nature of her extraterrestrial
adventures. Her
revelation that this planet could be "one big, terraformed
experiment" led to Experiencer, a "contact-inspired" album
of atmospheric, textured jazz, sprinkled with Third World percussives,
groovy synthesizers, flourishes of electric guitar and seductive horns.
Like a Sade with sass, Stonebrooke wraps her stellar pipes around wordy,
worldly lyrics of rain forests, romance and otherworldly visitors.
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- Billing herself as
"The Intergalactic Diva,"
Stonebrooke sees her music and
forthcoming book as tools for enlightenment:
"I've come to realize
I'm on this planet to make peace on some level,
whether it be between
humans and extraterrestrials, or [between] contactees
and those who
ridicule us. I write songs about E.T.s because I and countless
others
know that extraterrestrial contact is real, and that the discovery
of
this worldwide phenomena is the most profound revelation in human
history."
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- Anyone with E.T. experiences to share is welcome to
contact
Ms. Stonebrooke. To order her CD/cassette Experiencer or her
out-of-body
and UFO lecture audiocassettes, contact Pamela Stonebrooke,
P.O. Box 1552,
L.A., CA 90078-1552.
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- Email:
galactic_diva@telis.org
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- Web site: http://www.greatdreams.com/re
ptlan/reps.htm
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