Cindy is a professional poet and lyricist and has collaborated with many established singers and composers of various musical styles around the world. She has contributed lyrics on projects of Iona, Colin Mold, Mandalaband, Last Knight (Jose Manuel Medina), United Progressive Fraternity, Jeff Cannata & Chris Field, Alex Grata, Enrico Amato, Tatiana Manolidou, Eddie Leighton, Leighton Band, Vivienne Neville, Lisa Fury, Robert Gerrard, Ian Harris, Eric Severson and others. Visit Cindy's website for more: www.cindylspear.com
Cindy is known by many as the musician’s poet and has been featured many times on CBC radio and television and in the historical DVD “When the ships Sailed In” a project of the Great Irish Famine 150th Anniversary Commemoration Committee.
She has performed her poetry live, on radio, tv and in recordings backed by the atmospheric music of Iona and Last Knight. She has two published books of poetry as well as poems, photographs and articles featured in various journals and major newspapers in Canada, her native country.
Musician friends Kerry Livgren (Kansas) and Jeff Johnson have influenced her work and in turn Cindy dedicated the song “Icarus” to Kerry and her last book to Jeff whose music inspired many poems.
Cindy has an English Literature Degree with Creative Writing and often uses the classics in her lyrics such as CS Lewis’ Narnia chronicles, HG Wells Time Machine, Greek Mythology, the history of the Celtic Saints, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and other literary greats. She is particularly fond of Celtic progressive rock/folk music and has a passion for her ancestral home Ireland.
Currently Cindy is working on her historical novel trilogy (working title series: Call of the Past').
