Liliana Kohann is a writer, singer/songwriter, inspirational poet, filmmaker, and illustrator from Poland, residing in America since 1984. LilianaKohann.com is the official website of this award-winning artist. The more you read, the more you listen, the more you DISCOVER about YOU. Liliana is also the creator of the online literary journal The HEALING POEMS.
ABOUT ME
I could say that I'm a Poet, Student, or a Teacher,
Healer, Writer, or Songwriter, Sinner or a Preacher A Filmmaker, Storyteller, Truth and Justice Searcher Doer or Procrastinator, Loser or Researcher Victim, Wounded, a Survivor, Dreamer, Giver, Taker, Mother, Daughter, Child, or Adult, Homeless or Homemaker I could say that I'm a Wise-man, or an Average Human, Illustrator, or Narrator, or a Business Woman I can say that I'm a Poet... But really my friend I'm a word that connects it all—I am simply AND. LILIANA KOHANN ©Artpeace Feb.13, 2016 Liliana Kohann* grew up in the beautiful city of Gdansk, Poland, where she received her Masters Degree in Education. Under the terror of a communist regime, she was forced to experience life in a different, challenging and interesting way.
As a strong-minded, intuitive and extremely creative child, although popular among her peers, she was frequently misunderstood by teachers, and even her parents, and often drifted to the world of imagination. Writing down, since early childhood, her inner dialogs, poems, songs and stories became a form of survival, an escape from the world she had to deal with, and at the same time a bridge to her own core of being. By the time she was 19, she had written over 500 poems and short stories within the pages of her journals. She was beginning to be recognized, and awarded for her beautiful voice and unusually creative and inspirational songs and writings. After she took first place in a national competition for songwriters and performers, the Communist Authorities issued a statement that she would not be allowed to perform in the next competition, as her words were “too expressive.” This, and other unusual tragic life circumstances that were to follow, led her to America. No matter what happened in her new life in this country, she would always pick herself up and start over with even more determination. There was, however, one thing that she didn’t pick up for a long time, and that was her pen. It took her fifteen years before she would write again. A number of years ago, as a single mother of three little boys, she began a search for the inner child she had left somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. And it was in that process that she resumed her writings. Her lyrics and poetry so cleverly interweave the depth and wisdom derived from her life, with playfulness and great humor, that everyone will find her work irresistibly compelling, deeply enriching, and highly entertaining.
I create different styles of music, including Adult Contemporary, Dramatic Pop, New Age... in English and in Polish. I even have a Red Wine Polka, and some rock ballads! When I became a mother, I also created collections of songs and meaningful lullabies for children. I have many passions. I write music, poetry, I draw, I write short stories, I am an entrepreneur, etc. I was advised before that I should narrow down the things I do to ONE or TWO. But I just can't limit myself. It's NOT me. Why would I paint a LESSER picture of who I am? And by "lesser" I don't mean lesser than my "great self," I mean lesser than my "true self," with my faults as well as my gifts. Why would I offer you a "lesser" gift than I have to offer? So I finally gave myself the FREEDOM to be who I AM, and to SHARE what I HAVE TO SHARE.
SIMPLY FREE
So other than the love for my family and friends, of course, some of my strongest passions and gifts in life seek their fulfillment in the following goals: 1. Using CREATIVITY, DEPTH and HUMOR to originate positive changes in people's lives and in my own. 2. Developing healthy SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-WORTH and great CHARACTER in children through the use of IMAGINATION: meaningful lullabies, musical fairy tales of virtue, FUN poetry, SHORT films and stories with morals, and puppets. 3. Emotional Healing, better Nutrition, and the development of my own INTUITIVE Diet. 4. CARING for and PROTECTING our environment for FUTURE generations. 5. Table Tennis (PING PONG) Below are my additional sites that support those passions. |
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ENDORSEMENTS “Not since the first time I heard Barbra have I been as touched and impressed by a singer and her music as I have been by Liliana.” --Marty Ehrlichman, the discoverer and manager of Barbra Streisand. "You must never stop singing!"
— Pope John Paul II “Liliana’s style of writing (and drawing) is simple, direct and has a wonderful childlike quality, and yet the WISDOM contained within these poems is PROFOUND and psychologically sophisticated. I especially recall a day when Liliana was reciting one of her poems and the thought that kept running through my mind was that this was Dr. SEUSS for ADULTS!"
* “Lilting, fun, the mental pictures easily and quickly evoked by her poems seem to allow adults to listen with their 'guards down,' and the poems' messages therefore hit a deeper place in the listener's psyche." --Linda Leftwitch, PhD And no End
If I were to choose to be just one short word, I’d choose to be the word “AND.” ‘Cause if “AND” I would be, it would guarantee that there would never be the END of me. (:-)
—Liliana Kohann (2002) "I have climbed many mountains, I have walked forbidden trails. I spent youth fighting for freedom, middle age… in self-made jail. I had days of joy and glory, yet, at times I lived in shame but I’ve learned to live my own life, and now I can truly say that I lived each day with passion, and if I didn’t… God, have mercy on my soul."
— A fragment of Passion ©Artpeace 2008 
It is a miracle
It is a miracle that I started writing again, and a miracle that I started singing again. I thought I never would. The story of why the artist within me was silenced for so many years remains deeply within me, still so hard to tell... I don't write to teach others, I write what the voice within me whispers to me. I often wonder why do I do this or that, why do I still tend to fail at so many things, and as I write in my journal my "why" questions, somehow the answers appear. I simply write them down. Describe my work in one sentence? Hmm... I don't know what it will be for others but for me it is a journey into the creative powers of subconscious mind. Imagine yourself standing on one side of the abyss - in the world of our logical Self, our human self, sometimes struggling, sometimes insecure, alone or confused. On the other side - the world of unknown, the divine mystery, the subconscious, the fairy tale, the dream. My work is a bridge between the two. It is a joyful embrace of all the aspects of life; it is reaching peace, excellence and healing through the expression of arts." A fragment of a song EMBRACE
Describe my work in one sentence? Hmm... I don't know what it will be for others but for me it is a journey into the creative powers of subconscious mind. Imagine yourself standing on one side of the abyss - in the world of our logical Self, our human self, sometimes struggling, sometimes insecure, alone or confused. On the other side - the world of unknown, the divine mystery, the subconscious, the fairy tale, the dream. My work is a bridge between the two. Ever since I had the courage to step on that bridge, my perspective has changed, my whole life has changed, and so did my art.
"Behind the night there is a light.
What really is a shadow? Embrace them both: idleness, growth, all blooms on your life's meadow." FOR THE FIRST TIME
Words never spoken letters never sent feelings not embraced rules — never bent. Today I stand alone with my loneliness and fear but for the first time my own heart... I hear. LILIANA KOHANN ©Artpeace 2006 
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THE HEALING POEMS
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I am passionate about making POSITIVE changes in people's lives .
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SONGS AND LULLABIES FOR CHILDREN
*To go to my site with Songs and Lullabies for Children click HERE.
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I'm passionate about meaningful LULLABIES!
I am passionate
about the early development of CREATIVITY and VIRTUES in CHILDREN. |
"ON MY WINGS"
©ArtPeace 2012
June 12, 2012
I place this song here for my dear friend Molly. May this song and the circumstances in which it was created give you strength. With Love, Liliana
I place this song here for my dear friend Molly. May this song and the circumstances in which it was created give you strength. With Love, Liliana
BY THE BALTIC SEA
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Liliana with her three sons in Poland. In a song Adrianek you will hear Liliana singing about this Sea and about the house above the shore... "Somewhere in Poland, across the Baltic Sea, There was a mother, rocking her baby to sleep. Son, are you safe now, It's all my heart needs to know. I love you forever in our house Above the shore..." |
*Liliana Kohann (called by her family in Poland and childhood friends "LILA," pronounced "Leela").
In her creative writings, Liliana also previously used names Liliana Przewlocka (maiden name), or Liliana Overman.
In her creative writings, Liliana also previously used names Liliana Przewlocka (maiden name), or Liliana Overman.
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