Ten years after the discovery of a benign brain tumor, Sheila Swift finds herself once again committed to her calling of music and bringing hope and joy to those she meets with more fervor and more fun than ever!

After being involved in the Christian music scene for sometime and releasing her independent debut album in 2000, Sheila fell into a different season in her life where music took the back burner for a while. She wound up where every artist is told to pursue a back up plan: college. Funny though how her "back up plan" actually ended her right back to where her heart beats: music. At Houston Baptist University, she majored in both English and Art and took up oil painting, which she still does today. "I was in a place during those years," says Sheila, "where people I'd run into would ask me about my music and I would literally tell them 'Ah, well, that was in another life'. It was very hard for me because I had been defined as a singer my entire life, I'd even said that's what I wanted to be since I was 5yrs old; and here I was, away from the music, questioning whether or not I could still call myself a singer/songwriter even though I hadn't written a song in two years. I was very down on myself, I felt like I had somehow failed myself for giving up on my dreams. So I poured my heart into the visual arts and decided I would make that my destiny."

After getting married to her now guitar player, Michael Hurst, on Easter weekend of 2005, Sheila began feeling those familiar yearnings to get back on stage and get back into the life that she knows she has been called for without a doubt. Slowly, she began to understand, as she says, that "there is room for it all"! No longer would she be confined by a single definition: singer, songwriter, painter, poet, daughter, wife, and so on. "I began to think about the dualities of this world, the dualities of my God even- all loving yet all powerful. Many will argue you cannot be both. And for me, they arise out of the same place, out of the same need to create and communicate. My voice is my voice, be it on paper or canvas or in your iPod!"

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