Gabriel of Urantia

Gabriel of Urantia, born Anthony Joseph Delevin, is an American musician who is the originator of CosmoPop music that he describes as “spiritually hip vocal music”. CosmoPop is a genre of spiritually-based music that emerged in Arizona, United States in the mid 1990s that addresses the “sufferings of life and the courage of perseverance and hope, which leaves the listener with a new vision for their future.” Throughout his journey of spiritual self-discovery, which began in the 1960s, he has changed his name various times. In the 1990s, he lived under the name Gabriel of Sedona, while he has previously recorded under the names Tee Jay & Duke Quintet and T.J. & The Knight Kaps. He currently releases his CosmoPop music under the name TaliasVan.
Gabriel's band, The Bright & Morning Star Band, which consists of 9 members, performs CosmoPop music. Within the band, Gabriel contributes lead and background vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, drums, percussion, keyboard, flute, saxophone, trumpet, horn, pennywhistle, and bagpipes.
Gabriel is also the founder of the Global Community Communications Alliance, a temple community and ashram.
Life
Anthony J. Delevin was born on July 5, 1946, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started singing at age 6 and was performing on street corners by the age of 8. At age 15, he founded his first band, an R&B group called The Fuzzes. He performed and sang lead with T. J. & the Night Kaps, and sang at many nightclubs in Pittsburgh including the Holiday House. In 1965, Gabriel was briefly managed by the manager of the Del Vikings, Joe Averback, who took the song “Stiff Leg” to Mercury Records in New York. They called the manager and said they wanted to sign Gabriel, who they wanted to sing Beatle-mania, which was new to America, because the Beatles had not exploded in popularity. He refused, saying that he was a rhythm & blues singer. Gabriel went back to Pittsburgh to record his first vinyl album, titled Unicorn Love, in 1985, at Aircraft Studios in Dormont. In 1996, he first christened his New Age vocal style CosmoPop, releasing the CD Holy City. In total has released 18 singles, five full-length albums, three music videos, and an award-winning live concert DVD.
Music
As Gabriel's personal life changed, so did his musical style, which he first called “Luminary.” As he had diverged from the contemporary Christian sound of the time, he coined the term “New Age Vocal”, first using it to describe his Unicorn Love album. New Age Vocal would later evolve into CosmoPop, with which it shares many similarities.
In recording CosmoPop, TaliasVan & The Bright & Morning Star Band use various instruments including saxophones, trumpets, flutes, keyboards, drums, percussion, bass, and rhythm guitars,.
CosmoWorship
Gabriel's Bright & Morning Star Choir and Orchestra performs CosmoWorship music, which like CosmoPop, is music written, in Gabriel's words, to reflect the “face of God” and connect listeners to higher Interuniversal realities and cosmic truths.
The Bright & Morning Star Choir and Orchestra began performing CosmoWorship music in 1995. Since then the choir has performed throughout Arizona, making live, radio, television, and worldwide webcast appearances. The choir is locally known for their charitable work during the holiday season. They have sung traditional carols and his original compositions for the St. Andrew's Children's Clinic in Nogales, the Santa Rita Care Center in Green Valley, and at the Tubac Plaza Main Stage in Tubac, Arizona. The CDs CosmoWorhip I and CosmoWorship II contain CosmoWorship songs sung and performed by the 40-voice Bright & Morning Star Choir and Orchestra. TaliasVan believes that music has tremendous power to heal and this is a main motivator behind his music ministry which brings the sacred to popular music.<ref name=NogalesInternational2007 />
Discography
Singles
*Jive-Doo-Ley-Bop (1966)
*Come Into My Heart (1966)
*This Boy Got Class (1966)
Studio Albums
*Come Into My Heart (1966)
*This Boy Got Class (1966)
*Unicorn Love (1985)
*Holy City (1997
*CosmoWorship I (1997)
*Sedona Sunrise (1999)
*CosmoPop Millennium (2000)
*The God Child Came (2005)
*3-Song Introduction to CosmoCountry (2007)
*CosmoPop Variety (2008)
*Energy Master/CosmoMystic (2008)
*CosmoWorship II (2010)
*Tenache 3-Song CosmoNative (2013)
*I'm Still Trying To Move On/CosmoCountry (2018)

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