Although Sahffi lives, performs and teaches mostly in the Baltimore/DC/Virginia area, she is also well respected internationally. In June, 2016, she was invited to perform at El Festival de Musica Medicina in Pisac, Peru, which was her first international performance. However, it was not her first experience with working outside of the U.S.; in 2012 she released her third album, "Expectations Revisited," which featured remixes from producers around the world, including Zimbawe, the UK, Italy, South Africa, and more. That album also featured an original song co-written with UK producer Mike Grove called "Could You." She is well-known and loved in Botswana and South Africa due to a 2010 #1 hit entitled "Summer Breeze" with producer N'Dinga Gaba. A year later in 2011, she and her house music band t3N (pronounced "ten") landed a #1 download on the international house music site Traxsource. She continues to work internationally and regionally with a proposed appearance in South Africa in 2017, co-writing songs with a healing musician from Colombia, as well as performing and teaching consistently in the Baltimore/DC/VA area and up and down the east coast.

Sahffi is proud and honored to share the art of music through her work as a teaching artist. Teaching is a natural extension of her musical journey, and she enjoys a full roster of private students taught from her home studio as well as multiple opportunities to teach and perform in classroom, library, festival and other varied environments as a teaching artist.

She enjoys a busy teaching schedule offering private lessons; teaching artist engagements with the Bright StARTS Program in Baltimore City; classes and workshops in Voice and Guitar for adults and children; music workshops in pre-school, library and homeschool settings; weekly music classes at The Watson Hall Montessori School (Catonsville, MD); and week-long songwriting residencies with kids in DC and Virginia through Kid Pan Alley, a Grammy-nominated and Parent Choice Award winning program.

She also offers Vocal Workshops and Guitar Classes throughout the year for children and adults, at such Baltimore venues as The Movement Lab, The Living Well and Patterson Park Public Charter School.

Sahffi has always recognized the power of music to heal and connect hearts, loving the feeling of playing music for herself and others since she was a child. It was her two-year stint as a Music Therapist to severely handicapped adults in New York in her mid-twenties, though, where she truly recognized the healing aspect of music. Recently, she has been writing music intentionally to connect hearts, minds and souls. Her upcoming album, "Pulse of Evolution," featuring these new songs, will be released in 2018. She has been honored in the past couple of years to share her music at yoga studios, festivals, meditations and fire circles throughout the mid-Atlantic region, and to be one of the few U.S. performers to be invited to share music at "El Festival de Musica Medicina" (Festival of Medicine Music) in June, 2016, in Pisac, Peru.

“#Song4Unity” was a song project envisioned, created, organized and led by Sahffi Lynne. The concept came to her after a trip to Peru, when one of the residents of the Andes mountains was sharing food and said to her, "we don't have much in the mountains, but what we have, we share." Coming home to her city in turmoil, she realized what she had was music, and many connections to different musical communities in Baltimore through her background in classical music, her work with house and R&B musicians, as well as her own acoustic music. To share what she had, a "We Are the World"-type project was born in her mind.

The concept was to have a diverse musician community come together to write a song to unite the hearts and minds of their communities in Baltimore through music. Proceeds of the song would go to an organization working towards unity, and it was decided to choose #SaveADopeBoy, a grassroots organization founded by Derrick "OOH" Jones of Brownfish, not only for the continued wonderful work that Tiffany Welch is doing, but to honor one of our beloved musicians who has left us. (To date, over $500 has been raised for the organization!)

The project began in July, 2015, with a call on Facebook from Sahffi with a simple request; who would be interested in being a part of such a project? With over 125 responses, Sahffi began the process in August, 2015, with a group of 15 multi-genre musicians (rap, R&B, folk, indie, rock). The Living Well (a community space in the city) kindly donated two nights to the writing project. A producer and recording engineer at 430 Entertainment Studios came forward to offer his services for the song. In the end, over 50 musicians, producers, photographers, artists and talent came together to conspire to release "Let's Make It Happen" in April, 2016, to coincide with the anniversary of the April, 2015 Baltimore uprising. All participants donated their time, talent and in some cases finances.

Download the song, all proceeds still go to #SaveADopeBoy: https://song4unity.bandcamp.com/

Inspired by the project, Sahffi's daughter Neema encouraged a “Kids #Song4Unity” at her school, Catonsville Middle. Sahffi went in to her choir's class and co-wrote "All Sorts of People" with the students and the choir director, Mr. Tom Dickerson. The choir performed their original song at their end-of-year choir concert in May, 2016.

Watch the kids sing their unity song, "All Sorts of People": https://youtu.be/euR1gveVudc

Join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/song4unity

Sahffi has independently released five original albums, "...and i am not sorry." (2003), "Turning Tides" (2008), "Expectations" (2011), "Expectations Revisited" (2012) and "Entropic Moments" (2016). Her sixth album, "Pulse of Evolution," is currently in the birthing process. Click through to learn more about each album and listen to selected tracks.

Sahffi Lynne has been interviewed and recognized often in the last several years.

Sahffi is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist and has performed in multiple genres. She studied classical music through childhood and received a French horn performance degree from Peabody. She has written music in rock, folk, children and house music styles, and plays not only the French horn, but also guitar, djembe, piano, the drums, multiple percussion instruments, recorder, and is an accomplished singer. She truly loves all types of music, she knows it is truly the universal language and is shared from our collective heart! Over the years Sahffi has been involved in multiple collaborations, from a duo with a slam poet, to a house music band, to international music groups. Click through to learn more.

Sahffi is known for her powerful and unique voice, as well as her vocal harmonies and instrumental work. She has been asked to be featured on many albums and continues to be hired as a studio musician. She has also been asked to collaborate on writing songs featured on many artists' albums. Click through to listen.

Sahffi (Neo-Alternative Folk Artist from Maryland) and Mosno (Desert Eclectic Artist from Sudan) teamed up to deliver a vibrant acoustic performance, featuring vocal harmonies, guitars and African percussion.

This duo brought to the stage over 20 years of combined performance experience. Show highlights included opening slots for legendary band Rusted Root, Grammy-nominated Mathew Santos and award-winning band Carbon Leaf.

For their 8 years of existence, goatFISH performed up and down the Mid-Atlantic region in venues, festivals, house concerts and online shows from Baltimore to New York, Philly and DC, as well as down to Atlanta, Miami, and more.

Their first EP, "The Gift of the Nymph," was released in 2012.

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Photo credit Alexander Eyes, 2014.