Welcome to Valeryan - Singer/Songwriter

 

New Release 7th February 2025 – RONDO FOR PEACE

SEE CURRENT RELEASE PAGE FOR LINKS TO ALL RELEASES

 

                                                                                    Here and Now

Valeryan is still singing and recording and arranging her original songs and producing them for relase for anyone who would like to hear them …… perhaps you could call it writing her memoires in song.

She now has an active music publishing company, VAR Productions Ltd and a digital recording studio at Stoke Prior in rural Herefordshire where, recently, she’s been working remotely with musicians all over the globe producing her latest releases … She’s back playing synthesiser and is “currently having a ball” …….

Since October 2022 there have been 24 new releases, all of which can be accessed from her Recent Releases page and there are many more in the pipeline…… watch this space for updates…..

 

The Back Story

Valeryan was  lead singer with the  famous UK pop folk band The Settlers in 1976 and the young girl who brought the English language version of Plaisir d’Amour (My Love Loves Me) to the singles charts a little while earlier, while still at school in Surrey……  After leaving The Settlers she followed a solo career on the International cabaret circuits until the mid 80’s when choosing to “retire” from the professional music scene to bring up a family. ……. never intending to return  …

As we all know never  is a very long time, and after her family were grown up she started writing and singing again……

Photo – Robert Forbes 2017

Latest News

Chance Meeting in Hereford

In 2010, with many original songs arranged and recorded as demos, a chance meeting with Pete Goodall  resulted in an ongoing  music partnership panning 8 years, along  with a new recording contract.

During this 8 year period,  Valeryan and Pete recorded  over 50 different tracks which have all been released by One Media IP Ltd for worldwide download and streaming. All of these tracks, which mainly appear on 5 albums Rolling Road (2012)  Reflections (2013) White Christmas (2014) July 14 (2015) and Groovy Reflections (2017)  can be accessed on our Current Releases page.

Settlers Releases

While working on vocal harmonies for the White Christmas album, both Valeryan and Pete were reminded of when they first worked together back in 1976 when he produced The Settlers vinyl single Whichaway Billy/Hobbit Land for  Riverdale. As the Christmas tracks took shape, they both decided the time was right to re-master some of the old Settlers tracks from vinyl and to release these as The Settlers Anthology in Perfect Harmony at the same time as the  White Christmas album.

Videos

Recent videos produced in USA by picture wizard Gary Quinn so far include:-

12A Heartache Square (original recording from 1965) ;  As Tears Go By;   Country Roads;  Coventry Carol;  Don’t Go There;    Falling in Love;  I Believe in Father Christmas; ImagineMassa Lubrense Spirit ;   My Love Loves Me (original recording from 1965); Raglan Road;   Silent Night;   The Kat Song (2019);  Woodland Spirit;   Who Knows Where the Time Goes;   Molly;  I Saw Three Ships; The Holly and the Ivy; At the Dawning;  Perfect Night;  First Christmas Morn; Chasing Rainbows (Song for Mark) ; Herald of the Morning;   The Snows;  Summer Frolics; Memories of Amaury;  Traces of a Childhood Song; Still Remembering

Videos produced by One Media;- As The Nights Draw In; White ChristmasSummer Festival Blues;

Videos currently in progress by Gary Quinn :-      Let there be PEACE in our Time; Fields of Gold; 

All current videos can be accessed on You Tube from our Current Releases page.

Photo – Robert Forbes 2017

Valeryan can be contacted on mail@valeryan.co.uk