Diane Arkenstone's 'Best Of' is a highly anticipated benchmark to an extraordinary career with worldwide CD sales of over one million.

Diane wrote her first song at the age of three, played piano at five and picked up her first guitar at the tender age of seven.

"There's music in my head when I wake up," she said. "It's everywhere. I sit down at a piano or with a guitar and suddenly there's a song or a really great chord or melody."

Her album, "Jewel in the Sun," debuted at No.16 on Billboard's New Age charts when it was released in October 2002, peaking at number 11. In all, she's worked on more than forty albums, producing 17 under her own label, Neo Pacifica Recordings, and other under various pseudonyms, as well as composing music for the Olympics and television shows.

Arkenstone's music embraces many styles, combining Celtic-sounding melodies and Native American rhythms with a distinctly techno beat and haunting vocals somewhat reminiscent of Enya.

"It's very fun stuff," she said of her work. "It's a little more pop than new age, with a little touch of world."

She's something of a musical jack-of-all-trades, playing not only the piano and guitar, but more unusual instruments such as the dulcimer, mandolin, wood flutes and various percussion instruments. Even her eight guitars are all tuned differently to bring added variety to her music.

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