Cynthia Jordan is a musician and author who has had success in multiple genres. She began her career as a songwriter in 1983 and had the number one country song that year. She studied classical piano for 12 years and founded an organization for children's music. She later moved to Nashville and released 11 albums of ambient piano music. Her music is now broadcast worldwide. She wrote an autobiography and two historical novels based on her research of the history of San Angelo, Texas, where she discovered the city had origins as a town centered around serving a fort with saloons and brothels. Her novels tell the stories of women from that time period.

1. CynthiaJordan embarked on her career in music as a songwriter in
1983 when her song Jose Cuervo became the number one country song of the
year. Cynthia studied classical piano for 12 years with concert pianist Dr. Nino
Albanese. In 1984, after her success with Jose Cuervo, Cynthia married an
oilman/cowboy, moved to his ranch in East Texas, began writing children’s songs
and founded Kids for Kids. In 1997 she moved to Nashville where she signed a
record contract to compose and produce 11 CDs of Ambient Piano Music for
Page Music. Today her music can be heard on radio stations worldwide including
the popular cable radio show Soundscapes.
Within a year Cynthia had over 4 million downloads of her music.
After receiving countless letters and emails on how her music
helped with healing, she began researching the many benefits of
music and created her program Music A Powerful Soul-ution.
Cynthia began her speaking career and received her DTM with
Toastmasters. In 2003 she began her writing career with Butterfly
Moments, an autobiography about her journey with music. Her story Tita was accepted for “Chicken Soup
for the Latino Soul” and she has written several articles on “the power of music” for various publications..
In 2005 Cynthia’s husband announced they were moving to San Angelo, Texas, to return to the oil
business. She quickly became involved with what she found to be a fascinating West Texas town, rich with
history, and created a show she calls Ahh Radio that airs every evening on KCSA 97.1. In 2012 she
compiled another book If This Was Heaven,…, a collection of vignettes she had recorded for her show and
a syndicated radio show in Dallas.
Curious that Fort Concho and Miss Hattie’s Bordello are the two main tourist attractions, Cynthia started
talking to locals about San Angelo’s history and learned it was founded with saloons, gambling and
brothels to service the fort. At one time it was known as “The Naughty City across the river.” One day,
while visiting her son Jordan at the University of Texas in Austin where he was studying petroleum
engineering, Cynthia saw the original pump jack of the Santa Rita No. 1 proudly displayed on campus. She
wondered why it was there, when the Santa Rita oil discovery in 1923 was in Big Lake, Texas, hundreds
of miles away. She commenced researching and learned that the Santa Rita oil find began the West Texas
oil boom and the university has been receiving royalties ever since. She also learned that the Santa Rita
discovery had made San Angelo an oil boom town in the 1920’s.
Cynthia decided to write a musical to tell San Angelo’s story. For the next few weeks, Cynthia did many
hours of research, reading, and interviewing locals to write her new musical. The first song she wrote was
Santa Rita Boogie. Then one morning, Cynthia had a strange experience. She kept hearing the words, "Tell
them why we did it… we weren't bad people," over and over in her head. She has since learned that many
authors have had similar experiences, especially when writing about history. “Why did they do it?” she
asked herself. The answers swiftly came: a widow, an orphan, a bad experience with a man, abuse, shame in
becoming a fallen woman, poverty, homelessness. That was the day she wrote the song If You Could Wear
My Slippers. Cynthia began doing more research. The day she picked up Come Into My Parlor, a book
about Minna and Ada Everleigh, she had an overwhelming desire to tell their stories. Pearl the musical
became Pearl the novel, full of fascinating history and a better understanding of our human nature and
women of the time.
Pearl quickly became a regional hit and Cynthia kept hearing, "I want more," from her readers. In December
of 2014, she released Diamond, the sequel to Pearl. Diamond features her character “Heather with her
feather” who goes to Hollywood to become a movie star. The sequel tells more fascinating stories about
Texas cowboy stunt men, silent movie stars, and the early development of the film industry in Hollywood.
Cynthia's father was born at Universal Studios, where his father Sport was an equestrian for westerns in the
1920s, making Diamond a legacy that includes her own family history. Cynthia is currently negotiating for a
twelve-episode mini-series for Pearl. Pearl the musical is ready for production.