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Althaea

Music to open your heart, amplify your self–love, and spark connection with what is sacred

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    debut single "use me" drops June 11

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    debut single "use me" drops June 11 ~

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    Debut Album Coming 09.09.25

    Welcome Home

    Althaea (AKA Charlotte Malin Collins) offers an immersive debut album, Welcome Home, blending soulful folk with ethereal vocals and lush strings. Althaea, derived from the Greek word for "to heal," embodies Malin Collins' intention to guide listeners on a transformative, soul-folk journey. Welcome Home is a deeply personal and healing album, exploring themes of loss, love, light, and shadow. The music invites listeners to connect with their hearts and inner knowing, offering a place of solace and comfort along life's winding journey.

    • “In a sometimes chaotic world, Althaea's Welcome Home gifts us with an unusual and compelling acoustic blended outpouring of body, mind and spirit. The listener receives comfort and is lead to search.”

      - Kim Kashkashian, Grammy-winning violist, international soloist

    • “I felt like I was being hugged by sound. The sense of feeling the most welcomed one could ever feel traveled straight through Althaea’s vocals and strings to my ears and into my soul. Mission accomplished!”

      - Nick Platoff - Principal Trombone, Houston Symphony Orchestra; Associate Professor of Music, Rice University Shepherd School of Music

    • Althaea (Charlotte Malin Collins) sings from the fullness of her heart. A consummate musician and composer, and a multi-talented instrumentalist and arranger, she has also written most of her texts. Her album is an auspicious debut, and a pleasure to listen to. It is well-paced, and with a good variety of melody, harmony, texture and emotion. Althaea’s gentle lyrical voice reflects contradiction, longing, and resolve, as well as the sacred that lies around and within. Welcome Home opens the heart.

      - Monica Jakuc Leverett - Elsie Irwin Sweeney Emerita Professor of Music, Smith College, Northampton, MA