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Danielle Rose Skorich is a 2002 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she received bachelor degrees in music and theology. At the age of 17, she traveled to Delhi, India to volunteer with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. This experience gave her a desire to serve the poorest of the poor by offering her gift of music as a means of alleviating the spiritual poverty of America. Her debut album, Defining Beauty, was released in 2001 by World Library Publications. Danielle grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, where her family lives and where she can still sometimes be found, when she's not on the road sharing with others the love of Jesus and Mary through her music. In Duluth she started singing and playing the violin as a child, adding the guitar when she was fourteen, after which she began writing her first songs. Her particular vocation began to emerge during high school, especially before her senior year in the summer of 1997, which she spent working in India with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Danielle prayed that summer that she would get to meet one of her heroes, the world-famous living saint who inspired her, so that she might be blessed by her. But her desire went unfulfilled despite her prayers. Instead, after she was back home, Danielle received a message from one of the sisters with whom she had worked: on what would turn out to be her final birthday, Mother Teresa had taken a rose from her cake, and despite not having met the seventeen-year-old,