Honor The Ones You Love
Custom 10–15 minute spoken-word tributes with custom music, created to honor the life, essence, and impact of someone you love or wish to recognize — to share with them now, and remember them with forever.
It is the story of legacy of a Soul, Spoken; a custom spoken-word tribute set to original music, created to honor someone you love or wish to recognize or appreciate while they are still able to hear it.
It transforms memories, stories, struggles, gifts, love, and legacy into words of affirmation, encouragement, and remembrance.
It can serve as a eulogy. But its greater purpose is to say the important things before its too late.
Listen to a few featured excerpts and experience the emotional range of A Soul Spoken.
Featured Sample: Shalom
A gentle, affirming tribute for the one whose presence guides the room without ever needing to be loud.
12:08
Featured Sample: Joe
A grounded tribute honoring service, friendship, dignity, and the quiet wisdom of a life spent showing up.
18:00
Featured Sample: Memra
A reverent tribute shaped by endurance, remembrance, and the light that survives every season of sorrow.
12:42
Featured Sample: Jimmy
A light-filled tribute for the soul who reminds others to breathe, let go, and remember what they are.
5:40
Featured Sample: Kevin
A reverent spoken-word tribute shaped by faith, mercy, music, and a life turned steadily toward God.
10:38
"All your past except its beauty is gone,
and nothing is left but a blessing."
From best friends and birthdays to memorials, mentors, newborns, and family legacy, Soul Spoken are made for the moments when ordinary words are not enough.
Honor the friend who is like family, the one who stayed, saw you, changed you.
Celebrate another year by reflecting the person's story, essence, growth, and gathered love.
Welcome a newborn with words and music that honor their arrival, name, lineage, and light.
Tell the story of a love that has endured, deepened, and become a living testimony.
Honor a couple's love story — who they are, what brought them together, and the life they choose.
Celebrate not only what someone has done, but who they have been while doing it.
Give voice to the gratitude owed to the guides, coaches, and elders who shaped the path.
Preserve the stories, values, sacrifices, and love that have carried a family across generations.
Offer encouragement and strength to someone moving through grief, illness, or a difficult season.
Remember someone who has passed with beauty, dignity, and words that bring their presence back.
Honor the animal companions whose love, loyalty, and presence became part of the family's heart.
Create A Soul Spoken for any moment, person, or threshold that deserves to be honored.
Three simple steps to a timeless tribute
You complete a guided questionnaire that gathers the living details — stories, memories, personality, birthday, sayings, quirks, favorite songs or music, meaningful moments, the quiet truths only close people know, and the emotional themes you want the tribute to carry.
Through empathetic listening and intuitive storytelling, I find the emotional thread beneath your stories and shape it into a spoken-word tribute that honors the person's essence. After your approval, I narrate and produce the final piece with custom music in the style you choose.
You receive a polished audio tribute created to be downloaded, played, gifted, shared, and kept forever — a personal remembrance in words and music that can live with you and those you love, to return to on any special occasion or moment when love needs a voice or benediction.
The voice behind Soul Spoken
I am a writer, narrator, and music creator with a lifelong love for the way sound can move the soul. For me, music is more than background — it is memory, atmosphere, prayer, and emotion given shape.
Soul Spoken was born from the meeting place of poetry, music, and deep human recognition. Inspired by the timeless language of poets like Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, Kabir, and Tagore, I try to create tributes that look for the light in a person's story — the courage beneath their struggles, the beauty in their becoming, the quiet gifts they may not fully see in themselves.
Each piece is shaped with empathy, intuition, and care. My goal is not simply to describe someone, but to honor them in a way that feels true: their essence, their impact, their tenderness, their strength, and the love they have given to others.
In the studio, I work to bring together spoken word, original music, and heartfelt storytelling to create something meant to be heard, felt, shared, and remembered.
Soul Spoken is my way of helping people say the things that matter most — with beauty, dignity, and music.
$222
A shorter tribute for intimate gifts and smaller occasions.
For when you want to honor a friend or family member with a meaningful, personal piece that carries their essence in a simple, beautiful form.
Includes:
$333
The full Soul Spoken experience.
Best for friendship tributes, birthdays, *cradle/naming blessings*, anniversaries, retirements, memorials, and most life-honoring occasions.
*A Welcome Blessing* (also Cradle Blessing, Naming Blessing, Arrival Blessing or First Light Tribute) is a custom spoken-word tribute with original music, created to honor a newborn's arrival, name, family story, ancestral love, and the hopes carried for their life.
Includes:
$555
A deeper tribute for the lives, loves, and stories that deserve more room.
Created for memorials, elders, family legacy pieces, major ceremonies, and loved ones whose story carries many chapters.
Includes:
Yes. Sometimes the person we most need to honor is ourselves. A Soul Spoken piece can be created as a personal reflection, affirmation, healing gift, milestone marker, or reminder of who you are becoming. Through my intuitive nature and empathetic storytelling, I help find the deeper thread in your own life — the strength beneath your struggles, the beauty in your becoming, and the truth you may be ready to hear spoken back to you.
No. A Soul Spoken can be light, playful, and funny, but it is always created to honor, never to embarrass.
Yes. Soul Spoken can be created as memorials, celebrations of life, or keepsakes for families who want someone remembered in a powerful and personal way.
Absolutely. Birthdays, retirements, anniversaries, weddings, reunions, milestone moments, or simply a chance to honor someone while they are still here to receive it.
A Welcome Blessing (also Cradle Blessing, Naming Blessing, Arrival Blessing or First Light Tribute) is a custom spoken-word tribute with original music, created to honor a newborn's arrival, name, family story, ancestral love, and the hopes carried for their life.
Yes. Gospel, jazz, hip-hop, country, cinematic, acoustic, soulful, sacred, playful, or a custom blend that fits the person being honored. You can also leave the music up to us. We are known to do a pretty good job.
You complete a guided questionnaire with the stories, phrases, values, memories, quirks, and details that make them unmistakably themselves. Through empathetic listening and intuitive storytelling, I find the emotional thread beneath your stories and shape it into a spoken-word tribute that honors the person's essence. After your approval, I narrate and produce the final piece.
You receive a completed Soul Spoken: a custom spoken-word tribute performed with custom music and shaped around the person, occasion, and emotional tone you choose. It is delivered as a downloadable audio file.
Most Soul Spoken are approximately 10–12 minutes, depending on the occasion, the amount of material provided, and the emotional pacing of the piece.
Yes. Humor is welcome when it comes from love. The goal is to make people smile because they recognize the person, not laugh at their expense.
Yes. It can be sacred, faith-centered, gently spiritual, or not religious at all. The tone is shaped around the person being honored.
Yes. Soul Spoken is created with respect for every sincere path of faith, devotion, and remembrance — including Christianity in all its traditions, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism, New Thought, and other spiritual or personal belief systems. Each piece is shaped around the language, values, and sacred meaning that feel true to the person being honored and the people who love them.
Yes, as long as they are loving and understandable enough to serve the piece. Small personal details often make A Soul Spoken feel deeply alive.
Yes. Family, friends, coworkers, or loved ones can contribute memories and details. The strongest elements are woven into one cohesive tribute.
Yes. Revisions are part of the process so the final piece feels accurate, honoring, and emotionally true.
Yes. A Soul Spoken can include a written transcript so you can print it, share it, include it in a ceremony program, or keep it as a written remembrance. You may also choose to read the tribute yourself, have someone close to the person read it, and receive the full narrated audio version performed by me with original music. A music-only version can also be provided for live readings, ceremonies, slideshows, or personal use.
That is okay. A few honest details can be enough: what they love, how they make people feel, what they always say, what they have overcome, and what you or others will never forget about them.
A Soul Spoken blends storytelling, poetry, music, and spoken-word performance into one custom tribute with words of affirmation and encouragement. It is not just a speech and not just a song. It is an honoring made to be felt.
Yes. Soul Spoken make meaningful gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, memorials, family gatherings, or any moment when someone deserves to be seen and celebrated.
At this time, Soul Spoken are delivered as completed custom audio pieces performed and produced for you by me, D. Votino.
Each Soul Spoken is custom written, performed, and produced. A single completed file can take up to 2–3 days to create, depending on the depth of the tribute and the current production schedule. Revisions may extend the turnaround time.
For the newly born.
The coming of age.
For the living.
The passed on.
And the love that remains.