“A Life built around Music” may be the best way to sum up Sue K Riley.  Sue was drawn to music from the age of 5 when her Grandfather, Waldo, started helping her with piano.  Sue always knew that music would be her life’s calling.  She began playing in churches at age 11, and started giving private piano lessons at age18.  Believing in the power of music to touch hearts and heal lives, Sue continues to mentor, teach, and share music through a wide variety of means.

Sue is  Vice President of emPower Music & Arts, with the mission of “Changing the World, One Song at a Time”.  emPower hosts the yearly Posi Awards, which recognizes excellence in songwriting for artists who create songs with messages of peace, oneness, and joyous living.  The annual emPower Posi Fest is in it's 9th year and is held in Orlando, Florida on Martin Luther King weekend.

A prolific singer songwriter herself, Sue has created 6 CDs of original uplifting Posi music, along with accompanying songbooks. Her newest CD "Everything Changes, I Can Change Too" was produced by Daniel Nahmod and contains "Grandpa's Hands" a musical tribute to her Grandfather that recently won a First Place Gold Medal in the SAW song competition from Washington, DC and the song "Teach Me To Pray" received a second place Silver Medal.

Sue is finishing her 7th CD produced by Daniel Nahmod, entitled "I Choose Love".  It is scheduled for release in March, 2013.

Sue has also been the chair person for the Music Ministry Team of Unity Worldwide Ministries for the past 8 years.  Through her leadership, the team has created 10 songbooks of Positive New Thought Music for use in our spiritual centers, and online choral library, and created the Sound Connections Music Conference now in its 8th year.  This conference provides practical hands-on training for turning your church music department into a music ministry.

Sue and her business partner Richard Mekdeci have just published a  handbook on Music Ministry, full of practical tips on how to turn your weekly music into a "music ministry", host successful special events, create a great service flow, hire a music director, speak “music-ese”, and many other topics vital to successful ministries.

Sue  tours the country performing in the emPower “PosiPalooza” concerts which bring Posi Award Winning artists together in a unique, uplifting format where the artists swap songs in an organic musical conversation.  To date, they have produced over 300 of these concerts in the US and Canada to rave reviews.