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NEWS / First Steps Album Timeline
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Santiago (Chile) May 2nd, 2007
Music added as a soundtrack to help promote new book by the Chilean Ministry of Education.

Bristol (UK) May 2nd, 2007
Kamal Siegel featured in the latest issue of Tabula Rasa, an arts magazine based in the UK. The profile covers Kamal's beginnings as a musician, his thoughts on the creative impulse, the story behind each of the fourteen songs on the album as well as details of the recording process.

Los Angeles (USA) March 6th, 2007
Kamal Siegel featured on album produced by multiple grammy award winner KC Porter. The song "Bird & Tree" from the album First Steps, has been included in the album "Temple of Light - Volume 1", recently released by Insignia Records and DivineNotes.com.

Temuco (Chile) October 30th, 2006
Music used as the soundtrack for Araucania, Entre Letras y Poetas, a series for radio and television by Nabil Rodriguez.

Santiago (Chile) September 1st, 2006
Cascada, one of the tracks from the album, was used as the soundtrack for a presentation given by the Chilean Ministry of Education in Santiago

San Fernando (USA) April 1st, 2006
Full page article on the album on the 58th edition of The Nightingale magazine.

Seattle/Santiago (USA/Chile) November 12th, 2005
Official debut release of the album First Steps.

Brighton Creek,Roy (USA) September 3rd, 2005
Limited edition of First Steps released and debuted at the 8th Annual Arts Festival at Brighton Creek (McKenna, Washington, USA). Debut included live performances by Kamal.

August 30th, 2005
First Steps album is complete!!

Oct 2000
Kamal and his future wife Mariya got engaged, flew down to Chile and recorded four new tracks, making a total of 18 tracks (14 of which were included in the final album).

February 1998
One week before leaving Chile, Kamal visits Faro's studio in Santiago, Chile and in three days recorded twelve more tracks.

Summer 1996
First two tracks recorded in the Baha'i Radio Station of Labranza, Chile.

Summer 1996
Faro Producciones (Chilean record label), approaches Kamal and asks him if he'd be willing to record some of his music for Nuevos Horizontes a compilation CD of music from various latin-american artists. Kamal accepts.