Sony recording artist Aselin Debison is proud to have been asked to be a supporter of the Passport to Safety program. Aselin and the Debison family's interest in safety is rooted in three generations of family history with the Glace Bay Fire Department. Currently dad Donnie is in volunteer service and Uncle Henry is working full time as a career fireman.

Almost four years have passed since nine year old Aselin Debison galvanized a coal miners' protest in Cape Breton in her native Nova Scotia, singing the local anthem "The Island” with such touching simplicity that thousands of angry striking miners wept, joined hands and sang along. Word of the young singer's dramatic performance and haunting voice spread quickly, and she became a sensation in Nova Scotia and throughout Canada.

Last year, with a world Sony Classical recording contract and pop luminaries Peter Asher and George Massenberg producing, Debison's CD “Sweet is the Melody” was released in Canada, the US and Japan. A one hour television special was shot on the breakwater in her home town of Glace Bay and has been shown across the US on PBS and nationally twice in Canada on CBC.

The daughter of a landscaper and a hairdresser, Aselin has been singing since earliest childhood. With no formal vocal training, she sang frequently with her classmates when she was enrolled at the age of two in a preschool not far from her home. "I was just one of the girls picked for singing,” she says. But it was not until a miner's wife called and asked her to sing at the protest rally that the public began to hear what was special in Debison's voice.

With the impact of that performance, the Debison family was flooded with requests for Aselin to sing, requests that her parents have continued to field carefully. This past few months alone Aselin has performed for Queen Elizabeth at Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall and at Carnegie Hall with Clint Black. Her singles are on the charts in Canada, the US and Japan.

Aselin continues live a normal childhood in Glace Bay with her parents, Donny and Joan, and her younger brother Blake. A fan of pop, country and Celtic folk music, she is a passionate basketball player, dreaming of winning a college basketball scholarship.