Immersed in the depths of the common cultural thread, the life that music breathes into people, Cybele has circled the globe inspiring and seeking inspiration through the conduit of music. She is presently based in Korea, where she is a professor in the English Department of Chungju National University. She is also spearheading a World Music Preservation project to restore a traditional Korean house to be used for intimate performances of traditional Korean music and world music collaborations.

Inspired by Sufi mysticism, Cybele traveled to India to study classical Hindustani singing with Pandit Pran Nath. Unexpectedly mesmerized with the magical qualities of the Sarangi, she became a student of the noted Ustad Hafizullah Khan. The Sarangi is a North Indian instrument with three main strings that are bowed. Known as the instrument of a hundred voices (literally translated), it has a haunting and mysterious sound, with the natural reverb of 35 sympathetic strings offering the effect of standing in an empty cathedral - or in the inner sanctum of the TajMahal, where a whispered word becomes a soaring melody. Cybele's latest recording endeavors interweave wild spurts of Indian raga rifts (vocal and sarangi) with original folky/jazzy songs inspired by the magical rice paddies and rolling mountains of South Korea. Her album of original lullabye-like songs with dulcimer is called Songs for Humanity.