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MUSIC IS MY LIFE: LIFE IS MY MUSIC By Joanne MyrolGet on board for an uplifting-original-kickass-sassy-gentle-sweet-emotional Americana/Alt Country musical rollercoaster ride. Mom and daughter, yes! But not what you would expect!Through Haley – this tiny little living person, I felt a passion and love I had never ever known before. I fell head over heals in love with her. Music took a back seat.BUT...I was able to handle my dual role and balance my first and second love for a while - the music career and motherhood - until one day I woke up and found myself divorced, sitting on the edge of poverty, a single mother with no job, and in a BIG strange city. Pretty cliché’ - I know. All of a sudden, I had to do something “yesterday” to feed us, so I tried waitressing at a rib place for a week. I remember walking home (I didn’t want to waste money on a bus) - and I was counting my first tips in my hand as I walked. I was trying to decide which would be better and last longer – a bag of rice or a loaf of bread and bologna. (Really true!) I was on my own for the first time in my life and I was way too proud to ask my parents for help. So I tried to figure out how could I pay rent, feed and clothe my little girl on these wages?! I couldn’t so I gathered together some musicians and hit the road.My dad moved in for a week and babysat one week and then my best and dearest friends Jane Hawley and Jennifer Gibson moved in the next. (Jane and Jen later told me that they thought it was great. They had a washer/dryer, TV and food – it was gravy for them, they were musicians, too.) They took such good care of Haley when I was gone and I will always be indebted to them for that.So off I went with illusions of grandeur. I played anywhere that would pay us money. We played every "King" - "Prince" - and "Commercial" hotel around. After weeks of paying the musician’s, paying for the van and the gear, I always ended up broke. I found myself playing to a room of very destitute people who hardly knew or even cared if we were there. We poured our heart and soul out to them through our songs and tried to sing them some happiness - and they just sat there worrying about buying another beer. I was wondering what I was doing there. This was not part of my plan to become successful in music. If I was going to leave Haley behind to make money for us and build a career, it had to be better than this. At the end of the last night I wondered off to my room – alone and blue – just like an old Hank William’s Sr. song. I walked into my room and it was filthy – someone had even stolen my cowgirl boots - I crawled into my bed - slowly as not to wake any 6 legged critters that may have found refuge in my bed. I was lying there and was looking at the wall beside my bed (and noticed that someone had used the wall for a Kleenex) . . . and as my mother would say, "The shit hit the fan", and I cried. That was my Oprah’s "Ah-Hah Moment". I vowed I would never give up a moment with Haley to do this again.So I went home, got a job as a substitute teacher and set up a studio in my front room. I subbed during the day, hung with Haley after school and then practiced and wrote music until the wee hours of the morning.And of course, the musical "biological clock" ticked away for me.Or so I thought. Unbeknownst to me, my greatest little fan’s ears were always perked and listening to me write and sing. Haley was learning skills I had never imagined or even knew she was learning. While I worked late at night - every night, Haley was becoming a musician right under my nose, until one day all of a sudden she was all grown up and ready for real life. That is when she asked me if we could play music together - and consequently opened a whole new world up to me in this glorious business of music.We traveled the world together playing music. She took high school courses and home-schooled herself. She studied Hamlet while traveling on a ship across the North Sea - passing the castle Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" was set in; she studied World War II and visited a Jewish Holding camp in Belgium; she got to walk through Anne Frank’s hiding place and see it with her own eyes; she saw Van Gogh’s Starry Night in Amsterdam and truly understood Don Mclean’s song afterwards. We had so many good times traveling and playing music together. She gave me back my music and I wouldn’t have changed anything.Things work out in the end. I am very fortunate in that Haley has an intense love for music and wishes to pursue a career in this great business with me. She has grown to be a beautiful young woman - is my best friend and we have a great relationship. Thanks to her, I am and have been able to have the best of both worlds.Through Haley I have received so much. I have been given songs – she has played a major role in my writing - a lullaby while pacing the floor and soothing her sick tummy as a baby; a love song from a mother to a grown daughter; a piece of her is in each one of my songs. She has given me the chance to struggle and understand what real success is; she has made me strong through the challenges of raising a teenager; she has made me feel like I am the most important person in the world; she has taught me patience, wisdom, and passion; and she has given me my music back. So this is why the critiques say “MYROL has a warm honesty that touches people’s hearts as they sing about the joys and hardships that life can sometimes throw one’s way. Their thoughtfully crafted songs are laced with an earthy truth and nitty-gritty humanness.” Our songs are real because they come from “real”.Thanks for stopping in.MYROL has performed at the VIP World Games party with Prince Edward and Prince Albert and political dignitaries in attendance; Nominated for the 2006 and 2007 Calgary Folk Festival Song of the Year; Billy Block’s Western Beat Duo of the Year in Nashville; 1 and 2 Roots Music Report (Canadian) and 3 Overall Album Airplay Roots Music Report Feb 2008; New Music Weekly Up & Coming Feb 2008; Featured and closing act at the Visagino Country Music Festival in Lithuania for 35,000 people; Axe Songwriters Workshop at Big Valley Jamboree sharing the stage with Canadian fav’s Clayton Bellamy, Duane Steele, Craig Young, Shawn “Swifty” Jonasson and Emerson Drive; performed at the legendary Bluebird Cafe, Billy Block’s Western Beat, the Country Music Hall of Fame, Tootsies; five return tours of Europe; TV appearances – Cowboy Country segment, Global TV