Long Bio:
I started reading books and playing piano when I was 3, and I wrote my first song when I was 6. It was about bunnies, cats and children. I taught my siblings to sing it and dance to it while I accompanied them on the piano. (Over the years, they've been members of my song-and-dance troupe, my gym team, and sometimes my band.)
I spent most of my formative years in Singapore. When I was 10, I got to go on a trip to Australia for three weeks of musical theatre training, to sing and act on a stage in Singapore for three months. It was Les Miserables (1996 Asia-South Africa tour), it was an amazing privilege, and it gave me a hunger for music, for artistic expression, for performing, for a professional music career.
After Les Miserables, I started believing I could skip school, travel places, sing and dance my heart out, and actually get paid for it. I wrote two musicals when I was 12 (with 3 other friends) and 13; we staged one. It was a riot, and I still think it was pretty genius; we took a lot of blithe risks because we lacked the self-consciousness that adults and adolescents tend to have...
Then I wound up singing and dancing on another musical theatre stage for three months. This time, it was Chang & Eng 1999 (which still holds the record for the longest-running musical in Singapore). Simultaneously, I was pretending my sister was the next Britney Spears by writing pop songs for her to sing (which she couldn't sing - so I'd end up singing them and pretending my voice was hers) and filming music videos of her dancing around in tank tops. She still remembers it vividly, and sort of unhappily...
Then angst caught up with me, and I met messy people that messed me up as well. I started being alone, I wrote a lot, did things I wish I hadn't, travelled more, and became utterly obsessed with the piano. Sometimes I'd sleep next to it; it was my religion. Eventually, it wound up being a pretty self-destructive religion. I was a singer-songwriter getting swallowed up by the singing-songwriting.
Somewhere along the way, God picked me up and started piecing me back together again... it's an ongoing process. There's a plan for my life, and I'm gradually learning its outline. I don't know the full details - and that could either be terrifying or romantically exciting, depending on how you look at it. I guess it'll always be a bit of both to me.
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In short:
Singer-songwriter on the piano, sometimes guitar.
Visit http://mistersun.org for more info and songs.
Email wavering [at] gmail [dot] com if you want to yak. :)
