Legal assistant by day, rock chick by night, and full time mother, therefore I live a very versatile and active life, so I aint got much time for anything else.My friends are my shrinks and I am theirs. My music is my prozac. I have been playing bass guitar since my sweet sixteen (or 15 not sure) and I wont give up as long as I'm alive! My old band was called Pandora (still on myspace at www.myspace.com/pandoramontreal).I love sushi, beer, wiskey, the smell of coffee and toast in the AM, wine & cheeze party, I also looooove shopping, leather, cool high heel boots, SPORT, swimming, boxing, karting, camping, fishing, skiing, and also I enjoy writing songs, poems, short stories, going to the movies, romantic evenings, flowers, pink, I love to learn, listen to people, and not to forget SEX, chocolate, ice cream, and I just can't wait to tour the world! I need to travel. And last but certainly not least, my son who actually saved my life...for many reasons. Yep he must be on of those Indigo kids (angels before they were born).NOW IT WAS TIME TO EDIT MY PROFILE and put my music CV in there, here goes:Born August 19th 1974, Anik, a french canadian, began her obsessive interest in music at a very young age, making up songs walking back from elementary school and living in an imaginary world almost all the time. She was a loner, like most musicians, but still attracted people towards her with her charismatic self, and enjoyed showing off her unknown talent by doing anything related to a stage, like dancing, acting, and then in high school came the bass guitar. So at the age of 15 years old, she decided to learn the bass. One reason why she chose that instrument was because her cousin got himself an electric guitar and also what made her fall for the bass was that cool, very low sound, like a chill-out, relax sound, and having a big crush on Duran Durans bass player helped a bit too!! So she started to take private bass lessons.Her music influences comes from those 80s bands in the likes of Frankie goes to Hollywood, Mister Mister, Heart, Depeche mode, The Bangles, Blondie, and of course Duran Duran. Later on, a bit more heavier, learning the whole Def Leppard albums, Faith no more (her favourite band), Red Hot chilli Pepper, and those all girl bands, L7, the Lunachiks, Babes in Toyland, just to name a few. Her determination and pig headed personality is so much like one of her idol, MADONNA, that they could probalby be clones.Following high school, Anik went to College Lionel-Groulx in the city of Sainte-Therese (which is a surburb of Montreal in Canada) attending the law program in order to become an attorney. But after a year, music took over and she switched to the music program. She got accepted following the audition, where she played the song Sweet Child o mine from Guns and Roses on the bass, which was her primary instrument. Secondary was piano and she also took opera signing lessons.A year of hard studying passed by, the American dream was boiling in her head therefore had her make the big move to Los Angeles in 1990, quitting music school. She joined her first all girl band in HOLLYWOOD called Justify Mary.After one year of struggling days in beautiful California, she came back to her hometown of Montreal to form many different bands, including Safire, an all girl cover band with whom she had the most trilling gig of playing in a male detention center in Cowansville, Quebec. But her goal was to do a lot more than cover songs, because her brain was going a hundred miles per hour writing her own stuff. So the obvious happened and she formed her own original band called Bloodstone with the guitarist from Safire, and for the first time took the front wheel as singer and bass player. In 1997, Bloodstone won the demo clip contest organised by the French Canadian music channel called Musique Plus, which gave her the opportunity of filming a video with one of her song. Then came the band Pandora, where she got to play at the Canadian Music Week Festival in Toronto, performing at the Bovine Sex Club.This vicious blonde has built up amazing confidence by performing uncounted numerous shows, and her versatility comes from playing with many different styles of bands. Dedicated and professional, her favourite hang out is on a stage, where she can free herself. Her ability to compose comes from the habit of writing poems and putting everything on paper, like a private journal. With the music parts, she tries out different melodies, creates riffs and rhythm with usually the few chords she happens to know on the acoustic guitar. The process of writing a song is something that comes natural for her and it becomes a therapy.Currently practicing and planning her big break BY HERSELF she is ready to kick ass!
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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Anik Dufresne
Birthplace: Saint-Jérôme
Current Location: Montreal
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: brown and blonde
Height: 5"7..
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: French and american indian (the mountain tribe)
Your Weakness: cool high heel boots
Your Fears: War, the North Pole melting, staying single forever
Your Perfect Pizza: veggies with black olives and artichokes on whole wheat dough
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Putting up a band together again
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Cool, LOL, ouin, fuck it, fucked up, fucker
Thoughts First Waking Up: I wish I could stay in BED!
Your Best Physical Feature: legs, mouth
Your Bedtime: 9pm on weekdays, 9am on party days
Your Most Missed Memory: Costa Rica, Japan, the birh of my son
Pepsi or Coke: Diet coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Mac Donald
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: doesnt matter
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Soy latte decaf
Do you Smoke: yes but trying to quit!
Do you Swear: Fuck ya tabarnak!
Do you Sing: Even when I talk
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Been there
Do you want to get Married: Done that
Do you belive in yourself: Depends for what
Do you get Motion Sickness: rarely
Do you think you are Attractive: When I feel good yes. It all start from the inside
Are you a Health Freak: Almost
Do you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: NO
Do you play an Instrument: Bass, drums, piano, guitar, harmonica, and shakers!
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: oh yes..
In the past month have you Smoked: yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: yes
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no but still feels like yesterday
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no, too damn cold here
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: cant recall
Ever been called a Tease: yes
Ever been Beaten up: yes but replied
Ever Shoplifted: yes but got caught
How do you want to Die: not alone and very quick
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Wise, happy, rich and FAMOUS!
What country would you most like to Visit: France
Number of Drugs I have taken: about 6
Number of CDs I own: about 100
Number of Piercings: all gone
Number of Tattoos: 1
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I dont have regrets, just wrong decisions that made me learn
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