I've never won a song-writing competition and frankly, have stopped entering them. These days I'm more keen on writing songs. and playing them on my guitar. and singing them. for people all over the place. for money. for love. but mostly because I just have to.I was born and reared in Detroit, Michigan on a dark, dreary winter wee morning. I left as soon as I could and have been driving around everywhere but, ever since. I've lived in various places around the world - Europe, Middle East, Far East, Canada, and now in Austin, Texas, USA (the most liveable city in this nation).I once climbed the second highest mountain in the Swiss Alps. I once trekked the second highest mountain range in the world in Slovakia. I once spent two weeks at the holiest mountain in Tibet. I once climbed the Sinai. I once rode my bicycle from Vancouver, British Columbia all the way to North Sydney, Nova Scotia. I once lived in a little village in China where porcelain was discovered 2000 years ago occurring naturally in the ground. I once sailed so far into the Mediterranean I couldn't see land. I once saw so many stars in an Egyptian desert I couldn't see the sky.I have written from a very early age. First journaling. which turned into poetry. which turned into songs. and then MySpace ramblings. My singing started even earlier. I'm told by my mother (who was a lounge singer at the Playboy Club in Detroit, and a classically trained operatic vocalist) that she would hear me through closed door, singing "like a soprano" when I was a very small girl. My mother was a ballerina. My dad is a hippie.I was devastated when I learned that I was born too late to be a hippie. I pretended to be for a while (and owned it quite well I must say). I have been in recovery for the past few years, although I still drive an old Volkswagen van. There are still traces of such modes and mannors in my songs. I believe in "voodoo" - spiritual hooplah - the "feel good" stuff... yes, o.k. Self Help. I'll take all the help I can get. It's there in the songs too.I tour all over the country playing "listening rooms", house concerts, festivals, bars, clubs, theatres, sidewalks, parking lots, and subways. singing truths I've come to believe in. stretching some, only in the name of art!I'm currently recording my 2nd album which will be released when I accumulate a vast pile of dough.Thanks for your tolerance, your interest in learning about me. Above that, thank you for taking the time to listen.
