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Since her early childhood Emma Marie – Johnson has always been surrounded by music. In her words – “I spent many an afternoon dancing around my cousins living room to reggae, Rufus and Chaka Khan, George Michael and basically anything that sounded good to me and made me feel good.†It’s all played a part in shaping that child into the woman who stands before me today.At 14 Emma began experimenting with song writing and credits her guitar teacher, Mr Vaughn, as a big inspirational influence when it came to learning Classical/Spanish Guitar. Luckily for her music became a place to find refuge. We all can remember life in our early teens? The pain, the uncertainty the wonder, and just like many Emma experienced the darker side of that time. One which was full of personal issues, anguish and promiscuity to the point where she often found herself sitting with her head in her hands wondering if this was all there was. So she turned to writing and poetry. If something bothered her she simply wrote it down then sang it.Today, as Emma embarks on a new journey, I find a young woman that seems almost thankful for the hard times, thankful that she was strong enough to survive and thankful for each day she’s given. She’s taken her life in her hands and stood alone and pushed herself.She’s pushed herself to record her own music, no manager, no band, just her.So in Emma’s words – “I intend to continue to write my songs and record my experiences and the questions that I want to ask of my life. My own singing diary if you will?- Jason Nicholas Selby (aka Jay) Freelance Artist Creative Consultant, and Freelance Writer ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------Word from Emma Marie JohnsonI'm an emotionally driven cancerian girl whose gone through so much in life from the start until now, i could write a very long book - yep, i've got the Blues - Rather than destroy myself in misery and ponder with a rather satisfying vanilla sponge cake and tea, I'd rather write, play guitar and sing and ponder instead. There's some things you just can't tell people, they judge as though they live in fairy land or something (someone please buy me a ticket there) and like they've never gone through any experiences, as though they've lived in glass bubble with the head held high. I found that if I tried to halve my problem with someone, the response i've got is "how about me? I've gone through loads of stuff going on, I can't decide between Claridges or the Hilton and i'm alright!" but i'm not them folks am I? we handle things diffently, we have different coping boundaries. we are individual. I've gone through it all folks, loneliness, isolation, insecurity, fright - haven't we all at one stage? when you've sat down in parties but have been excluded from the cliques, when you've spent Christmas alone because the main family couldn't be bothered, when you've felt as if you're behind a window, living a counterfiet life, you will sing. But life is a fight and to keep these feelings inside is destroying. That's why I sing. I sit down and tell my guitar all about it and it sings back to me, harmonising my every note, and it doesn't put me down...