Queenie

Music:

Member Since: 2/19/2005
Band Website: queeniemusic.com
Band Members: Queenie was originally a fantasy name plucked from a novel by Michael Korda. In the novel, Queenie is a girl born to a white man and an Indian woman of low caste. She runs away to London and becomes a film star, but she can never seem to outrun the shame of being half-caste and lowly born.

As for me, I am half German and half Japanese. As far as I know, anyway. I was adopted away as a baby and I know almost nothing of the circumstances of my birth. Like Queenie, I have never been sure where I have belonged.

A few years ago, I went through a very dark time in my life where a series of unfortunate events led to a dark depression. I am loathe to mention specifics--I guard my privacy religiously--but it involved remodeling a house in the country and a robbery where nearly everything I owned was stolen. Things got so bad that I seriously considered quitting my job, buying a plane ticket, and moving away to a foreign country where nobody knew me. They say the grass always looks greener on the other side and the place where I was felt cursed and barren. Out of circumstance, I spent many sad afternoons alone in an old, crummy house. Though I had never so much as finished a short story, not even for English class, I began writing a horror novel about a vampire named Lucia Alberti who survives the Black Death of 1348 Italy only to be abducted by an evil vampire.

I wrote the novel that would become Forever Fifteen over the period of a year. As I never expected to write a novel, I had no problem recording it with my existing home recording equipment and turning into a free podcast on iTunes.

My vampire audiobook, Forever Fifteen, was one of the first free audiobooks to reach the internet in 2006. It gained a readership larger than I had ever anticipated. To this day, I receive fan mails from people who passionately love the book on a weekly basis. The weirdest thing happened: I realized that I wanted to write more horror stories because they helped me work through my pain, fears, and troubles.

So I keep writing whenever I can squeeze in the time, even though my life is a great deal better now.

A Fictional Turn for the Dream of Flight

Queenie has become more of an alter-ego than someone I associate with myself. She's a grand courtesan, a half-caste geisha outside of Japan like a fish out of water. I am developing a story (but you know how stories swell into novellas and even novels) about a girl named Quin who is trapped by circumstance in a haunted school. Quin spends most of her days wishing she lived in the past, specifically the Victorian Age, which she credulously imagines was a better era where she would have lived happily ever after. Against a backdrop where children are constantly disappearing, Quin discovers a portal to another dimension, the dimension of dreams. Queenie has become a side character in all this, mentoring Quin when help is desperately needed.

The story of Quin's Dream of Flight will also be the music of the new Dream of Flight.

Once I finish this project, that is if I ever finish!, I will make it into a free podcast like Forever Fifteen out of love for my fans.

Thank you for your love & support of my creative works.

Love,

Queenie

Influences: New Songs here on MySpace
New Demo songs from the upcoming Queenie album, Dream of Flight, are here on MySpace. Please enjoy never-heard before songs, including Queenie's arrangement of the traditional Japanese folksong, Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)

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The UNTOUCHED Live CD The second album from Queenie. Totally live, you'll be transcended by this beautiful Live Performance captured March 12, 2006. Queenie sings and plays thirteen original songs for piano and guitar. Three additional bonus tracks include In Disguise, Medieval Princess, and The Sad Letter. Price $13.99 Free Shipping to U.S.!

Untouched at CD Baby For all lyrics, click HERE .