Bio
Hi Everyone, thanks for checking out my website. There's an album coming soon - soon being sort of relative. Grin. Put it this way, you'll have it almost as soon as I have it. ;) In the mean time, a little about my musical history: Being from a musical family and growing up in the church of Christ, I have grown up singing all my life. But the really fun stuff started in college when I got some vocal training and experience performing. The momentum changed after I graduated from college. While living in Austin, Texas I began writing jingles for local businesses. I sold one to a large insurance company and the rest is history - I was hooked - pun intended! ;) Seriously, I have always had about 1/2 dozen melodies in my head at any given time. Short, catchy tunes were pretty easy to write and produce so it worked beautifully for a time. But I wanted more, so after that stint in the jingle biz I began a fun professional singing career in the resort entertainment industry in Tucson, AZ. I also recorded an Acapella Album with a group at my church called Kindred Spirits. We had a successful tour and afterwards enjoyed a few years of singing, performing locally & promoting our songs in the area, which were all written by members of the group. After I married, we ended up back in Austin and I became a children's worship leader at our church. That led to me being on 8 different adult praise teams over about 15 years, ending with a small women's praise team at my current church. In the middle of that busyness, I wrote a song (God of Our Hope, 2012) for the soundtrack to a documentary for an old friend, who went to Kenya to record the tribal wars there. That was a labor of love for Garments of Praise Foundation. Not too long after that, I started working on a ballad based on a poem my dad wrote after my beloved brother, Jeff, died suddently in an accident. The song just wouldn't come so I put it on the back burner and will get back to it some day. The next few years were spent playing and singing with my old band mate, Bill Lee, Kevin Beard and a few others (One Good Ear), all over Austin. Those were fun years & we did a lot of charity stuff as well as paying gigs. In 2020 a lullaby fell on my heart for a friend who was about to welcome a miracle grand baby. Off we went to baby land! Creation Lullaby was born out of a desire for my friends daughter to conceive. Infertility is a huge thing and this child was their 7th attempt - so much prayer went into this miracle baby boy! The next logical thing was to write for kids, so I wrote a song, inspired by a best selling series of children's books. The song is about Liberty, the beloved time-traveling-talking horse, introduced in the Rush Revere series by Rush and Kathryn Adams Limbaugh. You And Liberty was inspired by the first book in the series, Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims. Every time I buy that set of books for a child I send a link to the song so the kids can enjoy it even more. (I tried sending it to Kathryn, but for some reason she never answered my email. ;) I still hope some day she will hear it because Rush would have loved the guitar solo ;) This year (2022) I wrote Hey Blue, a song in honor of my LEO friends, Bill & Danny - and dedicated to the brave men and women in law enforcement agencies everywhere. My latest creation is a song in honor of my friend who died suddenly. She asked me to "come sing, come play" at her store one summer. It was early in my Christian music career and I grew more in those 8 weeks than I had in all my time, playing for kids. It's called Zebra Shoes because she loved my shoes so I gave them to her. ;) She told me to play anything I wanted to including the Blues so I did just that. And THAT brings us to today - obviously, an album is a natural follow-up. My dilemma is...what in the world does one call an album with multiple themes? Maybe I should take suggestions from the comment feed. :) Rest assured, these songs - and some fun cover art will be up soon - I'm posting them one at a time as I make sure they're formatted correctly so you can access them. And when the creative bug hits me, you'll find the new ones here as soon as I can get in the studio. I hope you enjoy my songs and please, feel free to comment. I only ask you to be courteous and polite; everyone has a right to an opinion but please, please keep it civil. Thank you.