REFLECTIONS on LOVE & LIFE…….
How would you describe your upcoming record?
It’s romantic and fun. It celebrates marriage relationships and also being a mid-life female.
How would you compare it to your last album?
Stylistically, it is similar. It’s soft jazz. This one is more danceable than the last one. The first was romantic mood or dinner music. You can samba, do the 2 step or waltz to this one. The last CD was all cover songs except one original. This time, I wrote every song but still worked with the same jazz pianist for the arrangements. He’s brilliant.
When did you start writing songs?
I’ve been writing songs since I was 12 years old. I didn’t do much with them. I didn’t know WHAT to do with them. Back then we didn’t have this global access via the Internet like we do now. My very first song was about an apple tree. LOL! Probably not much market there…
How do you go about writing songs?
I don’t have a particular way, sometimes I get a melody first; sometimes I get a lyric. Chicken or the egg? It varies!
What things inspire you to write?
My observations of life, my relationships and the world around me inspire me to make a statement. Everything I write is not biographical. Sometimes it is just a response to a story a friend shares that touches me deeply.
What’s a favorite lyric from one of the songs on your CD?
“Live the life that we dreamed of instead of throwing that dream away” It’s from Kiss and Make up. Sometimes we hold and internalize resentment over the tiniest of things, especially we females. Self included. I’m learning to let those things go more quickly- life is much more pleasant!
What’s a song of yours that has really touched people?
How much I love you- penned for my husband and recorded on my first record has been very well received. Chocolate on this upcoming CD is a close 2nd ! It’s about women and chocolate -what’s not to love?
If you could co-write with anyone living or dead, who would it be?
Bryan Adams- he has a way with melodic & emotional/ lyrical connection that makes me swoon. He’s still touring and I think he’s a fabulous artist as well as songwriter. After that, it would be Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The Great American songbook is filled with their songs and they are always a piece of artistic beauty.
