MY STORY

Music is all around they say which is true. I spent some of my childhood in Singapore Kenya and Shetland. As a young person I had a few lessons on guitar then I was hooked. I stopped playing and performing when I had children until about six years ago. Then friends encouraged me to get Jezebel my guitar fixed in fact between them and my father they paid for it. It took a while to get half way proficient again. After doing covers for a while I thought why not try writing a song . The First one came very quick indeed 25 minutes in the back of a car while on a day trip with my friends. Simma Dim which is one the album inspired by nature and memories of Shetland s a child.

 

Then came about 2 years of intermittent songs . Then I realised I almost had what constituted

of enough songs to make an album. Talking to Shaun Buswell at an Open mic we sort of made it happen . Off I went to Sweden for the weekend forgiven for missing the original flight feeling go hide under a rock moment . Hence the reference to the plane on the fount cover. The week before thinking I needed some ore choice in songs I wrote Jambo Malindi Mombasa Inspired by y childhood and revisiting Kenya as an adult. I have a love of Crete so also came Havania . I wrote Debrovnic while staying close by to this ancient beautiful city. Ost of my song s are about places and environment. See a tree was more up close and personal as it was addressing my past as a young woman bereaved at 21 with my soul mate committing suicide. Recently came Wild Cards which is about sitting in an ITU ward beside someone in a comma.

 

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