” I don’t know where my songs come from but they always told me where to go. I rode the songs in like a wave. I wrote my first lyrics on NYC subways, planning to almost “rap” them, like poetry. My childhood home was troubled + even my choice of music was an act of rebellion against a family that considered “classical” music to be the “only” music. NYC was like my playground and I spent as much time away from home as possible … listened to alternative music stations like NPR – and discovered that my “odd” ideas about music weren’t so odd after all. My teachers were always amazing to me. I was like a “runaway with a scholarship” – escaping the challenges of an abusive childhood home, while embracing the wonders of learning new things every day. I got skipped several grades, so I was always the youngest in the class and a bit of a “lone wolf.” Training as a dancer and actress, I had no “instrument,” beyond my body, my voice and “percussion-words.” I “took dictation” from where-ever these lyrics seemed to “originate.” Sometimes they showed up in dreams, fully written. I’m a multi-cultural “Island Child Gone Wild in the City” ™ so “the beats” were there for me in every syllable, soaring guitars underneath. Beats, heartbeats, indigenous roots soul beats, syncopations from global girls in global cities – global streets – NYC, City Of Angels / L.A. , Sao Paolo / Brazil, Japanese Taiko – and – always, always on my mind and in my heart : Africa. Bits of alternative chords and multi-cultural percussions accompanied definitive words, but I can’t read/write music, so I was “locked out” of what i call the “musician’s locker room.” Baffled and intimidated by the idea of writing music to my lyrics, sometimes “triggered” by traumatic childhood incidents, I sought “music” for my lyrics. I knew that water was my “hood,” I was born on the water, as much as i adore NYC, my soul longed for water . So, I “caught a wave” for Cali. As I began working with my “buddy” in Los Angeles (iconic actor/musician Wings Hauser) my NYC notebooks filled with lyrics, hints of music, fragments – found their home with his melodies. Sometimes I read him the lyrics first and other times he played melodies that were instantly recognizable to me, as the destined partner for certain songs. My primitive fumblings for musical concepts “haunting” these lyrics were now finally “accessible.” As we developed the songs, I could “channel” ideas for which I previously had no vocabulary. “Shaping” the songs – my voice followed. The beats showed up again and they brought me home on my “Island Child Wild™ ” Wave.
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was ahead of her time with two lead characters communicating via zoom, in a project that seeks to explore communication beyond boundaries
the project smashes story structure
with original music soundtrack breaking the sound barrier
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glass-ceilings
Tackling racism – sexism – homophobia + climate-crisis all in the context of a love story unfolding in a venice beach surf shack – both film + album shot and recorded mostly on the water …
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