Re-emerging Singer/Songwriter
It took losing my voice to find it.
Dual citizen of Australia (where I reside) & America with a lifetime (over 30 years) of experience as an international performer/songwriter.
I have been off the radar for many years but I never stopped writing. In March 2023 I started releasing music new and old ideas that never saw the light of day. I am more inspired than I have ever been. While I have been releasing music since the 90’s, this are my first completely solo, self produced efforts.
I am working with Digital Droo across the world in San Francisco for mixing /mastering but he is clever & like-minded that I enjoy giving him the tracks & saying “go for your life” & I am always feeling what cool things he comes up with. Droo is has had a hand in co-producing but he has also been mentoring me to do it alone. I have managed a few mixes that got the Droo approval. This is a huge feat.
In 2017 I was diagnosed with Vocal Cord Palsy, a condition I still navigate. The voice specialists say they do not know how I am able to speak let alone sing. I am told I am in a text book somewhere documenting my unusual case. These years of soul stretching & healing have brought me to a unique place as an artist. I have never felt so grateful, clear & free to express myself as my authentic self.
Genre: Well… I know many people say things like “too many to list” or “wide variety of influences”. I can tell you that I have loads of experience delivering wildly different styles. As a cover performer people use to ask me “What sort of music do you play?” to which I would answer: “Whatever pays.” I’ve done all manner of rock, soul, pop, jazz, funk, acoustic, trip hop, punk, techno, comedy, classical & hard to classify “other” projects. During the early process of rebuilding my voice I leaned into lofi-triphop and eventually revisited the jazz Real Books with gentle vocalising ala Billie Holiday. I found a home in emulating her fragile crooning but also the way she worked around the standard melody. Which was my superpower during those early healing days. As the years pass, I’ve been gaining control/strength & my range has been stretching. The trip this condition is taking me on has been and continues to be dynamic. Some days are better than others. But I am cautiously optimistic and always endlessly grateful.
I turned to comedy to cope through lockdown & many personal struggles that came with it. This is how my weird DIY neo atomic area quasi desktop variety show “Cocktail Hour” was born. Cocktail Hour has been video streaming show where I would would requests for random (mostly 80’s) songs & play them in random wildly reimagined ways & roll vids of strange home made skits, bits, adverts & whatnot while sipping out of a martini glass channelling my inner Dean Martin.
I am taking these singles and putting together 2 albums. One is darker, broody (Pretty Glass Cage, Getting Ideas, Alone With My Ghost… ) and the other is uplifting (She’ll Be Right, Keep This Dream Alive, It Gets Better…)
I have a vision for an immersive live experience I am writing around these singles. You can learn more about this via my Patreon which is a lovely community I am currently building. You may join for free (with limited access) but for the price of buying me a coffee here in Australia once a month you can check out all my weird demos.. Ideas.. Things that are inspiring me… What I wrote to myself to make into a song while I was sleeping the other night and can not figure out what it means… Stuff like that.
