Just last night I finished all the vocals for my new record! Finally!! I can't believe it actually happened! This record has been a real beast, or I'm just impatient! I love it, don't get me wrong please, but there were several road blocks that came up with this one that I just wasn't expecting. I had hoped, planned, posted, and tweeted that my record was going to be ready last summer in 2010, which here we are right now at what is soon to be approximately one year later now that we're in May, 2011. Well last summer came and went, and so did fall and winter! Boom! I blinked and it was a brand new year, or so it seemed:)) I do believe that this may all have been a lesson learned for me, and the lesson was, and still is: that WE SHOULDN'T MAKE PLANS! Haha! Hehe!! I think I figured it out.....what God may have been trying to teach me. I found that whenever we do make our plans, we're setting ourselves up for a 'Plan B diversion' every time! LOL!
I am very proud and quite pleased with the record right now at this point. However I didn't arrive here at this place without much thought process and contemplation on my part. I chose songs, and I changed my mind about songs. I wrote songs and I learned and re learned songs along with the process of practicing several songs from a standpoint of performing them "live". Even after working with my band leader I had figured some of the keys wrong but I am a total believer of what one of my vocal instructors taught me that I've never forgotten...."a singer can sing any song, as long as it's in the right key." Recording in the studio is quite a different performance altogether from singing "live" with respect to key and tempo among other things. I did go back into the studio after everything was all complete or so I thought, but I went into my own home studio that I built where I can always be in complete control of my surroundings (which is the way I like it) and I started all over and re recorded my vocals again! My producer thinks I'm completely nuts most of the time...LOL! It was all a roller coaster ride and a labor of love, and now my baby, my record, is finally about to be revealed. She's ready to be born! I think the process of making a record, for me anyway, is full of excitement, stress, passion, creativity, cognitive overload, many late nights with bad food followed by upset stomaches, falling asleep in the salon while I get my hair blown dry or on my yoga mat during extended child's pose because I'm just so damn tired, and ultimately it's all an expression of love with a simplicity component attached that is difficult to articulate to say the least. I'll just say.....'I do it because it's what I am SUPPOSED to be doing for my contribution to the planet'. That 'my Dears', is a fact.
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Will definitely keep you posted, haha, literally as to the release date!!
~ta ta....until next time,
V V
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
May Day!
Happy May Day!! It's the 1st of May and it's full on Spring! It's such a gorgeous, beautiful day......(I sound exactly like my mother, sheesh! Hahaha) but it really is fantastic today! I really am so proud to be living in California, and to be a California native and sing country music.....well......that's just a rarity! Well, haha, there's Merle ("The Hagg") Haggard! 'Hey Merle......How ya doin' bro?' He's my California native, country, outlaw brother......My brother from another mother! Hehe!:)) I love Merle Haggard!
Like I said it is an awesome day, about 82 degrees, and breezy. I'm feeling a connection to my Italian self lately. I went to the Italian market (Claro's), and nearly lost my mind in the midst of all the fresh prosciutto sliced right in front of me, the fresh warm bread, anchovies, olive oil, tomatoes, cannolis, éclairs (although French), the pastas, cheese, and the list is so, so long. I could go on and on! It reminded me of being back in New York City in Little Italy!! I'll save that for another blog post, on another day. However....I decided to make my first ever Limoncello! Wahoo! I got all the lemons, peeled & soaked, now I'm just waiting for the fantastic results! In about 3 weeks I'll have ice cold Limoncello to drink for after dinner, pool side, with the sound of the waterfall, giant white candles by the fire pit, and the scent of the cool California night air. Hmmmm.....magical! I had some lemons left over so I whipped up a lemon pound cake made with fresh thyme and a vanilla bean light frosting that is so delicious to eat for dessert!!! I can barely stand it! I have this love affair with lemons and they just happen to grow so freely here in Southern California without much fuss if any on my part. I just love throwing them in various recipes and squeezing them into my tea....Ahhhh! I did buy a little dwarf lemon tree along with a Meyer's dwarf lemon tree that produces sweeter lemons that are much sweeter than regular lemons with such thick skins, so I can pretty much enjoy the beauty of lemons all year long! Oh, and the blossoms from the tree smell heavenly! They remind me of when I was a little girl growing up. We always had lemons to pick off our lemon trees, along with oranges from the the big orange tree in the front yard, grapes from the vines, and blackberries from the gigantic blackberry tree in the back, far from the house, near the horse stables! At any rate, I'll keep you posted on my Limoncello progress! Yay! All those lemons are so good for my vocal chords!! It helps keep them clear, and in pristine condition! Besides, I have to have something to do while I'm waiting for my record to come out!!! Hahaha....LOL!
Ciao Loves!!
ta ta....until next time,
V V
Like I said it is an awesome day, about 82 degrees, and breezy. I'm feeling a connection to my Italian self lately. I went to the Italian market (Claro's), and nearly lost my mind in the midst of all the fresh prosciutto sliced right in front of me, the fresh warm bread, anchovies, olive oil, tomatoes, cannolis, éclairs (although French), the pastas, cheese, and the list is so, so long. I could go on and on! It reminded me of being back in New York City in Little Italy!! I'll save that for another blog post, on another day. However....I decided to make my first ever Limoncello! Wahoo! I got all the lemons, peeled & soaked, now I'm just waiting for the fantastic results! In about 3 weeks I'll have ice cold Limoncello to drink for after dinner, pool side, with the sound of the waterfall, giant white candles by the fire pit, and the scent of the cool California night air. Hmmmm.....magical! I had some lemons left over so I whipped up a lemon pound cake made with fresh thyme and a vanilla bean light frosting that is so delicious to eat for dessert!!! I can barely stand it! I have this love affair with lemons and they just happen to grow so freely here in Southern California without much fuss if any on my part. I just love throwing them in various recipes and squeezing them into my tea....Ahhhh! I did buy a little dwarf lemon tree along with a Meyer's dwarf lemon tree that produces sweeter lemons that are much sweeter than regular lemons with such thick skins, so I can pretty much enjoy the beauty of lemons all year long! Oh, and the blossoms from the tree smell heavenly! They remind me of when I was a little girl growing up. We always had lemons to pick off our lemon trees, along with oranges from the the big orange tree in the front yard, grapes from the vines, and blackberries from the gigantic blackberry tree in the back, far from the house, near the horse stables! At any rate, I'll keep you posted on my Limoncello progress! Yay! All those lemons are so good for my vocal chords!! It helps keep them clear, and in pristine condition! Besides, I have to have something to do while I'm waiting for my record to come out!!! Hahaha....LOL!
Ciao Loves!!
ta ta....until next time,
V V
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