Friday 28 December 2012

behind

The holidays have set back my "one video a week" goal but I will be rectifying that soon.

In the meantime, here is a photo from one of my very first performances.  I was 4 years old and had become a member of Yolanda Gambino's "Angels" youth choir.  I was so proud to be a member of that group.  And how cool were we in those awesome t-shirts?!

The little girl to my right was Amy, who was at that time my very best friend.  I wanted to be just like her (she being older, and therefore cooler, at age 5) so I was delighted when her mom invited me to tag along to Amy's choir practice.  I sat on the sidelines with Amy's mom and sang my heart out.  Yolanda saw my enthusiasm and asked my parents if I could join.  She also told my parents to "get that kid a piano" because I was such a musical little thing; a natural, she called me.  My folks didn't have the space for a piano so they bought me a guitar instead (thank goodness!).

I took lessons from Yolanda's Dad for a while but he just wanted to smoke and yell at me so I took a little break from lessons until we found Mr. Mameli.  He was the dearest most wonderful man and he believed in me.  He called me his "little star" and would clap with delight when I showed up for lessons each week.  But he's a story for another time.


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