Artist description Piano based, rhythmically complex, weird and quirky, she uses a clarinet

Music Style folk/pop

Musical Influences Tori, Over the Rhine, Sixpence, U2, REM

Similar Artists Dark and minor like Tori Amos, easy like Norah Jones

Artist History Growing up I was a romantic idealist, always walking around with my head in the clouds. So in the clouds in fact, that I cared more about making "cute marks" in the boys eyes than passable marks on my schoolwork. It was a chronic case of messed up schoolgirl priorities that later matastisized into a more presently terminal situation: adult directionlessness. So now, like thousands of girls who watched too many romance movies and took love songs seriously, who were too swept away in the blush of youth to worry about later, who learned how to dress, how to smile, how to do their hair too well, we have become the archetype of the modern "temp". When the program of schooling was over what job are we suited for better than the depraved existence of "temp"? What is a temp anyway? The docile temp cannot have a dream or career of her own; she must be no more than one in a chain of carbon copy paper dolls; criteria: shallow looks, hair in a neat ponytail, smile (though defeated), and she is ready to pull infinite numbers of staples out of reports and make infinite copies of the reports before 5 - she must appear "thrilled" to do this. I am one of these civil servants, whoring myself to temp agencies who'll gladly take advantage of my talent for presentation and motivationless goal-set. They set me up in a "prestige assignment" as a receptionist for the CEO and Vice Presidents of a large bank in downtown Boston. Desperate for any job that would pay the bills I put in my 55 hour weeks to make ends meet - because the temp company collects 1/3 of my paycheck as their fee. So I've been working at the bank for months now, the bankers have no idea of the dreams I have forfeited to be their corporate coat-check girl, they know I'm a pianist and singer because they hired me as the entertainment for their Christmas party, but they don't know that they are the main topic of my songs and poems! So it's not that bad, the real joke is I can't complain because while I was spending hours of my youth looking at the fashion mags instead of working on my music I was choosing this life. The day I woke up and realized that I had reached rock bottom I happened to be manning my usual post at my imposing oak and glass desk. Upon realization my body reacted so violently to my drowning dreams that I got the most awful case of the hiccoughs. I tried everything I could think of to get rid of them; I drank water upside down, guzzled water, held my breath, breathed deeply - all in the intervals between answering the phones, of course - but nothing worked to get rid of them! To make matters worse, the phones were ringing off the hook! I couldn't seem to sit long enough to settle myself down and make them go away. Two-and-a-half hours later the panic attack finally ended. That day- the day with the hiccoughs- was yesterday, so today I have new resolve. I'm making sure that I'm never so shocked by my own outcome ever again... I don't want to arrive at a destination on paths that "took me" instead of paths that I chose to take. Today I'm changing things. Starting here, underneath this atrium, I'm re-prioritizing! I was able to download a program that has let me turn some of my songs to Mp3's right here at my receptionist post and I've uploaded them! Yes, I've finally decided to "try" and the first step is by making things public. From now on, I'm putting myself out there, to be rejected, to be disapproved of, from now on I'm making everything public, and it begins here with you!

Additional Info 2002-Kerrville Newfolk Finalist

Location Cambridge, MA - USA

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