Hi I am a singer, songwriter, musician and an artist. I stated playing guitar when I was 10. I took lesson for about 6 months and taught myself or my guitar taught me. I have been playing over 30 years now. I play mostly by ear. It is more by feeling then anything. When I sit down to write the melodies make their way on their own as well as the rhythms. It's kind of the same when I paint. I can start with an intention, but usually it creates itself. I allow my spirit to come thought. Sometimes songs come out great other times just loose ends. Writing for me is therapy. Getting all the stuff out and clearing the way for more positive things. It is only in the past two years that I took my playing more seriously. Finally I thought that I was a musician, not just a painter who played guitar. I gotten serious about recording and working with other musicians. It is good to be playing my music and following my bliss. I have live in New York City since ’85. I grew up in the burbs of NYC listening to AM radio with Cat Stevens, Carol King. As a teenager of the seventies I listened to Dan Fogelberg, The Eagles, Jackson Brown, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead, Grand Funk Railroad, Deep Purple, and Areosmith. When I was in art school in the beginning of eighties I listened to The Police, Joe Jackson, The Talking heads and Jon Armatrading. Armatrading has always been my heroine as a lady with her guitar with her strong rhythms. Over the years my taste has ranged widely in my listening, Blues, world music and Jazz. My main influences are Jon Armatrading, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Suzanne Vega and Ani Di Franco. I have always loved both Mitchell’s and Vega’s fabulous way of having a lyrics work like a poem. Making it become images that glides along like paint on a canvas. And of course I love how Ani Di Franco’s bangs out rhythms on her 12 string guitar.
My music: www.myspace.com/artgirlgirlsings
My music and animation videos: www.youtube.com/artgirlsreality
Cheers,
Meg
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