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Steven Tyler brought me to Hollywood…

It was in 2013 I believe.  I was browsing on internet at the ASCAP Expo Show website and suddenly, my attention was caught by reading that Steven Tyler would be at the Expo Show in Hollywood that year.

I just love Steven Tyler, I like his looks, his singing, his songs, his personality, the way he dresses, in fact I can’t think of a thing I don’t like about him, he is just Amazing.

I said to myself, I need to go there, I absolutely  want to meet Steven Tyler and see what ASCAP Expo show is all about.

I booked my ticket, hotel, car, etc. and was so ready to finally  meet my idol Steven Tyler in Hollywood.

I thought it is a lot of money to fly, hotel fees, attend the show but I’m sure I will not regret it.

1 or 2 weeks before leaving, I was SOOOO disappointed  to learn that  Steven Tyler cancelled due to an Australian tour.  OH NO! It was too late to cancel , so I decided to go anyway.

I fell in love with L.A., Hollywood, Malibu, Venice Beach thanks to the new friend I found at the ExpoShow.  It turned out to be such a wonderful experience.  I met wonderful people, Katy Perry replaced Steven Tyler and many more great music icons were there.

One day while wandering around the Loews hotel where the show was, I ran face to face with Darryl McDaniels co-founder of Run-DMC . I asked him for a picture and was a little less bitter about not having met Steven Tyler and said to myself “ well there is a connection with Run-DMC  and Steven Tyler :  the song  Walk this Way ”.

On top of it all, I shot my video One Day You Will Miss Me on the last day thanks to my new friend Michael Contreras who accepted to bring me to the hottest place in L.A. and filmed me.

Sometimes in life, you may think a door has closed but there is always another one that opens up.  My experience in Hollywood at the ASCAP made me go back year after year and I can say that it’s always a new experience. I meet new people that struggle just like me in the music business. We share our passion together and meet people that have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. We come to realise that they are human beings just like us, who composed great music and have been lucky to find themselves one good day at the right place with the right songs and meet the right person to give them a break.

We all need someone to take us to where we need to go and I hope I will meet Steven Tyler (ah ah ah). The ones taking me where I need to go are people like YOU, sending me their appreciation by reading and commenting my blogs and supporting me.

I would be very grateful if you would take only 3 minutes of your time to watch the video I filmed that last day in Hollywood of my song One Day You Will Miss Me.

If you’d like to hear the most recent milestone of my musical journey, click here to listen to my album Number One.

Thank you so much for being a listener and making it all worthwhile. YOU, the listener, are the most important component in that wonderful chain of songwriting-recording-mixing-getting it out-filming a video -rehearsing-playing live for the fans…at the end it’s all for you that we go through all this process…hoping that someone somewhere will like the songs enough to become a fan and support us.

Thank you for being there giving me your support.

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First time on stage…wearing pyjamas !

Pyjama party

As we all know getting on a stage is pretty frightening. Talking in front of the class in high school was already a scary experience for many of us. I don’t know about you but it certainly was for me. Let me tell you a true story that happened long ago…I was 8 years old. It was Christmas. My father had decided to take all the family to the Bahamas. When we left Montreal it was very cold as usual for winter in Canada, way below zero as it quite often goes minus 30 degrees. I was overwhelmed with excitement thinking about a ‘’summer vacation’’ in the middle of winter. We were travelling by plane and my sisters and myself were looking at the clouds. At some point I told my dad: ‘’daddy! I think the plane stopped because the clouds are not moving’’. My father started laughing loudly. In his reassuring low voice told us not to worry cause if it stops he would go outside and blow on it !

My dad although very strict at times was a loving dad. When we arrived in the Bahamas the first thing I noticed was the wonderful scent of the flowers. One evening my parents decided to go to the lobby room upstairs of the adjacent building. A singer was performing. My grandma was babysitting us girls. While grandma was asleep I convinced my sisters to ‘’escape’’ and go spy on our parents. Wearing our pyjamas we were escalating the stairs on our knees to avoid being seen and finally got to the lobby unnoticed.

We were hiding behind a giant plant. Somehow somebody noticed us and pointed at us. Our father saw us. We almost fainted. We were so scared for ourselves and also for grandma who would surely get reprimanded too. Our father asked the performer to have us sing Jingle Bells on stage. The singer, who’s name was Mickey, accepted with a big laugh. Hopefully my older sister Linda was so at ease on the stage that she saved our ass…Kathleen and myself were literally melting of stage fright ! At the end of the song we had a standing ovation. They had never seen 3 little girls sing Jingle Bells wearing pyjamas.

Music itself gave me lots of pleasure throughout my life and also some of my worst painful deceptions. Being in bands I’ve met some great people, some less great that were soon forgotten, had lots of laughter, some tears…being part of a ‘’gang’’ like a band gives you a great feeling of confidence and assurance that’s for sure and it can become extremely ‘’addictive’’…

But perhaps even more important than all of that is YOU, the listener. You make the difference between rehearsing between 4 walls in a tiny room and suddenly singing on a large stage with lights that make us shine. Without you, how can we be called artists ? So I hope you will always be part of the journey, good times bad times. A journey that is still ahead for you and me.

If you’d like to hear the most recent milestone of that journey, click here to listen to my album, ‘Number 1’.

Thank you so much for being a listener and making it all worthwhile.

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I do give a shit !

It was again at the ASCAP Expo Show in Hollywood. I told you how much I love to go there and I was so thrilled to see OMI perform his great hit Cheerleader on stage. It was exciting, I just love this song and he is a super performer but most of all a wonderful generous human being. When I met him outdoor and asked for a picture, I didn’t feel he was in a hurry to get rid of me. I felt he was happy to take the time for us to take a nice picture.
This is so important, as an artist, we need the public, our fans to make us happen & exist and even be eternal in some cases……
You are so important. If I ever meet you, I promise I will take the appropriate time to know who you are and what you like the most. I’d like to know what song you prefer, why, what would you like me to sing about, different issues or whatever might make you happy. What is your all-time favourite band or artist ?
Please leave me a comment, I do give a shit!

And if you give a shit about listening to my album, please click here now.

Until next time ! Luv u !