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HA! I feel your pain Bob. I've had people actually move away from me at church because I sing loud. It happened on three different occassions at least! That's okay....they were petty dorks anyway.


When I was five I would stand on my grandparents' fireplace and sing "Tomorrow" from Annie. I had a block for a microphone which I called my woo. I sang in the school choir and even had a solo at a school play. But then there were the years between 5th and 10th grade when I didn't really even listen to any music, let alone sing. I "played" percussion in high school.

When I was 16, I was going through a "rebellious" stage and just to be impertinent I started writing songs that were "Christian." Then I gave my life to Christ and started writing all kinds of songs, including Christian ones. Then I sang at a teen meeting for church....I was loud, but I was really pitchy. So when I went to college I got voice lessons which corrected that.

But I was going to a really "interesting"(AKA controlling) church, which didn't think people should use their gifts outside of the four walls of the church building. So for years I sang on the church music team. FINALLY I got fed up with feeling stifled and used by the church leadership. I got rebellious again and recorded my first CD in 2004. I don't like it. When it was recorded a lot of my personality was suppressed by this church. I feel like it sounds plastic....but some people like it. Whatever.

Then I left that church...FINALLY! hehe and found who I really am...which is ridiculous because who really has found their true self. I find that I change in my thinking often. Which might be because of my church/cult background. (It's really hard for me to admit that I was in a borderline cult under the guise of a church for most of my life...but there it is. I can't deny it.)

Okay, I'm blabbering. SOOOOORRRRY!