My story starts in the 1970s in a wall-to-wall carpeted bar on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was there that my Mom, a part-time typist, former Queen-sized legs model and 4-time Jeopardy champion spied my Dad, a French ex-patriot ATM designer and Doctor of Mathematics playing backgammon in a see-through purple shirt. She picked him up and four years later I was born.
I grew up in the heart of the city with the TV for a best friend, serving copious doses of MTV and Pee-Wee's Playhouse. My first album was Michael Jackson's Thriller and I stared at the cover for hours, wondering if the baby tiger was real. My first job was delivering movies for the local video store, my high school afternoons spent bouncing round the neighborhood, dropping off new releases while blasting Annie Lennox's Diva out my Walkman.
Since then I've worked for the Paris Department of Sanitation as a street sweeper, and the Brooklyn Department of Education teaching Kindergartners how to hula-hoop. While living in New York I played more places then I care to mention, from rock clubs to cabarets to pool parties to bar-mitzvahs and back again. I recorded and released 3 records independently, made a whole lot a t-shirts and buttons, even some business cards, all of which now reside in a cardboard box in my Parents' den.
A couple winters ago I found myself the source of UK major label attention on account of a few tracks I put up on Myspace. I promptly signed a record deal and moved to London where I made an album. Since then I've been straddling both sides of the Atlantic, writing songs for myself and others, playing shows to audiences ranging from 5 to 5000 people, and generally embarrassing myself throughout the continental United States and Europe.
Heyy.I've never really left a myspace comment before, but I just have to say...I absolutely love your songs(your cover of "Forever" is my fave). I've listened to you on youtube for months and I'm just so happy you've been signed and I can finally buy your album. Simone x
thanks for the add! i heard about you through ari hest, and i have to say, you're pretty much in the awesome club with him. i hope i can swing my vacation to NYC at the start of august, because i'd love to come see you play!
Is there absolutely no way the camberwell gig could happen to miraculously shift to another hour/day? (I found a genie in a bottle today, and this is one of my wishes...)
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