"I like to write emotional songs and perform them as if I'm stuck in a mosh pit with Henry Rollins and my life depended on it."
Und das CV....
I moved around a lot when I was a child and music had always been a constant. I would write poems and lyrics and hum my little ditty's to myself to deal with the marginalization one can feel as a minority. Basically no matter what community I was in - I never fit in. I figured, hey, if I'm gonna be different may as well go ALL the way. I listened to a lot of metal (Metallica, Pantera, Ministry were some of my favorites), and when grunge came there was no other band for me but Alice in Chains! (and for a Black chick born into a West Indian family, that was rough).
I ended up at an alternative high school in Boston, the town where I was born, and I took a lot of college courses. During that time I won a scholarship through the Handel and Haydn Society to study classical voice and music theory at The New England Conservatory of Music which lasted until I completed High School. I also studied vocal performance and jazz theory at Berklee College of Music.
Soon, I caught the acting bug and went on to receive my B.F.A from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Undergraduate Drama. Upon graduation I got annoyed with the lack of good work out there for someone like me and my friends who enjoyed singing/acting/dancing: musical theater! So naturally, I figured I'd write some musicals. I submitted some songs and a short libretto to the highly competitive and regarded Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop at BMI in New York City. I auditioned with my material and received a two year residency. I was in the workshop as a lyricist and developed my musical 'Live Nude Girls Unite!' with composer Karl Mansfield.
Still feeling the need to perform, I decided to move out to Los Angeles in 2005. I auditioned a bunch - was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers music video "Tell Me Baby" - and I also wrote another play, 'Junior's Black Hole' when I won a scholarship to attend the David Henry Hwang Writer's Institute at The East West Players. I bought a keyboard hoping to one day learn how to play it well - and for my first two years I lived LA, I never touched it.
It was funny, with all the time I spent loving music, writing lyrics, loving performance - never did I think to sit down and perform my own songs on that keyboard.
FINALLY in January 2007, I literally woke out of bed one morning with an idea for accompaniment to support my lyric for "Rose" and was compelled to blow the dust off my keyboard and challenge myself by translating the song in my head to the keys. And that is how I continue to write and develop my sound today.
HEYA ANGIE B. ! sooo glad it worked out! man, wish i could see you at the sidewalk cafe! it's one of my favorite places to play! have a wonderful time!!! x<3x<3, f :D
yes, though i pine for my days doing that gig at altered stages. that had to have been one of the ____ shows i've ever worked on. you fill in the blank space there....
Hey Angie! It's been a minute since i've seen you. I've had a busy summer. Sorry i was unable to make your last gig. I've just been a busy bee! How are you? I hope you are well and hope to see you soon.
Hey thanks for the add! Come check out the play, MASKS on Friday, October 3rd at 8pm, Saturday October 4th at 7pm and Sunday October 5th at 5pm at the NoHo Actors Studio, 5215 Lankershim Blvd., N. Hollywood, CA. 91601. MASKS is the WINNER of an NAACP THEATRE AWARD FOR BEST PLAYWRIGHT LOCAL. DON'T MISS IT!!
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