11/19/2023
Hi!!! So, I realize a lot of people didn’t know another of my jobs 🙂. The post from lastnight, well, I’m a tribute artist. I want to talk about it. 😌 so, I was singing one night at Teresa's Restaurant with Tony Valley and Charlie Lask was there, heard me, and we started to talk. That was it 🙂. He gave me an opportunity to try something new, something fun and I wanted to do everything music I could so I was like, yes!! Yay!! Plus, growing up, we all knew of Charlie and I was excited to work alongside him ☺️♥️ 🤫 my family was all excited when I told them 😂. I started with Mariah Carey Tribute & Adele. (now Dolly Parton Tribute etc) The show went awesome down at Figaro Ristorante!! ☺️ I have worked alongside Charlie ever since - kind, fun, adorable, and incredible professionalism. I learned so so much from him and observing the other tribute artists around here. I want to talk about that too.
I have my foot in being an orignal artist and I have my foot in being a tribute. I want to tell you why I tried it and why I keep doing it, and why most of the other tributes are doing it - I tried it to challenge myself and to get more confident performing. To learn. To experience. I was scared for so long and every performance doing the duo and bands and tributes made me shave away my fears and be more “me” on stage as an orignal artist. But why I keep doing tributes is because I was completely blown away by the energy exchange. IF you haven’t been to a tribute show, you have no clue. These are “SHOWS”. You are laughing, you are crying. You are in a community of people that love the same music as you and you are all singing along together, dancing together. These tributes talk, walk around, interact with everyone; the amount of showmanship, professionalism, charisma… they are tributing big big shoes and they are filling them. I’m there because of the heart, the fun, the laughs, and the community. And, I’m still learning so much. It’s the love I’m in love with. 🙏♥️.
Last night, I had people come up to me in tears because I sang, “love takes time”, “hero”, “I will always love you” “coat of many colors”. And I got so many hugs 😭♥️. Those songs touch my heart and still make me cry, I was holding back tears last night singing them and people connected to that and were all were one with open hearts in a beautiful beautiful heart space. We carry that forward through our next days. ♥️ our world needs that over and over and over again.
Judi Lewis is Aretha 😱 I just met her lastnight and this woman held it down and blew it up! 😱😱🥳🙌Thank you so much for doing what you do and I caaannoottt wait to work with you again!!! 🙏♥️
Lisa Carter wrote the entire show, handpicking songs to have a musical flow that made everyone feel so so so so much. 🙏🙏♥️♥️ the amount of work I watched her do, the amount of passion and details this woman puts into everything she does completely blows me away always. I am completely honored to work next to her. Completely honored 🙏♥️I am only as good as I am because of these incredible people I have worked with, that I have soaked up so much, let go of so much, the comfort they all gave me, the professionalism they showed me, the fun and laughs 😂 and figured out me in there somewhere somehow. I also want to add, I know that Lisa and Charlie have written their own amaaazing original music 😉 😉 ♥️ mhmmm, they are musicians. They are artists. They are performers. They are music sharers. I love them so so so much 🙏 we all share so much love for the music ♥️♥️♥️ and I feel it always when I perform with them. And I am so so so damn proud. So damn proud and I can’t wait to do it again ♥️🥳
Ok, I’m all heartfelt after lastnight 😭😂 all the damn love, 🙌♥️😭♥️☺️
