Things my Grandmother taught me...
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes. This is a photo of my Grandmother - she is a constant source of inspiration and guidance. She was an amazing woman who in the 1950's raised 4 children by herself, no husband, as the story goes... he went out for ice cream and didn't come back. When I was still a baby both my parents died and it was my Grandmother who took me and my brother in. She was then in her 50's and had just buried her daughter (our mom) and yet still had the strength to raise two more kids. She was unconventional, crazy and brilliant. It was she that taught me to love Black & White movies. It was she that gave me the love of performing - she would play records put a boa around my neck and direct me to sing and dance - sorta like Louise's Mom in GYPSY - always telling me to "SING OUT...