Dance like no one is watching ….

PUSH PLAY!

Whenever I listen to these tracks (released on vinyl circa 1999/2000) I am immediately back in an elaborate recording studio in Soho, London. I had just enough life experience to feel like an ‘old’ soul, even though I was so young. I remember that feeling of having your whole life ahead, how uncertainty and change weren’t things to fear but rather exciting challenges that offered an opportunity to grow and become the ‘who’ I wanted to be.

I was a jazz person. I’d lived in London long enough to know the tube routes and I was a regular at the late night jazz haunts, desperate to find that tiny opening within the scene so that I could slip in and ‘become’.

Doing dance music was frowned upon by the serious end of town, almost an act of blasphemy but I was seduced by the lure of being something more than an unknown singer in a world of elite musicians. Perhaps it was Ego, perhaps it was frustration, perhaps it was just timing - whatever it was, I had crossed over and started down a path that was completely unexpected.

Instead of Jazz bars, I was going to dance clubs and waiting for my songs to come on and then go completely CRAZY on the dance floor. I’m smiling as I write this, bits of vision and memory floating back, even the feeling of being drenched in sweat and the sheer joy and freedom of moving my body with such spectacular force.

Living in Life Before ……where I didn’t know there would be a Life After….