HELLO EVERYONE…..although I try to, I can’t always tell each and everyone of you how thrilled I am that you’ve come to my page and added me as a friend…..I’ve said it so many times before and I’ll say it again…….a song is only as great as the number of people who enjoy it. An artist is only as popular as the people make him/her. I’ve noticed a recent surge of friends and listeners and it’s a great feeling to know that my music is reaching out to so many places and people. Thank you so much for support. Each and everyone of you makes a difference between me being a real Folk Artist and just another chick who sings to herself in the shower...........LOL I was born in Michigan and raised up on a blend of different styles of music. In 1991, my parents and I moved to Kentucky where I was exposed to even more music. Country music was the first Genre to spark my interest in actually wanting to pick up a guitar. The first time I watched Kathy Mattea sing “18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses,” I was 11 and I wanted so bad to play a guitar. My parents bought me a cheap little Harmony and the rest is history. Over time, I became fascinated by artists like Garth Brooks, Mark Chesnutt, Bonnie Raitt, Billy Joel, Pam Tillis and many others (I could name artists all night!!). As time went on, I didn’t just wanted to sing their songs…..I wanted to write songs like the ones they sang…….so I tried to write…..my first attempts at songwriting were okay but nothing amazing……as a matter of fact I was down right disgusted with myself because I thought I wasn’t that good at it….so I kind of pushed the songs I wrote a side and sang songs other people knew instead. When I got into my early 20’s I wrote a song called “I Can Feel The Wind.” It impressed a lot of my friends and I thought to myself, ‘hey maybe I’m not so bad at this songwriting thing after all.’ So I tried harder and in just a few years, I had written over 50 songs and had 5 albums to show for it…..do I feel like a real artist now…..oh yeah……LOL