So I am sitting here...
Waiting for dinner...I just got done working out and I feel invigorated. Awesome...I have been eating very healthy lately. I know that I am fine the way I am and that I don't need to be utimately skinny in order to gain the approval of those arround me...but...It makes me feel good to eat right and to have a hard toned body. Good in...equals good(performance) out.
Last night was awesome. I went to VOP practice. Not only did I feel in touch with God...but I also got to sing my solo. Larry made me sing and did a double take when I opened my mouth to belt out the first words of my solo. I love it when that happens....it just makes me feel so darn good about my talent. I remember when I was younger...this very thing shocked an MC and the onlooking crowd as well. There is this beach near my home called Hampton Beach. On Monday nights during the summer they held weekly competitions involving talent of any sorts. One night my mother and grandmother threw me into the competition. I was scared ****less because it was like the second time I had ever performed in my life. The MC guy interviewed me to give the audience some background. So there I stood in front of a big crowd asking my these questions. At the time I was very timid and when I got nervous, which was all the time, I talked in a quiet voice.
"So...Melissa," he said,"How long have you been singing?"
"All my life." I told him.
"That long," he said jokingly is cocky attitude coming through his voice as it echoed out of the loud speakers. Every one on the boardwalk could hear the conversation. "Who is your biggest inspiration?"
"Leann Rimes," I had said at the time in my shy and smallest voice."I will actually be singing a song of hers tonight...called Blue."
"Okay," he replied, "This is Melissa Silver singing Blue by Leann Rimes." He turned to the sound man and motioned to for him to turn my microphone up. He didn't have any faith in the fact that that little girl with the big curly hair, glasses, braces, and tiny talking voice could sing. As I opened my mouth to belt the first notes out...he turned around in front of the whole audience, opened his mouth real wide, and motioned for the soundman to turn me down. I remember the audiences' shock as I yodeled through the first Blue. They were so impressed that clapped and cheered eveytime I cracked my voice to portray the same emotion that my hero once had when she first recorded the song. I had listened hard and intently to that record...and I knew how to sing that song just like Leann. People walking the boardwalk stopped where they were and watched me perform. Some even rose to their feet after I was done. It was one of the most amazing moments in my life. It propelled my career and the endless chase to find my dreams and make them come true.
So anyway...I am going to dinner in fifteen minutes...I hope you enjoyed this piece of my past.
Last night was awesome. I went to VOP practice. Not only did I feel in touch with God...but I also got to sing my solo. Larry made me sing and did a double take when I opened my mouth to belt out the first words of my solo. I love it when that happens....it just makes me feel so darn good about my talent. I remember when I was younger...this very thing shocked an MC and the onlooking crowd as well. There is this beach near my home called Hampton Beach. On Monday nights during the summer they held weekly competitions involving talent of any sorts. One night my mother and grandmother threw me into the competition. I was scared ****less because it was like the second time I had ever performed in my life. The MC guy interviewed me to give the audience some background. So there I stood in front of a big crowd asking my these questions. At the time I was very timid and when I got nervous, which was all the time, I talked in a quiet voice.
"So...Melissa," he said,"How long have you been singing?"
"All my life." I told him.
"That long," he said jokingly is cocky attitude coming through his voice as it echoed out of the loud speakers. Every one on the boardwalk could hear the conversation. "Who is your biggest inspiration?"
"Leann Rimes," I had said at the time in my shy and smallest voice."I will actually be singing a song of hers tonight...called Blue."
"Okay," he replied, "This is Melissa Silver singing Blue by Leann Rimes." He turned to the sound man and motioned to for him to turn my microphone up. He didn't have any faith in the fact that that little girl with the big curly hair, glasses, braces, and tiny talking voice could sing. As I opened my mouth to belt the first notes out...he turned around in front of the whole audience, opened his mouth real wide, and motioned for the soundman to turn me down. I remember the audiences' shock as I yodeled through the first Blue. They were so impressed that clapped and cheered eveytime I cracked my voice to portray the same emotion that my hero once had when she first recorded the song. I had listened hard and intently to that record...and I knew how to sing that song just like Leann. People walking the boardwalk stopped where they were and watched me perform. Some even rose to their feet after I was done. It was one of the most amazing moments in my life. It propelled my career and the endless chase to find my dreams and make them come true.
So anyway...I am going to dinner in fifteen minutes...I hope you enjoyed this piece of my past.