From as young as I can remember music has been a part of me and one of the things in life that I cherish and love.
As a young girl in Melbourne Victoria, Australia, which is where I was born, I nagged/persuaded my parents, for many years, to buy me a guitar.
 I must have been young as I was finally granted this wish at 10.
   Guitar lessons followed in the style of countryish, popish, main stream soft stuff, which I just am not a fan of to this day. (The Classic Rockin Robin springs to mind hahahah tweet tweet tweedily tweet, only some of you will get that.)
  When I was 13/14 my family and I did the big transition sea change to Queensland and I began my high school years in Yeppoon.
   Our family lived a somewhat hippie existence at the time which has had a definite influence on the style of song writing that I resonate with.
Growing up, Heavy Metal was my favourite from Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Hawkwind but I did also enjoy Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and other Folk artists which all had an influence on the songs I would compose and still write to this day. Enmeshed with a respect for the natural world and our freedoms to be who we want to be, has always felt right to me. Spot lighting corruptions that have existed for a very long time.
Playing my guitar and writing were my absolute sanity throughout my teenage years. (plus Black Sabbath lol)
   My song “What’s the world comin’ to” was penned in 1977 by  myself and my best friend at the time on one of the many times we wagged school…..failed to attend classes.
It surprizes me, but in many ways, also not, how relevant my songs are today. Which speaks volumes as too how little structures have changed in all this time.
The right live how we choose, Peace and Freedom,  Society's corruptions, Injustices and Greed is still the content that I like to express thru my music and my poetry. 
    I feel my songs relate so much to current circumstances that it seems like I only wrote them yesterday not over 40 years ago. I have had my songs discribed as predictive which is a mind blowin thought.
      I was always drawn to artistic endeavours with poetry being a big part of my natural leanings. Everywhere I went I carried pen/pencil, paper never knowing when inspiration would flow, I have written on sand, drink coasters and scraps of paper, improvising on a “must have right now” whim to write. 
This has always felt like a had to, with no choice, with my thoughts/words spiralling around in my head until the words were written down.
This happens to this day, which can have its moments of annoyance at 3-4am in the morning. The phrase will continue on repeat until written down, and then of course other words flow after that. 
Any writers, poets will know what I mean and resonate with this.
    For a long time, I have felt that my songs, music, words are my soul purpose, what I am meant to be contributing to the collective, the here and now.
Occasionally wondering why I haven’t done this sooner, share my songs with the world.
I now realise that Timing is important and that Now is the right time for them to be shared.
 Life experiences, challenges I have faced over many years have made me stronger and in turn given me the confidence to speak my truth and share what I believe with the world.
You are never too old and it is never to late to follow a dream however large or small.
Follow a heart calling and step into what you feel is your life purpose.

    Is every one going to like what I have to share, definitely not, but it matters little to me anymore what others think I should be doing and their opinions about my style and the me that I share. Who I am.
   What I give will resonate with some and that is all that matters, if it makes one person smile, if it gives another strength or helps another to step onto their dream path, that is enough.