Hi Everyone
Hope you’re doing well :>
Just 4 years ago I gave up my office job to fulfill my dream of being a full-time musician. These are my top ten breakthroughs, visions and highlights I imagined…
1. Walking away from a secure salary each month to living day by day just to live my dream and complete the launch of my album HerStory.
2. Picking up the phone to call every newspaper to publish an article about HerStory, as well as organising Vivienne Westwood to loan her outfits for my festival performances.
3. Traveling 2-3 hours across the UK just to perform and then carrying my fully weighted keyboard up the stairs at the end of a long night!
4. Finally earning substantial songwriting royalties from my first album, HerStory, which covered the costs I initially invested.
5. Packing my bags to go abroad and perform 6-7 nights per week for 3 years in Ibiza and Asia – working with musicians of al nationalities and cultures.
6. Learning and singing songs and phrasing exactly the way the original artist performed it…all so the audience went crazy and screamed for more.
7. Learning to stay grounded with stage-egos and divas…each musician on stage is as important as the other, work together and it’s magical.
8. The importance of keeping my appearance immaculate and reinventing my image.
9. Learning that my small budget to launch HerStory album wouldn’t reach the world-wide audience I hoped for (hahaha!) and that record labels and publishers (i.e. big investors) are the way forward and until I write what they really want, I may as well shelve my songwriting (of course I’m not shelving my songwriting, keep waiting it WILL happen!).
10. Falling in love with someone that finally understands my career and lets me be an artist.
From Diane von Furstenberg’s, Journey of a Dress Exhibition and Private Party; Xiu Bar; Beijing Life
Nothing in life comes to you without hard work. So whatever your vision just go beyond yourself to accomplish what you want, and don’t ever let anyone or anything hold you back. Improvement is ongoing, stamina is a necessity and perseverance is the way forward!
Much love to all my fans, family and friends across the world for your constant belief in what I do.
If you’re in Beijing checkout Liquid Band from el-live Productions performing at Xiu Bar at Park Hyatt…woohoo!
Live each day as if it were your last, you only have one life :> Just imagine what YOU can do and do it!
Love, light & happiness
LT
XXX