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Music moments: A reverse chronology Releases first CD, Hunger, to wild acclaim! Get the CD! Wins the 2002 international Songs Inspired By Literature songwriting competition. Winning song, "Hunger" is included in a compilation CD with songs by Tom Waits and David Bowie. (Available at http://www.siblproject.org) Profiled in Billboard Magazine (See article). Co-written songs "Little Innocent" and "High on You" released nationally on the essence album Mariposa. Guest lectures at St. Mary's college on Text-setting in Pop Music Meets drummer Fred Wolford and guitarist Jeff Nix at a gig at a Marin county fair. They sit in for the gig and blow the canvas roof off the teepee. They later bring on bassist Joe Horner, master of funkification. Produces first demo CD with producers Bonnie Hayes and Steve Savage. Wins the Northern California Songwriters Association open mic songwriting competitions (twice) with the songs "Two Boyfriends" and "Ode to Charles Manson." Starts writing songs. Begins songwriting classes with Bonnie Hayes. Is a dot com yuppie for six months working at a San Francisco start-up. Quits to become rock star. Receives degree in music from Brown University. Wins the Buxtehude Award for Musical Excellence. Starts studying music theory and classical guitar. Writes motets and string quartets and "electronic music", whatever that means. Changes mind. Has tantrum at the piano at age 5 and swears to never play music again. Born in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, with a conductor for a mother and an opera singer for a brother.

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