I Sing Because I Can....

I love singing.  I am no Streisand.  I am a journeyman vocalist........not brilliant, but competent.  I started out singing in church and studied with Norma Tina Russo of the San Carlo Opera Company as a mezzo-soprano.  Things progressed and I wound up with gigs in saloons and stage productions.  Forty years later I am back in church.  Now I am a contralto with a second soprano stretch and I am singing alto, second soprano AND tenor, depending on the piece.  I have also done some acting in my time and although I liked it a lot, I am actually an interpreter of songs.  I like that best of all.  There is more power in words and music than words alone.  Perhaps that is why Saint Augustine said, "...to sing once is to pray twice."   I can get lost in a song and take an audience with me.  It doesn't get any better than that.