Making Musical Magic (with Jason Mraz)
Funny Cuz It's True with Elyse Myers
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How I Sing My Own Songs
I started writing music in eighth grade. My first song was, what do you do when you meet a cute boy? Do you wear a frown? Do you be a clown? I recorded my song over their instrumental by using multiple tape decks and singing my, basically karaoke, my own song onto this track. And then I took it to my roller rink and they played it on the Friday night,. They just put it in the mix and it sounded great because it was already a dance hit, but it had a new vocal on it. When I was 21, I packed up from Virginia and moved to California. That alone was a thing that needed to happen and I'm so glad
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