My mother was a soprano with the San Francisco Opera Company for a couple years right after she got out of the Marine Corp in WWII. I grew up in a house filled with singing. She sang around the house, in the car, in church, and in numerous musicals and shows around town. My mom gave private lessons to hundreds of aspiring singers in our living room over the years.

She sang arias in English, German and Italian. She sang show tunes and popular songs from the 1920's on. She sang hymns, shanties, rounds, ballads, nursery rhymes, folk songs, and anything else that was worth singing. My mother taught me to love singing. She taught me how to breath correctly, to harmonize, to keep time, and to hit the notes I was trying to hit. She passed away before I ever started writing and recording my own songs. Any successes I have had or will have in music I own to her.

Mike