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New Performance Genre
Guess what I did on Thursday? I gave my first-ever live performance my own original songs. I did it at the "Cabaret Night" Vocal Department Recital at SFCM. I was really nervous and felt kind of embarrassed, in a way, to be singing my own music in front of a bunch of people. But people liked it (at least they cheered and told me they did, haha!).
I met this really cool guitarist named Nahuel Bronzini, who approached me in the hall one day at the conservatory. He said, "I think I saw you singing some sort of pop song on Youtube. Was that your own song?" I said yes, that it most likely was. He asked me if I had made an album, and I said no. He asked, "Why not?". I said I wanted to, but so far I haven't really had the facilities or the means to actually produce an album. "Well, that's what I do," he said. He said he has started his own production studio, and asked if he could send me some of his stuff, particularly a collaboration he has with another girl who is a singer/songwriter. Of course I said yes. So I emailed him and asked if maybe he could listen to some of my songs, and maybe we could do some collaborating! So one evening I went and played and sang a bunch for him. He kind of strummed along on his guitar, and had some good and interesting suggestions for my harmony and form. He also had lots of ideas about possible arrangements and instrumentation if we were to actually try to make some recordings. So, I feel excited to have met him!
Then I heard about the Cabaret Recital, which is kind of an anything-goes-night for singers at the conservatory. We can sing Jazz songs, or Broadway, or old crooning tunes, or whatever. So I asked the department if I could sing two of my own songs. And then I asked Nahuel if he would be interested in performing with me. We just got together a couple of times and sort of improvised and worked out an arrangement together. It was so fun! I even sang with a microphone (microphones are not normally EVER used for a singer at the conservatory...because in classical singing it's all about a singer's natural ability to project). But it's different when you are singing jazz or pop and have to be seated at the piano, turned sideways to the audience, and at the same distance/level as the piano.
Then, Nahuel messaged me on Facebook a couple of days ago... He uploaded one of the songs we performed to Youtube. It's still set to "Unlisted", so you won't be able to find it in the search engine right now. But here it is. There are still a lot of things about the arrangement I want to work on and improve, but for a first run - it's not so bad, right?
Enjoy:
I met this really cool guitarist named Nahuel Bronzini, who approached me in the hall one day at the conservatory. He said, "I think I saw you singing some sort of pop song on Youtube. Was that your own song?" I said yes, that it most likely was. He asked me if I had made an album, and I said no. He asked, "Why not?". I said I wanted to, but so far I haven't really had the facilities or the means to actually produce an album. "Well, that's what I do," he said. He said he has started his own production studio, and asked if he could send me some of his stuff, particularly a collaboration he has with another girl who is a singer/songwriter. Of course I said yes. So I emailed him and asked if maybe he could listen to some of my songs, and maybe we could do some collaborating! So one evening I went and played and sang a bunch for him. He kind of strummed along on his guitar, and had some good and interesting suggestions for my harmony and form. He also had lots of ideas about possible arrangements and instrumentation if we were to actually try to make some recordings. So, I feel excited to have met him!
Then I heard about the Cabaret Recital, which is kind of an anything-goes-night for singers at the conservatory. We can sing Jazz songs, or Broadway, or old crooning tunes, or whatever. So I asked the department if I could sing two of my own songs. And then I asked Nahuel if he would be interested in performing with me. We just got together a couple of times and sort of improvised and worked out an arrangement together. It was so fun! I even sang with a microphone (microphones are not normally EVER used for a singer at the conservatory...because in classical singing it's all about a singer's natural ability to project). But it's different when you are singing jazz or pop and have to be seated at the piano, turned sideways to the audience, and at the same distance/level as the piano.
Then, Nahuel messaged me on Facebook a couple of days ago... He uploaded one of the songs we performed to Youtube. It's still set to "Unlisted", so you won't be able to find it in the search engine right now. But here it is. There are still a lot of things about the arrangement I want to work on and improve, but for a first run - it's not so bad, right?
Enjoy:
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