lisa ann stone
I have always enjoyed music. I remember my father used to play Ray Conniff records and some of his old 78's. He had a lot of old big band stuff, too, but he never played that big band stuff very much. He only went through them twice that I can remember. Was he saving them? For what? Or, better yet, for whom?
Mom, bless her soul, died when I was eight. That left me to lead a sheltered life, imprisoned in my own little world searching for answers to questions of life, death, and how it all related to me. Even now, I still feel imprisoned, living in my own little world, alone.
As a teenager, I started playing guitar and tried to put some thoughts and ideas down on paper. I started to lead what I thought was a "normal" life.
Somehow, I got married and thought I would, I could somehow lead a "normal" life, or so I thought.
Eight years after my wedding, my father died. That started another few years of soul searching.
Then, after eighteen years of marriage, I find myself alone again. Again, I am back to playing my music and putting my thoughts and ideas down on paper. It's funny how life comes around full circle. It's like I was destined to play my music, but somehow got side tracked, but fate has now brought me back around and laid this opportunity before me. So many times, so many things come back around full circle for me.
I had never before ever shared my thoughts or music, always feeling I was never good enough. All these years of living a life trying to meet someone else's standards only reinforced those feelings of not being good enough. But now I am free again, I have to admit that I am alone, but I'm free to make my choices.
This time around I really want to try and share some of these feelings and visions with other people. I have seen some amazing things. Some are so horrible, I don't even want to try to remember them. But some are so beautiful, it just melts my heart and puts me in such a happy place. I really would love to be able to express this beauty and try to share it with others. I know I am still recovering from that long relationship and struggling with some pain and anger right now, but I know I can get through this, for even this pain still has so much passion tied to it. Oh and did I mention the usual performance anxieties, stagefright, shyness, singing off key, etc,. I know if I can get past all of this and maybe start to speak of that beauty that I know is just waiting to come through. I still have so many memories and visions of that beauty that I hold so dear, if I can somehow bring them out into the light...
I am still working on getting my first CD out soon. It will be just me, alone. I will do my best to keep you up to date on any progress as it happens. I am also making a lot of progress with coming up wtih new material for my next project. I will keep you posted.
In my spare time I have been going to school. I have been going for the last five years in hopes of getting a Bachelor's degree in something. I spent the first 3 years as a CIS (Computer Information Systems) major. I then changed my mind and am now a Nursing major. By now I have way too many CIS credits. This is also the 3rd school, so far. And I am wondering about transfering again. Maybe some place closer to the beach?
last updated on august 31, 2006