Bio

MUSIC (CREDITS/PERFORMANCES):
Wounded Warrior Event - “Songwriters in the Round” (w/ Tim Johnson & James Dean Hicks)
“CEO of Sexuality” - The theme song for TV’s “Beyond the Velvet Rope” (co-written and performed by) National Tour (US)
Solo performance for Jimmy Stewart Cattle Baron's Gala Remington Park (National Anthem) Performed for the troops - Gulf War at Jacksonville, Florida Soloist - Political Party for Governor Ann Richards Soloist - Annual AIDS fund raiser Soloist - Chuck Norris' annual black tie political fund raiser
New Year's Eve show for the Indianapolis Radio Network Johnny High Music Review TELEVISION / FILM:
Seinfeld Promo: “Yada” Girl
Feature Film “Secret at Arrow Lake” - Role: Pharma Rep
ONE OK - National Commercial
Producer/Writer - Daily Dose
Producer - Feature Film “LOADED”
Choctaw Casino - TV Commercial & Music Video (w/ Nashville Artist, Greg Crowe) INSPECTOR MOM - Lifetime (Episode Titled “Mother Goose Murder”) Co-Host of PUTTIN' ON THE HITS (lip sync television show) Neal Suzuki commercial: "Traffic Girl" Gatorade - National Commercial "Born on the Fourth of July" extra WRITING PROJECTS:
So You Want to be a Spy - screenplay Forever and a Week - novel, screenplay
Pros & Cons - screenplay
The Skinner Box - screenplay
Trepidation - screenplay Uno, Dose, Chase - autobiography/documentary Traces of Yesterday - TV pilot CineBabes Film Reviews - Cable Contributing Editor for "A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage”
MODELING: Omni Hotels (print)
Choctaw Casino (print)
Ridley Motorcycles (print)
JC Penney’s (print) Hanes (print and local TV)
McCane (industrial shoot) Coors Light girl - Fort Lauderdale, FL Anheuser-Busch girl - Dallas, TX Nike tradeshow - spokesmodel Avia tradeshow - spokesmodel Wind Blown Duck - runway (Dallas/London)

Interview with Quick Magazine...

Describe your style as a singer-songwriter: Pop-Jazz-Blues-Folk with a hint of Country! One fan described it as a deep, mellow mixture of Carole King and Diana Krall - what a compliment! Scoring for film/TV is a whole different story though. It’s always different depending on the vibe of the content. It’s fun to crawl out of my “comfort” zone and create something that I wouldn’t necessarily perform myself.

What has influenced your music the most?: I grew up playing classical piano, but turned my focus to pop as a teen. I “accidently” became a lounge singer to put myself through school, and after that, went on tour with a top-40 R&B cover band for a few years. Also, my parents were huge country music fans, so having listened to that throughout my childhood, my songwriting instinctively has those conversational lyrics that lots of folks seem to relate to, which isn’t always a good thing because my songs tend to explore the darker sides of love... I think after playing so many genres, my songwriting became sort of an eclectic combination of styles that ended up being my own.
How did you become the singer for ShockWave?: Throughout high school and college, I hustled to book my own gigs, but it was taking up a lot of my time, so I started sending demos out to talent agencies. I was signed on with Blankenship & Assoc., who had a group called ShockWave, a pop cover band, looking for a new lead vocalist...
What inspires the ideas behind your songs?: Well, they don’t all come from personal experience... For instance, I wrote “You Lied” after reading about a woman in my hometown who lost her husband in Iraq. What’s not in the song is that when they came to her house to give her the news, she wasn’t home, so they went next door to leave word with her neighbor, without knowing that her neighbor’s husband was also a soldier in Iraq! That song ended up being a lyric winner in American Songwriter Magazine, which was really exciting! You are also involved in the film industry?: Yes, I enjoy (almost) everything about the entertainment industry! Acting, writing, scoring film... it’s the creative process that excites me! As an actress, I’m represented by The Horne Agency in Dallas, Texas. One of my favorite roles was a country club hussy named "Whitney" for the Lifetime television series INSPECTOR MOM (Mother Goose Murder) with Danica McKeller (“Winnie” from “The Wonder Years”).

I’m also the Creative Director for Creative Advancement and a film screener for the AFI Film Festival. Life is never dull - thank you, God!

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