On a Tuesday evening in June I signed my first ever recording contract. It felt like my stomach was in my butt all day. It was a big commitment. I've been writing these songs since I was 13, you know? They are a peice of me...
All day I was searching for a friend from home. Someone who'd known me for more than a year, some support from home to help me move forward into the future. It was bittersweet...But, I guess I will appreciate it more that way.
(Above my Manager, Rivkah Sherman and the first Artist Signed with Ambrosia Records, George Azzi)
I waited until the very last moment to get dressed to impress and realized that I had no shoes for the new dress I'd recently acquired. I finely settled on my strappy black sandals as black goes with everything and put on some bright pink eye shadow to finish the job.
As I waited for my manager, Rivkah, I smoked...I'd been smoking all day, Why? Because tonight when I sign the contrat I will stop smoking! If they are willing to invest in my voice I should too. Besides, I don't even know why I started.
Actually I do...
I started smoking with my college roommate. He was an amazing dancer. He'd spent a few years at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and was now branching out to singing and acting to be come what we called, 'A Triple Threat.' I came home one afternoon covered in sweat, just panting from three hours of dance classes. He was leaning back on a lawn chair in the hot sun on the patio. He turned his head just enough to flood his face in shadow, it was as though he could hear my heart pounding in my chest. " You know what you need? A cigarette, come here!" I went outside and had what I would still consider to be the most amazing cigarette of all time. As if time had stopped...That's what smoking was back then dramatic. It was all about the moment.
And that is why it now has to stops because those moment are starting fill to much of my time...
Soo I jumped into the cab with Rivkah and we were off to Ambrosia Records.
In the office it was as though there was no more to say. We'd said it all. Now it was time for me to ink it.
Now on day one of being a signed recording artist I still feel like my stomach is in my butt...But I can't stop smiling:)
