Thank you. You always put a positive slant on everything. While I understand what you’re saying and appreciate it, I still love singers who have found a way to sing with ease AND presence yet still have good tone and support. Believe me, I love me those high-powered, ball-busting singers, but I so appreciate the mellow, sweeter sounds some singers have as well.

Ultimately, I believe I envy singers who have a distinctive style, timbre and tone… which Rebecca does. You don’t mistake her for anyone else. AND she KNOWS who she is as a performer and songwriter.

And sometimes, I feel like I’m still trying to figure out who I am as an artist.

The Rrazz Room doesn’t have us up on their site yet. I’ll get you the information as fast as I can! I will be so thrilled to see you and Dana!!

Don’t knock yourself for not singing “with ease”. You are, after all, a classically trained singer, which means you *actually expend effort* when singing. Singing “with ease”, in classical vocal production, means “unsupported”. It’s easy to sing “with ease” if you’re miked, but I’m always more impressed by unamplified singing.

Honestly, I’ve always felt that anyone can mumble into a microphone. It takes real vocal talent, skill and technique to deliver a song to the back of the room while standing onstage with nothing in front of you. I don’t mind a singer who sings “sweetly, softly, effortlessly”, but in short order, it starts to sound lazy and not overly interesting to me.

By all means, sing “with ease” if you’d like. But I for one like your voice because you sing with *energy* and *vitality*. I like your voice because you’ve got “pipes”!

(Maybe that relates to why I enjoy the “affrontive” Spring in Sonoma County…)

Dana & I hope to see you when you’re back in the Bay Area. Where & when will you be back out here to sing? In the meantime, we send you our best wishes!

Chris (& Dana)