all room to thank you for joining us for today's segment today's community spotlight what we put a spotlight on are things positive in the community today the focus is on literature outside of the bay area and in fact outside of the country for a while but i'm a multi disciplinary artist and i guess my first discipline was painting although i don't consider it a main focus but i have had situations where i was offered a show and so i did nothing except paint for days and nights on end to get ready for the shows i kind of forces you to go to the next level artistically when you have a deadline imposed on you but i think i consider myself mostly a writer not as prolific as i could be only because i've got the singing and with my other i have so so many projects going on at the same time it's hard to really focus on on one but if i do something it has to be just right i do not doubt will be just because an artist does more than one thing or more than two three four or five things  but i loved it and paris france for seven and a half years but this was like the late eighty's through the mid ninety's and super recent but yeah it was great and i was i was doing acting modeling and i was doing translation work i developed phonetics program with tapes and books so i they were intended for french speakers so i wanted to learn american english and so a lot of different things yeah and i went to art i went to go to school originally so i was just posed to be a for maybe one or  two so your first artistic venture was painting in from painting yeah well because a friend of the family brought me some acrylic paints when i was little when i was like seven or eight  d and so i was kind of given and yeah it was just fascinating to me and i can remember the first flower of it i didn't i wouldn't say that it was not th surprised that i came up with that on my own or whatever that that level of art yeah but then around i guess my junior year in high school i had i entered poetry competitions  chaining and started writing told yeah and were you still out of the country at this point i don't know i had not yet left the country this was this was early early life yeah because i was going to school in  spokane washington and they had an exchange program and i just wanted to get the heck out especially because it was paris and i was learning french at the time i think i had changed my major from communications to french and then minoring in theater and doing well with my bilingual which didn't take too long in front fortunately i was writing my plays on monologues and poems in french and i won some awards for those so that was really encouraging because i actually got into the yeah there was an acting school that was really prestigious but it was expensive but i got a scholarship for the first year ok so that was really cool and wrote i just a few things i did the fanatics method that i was telling you about so i did some sort of more practical things in translation and i translated the musical grease into grease and know that music is one of your art i did about that well when i was little i i was doing talent shows and winning talk shows for singing so it was always an interest of mine and yeah so when i went to needed a singer for a ok it's one of those kind  what was commercially viable and what was just you artistically enriching and and you know i will admit that i actually have to work for or more recent this one is more recent and this one is ok this side this project that i have this is actually my main project ok i developed this when i came back to the bay area from scratch if these were recent so this one is more ok so we're going to take this moment right here to take another little musical break we're going to hear some of the hamilton cormorant fission collaborations when we come back you can tell us more about your music and then we'll get right it was low budget no budget kind of you know you get paid for one show and you get gas to get to the next city or the next day right and d i y everything in an anarchist after the other yeah and there was just ok so the drama wills a play on words because the dharma will depend buddhist concept and i was practicing buddhism at the time this band was that it was sexual yeah yeah yeah everything about humanity that's not very unwise to look at it is is represented in some form in this book but in a way that's tied together lyrically because you know this is about music and there does have to be a certain poetic and lyrical quality to a book that's about music and i found your writing style poetic  and let the shirt know where they can find more of your reading more of your music more of your art ok so i have another one that's currently available and it's called paper wings and you can get