I didn't know what else to do, I just lost it. And they were so happy I liked it, they were laughing and feeling good. It was so gorgeous. The result will carry the listener into a deep romantic reverie that is slow to fade from mind. I went to Brazil in my mind to write this.
People have to be inspired to another level.
Discouraged by the music industry's attitudes toward mature artists, Brenda instead retrenched, traveling and challenging her creative processes by collaborating with other musicians. I believe in it so much. There was never a time in her life when the artist was without music. She says her musical sensibilities were formed by an array of music played by her parents, from Broadway tunes to doo-wop to jazz, blues, rock, and Latin. Brenda remembers her mother waking her in the middle of the night to help her sing harmonies for songs she was writing.