well, was just gonna go out for a bit and it's snowing like crazy-a very wet, annoyinng snow, so came back in to do some emailing. today is my first day off since i've been here. had a much needed rest, got to sleep in, glorious, thank you thank you. trying to rest the vocal chords today; talking is harder on the voice than singing in some cases ie. talking above loud music in clubs etc. so, just chillin. did a few vocal exercises to keep it oiled up. all's good. everyone is keeping to themselves; that being said, most of the contestants live here in the uk so they are all going about their respective lives. i do have some friends and family here. i will meet everyone [i think] at the press launch on monday. gonna be a loooooong day, but good. getting the word out there.
one thing about these competitions: it's very much based on fan base. half of the contenders have quite viable fanbases; it's been many years since i was in the public eye in the uk so it's going to take some work to make people aware that i'm here. so, if you're reading, please help spread the word. i've got a marcella detroit fan page for my "pop star to opera star" experience. feel free to go to my facebook page: www.facebook.com/marcelladetroit and look for the link to my fan page and please tell anyone you might think is interested. thanks!!!!!!!
love always;
marcy xoxoxoxoxoo
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
day 2 in london
wow, today the jet lag got me good. early morning start, snow falling, the city and suburbs grinding to a halt. i feel bad for people who were stuck in the cold with no power, terrible.
had a great session with rolando and katherine today; i met katherine jenkins today for the first time, very beautiful. they gave me some great tips. i'm chanting these tips, i'm eating them for breakfast lunch and dinner for the next x days! all good. quite an adventure. i'm a very lucky and grateful bugger!
more to come..
love always;
marcy xo
had a great session with rolando and katherine today; i met katherine jenkins today for the first time, very beautiful. they gave me some great tips. i'm chanting these tips, i'm eating them for breakfast lunch and dinner for the next x days! all good. quite an adventure. i'm a very lucky and grateful bugger!
more to come..
love always;
marcy xo
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
the making of....
well, didn't forget! just got things on hold right now. jp did the mixes all is sounding great and moving forward in that department. my manager is coming over to the uk next week to join me and have some meetings on my behalf regarding my record and all things music. all is good; i'm on the tv show on itv, "from pop star to opera star", just got here yesterday, hitting it already today in a vocal session. tomorrow i'm meeting the amazing katherine jenkins for the first time. i'll see her and roland villazon so they can see how i'm doing with my song; it's "casta diva" from the bellini opera "norma" an amazingly beautiful song. just heard it in a scene on the way over in the plane in the movie "all about steve" with sandra bullock. very coincidental, n'cest pas?? been online for an hour now, gotta get my beauty rest. watch this space. big day tomorrow.
love always;
marcy x
love always;
marcy x
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
days 125-149..the making of....
wow, what in the world happened to the time? what happened to me doing my blogs??? i guess i got pretty busy. I had to suddenly go to london to work on something that i can't really talk about. all i can say is, it's good. once i get the go ahead, i will let you know what it is.
meanwhile, re: the recordings with jp, well, while i was in the uk he sent me over some mixes of the 4 songs and they are really sounding good. so, now that i'm over my jet lag, I'll have another listen and see what might need doing, then we can move on and start planning to get this music out there.
now we're on the final ramp up to christmas. going to join the holiday madness for the next week or so, so i wouldn't expect to hear much from me. i hope everyone had a great hanukah. heaven knows i do have so much to be thankful for.
more news soon. n joy your holiday and all the very best for the coming year.
with love, always;
marcy xoxoxoxo
meanwhile, re: the recordings with jp, well, while i was in the uk he sent me over some mixes of the 4 songs and they are really sounding good. so, now that i'm over my jet lag, I'll have another listen and see what might need doing, then we can move on and start planning to get this music out there.
now we're on the final ramp up to christmas. going to join the holiday madness for the next week or so, so i wouldn't expect to hear much from me. i hope everyone had a great hanukah. heaven knows i do have so much to be thankful for.
more news soon. n joy your holiday and all the very best for the coming year.
with love, always;
marcy xoxoxoxo
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Days 115-124 "the making of......"
oops, forgot about me blog!! sorry, whoever is reading them. things got a little crazy with the lead up to the holiday.
so, the last time I blogged, it was to say I had prepared the files for jp of my bv's and took them to his house which was good fun. he loaded everything in and it was sounding great. we ended up putting string parts on 2 of the songs which were sounding v.good as well.
the next night, wednesday the 19th, i joined jp and some friends that i haven't seen in quite some time, for dinner, good fun. i did'n't make it to cozy's to sing cuz it was too late. but i went this past wednesday and helped them end their 8 month residency. that was FUN! jimmy played his butt off on every instrument he could: guitar, b3, drums. you name it. I got up and sang a few songs with them and really let loose at the end which was very freeing for me, a good positive experience.
now, this past week, on tuesday, I had the most fantastic meeting with my new publishers, "music sales corporation". I finished a new christmas song and brought it into the meeting. they all really loved the song which was great and even gave me props for the mix which is unusual for me to receive; my hubby helped me with it. he's a better engineer than I am, but we are both growing as far as that's concerned, learning new things about it all the time. btw, that song will be up for purchase online very soon. I'll let you know when I've got it up on a site to be downloaded. it will be sometime this coming week. i'll also post that info on my site and facebook. one of the guys at the company was really chomping at the bit to get my christmas song licensed this year, but as it's already upon us, it may be too late. but next year is good. one guy at the company is someone I used to work with back when I first moved to L.A. doing lots of recording sessions, many years ago. he's incredibly talented at writing, producing, and is just one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet.
well, may have some more news very soon too. we'll see.
meanwhile, the countdown to hanukah and christmas begins: you better be good!!
love always;
marcy xoxox
so, the last time I blogged, it was to say I had prepared the files for jp of my bv's and took them to his house which was good fun. he loaded everything in and it was sounding great. we ended up putting string parts on 2 of the songs which were sounding v.good as well.
the next night, wednesday the 19th, i joined jp and some friends that i haven't seen in quite some time, for dinner, good fun. i did'n't make it to cozy's to sing cuz it was too late. but i went this past wednesday and helped them end their 8 month residency. that was FUN! jimmy played his butt off on every instrument he could: guitar, b3, drums. you name it. I got up and sang a few songs with them and really let loose at the end which was very freeing for me, a good positive experience.
now, this past week, on tuesday, I had the most fantastic meeting with my new publishers, "music sales corporation". I finished a new christmas song and brought it into the meeting. they all really loved the song which was great and even gave me props for the mix which is unusual for me to receive; my hubby helped me with it. he's a better engineer than I am, but we are both growing as far as that's concerned, learning new things about it all the time. btw, that song will be up for purchase online very soon. I'll let you know when I've got it up on a site to be downloaded. it will be sometime this coming week. i'll also post that info on my site and facebook. one of the guys at the company was really chomping at the bit to get my christmas song licensed this year, but as it's already upon us, it may be too late. but next year is good. one guy at the company is someone I used to work with back when I first moved to L.A. doing lots of recording sessions, many years ago. he's incredibly talented at writing, producing, and is just one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet.
well, may have some more news very soon too. we'll see.
meanwhile, the countdown to hanukah and christmas begins: you better be good!!
love always;
marcy xoxox
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
days 113 &114... "the making of".........
it's so late, my eyes are nearly closed, but the beams of light shooting off of my trusty imac are keeping them from snapping shut!
yesterday i did a few more background vocals for one of the songs i'm working on with jp. then, I had to prepare all the files and put them neatly on my portable little hard drive and took them to his house today. he loaded them into his computer, all seemed to be working well which is good. we worked on a few of the songs today; we put my harmonica solo on one of them and also some strings on that song and another one. that all took a few hours, but we got a lot accomplished and it was great fun.
now, all we have left to do is strings on one of the other songs, maybe, if we feel it needs it. there might be a guitar or two left to put on. we are getting close to having all the elements there, very exciting. it's sounding very good in my opinion right now. what i like about this new creation: there's nothing "gimmicky" about it. kind of scary, like doing it "without a net" so to speak. but i think, at last, that's a very, very good thing. for the longest time, I feel like i've been trying to be something that i'm not. i made the decision, that had to stop.
tomorrow, will see jp in the evening along with some other friends i haven't seen in a while. after dinner i might even go down to this club called cozy's to sit in with vivino and the gang. they're only playing there 2 more times, including tomorrow. a week from tomorrow will mark the end of their 8 month residency there. i've had a great time jamming with them and look forward to more in the future.
off to bed before i start snoring....
love always;
marcy xoxoxoxo
yesterday i did a few more background vocals for one of the songs i'm working on with jp. then, I had to prepare all the files and put them neatly on my portable little hard drive and took them to his house today. he loaded them into his computer, all seemed to be working well which is good. we worked on a few of the songs today; we put my harmonica solo on one of them and also some strings on that song and another one. that all took a few hours, but we got a lot accomplished and it was great fun.
now, all we have left to do is strings on one of the other songs, maybe, if we feel it needs it. there might be a guitar or two left to put on. we are getting close to having all the elements there, very exciting. it's sounding very good in my opinion right now. what i like about this new creation: there's nothing "gimmicky" about it. kind of scary, like doing it "without a net" so to speak. but i think, at last, that's a very, very good thing. for the longest time, I feel like i've been trying to be something that i'm not. i made the decision, that had to stop.
tomorrow, will see jp in the evening along with some other friends i haven't seen in a while. after dinner i might even go down to this club called cozy's to sit in with vivino and the gang. they're only playing there 2 more times, including tomorrow. a week from tomorrow will mark the end of their 8 month residency there. i've had a great time jamming with them and look forward to more in the future.
off to bed before i start snoring....
love always;
marcy xoxoxoxo
Sunday, November 15, 2009
days 97-112 "the making of......."
woahhhhhhhhhh, i can't believe it's been so long since i blogged. i put it down to my being ill for most of this time with a nasty flu like bug that found a nice resting place in my sinuses. very, very annoying. i'm just now starting to feel better.
so, wassup, you may ask? well, just before the lurgy really set in, I decided to do a vocal on one of the jp songs here in my home studio. I wasn't completely happy with my performance on the version we did at the hob studio, so i asked john to send me the backing track, sans lead vocal for me to re-do, which he did. oh, i should say also, during this little 2 week break, jp had to go to new orleans, so all was a bit on hold, except for my redoing my vocal. i really liked how it came out and jp came over on friday to have a listen. he liked it and said that he immediately understood why i wanted to redo it. we shall call it "bedroom studios"!! ha; these days, it doesn't really matter. you can have state of the art equipment set up anywhere-except maybe on the street, for the noise factor-and you're good to go as long as you at least know the basics of engineering whatever it is you're trying to record.
so, he took the vocal back to his studio and will be putting it into the track that he has back on his computer at home. i decided to do another vocal for the other track that I felt my performance was a bit lackluster on and redid that friday afternoon after he left. i really like the way it sounds too. today, I'll put some lush background vocals on it. this was the one song i was gonna get a bunch of my singer friends to sing on, but due to everyone's schedule being very different from mine, i decided to just do them on my own, which is totally fine. i've done all the background vocals on all the other tracks and i do love doing the bv's.
i'm meeting with jp on tuesday to put some more stuff on the tracks, mostly the string lines that i did in the demos, we are going to redo. I may do my harmonica for one of the tracks here and bring it to john on my little portable hard drive. it's about the size of half of a nail file, amazing what you can do these days.
i forgot one important thing that I didn't mention and never announced till it was final: for nearly 3 months i was in negotiations with a company called music sales who are experts at getting music into film and television. we finally reached an agreement and i signed the documents on november 6th which i'm very happy about. i'll be meeting with them very soon, things are already happening, all's good.
so, on that note, I'll say adieu till next time. i won't wait so long till the next blog, more to report in the coming days!!
love always;
marcy xoxoxo
so, wassup, you may ask? well, just before the lurgy really set in, I decided to do a vocal on one of the jp songs here in my home studio. I wasn't completely happy with my performance on the version we did at the hob studio, so i asked john to send me the backing track, sans lead vocal for me to re-do, which he did. oh, i should say also, during this little 2 week break, jp had to go to new orleans, so all was a bit on hold, except for my redoing my vocal. i really liked how it came out and jp came over on friday to have a listen. he liked it and said that he immediately understood why i wanted to redo it. we shall call it "bedroom studios"!! ha; these days, it doesn't really matter. you can have state of the art equipment set up anywhere-except maybe on the street, for the noise factor-and you're good to go as long as you at least know the basics of engineering whatever it is you're trying to record.
so, he took the vocal back to his studio and will be putting it into the track that he has back on his computer at home. i decided to do another vocal for the other track that I felt my performance was a bit lackluster on and redid that friday afternoon after he left. i really like the way it sounds too. today, I'll put some lush background vocals on it. this was the one song i was gonna get a bunch of my singer friends to sing on, but due to everyone's schedule being very different from mine, i decided to just do them on my own, which is totally fine. i've done all the background vocals on all the other tracks and i do love doing the bv's.
i'm meeting with jp on tuesday to put some more stuff on the tracks, mostly the string lines that i did in the demos, we are going to redo. I may do my harmonica for one of the tracks here and bring it to john on my little portable hard drive. it's about the size of half of a nail file, amazing what you can do these days.
i forgot one important thing that I didn't mention and never announced till it was final: for nearly 3 months i was in negotiations with a company called music sales who are experts at getting music into film and television. we finally reached an agreement and i signed the documents on november 6th which i'm very happy about. i'll be meeting with them very soon, things are already happening, all's good.
so, on that note, I'll say adieu till next time. i won't wait so long till the next blog, more to report in the coming days!!
love always;
marcy xoxoxo
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