Preface

31 years-old. It's time for me to make my biggest dream come true. I want to leave my mark on this journey called "life".
I've always been in love with soul music. I write my music, I record it and together with my group (FNO), I have already released two albums which are some very "niche" products, but well apreciated from critics. I am definitely underground. Street. My soul has the taste of asphalt mixed up with the smell of flowers.
I am a simple woman, married, dealing with a boring-8 hours per day-job. But soon after I leave my employee life, I lock myself in my recording studio which once was a garage.

Before entering in what would have become our house, me and my husby already had in mind the same thought at the same time.
While the state agent was praising the size of the garage and the importance of having all that space left after the car was inside, me and my man were traveling with our imagination and were already building in our mind what would be really built one year afer: or own "baby" recording studio.
I still remember that december 31st of 2006, 11.30PM, when, both dirty with glue, we were placing the last noise reducing pannels on the walls. Once done, we toasted to the new year and to our common dream which came tue.
In that studio, we recorded the tracks of our second album and I, as a soulsinger, I had the chance to record more than 20 tracks for several collabos, mixtapes and compilations.

I write and record my songs in english because in my opinion this language suits better that music genre. But I have also created some italian stuff.

Most of the time, I have been satisfied with my works, with my prjects to be, with the "success" of my group (that I will introduce in a next chapter) and with the newest creation of my soul band "FunkAddiction", which members are talented musicians playing funky, blues, and soul.

Nevertheless, one particular event has fueled my dreams...

Few months ago I was reading a black music magazine when I opened an article of 4 pages dedicated to a young woman who has released her album. 4 pages but 2 were pictures of her half naked. I red her interview and checked her myspace to feed my curiosity and I discovered a banal voice, and no personality in her singing and in her tracks.
I downloaded her album and tried not to skip any track. My final judgement: 6.5/10.
At that stage I realised that it was not fair to blame her for having released a CD too soon, but I was the one to be blamed because I was wasting my time in too many fruitless projects giving me not much visibility.

That's when I asked myself: hey, whatthahellareyoudoin??

Thanks to this girl (who I still respect for having left her first mark on this life and who I am sure will improve with time and experience), I have found the necessary power for providing myself all the basic elements I needed for starting my preject. And in less than two weeks I have held in my hands all the instrumentals created for my album-to-be, froma very competent beatmaker.

I have drawn my action plan and for the first time in my life I have a precise idea of the paths I will have to follow.
Despite my disorganise character and my way of being a scatterbrain, I have a project in my hands and if this will be feed properly and in the established lead-time, it could represent a turning point in my life.

By turning point, I don't mean poping up in television programs from your brainstroming, nor making business and becoming a milionaire!
What I mean is having the possibility of getting myself into it, that much that it would allow my music and my personnality to touch you anyhow.
I wanna be known and recognised for who I am from the soul specialists and from the underground world. Where everythig is filled with respect and honour.

I have challenged myself: this work has to be finished within january 2010. Staightforward, with no loss of concentration and motivation.

Let's do it!