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What's your full name? RACHEL ANNE AKA- ‘IRON LUNGS’- OK, THIS IS A NICK NAME Where's home for you? HOME IS AUSTRALIA. I WAS BORN & RAISED 1ST GENERATION AUSSIE BUT MY PARENTS COME FROM A BEAUTIFULL PLACE IN ITALY CALLED TOSCANA.ONE OF THE FOUNDING PLACES FOR OPERA & DANTE ALLEGHIERI’S ITALIAN. Tell us about your musical journey--when did you get into music and who would you name as your top musical influences? OK, I GOT INTO HARD ROCK AT AROUND AGE 13, THAT’S WHEN I CONVERTED FROM POP. I FIRST HEARD ‘HEAVEN SENT’ BY DOKKEN AROUND THIS TIME ON MTV,,,IT BLEW ME AWAY, I THEN STARTED GETTING INTO SHRED PLAYERS LIKE YNGWIE J MALMSTENN & NEO CLASSICAL ROCK BECAUSE I FIRST HEARD BACH AROUND THIS TIME TOO AS MY BROTHER WAS PLAYING CLASSICAL VIOLIN, & I WAS INTO OPERA. SO, THE BANDS I HEARD AT THIS TIME IN HIGH SCHOOL WERE MANY & VARIED ROCK/ METAL BANDS FROM THE USA & EUROPE. I USED TO COLLECT THE METAL MAGAZINES TO KEEP UP TO DATE AS WHAT WAS GOING ON AS THE INTERNET HADN’T QUITE KICKED IN LATE 80S. STARTING WITH A CHEAP ACOUSTIC GUITAR, I STARTED PLAYING SCALES & HAD SOME LESSONS, BECAUSE I HAD A KEEN MUSICAL EAR, I THEN STARTING COLLECTING SHRED MASTER VIDEOS. I AM HOWEVER NOT A SHRED MASTER LIKE YOU PASTOR BRAD BY ANY MEANS, I AM STILL LEARNING. NOW WITH THE ONSET OF HOME RECORDING PROGRAMS, I HAVE LEARNT TO MIX DOWN MY OWN TRACKS & I THEN LATER PROGRESSED TO THE KEYS, THE LAYERING OF TRACKS & VOCAL HARMONIES. I KNEW I HAD RAW TALENT TO SING MEZZO SOPRANO IN MY TEENS, BUT AFTER LISTENING TO MARK BOALS & JEFF SCOTT SOTO, I STARTING HAVING OPERA LESSONS TO STRENGTHEN THE VOICE & LEARN GOOD VOCAL TECHNIQUE. I ALSO SWEAR BY THE SETH RIGGS METHOD. Do you have any hobbies/passions besides music? HOBBIES, I LIKE TO READ ANYTHING FROM SELF HELP BOOKS TO PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE….EVERYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE IS SO CONNECTED & I LOVE WATCHING NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PROGRAMS OR ANYTHING INFORMATIVE. I ALSO LIKE MOVIES THAT HAVE FUNNY COLOURFULL CHARACTERS LIKE ROBIN WILLIAMS, JIM CAREY, JOHN CLEESE OR JERRY LEWIS….NOT JUST SERIOUS STUFF ALL THE TIME AS WE NEED A GOOD LAUGH NOW & THEN, THIS IS THERAPEUTIC & WE NEED SMILE MORE OFTEN &’ LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF’, NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE SO SERIOUS ALL THE TIME & I AM SURE THE GOOD LORD WANTS US TO BE HAPPY, NOT IN TURMOIL ALL THE TIME. THERE IS TOO MUCH SUFFERING IN THIS WORLD, SO WE NEED TO PRAY MORE OFTEN IN OUR OWN QUIET TIME & REFLECT. SOME FAVOURITE MOVIES WOULD BE ‘AMADEUS’ BRILLIANT MOVIE, & ‘PASSION OF THE CHRIST’, DESPITE THE CONTROVERSY, IT IS A GREAT MOVIE. Tell us a little bit about your music projects and where we can check 'em out? MUSIC PROJECTS,WELL THERE ARE AFEW ON THE GO, & I HAVE DONE A LOT OF RECORDING IN THE PAST, BUT IF PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO CHECK OUT MY WORK WITH MY METAL BAND ‘RAVENSHEAD’, YOU CAN GO TO THIS SITE www.myspace.com/ravenshead1 |
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