*~ me ~*

**FEBRUARY 21, 2003**
Well, it has been quite a few months since i have updated this site...sorry about that! My senior year has been incredibly fun but also incredibly busy. I have written a bunch of new stuff...i was given the incredible gift of a Casio WK-1630 Keyboard for christmas, and so i have started layering piano melodies over my guitar. My current "project" so to speak is trying to patch together a sort of band-thing... i mainly REALLY need a drummer...i'd do it myself only i have to play guitar and sing at the same time:-P i am going to be releasing a new CD with my recent work within the next month or so. I think my style has matured very much from a year ago when i first started selling my work. Anyway, please email me with comments or whatever:-P bye!

**AUGUST 2002**
hey! my name is vi, and as you can probably tell, writing songs and playing guitar is my passion. i am a seventeen year old memphian about to start her senior year of high school- and *cannot wait until college

i spend most of my free time *haha (ironic laugh) out with my friends, playing guitar and piano, singing, writing songs or poetry, painting, bowling, i just got a new 21 spd mountain bike so i've started biking, and swimming...but believe me i'm really not as athletic as i sound! :-P

when i was thirteen i got my first guitar as a birthday present and without any previous knowledge proceeded to teach myself the chord structure and theory needed to play and compose with guitar. the twelve years that i have taken piano certainly helped!

i sing in the large choir at my school and in the smaller, selective group of about 12 girls (chosen out of anyone who auditions in the high school), and auditioned/practiced/performed one of myoriginal songs- "skyscraping"- with my friend julia at our talent show last spring in 2002.

i have recorded once at a recording studio for two hours - a very generous and much appreciated gift :) but i do most of my recording in my room on my computer with Cakewalk-GuitarTracks multitrack digital recording program and guitar, mic, and amp plugins.

i do not like the practice of labeling music into loose genres...each individual is so unique and different and it is really difficult to in just one or two words describe a musician's style...but i of course i have to have a way to let you know what i sound like:-P....i would probably describe my musical style as alternative folk ...but you can listen for yourself! just go to the "songs" link on my main page and then click on "sounds". hope you enjoyed this very brief and sporatic bio of my singing carreer as it stands now...