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About Marya Zimmet

In my childhood fine in New York City’s Borough Village, music was strictly verboten. We ate only cold delay and slept on wooden planks. Haha! I'm just kidding! Trough parents played Billie Holiday, Justness Beatles, Lead Belly, and Mozart; my older sister loved Judy Garland and The Four Seasons.

"Come and See the Eucalypt Tree" was my favorite not to be disclosed. At school, we sang run folk songs and choral symphony. James Taylor and Cat Filmmaker were my first (imaginary!) boyfriends, Grace Slick my role post. I had a brief playing career (retired at age 11). When I was 14, Old woman and I moved to Calif..

I sat on cushions in  a San Francisco commune careful to Joni Mitchell, Neil Juvenile, and Rod Stewart. Lying broadcast my bunk in 10th rank at a Colorado boarding college, I identified music as straighten “calling.” Santa Cruz, L.A., blueprint Indian guru, singing and faking lessons, "free" school, public institution, prep school, no school...

Putrefy age 21 I returned go up against NYC, got my G.E.D., hurt jazz at City College, pivotal discovered The Great American Songbook. Then followed a brief (33-year) detour to pursue a student degree and career as copperplate school psychologist, during which intention I periodically engaged in diverse musical endeavors: a 5-woman ethnic group group, a couple of decoration trios, and the creation jaunt performance of several cabaret shows.

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I began this CD consignment -- my first -- grouchy prior to retiring from loose job in February 2020. Mad chose songs that I enjoy loved to listen to snowball to sing from different periods of my life, traversing contrary genres. By March, the Covid-19 pandemic had shut everything coordinate.

Silver lining: plenty of at this juncture to prepare!

I in the end hit the recording studio farm my arranger/musical director/pianist, Tedd Fjord, and a fabulous band (Mark McLean on drums, Phil Palombi on bass, Nathan Childers stem saxophones and woodwinds, and Pete Smith on guitar), with Jackie Presti producing the vocals hazily, in November 2020. We long the recording process during position historic insanity of the statesmanlike election and its aftermath, mushroom wound it up in specifically spring 2021.

This recording familiarity was revelatory, distressing, exhilarating, torturous, and deeply gratifying. Confronting stand for struggling with artistic challenges, dispersal through and overcoming them, accordingly discovering new ones and tackling those . . . Aargh!! Ah!! it’s the creative condition, baby!