An opportunity assembly let to a personal home live performance and a have a look at an rising uncooked expertise with loads of potential

By way of an opportunity assembly at a celebration, I discovered myself invited to a personal home live performance by a younger, rising singer from Joshua Tree California.  She was visiting her godmother in Ajijic, who determined to showcase her to a couple of her music-loving buddies on the town.

The artist was Angela Rose Fields, a 30-something presently residing in her beloved reworked 1982 Ford Ramblette RV named Fancy, and dealing for the Joshua Tree Musical Pageant. Tall,  tan, beautiful, and blessed with a blindingly lovely smile that  reaches all the way in which as much as her eyes, she fashions, as effectively paints great indicators and writes songs.

It was the songs that intrigued me, and the chance to see the emergence of a uncooked expertise, nonetheless on the lookout for her voice, though it was apparent that she positively has one. With a curl of ache and pleasure harking back to Buffey St. Marie, she encapsulates vignettes of the hearth and ice that has characterised her life from its beginning in Oregon, travels by India, southeast Asia, Australia and now, California.

The live performance I noticed was in a really small front room with horrible acoustics and a really pleasant canine including an occasional word to the singing – your typical home live performance. Angela sang from an elevated touchdown simply off the entrance door. She projected an endearing combination of self-confidence and shyness, giving the again story to her songs and apologizing for the truth that she is simply studying the guitar. Regardless of, it was the inside expertise I used to be on the lookout for, and she or he has it.

Reaching deep into herself, previous the shyness and previous the necessity to focus on her guitar enjoying, Angela was capable of each join with the viewers in an open, joyful approach, whereas sharing her ache and confusion with them. Her  voice was in  want of breath coaching {and professional} teaching, and her guitar enjoying was extra of a distraction, however the emotional transmission belt was working at full velocity. She will zero in on emotions and string them out in a uncooked, unfettered choruses, or a bridge ready to tug you alongside to the following verse.

Most of all, she simply plain radiates when she sings. It doesn’t matter what the music, regardless of how unsure the guitar notes, regardless of the scale and acoustics of the room, when she smiles and sings, her pleasure overflows into the room and fills it with daylight and sparkles. That’s distinctive, and why I paid cautious consideration.

I hae seen many singers with skilled voices and practiced stage presences – these are expertise that may be realized. However the potential to gentle up a room, to transmit your life and emotion, to ask an viewers into your world, is one thing you should be born with. Angela Rose Fields clearly was.

The video I shot of her singing on the home live performance was clearly not one of the best and does her no justice. I posted it on my YouTube Channel, however the one under is from her YouTube channel of Ocean Songs achieved with full orchestration. There’s a quick glitch in it, which she’s going to repair ASPA, nevertheless it does her justice.

You too can examine her out on Spotify – she has one music up and extra within the works. I’ll drop I on her pages on occasion simply to see the place she goes. And perhaps the following column about her will characteristic a greater video and lots of extra songs.

Patrick O’Heffernan