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LABOR OF LOVE
Very often I sing for free in clinics, senior centers, churches and assisted living places. Some give me cash and then I give out stuff at the show or buy props.
I came to America in 1988 and started going after the American dream with my wife and kids. In 1989 I met Barbara, from Cottonwood Heights, with whom I used to go to senior centers and clinics, where she would play the piano and we sang old tunes to make people happy..
She was in her 70's, blind, but full or happiness and
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energy. But Barbara passed away leaving me with a good experience to refer to.
As the years passed my mother, who lived in Brazil, developed Alzheimers. She depended on entertainment by people that would not charge to put a smile on her face. I started thinking that I should do the same.
Between 1998 and 2001, I lived in Houston, Texas next to a nursing home. I kept planning to go there and sing for the people but I wanted to have a costume and the perfect microphone, the perfect karaoke track. Singing to the elderly would never happen.
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My mother passed away in 2002 and I realized that time would not wait forever. I had to do something about my goals but that whole thing about perfection would not let me.
It was not until 2006, when I performed at a company talent show, that Carl Fritch, from (a hard rock band from Salt Lake City), told me I was ready to perfom pointing out that regardless of hard rock or standards we were both entertainers, just singing to a different beat.
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