Where I am now is the result of a process and the journey still goes on. Started with the joy for singing, I began to write lyrics about my experiences with life and people & what I felt in different situations. Moments I lived through – the wanted ones as well as the ones I was pushed in without an exit. Rarely I built an exit by myself, if possible. My song texts include all of it, even tiny steps of my journey.
With the lyrics the melody comes and this is when I see songs coming to live for the first time. Finding suitable chords is fun. With this I create facets and additions feeling placed in the right spot. Playing the new song several times, sometimes I already find rhythms that match.
The next big creative step is imagining how the song could sound with some more instruments, so that means a lot of time sitting in front of my computer creating and trying sounds and how to arrange them into something great. I am grateful and sometimes wonder that I’m able to do all this on my own. Well, at least I know it’s not a power that grew out of nowhere or flew to me and that’s it. All I can say is, my start was in 1998 with all lows and highs that life gives us. My story still continues.