YAY! Thank you to my Kickstarter backers! I am BEYOND grateful for your generosity! I know times are tough and I truly appreciate you supporting my music. I hope you love the album. I’m going to put every drop of love and inspiration and brilliance that I have into it. Thank you for being a part of The Soft Glow of Electric Sex! LOVE YOU!
Xx,
Andree
the universe is officially pouring in the goodness and i’m open to receiving! the year is starting off just as i hoped it would! DAMN good things are happening!
*i’m excited to say i just got my first music TV placement! yay! “Variety Pack” is going to be on 90210 (i remember watching the original show in elementary school! never dreamt i would one day have a song i created on the show!!!!) “Variety Pack” was the 1st song Dre and i wrote together and i’m so happy it’s coming out into the world in such a BIG way!!! amazing! be sure to check it out on the 3/30 episode!
*we are starting a residency at the sexiest martini lounge in all of southern California- NIC’S, 453 N Canon Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210!!!! i’ll be singing there with my ridiculously talented band twice a month- throwing a love party for all in attendance! our next show dates are 2/12 and 2/20 9:30-late night! http://www.nicsbeverlyhills.com/
*i’m doing a mini show this Friday night 1/29 8pm with up and coming drummer Gabriel De Sant’anna, the very gifted brother of the co-writer to my dreams Andre De Sant’anna @ Kulak’s Woodshed, 5230 1/2 Laurel Canyon Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91607! super excited to perform with these 2 gifted and beautiful Brazilian brothers! 🙂 you can even watch the show online at: http://kulakswoodshed.com/webcast-high
*also, i’m starting to write the next EP! the 1st song is entitled “rebel soul revolution” and it is going to be powerful! i’m so excited!
yesssssss, the year is just beginning and i know it is going to be one of crazy, beautiful adventures, E X P A N S I O N, success, elevation, and inspiration through music!!!!!! 🙂
wishing u all of your dreams to come true! my success is your success cause we are ONE! one LOVE!
celebrating my inner pin-up girl as a VARIETY PACK 😉
Seeing Your Perfection-Letting Your Light Shine
from the Daily Om
We are each born into this world with unique gifts. Within us is a glimmer of the divine, a light that can potentially make the world a more beautiful place. But in many, that light lies dormant, snuffed out by fears and feelings of inadequacy. To spark it is to attract attention, face the possibility of rejection or the responsibility of success, and risk being labeled immodest. Yet when we undermine the light by hiding our aptitudes and quashing our dreams, we deny ourselves and others a wealth of experiences. Your abilities are a part of who you are and when you take pride in them, you affirm the love, esteem, and trust with which you view yourself. Moreover, as you express the light within, you grant others permission to do the same, freeing them to explore their own talents.
For some, we are taught to hide our light from the world since childhood. Relatives caution us that the professions associated with our aptitudes are unattainable. Our peers may be envious of our skills and thus overly critical of the activities we instinctively enjoy. And authority figures admonish us to be humble and avoid showing off. But there is a vast chasm that separates those who let their light shine and those who seek only to draw attention to themselves. When you dare to share your light with the world, the beauty and perfection of your soul become clearly visible. You become a whole being—the literal embodiment of your vast potential. Whether you are a wonderful dancer, a first-rate cook, quick with numbers, or a natural negotiator, you’ll come to understand that you do the world no favors when you hold yourself back.
If you have hidden your light for so long that it has shrunk to an ember, make a list of everything you do well, however impractical, silly, or seemingly inconsequential. Then ask yourself how you can positively utilize those abilities in your daily life. The gifts you were born with were not granted to you arbitrarily. While you may never discover what impact your light has had on others, you can be certain that when you embrace your talents and share them with others, you will spread illumination in the world.
So JUST SHINE!!!!
photo by Megan Finley http://www.meganfinley.com
i love the way the Megan caught the light in this photo! it looks like i’m holding a slice of sunshine! 🙂
my mother just gave me a very interesting gift. it’s a treasure actually… my father’s journal from when he was 19… ironic considering the last blog i wrote touched on the subject of the importance of journaling and how it can be such a great tool for self reflection. it’s fascinating to me, exploring the mind of a man that i don’t really feel i know that well, my father. granted this is just a snippet of who he is… but it gave me more compassion for him… though i don’t know him that well i do have respect for his privacy so i won’t divulge everything- just show what i learned about him through reading the journal…many entries depict that the world was against him (sadness, disappointment, frustration, angst)… some entries seem perhaps spiritual (though he seemed very agnostic when i was growing up)…he even had a page where he wrote down positive and negative comments about his guitar playing (maybe to help inspire him? or give him perspective?)… there are lyrics in the book too- one that refers to “the green God of power” (aka money) -interesting to see that his relationship with money changed so much over the years… he went from condemnation to it being his primary focus… beyond family and beyond his own dreams of music…his ambition for what he thought was “success” at the time was great, it seemed to consume him… he wanted more in his life… there are beautiful rays of hope as well… in consideration to the nay-sayers or to the haters (as we call them today).. he wrote “you must pay them no heed. they know not themselves! they know not you! they know not! continue to work, push, strive, and at long last if you succeed in your wishes, you shall know it was worth it, if you should fail be not bitter… for you have a very keen sight while they are almost blind to the truth of the world.” my dad never said things like that to me.. lol. it’s refreshing to read the words of this stranger. in regards to my dream of singing he said, “maybe you’ll make it, you seem more hell bent on it than i did.” very different than the young man in the notebook… i wonder if that man is still inside of him? i wonder if he still feels that way and just doesn’t articulate it?… he talked of this eternal struggle.. of wanting to leave his mark on the world, of helping others… yet he became consumed by something that is unknown to me…something that made him become isolated from not only my life but from the world.
though there were some dark moments from my childhood and adult life with him (see poem for papa) https://andreebelle.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/papa/ or (be yourself and liberate the world) https://andreebelle.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/be-yourself-and-liberate-the-world/ … there are great things about him as well… he is brilliant (a genius inventor, he’s had over 20 patents), he’s super hard working, a self made man (first one to go to college in his family and become a prominent business man), he can be witty and charming, he’s a gifted musician, disciplined (he used to practice 8 hours a day on the guitar)… he taught me how to tell time, ride my bike, ski, and load shot gun shells (don’t ask)… and probably passed on some of his rebellious nature to me as well (i consider that a positive too 🙂 )… i’m sending him love… i’m happy that my mother saved the notebook… it’s giving me a fresh perspective… though he still remains a mystery to me… well, we are mysteries to ourselves in many ways… it has impacted me in a precious way- seeing his vulnerability. i don’t know if my father will ever be in my life again. but i feel it’s important for me to see him in various lights… human beings are deep and complex… and this is part of my journey in this lifetime- having this experience with him… and i’m grateful for it’s part of why i am who i am today.
Andrée Belle 