My mom was a fantastic soprano. She sang in churches, choirs, fairs, gatherings and even did some busking. Although she sang mostly gospel and folk, she could really tear into a blues when she wanted. LOL
She was very versatile and was comfortable singing with instruments or a capella. She once won two prizes at a fair in England. She took first in accompanied and second in unaccompanied.
She was also a very good song writer. She wrote the theme song for the morning news program in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. While visiting there. she fell in love with it and wrote the tune. She gave it to the local chamber of commerce and they liked it so much that they adopted it for the news program. She made an independent cassette album and got it played at a Christian bookstore in Farmington, New Mexico. One day, a customer heard Glenwood Springs playing over the speakers and told the store owner that it was the theme song for the morning news program there. The store owner told the person my mom had written it and lived not too far away. The customer was so excited.
She left us on November 5th, 2005 via Diabetes complications but she will always be remembered. She has joined the heavenly choir.
Some of her favorite artists were John Denver, Simon and Garfunkel, Roger Whitaker and Nana Mouskouri.