My name is Steve Violetti, aka “VO” and I’m one of thousands of you who love to play and write original songs.
All of us songwriting hopefuls have dreamed the same dream and have a story to tell similar to the one I’m writing here for Vision 4 Music. I was asked to document it anyway as a favor, so don’t hesitate to send V4M your experience as a musician or songwriter trying to get your song heard and hopefully published.
Waking Up
- Artist: Sarah Laarous
- Title: Waking Up
- Album: High Canons
- Genre: Rock
- Year: 2007
- Length: 4:43 minutes (8.66 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 256Kbps (CBR)
Sarah (15) is a gifted female vocalist and song writer (photo above right with X Factor finalist Laura White). Her composition is titled "Waking Up" and the lyrics tell of a teen's insecurity from parental rejection. Happy to say it has a positive ending! Sarah chose a southern blues style with slide guitar. Based around an altered minor blues progression, Sarah firstly recorded her vocal melody live with just our drummer. Next she recorded the guitars that had to follow her melody line. We would have loved to have re-recorded this with the band first just to improve the over-all feel. Never the less you can appreciate the level of her song writing that shows sensitivity and confident delivery. The lyrics came from another young girl's challenging home life experiences, giving the song authenticity.
Sarah went on to sing another of her original songs at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival along with our R'n'B band who won an international Nobel music prize for the song, "Walk Away", (about knife crime).
