As a child I discovered the Beatles and Rolling Stones records in my Mother's closet. Soon after I started washing cars to raise money for my newfound passion, record collecting. I became a more serious record collector after meeting Greg Shaw when I had just turned 18. Greg and I became fast friends and he gave me a job at Bomp Records helping Suzy Shaw with mail order and then moved up Art Director for Voxx Records. I had toyed with being in a band and was asked to join the Pandoras at one time by Paula Pierce. The selection was based my appearance rather than my musicianship, which was nonexistent. My love for dancing to music has always outweighed my desire to play it. I could always be seen frantically dancing away in front of all my favorite bands like the Crawdaddy's and then running off to the DJ decks. I started to spin at a club called "The Action" in downtown L.A. that I promptly renamed the "Rave Up!" When the club was forced to close, Greg Shaw founded the "Cavern Club" in Hollywood. He asked me to DJ and make flyers for this new 60's haven. The club got a surprisingly amount of press from major media outlets such as Newsweek, 20/20 and People magazine. Squares flocked to see "the freaks" and eventually the novelty wore off and the Cavern closed. Fortunatelty Greg had audio taped many of the bands played there and now Tim Gassen (Knights of Fuzz) is re-mastering the lives tapes soon to be released on Bomp! During the Cavern time, Domenic Priore author of "Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile!" came to the club after reading an interview with me that appeared in "The L.A. Weekly." He told me about his idea for a TV show he wanted to call "It's Happening!" It was a Shindig/Ready Steady Go styled TV program that would soon feature bands like the Tell Tale Hearts, Unclaimed, Fuzztones, Untamed Youth, Loved Ones, Quagmires, Nashville Ramblers, just to name a few. Well, it wasn't long after our first meeting that we started a friendship and partnership that would last for 20 years. We had hosted, directed, edited, decorated, and danced...you name it, and we did it, all without any sponsorship! "It's Happening!" received much publicity and offers from MTV, but in the end nothing happened. Sadly, we stopped doing the shows; it became too much work with little return for the efforts exuded. Now we have plans for sometime in the future to release a best of "It's Happening!" on DVD. The project will take some time to complete due to legal issues and our inability to find some of the band members that performed on the show. We need those before we can complete the project. Right now we have most all the band members but we are missing a few like the Leopards. If you know where Dennis Pash is, please let me know! As well as "It's Happening!" I produce a more recent show called "The Now Sound", also with live music from bands such as the Venue and The Soundtrack of Our Lives from Sweden and the Masonics from London. At the moment, my show is on hold while I work on the legal issues concerning the release of DVDs. Currently I DJ at Luxuria.com an internet radio station specializing in Lounge, Exotica, Jazz, Surf, Go-Go, Psych, Garage, Bubblegum, …basically every genre of cool music. I am the Girl Friday that fills in on the "Mod Quad" a great line up music with "Volcanic Action", Surf and Exotica with Domenic Priore, "Kaos a Go-Go" with Agent Kari, a mixture of psych, yeye, easy-listening. "Bubble Gum and other Delights" with Traderbeck, as the name implies, and then again Domenic's show, Riot on Sunset Strip, a show that features Mid-'60s bands that played on the Sunset strip. I am now doing my own show with all "new" bands, meaning all the bands I have know from the Cavern, It's Happening, etc. We haven't decided on a name yet but it will include all the music from bands from the '80s till now that play in a '60s style and mix it up with an original song that they play in their live set, recorded, or perhaps sound like. Look for bulletins for the show times and hopefully soon, a new name. I will also be hosting another show on Luxuria called, "Pretty World" which will include Samba, Tropicalia, and any other lightly Latin themes that I feel will fit into the program with a heavy emphasis on Bossa Nova, new and old. My future plans include a documentary on 60’s fashion genius designer Rudi Gernreich. It will include interviews with Peggy Moffitt, William Claxton, Layne Nielson, and Leon Bing. My main source of income is manufacturing '60s based designs in plastic as well as having an retail space in the 111 Antique Mall in Cathedral City. (Near Palm Springs) I specialize in '60s and'70s home décor, jewelry, art, and clothing. After years of full time professional hoarder of everything nobody needs, it was time to let go of some things. But of all the things I that I am most crazy about is my dog Benjamin! He is an Australian Shepard/Catahoula mix, smart, sensitive, sweet, funny, charming, and multi-lingual as he spends a lot of time around my European friends. He is just the best friend in the whole world! I adopted this little gem after Hurricane Katrina, and haven't regretted a single moment. Except for water, (understandable) he loves everybody and everything! Being from the "Big Easy," Benjamin is easy going and just what I need to ground me no matter what is going on in my eventful life. It is the best feeling in the world coming home to unconditional love, it really is.

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