When I left school I ignored my desire to go to performing arts college and became a qualified sports therapist and aerobics instructor instead! For a few years I was happy but then I got bored and took time out to go work abroad. I went abroad as a rep but was fired and left in Greece with no ticket home and no money (thanks Kosmar!). To top things off there was a war going on at the time in Yugoslavia (1999) and there was even talk of our airport being closed. I was stuck abroad and didn’t know anyone. I was too stubborn to go home and admit defeat, so I stayed. This is how I wrote one of my first songs “Old Grey Coat”. Being the fighter I am, I stuck it out, made loads of friends and had the time of my life there. I only came home when I broke my foot! When I was better, I continued to work abroad for at least 2 years. My life back then was one big party in the sun, a blur of emotional highs and some lows, usually when the season was ending and I had to come home! It was usually this time of year when I would have time to reflect on the season that had passed, when I would be at my most creative. My songs were like my diary of thoughts, my mental photo album! Whenever something inspired me or if something was on my mind I would start writing. I would write song after song and this was my release. This was the only way I knew how to deal with my emotions. These songs started off as poems, then I always got a tune in my head of how I wanted them to sound and would instantly start singing them as songs. It was getting to the point where I would just put pen to paper and my thoughts would just flow. I started to realise I had a talent but continued to live my life working every hour God sent me. Meanwhile, my songs remained as memories in a folder I kept in my bedroom. It was only a few years later, when I became unwell and discovered a lump in my chest, that I began to think that if anything happened to me no one would have heard my songs. I had to have a few tests and screening and when all came back ok, it finally gave me the kick up the **** I needed. Like fate, I was waving a newspaper around as I was telling my mum how I wanted to be a professional songwriter when the page fell open on an advert for a song writing course (mad as it seems, this really happened!). I attended the course and met other songwriters. Since then, I have been able to record a few of my songs and co-wrote a few songs. If it wasn’t for the help and support from my fellow college friends Neil Preston and Dave Burton for letting me record in their studios, my songs would not be on this site! Neither would my photos (thanks again to Neil Preston) Check out songs by Neil Preston on www.myspace.com/uniquesongs; you can also see his songs on www.uniquesongs.com So now here I am with my songs for the world to hear, waiting to be discovered! I am actually more of a writer then a singer but I enjoy doing both! Big 'thank you' to Laurence Sandman for kindly designing this web page for me and for all his help and support. Maybe you could check out www.myspace.com/zhonray and see the band zhonray - a friend of mine, John, is in the band and Laurence also helped him with his website. You can read and listen to sample of my
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