I currently sing at Alley Catz Club, The Aussie WoolShed and FlyGearZ.
The fact that people come to my shows and enjoy my singing still humbles me even after all these years. It gives me joy and pleasure to do what I do. Songs, in some ways, can be see as being a different language. And we all interpret them differently. But to sing a song, to perform it in front of people means that I have the honour of sharing with you my interpretation. A song is a story that has been accompanied by music. Someone has taken the time to put into words things that they were feeling at the time. Yes, some songs don’t make a lot of sense, I agree. But when you look deeper there is still a story to tell either just from the words written or maybe from the time it was written.
I give you everything during my shows. At the end of some shows I am exhausted both physically and mentally. But that is a price that I love paying because singing is a passion, for me, and not just a job. I laugh and I chat. Yes, sometimes I even make a fool of myself. As many people know, there are times during a show where, after singing a few songs, my brain almost forgets how to talk. And then the jewels come out lol.
Some songs make me so happy when I sing them and some of my songs nearly always bring me to tears. Why sing the sad one’s? I sing them because I love feeling emotions and I love making you feel emotions too. You spend time with me, listening to me and feeling what I feel and during that time I open myself up and lay everything bare. To be a good performer means that I have to be very vulnerable because, I personally feel, that’s when I am at my best.
So here is a little about the other side of me. I love to sing, I think you have already worked that out. My first memories of actually singing are as a child is in a church quoir. Yes, I was one of those kids who wore the funny black cassocks and the white shirts standing at the front of the church. In those days I was a child soprano although, to me, that was nothing special. But as the years went by I continued to sing, mainly in my room, with records playing that my Parents hated. I was very shy and, in some ways, I am still a shy person. This is the main reason I never joined a band. I never learnt to play an instrument so I would never have been able to blend into the background at gigs. As even more time past I joined the Army and after 20 years service I began to feel the need to be in a band but most pub bands, at that time, were rock bands and I just don’t have that type of voice. Behind JP is a guy, who in Real Life, is exactly the same as the way you find him in SL in the way he thinks, feels and communicates.
JPeabody - Singer | Alley Catz Club - Ascension Media & Lighting 