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LIGHTS was born on an ice planet known as Timmins in the galaxy of Canada. Shortly after her birth, she and he family fled from the extreme temperatures because they all knew LIGHTS needed to be somewhere that she could glow, not FREEZE!
Her upbringing was full of adventures. She was really tight with her mom and dad and sister, and they often had game nights filled with Uno and action movies and sometimes 20 questions and ice cream. They built snow castles and sand castles, depending on where home happened to be that year. Her family's work took her across the universe. From the moons of Jamaica to the comets of the Philippines.
Lights was taught by her mom most days of the week. She learned math and science... and dinosaurs and technology. She also learned how to cut carrots Julienne Style at an early age. One day out of every week her dad would take over, and those were the days LIGHTS got to learn about music and singing. She liked practicing piano lessons better when she put her keyboard on the chimes setting. It was much more rad than the piano sound.
At 11 lightoyears, LIGHTS began writing songs with the four chords her dad showed her on guitar, but after a couple years and a lot of paper she grew tired of simply writing them down. Some ideas just can't be captured in notebooks. For her 13th birthday her dad took her to a studio as a gift and she recorded "What Am I 2 U." It was an awful song when she looks back on it, but at the time she was very stoked.
After that day of recording and finding cool sounds in the studio, LIGHTS couldn't get enough. It was like someone had opend a whole new meteor shower of possibilities. When her Uber-Mother (Oma) gave her a thousand space-dollars as a coming of age inheritance, LIGHTS teleported as fast as she could to the music store and bought an 8-track, super old-school recording system so she could track her ideas.
In the following years, LIGHTS would write and record hundreds of songs and put them in stacks in their colorful cases. When she wasn't concocting music like a mad scientist in her room, LIGHTS would draw and paint all over her wall, in her books, and even on herself. She filled up her time writing stories and comics, and collecting rocks. She liked sparkly things. At age 15, her intergalactic adventures led LIGHTS to a cool spaceman (who would become her space manager!) and he helped her record her first quality demo. Together they started taking steps into the great, wide, music world.
The ensuing years were long and sometimes frustrating. She would jump from planet to planet trying to find her place and sound in the musical-universe. Planet Popstar was glam, but LAME. The R&B belt was smoothe, but she wasn't sexy enough for it. The acoustic galaxy made her think about sadness and heartbreak. The Metal Moon was pretty sweet, so she joined a band there for a while...but all in all, LIGHTS was lost in musical space.
What will she do? Will she get eaten by an evil vortex? READ ON!
At 18 light-years old, LIGHTS said goodbye to her family and moved to Torontopolis. She holed herself up in a little appartment to focus her creativity and ambitions. It was there that she learned a lot about herself. She learned how to put all her different music planets together to make her PERFECT SOUND; she learned that when she was sad, and encouraging song could lift her up, and when she was happy, nothing could bring her down. She learned to say exactly what she wanted to say. It was in that time (in the month of February) that she wrote a song that would open the door to everything she had been waiting for! Soon afterward, people all across the galaxy would begin to see LIGHTS for themselves (mainly on her spacemyspace).
Swavorski Heart · Mon May 18, 2009 @ 01:15am · 0 Comments |
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