Being the beginning of the New Year, I thought I would write a blog.  A few nights before Christmas, I came across an old letter that I had written a business contact.  It was such an exciting time.  My husband was attending Emory earning his MBA, and threw him, I met a man that was an adjunct professor, and computer technology genius, and involved in the entertainment business.  He genuinely seemed interested in helping me, and we had several meetings that were very insightful.  This man asked me to send him my vision, goals, affirmations, etc…..  So on January 24, 2008, I sent him a letter filled with the details of my vision.  When you are working on a GIANT dream, it can often feel as if you are running in place.  You make strides but they seem to take you no-where.  I feel so blessed to have found this letter.  You see, in the process of working hard, I had forgotten to visit my written goals I had sent him, and that is why I have felt like I was running in place.  I actually had accomplished much over these past four years.  I still have so much to accomplish, but feel like I am that much closer, because……… of being reminded of all that I have accomplished with out realizing it.  I have stayed true to my calling.  I believe in dreaming, I believe in dreams coming true, I believe in working hard, I believe in Goodness, and I believe in the power of the Universe……  Of GOD!!!  I feel so lucky to know that in my darkest hours there is always light embracing me, if I let it.  I’m not sure what 2012 will bring, but I am ready for it, and am embracing every ounce of the light we are all offered.  Wishing for you, that you write your life’s goals and find accomplishments in them, while also being embraced by the light.  Happy 2012………. From the bottom of my heart, I am truly looking forward to sharing more songs with you this year!!!  Thanks so much for visiting.  I am grateful!!!

Peace,

Lex 

Life is such a trip how sometimes the Universe guides you, and you don’t even know it. You think your lost, and then years later you find out that all these strange turning points end up being connected like a perfect constellation in the beautiful night sky.

I had received an email this summer from a friend telling me about a contest in Macon GA. The contest was created by the Gateway  Macon Initiative. You were to submit 3 songs, with one being about Macon, GA and it’s musical heritage, to be utilized to educate and attract visitors to Macon as a music destination. I got a little twinge when I read it, and thought, “I can’t do that, it would be so from my head”…. but while in Chicago performing, I woke up one morning, and the song just fell through me, like mist from the sky!!! So with a little time and few tweaks…… through my heart I submitted a song called “Sweet As A Peach”.

Since I moved to GA, I’ve been trying to learn everything I could about music from this region, and how it transformed music in general. In Feb, 2010 I went to an Otis Redding Tribute at UGA, and actually wrote a blog about the magical event. Click here if you want to read.  Over the past few years I’ve visited Macon several times specifically to learn about all of the heritage that exists there.

So I found out on Wednesday evening that I made it as one of the five finalists for this contest…… and one of the coolest things is that they are announcing the winner at Otis Reddings 70th birthday celebration. To me, that is just the icing on this incredible cake. If I win, it would be unimaginable because I would get to have the 3 songs produced by a super  two time grammy nominated producer named Steve Moretti, and mastered into a three-song EP (extended play mini album), an electronic press kit (EPK), and a professional music video of one of the three songs all worth 25,000. But most of all it would happen in this beautiful small town that has taught me so much about music.

Regardless how the competition finishes…… I am just real thankful to be recognized, through this leap of faith journey through the world of rock and roll!!! Being an artist is hard work, but these types of things remind you that the Universe has reasons for each of the dot’s that it reveals.

If you are on facebook and get a chance, go to their page and like them https://www.facebook.com/GatewayMacon. They are continually adding really innovative contests that are truly rewarding creative endeavors!!!

On a last note…… I just booked a show in Chapel Hill North Carolina. I will be singing on the patio from 6:30-8:30pm October 22 at a restaurant called Tarantini’s ….. with a merchandise show there on Sunday the 23rd. Also I am starting to book house concerts, so if interested please contact me. I have one out of town September 16th….. Finally I am hitting the road….. and I love every second of it!!! HAPPY September!!!

Peace,
Lex

Welcome :0) I am so honored you stopped by to visit!!! I have lot’s of new news and a ton going on. If you live in Atlanta…. Friday August 12 I have a show at Smith’s Olde Bar at 9:00. I would love for you to come. It will be alot of fun!!!

On my home page is a new video I recently made in my art studio. I LOVE making music videos, so I will be working hard on that over the coming months. Hope you enjoy it.

Lastly, if you get a chance, check out my new store page. So excited to finally be able to share this with you. I have worked endlessly creating this website in a way I can communicate all that flows through this head of mine. I hope you have fun checking it out, and thank you so much for stopping by!!!

It has been along time since I wrote a blog, because my life has seemed to be traveling faster than the speed of light, and I’ve been trying my darndest to catch up with it.  In less than a year, I’ve launched a merchandise line….. have written a bunch more songs….. performed some of them :0)……  Performed with people I didn’t know(Who I now adore)……Been on a TV Show (Vampire Diaries)……, Been in a movie (The Change Up)….. which led to some acting classes……. sold Pizza (At an awesome restaurant called Hearth), cleaned out 20 years of “Stuff” and put our house on the market, spent endless hours trying to get good at playing that darned guitar,  Whiiiiiiiile trying to be a good mom and wife.  (For my daughter, We actually started taking dance “funk” lessons……  Let’s just say that she laughs enough by my disastrous attempts to funk boogie, that I think it keeps a smile on her face for the whole week, so it’s worth every second of it.  Second best thing about it is this dancing is helping me with playing rhythm guitar.  :0)

I am really excited because I have always wanted to sing in my home town, and the Midwest in general.  I grew up in Indianapolis and think I am one of the luckiest people in the world to have grown up in such a wonderful town.  I was fortunate enough to ride my bike in corn fields…. And stand on Charles Chip cans, and sing songs as LOUD as I could.

When I was little, my very best friend in the world was a boy named Tommy.  We went to preschool together, and his mom became a second mother to me!!!   Tommy and I would take all the pillows off their couch, and stack them one at a time,  to see who could jump the highest before they all fell down……or one of us broke something :0)    We would sit on the floor of the play room and eat split pea soup…….. Bang on their piano…….  And if we were lucky enough, we would sneak outside and watch the neighbors taking off in their hot air balloon.   I’m not kidding either….  The neighbors really had a hot air balloon,  but they never took me up!!!  :0(

At the end of first grade I got kicked out of the church school for the following year, because I couldn’t read ,  and those surrounding believed it would be impossible to teach me….  So off to my neighborhood school I went.  I never had so much fun in my life.  As we got older and into high school, the boys from my grade school created a band…..  and they were good….  Actually better than good.  They were INCREDIBLE!!!  The lead singer was a boy named Thomas Chang.  Thomas Chang could sing U2 almost as well as Bono….  And I just had so much admiration for all of them.  Their band was called “The Chosen Few”.  Secretly I wrote songs, and would always think it would be so cool to sing with them……  but was way to shy about it,  to even approach them.

Well on July 9^th, I am singing in Indianapolis…..  and Thomas Chang, and Matt Maher of the “Chosen Few” will be accompanying me,  and one of my dearest and oldest friends in the world “Tommy Glasel” will be playing on the same bill with me on a stage, rather than a potato chip can, with his band “19clark25″.  I was hoping I would return home as an opener for Tom Petty and he would teach me how to fly, But unfortunately that did not happen soooo…..  I decided to spread my wings ALONE, and am praying for a perfect landing, surrounded by faces I haven’t seen in over 20 years :0)……  The saying God doesn’t always give you what you want, but he does always give you what you need,  rings so true with this occasion….  Actually I never knew I needed this much……. To share my music for the FIRST time with friends who have known me my whole life, while being accompanied by 2 musicians I have admired as much as any rockstars in that era of teenage angst….  And then to have my second mother in the audience to HONOR, and to have my friend “Tommy”on the same bill, is just a gift I would have never imagined I’d receive.  I am just so very thankful.   And to top it all off… my OLDdest OLDEST friend (mom’s were dear friends and pregnant with us, same general due date, accept for I busted out 6 weeks early :0)) is having a merchandise show for me 2 nights before I sing.

Just so excited, and THANKS so much for dropping by….  And can’t wait to write about the evening!!!  This musical journey is a lot like a giant cake…..  I keep adding layers, and I’m just hoping that when it comes time for icing….  Their will be enough to cover it all…..  I certainly enjoy sharing the recipe of each layer ,with each and every one of you!!! :0D

Peace,

Lexers