The Chick Singer Diaries

FAMILY
I grew up in a crazy circus family.
My maternal grandparents, Arthur & Mary Love, were working musicians.
Mary played the piano and Arthur played the drums.
They played in a dance band or, as Mary called it, The Orchestra.

Arthur passed away before I was born.
Grandma Love - Mary lived with us until I was around 6.
She made her living playing the piano for EVERYTHING - dances, dance classes, weddings, funerals - HELL, she even played the piano at Shakey's Pizza Parlour in Calgary in the early 1970s.

Growing up, I listened to every kind of music but I was obsessed with Hollywood Movie Musicals. Because my mother and her siblings all grew up as dancers/dance teachers, it was pretty much a given that I would start taking performing arts classes at a young age.
I started at around 4 years with GROUP BATON LESSONS.
Good lord... a bunch of little people with metal weapons? Who thought THAT was a good idea?
By the time I was 5, I was taking Tap & Ballet and was totally in my happy place....
I feel I owe my passion for music and performing to my amazing Grandma & Grandpa Love.