'Mela
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Jazz Vocalist, Fine & Digital Artist... |
| Location | Florida, United States |
| Introduction | I Am An Artist Who Sings Jazz... A Capricorn, born Jan. 9th, I am 5' 10", The Eldest Daughter of 4 Sisters. Mother of a Wonderful Son. Of Irish-Italian-German-English Descent. A Transplanted New Yorker, I Lived Many Years In Tokyo, Japan. Now, I'm In Florida, USA... My Style Is Comfortably Chic... |
| Interests | Love, Family, Art, Music, Friendship, Jazz, Singing, Painting, Sketching, The Bible, Watercolors, Etegami, Oil Pastels, Gouache, Washi, Digital Art, Taking Photos, Creativity, World Cuisines, Writing Haiku, Serendipity, A Good Laugh, Imagination, Hand-Written Letters, Dance, Gumption, Rose Gardens, Ikebana, Light & Shadow, Traveling, Balance, Period Costume, Perfume, Design, A Good Deli, Herbs, Spices, Cooking, Balcony Gardening, Elbow Room, The Inside Dope, Reading, Music Research, Shopping, Pansy, Irises, Orchids, Peony, Lilacs, Camellia, Plum Blossoms, Gardenia, Marigolds, Lotus Ponds, Lavender Fields, Ceramics, Textiles, Hair Ornaments, Bohemia Crystal, Art Deco, The Jazz Age, Antiques, Flea Markets, Bicycling, Linen, Hemp, Wool, Velvet, Silk, Batik, Exotic Wood, A Unique Umbrella, Silver Jewelry, Garnet, Pearls, Baltic Amber, Lapis-Lazuli, Rainbow Moonstone, Wide Brimmed Hats, Beret, NYC, Tokyo, Carmel CA, New Orleans, Paris, Provence, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, India, Prague, Amsterdam, Brazil, Building Music Playlists, Latin Percussion, A Lilting Pedal Steel, Taking Kids to Art Galleries, Campfires, The Desert, The Full Moon, The Fog, Tropical Beaches, Lakes, Row Boats, Swimming, Snorkeling, Collecting Shells, Watching For Meteors, G&T's, Spumoni, Raspberries, Artichokes, Pomegranates, Mangos, Mocha Coffee, Bagels and Cream Cheese, Purple, Red, Cornflower Blue, Picnics, Moss, Old Trees, Pinot Noir, Shiraz, The River, Autumn, A Slow Waltz, The First Snow, A Large Inviting Chair, A Well Stoked Fireplace, Frankincense, Myrrh, Bergamot, Cedar, Eucalyptus, Walking In The Woods, A Cuppa With A Friend, Approaching Thunderstorms, Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Health, Finding My Cobblestone Cottage, Walking Somewhere New, Movies, Dragonflies, Fireflies, Katydids, Candlelight, Pumpkin Patches, Apple Orchards, Root Beer, Yankee Dawgs Wit Mustid & 'Kraut, Fireworks, An Eclipse, Dusk, Changing Seasons, Time Travel, Reinvention... |
| Favorite Movies | Casablanca, Key Largo, Sense & Sensibility, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Ginger Tree, Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, Jason And The Argonauts, Ed Wood, The Sandpiper, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Finding Neverland, Seabiscuit, Vertigo, The Birds, Marnie, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Anna Karenina, Flight Of The Phoenix, The Shawshank Redemption, The Sting, Pride & Prejudice, Mr. Saturday Night, French Kiss, Woman In The Dunes, Tampopo, A Lust For Life, Pollock, Tombstone, Kate & Leopold, Miss Potter, The Sound Of Music, Juniper, Summertime, The Ninth Gate, The Great Gatsby (1974), The Quiet Man, Ray, The Misfits, Out Of Africa, The English Patient, Ben Hur, The Sheltering Sky, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Splendor In The Grass, The Wizard Of Oz, The African Queen, Dangerous Liaisons, The Godfather, Little Miss Sunshine, Vanity Fair, About Schmidt, Far From The Madding Crowd, A Little Chaos, It's A Wonderful Life, White Christmas, Amadeus, The Royal Tennenbaums, Girl With A Pearl Earring, Kinky Boots, My Immortal Beloved, The Straight Story, Leap Year, Somewhere In Time, The Fisher King, Papillon, The Pianist, The Ladykillers, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Little Women, Do The Right Thing, The Grand Budapest Hotel, LOTR, Rosemary's Baby, Delores Claiborne, Hearts In Atlantis, Lenny, Moonstruck, The Color Purple, 2001: A Space Odyssey, As Good As It Gets, Play Misty For Me, Persuasion, Mary Poppins, The Blue Lagoon, My Fair Lady, Body Heat, La Dolce Vita, Ghost World, Thelma & Louise, Paper Moon, The Reader, Sideways, Harlem Nights, Caddyshack, The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love, Rear Window, Cold Mountain, The Twilight Saga, Jane Eyre, True Grit, The Thomas Crown Affair, The World's Fastest Indian, Life Of Pi, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Radio Days, Trouble With The Curve, The 100 Foot Journey, Hannah And Her Sisters, Cast Away, The King's Speech, The Magic Of Belle Island, The Dig, The Wolf Of Wall Street, A Good Woman, ... |
| Favorite Music | Jazz: Straight Ahead, Latin, Salsa, Afro-Cuban, Dixieland, The Blues, R&B, Soul, Classical, Opera, Ambient, EDM, Shoegaze Dream Pop, Tango, Chanson, World, Indie, Americana, Folk, Disco, Funk, Reggae, Rock & Roll, New-Wave, Irish, Avante-Garde, Cabaret, Flamenco, Samba/Bossa, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Soundtracks... |
| Favorite Books | Some Authors I Appreciate: Kurt Vonnegut, Rex Stout, Truman Capote, Diana Vreeland, Willa Cather, Carl Sandberg, Hermann Hesse, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Miller, T.S. Eliot, James Baldwin, Frank McCourt, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Lord Byron, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, e. e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Jack Kerouac, Leo Tolstoy, Tom Robbins, Ken Kesey, J.R.R.Tolkien, William Shakespeare, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert Frost, William S.Burroughs, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, J.K.Rowling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, O. Henry, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Dr. Seuss, Carlos Castaneda, Don Miguel Ruiz, Mitsuo Aida, Julia Childs, Mark Twain, E.L.Doctorow, Robert D. Hare C.M., Alice Walker, Sandra L. Brown M.A, Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.D, John O'Donohue, Anaïs Nin, Marguerite Duras, Washington Irving, Diana Gabaldon, Charles Bukowski, Donald J. Trump... |
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