Lit. The Musical - A Silent Prayer From Lit. The Musical by Mim Paquin Featuring Joanna Feuer.
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Lit. The Musical - A Silent Prayer - featuring Joanna Feuer

Lit. The Musical - My Memory's In The Music by Mim Paquin feat Mim Paquin
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Lit. The Musical - My Memory's In The Music - featuring Mim Paquin

soprano, Mim Paquin
"Adieu, Notre Petite Table"
From the Manon opera by Jules Massenet 

English Translation:
Farewell, farewell, our little table,
which for just us two seemed so large!
It's unbelievable, but we take up so little space...
especially when we're embracing.
Farewell, our little table!
We used the same glass,
the two of us, and when each of us drank,
we tried to find the other's lips.
My poor friend, how he loved me!
Farewell, our little table, farewell!

OPERA ARIA: Adieu, Notre Petite Table, Manon's Act II aria

Lit. The Musical - A Good And Lonely Guy From Lit. The Musical by Mim Paquin Featuring Mim Paquin

Lit. The Musical - A Good And Lonely Guy - featuring Mim Paquin

This is another song from my song vault.

Indicative of the time in which this was written.  It fits in within the landscape of music coming out at that time.  All of my better love songs were written when I was not going steady with anyone.

MORE ABOUT MIM'S MUSIC VAULT
Songs from Mim's Music Vault are any song any style that was written in the past that I never released in any official capacity or never even performed. They are songs that I recorded to have documented or as a demo for other musicians to learn.

Lover's Lullaby - 1997 - From Mim's Music Vault

SONG: Circle of Fire
VOCALS: Mim Paquin
ACOUSTIC GUITAR: Mim Paquin
PIANO & SYNTH: Mim Paquin
GUITAR: Ethan Bartlett
BASS: Matt Kay
DRUMS: Nick Kovachi
STUDIO ENGINEER: Mim Paquin, Nick Kovachi
Written: 1995. 

This song took on a life of its own.  I wrote it in 1995.  This version is the most recent 2004 - it features my scratch vocal and had yet to be mixed down. There is another... 
Two previous version exist the first recording: an acoustic live studio version
and a full band version performed by studio musicians... 
read on...

It was originally recorded as an acoustic demo at Berklee in 1996 (available on this profile) when I was living in Massachusetts and frequented Boston as a singer-songwriter.  It was recorded again a few months later with a full band as an MP&E major's (David Colozzi) production final with special permission from the school. This song was epic on the Berklee campus for about 2 years.  It became associated with me, and truly took on a life of its own!

If you've been following along with the iterations of this song, you'll notice in the description for the 1996 full band version I mentioned the fact that the room we rehearsed in was where Dream Theater rehearsed. Well, when I live in NY, and moved to Long Island and started the band Neeto, we would rehearse under a deli in Rockville Center lovingly named, "The Meat Pit." One day during rehearsal, the owner came down and said, "You know, this is the room Dream Theater used to rehearse in, it's got good energy."
We looked around the room with old carpet on the walls for sound absorption and thought thoughts. My thoughts? I had two: "I wonder if this rusty red 1970s carpet was the same carpet they breathed into." and "I rehearsed in Dream Theater's room of choice at Berklee College six years ago!" Some memories.

She's Got One Second

Circle of Fire - She's Got One Second -  2004, NY

Lit. The Musical by Mim Paquin
A Work In-Progress 
This is a vocal demo sung by the composer herself, soprano, Mim Paquin. In addition to providing sheetmusic, Mim also provides other learning tools, accompanying tracks and vocal line only tracks as well as a demo with vocalist - and who better to demonstrate what the composer hears in her music, than the composer herself?

Music & Lyrics Mim Paquin

SONG TITLE: You'll Never Know (Laurie's Song)
VOICE TYPE: bari-tenor

LYRICS: 
There's so much I should tell you
there's so much you'll never know
You're all I can remember, 
when I'm far away from home

Being here in this moment
my mind is racing far and wide
whenever you look at me
I feel lost and I don't know why

No, you'll never know all my thoughts. 
You'll never know how I love you, you.

I want to spend forever with you.

Should I reach for your hand?
Should I pull you to my side?
I know I'll never hold you,
because of all my fear-filled pride.

We'll never be together.
a part of you stays wandering free.
Don't think I can recover
knowing you don't love me.

Oh, you'll never know all my thoughts. 
You'll never know how I love you, you.

I want to spend forever with you.

Begin again with one who's better.
I wont wait til you discover I'm the one you should be clinging onto.
I can't standby and watch you love another man who can't love you as I do-- no one loves as strong as I do.
I love you. You....
I want to spend forever with you.

There's so much I can't tell you
There's so much you'll never know.
My dreams were never your dreams 
and I will never let them go.
No, you'll never know all my thoughts
you'll never know how I loved you, you.
I have to let you go--
This hurts so much you'll never know.
Because my love is forever for you.

Mim Paquin - composer - Lit. The Musical - You'll Never Know - featuring Mim Paquin

Music & Lyrics, Written and Performed by Mim Paquin 
Written 1998 recorded in 2003
Mim's Music Vault
SONG TITLE: TARNISHED
GENRE: Acoustic Rock

LYRICS
Your pretty words are hollow,
but on the surface they shine
and underneath them you're scheming
to steal away all that's mine.

It's not enough that you have me,
but you say you need what I am.
It's not enough that you'd steal me.
Is killing me your real plan?

So slip onto the table,
your jewels and gold.
I've found what you're selling
is tarnished and old

Expect a war you won't get one.
I lie in peaceful resign.
I have no sheild to protect me.
I've made an ally with time.

It's not enough that you have me,
but you say you need what I am.
It's not enough that you'd steal me.
Is killing me your real plan?

So slip onto the table
your jewels and gold
I've found what you're selling
is tarnished and old

...tarnished...

I'm gonna fly
I am gonna fly

MORE ABOUT MIM'S MUSIC VAULT
Songs from Mim's Music Vault are any song any style that was written in the past that I never released in any official capacity or never even performed. They are songs that I recorded to have documented or as a demo for other musicians to learn.

MORE ABOUT THIS RECORDING
I wrote this one in Boston in 1998 when I hated my day job.  I quit that job, but walked away with this nugget.  In 2003, I was noodling on this song during a 3am recording session and the engineer asked me if I wanted to lay this track down for the hell of it.  So I played through the guitar track and then layed the vocal on immediately after.  I was a full-time smoker at the time of this recording. Today I could NEVER record a song at 3am after having smoked a half a pack of cigarettes.  NEVER.  I've been smoke free since 2006.

Tarnished - 1998 - From Mim's Music Vault

Written to be used in the film The Clown Prince.

Mim Paquin, composer, pianist, vocalist and producer.

This was produced to make it sound like a small club live performance sung by a Frank Sinatra or Mel Torme-type singer.

The Clown Prince (2019)- You Sold Me On A Dream - featuring Mim Paquin

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This song was recorded during the pandemic as a song of hope and healing. "Dear God, Please Hear Our Prayer" is from a new stage musical in development titled: Lit. The Musical book, music and lyrics by Mim Paquin.
Video and audio recorded by each individual virtual choir member.
Video and audio recording produced, directed and edited by Mim Paquin.
Soloist: Martin Fisher, baritone
Featuring: Christina Major, soprano
Virtual Choir
Sopranos
Emiko
Lisa Curran
Kelly Farrell Sexton
Erica Faye Santos Tubera
Joanna Feuer
Lisa Kreller
Angela Paquin DeVivo
Corinne Paquin Meadors
Mim Paquin
Ida Sánchez Tello
Caroline Sargent Blais
Anne Vardo-Zalik

Altos
Kirsten Almeida
Lynne-Marie Dandeneau
Greta Francy
Abigail Hawk
Teresa Hui
Lisa Margaroli
Mim Paquin
Sapna Parikh
Ida Sánchez Tello

Tenors
Rui Moniz
Adam Morris
Matthew Fitzgerald Paquin
Mim Paquin
Jason Robinette
Cameron Smith
Bryan Spies
Alex Valentine
Bass & Baritone
Branch Fields
Jason Robinette
Doug Shapiro

English Lyrics
Dear God,
Please hear our prayer.
Stop the terror.
Stop our fear.
End the hatred.
End the fight.

This we pray, Lord.

End all suffering.
Grant us love eternally.
Grant us your strength,
and joy,
and peace.

Hallelujah.

Spanish Translation by Ida Sánchez Tello
Señor, 
escucha nuestra oración
detén el terror
detén nuestros miedos
termina el odio
termina los pleitos

te lo pedimos Señor

termina todo sufrimiento
otórganos amor eternamente
otórganos fuerza, alegría y paz
Aleluya

Brazilian Portuguese translation by Haydee Aguilar
Deus,
Escute nossa oração.
Pare o terror.
Pare nosso medo.
Termine com o ódio
Termine com as brigas.

Isso te pedimos, Deus.

Termine com todo o sofrimento.
Nos dê amor eternamente.
Nos dê a sua força,
E alegria
E paz

Aleluia

Lit. The Musical - Dear God Please Hear Our Prayer - feat. Martin Fisher and Christina Major Davis

MIM PAQUIN (she/her) is a dynamic New York-based award-winning actress, voice actor, singer, composer and writer across all media. She was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a city with a rich maritime heritage and vibrant cultural scene that has shaped its artistic spirit for generations. A fifth-generation performer who began performing at age five in a fully staged musical production. Mim studied acting, voice, and dance at The Boston Conservatory on a full musical theatre scholarship. She trained privately with industry titans Michael Shurtleff, Marni Nixon, and Christina Henson Hayes. At the start of her professional career, a teenage Mim won Massachusetts Broadcasters Awards for her voiceover and narrative work. Her hallmark is artistic diversity and a lifelong commitment to performance, honing her acting range and vocal prowess through years of dedicated training and performance, and maintaining an impressive four-and-a-half octave vocal range and stylistic versatility.
Press highlights include: “Paquin is a noteworthy comedienne with a heart of gold” – Backstage 
“Hers is a sound of powerful technique and the joys and heartaches of
human experience” – GoodTimes
and “A brilliant soprano! …the audience jumped to their feet with applause!” – Opera News. 

Her versatile career spans stage plays and musicals, film, voice acting, concertizing as a headlining soloist, music composition for film, podcast, and musical theatre, and writing stage plays, screenplays, and podcast theatre. She often creates her own projects—defying industry typecasting—highlighting her distinct talents and abilities. Some of her original projects include They Wonder as They Wander (Christmas music album and podcast play), Frogcatcher (film), and They Rally for Death (play)-- all in various stages of development and releaseMy natural speaking voice boasts an impressive range from tenor to soprano. It’s both authoritative and warm, bold yet sweet – sometimes silly – and smooth with a captivating edge.

    Originally from the historic old “whaling capital of the world,” her natural specific American accent carries a unique blend of punchy local flavor and worldly, knowing expressiveness. She is often compared to the voices of Scarlett Johansson, Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Anniston, and Cate Blanchett and often asked to deliver authentic soundalikes of famous elderly actresses. She is best known for my soundalike as Julie Andrews as Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton. She does not impersonate, she emulates, presenting the voices as real and grounded, not comedically. She is a voice actor building a character from the ground up. Mims says, "I respect Julie Andrews’ career journey and admire her. I just happen to have that voice that can do that thing. Likewise, is my soundalike of the late Angela Lansbury. Women whom I admire. I may not have gown up in Vaudeville, but I to started on stage in staged musicals when I was five years old. I also happened to study voice with Marni Nixon in NYC, (that trivia is merely a coincidence that musical and film nerds might appreciate reading.)"

    She prefers voice acting work that is character-driven using voice-acting abilities and range. She really enjoyes documentary narration too. She is versatile and open to all types of work. 

Let’s talk!  
Hire me directly as a voice actor. 
Email: mim@mimpaquin.com. 
Or hire me on one of the voice actor hiring platforms for acting work.

If you are seeking a talent for recorded invitations for private clients weddings or party invites, know that the pricing for a 2 minute recording with music starts at $1,050 only allowed to be used on the invitation website and no where else. It goes up from there. Thank you.  
This unique one-of-a-kind talent is expensive. Non-negotiable pricing.

OPERA ARIA: Adieu, Notre Petite Table, Manon's Act II aria

Mim Paquin, Pro Voice Actor, Actress, Singer

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