Tara’s determination and drive to succeed also began early. She moved to New York City on her 18th birthday, her sights set firmly on Broadway. When the audition dates for Fame were announced, the creative community in the Big Apple was set on fire with excitement. Despite an initial nervousness, Tara knew the time was right to climb up another rung on the ladder of show business. After waiting for ten hours, she sang from the heart, and won the role of Serena Katz.
Fame toured Europe, and Tara found herself journeying through several countries which were very different than the one in which she had been born. 
One night, as Tara made her way toward the tram which would take her back to her hotel, she heard the sound of hurried footsteps behind her. Turning, she saw a young girl, breathless with exertion, running to catch up with her. The girl’s parents followed, similarly exhausted. The child looked at Tara, her eyes shining, and held out a notepad and pen. Suddenly, Tara realized what she was being asked to do. With a feeling almost too enormous to describe, she signed her first autograph, standing right there in the snow. 
It was a moment of realization. Tara knew then, that her responsibility was much bigger than the stages she stood on. Young people looked at her as an influence, which was a fact she would never be tempted to take lightly.
After the Fame tour, Tara found herself participating in a number of different ventures, including a co-writing project at Brentwood Benson Music Publishing. She collaborated with Dove Award winning writers like Sue Smith, gaining validation and experience in the process. Music licensing companies now use her songs in various types of media, including independent films, advertisements and on television. At this time, Tara’s catalog contains over 500 original songs.
Over the course of her professional singing career, Tara has appeared at a wide array of venues, including the Kravis Center, the Cruzan Amphitheater, the NBA Bobcats Stadium, the Time Warner Cable Arena and the Oracle Coliseum. She has had the pleasure of performing for A-list celebrities like Simon Cowell, Sugarland, Brittney Spears, Tiger Woods, L.A. Reid, Scooter Braun and Reba McEntire, her captivating voice transporting her to prestige.
While at Palm Beach Atlantic University - where she gained her Bachelor of Arts in Music - Tara was given the opportunity to expand her knowledge of theater and dance, as well as explore an eclectic selection of choral genres. She now uses that training, along with her life experience, in her work at Tara Simon Studios, where she teaches performing arts to individuals of all ages as a specialty coach. Tara considers enabling the success of others an integral part of success, and a vital component in the energy cycle of any community.
Music can mark a decade, an era, or an amazing moment in time. It speaks in a universal language which is understood by all, regardless of race, belief system, political affiliation or nationality. Music can bring a society together; music is life itself. Tara intends to continue finding new ways to use her musical talent to merge energy and humanity. She believes that music is a fundamental bridge-building tool, capable of creating a unity that will change the world for the better.


Then product of dascardus, Joshua troglin was playing Robin trower and Kenny Wayne shepherd on the drums and guitar by the age of five. He was a born musical mechanism, and has been pushing forward ever since riding his tricycle across the stage of the Ohio theatre while sound equipment was being setup for many big shows that dascardus had on the waiting list. He is capable of any musical feat or challenge, and is fluent and productive in any genre film Arabic Hip hop to classic opera and back. He has 10 years of hands on sound engineer teachings , and has had the opportunity to work and build personal relationships with artists such as smurf g, Ritz (johnny V.), and Yellawolf(lief N.). His famous quote is " THE ROAD TO SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS DOESNT HAPPEN IN ONE LIFETIME OR TO THOSE WHO STILL DONT REALIZE WHO THEY ARE".

12 March 2018

I made a dedicated Soundcloud for my synth stuff. Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/softbody

07 March 2018

Thinking I'm going to start a separate Soundcloud for all of this synth stuff I'm doing lately. I just need a name and a few tracks to upload once I've figured all that sort of thing out!

26 January 2018

Oh my. I forgot about this page! I still make music but didn't upload any for quite a while before doing so again last year. I just uploaded a few that I made in 2017, but I'm considering recording a few nice old ones that I wrote between in late 2015/2016 too! I hope that no one is too titillated after awaiting the follow up to my "teaser" after two and a half years of waiting. Maybe I'll actually record that one...hmmm! I should also probably hire a designer instead of using a gross image that I created in about two minutes in MS Paint. Maybe someone will think that it's cute.

Listening to my old songs that I haven't heard in years is amazing! I know I still have SO much to learn but it's encouraging to hear how far I've come in five years. 

01 Sept 2015

Caught a brutal cold a couple of days after I said I was going to record vocals on those songs so I haven't uploaded them yet. Will get a mic tomorrow and do that. :) 

08 May 2015

I've finally managed to record drums and electric guitars that sound half-decent. The mixes will still sound amateurish, but I'll be posting some new songs hopefully by next week. :)


27 May 2014

I'll be adding new songs shortly. I've been struggling to record things and have them sound nice. I'm not too familiar with the process of production and mixing so it's taking quite a while to get things together. I do have quite a few things that I'd like to put up shortly though :)

I didn't really upload any songs in 2013 but wrote dozens and feel like I've improved. I hope that the next thing I upload will reflect that. I think that failing at adding and mixing more that two guitar parts and vocals has been to blame for the slow uploads. :( 


*Previously this page was called Scared-To-Sing*

Old Bio from 2012

Hey, everybody. I'm 21 and started writing songs a little over a year ago after spending a long time playing the piano and guitar. For some reason, I always assumed that some people were inherently capable of writing songs, while others were not. Of course, I decided from a young age that I was in the latter category and just never spent very long trying to write my own music, often getting frustrated at the feeble attempts at songs I would conjure up (of course I was comparing everything I wrote with The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, so the few things I did write seemed totally terrible). Only later did I realise that songwriting is both a craft and artform, and certain skills can be developed to assist in the process. Approaching songwriting from this angle, I no longer immediately disgargarded everything I wrote as being completely wretched, but instead saw all the songs that I did write, good or bad, as a step in the process toward writing better music.

 I recently had the courage to post some of my own songs and singing here so that others could hear it. Thanks to Sky and everyone else who has been extremely nice and kind and supportive so far :) You've helped make this more fun than scary, which is a big step.

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"I'm waiting for my man, got twenty six dollars in my hand..."

Avec un nom faisant référence au Velvet Underground de Lou Reed, et des compositions clairement inspirées par la musique anglophone des années 60/70 ; certains diront que ces quatre jeunes Parisiens ne sont pas en phase avec leur temps...
Mais la musique s'étend au delà des époques, et ça les 26$ In My Hand l'ont bien compris. Seul leur importe de produire une musique en accord avec eux-même, capable de toucher le public par son authenticité. Ainsi leur Rock puissant et mélancolique s'est imposé naturellement.

Euphorisés par la scène, c'est en concert que les 26$ In My Hand révèlent leur véritable potentiel, insufflant à leur musique une toute autre dimension...


"I'm waiting for my man, got twenty six dollars in my hand..."

With a name making reference to Lou Reed's Velvet Underground and with songs clearly inspired by 60's/70's Anglo-Saxon music, some people may say that those four Parisians are not related to their time...
But music expands way over eras, and that, the 26$ In My Hand have definitively understood it. The only important thing on their mind is to create music that matches with their personalities, capable of catching the audience with its authenticity. In that way, their powerful and melancholic Rock imposed itself naturally.

Being euphorised by the stage, it is during live performances that the 26$ In My Hand reveal their real potential, injecting to their music a whole new dimension...

THE ZOOBOMBS were formed by DON Matsuo (vocals/guitar), Matta (keyboards), and Moostop (bass) in Tokyo in September 1994 and -- together with various drummers -- have been amazing rock audiences in Japan, North America and Australia ever since. The Zoobombs brand of rock and roll is unique: hardcore-punk blues spiked with explorations of funk, rap, prog-rock and even traditional Japanese folk.
"The first time we played together, it was a full moon -- our music style has been crazy from the start," says Matsuo. The Zoobombs incendiary live performances quickly shot them to the top of Japan's indie-rock scene and opening concert performances for The Flaming Lips and Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion.
Signed by the Quattro/Ricetone label in 1996, the band swiftly unleashed three albums -- "Super Funcy of Zoobombs"(1997), "Welcome Back Zoobombs"(1997) and "Let It Bomb"(1998) -- and introduced themselves to the U.S.A with a headlining slot on Japan's official SxSW festival showcase in 1998. Like the press in Japan -- several magazines called "Let It Bomb" the best Japanese rock album ever -- American media (including The New York Times and Rolling Stone) took notice of The Zoobombs, inspiring Emperor-Norton Records to release two of the albums internationally, "Welcomeback, Zoobombs!" chosen as Amazon.com's best album of 1998.
That same year, while in Toronto on a full North American tour, the band so impressed legendary Canadian promoter Dan Burke that he flew them back from Tokyo in June 1999 to play his "Neon Palm Festival" at the El Mocambo.
"Flew them in for one show -- their 'one night in North America' tour," laughs Burke. "They were that good when I first saw them."
During the band's Virgin/EMI years -- "Bomb Freak Express"(1999), "Dirty Bomb"(2000), "Bomb You LIve (2000)" and "Love Is Funky"(2002) -- Australian audiences loved the Zoobombs so much that the band moved there for a year.
But where The Zoobombs have truly soared is in Canada, having once headlined five shows in eight days in Toronto, where their "triple-heading" of The Silver Dollar Room's Canadian Music Week showcases in 2005 earned them a place in The Toronto Sun's "Best Club Shows of The Year."
"The Zoobombs are just about the greatest live indie-rock club act in world -- on an off-day!" says promoter Burke. "Put them on stage one night and people will be back the next with more friends to see them. Few bands -- very, very few! -- are capable of that."
Now in 2010, The Zoobombs are using their ever-growing popularity in eastern Canada to launch a new assault on America on a summer tour which includes dates in New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, Toledo, Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City.
"It's time we returned to America," says Matsuo. "I'd like to develop a relationship with the U.S. indie-rock scene and next year bring an American band to tour with us in Japan -- help them break into the Japanese indie-rock world.
"It would be great to develop an alliance like that which bridges the two countries and cultures and builds the future for us all."
Adds Toronto's Burke: "The Zoobombs are an international-touring act waiting to happen. They've been blowing minds live in Canada for 11 years now. The rest of the world deserves to find out how great they are."

PRESS and INTERNET CLIPS:
The supersonic Tokyo band somehow morphed from Stonesy punk-rock maniacs to freaky jazz-rock jammers without missing a beat, or losing a tad of their record-breaking intensity. Band leader Don Matsuo repeatedly risked everything, pushing the audience to the brink with
endless jams before dissolving into a gloriously noisy release.
(Toronto Sun,Dec2005)

Zoobombs (Tokyo, Japan) @ Velvet Underground, Saturday, as part of the Next showcase: This spacey Japanese quartet accumulated so much buzz over the weekend that people crammed into the Velvet Underground on Saturday like there was a meteor shower outside and it was the last bomb shelter on earth. The Zoobombs lived up to the hype with a spacey psych-jazz meltdown akin to Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Rich, and the Mars Volta having a barroom brawl...on shrooms.
(ANG,CA,2009)

I was up in Toronto this past week and caught a bunch of bands at the NXNE music festival, Canada's answer to Austin's SXSW. Saw some good stuff, including Dillinger Four, but the best by far was a Tokyo band called 
Zoobombs. Sick performance. I'm not good at the intricacies of genre specifications (I tend to like "music"), and these guys make it really difficult. I heard old soul and blues influence, some funk bits...live it felt like some odd psych garage experiment or something. Call it whatever you want, they were sick.
(Smashing Mag,Ca,2009)

Dutch and I went out for the NXNE (North by Northeast) festival last night and the best band we saw, by far, was Zoobombs at the Velvet Underground.Zoobombs was described to us as a Japanese punk band but their music was more like a tight, extended Jimi Hendrix-flavoure d
electric rock. The lead singer, Don Matsuo, seemed to have a punk sensibility, though: during one of the rare moments when I could see him, I saw a massive, wide stream of spit (or some other liquid) fly through the air. Matsuo's vocals were raw and I couldn't understand a word of what he was singing but it was great. From what I could see of him, Matsuo is energetic and charismatic. (Teo web mag,Ca, June, 2009)


ZOOBOMBS DISCOGRAPHY

Albums
SUPER FUNCY OF ZOOBOMBS (Ricetone,JP,1997)
WELCOME BACK, ZOOBOMBS (Ricetone,JP,1997)
WELCOME BACK, ZOOBOMBS (Emperor-Notron, US,1998)
LET IT BOMB (Ricetone,JP,1998)
LET IT BOMB (Emperor-Notron, US,1999)
BOMB FREAKS EXPRESS (Virgin EMI,JP,1999)
BOMB FREAKS EXPRESS (EMI,AU,2000)
DIRTY BOMB (Virgin EMI,JP,2000)
DIRTY BOMB (EMI,AU,2001)
BOMB YOU LIVE (Virgin EMI,JP,2001)
BOMB YOU LIVE (Teenage USA,CA,2001)
LOVE IS FUNKY (Virgin EMI,JP,2002)
NEW SAN FRANCISCO (P Vine,JP,2004)
VAMOS A BAILAR(2005)--For Fanclub only
WAY IN/WAY OUT(Valve,AU,2006)
B*B*B (Ultra Vybe,JP,2006)
B*B*B(Valve,AU,2007)
BEAR'S BANQUET-LIVE FROM DEEP NIGHT IN TORONTO- (Ultra Vybe,JP,2007)
Nightfriend of ZOOBOMBS(Donuts Worm,Ultra Vybe,JP,2009)

Singles & EP
MO'FUNKY (Ricetone,JP,1998)
BOMB THE BOMB (Ricetone,JP,1998)
HOT LOVE (Virgin EMI,JP,1999)
DOO BEE (Virgin EMI,JP,2000)
Jumbo (EMI,AU,2001)
FUNKY MOVIN'(Virgin EMI,JP,2002)
FEEL UR SEX FROM FUNKY,FUNKY MUSIC (Virgin EMI,JP,2002)
PISCES (Zbon-Sya,JP,2005)
COLOMBIE(Zbon-Sya,JP,2005)
ZOOBOMBCRAZY EP(Zbon-Sya,JP,2006)
Highway A Go-Go(WE ARE BUSY BODIES,CA,2008)


Yonge C is one of Toronto’s hidden gems; under rated, over looked and not appreciated for his real worth. He’s talented beyond means and more than capable of shaking the foundation of this ever evolving music game. Reigning from the Toronto’s north-west end, he’s been on a heavy grind since the early millennium and refuses to stop.
Having been introduced to the sound of music in his early years (his father a musician and composer and his mother a dancer) it’s no shock that he continuously exercises his musical abilities in everything from rapping to song writing. Never one to waste a bar, Yonge fills every verse with, rhythm, rigidity and reality, which with time will prove to be the formula to his triumph.
The road to success has it’s ups and downs and Yonge has definitely been on a ride. He’s gone from free style battling just for fun to winning the Project Idol Competition (2003). He went from forming a Hip Hop group [Lynch Crew] back to making music as a solo artist. He’s released solo projects and has moved on to doing compilations with local and international artists alike such as Omar (UK), Young Jeezy's label CTE's Rossini (US), and Kardinal Offishall (CAN).
Since his latest work , The Great Canadian Show, Yonge has been doing nothing but putting work into his new, solo and collaboration projects. As he continues to master his art, his unique flow and impeccable grind will prove that Yonge C is a treasure that’s waiting to be found.

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