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"You've reached the law firm of Godspell, Pippin and Fiddler." That's how Laura Dare liked to answer the phone as a child. These musical soundtracks, she says, were what inspired her to sing. As she stood near the stereo for hours, memorizing the lyrics and vocal styles, no one in her family paid much attention. It wasn't until much later that she tried to arouse their interest: "Hey people, I think I can sing."
Laura studied theater in college because she felt more comfortable acting than singing. In 1986, she met her husband-to-be, local photographer Randy Tunnell, in Las Vegas when he was assigned to shoot her performance in a theater production. Impressed by her singing, Tunnell hoped to inspire Laura and bought her a new Takamine guitar. "I'm not that good," she insisted, intimidated by its sleek perfection and high price tag. "That's the point, he said. "You'll get better."[Roger Eddy] said he'd listen to some songs. A three-time winner of the Weekly's Best Local Artist award, Eddy has 30 years of professional credits on sax and guitar, including a gig in 2005 playing sax on the main stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival in Carla Bley's commissioned piece. "I don't really like most lyrics," he told Laura, who, incidentally, named her daughter Lyric.See the full content of this document
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"You've reached the law firm of Godspell, Pippin and Fiddler." That's how Laura Dare liked to answer the phone as a child. These musical soundtracks, she says, were what inspired her to sing. As she stood near the stereo for hours, memorizing the lyrics a...
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