English: Finally after months or hard work, Tara's first EP has a release date, Saturday, June 16 at A.M.P. Academia de Musica de Panama, 12:00pm. Tara is going to perform her original songs and we also hope for the press to be there. Big thank you A.M.P. for letting me play my music and release my first musical work at your stage. Everyone's invited, you can confirm your assistance at the event created on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/events/382973698426038/Thanks again. Español: Finalmente después de meses de mucho trabajo el primer EP de Tara tiene fecha de lanzamiento, próximo sábado 16 de junio en la A.M.P. Academia de Música de Panamá, 12:00pm. Tara cantará sus canciones originales y esperamos los medios de comunicación también esten presentes. Muchisimas gracias A.M.P. por permitirme tocar mi música y realizar el lanzamiento de mi primer trabajo musical en su escenario. todos estan invitados, confirmen su asistencia en el evento creado en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/382973698426038/ De nuevo gracias. I feel I really need to post about my favorite TV show in my musician blog, because it has been a very crazy and awesome week. First I gotta explain about my probably stupid tradition, but at least I have 1; every year I make covers of my favorite Eurovision songs no matter in which language the song has been composed, for those friends who are not in Europe, Eurovision is maybe the biggest music festival I have seen, because every country in Europe sends a song to a big LIVE performance festival, the contest itself is a very professional event, that looks great on TV and it takes part on spring, every year. Like I said, every year I make covers for my favorites in show of support from so far, and this year I had quite a lot of favorites, it was a good year in my opinion, so I wanted to do something special. There was a song that was driving me crazy, I wanted to sing it so much, that much that I learned it on guitar, but the original singer's voice was so intimidating to me,that I tried to resist my "impulse of stupidity" I felt I couldn't deal with the song, you gotta hear that song! Then, the Saturday before the Eurovision grand final, I just had a horrible day at school, believe me it was terrible, I came home frustrated, and then I was recording some songs at home just to distract myself from that frustration and yeah, my impulse of stupidity just became stronger and because of the feelings of that particular song, combined with my mood, I started recording it at home. I was not sure if it was good enough to publish it, I was so nervous so I kept the cover to myself, but then a friend from the Balkans who already heard another cover I made the day before heard my supposedly called attempt of cover and he really liked it that much that he told me to put it on YT or somewhere. He is also from that region of Europe, he said it was good enough to try, that same moment we were talking, the other cover I recorded was posted on the original singer's Facebook page, published by Nina Badric herself! Big thank you Nina, love you! I was so happy, my gloomy mood was changing a bit, so I decided to listen to my friend and uploaded a quick video for the other song I was so nervous about, just a picture of both, Kaliopi and me with the audio track on YouTube. Then it happened, comments were arriving per minute, and I thought it was just for friends to have a laugh at my attempt, oh no, the video became my most watched video ever on YouTube, didn't sleep that night, it reached 25000 views in only 1 day. It was showed in many websites in Macedonia, couldn't believe all the feedback, it was that special to me that I made a second video, just to tell them a huge thank you for everything, and as I also knew the song on guitar and I read that somebody was looking for a LIVE performance of it, then I played acoustic on the second video, and again the press caught me. I didn't sleep for 2 days in a row, days before the Grand Final, I answered for 2 interviews for different websites and newspapers, and I think I also got a message from Kaliopi herself, I am still not sure if it was her 'cause she was very busy, but it was her official account on YT, so I don't know, but I was so happy, if it was her, then it was a very beautiful thing. Macedonians have been very kind to me and they also jumped to listen to my own music, this really means to me, so once again big, huge thank you to all of you, Croatians, Italians, Macedonians, Serbians, French, Hungarians, Finnish, Estonians and all of you who have noticed about my yearly tradition, don't know what to say I really appreciate this. And here are the covers!! again, it was a crazy and awesome week, thank you people, you're the best!
And what about the show itself? Oh! I watched semi finals on internet, thanks to friends who gave me good links with no delay, watched with my grandmother, I wish I have recorded us on video, we were dancing along with Russian grannies and Moldova's performances, well I was singing with almost every song. And I didn't like the winner but it was all predictable since before the contest started so I don't really care about who won. The event itself was very cool this year, had a great time at home watching it. Love. Tara. Like some of you may know, one of Tara's hobbies is to explore and share music with people worldwide, since 2010 she found an interesting way to do this online through some music contests. Yesterday evening her song "Challenge" was uploaded in it's full version to YouTube via MelodyVision, which was the first online contest she ever joined. When I first joined MV back in 2010 I was pretty confused, I had to look for songs from my country so they could make a themed video for it to participate, yes I thought it was like Eurovision but worldwide, still was a bit confusing and I didn't get much into it, but little by little I started to love it, a lot of great music has been sent to that contest and also I found some other interesting contests to join, but never sent my song until now. So like I said it is kinda like Eurovision and every contest edition has a theme based on it's current host country, here comes the reason why I decided to send it now, not before, not later. This edition is hosted in Cardiff, Wales and I know it is not real is just an online theme, but I find it quite symbolic and felt it was the right moment to send it, Wales is the closest to Ireland which was a host country way before I even knew about the contest, I could have tried some months ago during the Glasgow edition which was my personal favorite, but it was a local language theme (yes sometimes I should send only songs in Spanish) so I couldn't send myself then. Right after it was a free language edition hosted in ...Tallinn so no, long story just no, I decided to waita bit more. Then all my projects started to take more shape and I decided to release my first EP which is coming out very soon on May hopefully and then Cardiff! Yes, now is a good one! Some of you may know that I love Ireland, I even went there when I was younger and I wish to go back there someday so the symbolism is important to me :) The video was up and it already has a very good feedback from MV players, you gotta see that video is really nice I loved the green colors since the first moment, and the Welsh dragon is just perfect! Challenge is a song about dealing with problems and getting over it as soon as possible but of course is not an easy thing, it's like "fighting with a dragon" simply great. They make awesome videos, I even learned some Photoshop tricks from them really cool, so no more talking Thank you MelodyVision for all the fun and great music shared this is a chance for me to share my song with at least 1 person from each country, that already is a huge thing to me, means a lot! And here is Challenge!! Also check this out!Yes, winners are all pretty famous but there are also great not so famous songs. For me, this ones are a great example: La Sole <3
So yes, for me this is wonderful! :D Hello family, friends and fans, today is my birthday oh dear I am getting old... anyway, hope you're all having a great time, this is just a short post to share my newest song also in here 'cause I published specially during this week as my gift for you all, for always being there. The river is maybe the only happy song I've ever composed so I saved it for a happy day (I think). Song is about life, sometimes we all are quite like a river, going through life as best as we can, facing our ups and downs, relationships, jobs, careers, our corrupted country's systems etc etc... and anything could happen nobody really knows what's next, so that's what the song's about. A friend already told me that the instrumentation is pretty Scottish-Irish and yes, I made it intentionally, as the song was made by me and the metaphor is that we all are like rivers, then I wanted to show with music what kind of river I would be, a happy and cheerful one yet with a bit of the Celtic melancholy, quite transparent with turbulent rapids (yes I am impatient) and some abrupt falls (yes I get very depressed sometimes), still a slow and long river, pretty normal... So here it is for you hope you like it, enjoy and have a great day. Today I won't have a party (from what I know...) instead I will spend some hours at the studio recording vocals for my most recent song "Crickets waltz" so if everything goes according to the plan I could be showing you a preview of what we have until now. Ok, "The River" You can also download it 'til Sunday evening! love Tara Tonight was the Grand Final of this year's Hard Rock Rising - The Battle of the bands, well I wasn't there tonight, I went out of the "Battle" the past week so yes I was very close to the final, but still not feeling bad at all, actually it was unbelievable for me, never thought I could be into the best 3 national bands of this year (I don't even have a band!) Yes, it was just me and my guitar, but the point of this contest, for me at least, was to broadcast my music here in my country. Apart from playing at Picasso pub this month, we had press conference and then the first 2 rounds of LIVE performance at HRC, yes it was my bussiest month and I even caught a cold in the process but still I am so glad that people is listening and liking my stuff. None of us took this as a "competition" I mean yes it was but, all musicians were very friendly to each other like it should be, so we all had a good time. My congratulations to Dozel the local winner of this year's "Battle" Great job guys! To be honest, if it was between those 2 bands, I am glad that they won, the others were nice but still too quiet, kinda weird just my opinion. Ok so we stop the blah blah and here are th pictures! Me at the press conference First round's performance and the second round's performance (when I got out of the contest) So that was it for me, thank you so much Hard Rock Café for giving all musicians a chance to broadcast themselves in out country and worldwide, like I always say, without an audience we're going nowhere. I had a lot of good feedback within this month thanks to you and also had a great time :D
Another BIG THANK YOU to Picasso pub staff for another gig on St. Patrick's day (you can find pictures at my Facebook fan page), it was maybe the best St. Patrick's day I've ever had, well seems that every St. Pat's day get better, but having the chance to share my music with people that day was the best! You guys rock, hope to be performing either at HRC or Picasso or any other place very soon. Love Tara |
AuthorTara Wills, singer-songwriter from Panama city, Panama, first EP titled "Challenge". Archives
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