Hi Guys!
I am a professional keyboard player (fulltime) and also a female! I started classical piano lessons when I was 5 and took 12 years of private lessons. I started playing in a band at 19, then took a family haitus until I was 32 (1982). Being a single mom with two kids and a low-paying office job, I went back to my first love - music. I put together a 4 pc. cover band, and from the first year, we averaged 150 gigs a year. This band was together for 10 years, then I expanded it a bit unto a show band with 7 pcs (3 female vox, keys, bass, drum and alto sax). This band is still working corporate functions, but it is an expensive group, so we do far fewer gigs. My full time job now is music director and organist at a large church, plus I have 30+ piano students, which keeps me pretty busy. I also play guitar (selftaught), and have been on the ground floor in electronic keyboards and synths since 1982. I have owned Casio, Hohner, Korg and Roland keyboards. I currently have 3 Roland boards, the JV-90, XP-10 and XP-80 workstation. The XP-10, the cheapest, is light and I use it doing school shows for the sound effects (thunder, rain etc.) I use a Roland K100 amp and also have the new Mackie 880S board and EV speakers. I prefer playing live, because that's where the money and the excitement is! But the XP-80 allows me to make great & easy sequences for break music and/or background music at church.
