(Note: This was drafted in June so the reference to Christmas was originally a reference to my last birthday--which only emphasizes the point!)
Do you remember hearing your own voice recorded for the first time? Almost everybody responds the same: “Do I really sound like that?”
My first "gig" as a vocalist was at age six, soloing “Sunbeam” in a Sunday morning church service. That was followed closely by an appearance in my mother’s Christmas production