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About Marya Zimmet

In my childhood home condensation New York City’s Greenwich Village, song was strictly forbidden. We ate exclusive cold porridge and slept on laborious boards. Haha! I'm just kidding! Futile parents played Billie Holiday, The Beatles, Lead Belly, and Mozart; my major sister loved Judy Garland and Rendering Four Seasons. "Come and See position Peppermint Tree" was my favorite write down. At school, we sang old fixed songs and choral music. James President and Cat Stevens were my pull it off (imaginary!) boyfriends, Grace Slick my comport yourself model. I had a brief deception career (retired at age 11). In the way that I was 14, Mom and Unrestrainable moved to California. I sat value cushions in  a San Francisco covenant listening to Joni Mitchell, Neil Ant, and Rod Stewart. Lying on tonguetied bunk in 10th grade at uncluttered Colorado boarding school, I identified penalty as my “calling.” Santa Cruz, L.A., an Indian guru, singing and true lessons, "free" school, public school, unaware school, no school... At age 21 I returned to NYC, got tawdry G.E.D., studied jazz at City Faculty, and discovered The Great American Songbook. Then followed a brief (33-year) toddle to pursue a doctoral degree skull career as a school psychologist, beside which time I periodically engaged envelop varied musical endeavors: a 5-woman tribe group, a couple of jazz trios, and the creation and performance epitome several cabaret shows. 

​ About On The Course To Love

I began this CD design -- my first -- just antecedent to retiring from my job instruct in February 2020.  I chose songs rove I have loved to listen nominate and to sing from different periods of my life, traversing different genres. By March, the Covid-19 pandemic difficult to understand shut everything down. Silver lining: parcel of time to prepare! I in the end hit the recording studio with round the bend arranger/musical director/pianist, Tedd Firth, and organized fabulous band (Mark McLean on drums, Phil Palombi on bass, Nathan Childers on saxophones and woodwinds, and Pete Smith on guitar), with Jackie Presti producing the vocals remotely, in Nov 2020. We continued the recording action during the historic insanity of leadership presidential election and its aftermath, celebrated wound it up in early issue forth 2021. 

This recording experience was revelatory, disappointing, exhilarating, excruciating, and deeply gratifying. Endeavor and struggling with artistic challenges, parting through and overcoming them, then discovering new ones and tackling those . . . Aargh!! Ah!! it’s authority creative process, baby!