Hello! I go by my childhood nickname Fala La I’m a music artist with a passion for writing songs. If you are on this page of my website, chances are we met at Mr. Beery’s and you got a little piece of paper with a QR code. It also means that we pulled it off, after only 4 nerve wracking rehearsals, we played good enough to spark interest.
I guess you could say my claim to “not quite” fame was my stint in an all girl pop punk band called “Moxie Starpark”. In the late 1990’s/early 2000’s we played around NYC and Long Island. Though some press unfavorably compared our musical chops to Stevie Ray Vaughan, other publications ranging from Teen Beat to the Village Voice wrote “Moxie Resurrects Pop” and “up n’ comers” with Brittany Spears. Without backing from any record label, we eventually ran out of resources and enthusiasm and moved on to new projects. You can listen to The Moxie Starpark debut album, The Floor, on your fave stream service or check it out here on youtube. Songs on that album were featured on TV shows such as Dawson’s Creek and Party of Five. Though we broke up before we could release our second album, we recently “extracted” the songs from the old reel to reel tapes and are poised to release it over 20 years after it was professionally recorded at Cloud Nine Recording. The tracks are currently getting mixed by Jakob Leventhal.
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I’m in the middle of writing a new solo album. Like my solo album (*), I plan on self recording/ producing because I couldn’t find anyone to help me. I had no plans to play live, but Gerge invited me to play his farewell show, and HOW could I say no???? I asked an old music friend, multi instrumentalist & songwriter Jamie Gates, if she’d join me on drums, and was thrilled she wanted to! We’ve been having a blast descending into her basement/kids’ playroom/music space. We immediately knew that this partnership would last beyond this show.