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I'm an Oakland jazz salsa singer-songwriter, fluent in a few languages thanks to my itinerant childhood. Since 2004 I've done more than a dozen studio recordings for my own & other bands. In 2010, I sang on the Grammy-nominated Bien! Bien! In 2011, I made a fan-funded CD, and in 2012 my singing/songwriting was on Pacific Mambo Orchestra's debut CD. In 2013, we won a Grammy!

Songwriting
Sing Us a Song You're the Tendieman |GameStop stock parody

Sing Us a Song You’re the Tendieman |GameStop stock parody

So, if you have followed any of the crazy news a few weeks ago, there was a stock mania around the nearly defunct retailer GameStop (#GME). Sadly, my son and I were sucked into waiting for the short squeeze to be squoze (and still holding our shares, LOL!). I wrote this parody of Billy Joel's...
I Wanna Be With You - song sketch

I Wanna Be With You – song sketch

A sketch of a song that I just wrote but I kinda liked it… maybe a little Ingrid Michaelson style, no?
What If Sex Were Real - Tiny Desk Concert Contest Entry - original song by Alexa Morales

What If Sex Were Real – Tiny Desk Concert Contest Entry – original song by Alexa Morales

So my creaky Nord keyboard drove me crazy and I tried to doctor it up or multitrack but I didn’t want to lip-sync this as it’s my entry to the NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2017 and it had to be in front of a desk. I gave up and decided this was the best performance… If...
What makes a great story song?

What makes a great story song?

Skyword recently interviewed a number of songwriters about storytelling. I made the cut along with songwriters for Phil Collins, Aretha Franklin, Jonas Brothers & Selena Gomez! Here’s the piece by Jon Simmons on what brand marketers can learn from songwriters, with tips from eight troubadours (David Pack, Air Traffic Controller, Alexa Weber Morales, Joshua Hyslop, Jess Domain, Emily Hecht, Ed...