Shirley Cason - Music Biography
Shirley's talent was discovered by accident when her brother injured his hand.
Her parents bought him an theater organ to help rebuild the dexterity in his hand.
It was during that time Shirley took an interest in music from listening to her brother.
Years later... her Mom decided to purchase Shirley her first synthesizer. . .
Four more keyboards followed, enabling her to expand her sounds.
Then during her teenage years, life dealt Cason her first tragic blow; her Mom
became ill and passed away. A few years later, she then joined a band called QUEST.
They toured the U.S. and the Virgin Islands. yet, shortly after coming home
from the tour,
life once again would be unkind ...
Shirley lost her major source of inspiration, her dad, that built all
her keyboard frames & sets for her 6 keyboards she toured with.
The music died within her. She retired from the music industry and pursued a
college degree. While attending college, a good friend mentioned that the
college had a grand piano in the mansion’s ballroom at FDU. From that point
on, a secret marriage developed between Cason and that baby grand piano.
At night, after class, she would go to the ballroom when no one was there
and fill that grand ballroom with one spirited soulful song after another.
During this time is when she was able to heal her wounded spirit to be able
to return to the
world of music.
Cason then went on to build her recording studio, at the lake, and started her
own music production company, Rainbow Lakes Music.
After recording her first two CDs,
Forever In Bloom
and then her Holiday album, Simply Christmas,
life again would be unkind and her oldest sister Carol passed away.
Choosing to record another “easy listening”
new age CD or "record the truth" of
how she felt inside was a commercial risk to her
new company. But being truthful to herself as an artist, believing that art should reflect
the "heart" of the writer, the next CD emerged,
A Summer Dream CD
from all the tears that one soul could bear...
The "Summer Dream" CD went on to get high reviews for being so brave to "wear her heart
out on her sleeve". From that point on Shirley promised herself to only record
music that she felt with all her heart and emotions when she's recording her music.
The following CD, "Winter Mornings"
received such wonderful reviews and letters from fans from all over the world, Shirley knew that recording
what moves her emotionally is definitely what people love and enjoyed about her music.
Then there was a "gap in time", after the "Winter Mornings"
CD was recorded until her next CD release,
Cason states, "After I recorded my Winter Mornings CD... I lost my best friend of 25 years.
It was a real blow to my heart. During that time, I kept trying to record another CD, but just couldn't focus.
Everything that was I was recording was another "Picasso's blue moods"
songs like my Summer Dream
and I just didn't have the strength to record what I was feeling. Maybe one day, I'll release that CD with
all the songs I wrote during that time... but... just for now.... I'm not ready to share those emotions...
Accepted that, I just took a step back from the my music and worked on other people music
in my recording studio doing keyboard work & arrangements for them."
THEN...
From My Heart emerged from the
studio. Finally the gates were open again... the music was flowing....
and a brighter sounding CD was born with uplifting music that had a love story behind it.
So during the time following, the Rainbow Lakes Music folks thought that it would be the
right time to released the ....
The Crossing - Best Of Cason,
which is a compliation CD of the most requested Cason's music.
This year, 2009, Shirley has added three new keyboards the "Roland Fantom X7", and
"Yamaha Motif" and the Kord M50 to mix in her new age sound from her Kurzweil 2500 & Korg Trinton. So,
we're all excited about the news sounds that will most likely being come out of the studio on the up and coming albums...
Here at her website, you can listen to our New Age radio show
and listen to Un-release music that is currently being worked on in the studio....
Also you might want to check out her "AFTER HOURS" part of her radio show known as... OPEN KEYBOARDS.....
where you can hear Jamm sections that we are releasing out from behind the studio walls.... :)
So we welcome you to Shirley's website.... browse around....
we have music for you all over the place here for you to listen to :-)
enjoy the music !
Copyright © 2009 Shirley Cason Music -
ASCAP// Rainbow Lakes Music // All Rights Reserved
|
