Frances Livings

Bio:

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
(Andy Warhol)

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Welcome to my page!

My repertoire (or catalogue) ranges from spoken word to pop music. It's wonderful to be able to feature my work as a lyricist and songwriter!

At the moment I am fully concentrating on my first solo album, am editing the poetry I have been writing over the last two decades and am also writing new poems and lyrics .

In the past I have collaborated with other musicians like the 4UrbanArtists - a lounge-jazz-triphop trio with exciting and sometimes very weird club gigs on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. You can listen and download our music HERE:

I have now also written some pop-ballads, pop-Sambas and Nu-jazz tunes and with my husband Greg Porée and am beginning to collaborate with other songwriters here in Los Angeles. One of my melodies (In Time for Spring) is on Greg's new CD 'Inventions'.

Otherwise, my professional work life has always been creative (poetry and music; art history, theatre, costume designing) which is why I am always interested in your work and ideas too!
I was born in London and raised in Constable country, so was lucky to grow up in both crazy and inspiring; creative, musical and playful environments. I then lived in Germany which makes me bilingual with a split personality. Nevertheless, in cold and wet Hamburg I grew to honour values and virtues like commitment, responsibility and reliability: Letters are actually delivered and plumbers show up when they say they will. Quite the opposite to beautiful and sensual France (demain, demain…) where I also spent many months, mainly writing my dissertation and gardening – which makes me bi-et-demi-lingual. Two years ago I moved to the city of lost Angels (or Lalaland) – an environment I have yet to figure out (and which sometimes makes me think that I ought be be learning a fourth language…).

Do take the time to listen to or read my works – I will contiunously be adding more. You can also add my songs to your profile.

And - please treat my page with respect. I love receiving interesting comments, pictures and photos. But please don't spam me with nonsense or huge pictures that make the page difficult to load!

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Influences:

Writers & Poets: William Shakespeare, Anne Sexton, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, W. H. Auden, Nicci French, Christopher Isherwood, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Butler Yeats, Lord Byron, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Juliette Gréco, Laurie Anderson, Patrick Süskind, Ursula Rucker, Shel Silverstein

Composers, Songwriters & Lyricists: Henry Purcell, Kurt Weill, The Beatles, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Cat Stevens, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, Carole King, Al Jarreau, Annie Lennox, Billy Joel, Sade, Greg Porée, Dino Saluzzi, 4Hero, Gotan Project, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne

The BEST inspiring performing artists I have seen live: Vinx in L.A., Peter Gabriel (album So) in Bremen, Keziah Jones (Blu funk..) in Hamburg, Brand New Heavies in London, Gotan Project in Hamburg, Zane Musa in L.A., Karen Briggs in L.A.

Sounds Like:

YOU CAN HEAR ME ON THESE ALBUMS! CLICK ON THE COVERS - LISTEN TO SAMPLES AND DOWNLOAD SONGS....

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Blue Moves Vol. 3 'In The Still Of The Night' featuring Frances Livings & on Daddy Deep 'Professorship': 'In The Still Of The Night' and 'Beja'

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Greg Porée 'Inventions': Frances Livings on 'Evidence' and 'In Time For Spring'

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