My First Singing Performance
(Debbie, age 7)
I was about seven-years old and in the 2nd grade. Our small town was having a talent show. Another girl asked me if I would sing a duet with her. Her mother carefully taught us, “When You Come to the End of a Lollipop.” It was a song hot off the press two years earlier in 1960.
We had a sucker in our hands as a visual prop. At a given point we would turn our sucker upside down so that only the stick would show, making it look like our lollipop was gone. I got very distracted by all the people in the audience and forgot to turn my sucker over. My singing partner had to give me an elbow to the ribs to remind me to flip it around.
I wasn’t scared. I was just fascinated by all the people looking at me! Little did I know of the thousands and thousands of people I would someday sing for.
Everything has a beginning.
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