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AMERICAN LEGENDS: AMANDA McBROOM

De Lafayette's Exclusive Interview with Amanda McBroom  (Reprinted with a permission from World Art Celebrities Journal) http://www.worldartcelebritiesjournal.com

Amanda: Same as above. And funny.
WACJ- Have you ever had any unpleasant experience on stage with producers, singers, peers?
Amanda: Not really. I give people room to be who they are, and if we don't get along, I stay out of the way.
 WACJ- Are you an executive producer, a no nonsense business woman or fun?
Amanda: Fun!
WACJ- What do you do for fun?
Amanda: Camping, horse back riding, gardening, yoga, playing with my animals and friends. And MOVIES! I love movies!
WACJ- Who are the most difficult people in show business?
Amanda: Those who think they are more talented than they are.
WACJ- How do you deal with them?
Amanda: Give them room. They will eventually hang themselves.
WACJ- What was your worst nightmare experience in your multi-dimensional career?
Amanda: I was cast as a major role in a major film and one day before we started shooting, the star decided I was too young for him. I never got another film role.
WACJ- How many times do you perform a year?
Amanda: It varies.
WACJ- Do you go for big productions, elaborate stages or intimate cozy ambiences?
Amanda: All of the above.
WACJ- Have you ever performed in a very small and obscure place?
Amanda: All the time.
WACJ- Why did you do it?
Amanda: It's fun...it's more intimate...nothing gets in the way.
WACJ- Where the reaction (s)  and attitudes of the producers, stage directors and audiences in the small places where you performed different from those reactions and rapports you usually receive and experience in large, flashy
dashy stages, concert halls and theaters?
Amanda: More personal and enthusiastic.
WACJ- Your favorite American and foreign female singers and songwriters?
Amanda: Wow! Jennifer Warnes. Annie Lennox. Suzanne Andrews. Julie Andrews. A wonderful and obscure American singer/writer named Susan Werner. Michele Brourman. Marilyn Bergman. Ann Hampton Callaway. Julie Wilson. Marilyn Lovell Matz.
WACJ- And American and foreign favorite female torch singers?
Amanda: Ute Lemper. Piaf, of course. Peggy Lee. Shirley Horn. Diane Krall. Sarah Vaughan. Patsy Cline.

AMANDA McBROOM ADVICE AND TIPS

WACJ- -Any advice to all those aspiring and struggling talented artists who need a break?
Amanda: Do not give up hope. Know your strengths and weaknesses. Don't be afraid to toot your own horn. You are your own best salesman. But tell the truth!
WACJ- -What they should do when they are rejected?
Amanda: Try again and again and remember, it's always only one person's opinion. The opinion that counts is your own.

  Written by Maximillien de Lafayette  lafayette@monthlyherald.com

The Rose Artist: Bette Midler Words & Lyrics by: Amanda McBroom

Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower, and You its only seed. It’s the heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance. It’s the dream, afraid of waking, that never takes a chance. It’s the one who won’t be taken, who cannot seem to give. And the soul, afraid of dyin’, that never learns to live. When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long, And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows, Lies the seed, that with the sun’s love, in the spring becomes

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