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Rock Tales
#350-Jay
Vaquer
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- In Rock Tale #191, I told you about my cousin in New York,
Emanuel Moreira, and that he is a professional musician. By
"professional" I mean he lives in Manhattan and does
not have a day job. He survives solely from his guitar playing.
Helen Reddy is from Australia, and in the seventies she teamed
with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who wrote her first hit single,
"I Don't Know How to Love Him." More top ten hits
followed, including "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress),"
"Angie Baby," "Delta Dawn," and "You
and Me Against the World." Reddy's first number one song,
and perhaps her most well-known hit, was a song she wrote
herself, "I Am Woman." It won her a Grammy, and it is
now considered to be the anthem for the feminist movement. Her
more than a dozen top-ten hits and gold and platinum albums are
proof of her international success. So what is she doing with my
friends in Georgia? On May 10, 1996 she and Emanuel flew down to
Tifton, GA., from New York, to give a benefit show at the
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's twenty-fifth annual
Dollars For Scholars. Emanuel has been playing guitar for Helen
for some time now. They have made several trips to Brazil (heard
some wild stuff) and they play all over the world in venues such
as Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, The Opera
House in Sydney, Australia, and the London Palladium. I would
have invited them to sit in at open mic night, but back then it
would have cost me $10 to get us all in, and you know me-
financially challenged. The next time Emanuel comes to visit,
I'll try to hook something up for you to hear him play guitar,
if its O.K. to hang out with my sister and whoever else is
around
Rock Lesson #350-The cream rises to the top.
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