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Tatum Williams www.myspace.com/tatumalysewilliams  

I guess the most important thing you need to know about me is that I love to write music and sing! This has been a passion of mine from as far back as I can remember... My family will tell you there is a certain home video of me singing the same song over and over and over again that while it may have drove them crazy at the time, I'm sure they appreciate now ;) Being that I grew up on an acreage a 1/2 hour outside of small town Edson, Alberta (although it's not so small anymore), not being able to drive yet meant I had a lot of free time on my hands. To pass the time I would often pedal over to my Uncle’s where I would sing along to his guitar. I sang songs by John Denver, Creedence, Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, and lots of other great artists! I would definitely have to accredit my love for and desire to be a country artist to these ‘in the early-days’ jam sessions... Country Roads is to this day one of my favourite songs! Although I had always been one of those annoying people who couldn’t help but sing along to the radio whenever a song came on that I knew the words to [or at least thought I knew the words to], I had never really sang in front of anyone except for a few family members. So during my first year of High School, at 15, I decided it was time to show everyone else what Tatum really sounded like. I started taking vocal lessons, and after A LOT of convincing on my friends’ part [you know who you are ;)] I got up in front of the Pacer Dome [my highschool’s version of a cafeteria] and sang Lee Ann Womack’s ‘I Hope You Dance’. That day I hated my friends for making me do it... Now I love them for never letting me quit. I quickly went from High School karaoke, to performing at a local coffee shop, to tackling provincial and even international talent competitions. The biggest being the USA World Showcase in Las Vegas! I still enter the occasional competition, but I have been spending more and more time playing at pubs in and around Edmonton, Alberta, as well as special events throughout the province. Being that I consider myself a ‘Country Girl’, it was only a matter of time before I would consider the guitar as something I couldn’t live without. I began teaching myself to play my first year in college, and just 3 months later had co-written, with my Aunt, my first song: Mr. Hollywood. One song quickly turned into three songs, then five songs and so on... I am currently working on my first Demo!! I’m extremely excited for it to be finished, and for where this next stage of my life [some would call it adulthood... I would call it learning to appreciate 10% Tuesdays at the grocery store] is going to take me... But most of all I’m excited for you guys to hear my music, and to hopefully love listening to it as much as I love making it! ♥ Tatum    I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) I Like Boys Who Like Girls Who Play Guitar - Tatum Williams

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