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I'm Valerie, a musician, educator, neuroscience and psychology geek, mother, and creative explorer living in Bellingham, WA. My journey as a musician has taken me from smokey little clubs to packed arenas, from performing in obscurity to making hit records in the 80s with a band called Nu Shooz. Now, I’m on a mission to help vocalists create a sustainable life in music.

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Dreaming the Real I’m lying down looking at the colour of sky falling through trees, dreaming the real, tasting what it feels like to love it. Why did it take me so long to let go, simply exhale, so the day could breathe itself in and ope
What do you do in that tiny gap between songs when it feels like the whole room is staring at you? Confession: I was 𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘥 at stage banter. I’d watch other performers sound spontaneous and charming, and I’d think, “Cool, I&rs
Why I Wake Early Mary Oliver Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety best
Dear Singer, What's been on your mind lately? Have you been lying awake at night, scrolling through the endless stream of headlines as our nation stumbles from one crisis to the next? Or... have you been staring at your closet, stumped by the age-ol

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