Welcome 2 Canada Tour 2011

Back on the road with Prince and the NPG for the Welcome To Canada tour. I love this band. Everyone is so talented. Liv and Shelby are my singing soul sisters- Cassie is a multi-tasking genius on the keys and vocals- Ida is the sweetest funkiest bass player I know-Morris is such a gentleman and also a very talented cat-John Blackwell is a beast on the drums. Andy Allo is the newest member of the NPG. She has such a fun personality on stage and is a great singer/songwriter. You'll hear more from her next year.....I'm telling you-it is an honor playing with these musicians. Every night we go on stage- it's a new show. It never gets old because it's always spontaneous and fun-as it should be. Prince is mind boggling-in a good way. His many talents-his songs-his arrangements- his moves- his charisma- everything just blows me away. He is the teacher and we are his pupils. Learning from his example and growing in so many ways as musicians and human beings. I feel so very blessed. Mind you...I need to find the time to sleep as much as possible when singing soprano parts ;o) With my thyroid condition, it is very important for me to rest because I can become hoarse very quickly. It stinks but it's true. I know my body better than anyone and I know my limitations and my strengths. It's been hard to find time to go to the gym and sleep enough-but the workout on stage is keeping my weight off-for now. I need to find the time to do it all-because it's very easy for the weight to creep back and get me and that scares me. I never want to go back to feeling unhealthy and out of shape again. I feel so much better and more confident on stage now that I've lost the weight. I still want to lose another 10-15 pounds but it's very hard to eat the right things on the road because the schedule fluctuates so much. The routine-is not a set in stone routine making it very difficult to stay on a path. So when I get on stage- I work it out! Hopefully I won't work it out so much that I fall off the stage cause it can get pretty scary up there! It's high off the ground and there are some narrow areas we dance on at times. The klutz in me freaks out and trys to hide it! The shows have been awesome and the audiences even better! I got to sing a solo of the Beatles "Yesterday" on the very first show and it was so much fun. I hope I get to do it again!!! Only 15 days till I see my baby girl and hubby. We've been skyping and I've been sending her little gifts here and there to help her get through mommy being gone. Now that she's getting older, I think it's getting a little harder for her to see me gone. Breaks my heart when I see her being sad...but the reality is that even if I was at home, I would still need to work and work would take me away from her at home too. Gone are the days where one parent works and the other stays at home. I think it's sad that it isn't like that anymore. It is what it is and guess what...mommy is so happy doing what she loves to do. I think she gets it now cause I told her very honestly that mommy loves her more than anything in this world but if mommy had to work-this is the one job mommy would want to do most of all. She smiled and said she understood :o) She's such a little sweetheart. Looking forward to Christmas with my family...and after Christmas up until New Years with my Dad, my brother Billy, my brother Bobby and his son Alex (my nephew) and my brother Jimmy, his wife Rachel and their two kids Sofia and Evan (my niece and nephew). Olivia is so excited to see her cousins and I'm so excited to have all of my family together again in the same room. It hasn't happened in such a long time so it will be extra special this year. Making the holidays absolutely perfect for me. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. All the blessings and good health and love you deserve to have in your life.

Take care and God bless.

Luv, Elisa

French French Heels....

Re-cap of the show...I did the very first song I ever learned how to sing "French Heels". Such a fun little song from the B side of the Debbie Reynolds hit "Tammy". Reminds me of my youth. Dressing up in my mothers clothes, high heels and make up. From there we did a bunch of new songs by Blossom Dearie (she is awesome-check her out)...some great old standards by Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn and of course good ole blue eyes Frank Sinatra with "All The Way". Then we broke into new territory doing some original songs from my cd "Labor Of Love" which is available on CD Baby or I Tunes if you haven't picked up a copy-please do. I also sang a brand new song called "Share It With You" that I'm currently in the studio recording to release on my website in the next couple of months or so. That song was a crowd favorite and I'm very happy that everyone loves the song as much as I do! It's a song that is very close to my heart.

Steamers Jazz Cafe was swinging on Friday night! Had a wonderful audience and even viewers that watched online at the streaming show! All the way from Australia to the Netherlands! Thanks for tuning in and being so supportive! A little back story about my story with Tony. When I got out of the music business after my last record deal with A&M went sour, I had moved back to Philadelphia to get grounded again. After 2 years of living the simple life-which included getting a real job for the first time in my life-I got very bored. I moved back to California and I didn't know who to call to find some work singing. So believe it or not-I looked in the phone book! I found an ad for a booking agency for musicians. So I called and spoke to a woman who basically said they didn't book singers-just bands. So after she hung up on me-I called her back and I said "Hey there. I sang with Jellybean Benitez and had a hit in the late 80's and then I worked with Prince and had a Billboard charting single called "On The Way Up" in the early 90's." After that, she heard me out. I told her I was interested in trying out Jazz. Her husband (at the time) she said was a jazz trumpet player and that he was doing a gig at a place called Kikuya in Huntington Beach, CA. that evening and she told me I should go to the club and sit in with him and his band. (I think it was his birthday actually...which is crazy that we did this gig this past week and it was the same week as his birthday!) Well that man was Tony Guerrero. After I sang "Summertime" with his band-the rest was history. I continued singing with him on numerous occasions-KSBR Jazz shows....learning jazz from him and all the wonderful musicians he would call for the gigs. From Bill Cantos to Rob Mullins to Marc Le Brun...Greg Vail to Eric Marienthal...Evan Stone to Matt Johnson...Osama Afifi to Bruce Lett. So many music lessons from all the great musicians in California that made me a much better singer. Come to find out Tony was also a big Prince fan-so I think that's why his wife gave me a shot!!! HA! Thank god I didn't let him down and that he saw something in me that kept my chops alive. It had been over 10 years since our last gig together! Singing with Tony Guerrero again after so many years-was such a blast for me. Matt Johnson was amazing on the drums and also extremely funny :o) The sax player Vince Trombetta (a nice Italian guy from Philly!) and organ player Dave Siebels were incredibly talented and I enjoyed working with them both for the very first time. Tony was in rare form-playing his trumpet and the piano. He worked so hard for me the day of the gig putting together my charts so the band could play my original songs. What a great guy! Thank you Tony. After a successful show-I'm all geared up to do it again and again. So I'm working on getting booked in other venues. I will let you all know the times and dates as soon as I do book something. Here is one of my favorite shots from that night. It encompasses how much fun the gig was. So I expect you all to be there at my next show !!!! I know that I've done pop records in my past and I enjoy singing pretty much anything including the phone book...but after Friday night-I am convinced that my calling is Jazz. I felt so "at home" up on that stage in that type of setting. Relaxed-fun-and creating the sounds of be bop, swing and bluesy jazz. I'm now inspired to write more songs like "Share It With You"...so stay tuned. Love, Elisa P.S. If you haven't joined my blog-please do so, so that I can keep you updated in case something ever happened to Facebook!!! All the changes-you never know!

Steamers Cafe show this Friday!!!!! Sept.23rd!

I'm soooooooooo excited for my upcoming show

this Friday, September 23rd

at the legendary Steamers Jazz Cafe in Fullerton, CA!

I'll be performing with my long time friend

and amazing musician Tony Guerrero and his quartet!

The show starts at 8:30pm and goes till 12:30am.

There is an $8.00 cover charge that will be added to your bill when you sit down and eat or drink. (I think it's per person) Call now and make your reservation cause it's booking up fast. It's also Tony's Birthday that night and we'll be celebrating!

I will also be singing a special belated birthday

to my brother Bobby and my mother in law Barbara.

The number to call is: 714-871-8800.

The address is: 138 W. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton, CA. 92832.

Their website is: www.steamerscafe.com If you cannot make it to the show-you can watch the show ONLINE as it streams live!!!! So make sure and tune in if you can. I'll be singing some jazz standards-some of my originals from my Labor Of Love album-and some other special surprises! So excited to see all of you at the show!!!!

I need to go shopping right now for a new dress since none of my other dresses fit me anymore! I'm melting!!!! HA! So it's off to the store to find the perfect dress :o)

For some strange reason I cannot get a hold of my web designer to update my site

with the new postcard advertising the show...

(I've been trying for days and no response. Hope you are okay Adrian.)

So I'll just have to post it here and hope that everyone will see it.

I'll have family and friends there that night that I haven't seen

in such a long time so I'm doubly excited. Happy and can't wait to sing for you all! Luv, Elisa

HCG...How I did it and how I will do it again!

So I've been asked by a lot of people about HCG and the diet. It is not easy. You have to have willpower and you have to possibly start to eat things you wouldn't necessarily eat. But if you were at the point where I was in my weight loss where I was disgusted with myself and was willing to do almost anything to get it off so I could feel better about myself-you make the sacrifices and you just stop making excuses for your out of control behavior and just do it! I reached a very depressing moment when I got on the scale and really looked at myself in the mirror and did not like what I saw at all. Especially when I would see myself on video footage from the shows in Los Angeles. In my mind-I really thought I looked good going onto that stage. Then we would watch back the video and the embarrassment I felt watching myself on the tv did not feel good at all. So I started the diet the night we did the House Of Blues gig in LA and committed to it for 40 days. In that 40 days I lost 25 lbs. Since the 40 days-I have just maintained the weight loss and I will be going back on the diet one more time to get off the rest on August 27th. I wanted to share my secrets with any of you that wanted to try it. What worked for me may not work for you so don't get mad at me if HCG doesn't work for u. I would consult with your doctor before you start it and ask them any questions like if you have any other health issues. I have an under active thyroid- hypothyroid-and also a glucose intolerance problem. So not only is it really hard for me to lose weight cause of my thyroid not working properly-but I don't process sugar in my body well at all so I can gain 5 pounds by just eating a sandwich! Seriously! I had tried Jenny Craig-but always chose my menus filled with carbs...I would get the breakfast sandwich and the chicken fettucini and the popcorn and would lose maybe 1/2 a pound a week. I was advised that it was better to lose slower. Well-not if your career is depending on it! Getting a job singing in any town-it's not just about your voice. It's also about how you look. It's how the world turns...so you can either not work-or do something about it. So I realized I was a "special" case. I had to do something more extreme. Here is exactly what I did...

First of all-I did not work out at all :O) One time I tried to-and I was way too tired so don't even try to!

The first two days of the diet I took the drops (7-10 drops, 3 x a day-hold on the tongue for 30 seconds before swallowing the drops) and got to eat ANYTHING I wanted. Fun! I had pizza...chocolate peanut butter ice cream (my favorite) ...pasta...cookies...potato chips and onion dip....french fries...you name it-I ate it! After the two days-on day 3...the diet began ;o(

In the mornings:

Breakfast- 1/2 grapefruit with Stevia sprinkled on top and 4 sea salt crackers from Trader Joes (less than 2 gms of sugar) or 2 grissani bread sticks. Realize that your carbs are pretty much over after the morning until later at dessert...so eat your crackers slow! Seriously...I rationed them out every 20 minutes. Then I would make myself an iced coffee with one stevia and sugar free french vanilla creamer-1 teaspoon full- with a couple drops of Walden Farms Chocolate Syrup-it's zero calories, no sugar, just a little something to make it taste more like a mocha from Starbucks. If you don't like grapefruit-you should really learn to like it cause you can have an apple, orange or 9 strawberries instead of the grapefruit-but I really think the grapefruit makes you lose quicker.

Lunch and Dinner:

3 ounces of cooked meat. Chicken, turkey, steak, lean beef, fish (no salmon or tuna-too fatty) crab, shrimp. 3 egg whites and 1 egg with the yolk can also be used-but try not to substitute it more than twice a week.

Veggies- cucumber, tomato, spinach, asparagus, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, zuchini, squash, mushrooms, bell peppers, onions and garlic is what I ate. Some people say to only use certain veggies-but as long as it isn't a carb veggie like corn or peas-I say go for it. The more variety-the longer you stick to it.

Here are some tricks I used...cut up cucumber & tomato and red onion and get sugar free rice vinegar, garlic salt, pepper, italian seasoning and always have it in your fridge. I would make a big salad with spinach and lettuce-throw my meat on it and mix in my cucumber/tomato salad. Then I discovered Walden Farms Blue Cheese and Thousand Island dressings. Again-no calories. So I would pretend that I was having a crab louie salad with my crab meat and my 1000 island...or that I was having a blue cheese wedge salad-with my chicken.

My other thing I would make up and have in the fridge ready to heat up was ground beef or ground turkey with chopped up tomatoes (you can get the canned kind) and I would chop up onions and garlic-throw chilli powder and cayenne pepper in there and it would taste like a turkey/beef chilli. Easy to heat up and eat. Trader Joes actually sells turkey bolognese in the frozen section and that is quick and easy too. I also finally tried spaghetti squash! I threw the turkey bolognese over the squash and was in heaven!!! Being italian and really into my pasta for so many years-I never wanted to think that a squash could ever replace my pasta. But I finally caved in and you know what? I like it better than pasta! I like the crunchy texture-since I've always liked my pasta al dente-the squash is firm and crunchy just like I like it!

You are not supposed to eat cheese-butter-or oil of any kind. Yes even Olive oil. So I got used to using Pam Olive Oil cooking spray. The barbeque becomes your new best friend. You can season till your hearts content and should always include some sea salt into your day some way, some how. Eating the juice from a lemon-is also very good. So you could do what I would do for my dessert which is up next...

Dessert- Strawberry Lemonade freezie! In a blender-put 9 strawberries and the juice of one lemon with 2 stevia's , 1 cup of water and 5 ice cubes. Blend and drink. Yummy. Or you could marinate your 9 cut up strawberries in some stevia-let it sit all day in the fridge-and you wouldn't believe how sweet and exciting it is at the end of your day. You can also have a delicious orange or cut up your apple-throw some cinnamon and stevia on it and bake it in the oven till it starts to carmelize. It's like hot apple pie! Towards the 1/2 way point of my diet I added in a 1/2 bag of 100 calorie popcorn to my dessert. It did not hurt my weight loss at all and it made me feel a ton more satisfied that I could have the carbs in the morning-sacrifice them for my lunch and dinner-and be rewarded at the end of the day with something sweet and the carbs that I was longing for all day long! Basically the rule of thumb-no more than 100 calories of carbs a day. So the 4 crackers in the morning totaled around 50 calories and then 1/2 the bag of popcorn was 50 calories.

The big talk on HCG is that it's 500 calories and that is scary and dangerous. I did not count calories. I knew by the way I was eating and what I was eating and how I was re-learning how to cook everything without butter and olive oil-that I was substantially changing my eating habits and my calories. I would honestly say I ate probably between 700-900 calories and still lost. The other thing with HCG is that it's supposed to reach those stored areas of fat in our body that we can never seem to burn. I believe that. Especially around my belly. It's definitely smaller. My inches that I lost were even more impressive than the amount of weight!

I would also take a multi vitamin-B and C.

Another great invention is Braggs Liquid Amino Acids. It has a teriyaki flavor and you can marinate your steak, turkey burgers, or chicken in it and throw some peppers, onions, garlic, mushrooms on top and it tastes awesome!

Another great recipe- chicken tenders! Take your chicken tenders-soak them in milk-grind up garlic flavored Melba Toast in the blender and coat your chicken with the bread crumbs and some seasonings. Then bake them. Don't overcook them though. You want to make them up-weigh them and put them in little baggies of 3 ounces a piece. Then when you are hungry for some chicken fingers-heat them in the microwave and get Walden Farms BBQ sauce. You can also throw some shrimp on skewers with onions and peppers and the BBQ sauce and you got shrimp on the barbie! It's awesome!

You can also have salsa.

NO Carrots- NO bananas-too much sugar in those two.

I drank a ton of green tea iced tea sweetened with stevia. I also drank a ton of ice water-a ton of it! Whenever I was hungry i would just drink more water. I also did drink diet soda-although I noticed I would retain weight and wouldn't lose as much when I did drink diet soda.

So why am I telling you all this? Cause I care. I know how hard it is to lose weight. I want to help people who felt like I did-defeated and unhappy. Like it just wasn't possible. Well it is. Since I'm getting ready to do it again in another week- I wanted to remind myself of everything I did the first time around to reach my goal so I can jump back on the diet with ease. I have not been the weight that I am now in about 13 years. On my next round I am hoping to get to the weight that I was 20 years ago when I met Prince. I owe a lot to him for giving me a job regardless of how I looked when he hired me back after those 20 years. I really needed to work and I had a family to support and I just wanted to sing!!!! I saw myself on the video footage from the shows and really "saw" myself. I wasn't happy and I decided to make a really good effort to do it and I'm very proud of myself and what I've finally accomplished after so many times of trying and failing before. So thank you Prince for opening my eyes and for giving me the opportunity to sing and find myself again. I also appreciate that he gave me the summer off cause being on the road and doing the diet would have been too hard. I needed to be home in my kitchen and I needed to dedicate the time to myself and my family. Now when the fall comes-I will be Sooooooooooooooo ready to strut my stuff and sing with the confidence I haven't had in soooooo many years. I hope that this helps any of you that are considering the diet. I know it can be done. So hopefully my story will help inspire you to do it too. If you don't know someone who sells the drops, I can refer you to my friend Suzanne Condray who can send them to you. But please talk to your doctor first and make sure they advise you to do it. The bottle costs $55.00 and lasts for about 25 days. By the way you have to commit to the diet for at least 23 days. The longest you can do it is 40. Email Suzanne if you are interested at: hcg.from.suzanne@gmail.com

Life

I can't begin to tell you how much my life is changing. As we get older and wiser-we grow closer and closer to God. We look back on our lives and our experiences and realize so much more about ourselves and our purpose. It's so interesting to me to see how different roads and puzzle pieces make up the road map of our lives. Every turn takes us to a different location-a different reality. It's invigorating to me to be a mother and see myself as a child in my daughters eyes. I see myself in her and I'm reminded that I am not a child anymore-but a grown woman. I remember the days dreaming of what it would be like to be 25 years old! To be married...to have a home...to have a family of my own. And I'm now there. In it. Completely at my dream level. I notice that I feel so much deeper now and love so much stronger than I ever have. Maybe it's because I lost my mother 5 years ago and I know how short life can be. Losing her was so devastating to me. We had our teenage mother daughter fights (a lot!) and definitely were very different people-but still I always found comfort in knowing she was my mother and she loved me even though she sometimes had a hard time expressing it to me. I know she was proud of me and she wanted me to be happy (and married with children!!!). She got her wish and as soon as she did-she passed on. It was only 6 months after my daughter was born that the tragedy happened. So every year that my daughter is one year older-it is a reminder of how long my mother has been gone. Recently my father came for a visit. I had a wonderful time with him and he really enjoyed spending the time with my daughter-tickling her and making her laugh. I couldn't help but think those awful thoughts...knowing it's only a matter of time till I won't see him anymore. Every second counts so much to tell someone you love them or show them that you care. I held my dad's hand as he left my car to check into the airport and all I could wish for was that I would see him again. He's now 73 years old and not in the best of health. I try to make him take better care of himself-but on his journey-he does what he wants. It's so hard to let go and let God. But that is exactly what we all need to learn how to do. I look at this country and all the poor people struggling to keep their homes or find jobs. Then I see what happened in Oslo and have such a heavy heart for the victims and their families. What do we do to make this world a better more peaceful place until we get to heaven? I've asked myself that question a lot. I didn't realize that even with my age and knowledge that it would bring me to the same answer I had when I was a child. We have to live life to the fullest capacity-without being destructive to our bodies or souls. Treat yourself like you would treat God-with respect and love to the fullest. Give love and share love-whether it's a nice gesture, being a good friend, creating music or donating to a charity-whatever it is-do it with love. Anything from the heart is what is most important. Right now there are a lot of people suffering out there and all we can do is make a small difference every day in our own lives. Life. A small word...that can have so much power if good choices are made. I look at Amy Winehouse's death-and her life. I see a girl who had so much talent-so raw-so real. Whatever those demons were-whatever bad choices she made-her journey was made and her signature was left on our hearts and in our souls with her music and her voice. Her managers and the people around her couldn't stop her from making wrong choices. It's always our own choice. I pray for her family and for her fans mourning her loss. It has really been a sad week...I don't want to bring you all down with my blog. I just wanted to reflect on my feelings and share them with you because I felt the need to do so. The next song on my "Little Flower" collection-is called "Be There". It encompasses exactly what I've been saying since I was a kid. Listen to your surroundings. Take notice of the things that really matter in your life and make sure you are in the moment always. Never worry about the future or the past. Be in the moment. Be there. Love u all. Keep your spirits up and live your life the way god intended you to live it. Luv, Elisa

Summer update...

With a month into my new unveiling of my new website-I have made many new friends and fans. I appreciate you all stopping by and making comments and enjoying the music. I did a show at Sams Town Casino on Thursday, July 14th and my dad, daughter and hubby all got to go. I had so much fun on stage...you could tell by my pics! I am waiting for the video footage from the performance and will be posting it to my You Tube channel as soon as I get it edited. This way-you can all feel like you were there with me!

My daughter is swimming like a fish after only one month of swimming classes. She loves swimming so we are in my pool pretty much daily! Working on that tan! I've also been doing some real estate transactions-the singing realtor that I am-always trying to stay busy. Mom, Realtor, Singer, Songwriter...and bowler-even though I'm not very good! HA!

So exciting... I am getting ready for Richard Hallmarq's fashion show August 6th in Sacramento, CA. When I get there-I have a bunch of press/interviews lined up and will be performing live at the show. I'm so excited to meet Naima-the winner from America's Next Top Model-who will be walking in Richard's fabulous clothes! I can't wait to see what Richard is going to whip up for me to wear! Now that I'm down 25lbs-maintaining the loss but will be losing more soon- I will feel like a million bucks in his design-I'm sure! Will definitely take pics and hopefully some video of the big day!

Other than that-my house is artichoke green and beautiful! I'm enjoying my time at home with my daughter and husband and doggies-Mia and Ella. Had a great visit with my dad who came out from Philadelphia this past week and my brother came out with my little nephew for a visit too! Olivia loved having her cousin around-it was so cute how she kept holding his hand and followed him everywhere!

So I made a promise to write on my blog and fill you in every month. I also promised to release a new song every month. I'm getting next month's petal all ready to drop! The song is called "Be There" and it's one of my favorite songs that I've written. It's very reminiscent of Dolly Parton's song "A Coat Of Many Colors" which is a song that was brought to my attention by my favorite teacher/mentor Prince. He has great taste in music :o) It's a beautiful song and it's crafted very well-you should check it out if you have never heard it before. Anyways...I wrote "Be There" after hearing the Dolly song and after a day of rehearsals in Minnesota singing with my girls Shelby and Liv. We were singing and suddenly the birds started to answer us back! They were singing back to us-I swear! So the song started to develop in my head and eventually it got to the point where I wrote out a chart and sent it to one of my favorite guitar players, Tim Kobza, and he played the part. A song was born. People say that I have a tendency to write songs that sound country-nothing against country music-but I like to think that it sounds very earthy/folky/pop instead. So I hope you enjoy my new release from my album "Little Flower" dropping on my website August 1st, 2011.

People have mentioned my album Little Flower...well-in the next 11 months-you will have the album in full. Each song that I post-is the album. I thought I explained it right but I guess I confused some of you. I figured I would release all the songs on the Little Flower album one at a time on my website. That way at the end of 12 months-you would have the album in it's entirety. Song number one was "Peanuts & Toffee". Now song number two is "Be There". A new single will be released every month to finally make up the entire album. In the past I have spent a lot of money on creating hard copy cd's and being independent like I am-it's a lot easier financially on me to just release the singles digitally. I hope you all understand. Music-I wish it was free...but you have to pay the musicians, the studio time, the producer to get it all recorded and down on tape-well now it's digital! I can only do what I can do being the one who is responsible to make it all happen. I hope that I can bring the music and the live performances to you via the internet and hopefully live as well. Please spread the word and tell everyone about my site and my music. All I want to do is have people hear it and enjoy it like I do :o) Love you all and wish you all the best that life has to offer you.

Can't wait till the fall when I will see a lot of you again :o) I miss my NPG family and I'm glad that the shows in Europe are a huge success! When you have the best band in the world with the best artist in the world, I guess you can't go wrong ;o) Happy summer!

Welcome to my garden...

Just wanted to welcome you all to my new website. I'm so glad you stopped by and are going to be a part of my new blossoming! I'm so excited about it because it will be the start of an ongoing creation of new music...Every month or so, I will be writing and posting new music on my site. Songs of different styles and sounds. Each creation will be a new "bloom" of something fresh and new. I am also investigating a new way of bringing a "live" show directly to you via the internet. Stay tuned for that... In the meantime there is so much going on with me this summer. I decided to stay at home with my daughter Olivia and husband Michael to enjoy my family-since I was busy from January till June performing with Prince and the NPG on the "Welcome 2 America" tour. We did a lot of traveling from New York-New Jersey-North and South Carolina and 21 wonderful nights in Los Angeles at The Forum. The NPG and Prince are now touring all over Europe-giving love and giving purple joy to every single girl and boy :o) I miss my NPG family but will hopefully see them again sometime in the Fall. Once I know any kind of new "dates" I will be sure to let you all know. Just to get u all up to date (if you haven't been following my posts on facebook or twitter-make sure you check me out there) I have been on a very strict diet and I've lost 25 lbs so far! I have 15 more to go and I'm back at the gym doing my favorite Zumba class and keeping very active. I did the HCG diet and it really did help me a lot. It wasn't easy and I had to find my willpower again (it was hiding somewhere but I found it!). I'm proud to say that I am finally doing it!!! No excuses-no pain-no gain. I feel great and I am inspired to write, sing and create again. So there is no better time than now to reveal my new website. To let the little flower bloom into what it's supposed to be. I will definitely be blogging regularly and keeping you all up to date. So thank you everyone for stopping by-and for still believing in me after all these years. I will sing and forever be grateful for the gift that god has given me. Love 2 u all. - Elisa