Biography
Marion started singing (with words) at fifteen months old, and sang her first church solo at the age of two. After that, it was hard to get her to STOP singing! She began playing the piano at three years, and the guitar at thirteen. She gave her life to the Lord at an early age, and grew up in church all over the country, as her dad was in the Navy. With roots firmly planted in the South, she has spent most of her life in the West, with one year in Hawaii, six years on the East Coast in places as diverse as the Tidewater of Virginia and the west coast of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. All of that traveling in her early life gave her a love for the road, and introduced her to all kinds of music.
At home, she was exposed to all the greats (and not so greats) of Classical, Jazz, Blues, and Country music, and at school and on the road, everything else, from Rock to Folk to all kinds of ethnic and world music. This gave Marion an appreciation for many forms of music, and a desire to explore all forms of sound. This early training and exposure gives Marion's music the variety that keeps her from being locked into one genre. She can sing just about anything, although she prefers Christian and Country. However, she also loves old songs from the early Twentieth Century, can do ballads, and plays classical guitar along with accompanying herself to sing.
For more information and song clips, please visit our website:
http://www.marionfaithlaird.com
Instrumentation
Marion Faith Laird: Country, Classical, and electric guitars, keyboard (including bass, drum, & percussion sounds), fiddle, Celtic harp, Autoharp (rarely! just for emphasis!), harmonicas, Navajo flute, recorder, and almost anything else she can get her hands on... (And now--- tambourine!)
Barbara Laird: keyboards & piano
On "Lord You are the Way" and ""I Can Do All Things," Luis G. Martinez: drums (not available for gigs yet)
Discography
The albums are getting closer to completion! In the meantime, you can hear some of my songs at http://www.myspace.com/marionfaith and http://www.broadjam.com/marionfaithlaird . I hope to have the albums on iTunes once they're completed! Stay tuned! Also please visit me on Shoutlife, http://www.shoutlife.com/marionfaith .
Links
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