Born in Philadelphia. My mother Laura taught classical and jazz piano and worked as a secretary for a scientist who developed the world’s first polio vaccine. I wanted to play like her, but was better at picking out tunes myself rather than working out rhythms and notes from sheet music. So I wired my ears to the keyboard directly. My first lessons had been prenatal. Mom told me I had perfect pitch but I didn’t know what that meant. I soon had a set of tv themes and commercials to show off with secretly convinced I wasn’t a real musican.
Mom got offered a job in Edmonton to work for the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta. So in the winter in 1961 we moved to Canada. That winter set records of minus 50 and we got off the plane in a blizzard without coats. The next day we bought parkas at Hudson’s Bay that looked like their famous wool blankets. In 1967 we became Canadian citizens and my dad changed his middle name to Edmonton.
I now live in Victoria B.C. where I continue to record and perform my songs.
Midnight Garden Music 
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