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\"Tanya<\/a><\/p>\n

I got the most delightful link to this song & video from the always inspiring Jo Dee Foster of Cutting Up<\/a>.\u00a0 Thank you girlfriend…. so-so lovely!<\/p>\n

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A little bit about Tanya Davis<\/a>, “This spoken word poet\/performer masterly cajoles
\nlanguage into brief, simple songs embodying universal themes such as
\nlove, loneliness, loss, infatuation and art. She’s catalogued her deep
\npockets of syllables, synonyms, verbs, adjectives and nouns into a
\ndebut disc dubbed Make A List<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been writing since I was very little, it was the first thing I
\never wanted to do when I grew up,” says Davis, over morning coffee in
\nHalifax. “Growing up on P.E.I., there wasn’t a hell of a lot to do, as
\nI’m sure like it is growing up in many small towns.<\/p>\n

“I think it influenced me to write a lot. There wasn’t really another option.”<\/p>\n

Nova Scotia recently adopted the burgeoning wordsmith, as the local weekly The Coast<\/em>
\npegged her as “one of Halifax’s most mesmerizing performers.” In her
\nlate twenties, Davis seems to be spilling the ink from her pen anywhere
\nand everywhere. Since her humble beginnings softly sputtering words
\nfrom scraps of loose leaf at quiet cafes in Vancouver and
\nCharlottetown, she decided to hang her literary hat in Halifax.<\/p>\n

“I try and write every day,” says Davis. “I just moved into a new house and I can feel I’m not writing as much.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t know anybody at first, so I just wrote. I moved here
\nbecause I wanted to make music. I wrote every day. That was my work.”<\/p>\n

Davis draws inspiration from personal experience and the surrounding world.”<\/p>\n

–by Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack)<\/a><\/p>\n

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