Going Solo

Finally I decided to go solo when there were songs that I really wanted to sing, but neither my sister nor my daughter wanted to sing them with me. Of course I was nervous at first, but with lots of encouragement from my friends, I became more comfortable singing in front of others. Even so, it took a lot to become comfortable singing publicly, because I have never liked being the center of attention.

Double Trouble

Eventually we realized that there were songs that only two of us wanted to sing for one reason or another. Whether my sister didn't like some of the songs that my daughter and I liked, or my daughter didn't know a song that my sister and I knew, there were occasionally reasons why we wouldn't sing certain songs that we would have liked to sing.

Although neither would sing without me, I eventually convinced my daughter to sing one song with me, then later convinced my sister to do the same. No matter which group split off from three's trouble and went on stage, we were known as "Double Trouble". That was the closest any of us had come to even considering going on stage alone.

Our New Group - "Three's Trouble"

After refusing to sing with any less than the group of 6 girls for several weeks, my sister, my daughter and I finally ventured out on our own. We began by singing some easy songs that we all knew and quickly became known by the stage name of "Three's Trouble" by our friends.

We would sing together when we would get the opportunity, but still would not sing with anything less than our group of three singers. There were many songs that we wouldn't sing because there were a lot of them that all three of us didn't know or that one of us didn't want to sing, but we still had lots of songs to sing, so we had a great time singing karaoke.

How I Was Introduced To Karaoke

I was first introduced to karaoke almost 6 years ago when a friend and I went into a local bar to talk to a friend of hers. There was a group of singers there who were really good. We stayed there for a while to listen to them for quite a while, and I was eventually convinced to go onstage along with a group of several other girls.

There were 6 of us altogether, and we sang a few songs that night as a group. It took a long time before I got the courage to get on stage with a smaller group. Eventually the group got smaller though. There is no way that I ever thought I would get up the courage to get on stage by myself.