At the end of the month, singer, songwriter and bass player extraordinaire Cynthia Alexander is leaving the Philippines.
For good.
Cynthia is uprooting herself and her family and migrating to Seattle, Washington.
Her reason?
Career-wise, she has had very limited support.
Or, in her own words: “I am moving away because I refuse to live my life like a frog in a well!”
The best there is
Cynthia’s departure is going to be a big loss to local music. As a bassist, she can out-funk and out-slap a lot of male virtuosos. She was, in fact, honored in the 90s by Japan as one of the best there is.
Armed with Joni Mitchell-inspired open tunings, she has written pop melodies for her poems, and gave us beautiful songs that sound deceptively simple in her lilting voice. But when you try to decipher her complex guitar lines, you wonder if plays with more than 10 fingers.
In fact, Cynthia is a multi-instrumentalist. Hand her a paper bag and she’ll probably find a way to extract jewels of melodies from it.
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