The Rocking Life: A beautiful virtuoso named Larissa - A New Yorker among New Yorkers

A beautiful virtuoso named Larissa: A New Yorker among New Yorkers

I knew Larissa from afar. A far, far, far, afar. She lived on the East Coast in New York and I lived on the West Coast in California. We lived as far away from each other as two artists could live from each other. I am a brilliant writer and she is a singer/songwriter/musician extraordinaire. I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and she poses with cigarettes because, well just because I guess that's what you do in New York when you are an amazing artist in a city of amazing artists trying to get something, anything, to set you apart from the rest of the people who would slit your very throat to get ahead. Not so in California.

It's been my experience that artists in California, while cool and all, could give a fuck about me. They are too busy sitting inside their own head, smoking weed, and making their own way in life. Not that there's anything wrong with that; actually, there is something terrible about living in a place in a state where accomplishment is measured in dollars, possessions (including men and women depending on your personal preference whatever that might be), and whatever superficial thing is the soup de jour that is popular in the trendy restaurants for the social elite that dot Los Angeles and Hollywood, if you will.

I have gotten to the point in my life that I have realized that I just don't fit into the pre-fab California mold. I belong anywhere but here. I have thought about going ex-pat and moving to an exotic location like Tahiti, the Phillipines, Japan (no, on second thought no there), or more urbane places like Canada, England, Scotland, or Ireland. What worries me about this decision is that I might still find myself a circular peg in a word of square holes. I'm pretty sure that is EXACTLY what I am going to find wherever I plan to move and eventually settle.

I'm thinking about landing in New York so to speak. I'll catch whatever flight will take me to there as inexpensively as possible, I'll play the disabled card to try to get me a place somewhere near where all the action is for writers like me, I'll write like a motherfucker to try and score as many paying gigs and hope for the best. I don't mind saying that I am a damn good writer and think that I have what it takes to make it in New York or in the world for that matter.

I know that it will not be easy to make in New York, that's what every New Yorker says. But I am one tough fucker and I have been through a hell of a lot of hard things in my life from having a gun pointed directly to my innocent head to surviving a mentally ill co-worker who pretty much told me that he was going to murder me to whatever shit I have survived thus far. I think that I have what it takes to survive life in New York as other lesser people have done before me. But there is the story, which I only know in part, of a particularly talented New Yorker.

I don't think that Larissa is from New York originally. Based on her lovely accent I suspect that she is Russian in origin which makes me love her and her music all the more. It's not enough for me that she is a brilliant singer/songwriter, and musician, when she describes the piece she is about to preform with that beautiful Russian accent, I am on the edge of my seat, ready with undivided attention to give her my heart, mind, and soul as I listen intently to her music.

I fall in love with Larissa when I listen to her sing and perform. This is a strange concept indeed but I do this with other female singers when I hear them sing or perform in a theater piece all the time. Perhaps I am alone in how I do this, how I fall in love with a performer when they exercise their craft or maybe the other men who do the same are too embarrassed to admit they do this very same thing too.

Whatever, Larissa, please know that I fall in love with you every time I hear you sing. But also please know that my love for ends when the song you are singing ends. I'm not a weirdo, okay, I am a weirdo, but this is something I do when I hear any beautiful or unattractive woman sing for some reason.

It's just that you are more beautiful both inside and out, for some reason I can just imagine that you are truly beautiful on the inside for some reason (maybe it's the artist inside you), than the other singers I admire and feel strongly attracted to you when you perform. I'm not a stalker or anything like that. Let's just say that I am officially the President of your soon to happen Fan Club. lol.

Larissa is a brilliant singer, songwriter, composer, and musician. She is the best of the best of musicians, or what I prefer to term her as "Virtuoso." And a virtuosos Larissa truly is. What is difficult for me to understand is that she actually went to Law School! How many attorneys do you know who are brilliant virtuosos who have the potential to become major rock stars like Larissa does?

So with that fact in mind, in a silly way, I would like to make a legal argument as to why Larissa Mirru should be signed to a multi-record contract by SOME record or entertainment company.

You're Honor, if it pleases the court, I would like to enter my closing arguments in the case of Ms. Larissa Mirru vs. The Entertainment Industry.

Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, I'm going to make this short and sweet. You have heard compelling evidence in the form of videos demonstrating Ms. Mirru's prowess as a virtuoso bar none. The counsel for The Entertainment Industry has made a fair case in their argument that they currently have a full roster of equally talented "Virtuosos" what they prefer to call "Artists" and do not either need or require the services of Ms. Mirru.

However, I put it to you that it would be a GRAVE injustice for The Entertainment Industry to forgo signing Ms. Mirru to a multi-album contract and missing out on the next major artist to put out an album since the likes of he immortal Michael Jackson, may he rest in peace.

So, with all due respect, I urge you to use your influence to convict, if I may use a legal term here, the Entertainment Industry to sign Ms. Mirru to a multi-album contract with the full knowledge that they will make a shit-town, pardon my French, of money from her. Your Honor and ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case. Lol.

Back to Larissa's music. When I listen to Larissa's music I so want o categorize it into a box that fits what I perceive to be an appropriate categorization of which I might see on Billboard Magazine. The trouble is, Larissa's music is so beautifully unique that it refuses such categorization. If I were to pinpoint what I THINK her music sounds vaguely similar to it would be the music and voice of the talented Tori Amos.

Like Tori, Larissa is remarkably beautiful and like Tori, Larissa's music is both wonderful and thought provoking. There is some measure of similarity between Tori's and Larissa's voices, however, Tori's voice is more sweet and warm and Larissa's voice is more direct, emotional and passionate (in the best ways possible), and cuts through like a Star Wars laser rescuing her listeners from all manner of peril.

And rescue her listeners she does. Her song, I'm not like that, in particular makes listeners like me think and consider the fact that people like me don't fit the mold of the world that doesn't understand artists like us: We're not like that to modify the chorus of her beautiful song.

Another one of her songs, Genesis, is a real testament to her musical prowess. She uses her mouth to beat out rhythms while interjecting her poignant words in a operatic fashion. As a listener, I race to keep up with musical marathon that she is pushing me through. Not in a bad way, like a trainer, she is daring me in a nice fashion to keep up with the bonus of hearing the most beautiful words that I have ever known in a song of any type. Genesis, soon you will see the song repeats. All I can think that soon I will see too with Larissa's help and musical guidance.

I have loved music, specifically rock music, since I was 12 years old. Primarily, I listened to the classic rock station based in Los Angeles known as KLOS. There is an alternative station that I enjoy listening to on occasion called KROQ. In my opinion, neither KLOS nor KROQ would play ANY of Larissa's fine and beautiful music. I found out that I was totally wrong about this when I heard Larissa's techno song called "Tranquilizer."

This amazing new wave style dance song is truly innovative and quite a change from the other, more middle of the road rock music, that I have heard Larissa sing. Tranquilizer is unique in that it would have fit in perfectly in the dance clubs of the 1980's as it would today. I am convinced that people in their 50's and 60's would enjoy Tranquilizer just as much as people in their teens and 20's and ages on up. I had NO idea that Larissa was such a versatile player until I heard the dance song, Tranquilizer. It is a truly amazing song for sure as is all of Larissa's song.

Larissa recently told me that she intends on creating a YouTube channel which will have all of her songs in video format for her fans to see. I look forward to that time as I look forward to seeing her next video on Facebook. Keep an eye out for Larissa Mirru. I predict that she is going to be the next major recording artist and performer.

Signing out,

Legend G

Fly low and avoid the radar friends....