The Golden Life Rocks
Hailing originally from Santa Barbara CA, now based in Houston Texas, Candace has a long line of history in music in her family; her mothers side from Detroit were active in the Motown music scene throughout the 19th century, her aunt dated Sir Mac Rice, her grandfather and uncle played bass and cello with the likes of Jazz musician Kenny Burrell.
Her grandmother Elayne ‘Melena’ Papamarco was a professional Burlesque dance performer in the 1950’s in Detroit’s thriving Greektown, other cousins, uncles and relatives have had musical composition or been in service to music in some form.
Her mom Trina was a host at KCSB-FM radio Santa Barbara, CA airing weekly episodes of her program ‘Music Of Many Lands’.
This evolved into many more opportunities for her mom to meet an extensive list of famous musicians throughout the decades, including;
The Coasters drummer Gary Chester
Steve Rice
Keith Jarrett
George Winston
Duke Ellington Mercer
Harold Minerve
A Flock of Seagulls
Terjertpdal Rypdal
Santana
Dave mason & Jim Capaldi Of Traffic
Ocean Blue
Joan Baez
John Lee Hooker
Joe Cocker
The Beach Boys Mike Love and Bruce Johnson
Bonnie Raitt,
B.B. King (whom she briefly romanced)
Ravi Shankar
Rod Argent
John Mayall
Rita Marley
All members of The Zombies & Argent
Ray Manzarek keyboardist and John Densmore drummer of The Doors
The Grateful Dead
Kenny Loggins
Tears for Fears
The Seeds
Members of Wings
Eric Burdon
The Moody Blues
Rita Coolidge
Wally Heider
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono
The apple not falling far from the tree, Candace grew up with rich exposure to many genres of music; Rock & Roll, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Pop, Reggae, Classical & Global.
She is a self professed Rock & Roll connoisseur and is devoted to sharing and teaching others the art of appreciation of the universal language: Music
She hosts ‘The Golden Life’ a Youtube channel and podcast with a constantly eveolving platform that focuses on touring bands, concert news, reviews, interviews with record label artists, and other accomplished music industry insiders including band management, crew and roadies.
She has a sharp sense of awareness on the now slowly dwindling but never will be forgotten golden era of original classic, garage, psychedelic, and experimental rock.
Her penchant for the 1960’s-1980’s American Rock Revolution and British Invasion era are of particular emphasis.
She loves listening to Sirius XM Radio’s Little Steven’s Underground Garage.
Candace remains steadfastly committed to preserving keen awareness to others about music highlighting some of the worlds most renowned artists.
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Interested in requesting an interview? Artist and music professionals welcome! This creates a harmonious reciprocation offering both sides of the microphone enhanced viewer and fan awareness to further promote your projects by increased artist exposure, upcoming tour awareness, and ultimately revenue on your musical endeavors spreading exposure out to the world even more via our audience base! Interviews are offered by video, phone, or written.
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Candace is an Accredited Media Member of the International Association of Press Photographers, Inc.
She is also a Certified Intuitive Life Coach, Aura Color Practioner, and Author.
