MICHELLE CRABTREE
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How much do you relate and model yourself
after these lyrics in your song Smile:
”If you smile through your fear and
sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll
see the sun come shining through?”
“Smile” for me means a lot. When I was
losing my hearing, I thought I would
forget every song I had ever heard so
I picked “Smile” to sing all day every
day, because if I was going to lose them,
I’d lose all but one. The meaning has
changed. Initially it meant that I’m not
seeing a smile on the horizon, but it
would be really beautiful if I could. Then
it transitioned to meaning that I’m not
smiling right now, but I know I will smile
someday. Today it means I’m smiling, and
I hope you smile with me.
What most inspires you to perform and
how is it different from when you sit down
to write a song?
People inspire me the most to perform. I
don’t get the benefit of hearing the final
product. I just want to convey my stories
to make people smile, so my drive is to
encourage other people. When I sit down
to write a song, I’m just telling stories that
are in my mind. It has nothing to do with
any expectation or goal, I just want to be
as honest as possible.
What is that one bit of advice that you
would give any artist who is struggling
with their “invisible disabilities,” trying to
make it in life as well as in their desired
field of creation?
To celebrate the small victories that I
think everybody wants to have, and
grand moments of reward. But the biggest
reward is living a life following your
passion and expressing yourself.
What is the biggest challenge in doing
what you do, and the part of creating
and performance that comes most easy
to you?
The biggest challenge I deal with is
overcoming my own fear of failure and
moving past those fears to do things that
I didn’t believe I could do. The part that
comes easiest is enjoying working as part
of a team on stage with the other musicians
and knowing that I have my stories
and they’re being shared.
A third-generation local and broker
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