(UPDATED – I put a better mix of “Stay With Me” and made it downloadable)
Hey kids, I’ve been making a lot of “quick” cover tracks for my live weekly show “Unreal“, and I thought I’d post some for your perusal. Some caveats:

1. I already know I don’t have a technically amazing voice. I’m trying to learn as I go, rack up experience and aim for a more character-based sound a-la Mae West, Nina Simone or Marilyn — but based on MY character, of course, not theirs.
2. These quickie cover songs are made over the course of about two days… one day to lay down instrumental tracks and two or three vocal takes, and one day to mix said instruments and vocals.

These are a cover of “Addicted to Love”/”Simply Irresistible” sung with Detox Icunt, and my cover of Shakespeare’s Sister’s “Stay With Me”.

Stay With Me (Calpernia Cover) QuickMixXx by calpernia

Robert Palmer Mix (Calpernia and Detox Cover) by calpernia

The boys of Hamburger Mary’s WeHo and I went out on the West Hollywood nightlife scene to distribute some flyers and spread the gospel of UNREAL. We had a BLAST! See Tammie Brown perform Dusty Springfield, Samantha Starr hostessing and Calpernia being CRAZY!

UNREAL was PACKED last night! The REAL Taylor Dayne sang along live as Detox and Eddie DeBarr performed her songs! She sounds absolutely AMAZING live… no warmup or anything, she just launched in and started singing along to her own song, sounding even better than the recording. It was (dare I say it?) UNREAL! Come see Detox & me again on Sunday night, 9pm at Hamburger Mary’s WeHo!

Oh, and here’s me doing “Whatever Callie Wants” LOL!