Rock ‘n’ Roll Surfer

Oct 13 2006 / Los Angeles, CA

This past summer Daize went on tour to Japan and Europe and here’s what she had to say about it.

Daize released her first album Live Your Dreams in May and toured Japan and Europe this summer. On top of that, she has been filming music videos and writing dozens of songs. Her music mojo has been brewing for quite some time: “I think my first stab was back in grade school for the school talent show,” Daize said. “I dressed up in lace and 80's boots and led about 10 girls to the song Material Girl. I choreographed the whole dance and at the end of the song had them lift me up, just like in her video. My elementary school was in shock, you can imagine the parent's faces. The best part about it was my mom. She was just beaming with joy. I remember wanting to be Madonna so bad I could almost taste it. I'd practice her moves for hours in front of the mirror as a little girl. I think it's been downhill ever since, ha!!!”

Daize has been traveling the world with a surfboard under her arm for over a decade. The same vagabond spirit is taking her across the globe with a guitar and a microphone: “I used to be gone almost all year with surf trips and comps and now that has taken on a new form with touring. It's amazing to me that you really can achieve all you want in life if you just put the hard work and perseverance behind your dreams.”

Towards that end, Daize devotes much of her free time to music: “I would have to say I work on it just about every moment I can,” she said. “On any typical day I practice at least an hour a day on vocals, not including singing in the studio which can be six to seven hours a day at times. I play my guitar for about an hour, sometimes two, every day, six days a week. I have become incredibly disciplined, not to mention my manager, who also happens to be my guitar teacher and vocal instructor, won't even let me slide when I feel like being lazy. Kind of like the German Gestapo really, but I must admit, it's made me demonstrably better over the past couple of years.”

Her skills have been put to the test this year and she is still buzzing off her summer tour: “In Japan it's little people with big hearts and relentless schedules. In Germany it's bratwurst, brew, and BMWs. Holland is the cheese-literally! Spain is good vino, villas and bullfights. By the time we got through Belgium and Switzerland, I don't think I’d had a decent night's sleep the whole tour- and I like to sleep,” Daize said. “It went better than I'd ever expect. Singing to fans in foreign countries who rock out without a clue of what you’re singing, having the crowds wanting your autograph in the strangest places, bringing little girls on stage to sing a song with you and watching their dreams come true. It has been a fantastic ride so far!”

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