Inspirations -
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Welcome to my inspirations page, I will be adding more to this section soon, but for now, below you can find a basic outline of some of my inspirations, influences and love of arts and culture.

Image taken by  The Sentinel Stoke-on-Trent Photography.

Bands/Solo Artists:

Ghost, Early Nightwish and with Floor Jansen, Fleetwood Mac, Shakespears Sister, Tori Amos, Queen, Early Within Temptation, Emilie Autumn, Evanescence, HIM, Jimi Hendrix, Muse.

Singers/performers:

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Sharon Den Adel, Floor Jansen (Waken Open Air 2013), Tori Amos (Jazz Montreax Festival 1991 and 1992), Freddie Mercury, Tobias Forge, Ville Valo, Liv Kristine, Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Stevie Nicks, Marcella Detroit, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe, Jussi Björling, Sylvia Mcnaire, Kiri Te Kanawa, Lucia Popp.

Classical/ Musical Theatre Composers:

Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Henry Purcell, Giacamo Puccini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini,  Alan Menken, Andrew Lloyd Webber (Esp. The Phantom of the Opera).

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Books/Dramas/Films:

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A Way of Being Free - Ben Okri, The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron, The Little Fir Tree - Hans Christian Andersen, The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle, The Naked Voice: A Whollisitc Approach to Singing by W. Stephen Smith, Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë, The Moth - Catherine Cookson, Beauty and the Beast (1991).