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Hello

Love the site. I am from Clinton, Iowa/ I am a disabled Vietnam Veteran. I am retired due to health reasons. But that leaves me lots of free time to get out and sing.
I mostly sing at nursing homes within a 150 mile radius of Clinton.
Below is the story of how my granddaughters started me singing I hope you will take time to read it.

It all started when my granddaughters Danica and her sister Erica stopped by for a visit, one day and heard me singing along with the song “I saw the light” that was playing on the TV. After the song was over Danica came to me and ask what the song meant, when they said I saw the light. I explained what I thought it meant. Then Erica ask what was meant when they said No Sorrow in sight. So I explained that part of the song. The girls Danica was 4 and Erica was 6, picked the song apart, wanting to know the meaning behind every line. They understood, at that young age there was deeper meaning to what was being said in the songs. I always knew that myself but their questions made me take a little more attention to the lyrics as well.

Then every time my three Granddaughters, (Layla is the older sister to Danica and Erica) came over they would ask me to sing for them. I soon ran out of tapes to play.
So 10 years ago, I bought a guitar and two books on how to play, "Guitars for Dummies" and "Country and Blues Guitar For The Musically Hopeless". I taught myself to play a few chords. And I started playing and singing, an hour a day, so we would not run out of songs to sing.
The best part of the story is that, I am thankful that the girls, brought the music into my life. For over 12 years I had to carry tanks of Oxygen with me, everywhere I went. I used the oxygen part time, but it always had to be with me. This was due to an allergic reaction I had, that left my lungs damaged.

As a result of practicing an hour a day singing , My lungs became stronger to the point that, for the past 10 years, I no longer need the tanks. I use to call my Granddaughters my "Baby Girls" now I call them, my “Special Angels”.
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I am always looking for new friends on FaceBook My FaceBooklink is
www.facebook.com/#!/davethemagicman

Also I am giving everyone who gives me a like, on my fan page , a free download of my recording “The Old Rugged Cross” Which will be on my new CD out around March 15th and from my current CD “Because He Lives” you will be able to download “Life Is Like A Like A Mountain Railroad”

My fan page is at www.facebook.com/davesgospelcountry

Hope you will take a look
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