<b>RE: Sex, Drugs &amp; Rock &amp; Roll - If you wanna be manager, just hit me up per PM,...</b><br/><br/>Lumi had been through many auditions before since she entered America nearly four years ago.  One by one, the auditions were the same.  Sure she was a great keyboardist and a very decent vocalist but her type of music was not what the record companies and band promoters were searching for.  like everyone else, she was a little nervous but still, she was very optimistic about her chances this time around.  Maybe the time was right... maybe this time, this is it!<br/><br/>The moment came as she walked out onto the stage.  It took her a couple of minutes to set up her two sets of keyboards and placing the microphone the way she wanted it.  Looking up, she gave out an enthusiastic smile.<br/><br/>Wearing a black blouse and a pair of black jeans, she could see the promoter heading up to her as she tried to express herself in her unfamiliar English language.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:teal">"Lumi Vonkala.  It is pleasure to meet you."</span>She saw the promoter holding up Lumi's sheet and winced his eye as he seemed intrigued by something.  "It is a pleasure to meet you too.  It says that you came all the way from Finland to try out.  Is that true?"  The promoter asked.<br/><br/>Lumi took a second to translate that question back and forth from her native Finnish before answering.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:teal">"Yes.  Finland is a place where... you have to be inside, so to speak."</span>She explained, forgetting to mention that she meant to say 'be on the inside'.  "I see.  Well, let's get you started.  What will you be playing for us?"<br/><br/>Lumi moved herself behind the keyboards as she smiled.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:teal">"I will be playing 'While Your Lips Are Still Red' by Nightwish."</span>She admitted, hoping that this was the right song to play that could showcase her skills.  "All right.  Let's see what you got."<br/><br/>Lumi took a couple of deep breaths as her mood started to get serious.  Playing a soft composition on the keyboards, she leaned in and started to sing in an almost low sounding voice that was soft and sweet.  Singing about the tragedy of lost love, she was only able to get through the first couple of lines before the promoter raised his hand.<br/><br/>"Stop.  Slow and beautiful is not... quite what we are looking for.  What do you have that can... blow my mind away?"  The promoter shouted as Lumi looked up and sighed.  She really didn't want to get to her full arsenal just yet but she figured that it was time to let it all loose.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:teal">"I'll go ahead and... blow your mind away, as you say... with another Nightwish song."</span>She admitted as she really started to get serious now.<br/><br/>With the feelings getting more and more atmospheric, she went into the first parts of "The Toolmaker" section of the song "The Greatest Show on Earth" with her fingers moving on the keyboard in rapid procession.  After a small pause, her left hand moved to the top keyboard as she slammed her fingers on it, enacting the guitar part of the song while using her right hand for the keyboard part.  All this time, her head was moving up and down in aggressive headbanging fashion.  The onslaught lasted for about thirty seconds as she belted her way through the male part of the vocals.  She left the female vocals out, knowing that she couldn't sing in the high soprano range as she just headbanged instead while playing the keyboards.<br/><br/>Through the choruses, she sang as if she was in background vocals until the middle break of the song.  During that middle break, her keyboards changed tone to a more uplifting part of whistles and piano like sounds until she lifted up her left hand high in the air and counted to four with it before the musical onslaught began yet again like a thunderous boom.  Her left hand crashed down onto the top keyboard as the headbanging continued.  She only stopped headbanging when she repeated the choruses and sang the ending part of the section of the song.  Once the section of the song ended, she created a loud boom that sounded like a huge explosion as she raised her arms up in the air... feeling very confident about herself.<br/><br/>The promoter looked up with his jaw wide open as if he was floored by a Mack truck.  "Holy.... shit!  I've never seen such raw power and emotion from a keyboard player... and damn decent vocals at that!  Get over there with the other two...  And be quick about it!"  He ordered as Lumi let out a fist bump high in the air while shouting out<span class="fixed-color" style="color:teal">"Kyllä!"</span>in her native Finnish, which translated to the word 'Yes!'.  It seemed that she finally did make it.  After four years of frustration, the wait looked to be over for her and she couldn't be more happier about that prospect than anything else in her life during this very special moment in time.<br/><br/>Racing over to the light skinned woman and the darker man, she could barely contain her happiness as she reached for a seat next to the woman.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:teal">"This must be where... cool cats hang out?"</span>She exclaimed as she reaching out with her hand to both of, what seemed to be, her future bandmates.<span class="fixed-color" style="color:teal">"I'm Lumi.  What are your names?"</span>She asked, trying to get to know them and hoping for the best in their long road ahead.<br/><br/>(Edit:  Fixed a small typo here *Blushes)