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" Over the years I have been obsessed with all sorts of music&amp;amp;#8212;from the The Grateful Dead to Les Nubiens, an insanely cool African/French sister group. And despite the fact that I caught myself singing aloud to a Miley Cyrus song the other day, I like to think I have pretty good taste (I never got into New Kids on the Block back in elementary school, for example...). But today I want to talk about someone brand-new, a just-on-the-scene singer/songwriter I want you all to know about. Her name is...Alicia McGovern and she happens to be my cousin Erik&amp;#x27;s longtime girlfriend. Over the years she has dazzled our family with her beautiful, folksy songs at engagement parties and anniversary parties and even my other cousin&amp;#x27;s rehearsal dinner last year. And now, she has put out an album! How cool is that? She is such a talent&amp;amp;#8212;her voice reminds me of a folksy Alanis Morrissette. Check it out. Here&amp;#x27;s what she told me about putting together the album: &amp;quot;I had always felt that I would someday record an album and finally just decided that I needed to go for it and do it, even though I didn&amp;#x27;t have a fan base out there anxiously awaiting its release...It was about following my dreams. There was a time where I didn&amp;#x27;t even like to sing in front of people because I would get way too nervous. But I feel like my songs just write themselves sometimes and want to be songs... so here we are.&amp;quot; And, in honor of her aunt&amp;amp;#8212;Dorothy Banker-Rodriguez, who died of ovarian cancer four years ago and was &amp;quot;a free spirit who followed her heart&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212;Alicia is going to donate a portion of the proceeds from any CDs purchased through the blog today to The American Cancer Society. Thanks Alicia! So please, give her songs a listen. It&amp;#x27;s Friday, what better way to ring in the weekend?! Plus, she&amp;#x27;s awesome, she&amp;#x27;s family and she&amp;#x27;s been reading the blog since the beginning! You can listen here. And on her website. And purchase here. Happy weekend, everyone!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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