You know, I like to simply think of myself as a woman.  Am I proud to be a black female?  Sure, as proud as anyone can be about something they had no control over.  I think self esteem and pride in origin, history and background are all very  important.  Yet, I find it very interesting that the very people who say that there is no such thing as hyphenated Americans seem very driven to label me as a "black " rocker or a "female rocker."  Can't I simply be an  individual who performs rock music—does the fact that I have boobs and brown skin automatically separate me from the boyz?

I mean, I am an indie artist who happens to love rock music.  I take great pride in being among the independent artists out there who do what they do, not to get famous, but because music is a part of them and that getting it out is better than holding it in.

I also love being an American, a mutt mixture of all that is holy and blessed about being from the  good ole US of A.  Every time someone tries to place a label on me, I feel as if I am an out cast—as I f I have no part of this heritage.  It’s almost like the slave mothers and fathers who died so I could just be a woman and not a colored woman alone, did so in vain.

I am black.   I am woman.  I am American.  And I am a rocker.

In the world of chick rockers, record labels and indie music,   they should always be one in the same.