About me

I come from an artistic and musical background. My grandfather Sam Osborne was a musician. My father Wakeman Robert Osborne was a musician and inventor for the GE Corporation. My grandfather on my mother's side, Ripley Spain Reid had fathered 22 children. My grandmother, Vinnie Foster Reid, his last wife birthed 11 children. He was a mathematician, farmer, inventor and horse trainer.

When I first started painting my "Faces and Colors of Emotion" series, I was inspired by the name of an all girl band that used to play in the Chicagoland area. They also used the color yellow in their flyers.

Mary Godfrey-Wylson http://www.marygodfrey.com still uses the name. The idea of using "Faces and Colors of Emotion" as a theme is to show how we both hide ourselves emotionally. Then by camouflaging what we really feel inside, we do our best to put our best face forward.

My three dimensional characters are larger than life. Four of them are currently available as a set of post cards on recycled paper.

I decided to sing with a wedding-orchestra called "The Bradley Young Orchestra", when I was asked to change lyrics to a song that was supposedly too deep for "Klub Kids". My former record company wanted me to cater to "Klub Kids" basic need to get lost in thoughtless dancing while they're in a drug induced state. What a waste, of course now I create music and art without interference from some yuck that just got here.

I love what I am doing now! The person who suggested that I take singing seriously was Sid Maginnis, the guitarist of the "World's Most Dangerous Band" on the Dave Letterman's Show. At that time he was in a band called Borrowed Tyme. They played in and around Cincinnati while he and the band lived on a farm in Union Kentucky. I eventually came to Chicago to pursue my dreams. Eventually, I ended up singing with Ministry, CO-writing "I wanted to tell her" and "Foxhole trot". I have launched many an independent record company that are too numerous to name here!

If any of you have any of my music, make me a CD. Some songs I have recorded are, "When Love Calls", "R U Gonna B There?", "Inside Out", "It Doesn't Matter", "Gotta get U back", "Me and You", "Good Love".

"Wrap You In The Color of my Love" that I originally wrote with Dean Anderson, for Jeffery Osborne, was instead aired on the Bernie Mac Show.

"I Feel You", " Gotta Give a Little Loving', "Was That All You Wanted", and "Falling" were recorded with "Ten City".

"It's all right" was recorded with Nick Tremulis, separately from the Nick Tremulis album. These songs are the ones that I can think of right now!

I am currently writing with Dean Anderson and Mike Egan of "Cut-Digital". We will have something out soon.

Coming soon: "Ye Old Art-Spa Gallery Shoppe".

I am looking forward to hearing from you, thanks for sticking around!