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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome the Copture News. My
name is David, so we Roy and have the pleasure
to have today on iHeart with you many of the
platforms wonderful artists from London in the UK. We say
hello to all our wonderful friends over there, and we
are talking today about the MELTI talented singer songwriter named
(00:20):
Bonie Jane Bonnie spelled b o n I Jane Bonie Jail.
She has released a new track called Measure of My
Love and we're so glad to have her today. Bonie,
how are you today?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm great? Thank you. Yes, it's more like Bonnie Bonnie
really because it's short for Bonita Toni.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We're so glad. Tell us where are you're from and
how did you start music?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, I was from North London. I'm I'm in London
and at the South Coast. Now I'm back and forth.
But I've always been in some music. My mother used
to sing like opera songs when I was little, and
I've been in choirs and I was in a lovely
a cappella group known as the treble Makers in London
(01:11):
and we used to do corporate gigs and things. We
did four part harmonies, and I collected lots of vinyls
and things from the past and my mother's records and things.
But I started writing songs gosh back in two thousand
and four after my marriage collapsed. I thought we were happy,
(01:33):
but I wasn't aware things were wrong. We did have
cultural differences and he didn't think it appropriate for his
wife to go on stage and perform music, so that
was one of the difficult things. So anyway, I had
so many emotions bottled up over the years and released
from marriage inspired me to write from the heart. It
(01:54):
was quite a healing process. Having been faithful for twenty
nine years of marriage, I suddenly had a huge infatuation
with the sound enginet, which gave me a reason to
write a new song every week, just so that I
could visit him. I began. I mean I was forty
eight by then and he was twenty one, so you
(02:15):
can see it wasn't really a balanced relationship. So I
started to record many genres dance, pop, folk and country,
and then a good friend encouraged me to attend a
very well known open mic in central London at the
Spice of Life in soho. So I took my son's
(02:36):
old keyboard under my arm on the tube, and I
would sometimes take my guitar as well, and I really
loved that. I gained lots of confidence and they made
me the featured artists and I started to emulate other
singer songwriters and it was a lovely outlet, and I
really recommend music for anyone going through tumultuous emotions. And
(02:59):
I I must say, this heartfelt love song, the one
that's just been released, I wrote back in those days.
So it was a really heartfelt love song about unrequited love,
and it is very therapeutic just hearing it. So anyway,
(03:20):
I became a member of the Songwriting Academy and I
joined did some writing camps in Andalusia, up in the
mountains in Spain, and it was quite challenging because you're
at the mercy of collaborators that have been chosen by
the organizers, so whether the chemistry worked or not was
not always predictable. But I loved it, really and three
(03:45):
of the songs I've recorded this year were written at
the songwriting camp in Spain, and two have already been
successful in several regions in the US. So it's all
a sudden surprise and you know it's never too late.
That's a good message for people with all I'm too old.
You know, they've had all the other agisms that you
(04:05):
can't have. So I think ageism should be called out now.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And absolutely, and we're so glad that you are sharing
this beautiful message. So now fast forwarding to that new
track of Yours Measure of My Love, can you please
tell us what is the story of that song?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, as I say, I was infatuated, and it's so
the emotions I can only say, they're tumultuous when you
really think you love someone. And of course it would
probably be acceptable for a man of forty eight to
go out with the twenty one year old, but the
other way around, it wasn't really acceptable. In the end,
(04:45):
I did go out with the twenty four year old.
It was slightly better for about nine years, but I
just couldn't help, you know, it was just some instant
chemistry with him, and you know, already had a girlfriend.
So I had all these songs that I wrote, and
you know, it's it's it really was heartfelt and you
(05:09):
can feel the passion in the in the song. But yeah,
so later and if you've got a chance to pay
one of my collaborations. I find that's really fun because
you get a completely different style of a song when
you mix energies with other people. And it's quite a
(05:30):
quirky one about life experiences because she was slightly older,
lady with tattoos and you know, not my usual person
I would have made being friends with. But she's lovely,
you know, and it was it's a great song. So
that's called a quiet life. And hopefully you'll have time, yeah,
(05:53):
anything else. I guess, yeah that when that song's written,
when you put three people together and you've only got
three hours to write a song, but you'll find it's
got everything in it. It's a great song.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And indeed, then we're so glad to have you again.
What is before we start to say goodbye to each other?
What are your next project? What is next for you?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well? I've actually written a musical called Waikiki Dreams and
it's been considered for a theater group in the South
Coast called Cloud nine, and it includes fifteen of my
songs and it's almost like a biographical autobiographical story, but
it's a rom com romantic comedy and you know, it's quirky,
(06:43):
it's got some really funny moments, and some of it's fiction,
but overall, there were a lot of bits that really
reflected the way I used to behave you know, I
went through a phase of having parties and I lived
opposite the park for a while, and you know, it
was a really wonderful time of excitement because I met
(07:06):
my husband when I was nineteen and I'd never really
done clubbing or anything, so I kind of made up
for lost time. So there's a lot of songs in
that musical comedy, and I'd love it to go on
to the big stage because it's got the fabulous songs.
Everyone when they hear them, they say, wow, those songs
(07:27):
are brilliant. So yeah, I think in fact, measure of
your love is going to be in that it's in
the comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, we'll be there definitely to applaud you and to
support you. We're so glad to have you today, ladies
and gentleman. My name is David Siro. I had the
pleasure to have to day on iHeartRadio on the Corture
News our wonderful singer songwriter Bonie Bonie as short as
(07:58):
for Bonita Bonie's belt bo Ni Bonie Jane. She has
released a new track called Measure of My Love, which
we're gonna play today, plus perhaps another surprise. More music
is coming up on I Heart Radio. Stay tuned with us.
It's a beautiful day.
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome the Copture News. My
name is David, so we Roy and have the pleasure
to have today on iHeart with you many of the
platforms wonderful artists from London in the UK. We say
hello to all our wonderful friends over there, and we
are talking today about the MELTI talented singer songwriter named
(00:20):
Bonie Jane Bonnie spelled b o n I Jane Bonie Jail.
She has released a new track called Measure of My
Love and we're so glad to have her today. Bonie,
how are you today?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm great? Thank you. Yes, it's more like Bonnie Bonnie
really because it's short for Bonita Toni.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We're so glad. Tell us where are you're from and
how did you start music?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, I was from North London. I'm I'm in London
and at the South Coast. Now I'm back and forth.
But I've always been in some music. My mother used
to sing like opera songs when I was little, and
I've been in choirs and I was in a lovely
a cappella group known as the treble Makers in London
(01:11):
and we used to do corporate gigs and things. We
did four part harmonies, and I collected lots of vinyls
and things from the past and my mother's records and things.
But I started writing songs gosh back in two thousand
and four after my marriage collapsed. I thought we were happy,
(01:33):
but I wasn't aware things were wrong. We did have
cultural differences and he didn't think it appropriate for his
wife to go on stage and perform music, so that
was one of the difficult things. So anyway, I had
so many emotions bottled up over the years and released
from marriage inspired me to write from the heart. It
(01:54):
was quite a healing process. Having been faithful for twenty
nine years of marriage, I suddenly had a huge infatuation
with the sound enginet, which gave me a reason to
write a new song every week, just so that I
could visit him. I began. I mean I was forty
eight by then and he was twenty one, so you
(02:15):
can see it wasn't really a balanced relationship. So I
started to record many genres dance, pop, folk and country,
and then a good friend encouraged me to attend a
very well known open mic in central London at the
Spice of Life in soho. So I took my son's
(02:36):
old keyboard under my arm on the tube, and I
would sometimes take my guitar as well, and I really
loved that. I gained lots of confidence and they made
me the featured artists and I started to emulate other
singer songwriters and it was a lovely outlet, and I
really recommend music for anyone going through tumultuous emotions. And
(02:59):
I I must say, this heartfelt love song, the one
that's just been released, I wrote back in those days.
So it was a really heartfelt love song about unrequited love,
and it is very therapeutic just hearing it. So anyway,
(03:20):
I became a member of the Songwriting Academy and I
joined did some writing camps in Andalusia, up in the
mountains in Spain, and it was quite challenging because you're
at the mercy of collaborators that have been chosen by
the organizers, so whether the chemistry worked or not was
not always predictable. But I loved it, really and three
(03:45):
of the songs I've recorded this year were written at
the songwriting camp in Spain, and two have already been
successful in several regions in the US. So it's all
a sudden surprise and you know it's never too late.
That's a good message for people with all I'm too old.
You know, they've had all the other agisms that you
(04:05):
can't have. So I think ageism should be called out now.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And absolutely, and we're so glad that you are sharing
this beautiful message. So now fast forwarding to that new
track of Yours Measure of My Love, can you please
tell us what is the story of that song?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, as I say, I was infatuated, and it's so
the emotions I can only say, they're tumultuous when you
really think you love someone. And of course it would
probably be acceptable for a man of forty eight to
go out with the twenty one year old, but the
other way around, it wasn't really acceptable. In the end,
(04:45):
I did go out with the twenty four year old.
It was slightly better for about nine years, but I
just couldn't help, you know, it was just some instant
chemistry with him, and you know, already had a girlfriend.
So I had all these songs that I wrote, and
you know, it's it's it really was heartfelt and you
(05:09):
can feel the passion in the in the song. But yeah,
so later and if you've got a chance to pay
one of my collaborations. I find that's really fun because
you get a completely different style of a song when
you mix energies with other people. And it's quite a
(05:30):
quirky one about life experiences because she was slightly older,
lady with tattoos and you know, not my usual person
I would have made being friends with. But she's lovely,
you know, and it was it's a great song. So
that's called a quiet life. And hopefully you'll have time, yeah,
(05:53):
anything else. I guess, yeah that when that song's written,
when you put three people together and you've only got
three hours to write a song, but you'll find it's
got everything in it. It's a great song.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And indeed, then we're so glad to have you again.
What is before we start to say goodbye to each other?
What are your next project? What is next for you?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well? I've actually written a musical called Waikiki Dreams and
it's been considered for a theater group in the South
Coast called Cloud nine, and it includes fifteen of my
songs and it's almost like a biographical autobiographical story, but
it's a rom com romantic comedy and you know, it's quirky,
(06:43):
it's got some really funny moments, and some of it's fiction,
but overall, there were a lot of bits that really
reflected the way I used to behave you know, I
went through a phase of having parties and I lived
opposite the park for a while, and you know, it
was a really wonderful time of excitement because I met
(07:06):
my husband when I was nineteen and I'd never really
done clubbing or anything, so I kind of made up
for lost time. So there's a lot of songs in
that musical comedy, and I'd love it to go on
to the big stage because it's got the fabulous songs.
Everyone when they hear them, they say, wow, those songs
(07:27):
are brilliant. So yeah, I think in fact, measure of
your love is going to be in that it's in
the comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, we'll be there definitely to applaud you and to
support you. We're so glad to have you today, ladies
and gentleman. My name is David Siro. I had the
pleasure to have to day on iHeartRadio on the Corture
News our wonderful singer songwriter Bonie Bonie as short as
(07:58):
for Bonita Bonie's belt bo Ni Bonie Jane. She has
released a new track called Measure of My Love, which
we're gonna play today, plus perhaps another surprise. More music
is coming up on I Heart Radio. Stay tuned with us.
It's a beautiful day.
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