Marque Black:  

Life Hi there! Life is good for me: After DCHS, I went to UAM as a vocal music major, worked at Serv-a-Burger (my family's restaurant...remember that old place??) and also worked at various churches leading the music on a part-time basis. I got married in '79 at 19 (I divorced 25 years later). I did a lot of performing at UAM and won a few singing competitions. I began pursuing a professional singing career in opera and was doing pretty well, but after my dad (my big financial backer for a singing career!) died, I laid all that aside and began teaching school in Stuttgart. I had the degree but no money!!! After 3 years of that, I left teaching and went into full-time church work (music) and have been doing that ever since. I have continued to do a lot of singing on the so-called "professional" level in Arkansas, but that's not saying much. My interest in singing professionally never really left me, so in 1998 I went back to school (at UCA in Conway) to finish up my Master's Degree in Vocal Performance. I did a lot of performing there and, once again, I loved it! So I began to pursue that old dream of performing once again, to the extent that I spent the month of October 2000 in Germany auditioning for opera agencies. I was offered a professional singing contract in Bonn, Germany but I turned it down. I'm going to wait a little longer to see if any other (better) offers turn up. Probably nothing will happen, but It's sure been exciting. I always wondered what would happen if I...Expand for more