Dana Glover

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It's New Hanover High School attendee Dana Glover. The former model released her DreamWorks Records debut, Testimony, in October 2002.</div> <bR> <div> The singer-songwriter moved to Wilmington when she was 14 after living in Asheville for a short while. She stayed in the Port City for only a few years before moving to New York to start her modeling career, but her mother and brother stayed here longer, making Wilmington her home away from the Big Apple.</div> <bR> <div> Living in Wilmington was a difficult time for Ms. Glover, she said. Her parents divorced while living here, and she had some "tough times" in school.</div> <bR> <div> "Life surely shouldn't be about sadness at all, but it's common to know that it's the lows that shape you more than your highs," Ms. Glover said in a phone interview from Los Angeles.</div> <bR> <div> "Going back to Wilmington doesn't mean I drag up all of those thoughts, but those times made me much more of who I am than getting a picture in a magazine when I was modeling and having people in North Carolina see it. It's all that mattered, and I think one of the good things about being in Wilmington was (that) it was a special time for my mom and for my brothers and me. People were good to us there."</div> <bR> <div> If you've wondered what Ms. Glover has been up to over the years, Testimony pretty much tells all. The late-20-something singer's CD is like a living journal.</div> <bR> <div> "I wrote more in those songs than I've ever written in my diary," Ms. Glover said. "I'm sometimes more vague in my diary than I am in my songs."</div> <bR> <div> The title to her debut couldn't have been more appropriate.</div> <bR> <div> "It reflects my journey and it reflects the CD as a whole," Ms. Glover said. "The CD is full of my emotions and my experiences and the story of how it's been to get from wherever I was to wherever I am."</div> <bR> <div> Wherever Ms. Glover was three years ago when she wrote her first single, Thinking Over, was a darker place than where she is today.</div> <bR> <div> "I have moved past that song," Ms. Glover said. "I hope to never write a song like that again out of real experience. Maybe if I tell someone else's story it can be that confused, but I hope it's not my song ever again."</div> <bR> <div> She said that the time in her life when she wrote the brooding Thinking Over was "to date the scariest time in my life."</div> <bR> <div> "It was scary because it was so intense I didn't know if I was going to be doing the right thing so I didn't have peace of mind about either outcome and that scared me to death," Ms. Glover said. "I thought I'm just going to be unhappy the rest of my life, even though I knew that wasn't true. About the only outlet I had was to write out my fear. I don't know if people take it as fearful when they hear it, but when I wrote it, I was really fearful."</div> <bR> <div> Releasing Thinking Over was scary because it was like telling a secret, she said.</div> <bR> <div> "But not an old secret. It was still in my heart, so it was unveiling my fear in the midst of my real life situation and that was scary."</div> <bR> <div> Though exactly what she was afraid of isn't clear (and she won't say), Ms. Glover did admit it had something to do with a relationship.</div> <bR> <div> "You can interpret the song a lot of different ways, but when it comes to the bridge, it pretty much spills it all. So it's in there, if people are listening," Ms. Glover said.</div> <bR> <div> Ms. Glover is "thankful to not be as cluttered" as she was at that time in her life.</div> <bR> <div> "I am happy to say that I am happy," Ms. Glover said. "The music is exciting and to see progress is exciting and to see people connect with a song that has mattered to me is just overwhelming."</div> <bR> <div> To convey the emotions involved in Thinking Over, Ms. Glover introduced strings into her songs. She used arranger/conductor Paul Buckmaster, the same man who orchestrated Drops of Jupiter for Train, to capture the orchestra sound.</div> <bR> <div> "Strings as a whole make beautiful sounds, and I wanted the song to be emotional -- I wanted the CD to be emotional," Ms. Glover said. "I wanted people to feel maybe the sadness, but not hopelessness, of Thinking Over, as well as some of the other songs on there. And to me, nothing conveys that like the sound of an orchestra, nothing does."</div> <bR> <div> For more on Dana Glover, log on to www.danaglover.com.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>