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BIO

"Head On Strong" about the author of the book.

As an author known by her pen-name: Gay Paris Pratt, cousin of Author, James Michael Pratt (The Lost Valentine with Betty White) -- sired from the same great-great grandfather: Author, Parley Parker Pratt.  She releases a soundtrack album of original songs for her first book of which she composes, arranges, plays piano, guitar, flute, and sometimes all the instruments on digital music programs such as Protools and Reason. She does her own graphic arts designs with Adobe Suites Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator.  She was a corporate legal assistant for 15 years for multiple law firms in Los Angeles and San Diego, California.  She also participated in writing the technical proposals for the rocket scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, California.  ​​

Gay Paris has traveled across two continents playing her music, and just playing music to make people happy as a full-time musician in all genres of music.  She had her own band during her 3-year sojourn in England, where she was influenced to write many of her songs.  She has an album floating around in Asia and Europe she co-wrote with Dave Sinclair in the UK, now residing in Japan, who has a long standing following in both Europe and Asia.  She has graduated with a Liberal Arts degree at The Chabot College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, with Grammy producer, Michael Rosen (Carlos Santana); Fantasy Studios), where she also earned an Associate Science degree in Music Industry Technology (MIT), which brings her to her skills into the digital world from graduating from The Dick Grove Academy of Music - now Musician's Institute in Hollywood - in arranging & composition, vocal performance, and jazz studies.  She is a native of California, born in Los Angeles.  Her family tree extends from her 9th great grandmother, Anne Hutchinson, who helped settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1640s.   Her blood line is also half caste South Native American -- whose tribe also killed her historic grandmother, Anne Hutchinson.  Her genealogy is traced back to Adam & Eve.
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