Christine Phillips Hagar is primarily a songwriter, but loves to sing.
She never would sing at all until karaoke came along.
If someone were to hear her she would stop singing right away.
She sang as a teen but quit at age 10 or 11, and never sang in public again until 2004.
At that time though she tried to sing and would freeze up and could not.
She loves the story of Joan Baez.
Joan Baez had fear to the point of getting sick when she began singing in front of people.
In 2006 Christine got her second wind and came back after trying karaoke a few times, and now she sings in a lot of places that have karaoke today, as has a lot of fun doing it.
Her husband bought her a guitar somewhere around 2002 or so, and that is what got her into seriously trying to write songs.
She had only written and recited her poetry before this.
The guitar set her creative energies free to flow, and even though this is so,
Christine does not write songs everyday or every month, something has to have a profound effect on her thinking or emotions for her to write and then she cant help herself not to.