#MyMusicStory

Submitted by: Francine Honey (Spotify,Website,Facebook,Instagram)

Glass Houses by Billy Joel

As a teen in the 80s, I had been studying classical piano and singing in the choir in church.  When I got Glass Houses, I was expecting another album of ballads and then wow....the roof came down. I wore out the groove on Glass Houses. I played this record over and over singing, dancing with my sister in our shared purple bedroom with the purple shag rug. I spent hours figuring out the piano parts of all of the fast songs. This was rockin’. I was also part of the only French family in an English and certainly didn't feel like I belonged anywhere. Hearing BIlly Joel sing a song  in English and French along with the other songs on the album helped me feel that I fit somewhere. He influenced me in ways that I only appreciated more as I got older.

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Hard-luck stories can have happy endings. Especially in Francine Honey's world. The bilingual Ontario singer-songwriter's third album To Be Continued… features tales of heartache and struggle, loss and crisis — many drawn from her own life. Along the way, the down-to-earth recording artist also shares two fundamental lessons: You are not alone, and hope is always around the corner. A songwriter since childhood, the divorced mother of two and former civil servant packs a lifetime of emotion into every song. Her music has taken her across Canada and the U.S., and on to the U.K., Switzerland and Italy.