Kia Ora. I’m Radha Sahar, a New Zealand singer songwriter, (scroll down for a few more bio details).
Baby Boomer Girl is my fun-loving musical sub-persona – an old fart acting like a teenager, strutting far too many wrinkles across the stage. Her take on the 3 trite philosophical pillars of pop music is:
Sex – A minor presence in most of my songs, but playfully implied in a few.
Drugs – Life, music, art & plant foods.
Rock ‘n Roll – While I still can!
Q: What made this character think she could put a smile on people’s faces? And why, when she was an early feminist, does she call herself a girl?
BBG: “I explain ‘girl’ in the Baby Boomer Girl song lyric. Record companies are feeding baby boomers huge doses of nostalgia – (back catalogue is easy profit, no investment). My songs are about what’s happening now – and maybe tomorrow. Un-Fiscal fools like me invest in our dreams …”
Q: What kind of music do you write?
BBG: “Whatever genre the lyric dictates – rock, comic, slow rock, jazz … anything ‘youth-angst’ free 🙂 – from rebellious & energetic to laid back & reflective.
Q: So the single’s out … you’re planning some albums?
BBG: “The single introduced Baby Boomer Girl as a character, telling her story – which is also the life story of many baby boomer women. We’re including it on our Magic & Mischief album, Still Dancing, due out late spring/early summer, 2021.”
Q: Will it be on line?
BBG: “Yes – on all the major streaming & download sites. We’ll probably release it on CD too – with a lyric booklet – the format I, and many Boomers like best.”
Q: Are you currently performing?
BBG – “Occasionally, with my band, Magic & Mischief. But my fav activity is writing & recording. Watch this space, as they say …”
~ Radha Sahar is also a composer & audio producer for UCA Music, an indie NZ record company specializing in children’s music. (World Peace Music Award, two Tuis in the NZ Music Industry awards, and Honorable Mention in the ISC (International Songwriting Competition, Nashville). She also works in the visual arts as a painter. She has two works in the NZ Parliamentary collection.
I have noticed you don’t monetize your website …
I’m about the music not the dosh.
You are an inspiration!!
Just listening to your radio slot, and your choice of music. Bob Dylan mmmm I love the melodic line. I love your focus on youth music.
Thanks Dallas – our new Kids Sing Bob Dylan album is being received with much enthusiasm – it really does stand out – the kids are very talented… Take a listen at my kids music website – http://www.ucamusic.com – hey – that gives me an idea – I’ll write a post on it! Cheers!
I will be following you. You go girl! Way to go! I can relate.
@Jim Thats good stuff
Love the Blog.
Baby boomers started the notion of more liberal societies – many of us have been too busy providing love and stability for our families to carry it further.
Well the children are all grown up now, so its back to our special time then.
Yeay – keep up the blog, I love it.
Hi~
Just discovered your blog! You seem to be having a great time with it.
I am also a Baby Boomer, 54 in a couple of months!
I live in the US. I am an Esthetician and a Pilates Instructor. I also have a blog, it’s very new. It is about skin care and wrinkles, how to figure out what to do and not do in terms of looking your freshest best.
I am going to bookmark this blog! I’ll come back when I have a decent amount of time to devote to discovering your music, and you.
So, see you later… oh, I will look you up on Twitter!
Jeffrie Ann
Hi Rada
Reading your babyboomergirl blog is like busting out of a dark winter into an orange and yellow spring. Internet dating sounds like a universal adventure
Cherllisha Silva
Good to hear how you are doing. All the very best with this new venture. Dreams of Flying and Touch still rate as two of my most loved cds.
Love
Rob and Ayleen
Hello dear aunty,
so nice to hear you are happy in love and life, I am too could not be happier awaiting the next step which is inevitably marriage and children. Every cloud has a silver lining should your marriages not have failed you would have never met your internet hunk its funny how the universe has our lives planned out beyond our control.
Love to you xoxox M
Great to meet you Deana – I’m particularly touched by your feeling kinship in being ‘global neighbors’ – I agree – the internet has enabled that to explode!
I feel a connection to Nederland since, when I was a child, I became close friends with a Dutch girl who had just immigrated here and could not speak English. It wasn’t long before we closed the language barrier – her learning English and me, a little Hollands. I wasn’t fluent, could never read or write it, and I’ve pretty much lost it all now. But the affection and connection to the language remains.
As a child I used to dream/fantasize that I could speak every language in the world. That dream has never left me, deep down; I think it is what drives my inspiration to communicate through music – (it being a sort of universal language). We are one heart.
Babyboomergirl, thank you for visiting my blog.
Yes I do follow you back on twitter.
I see on your blog you even take into account the size of the letters here on the comment block.
My eyes are just one year older then yours. I just turned 61.
I like your blog and your song. This is a subject that a lot of people has to deal with. I have relatively young kids. I became a mother at 40 and 41, so my kids are 21 and 19 now.
I can so relate to losts of the things you wrote about yourself.
I will sure come back and keep reading what you have to say on your blog.
Hope to get to know you in the new future.
How cool is this, You in New Zealand and I’m in the Netherlands and it looks like you’re telling the story of somebody living just an hour drive from me.
All this because of Internet.
Tweet with you on twitter. I just registered on Facebook too, but I havn’t have my full registration and don’t know how things are woking there. In due time I’ll invite you to join me on Facebook too.
Deana