Scarlett Relic in a vintage circus ticket booth. Striped tent, carousel lights, sideshow posters.

The Floor Under the Song

The voice was claimed early. Three years old. Both parents already on the boards — music, song, stage. Country, pop, and rock before the lights went mean. Patsy Cline rooms. Linda Ronstadt and Olivia Newton-John in the blood. A tribute act in small halls. At seventeen, lead voice for the metal outfit Infrared. Backup work under Chris Shern and Kissing Kastles Productions. Fourteen and already a hired body for modern jazz and ballet. Acting drilled into the bones by the late Ruth Foreman in Miami.


The foreign tongues in the catalog are sung, not spoken. Japanese. Korean. The fluent ones are American English and pig Latin. That is how Kkeutnasseoyo 끝났어요 and Anboineun Na 안 보이는 나 sit beside Tired and a Pig Latin remix without apology.

This is not a comfort act. It is the tent after midnight.