Azure Flame
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Azure Flame (born Catherine Provenza on July 26, 1976) is an American pop singer, songwriter and author. Azure Flame was born in Vero Beach, Florida of Italian heritage and raised in Texas. By 2004, her primary home was in Palm Beach.
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Azure Flame (born Catherine "Cathy" Provenza) is a pop recording artist from Dallas, composer and producer of dance, electronica and pop rock music, and has dabbled in fashion design. She has an EP, Calling Your Name (Metrotone, 07/05/05), in major retail stores. The first single off the album is the title track, followed by a techno club instrumental, Rain Gallery, then Take Me As I Am, which also includes a techno remix version on the album. Azure also has an autobiography Drama Queen of the Mirrored Walls (Primascope Press, 07/26/06), the first part of which is available online as a free ebook download, and can be found on her official artist website. She is also currently working on a follow-up album. Azure is co-owner of Guitars of the Stars, a music memorabilia dealership in Florida and plans to open a night club in Miami's South Beach.
Azure Flame (ASCAP) ended 2005 with her self-written and produced debut EP, Calling Your Name, available in such retail outlets as Target, Tower Records, Amazon.com, VirginMega, Walden Books and Borders, the dance remix version of her single, Take Me As I Am, being blasted in clubs along the east coast and her single, Calling Your Name, being heard on XM Satellite radio.
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- Calling Your Name (2005) US,
- Rain Gallery (2005) US
- Take Me As I Am (2005) US,
- Take Me As I Am (In Your Face Remix) (2005) US,
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- Autobiography: Drama Queen of the Mirrored Walls (Primascope Press 07/26/06) by Azure Flame
From timid, abused runaway to fearless junkie; to business owner, pop musician and author, Azure Flame rationalizes, "Once you've seen an elephant fly, what difference does it make to later see a buffalo fly? It may be more extravagant, but still common place. Expected. A guideline has been set for normalcy."
In Drama Queen of the Mirrored Walls, Azure Flame chronicles her young adulthood at the hands of an abusive, alcoholic husband, Jamie, scheming in-laws, dissociative family members, shady cops and drug-addicted friends. A rebellious teen with the world and her future at her fingertips, Azure Flame instead chose to learn life's hardest lessons by experience. But her hunger for thrills and excitement sent her head-long into a world of danger, desperation and devastation.
Azure describes in captivating detail her sensational journey, from maddening deception (being tricked by her in-laws into signing an appearance waiver which kept her from being informed of a court proceeding that gave the custody of her child away to her in-laws; being disowned and hated by her family based solely on lies told by her grandparents, even though their pathological tendencies had already jaded and dispersed the family for years), to horrendously shocking (being raped by a police officer who had rescued her from a crack house from which she was about to be sold).
Though Azure has earned some right to complain, she readily recognizes her hardships as direct consequences of her own impulsive decisions. Guided by only two goals -- to regain custody of her children and to become a rock star -- Azure's underlying positivity never fades completely. She always sees the light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how dim it becomes. Though her childhood faith and trust are clearly obliterated, her ambition, dedication, perseverance and positivity resonate from cover to cover. In fact, she even refers to the continuous stream of obstacles which she has overcome as "symbolic medals of Honor".
- The Superiors by Azure Flame
