Although many childhood dreams never pan out and children many times grow up to be something other than the President, an astronaut or a lion tamer, every once in a while things work out and the things you love at a young age are the things you do or try to do for the rest of your life. Tamara Dearing is one those people.

Piano lessons at age seven and a secret love for composing and singing developed into rock groups in high school and "going solo" at 17. Tamara produced an e.p. entitled "Downpour" as a junior in high school. At 18 another self-produced project with 16 songs called "Baby Jaymar and the Undercurrent Assertion" came to be. By the time she was 19 and attending college as a theatre major she had written at least 100 songs and recorded her first album in compact disc format "Close Your Eyes and Heal" with 16 more songs and a much improved recorded sound.

This cd released in 2000 maintains the same raw passion as the first two but with a wider range of topic typical of a coming of age story including obsession, mortal wonderment, and awkward first love. This album was her first available to the general public via internet and select stores. Now she's doing it again after 5 years of bills, loans, higher education, jobs, friends and love. A new album due out in the winter of 2005/2006 will include a fuller sound incorporating some of the local talent and friends she has made along the way.

Although the new material holds close Tamara's oldest influences such as Melanie Safka and Cat Stevens, it also incorporates ideas of newer artists also ever evolving and never satisfied with one sound such as Andrew Bird, Michelle Shocked and Ani DiFranco. Like these artists Tamara's new album will showcase her continual growth and dynamic talent.

Currently residing in Louisville, Kentucky Tamara is now working on a new album and performing locally.