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OPAL BLUE - PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY A voice rooted in experience, a voice with soul and feeling and a voice that belies the woman’s physical stature. Opal’s sound is rooted in the blues, pulled from the depths of life’s experience and served to the listener like a plate of chitlins in a Mississippi juke joint. Opal’s early years, growing up in a community of 14 people on Sonora Island, British Columbia, laid a strong foundation for her ideals in life, and provided the rich well of experience from which she would inevitably draw as inspiration in her song writing. No electricity, no phone and no TV were just a few of the every day amenities she grew up without. Laughing, Opal Blue says, “running water meant that you were running with the bucket!” In 2006, after having moved a few years before, to the more populated island of Quadra Island, British Columbia, Opal Blue went to Seattle to write and recorded her first album. Titled “Live At Kearney’s,” this recording is a compilation of aco...