Frankie Carvalho

I’m in the UK in outer London and started songwriting in 2020.  Prior to this I worked as a professional photographer for over 10 years and gained awards from Kodak & The Master Photographers Association.  I’ve also been a keen amateur writer for many years, with mainly short stories & poems. In 2020 things changed for me as Covid reared its ugly head.  I lost my beautiful friend, Vivienne to COVID and my wonderful brother, Glen was in ICU for 6 weeks also with COVID.  I couldn’t visit him, no-one could and it was touch and go many times.   I wasn’t coping mentally and I was in a very dark place.  I couldn’t bear the thought of losing my brother.  One afternoon I sat & wrote a poem for him, a poem which enabled me to pour out all my feelings & emotions.   Not long after this I saw an ad by James Hawkins, music producer.  It read, ‘do you have a story to tell, would you like to unlock your song?’ This really intrigued me and yes, I did have a story and I also had my poem.  I signed up for this and wow, my poem became the song, Dancing & Free. I then decided to release the song as a charity single to raise funds for the hospital that saved my brother’s life.   I can’t tell you how amazing this has been and I feel I’m on a brand new path in life.  I’ve since released 8 more songs so you can see that the songwriting bug has really got me! I’ve also managed to combine my photography with my songwriting as I always use one of my images as a cover for each song.   I continue to work with James Hawkins and only just released a new single in August, ‘Reason’ with the talented vocalist Anna Sonido.