A true city girl, Amanda was raised in Manhattan and can't understand why no one outside of New York likes the Yankees. After studying Latin in the woods of New Hampshire, Amanda drove out to San Francisco to give California a try. After a brief and dark period spent in consulting, Amanda has found her true calling as a merchandising mogul. When she's not debating the merits of Yves Klein blue and healthcare reform, Amanda can be found at her local farmers market or karaoke bar. She enjoys parallel parking, the Sunday Times, correct grammar and spelling as well as gin martinis with extra olives. Growing up, Amanda loved few things more than Michael Dukakis, pottery class and her jean skirt. Other interests now include opera, recipe-writing, The McLaughlin Group and armchair psychoanalysis. A former resident of Chinatown, Amanda recently moved to Pacific Heights due to its proximity to Whole Foods and surfeit of parking spots. go back to the top
Carey is originally from Buffalo, NY where she graduated with a degree in Music Business. Music has always been an important part of her life. She is amazed at music's healing power and ability to bring people together. Carey has been singing with the Loose Interpretations for the past three years. In addition to A Cappella, she also studies voice and piano. Carey loves performing and feels very fortunate to sing with such a fun group of women!
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Originally from Washington, D.C., Kelly started singing in elementary school and hasn't stopped since! Among other musical pursuits, she was in her high school's choir and madrigals group and became president and concert manager of Rhythm and Blue, a co-ed a cappella group, while she was at Duke University. After a couple years of working in San Francisco sans singing, Kelly began to feel uneasy. She thanks Craigslist (and Kristy!) for bringing her back to her roots through the as of then unnamed Loose Interpretations. Kelly is one of the original members (and the first president) of the group. She temporarily left the Loosies when she moved to the suburbs of Chicago to go to business school at Kellogg. There, she helped to lead the Kelloggarhythms (admittedly the worst name ever!), the school's female a cappella group, and was a cast member in Special K!, Kellogg's musical comedy revue.
Having returned to San Francisco after graduation, gotten married, and put for-profit management consulting behind her, she is thrilled to be back in the group after a three year hiatus. Kelly works for a nonprofit management consulting firm and enjoys hiking, wine tasting, international travel, and hanging out with her friends and husband in her free time.
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Kristy is the founder and sort-of musical director of The Loose Interpretations.
Tired of being a grown-up (how'd that happen?) and living without music in her post-collegiate life, Kristy posted an ad on Craigslist in the winter of 2004...and The Loose Interpretations was born. After a few stops and starts, the group has grown to its current fabulousness: a collection of talented, interesting, and really fun women who enjoy each other's company almost as much as the wine that inevitably shows up at rehearsals.
Kristy is originally from Connecticut, but prefers living among the more liberal folks in the SF Bay Area. She is an avid blogger, and writes a lot of embarrassing stuff at She Just Walks Around With It. She currently lives in Napa with her husband and baby girl.
Kristy's musical background includes several years of classical vocal training, almost a decade of piano lessons, and the haunting memory of having been in the high school marching band. In fact, she was the drum major in her senior year and even took special classes on conducting techniques, none of which she currently uses.go back to the top
Lisa is from New York City and moved to San Francisco three years ago. She graduated from the University of Vermont, and it was there that her love for a cappella began. She finally got up the nerve to audition for the UVM Cat's Meow her senior year of college. After that, there was no looking back. Lisa sang in Treble, an all female group in New York, and was thrilled to find the Loose Interpretations in San Francisco. When not making a cappella magic with the rest of the Loosies, she works for an online ad agency and sings in a 70s and 80s cover band called Total Eclipse (www.totaleclipseband.com).
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Roe is SO happy she found the Loosies! After a year long tour as Veruca in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", she was looking for a change. So she figured, "Why not give the west coast a try?" She moved to San Francisco in September 2007 from Washington DC where she graduated from Catholic University of America with her Bachelor of Music. After 7 years performing all over the counrty in over 30 shows, she's happy to be "settled" in this great city she now calls home. These days she can be found teaching play and social skills to children with Autism and LOVES her monday night musical outlet with 12 of the best girls in the city!
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Sandra was a Barbershop Baby. Born in Sweden, her parents were very active in the Barbershop community there, forming and directing choruses as well as singing in and coaching quartets. After moving to Los Angeles at age 5, her mother continued working with Sweet Adelines and her step-father was part of a well-known quartet that appeared on Cheers and Ferris Bueller among other things back in the day (he later formed a new quartet which won the International competition in 2004).
Though Sandra occasionally dabbled in singing, she was more focused on instrumental music, sports, etc during her school days. After graduating from UCLA, she moved to the Bay Area, and stumbled upon The Loose Interpretations, who are now a constant source of awesomeness in her life.
Sandra is the Director of Marketing for a startup called MixMatchMusic and writes for their blog, Evolving Music. Always the chameleon, her current alter-egos include bartender (though she strongly prefers the title "beer wench") and go-go dancer. In addition to singing, Sandra enjoys adding pins to her map of world travels, speaking different languages, dancing of any kind (though favorites include lindy-hop, tango, salsa and blues), wake/snowboarding, and entertaining people with her inherent clumsiness.
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Originally from San Luis Obispo, Sara grew up singing in junior high through college and participated in competitive vocal jazz choirs (sans sequins, gloves, or dance routines) in high school and college. After a long hiatus while working and attending graduate school, Sara joined the Loosies, and routinely and enthusiastically claims rehearsals to be "the best part of the week!" You can catch her singing full tilt in the car across the Bay Bridge where she works as a pediatric intensive care nurse. In her abundance of free time, Sara enjoys sewing, crafting, cooking, trying to be green, denying she watches crap reality television, and generally acting like an old lady (has anyone seen my Aspercreme?).
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Susan is a California native who enjoys making fun of San Francisco hippies while enjoying the leftyness of her chosen home here in San Francisco. A choir nerd all her life, she gave up a chance to be a cheerleader in high school for the allure of a madrigral style choir, where she got to dance with boys in pantaloons and tights and had a cracker-jack sailor costume custom made for her by a local theater costume shop. She went on to found the TriTones, UC San Diego's first university-affiliated a cappella group, and produced the 'Tones first album, Size 12. Susan turned in her flip-flops and beat-up Volvo of the UCSD years for a career in web-based & enterprise search software development and product management in the Bay Area. She found both The Loose Interpretations and her husband on Craigslist and looks forward to a brilliant future with both.
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Sydney developed a passion for music at an early age. As a little girl, she practiced her grandmother's vibrato from the back pew in church and waited for piano lessons from the plastic-covered couches in Mrs. Levy's living room. That is, of course, until the fateful afternoon when she was sick all over the plastic-covered piano bench.
Raised in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley, Sydney continued her musical pursuits as a flutist , marching in the junior high band. Determined to be accepted into the coveted Chamber Choir at Nevada Union High School, Sydney's strategy for the next several years was to position herself behind the choral director and sing along loudly to church hymns, in the hopes that he would hear and remember her years later. Turns out he must have, because Sydney participated in many different groups in high school, even traveling to Europe to perform.
At Cal Poly, Sydney minored in music, singing, composing and conducting. It was here that she discovered her athletic side and began competing in triathlon and long distance running. A resident of San Francisco since 2000, Sydney is a sports physical therapist and Pilates instructor. Missing music from her life since moving to SF, she was happy to have discovered The Loose Interpretations and is even happier to be a part of the group!
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