Former Bassist for All Female Rockers, Vixen & Award-Winning Song Writer, Author & Motivational Speaker, Share Ross will be the Boca Raton Executive Club's November Speaker at Woodfield Country Club.
Boca Raton, Florida -- October 20, 2011 -- Share Ross is best known as the former bassist for platinum selling all female rockers, Vixen. Before that she was a session musician for people like Helen Reddy, The Coasters, The Drifters and several jazz big bands.
Raised in Minnesota by a wonderful father and a very musical mother whose six brothers and sisters all played multiple instruments as did Grandma and Grandpa which resulted in wild jam sessions every time that side came to visit. Eventually, Share chose bass after being well schooled on piano and messing around with guitar. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston as a bass player and composer; cut her teeth on the Minneapolis jazz scene; played every state in the continental US; worked as crew aboard a 52 foot yacht and sailed the Caribbean for six months surviving a hurricane at sea; had two back operations; kicked a hospital morphine habit and all this was by the age of 21.
At one of her session gigs in Los Angeles, the guitarist for Vixen, Jan Kuehnemund saw her playing and gave Share her phone number. A couple of months later, Share called her up hoping to connect with Vixen and meet other people in that scene. Funny thing was, she called on the very day that Vixen fired their bassist. A few weeks later, she was firmly esconced in the band and shortly thereafter, the band was signed to EMI Records.
Vixen toured heavily, playing an average of 320 gigs per year. Eddie Money, Bad Company, Deep Purple, Ozzy Osbourne, KISS and The Scorpions were the acts that brought Vixen out on tour with them.
Share was asked to be part of the ‘super group' Contraband and the band rehearsed and recorded a bunch of cover tracks. It was at this time that Vixen realized there was some bad blood between their manager and their record label. Vixen discovered they no longer had a record deal by reading about it in Billboard magazine when the then-President of EMI announced he would no longer work with any artists or bands managed by Allan Kovac.
After Vixen, Share went on to become an award winning songwriter with her husband, Bam. Their song, Sparkle Star won the Song of the Year in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She was also honored to win Best Female Guitarist two years in a row in Los Angeles.
Enter: Reinvention. Realizing that she by removing limiting beliefs about herself she could do anything, Share began a life long pursuit of launching careers and reinventing herself. Most notably, in the knitting craze that swept the nation in 2003, Share learned to knit. Within a year, she had secured a publishing deal with Stewart, Tabori and Chang, part of the Harry Abrams group for her knitting book, Punk Knits which features her designs and all of the models are her rock n roll friends in Hollywood.
In 2007, she studied options trading and to this day, trades iron condors, butterflies and other income spreads.
Currently, Share pursues a raw vegan lifestyle and is the host of three online video shows:
1. A music news show - Rock n Roll TV - www.rocknrolltv.net
2. A satire news show - Nearly The News - www.nearlythenews.com
3. A Netflix movie review show - Add 2 Q - http://add2q.mevio.com
After joining Toastmasters and winning numerous speech contests, she has realized her passion for sharing her message. She wants you to release your inner rockstar and become anything and everything you've ever dreamed of! http://www.speakershareross.com
Boca Raton Executive Club members receive maximum exposure and a chance to develop new business contacts within Woodfield, Boca Raton and the surrounding area. Meetings are held in the ballroom at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton and begin at 12:00 noon and run until 1:30 pm. A buffet luncheon will be served during the meeting for the cost of $20.00 for members and $35.00 for non-members. The cost of annual membership is $250.00 per person. If you are interested in learning more about the Executive Club or would like to become a member of this dynamic group, please contact our Executive Director, Michelle Clubb at MClubb@Koolik.com or via phone at 561-245-4609.