After playing the video game Rockband for several months Laura Spern, of Royal Oak, decided to "rock for real." In July 2008, at the age of 47, the mother of six pruchased her first drum kit.
She got down to business right away with weekly drum lessons and daily practice and six short months later she did what she never thought she could ever do, Spern joined a band.
The rest as they say is history.
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Today Spern will be a guest on a a talk show called Get the FUNK Out! The show airs every Monday at 9 a.m. PST on KUCI 88.9fm, streams on www.kuci.org, and can also be heard on i-tunes. The show features people who have been through ups and downs, changes and challenges, and twists and turns in this crazy roller coaster ride called life.
Source: getthefunkoutshow.kuci.org
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