Hi-Newbie here

[Mokona]

Hi everyone. I hope I'm posting in the right place. My name is Taryn, I'm 29 years old, and discovered FM in 1997 with The Dance album. I never got into Stevie's solo career until I heard "Everyday" on the radio, wondered who was singing it, and bought her TISL album. Since 2001, Stevie's CDs have never left my car CD player! I've come to adore her and her music.

This is my first post, but for the past few days I've been reading this forum and have never laughed so hard (the video with the member touching Stevie's legwarmers made me die) and gasped so hard (Stevie's underwear on ebay??) while reading a forum! I'm so glad to have found fellow Stevie and FM fans, because I have a ton of questions that I hope can be answered here.

Tomorrow my husband and I are going to Cleveland for Stevie's concert. The forecast is for isolated t-storms, so please keep your fingers crossed that the weather holds out! We have second row seats and I'm hoping I can get to shake her hand. We're also going to her DC concert, but our seats aren't as good, so this is probably my one chance to shake her hand.

Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself. One question for you all: does anyone know what Stevie's heritage is? I was wondering if maybe she had some American Indian in her background. I've just been curious about this for awhile.

Thanks for reading this and I hope to get to know you all!