Our family has always been melodic. Growing up with a mom who is a concert pianist, plays violin in an orchestra and is a piano teacher – meant our house was always filled with classical and mainstream musical refrains. In addition to learning piano – my siblings and I each played a wind instrument as well. I played the saxophone, my brother the trumpet and my sister the clarinet. I'm sure we could have branded ourselves as a modern Canadian Partridge Family but unfortunately we didn’t have good PR back then. I was raised to appreciate all genres of music. From a young age, Anne Murray, Raffi, Mini Pops, Kylie Minogue, Tiffany, The Bangles and Whitney Houston wore out my tiny pastel pink ghetto blaster that sat on my desk. My dad liked to listen to James Taylor, Carly Simon and the Beatles in the car, and mom liked  Laura Branigan when she washed the floors, Paul Anka or the Beach Boys when she felt like belting out a tune and of course all things classical. And without even...