a Melodic Daydream

You know, it's funny how life works out when you finally end up on the right path and find your place on Earth. Writers, philosophers, religious leaders and great minds from the dawn of time have called it fate or destiny. LnZ Kayd and Chris Newton, who together compose the heart and soul of an inspired, passionate band from Colorado known as A Melodic Daydream, well, they prefer to call their journey to find each other and their music the quirkiest word in the family of ‘fate' related words: Kismet. It's a word that perfectly captures the current state of their lives together as a couple, as a family and as working musicians. Nobody could have predicted they'd end up together as a family or as a band. Their band name - A Melodic Daydream - is simply an extension of the kismet aspect of their lives together. "Our name just really encapsulates what we do. We're both dreamers, and we hear our dreams in a melodic nature, so it made sense," LnZ says. "Chris and I live within many melodic daydreams." On the surface, the story of both LnZ and Chris' life together and their music together should never have been written. They have a decade age difference, they come from very different backgrounds, and on a musical level, their tastes couldn't be further apart. LnZ started out in professional musical theater which then led to intensive opera training and performance at which point, after performing for seven solid years, she says she, "gave it all up...there came a point when performance became too much pressure for me. Singing had always been my outlet, but I had yet to discover how I could truly make the expression my own. I'd spent years mastering other people's music." While LnZ was evolving into an undiscovered musical creature, Chris was making a name for himself in Atlanta as a guitarist. After a string of rock bands that played the Southeast and Midwest U.S., Chris played on albums and performed with some big names in m