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While in Winnipeg, Rosalie’s Music career once again started to flourish. She was a featured singer with one of the popular “Big Bands” in Winnipeg, and by 1999 was selected by the Pan Am Games Committee to perform the games theme song “Reach Out Go For Gold” to a live audience of around 16,000 people, and an estimated Television Audience worldwide of around 400 Million people. Following the PanAm games she became the most popular singer in town, being featured in many official events.
During this time of increasing recognition and growing success in the music industry, Rosalie was struggling to keep her family together, but despite those efforts, she and her children found themselves in a single parent home without any reliable means of support.
It was at this time, once again her musical journey seemed to come to an end, and in order to make ends meet, she focused on a career in Real Estate. It was extremely tough at first, raising three children on her own, and trying to jump start a real estate career. Despite the hardships Rosalie was able to flourish, and became one of the top selling real estate agents in Winnipeg year after year.
With three children and a career to manage, there was no room for music, and she said that her beautiful white Yamaha Baby Grand Piano would sit sometimes for months without anyone paying attention to it.
Despite these difficulties, music continually called to her and in 2001 she produced a
new studio album of her original music title “Soar”. This was her third studio album, but with limited resources for promotion, following the initial surge in the album’s sales, the fanfare diminished and it
was back to real estate and family.
With the struggles of a career, and as a single
parent, there was not much else in her life, until 2010, when she was approached by a Television producer who had an idea for a new Television show. The show would feature old time gospel music, a comfortable home like set, with Rosalie as the host. Rosalie went on to host the first season of the television show “Time to Sing” and later co- hosted the second season of the show.
The show is still in syndication across Canada and United States, and was one of the most successful TV shows of it’s kind for Canada”s Vision TV.
As her real estate career flourished and her children started to leave the nest, Rosalie found a little more time to start reconsidering her musical aspirations, and at the same time, met and married the love of her life Ken Drysdale.
Together, Rosalie and Ken embarked on an amazing tour of the World, and during that time, the spark of music that had always remained within her heart and soul, once again began to burn.
On her world travels she was introduced to many different cultures and musical styles. At this time she was inspired to write the song “People All Over The World” which was included in her studio album “Fantasy”.
In 2017 Rosalie and Ken embarked on the adventure of building a home, on the shores of the beautiful Lake Winnipeg. The couple custom designed the home, with an integral feature being a state of the art dedicated Music Studio, which the couple christened “Studio Bella Rosa”.
The studio is home to her new Yamaha Grand Piano, and her little white baby grand has a place of honour, in the great room of the house. Rosalie
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