Terri Nunn has a sweet addiction to Sydney’s botanical gardens or more particularly the chocolate making session she stumbled across while exploring the, she tells me, gorgeous Sydney and the harbour.
The name Berlin was chosen by Terri’s band member John Crawford because he was fascinated by arts and culture that continued to flourish in that constrictive city. Berlin, the band, too would flourish, although Terri tells me her children, two boys and her 11 year old daughter, are not overly impressed by her musical fame and none wish to follow her into a performing career. Terri’s daughter enjoys dancing but doesn’t see it as a potential career.
Terri wants to be to her children like her parents were to her. Terri’s parents supported her in whatever she wanted to do including expensive investment in her brief flirtation with skating and acting classes before she found her true love in music. Terri says it takes great parents to trust in their child’s choices and she recalls her bold move in giving up acting even after her agent told her she had been offered the role in Dallas that would later go to Charlene Tilton. Terri even tried out for the role of Princess Leia.
Not all was lost with the acting lessons as Terri believes they helped her understand how to express herself in music and telling a story in a performance. A skill she used to great effect in her hit song ‘You take my breath away’.
Teri believes that a song is magical in how it can communicate very individual and personal messages to all who listen to it. The magic in music is that the sharing of a song can make people feel they are not so alone in their experiences.
You can see the lovely Terri Nunn when she takes part in ‘Totally 80s’ at the Wrest Point Entertainment Centre Friday 22nd July at 8.30pm.
Paula Xiberras
