Sacramento Strip Clubs: Lady Bianca’s unique approach to music led to new title
That’s what she was trying to do as a somewhat curious and restless student at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Music.
Exposed to church music all her life – her mother “bought me a tiny piano” when she was 8 – Bianca wasn’t hearing the same thing as her conservatory professors.
“I figured Bach and Beethoven was the first disco music,” she said. “I wanted to change the time signatures. If you change key signatures in some of Bach, it’s more jazzy or it’s more bluesy.
“With some others, like Chopin, I just wanted to see how it sounded in gospel and blues key signatures. They said, ‘You can’t do it here.’ “
So, she wound up “trying to sneak away from conservatory.” Just 18, she started sneaking into The Brass Rail, a topless bar in Sunnyvale.