The Insider: Call her a digital diva, in the 'Wry-Fi' mold

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POSTED ON: 05/11/06 14:04:30

POP SINGER TAKES ON TECH: By day, she is Jody Levinson, an industrious Web site designer and mother of two from Redmond. But at night, Levinson transforms herself into Eva Moon -- a self-described digital diva whose pop songs lampoon the technology industry, Starbucks and other businesses. Levinson, who describes the style of music as "Wry-Fi," planned to release her debut album recently with a performance at the Mars Bar in Seattle. With a husband working at Microsoft and nine years in the Web site design business, Levinson says the technology industry is "rich fodder." In "Cash from Nigeria," Levinson pokes fun at e-mail spam while in "Strategic Fit" she takes on marketing buzzwords. Levinson, who plays keyboard and is backed up by drums, sax, guitar and bass, has mainly performed at coffee shops and taverns. But her biggest gig occurred in January, when she performed at Microsoft for the company's Chinese New Year celebration. For that performance, she debuted the song "Underwater Stock Option Blues." The lyrics go like this: "We thought we had made it. We thought that we were rich. Little did we know there'd be a little hitch. When Gates can't testify there's really no excuse. He left us with the underwater stock option blues."

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