Who is regie hamm

It was really getting to be a treadmill - the downside of being successful is that you end up doing the same thing over and over again. I came to a place where I asked 'what is it I really am? So I cancelled all my records I was doing, went into the studio and recorded my own song, with my own money and got it signed to a pop record label.

I thought that was my destiny, where I break out and become a legitimate music person. That's what happened really, it's all a growing, learning experience.

At one point, it must have looked like it was all going to happen for Hamm. He had an undoubted talent in songwriting and production, his own immaculately state of the art recording studio on land behind his house and a giant multi-national record company backing him. I write about this extensively in the book, but God had other, better plans, and you always have to trust that is the case. I think my plan would have been nice maybe, but maybe not. It looked really good for a minute; I had about three months of euphoria!

In the middle of pursuing his dream of musical success, Hamm slowly came face to face with some realities in his family life. So we extensively explored the different types, domestic adoptions, state adoptions and we decided to go international. China had a very sleek system, it was the most attractive of all that we saw and we just had a heart for the Chinese kids, you just develop an emotional thing.

So we put in to adopt a Chinese girl and it was an 18 month wait. We finally got the call, and went off to collect her three days after my debut record was released. This was not great timing for the music career so might have contributed to Universal losing confidence in their artist. He remembers, "It was horrible timing for my career. My agents were actually supposedly working on me opening for the Goo Goo Dolls in Europe. My agent was visibly worried and said when you get back, get a nanny, you've got a lot of work to do.

I knew I needed to be out there promoting, but there was something more important going on. Opening for the Goo Goo Dolls would have been really nice, but spending the time I did with my daughter was much more important. So that was another lesson I needed to learn. Obviously Hamm didn't know about his daughter's health issues when he travelled to China to adopt her. In the book he describes in great detail how very early on they worried that there was something wrong but thought it would all be easily resolved once they got their adopted daughter home.

The reality didn't become fully apparent for a few months. He explains, "What she has doesn't manifest itself until 10 months and she was eight months when we got her. She had some symptoms but some of them could have been attributed to being confined to a crib for months or things like that. It took us years to get a diagnosis but it took us several months to realise that she had an actual disability.

It was so rare; none of the specialists we went to knew what it was. It was actually a random encounter with an old friend who knew someone who had a kid with the same thing, and they said, 'Have you ever heard of Angelman Syndrome? So we did genetics tests which took six months, but it was a five year struggle to find out.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Regie and his family have experienced the highest of highs …and the lowest of lows, and have overcome enormous obstacles on a journey that would test not only their physical resources and their faith, but their very sanity. Through that process, Regie found himself writing a weekly blog as well as screen plays and movie treatments.

His skills as a master story-telling songwriter have been re-imagined into first rate author and dynamic blogger. He is currently working on his third book. Don't Know Much About Love. Water Is Free. Love Is a Cross feat.

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