1.   As a session singer, she collaborated with everyone from Natalie Merchant to Malcolm McLaren to hip-hop icon Guru.

2.   Sharon, the session singer and songwriter, is the resident extrovert.

3.   The backup harmonies, supplied by session singers on four songs and by Wilson on the rest, are ethereal and pristine, the sound of Beach Boys summers.

4.   The session singer was a star.

5.   For much of the time he earned a living as a recording session singer and pianist.

6.   Instead, he became a session singer for a Manila-based band with close ties to South Border.