THE ENCAPSULATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF:
DAVID LIUNA TOY
I was born in 1942 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. By age sixteen, I was performing in East St. Louis nightclubs as a guitarist and pianist. During the next few years, I was graced with the privilege of appearing on stage with such notables as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, Bill Justice and Ike & Tina Turner. In 1966, I took up the Hammond B-3 Organ and, with the aid of an electronic percussion machine, entertained in hotels and nightclubs throughout the United States performing solo.
In 1978 and 1979, I lived on Grand Cayman Island located in the British West Indies. During the day, I worked as a scuba dive master/instructor and underwater guide. In the evenings, I performed my solo act, to which I added fire eating and dancing barefooted on broken glass, in the lounge of the Galleon Beach Hotel on Seven Mile Beach.
I moved to Orlando, Florida in 1980 where I was employed as the house comic at Club Juana, an elegant four hundred seat burlesque club, for several years. This was a job and not a lifestyle. I also played guitar and keyboards at the Winter Park Christian Church and, to the delight of my mother, filled in for Pastor Bill Underwood during his vacation one year. Many songs that I wrote were included in the church hymnal and the National Literary Foundation published my poem: "Mother Ocean." (Copy on Custom4 Page.) I am now a Florida State Licensed Real Estate Broker and Instructor.
In 1993, while bumming around by myself on a scuba-dive outing in Mindanao, located in the southern region of the Philippines, I met and married the love of my life, Miss Deselma "Bing" Cabingas. (Pronounced Ca-bing-gus, not Cabin-gas as, to my embarrassment, I said the first time.) Our union has been blessed with a son, Mark David Toy, now six years of age. (Made in the Philippines, born in Orlando.)
On a dare, I took and passed the entrance examination for Mensa several years ago. While I do not claim to be the brightest bulb on the porch, there are times when I shine brilliantly. I believe there is no finer example of this than my novel: "PALINDROME."
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