A White Rock/South Surrey, B.C. real estate professional is showing his creative side with the release of both a book of free verse poetry and a CD of guitar instrumentals.
Ari Lahdekorpi, also a frequent REM columnist, has worked the duality of both business and arts for several decades now. The Re/Max Performance associate broker has a business past that includes owning several radio stations in Ontario, as well as his own real estate brokerage. Since relocating to the Lower Mainland about six years ago, he has worked as a managing broker and recently teamed up with Fraser Valley sales rep Laura June as an active agent.
On the creative side, Lahdekorpi has scored music for film and television, worked as a sideman for a number of notable artists and released several albums of his music during the last 30 years. Recently he decided to publish a collection of his poetry.
“The poetry I have been writing over the years has been one way of dealing with a number of changes that have occurred in my life,” he says. While he has had published works in the past and has written for a few international publications, this collection represents a new effort for his public creative side.
Both Lahdekorpi’s CD, Seasons of Sound and Frequency, and his poetry collection, A Collection of Free Verse, are available online via CDBaby.com and Creatspace.com or by visiting his website at ariandlaura.com
