With big brown eyes, and golden ringlets in her hair, Wanda was just five years old when a local radio station asked the little musician to be their guest on the air. They asked her to play a song on the piano for their listeners. She was going to walk since the station was only a block away from her home. Her mother asked, "Should I walk with you?" "No, I'll go by myself," the child exclaimed boldly. After arriving at the studio and sitting down at the piano, the first thing the little girl said into the microphone was, "Hello, Mother."

Wanda doesn't remember when she first started playing the piano for church services. Her father, who was a minister, led all of the congregational singing. He would never announce which song they were going to sing--he just began singing. Wanda would have to begin playing in whatever key he started in. Because of this, the child diligently practiced all the familiar gospel songs and choruses in every key so she would be ready for anything her father did. She trained herself to have "perfect pitch." To this day when she hears someone playing a song and she is asked what key they are playing in, she can name it.

A skilled musician at an early age, Wanda played for her first church wedding when she was only twelve years old. She studied music for three years at the Dormagen Conservatory of Music in Hammond, Indiana, and taught piano for many years. She has played for the well-known gospel singer/songwriter Stuart Hamblin, who penned such songs as "This Ole' House", "It Is No Secret", and "Until Then." In addition, she has played in churches and for youth rallies and conventions from coast to coast. ITGM Radio, a source of fine internet gospel music, has called her an "undiscovered talent," and features many of her songs on their Old Fashioned Hymns music.

In the last twenty years, Wanda developed arthritis in her hands, making it difficult to play her baby grand piano. Consequently she had quit during most of that time. Then about two years ago her husband, Jerry Fischer, bought her a full sized piano with an electronic keyboard with the "light touch" feature, and she has begun playing again. Since that time, she has recorded over 200 songs without reading a note and has made eleven CDs of a variety of styles of music from gospel to jazz. Buy Wanda's Music Here