Tami’s voice scales the heights of passion, a sound as fresh and clean as polished silver, on dozens of songs made famous by other female vocalists. But which never sounded better, including her version of Celine Dion’s award-winning theme song from the smash hit movie, "Titanic."

Her bachelor, Phil Barnett, drives home the point with gusto performances on lead guitar, harmonica and drums. He’s the happy-go-lucky mate you’d meet in a London pub, the guy in the flat-brimmed hat who loves to play music and fiddle with the digital tech stuff that provides percussion and instrumental backup for the group’s full-volume sound.

This is music to listen to. But if your musical soul resides in your ears, expect it to visit your dancing feet before the night is out. Tami & the Bachelor is a show band that lifts the spirit, draws out the youthful spunk you know you have.

"Tami & Phil are one of the most popular groups in Breezy’s summer entertainment lineup," says Dave Gravdahl, the resort’s general manager. "They have a foot-stomping sound and play a great musical show. That’s why we keep asking them back."

"We love to play music we believe in and the more people we can play it for the better," says Tami, who started singing years ago as a toddler. "My mother signed us all up for a talent contest as a singing family when I was two," she recalls. "My brother was four and my sister three. We took second place and I’ve never wanted to be anything but a singer since."

Tami and Barnett met each other in the late 1980s when she joined his four-person rock-n-roll band as lead female singer. She also played rhythm guitar, keyboards and flute, all of which are worked routinely into their current program.

They were known as "Tamara" and there are 25- to 40-year –old rock lovers who, 20 years from now, will open the trunks under their beds and find a Tamara poster. They’ll pick it up, thinking, "She was pretty darn good, ya’ know there now."

The group eventually signed a long-term recording contract with a major label, which will remain nameless because the deal went sour a year later in 1993. Tami & the Bachelor duo act was born in an effort to extract themselves from the contract, the couple says.

By then they had also decided to spend their lives together and now, in addition to music, they concentrate on caring for their metropolitan home and about half a dozen cats they’ve rescued from the streets or impoundment centers.

"We spend about a hundred days a year at home. Music and travel are what our lives are about," Barnett says.

Asked about the change from rock band to variety duo, Tami says that "I was skeptical of the idea, but Phil wanted to do it and I believe in him. So here we are and it’s going great." The highpoint so far? A stage appearance with Lou Rawls at a Western casino.

Barnett says he’s not a "techno junkie" but he’s had to master the digital equipment used to pre-record the backup parts: bass, percussion, horn and several sound effects are pressed into the digital system one part at a time by Barnett.

But the digital approach means he must learn multiple backup parts for every song, in addition to those he performs live: lead guitar, keyboard, harmonica, some percussion and all of the male voice.

During the performance, you’ll also see the fiddler in him – not the musical kind but rather the techno side as his fingers dance along the switches through every song. The group even uses fog and red-blue-green-yellow-white lights to set the proper mood.

The song list is extensive and features female vocals with gritty guitar riffs. From Smash Mouth to Gershwin, and Blondie to Leann Rimes, with a little Fleetwood Mac, Natalie Cole, Jimmy Buffet and Heart mixed in.

"We love all kinds of music," Tami says, "and that allows us to do what we love to do." Which is bring down the house.