INSPIRING FREQUENCIES

I’ve been emerged in music since my arrival on this planet.

Before I was born and up until I was of elementary age, my father was a guitarist in a band called The Phantoms.

My mother, a member of a Tahitian dance group would perform alongside him until I came along.

When my father’s band would come over to our house to practice in the basement, I would try to run in as if I belonged, but I wasn’t allowed in. I would gradually sneak back down and sit at the bottom of the steps to listen.

These moments brewed a mystery and was the catalyst that sparked curiosity and later, inspiration.

Whenever I heard music playing, I could feel a burn emanating from my heart and still today, whenever I hear music, I am possessed with the urge to dance.

Rock, rhythm and blues were the music genres I was raised on. I used to love flipping through the record crates of albums filled with my parents favorite artists.

When I started high school, I took any creative course I could and I was exposed to other genres of music. I then fell in love with metal and punk music. At the same time, I would practice classical sheet music at home but was tiring of it and wanted to play stuff I heard on the radio.

I joined choir every year, as it was an easy credit. I loved being able to jump on the piano anytime at school when the piano was not in being used.

Then, one fateful night I got bit by the funk.

I happened to turn on the tv in time to witness the Grammy awards as Michael Jackson performed the famous moonwalk.

Again, I encountered that burn in my soul, feeling how powerful music was and seeing the effect that it had on people! After that, I found myself being drawn to a more soulful style of music.

One day I brought home some sheet music with the current songs being played on the radio. Excited, I started playing and realized the phrasing felt off. So then I started playing by ear because it was easier and much quicker to learn this way.

After graduation, I started going out dancing every night i could at the all age clubs and became more interested in behind the scenes, creation machines and what this other genre of music was all about.

At one of the downtown venues, I encountered a local, band called The Dan Reed Network.

Again, I experienced the power of music. But this time…it was in my face. The energy of the performance and audience surrounding us. Encompassing the air, filling every part of my being, merging the entire place like magic. I wanted more!

Of what, I wasn’t sure, but it was connected to music.