Blind to the Sand-
SurReal_Edʒəpd
The sand is cutting my skin, but I will not stop and go back, it is too late. From birth, I had many speeches. I can give two fucks what they think I should be. If my mother can take care of three kids all alone why the fuck can I not be a musician/producer/audio engineer. This kid here was born different. Not all deserts had a star like the one I did, my mother, she is the star I chase and when she’s gone she will still be the star I'll look up to.
We all start somewhere in life, my life is at a playground where everything looks too big to me. People say, “that boy is going to be a doctor, enginerring, coach, etc”...we all get that. But why can I not pick what I want to be. I wasn’t even born yet and I was getting these names already. Stop telling others and let me be. I was not born as a mistake, but a gift from the heavens, that's what I believe. The beginning of music for me started as an infant or from the start when I was in my mother's belly when she was pregnant with me. The parties, television, radio, and wherever else sounds came from like the wind, the ocean, and the bell from church, all the energy transferred into me. In her womb a strong confident child came to life.
Raised by a single "Blackish"(she’s not black) Dominican mother who gave birth to a marvelous child at the age of 17.Times were hard, but she always played music so she can ease her pain. My father never really raised me from what I can remember, but I do love the guy and I know his favorite genre of music is "Bachata". My mother’s favorite type of music changes a lot, for example, when I was born she listened to Reggae and Bachata, but then it changed to some very old music from her father’s time which was weird to me, but this happened when she had the guts to leave my father. My parents had no musical skills or talent, but my mom did have something, she could dance that I can remember in her early 20s. She stopped dancing when she gave her soul to God and became sort of religious.
In elementary school, I took my first class in music which was voicing. I do not remember much, but I do know I was a very energetic child and that my teacher was always proud to see me when I came to class. I guess it’s because it’s one of those classes where I did not need to do any writing (I dislike writing); I'm an active person who likes to do physical things. Many would say that I had no musical talent during elementary school and middle school which they were right because I never really learned how to play any instruments up to the beginning of my college year. I always loved music, but had no talent so I played sports which I was really good at. Once I started being negative and denying myself of course I felt like giving up because of my environment. But if you ask any musicians they would say that it is not easy and they all have tough times creating music and bringing it out to the world. Some people have to see it to believe or see how many fans you have. Also, they will judge me because of the way I acted in school, just because I'm smart and athletic which should not mean that I cannot do music. There's no limit to a human being.
I can remember my first and second favorite artists “Ricky Martin” and then “Ricky Iglesia”. I believe I was four years old and I use to see them on t.v all the time. I was not a big fan of spanish music, but these guys I can always go back and listen to. I love music, I do not know why, but I just do. I guess it comes from my parents because mostly spanish music is romantic from what I know of. Around 7 or 8 years old I was bumping to Don Omar and 50 Cent, I was into this Reggaeton and hip-hop life. The first time I ever recorded anybody, it all happened in school when everybody was bumping to Don Omar and 50 Cent. Not trying to be stereo, but most of my friends are black so of course they was rapping like 50 Cent. So my friends were rapping to a beat on the school computer somewhere on YouTube. There was a program on the computer where you can record. So I was sort of a geek you can say, on the computer, since I could not rap and my friends did, I recorded them on the computer. It was so dope back then for me. Then when I turned 11 or 12 my favorite genre of music became R&B, artist R Kelly and Trey Songz. My native language is Spanish, but I’m more fluent in English. So love songs in English are so dope to me. R&B came to me even more when I met my best friend….
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