..Bobbie L. Washington is a study in contradiction. Growing up in the city of East St. Louis, Illinois held little promise for many. It had a reputation of being one of the poorest and one of the toughest city in the nation. Bobbie started his musical career in the seventh grade when he and friends began taking music lessons. He started out as a trumpet player and graduated from that horn to a valve trombone, baritone horn and finally to tuba. In high school he was taught the techniques of the brass instrument from his teacher, Edgar Buchanan. Edgar Buchanan was a quiet unasuming man who should be noted in the history books as the man who taught MIles Davis how to play his instrument. Miles honored him in later years at a ceremony to his achievement. ------------------Bobbie later graduated from Lincoln High School and earned a music scholarship to Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He had two options to study, music and architecture. Bobbie became adept with architecture while in high school and was student teaching his classmate. In college he did both but placed his emphasis on architecture and designed his first house for a former U.S. ambassador to Ghana. -----------------In later years, an accident at a restaurant severly damaged his jaw, ending his ability to play the instrument. However, thanks to Jan Hammer, Miami Vice and the introduction to the world of the computerized Fairlight 5000 music system, Bobbie saw that this technology had potential. Music still beckoned him as did so many other things he's been abled to achieve. Over time, he created his own system and slowly reintroduced his brain back to the music world. Later, he began a path in writing for screen and television after watching a badly writtem tv movie, Hollywood Wives. He figured that if that passed for entertainment, he had a shot. He later discovered that the author of the book had nothing to do with the movie. ------------------Bobbie had a friend who was a casting director and got him in front of the screen on several feature, cable and made for TV films as he expressed interest in knowing what went on behind the scene where he wanted to be. Later on, he started a venture into comedy writing for a top morning drive time radio show in the Houston market, the Stevens & Pruett Show. That foray lead him to become executive producer and head comedy writer for the show. He eventually wrote, produced and directed two live pay-per-view event for the radio that was a sold out feature in both broadcastg and video sales. ----------------His musical influences are vast. Much of his inspiration into the ethereal world of music is derived from his spiritual connection with his maternal grandparents who were Mississippi Choctaw. --------------As an architectural designer, a writer, a former radio host and producer, a photographer and a few other items of note, he'd rather hide behind his work rather than be in the public eye and yet he continues to make things for the public to see and hear. However, for him, time is a finite commodity. We are immediatley subscribed to a limited amount of time and in this lifetime, free will is your birth right to do whatever you please. -------------Choose wisely. Seek whatever inalienable happiness that brings you joy and no harm to others. Share your gifts and your life experiences to the next generation to avoid the mistakes history has documented. Give yourself a moments pause, you are no greater or lesser than the next life. A helping hand and a spoken kind word is a better investment than you could possibly see. Evil is learned not inherited. All cultures have value and something to teach every souls' other cultures. Music is a common language. Share it and grow. The world is depending on you. --------------This music was created on a Roland XP-50 keyboard interfaced with Soundblaster Live Platinum with Creative Labs interface drive. The software used was Cakewalk Gold ver. 8 and a variety of soundfonts. Once composed and arranged, the compositions were processed through GoldWave audio tools. plain layout @ HOT FreeLayouts.com
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