There is nothing I like to do more than sing and write songs. It's something I have to do or else I'm just not happy. Hopefully, I'll get to do it more and more. I guess I'll do it or die trying.
As a kid, there was always music in my house. My mother always had the radio dial turned to a Portuguese station or she'd listen to records and cassettes of her favourite singers. She was very drawn to emotional songs. It was my mother who exposed me to Fado - Portuguese Blues -which I love to this day. My dad also really loves music. He toyed around with a keyboard almost every night after work and when I tried playing recorder and clarinet in school it was my dad who practiced with me. In his younger days he played trumpet in a marching band back in Portugal. In grade eight band class I opted to change from clarinet to trumpet so that my dad could play trumpet at home. (He didn't know the reason for my sudden change in instruments.) He played that trumpet for a while but I could never get the hang of it. My brothers were an influence too - through them I was exposed to a lot of music I might not have been exposed to otherwise.
High school came, life changed and I stopped playing music. Later when I was 20 years old I started playing guitar and even wrote a few songs but then a year later life changed again and I stopped playing music. For the most part over the next few years, I didn't play guitar and wrote only one song. I did a lot of singing though - mostly in Sanskrit - but that's another story.
Now, further down the road, I am playing music and hope to never stop. It was pretty hard for me to start sharing music with others but it hasn't been too difficult to continue. Like I said before, music makes me happy and I'm just going to see what happens.
