PHOTOGRAPH BY NEGUS OBSCURA
Music chose me
I can remember it as vivid as day, it was a Sunday in the fall of 1991. Mom had gone to church and for whatever reason I stayed home with Pop, Oh yeah I was sick. Lord knows that was the only way my folks were going to let me miss morning worship. I was knocked out on the top bunk in the small room, enjoying one of those deep sleeps, so much so that it wasn’t until mom got home and woke me, that I realized I was actually asleep. When she did I started singing a song that she never heard, a song that I had learned in my dream. She asked me to singing it again and then asked “Daniel where did you learn this song?” I began to tell her about my dream and how in it I was singing the song.
Mom loved the song so much that she got me up out of the bed, had me recite the lyrics while she jotted them down. Next she went into our living room set up the Karaoke machine and recorded me singing the song. Seeing her excitement and now the excitement of my family as I sang was a defining moment for me. At that young age I began to realize the power of music. I was amazed at how this song was able to bring the people I loved together and how watching its effects made me feel. I was proud and wanted to write more music and so I did. I began writing so much that the notebooks began to pile up and over time I began to hear a song in just about everything and since that day I have not stopped writing.
Now as we approach the drop of my first single I must admit My nerves are all over the place and my excitement through the roof. I really hope you guys can vibe to it and that it serves as the spark for my music career. This is just the beginning and I have many more stories to tell and I cant wait to share them.
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