Best show in MKE in a long time! 💪🏾💯

Hope you remember  me, it's Diedra. My husbsnd and I were broken down on the road in Liverpool and you stopped to check on us! You shared your testimony of your faith walk with God! I finally found your music on the site you gave me 🥰  AWESOME!!

It's Diedra again...Sam and I    are flying  back to  Maryland tomorrow. We were at a family reunion in California. I shared my story about meeting you and having the blessing of meeting you. I am praying for you. Galatians 6:9 💞💕🙌🏽

Asikprod - Feel The Faithst

My best arrangement for this. I suppose I had to be in the right state of mind... Written early 1990s.

In the early moments, just a stir of wind clues you in, a distant murmur of impending storms. And then later, in the midst of tempests unimagined you learn what you are made of. Storm after raging storm...Yet somehow you recognize your state of mind was the key, and what you tapped your heart into.

Your state of mind is honed by life's storms. How imperative it is to know the Way through the torrents to reach that sanctuary providing Truth and Life.

State of Mind

Freestyle #5 - As K Da Don doesn't slow down from showing the world he's still hungry and will make an impact on the hip hop culture.

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Everybody stay safe (DEMO) 🌎 STAY TUNED ⚡️

Everybody stay safe (DEMO)

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Immortality prod. floo

A Blues Podcast of the Rattled Beats Show on June 8, 2021 hosted by Lucille. Featuring the hottest blues around the world in a one hour show.

Executive Producer: SwiftEyes Innovation Inc.

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Leave it alone

The title track to the forth-coming CD. "Back To The Start" is a song I'd written back in 1988, one where the lyrics have only become more meaningful throughout the years due to continuing social issues and my own personal struggles.  "Back To The Start" has many meanings for me. 

On 11/11/88, my best friend, Rodney Carter, passed away. Does it matter that i mention he was black? Skin colour never mattered to us, race never entered our conversations. We were friends. Why does the rest of the world not get this? Why is irrational fear in adults still an issue after all this time? Why is friendship so rarely put out there on the news, in our conversations?

i can't help what my best childhood friend would have said if he were still alive 4 years later knowing of my attack by 4 men just days after the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing LA riots in 1992.  And i wonder what he would have thought of my lyrics and feelings within "Back To The Start". It was written with all races, all peoples, and myself in mind, and i've been yearning ever since to release this to the world...

Love? Music? They have no colour unless you push to make them so. But then again, such a narrow perspective, suffocating and unrealistic never pushes our very real "human reality" and really has little to do with love at all. 

And music, well...If it's promoting love, romantic and otherwise, i'm firmly for it!

Lyrics:

V1: In a world where enough is said, seems like innocence is gone or dead.
      Here in my heart, (Know that I must find a way) Gotta find a way to make it right...
      Back to the start. Wanna be there once again.

V2: Want to change, but I don't know how, the world in which I'm living now.
      Here is my hand. (Wishing you would understand) Gotta find a way to understand.
      Back to the start. Wanna find a better land.

Chorus: Want to change the world? Gotta find a way there in your heart to really care. I wanna know how to go right back to the start...

V3: Here is my life. (If I'd only find a way)Gotta find a way to make it right.
      Back to the start, wanna live it once again...

Chorus: Wanna change the world? Got to find a way to show your heart, you really care? I wanna know how we can go right back to the...

Instrumental Break

V4: Here is my love (If you'd only take my hand) Won't you even try to understand? 
      Back to the start, Just to heal this bitter land.

Chorus: Wanna change the world? Gotta find a way to find our way to make it there! How do we go, i wanna know, right back to the start?   

No vocals or final mix yet!

Back To The Start

An emotional herbalist in search of long-sought musical fruition...

Originally from Reading, PA USA. My mother played accordion and organ in clubs, bars and restaurants for years around town, taught for the two largest music stores, Zeswitz and Chiarelli's, and taught at home on her Hammond X-77 in our living room. At 7 years of age, after she had gotten up from playing Jack Chiarelli's modest hit, "In The Mission Of St. Augustine" to answer the phone, i went up on the seat and just started playing the song, and i'll never forget her saying, "You won't believe what this kid is doing!". Natural ear here, and yet despite my mother teaching music, i never fully learned to read. 

A year after my mother had died in 1978, i began playing piano professionally around Reading. My first regular gig was at The Reading Motor Inn (The Inn At Reading), and my second gig was playing Valentine's Day at a famous Reading landmark, The Crystal Restaurant, which had sadly burnt to the ground 12 days after my performance, on February 26th, 1980. Incidentally, 12 years later, i took part in a multi-cultural mural project for Mission SUCCESS, painting one of the boards that protected the ruins at the site where The Crystal had existed for decades. 

Also, just days after our mural presentation with the mayor and many representatives from the different cultures that existed in town, i was attacked 5 days after the Rodney King riots on the very block i both lived and worked on, being i was house pianist at what was once The 124 Club/MaryLou's Risorante, on North 4th Street, a block from the Penn Square where the murals were painted. i was in the paper 3 Sundays in-a-row, with the second time being an interview with Bill Bradley, and the second time having a photo shoot at the spot of the attack due to being involved with the 4th Street Consortium's beautification efforts and planting flowers at the spot where it happened. These 4 men were black, targeted me as getting revenge for Rodney King never knowing that my best childhood friend was not only black, but was also named Rodney! Rodney Carter has been missing from my life since 11/11/88, and all i have to say is that real love, real friendship, has no colour! The rest of the world needs to figure this out! Apparently, neither does hate.

Moving along, at my 4th regular gig, at the infamous, "Glass Door", i was playing there on Fridays, and i met my future "Pop" who also was playing there Saturdays. Sheer genius! I'd never heard a horrid piano ever sound as good as that. On my 21st birthday,  i got to see even more of that genius on the pool table and on cocktail napkins at a club we never expected  to be playing at for 3 years. Tommy Fessler took me under his wing and became the father i'd never had, in action, word and deed. We played nearly every place in and around Reading that had a piano. Sometimes my Pop played while i sang, or we took turns playing. Tommy's piano studio was at a major intersection on Penn Avenue, in Wyomissing. (Close to where Taylor Swift grew up, btw)

My Pop showed me his scrapbook once. It was filled with entertainment notices in Cape May, NJ. One large page showed his name in a large star in the top right, and all the way at the bottom in tiny letters was "Liberace" I was stunned! Seriously, my Pop also had a visitation by an unconventionally pretty woman and her friend one night while regularly playing a place there in Cape May called, The Pirates Cove. She went up to him with sheet music, and she sang a few songs there at the mic in 1961. Barbra Streisand! If you knew how amazingly talented Tommy Fessler was, you'd have no doubt of his story regarding this. Sadly, i lost my Pop just a year before my playing at MaryLou's, the mural project and the attack. But i sure wrote some good songs that year on the piano he got me! Miss him every day...

More to bio forthcoming...

Back To The Start

Geoffrey Sonnen

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