I have been starting to write songs for as long as I can remember. I was a little kid in Miami Beach, Fla, the youngest of four kids. I loved listening to the radio. Y-100 was our favourite radio station. Because I shared a room with my brother who was four years older than me, I started listening to the music he would play on the radio from an early age. I started to write little melodies with lyrics, but I would usually only ever get as far as maybe a verse or chorus. I was too busy playing sports, studying and playing video games to ever get much further, but I probably had over 30 of these starts to songs.
While I was away at college at the University of Florida, I met a guitarist-singer-songwriter, Karl Rybacki. We jammed a bit and co-wrote a few songs. Some say one of them is my best, but you will have to wait for that one. We also learned some covers. While we only played for friends a few times at get-togethers, working with Karl encouraged me to start to finish those songs I started writing as a kid. The crazy thing was that as I started to finish songs, more song ideas came to mind. I like to call it a bit of Creative or Artistic Inertia. Once you start creating your art, it continues. And, of course, there is always the inertia that relates to a body at rest staying at rest, such as writer’s block. I believe song writing is God-given, a skill that a great many of us are born with. The uniqueness of being a songwriter comes with those who make the choice to finish the work they started and make them actual songs. Then they are a SONGwriter. I will save my list of favourite songwriters for a different post.
I have been fortunate to collaborate with some amazing writers and musicians and they have all impacted my writing and desire to be a recording and performing artist. They know who they are, and very soon, I will reach out to them as I begin to produce an album of songs I have co-written. However, I am currently focused on my four-song EP, which includes two songs I have co-written with others.
Today, I worked on another recently completed song that I know I will record at some point. I’m so glad I have come to the point in my artistic life that I know who I am as an artist. I am open to the creativity I possess in writing new songs. I am finishing songs I start and releasing my art into the world. I hope that wherever your passions lie, you choose to finish your art or music pieces and share them with the world.
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