Horseart wrote:
I'm a lot older than you, but seems we did all the same things. The photo books, magazines, library...etc.
I probably took those 10,000 pictures at 10 years old. I had my own darkroom at home and loved it, BUT I started painting at 4 years old and I think instead of art helping with photography as it does for some, it got in the way. I grew up to make a darn good living with my art, and have sold quite a few photos but my photography stinks (sorry, that's the only word that comes to mind). At my age now (86), I believe that God meant for me to stick to art and just have fun with photography.....and music and cooking and gardening and animals......
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I am fascinated by the life stories of those who found a calling at an early age, stuck with it, and made it their life's purpose. Success in any endeavor has an inspired path and follows certain universal disciplines.
In the past year or so, I've been following the story of a group of sisters who are musicians from Monterrey Mexico. They learned classical piano from early ages — 3, 5, and 6. Their parents, a dentist and an engineer, gave them the video game, Rock Band. Then they asked for real instruments and lessons on them... At 7, 10, and 12, they started playing together.
I love a variety of music from classical, to jazz, to folk, to blues, to rock and roll, to rock, to hard rock, to country, to Motown soul, to reggae. If it's well written and performed well, I'll watch and listen.
I first saw The Warning on YouTube in 2014, at the ages of 9, 12, and 14, playing note-for-note covers of rock songs as if it were perfectly normal for kids whose English is a second language to play and sing them as well as the originals. (Their cover of Metallica's
Enter Sandman has over 25.5 MILLION views on YouTube now). But I lost track until last year, when a suggestion showed up in my YouTube feed.
By 2023, they had been a band for almost ten years, had released an EP and two albums independently, and had released a third album on a major US record label. They had been opening concerts for major rock acts in Mexico, the USA, Canada, Argentina, the UK, and Europe, along with playing to sold-out crowds in smaller venues, and much larger crowds at music festivals. Right now, they're on a 19-concert tour of Europe and the UK. They have released five singles from their fourth album, which ships June 28.
They gave TEDx Talks two years in a row at the University of Nevada, 2016 and 2017. The drummer is Drumeo's Rock Drummer of the Year for 2023, and has been nominated for many other awards. She's been "banging on things" since she was six, and singing like an angel while doing it.
Here is their story if you're interested. https://youtu.be/EIEcjGZmQ8w? and/or https://youtu.be/s7iQG0ug4HI?
They released this amazing song a month ago: https://youtu.be/s6b_FgQnXL8?
It is loud, hard, driving rock, with a serious message about how you can simultaneously feel trapped by the routine of, and invigorated by, living out your dream. I get it... I've been there, done that, in several roles. Most of us have. This song is a pressure relief valve.