Monday, April 28, 2008

"Out of Reach" - No Way, Jose!

I have many goals in my life that I want to accomplish, I don't really have like one main goal that I want to do. I want to sooooo many things before I die. You only get to live once. Might as well do as much as you can in your life, because who knows...we might never have a chance to do it again! But, if you ask me what is my career goal, like what I want to do in my life when I'm all grown up as an adult. I would have to say, my career goal is having my own proper nightclub, dont know where. Haven't decided yet, but I do have a list of places where to put it at. I actually would like to have two jobs -- during the night (weekend) I would open the club, let people come in and party and just have fun. Down in the basement I would have a huge recording studio, recording music, mixing, and many more things. I'm getting support from all of friends, family members, teachers I've had over the past, other recording engineers that already have experience in the recording business. You have to stay confident and don't let anyone tell you wrong or push you down from your dreams.

A good movie that I suggest anyone should watch is, "Hustle & Flow" -- most people say its mostly about Hoes and Pimps, but its more to that. Actor, Terrence Howard play a role of a pimp/hustler/rapper, his name is Dejay. He wonders if the life he has right now is it..Only when he trades contraband for a keyboard and bumps into his old schoolfriend Key (played by Anthony Anderson) does he see a way out by laying down some tracks and fulfilling his dream. Ofcourse in the path that you take there are going to be obstacles that are not easy, but don't let that stop you from going after your dreams and goals. I'm not going to tell your more about this movie, It's a good response for this question. CHECK IT OUT!

I don't consider anything out of reach, no way jose! Living in the carribean was when I got introduced to recording, mixing, editing, and all this neat things to do with music. It was there when I have decided what I wanted to do in my life and made some goals. Some of my friends were rich and had connection in the music business, they knew somebody that had a recording studio, radio station, or just someone famous. I did not, my friend and I would make music at his house and send them out to our friends and try to put some of our songs on the radio. Actually I never had the chance to hear one of our songs play on the radio station down in Curacao, because I left to come here. But, one of my friends from there helped me out with a lot of things, he made it happen. It's just too bad that I never got to hear it on the radio.

I never had any connection to the music business and I still don't. But, that is still not stopping me from following my dreams. That's also why I decided to come to Chicago, city. A lot of opportunities, but also difficult because a lot of people are not used to the music genre of Reggaeton, in the carribean you hear that all over the places and everyone loves it even people that don't speak spanish likes the music. Let's see what happens....

1 comment:

eweaston said...

Did you have the same goals before you saw Hustle & Flow? How accurate do you think H&F is to the real life of a musician?