Bacon Says...Music is my life!

Music...enough said, if only that was about 500 words! So I love music. It's been apart of my life since, pretty much I was old enough to know what it was and even before then I was all in the mix. My mother is a pianist and organist, basically for a lot of events in the City of Richmond. She started playing when she was five years old and got her Masters from Virginia State University. She also sings very well, I love her sweet, quiet tone. My mother started out playing for our church Saint Pauls Baptist, then when she started teaching she taught elementary music to the severly handicapped. Then she moved on to middle and high school. After a long time of teaching that she switched to elementary school, which is what she still does to this day. She is also the organist for First African Baptist church, one of the first black churches in Richmond. ALSO, my mommie plays for all the city school graduations and convocation. She also plays for weddings anf funerals and any other event you can think of! SO if you're getting married anytime soon, HOLLA!

Ok so back to my connection with music. My mother started me out on piano when I was about seven years old. I liked playing and all but not practicing, I stop taking lessons at about age 11. In the 3rd grade I also picked up the trumpet and played that until my 10th grade year in high school. Throughout the years I have also played the drums (snare, base, tymphani), the trombone, the basson, and the harp. My favortie was probably the drums. I've always loved the sound of the drum. I remember as a child my mother used to make my sister and I listen to classical music and we would play 'Name that Instrument'. So anytime we were in the car she would pop in a cd of an orchestra and we would have to name whatever instrument was playing at the time. I loved it, my sister not so much. I definitely wish my mother had taken my dreams of becoming the most famous female percussionist serious...but she didn't lol.

I love female artists, especially rappers. My favorite rapper is MC Lyte, she was definitely my idol growing up. I also like Missy Elliot, Trina, Eve, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, Left Eye, Da Brat, Rah Digga, and now NICKI MINAJ. I feel like the best all around artist was Lauryn Hill hands down. She could sing her butt off and had some positive/deep messages in her all her songs. My new favorite rapper is Nicki Minaj. Nicki came up off of mixtapes and all her stuff is hot to me. She's also soooooo entertaining lol. She's one of those types of artist that comes out and EVERY girl wants to be like her. She has the whole "barbie" thing goin on right now, got every girl out there thinking they are a barbie doll, get real! But on a more serious note, I definitely respect her as an artist becuase I love female rappers. Other than female rappers I like a select few male rappers like Lil' Wayne, mainly for his work ethic. He too is a great lyricsit but he's also a businessman and he takes care of things, works HELLA hard, and gives back to the community. I also like Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Eminiem, Drake, and that's all I can really think of.
Other than Rap I appreciate all kinds of music, however my preferences are classical/opera, R&B, and gospel. My all time favorite artist is Micheal Jackson...no ifs ands or buts about it. He's the best. I really wish I had stuck with at least one of those intrusments and really mastered it, then I wouldn't be studying this boring engineering stuff, I'd be doing something fun that could possibly make me famous :)  and who wouldn't want Bacon to be famous???? Exactly!

If music isn't a part of your life...BaconSays, you're not really living, point black PERIOD