Quote of the day #2

Sometime the most conflicting battle, is the battle with self. Quote By: Skye

Quote of the day #1

No one really no what self is capable of until an unsuspected hunger or life moments presents itself. Quote By:Skye

Love yourself.

What I've learn in life is that others my doubt, your thoughts, your gift, or who you are as a person, but self doubting is life a knife to your creativity. Quote By: Skye

After spending about two days researching information about Mr. Forrest Hamer, there is not a lot of detail about Mr. Hamer besides the information I've found below


Forrest Hamer (born in 1956) is a poet, psychologist, candidate psychoanalyst, and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at Yale and Berkeley. He is the author of Call & Response (Alice James, 1995), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and Middle Ear (The Roundhouse Press, 2000), a finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award.

His work has appeared in many journals including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, ZYZZYVA, Berkeley Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Drumming Between Us, Equinox, Kenyon Review, Negative Capability. Hamer's work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.

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Grace by Forrest Hamer

This air is flooded with her. I am a boy again, and my mother
and I lie on wet grass, laughing. She startles, turns to
marigolds at my side, saying beautiful, and I can see the red
there is in them.

When she would fall into her thoughts, we'd look for what
distracted her from us.

My mother's gone again as suddenly as ever and, seven months
after the funeral, I go dancing. I am becoming grateful.
Breathing, thinking, marigolds.


Lessons
It was 1963 or 4, summer,
and my father was driving our family
from Ft. Hood to North Carolina in our 56 Buick.
We'd been hearing about Klan attacks, and we knew

Mississippi to be more dangerous than usual.
Dark lay hanging from the trees the way moss did,
and when it moaned light against the windows
that night, my father pulled off the road to sleep.

Noises
that usually woke me from rest afraid of monsters
kept my father awake that night, too,
and I lay in the quiet noticing him listen, learning
that he might not be able always to protect us

from everything and the creatures besides;
perhaps not even from the fury suddenly loud
through my body about his trip from Texas
to settle us home before he would go away

to a place no place in the world
he named Viet Nam. A boy needs a father
with him, I kept thinking, fixed against noise
from the dark.

These are my two favorite poems. Enjoy

I first discovered Sade when I was in the fifth grade. While she was singing no ordinary love and my head I was thinking this is a artist with a no ordinary voice. That beautiful low alto voice was so sweet and calming, but at the same time you could feel her emotions through her music. After doing my research on her I discovered she’s been out as an artist since the early eighties.

Artist Name: Helen Folasade Adu, OBE

Date of Birth: 01.16.1959

Stage Name: Sade (pronounced shah-day)

Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. She has a rich multicultural background, her father a Nigerian lecturer of Yoruba background and her mother an English nurse. Due to her parents separating her mother returned to Calcton-on-Sea, England. Growing up in Colchester, Essex Sade developed her interest in dancing, fashion and listening to soul music artist like Marvin Gaye just to be an example. Sade worked as a model and fashion designer for several years, and was involved in designing outfits that Spandau Ballet wore on their first American tour.

Later on she joined a group which name them selves “Sade”. In the 1980, 1990 and 2000 they reached success putting them and different genres of music like jazz, soul, R&B, soft rock, quiet storm. Sade is the only women in the band. To be honest I love every single song but my favorite album is “Lovers Rock”.

In 1981, Sade joined Pride, an eight-person funk band, starting as a background singer but eventually being featured more prominently. When offered a record contract, she took three members of Pride with her. They formed a new band, also called Sade, and she convinced the record company that they could not sign Sade the singer without signing Sade the band -- guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman, keyboardist Andrew Hale, and bassist Paul Denman. Sade's first album, Diamond Life, included "Smooth Operator", which stayed on American charts a phenomenal 81 weeks. Sade's later hits have included "Paradise", "Nothing Can Come Between Us", and "Keep Looking", "The Sweetest Taboo", "Hang on to Your Love", "No Ordinary Love", and "Pearls".

Sade the singer stayed out of the limelight for a few years after her daughter was born in 1996. In 1998, she was charged with reckless driving in Jamaica. Sade's three bandmates have performed and recorded without Sade as Sweetback.

And now for the exciting news her new album titled “Soldier of Love” will be released world wide on February 8, 2010. I can’t wait to review her album. At her age of fifty she is a walking example of “Age ain’t nothing but a number”. As long as you have the passion and drive to continue singing beautiful music age doesn’t exist.

Father: Adebisi "Bisi" Abu(economics professor)

Mother: Anne Hayes (nurse)

Brother: Banji Abu

Husband: Carlos Scola (Spanish filmmaker, Ngira, m. 11-Feb-1989, div.)

Boyfriend: Bob Morgan (music producer)

Daughter: Ila Morgan (21-Jul-1996)

www.sade2009.com, www.nndb.com

Discography of Sade

1984: Diamond Life

1985: Promise

1988: Stronger Than Pride

1992: Love Deluxe

1992: Remix Deluxe

1994: The Best of Sade

2000: Lovers Rock

2002: Lovers Live

2010: Soldier of Love

Soul Artist Interview/Fudakochi

Full Name: Fudakochi Narcisse

Birthday: 2/17/1981

Birthplace: Miami, Florida

Nationality/Background/Slash What Flavor Are you: Haitian/American

Family: I have four brothers and two sisters

How did you learn to sing: My father and uncle, they showed me the ropes about music. I started singing when I was seven years old, I really got interested and more motivated when I was twelve years old, I had music classes and also I learn by watching other artist.

What is the best thing about being an artist? I am a peoples person, so when someone comes to me and say my music change their lives, It's makes the part of being an artist worth my while.....

What is the worst thing about being an artist? The buisness part is the worse

What is your favorite hometown hangout? Gibson Park that's where I use to hang out all the time when I was a kid but now, Starbucks is my favorite spot when I get inpired to write music I always go there.

What is something yo want others to know about you? I like to spend time with my friends and family, and I also love video games

Who's been/who is the most influential person/s in your career? Wow thats a good one, My friends and people who wish to see me fail playes a major role in my career. There are to many influential people in my life right now, it's just to many to name in this interview

How did you get started in the music industry? I got started when I turned sixteen years old, I went to the studio for the first time as a producer working and writing music, that's when can say I got started in the music industry.

Your favorite songs? Long Walk by Jill Scott, Sometimes by Mint Condition

Your favorite food? Sushi

Your favorite drink? McArthur Fruit Punch, and Ginger Ale

Guilty Pleasure? Cheesecake

Your worst fear? Myself

What was your very first job? Working at Winn-Dixie as a bag boy

Are you single? Yes

What is the question you are most tired of answering? Where did I learn to sing

Choose one word to describe your music style? Soul

What is the number one thing you hope people get out of your music? That it chages there lives

Is your family musical? Yes

What famous musicians do you admire? Billy Holiday, The Beetles, Jimi Hendrex

What famous musicians have you studied or learned from? Wow a lot of them Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Sergio Mendes

Have you ever been in a competition? Yes

Do you have any up incoming shows? Not at this time

How do you handle mistakes during a performance? I just keep going

Do you get nervous before a performance? Sometimes I do

What advice would you give beginners who are nervous? Just think about singing in your living room or where you practice at the most

How do you balance your music and other obligations-mate, children, job etc.....? I just take it one day at a time

Anybody else you would recommend for me to interview? Rimidi of the anti-robot society

Thank you so much I hope I answer everything.

Fudakochi

Peace & Blessings

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Dear Michael Jackcon

Dear Michael Jackson

I really want to say thank you for giving the whole world four beautiful decades of your life. You have blessed us with your talents, your music and your dance style. I would love to say more to you, but I can’t my thoughts are too scrambled from the news of your passing. I find it hard to find words that can express my deepest emotions. Your spirit will continue to live on and strive on the love of your fans. Your music will continue to put smiles on our face and start conversation like “you remember when Michael did that amazing dance move”. Your music has touched the hearts of many cultures, many race and many languages. The whole world was so excited about your up and coming tour, but I guess god couldn’t wait for you to do a tour for him…………. R.I.P Michael make sure you sing and dance your heart out to the man upstairs.

My deep condolence goes out to the JACKSON FAMILY.

Sincerely,
Skye Music

Peace & Blessing