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

My Dedication And Short History To Poetry

I discovered that life is poetry, we are surrounded by it. If everyone took their time to relax their heart, sound and mind, then they would realize and also see the beautiful words of poetry that clearly floats and surround their life. Poetry helps me relieve my stress, it’s my shoulder when I need to cry, it’s my ear when I need to laugh, and it’s my healer when my heart is broken.

The oldest poem to found is the Epic Of Gilgamesh its from 3rd millennium BC. Poetry is derivated from the word poiesis; it also means a “making”. Poetry is a form of language art that helps project the meaning of spoken words. Poetry can be used in plays, music, or to simply help in the memorization process. Recorded events in history show that deliverance played and stills plays a major key in how poets back then recite their poems. To think about it, it’s amazing how the words in poetry have the power to evoke our emotional and sensual responses.

Poetry plays a big role and our history, when we go to the museum and look at the Egyptian or Greek ancient tablet all of them are related because they have a form of poetry. Poetry is in our bible (psalms), it is used in diplomatic speeches, political rhetoric and invective, nursery rhymes and even medical text books. There are two view points of poetry the first point is, poetry is an art based on language and secondarily poetry expresses a certain state of mind.

Just like music poetry has its different genres, you have narrative poetry, epic poetry, and dramatic poetry, lyric poetry that’s what most music writers and rappers do and also you have verse fable poetry. Okay I am not about to go in depth with the whole history of poetry but, even though I am not a poet it’s something about poetry that I am attracted to so I wrote a dedication poem to poetry I must admit, I had to have help what can I say I do not have a poets mind but with practice you just never know.


The Poetry Flow In Me

Poetry is the flow in me
It is what allows man and women kind to be
To express the truth about their selves
It allows me to freely express my feelings
And thoughts as a matter a fact, with out poetry
I don’t know where I would be
Is like you became my new hip hop
My new paper and pen doo wop
You bring out the natural flow in me
The natural rhythm in me
Its because of you, I’m able to show you
The inner self strip down to the core
My emotions, unexplainable
Feelings of sadness I can’t understand
Mad thoughts, hurt and anger at the same time
Just make me want to simply kill somebody
Just to express my emotions
But thinks to you pen and paper
I am able to survive and give a visual so in depth
That you can make it a simple mathematical equation
Sadness plus hurtfulness would equal emotion
Which is killing in some cases?
The love I have for you
There’s no word that has been created to express
I have so much of you flowing in me
That the paper industry
Don’t have enough paper for this natural ink in me
To flow on to this page
To express this natural flow in me
Poetry

Written By: Skye
Co-Writer: True Self

I really appreciate you guys for reading and supporting anything that has to do with music and poetry. I am not a poet but like I said I am not a poet, just showing some love, that's all.

Thank You, Peace & Blessing

Sincerely,

Skye

My Dedication to Charlie Wilson

Birth Name: Charles Kent Wilson

A.K.A: “Uncle Charlie”

Born: January 29, 1953

From: Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.

Genre(s): R&B, Soul, Quiet Storm, Hip Hop Soul, Funk

Singer-songwriter, Vocals, Keyboard, Organ, Drums
Band: The Gap Band

The only thing I can say is he dropped the bomb on me, babe. He was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the age of 3 he learned to sing in church which paved the way as a precursor to his musical career. As the lead singer of gap band (Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band) Charlie Wilson sang four number one hits, “Burn Rubber”, (Why you wanna hurt me),” “Early in the Morning,” “Outstanding,” and also my favorite song “You dropped the bomb on me”.

On February 17, 2008 he released his fourth solo album (Uncle Charlie). My favorite song and hit single, “There Goes My Baby,” wooooo that’s all I can say. This beautiful song was written by Baby face and Calvin Richardson and produced by Gregg Pagani.

According to the Associated Press, Charlie Wilson has revealed that he will undergo treatment for his prostate cancer for the second time. He was diagnosed with it last September after a routine physical. A positive blood test and biopsy confirmed the diagnosis. In addition to promoting his forthcoming album, Mr. Wilson is out there spreading positive messages of regular routine check up.


So to my young brothers, please invest your time in a yearly check up.

Peace & Blessing

Love Skye

http://www.charliewilsonmusic.com/

My Short History Of Soul Music

Soul music began at the mother land, yes Africa. Our ancestors had to find a way to relieve there confusions of being betrayed. Frustrations at that time were making every thought and decision unbearable. So singing traditional African folk songs was the only outlet they had to relieve their anger and hate. This beautiful African folk song then transformed to what we call spiritual music.

Black slaves were the first to sing spiritual songs. Some of the songs were used to communicate coded information. By the late 1800’s, spiritual music adopted the name (Gospel Music). Black Gospel music had its own distinctive sound, performance, elements, hymns and styles. After World War II, what we know as northern R&B was born. Today we call it rhythm and blues but back then it was called (ragtime and blues). Thanks to the electric guitar and the discovery of the German tape recorder blacks could start their own independent record label or company. This little cheap device is a history and the making it played a very important role in the production and distribution of R&B.

The southerners in the meanwhile were developing their R&B flavored with European influences mixed in it. But R&B became richer in sound when it was introduced to jazz. Early jazz was played by small marching bands and solo pianists and besides ragtime and marches their repertoire including hymns, spirituals and blues. Although blues and ragtime was raised independently of jazz these genres influenced the styles and forms of jazz.

Fast forward to the 1960’s, the birth of soul, it produced music artist like Sam Cooke, James Brown and Gladys Knight. These artists beautifully merge traditional gospel and R&B, for example: Ray Charles took a religious song such as ‘I got religion’ and turned it to smashing hit like ‘I Got A Woman”, Damn. It started a controversy with many religious blacks who thought his music was the devils music. By the 1970’s soul music was being mix with a new flavor. The name of this new flavor is FUNK it was introduced to the world by James Brown smashing hit ‘Cold Sweat’ in 1967.

Conclusion, to all my music lovers I want to thank you for continuing to support music, (good music, soul, jazz, funk and R&B music). My love for music has inspired me to create a facebook profile to music, my love. I haven’t listen to the radio in a longtime; the only time I would listen to the radio now is if I am listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show or Michael Baisden in the afternoon. After they go off air I would plug my ipod in my car and become my own DJ. So thanks to our ancestors and their African Folk Music our ears are truly blessed to hear good music, soul, funk and R&B music.

Peace & Blessings

Love, Skye