chapter one: STARDOM
I was the number one “draft pick” in the country, and ended up with a full ride to the best music school in the country.
I was on top of the world… and I was miserable.
My voice started to rebel, Shut down. For every hour I spent singing, I spent a day in silence. Years of depression, anxiety weighing on my mind.
I’m singing at my alma mater here. When I watch this video, I see a young man looking for God, Reality, realness, and redemption in a small box. At the time, I thought if I only tried harder, emoted more, did more, then I would be free from the prisons that my mind and body presented at the time.
Here I am competing in the Classical Singer National Competition. This performance would give me a first prize, and my singing at the Classical Singer Competition would give me offers from some of the best music schools in the country.
My Senior REcital ; ADD TEXT AND LINKS HERE
I became a youth opera sensation at the age of fifteen. National competitions, radio shows, singing with full orchestras, you name it, I did it.
here’s why:
here I am performing in Miami, FL for YoungArts, a government sponsored national arts program. I’d go on to win a National Scholar in the Arts award from my time here, an honor given to ten people in the country each year.