This is a blog I wrote yesterday on our wedding website, and I decided to share it here as well...
They say that scent is the strongest sense connected to memory, but I'd have to say for me it's sound. Music has always played a huge part in my life. I grew up in a household where there was always some sort of music playing; the Gap Band, Rene and Angela, Atlantic Star, Tremaine Hawkins, War. We had a JVC record/tape player and it seemed that it was always on. I probably knew how to change the song on a record before I knew how to brush my own teeth. Some (even Baby) refer to me as an old head. That doesn't really bother me, in fact it makes me laugh. I hear songs on the radio that take me back to East Texas where we lived when I was 2 years old. And it always puts me in a good place. There are other songs that take me to early Spring 1992 when my father died. And while they don't always put me in a good place they remind me of a time that God helped me make it through.
Music has also played a huge part in Baby and my relationship. We don't necessarily have the same taste, me the old head, him the screw head...but we share our individual histories with each other through song and we create new memories with each other the same way.
I suppose I was already thinking about this topic being that we recently met with a potential deejay for the wedding, but then June 25 happened. Some have referred to that day as the "day music died." I don't like that name because I prefer to think of it as the day Heaven learned how to do the moonwalk. Great music never dies, unfortunately bad music doesn't die either. lol! Even more; great musicians live on with us forever, so live on Luther Vandross, Marvin Gay, Ray Charles, Donnie Hathaway, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Phyllis Hyman, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Aaliyah, Left Eye, DJ Screw, Pimp C, Barry White, James Cleveland, Rev Paul Jones, Bob Marley, Jimmy Hendricks, Nat King Cole, Gerald and Sean Levert, Michael Jackson, and many more. May your souls find rest. We thank you for lending your talent, leaving your legacy...lifting our hearts and putting our lives to music. You are the artists on the Soundtrack of Our Lives!
They say that scent is the strongest sense connected to memory, but I'd have to say for me it's sound. Music has always played a huge part in my life. I grew up in a household where there was always some sort of music playing; the Gap Band, Rene and Angela, Atlantic Star, Tremaine Hawkins, War. We had a JVC record/tape player and it seemed that it was always on. I probably knew how to change the song on a record before I knew how to brush my own teeth. Some (even Baby) refer to me as an old head. That doesn't really bother me, in fact it makes me laugh. I hear songs on the radio that take me back to East Texas where we lived when I was 2 years old. And it always puts me in a good place. There are other songs that take me to early Spring 1992 when my father died. And while they don't always put me in a good place they remind me of a time that God helped me make it through.
Music has also played a huge part in Baby and my relationship. We don't necessarily have the same taste, me the old head, him the screw head...but we share our individual histories with each other through song and we create new memories with each other the same way.
I suppose I was already thinking about this topic being that we recently met with a potential deejay for the wedding, but then June 25 happened. Some have referred to that day as the "day music died." I don't like that name because I prefer to think of it as the day Heaven learned how to do the moonwalk. Great music never dies, unfortunately bad music doesn't die either. lol! Even more; great musicians live on with us forever, so live on Luther Vandross, Marvin Gay, Ray Charles, Donnie Hathaway, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Phyllis Hyman, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Aaliyah, Left Eye, DJ Screw, Pimp C, Barry White, James Cleveland, Rev Paul Jones, Bob Marley, Jimmy Hendricks, Nat King Cole, Gerald and Sean Levert, Michael Jackson, and many more. May your souls find rest. We thank you for lending your talent, leaving your legacy...lifting our hearts and putting our lives to music. You are the artists on the Soundtrack of Our Lives!
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