Raw Brilliance Media
Let Love Shine is so fitting a song at this time in my life. Stepping outside of your normal habits and movements in your life can be scary and overwhelming.
Reaching out and connecting with other people, and sharing your creative ideas can also be a bit overwhelming. In 2017 I began re-thinking my approach in my music career. A different way as an independent woman in music I mean. After years of flailing around and wondering why I wasn’t moving in the way that I wished, it would seem obvious to some to just quit.
However, I could not quit. This is the breath in my lungs. The beat in my heart. But, I was getting tired and jaded. When I had a conversation with a friend about work and needing money, she invited me to work down in El Paso,Texas.
It was one of the most grueling jobs I’ve ever had. Literally working 15 hours a day not including the 30 min ride to and from the worksite. However, I learned a ton of lessons in that 4 month stint. Here’s at least ten things off the top of my head:
1. Music is part of who I am. No matter where I go music somehow gets involved.
2. Amazing people are everywhere. You have to just speak and listen to them.
3. If you can work 15 hours a day 21 days straight for someone, then you can certainly apply the same energy and time to your dreams and passion, in my case music.
4. If you decide to do it and then just begin, the rest will come.
5. I did not have 15 years experience in the music business, but instead I repeated the same year about 12 times and really only had about 3 solid years experience in the biz. I have a lot to learn.
6. I wasn’t really hustling correctly, I was “burning calories” as a friend of mine once said to me.
7. Not everyone wants to see you succeed.
8. If you believe it will happen, it often does.
9. What is for you NO ONE can block.
10. Never let a person change your spirit.
These lessons and a few others that I learned seem simple and common sense, but that wasn’t the case for me. I am an emotional empath and I move by “feeling”. Often I just want to “feel” good, and therefore would follow what felt good, instead of what was actually good for me. I lacked focus on one initiative, and entertained many ideas long enough to be disappointed by them. I would then go back to whatever I thought was the best course of action.
Throughout my career two things remain true and haven’t changed. One I knew I wanted to write and sing my own lyrics and story. Two I wanted to create high art, not just bubble gum music. Two simple ideas that thrust me into a world of confusion. That is a story for a later date.
Anyway, while I was in El Paso, TX working with the children from South America crossing into America, I met many wonderful people. One of those very special persons I met was Jeremy Johnson AKA Mansa_JK. You would never have known that this young man was a filmmaker in the making by just looking at him. His job was 12 hours of picking up trash in our tent city of 2,000 people. Quite a job! It was July and temperatures started at 98 and went up to 108 for 2 months straight. We chatted many times while I served him coffee and I told him I would shoot my own music videos. He didn’t laugh. He asked me how I planned to do it.
For weeks I told him all of my ideas. Showed him my sample shots my framing etc. And then one day he said I will help you. I was so geeked, and couldn’t wait to contact him when I got back to San Marcos, cause he lives in Austin! It was kizmit!
Here we are 3 years later and he is working on our third video together. Turns out he is UBER talented and has a lot to offer. When he told me the name of his company “Raw Brilliance Media” it seemed ordained by God and the Universe because his talent is RAW and Brilliant.
On this video I let go. I am relinquishing a little of my crazy creative control. Part of my evolution and growth as an artist. I see this next music video as a real beginning to something awesome.
This is my last year in the 40’s. When I was younger I thought 40 was the beginning of the end, and 50 was the end of young life. Now I see 50 as my beginning and the 49 years before as the lessons and stories that have been given to me to tell through music. God willing I will prepare for my 50 th birthday (July 1, 2021) this year by working on me and doing things I would never do. I will
LET LOVE SHINE
Thank you @MansaJK
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