Letter for Brandon
Dear Brandon Boyd,
Hello and Happy Birthday!
I’m an (almost) eighteen year old girl from an incredibly small town in Virginia. (My birthday is on the 16th.) I don’t know if you’ll get the chance to read this at all, but I just wanted to let you know how much Incubus’ music means in my life.
Since I was about ten, when I picked up my first guitar, I have known that music was what I wanted to do. Because I was so young, I really didn’t know what I wanted to do with it; I just knew that it made me feel more amazing than anything I had ever experienced and that it gave me something to work toward. When I was about thirteen, I started thinking that I could make music my career someday. Unfortunately, the idea kind of got shot down by some people around me because “it just wasn’t realistic enough.” I gave up on the idea for a while, but I never quit playing guitar. About a year ago, I watched an interview on YouTube where you said something about how people should become musicians because they love creating music and not because they want fame or money. I believe you said that people who are creating music for the right reasons have a better chance of making it in the music business. Because of what you said, I decided to start chasing my dream again. Because of the inspiration that I get from you and your band mates (and other bands like Incubus), I have decided to stop worrying about what’s realistic and to start doing what I know I was meant to do. I have serious plans to go to The Musicians Institute in Los Angeles in about three years. I couldn’t be more excited!
Though I’m primarily a musician, the things you’ve done in the visual arts has inspired me just as well. When I see the art that you’ve done, I get an overwhelming urge to take out some art supplies and start putting my emotions and artistic obsessions on canvas. It always makes me want to make art without thinking about what other people would think of it. Your work inspires me to create what I want to create instead of what other people want to see. It makes me feel okay to “keep it weird.”
I know that everything you have made has inspired countless other people the way that it has inspired me, and all of us Incubus fans couldn’t be more grateful. Thank you for being the reason that so many people start bands and create beautiful things. It means the world to all of us.
Love and Light,
Savannah Siebenhaar
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P.S. Unfortunately, I have never seen Incubus in concert, but I really look forward to seeing you guys (and maybe meeting you all) when you are back on tour!
(I know his birthday is on the 15th. I'm just posting this early and I'll send it to him on twitter on his actual birthday.)