Besides making tea, another one of my "pass times" is music. It's definitely one of my biggest passions and to be honest, I never would have imagined being where I am with it today.
I started out as an eighth grader wanting to become a "rocker" on electric guitar. I was sadly disappointed when my parents decided to buy me a nylon stringed beginners acoustic. I stuck it in the closet for a year. I still to this day can't remember when I picked it up for the first time or why. But soon I was trying to teach myself chords (it came in handy that I had long fingers- if you don't, you can still play! Don't let people tell you you can't). I taught myself for about six months and got guitar lessons for six months and shortly after started writing music. I never expected to write.
In high school I felt the Lord really speak to me strongly about music and how He had a huge purpose for it in my life. So I (as resisting and stubborn as I was) decided to set aside my own plans and go after the plans the Lord had for me. Coming into college at ORU, every music opportunity I wanted was taken away from me. I never stepped foot on a stage because every door that led to the stage was closed for me. The only thing I was involved in musically was worship missions with my school where I played drums for my missions team (India). It was a truly humbling process for me and taught me the true meaning of worship. Through that process, I gave myself to the Lord and told Him that if I never set foot on a stage again, I would worship Him for the rest of my life. I was content with worshipping Him by myself in a room. After this two year process, I entered into my junior year at ORU (this past year) and the Lord began to really put dreams in my heart for music that involved using music in a business sort of way. I would make music, sell it, and give all the profits I made to people in need.
The Lord's dreams for me, which are now my dreams, are more than I could have ever asked for. Truly. It is so beautiful to me what the Lord is choosing to birth into the earth through me and I would rather live off of people's testimonies than money. I want to see the children of God know they are Sons and Daughters through the words the Lord sings over them through me. I want to see peoples' lives changed physically with the money I raise through my music. We all (believers) have been given the ministry of reconciliation, and I want to reconcile people to the Father's heart through song.
Below are a few of my tracks/videos. CLICK THE PICS TO WATCH.
My first track "Orphaned One"
My second track "Wilderness"
My most recent cover of "Dog Days are Over" by Florence + The Machine
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WEBSITE: songsfororphans.com
ALL profits I make off my music go to an HIV/aids orphanage called Agape International that I personally visited in Hyderabad, India.
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