For as long as I can remember, Ive been in love with music. Ive carried it and moved with it in every facet of my life. Music has always made its presence known to me.
Hearing certain songs takes me down memory lane to a specific time in my life birthday parties to funerals, road trips, a Sunday service at church and even just the time teenage me spent in my celebrity-poster-filled bedroom, eagerly learning the choreography from a favourite artists video seen on MTV, back when it was actually about music.
Naturally, my love for music piqued an interest in singing. The first time I was captivated by the concept of singing I must have been around the age of five or six. My mom had just purchased the much-anticipated video cassette of South African gospel singer Rebecca Malopes Live at The State Theatre 1996 concert.