My 1st memory of music I can remember well is little toddler music my mom played at home.
I did go to preschool at least 1/2 day the 1st year when I was 3. I don't remember any music.
In kindergarten when I was 5, I really liked the kid's music. I told my dad I wanted to sing and sang for him.
We sang more seriously in 1st grade when I was 6.
I moved and in 2nd grade and 3rd grade we learned how to read music, sang some folk songs, and watched The Sound of Music and Peter Pan several times. I was allowed in choir in 3rd grade. In 2nd grade when I was 7, I asked my mom if I could sing somehow.
When I was 6 or 7, I think I said a lot I wanted to play flute and was interested in violin but think my ability to think about it was stifled. My aunt gave me like toy/"different" flute things, but they didn't seem to work right.
When I was 9, 10, and 11, I was in a very good choir at school and church.
When I was 9, I started piano lessons after trying to play myself and having my dad help me tho he doesn't play piano. My dad convinced me to take lessons. My gramma gave us her car. Then, she still lived up north. I played at church and took lessons from one of the sisters that taught music my 3rd year. I got to play for church.
We moved when I turned 12. I had too much homework to concentrate on music. Talented Music really helped me out a lot. I did well there, at school, when I was 15 and 16. I started playing organ at church at 15 and started lessons at 16. I got to play keyboard at church for youth mass. At 17, I did summer and Saturdays at NOCCA|Riverfront, an arts school in New Orleans. Over summer, they had an award for best overall, and the girl I played a duet with and I got the award. I studied organ at Oberlin in Oberlin, Ohio, near Cleveland at the Great Lakes. After NOCCA, I went on to study music at a connected college in New Orleans, Loyola University. I tried out for composition but didn't make it. 2nd time, I did Music Education. I ended up in piano, organ, and voice. I was told at the end of the year not to do Music Education nor voice anymore. It made me dysfunctional, like I had a possibly permanent mental breakdown. I went on and took an organ lesson in DC at Catholic University of America and an Education course for a week. When Katrina hit New Orleans, I went up north near Cleveland again. I became sensitive to noise and from other things that happened heard voices a lot and had a lotta weird sensations along with it. It was like friendly ghosts and a good experience. I was unable to attend class for 3 days and for some reason did not go back. I had to leave.
I wanted to be a movie actress and even ended up quitting ballet. I started singing on my own from 2010 to now. I started violin in 2016.
I am studying violin as a non-enrolled student at Rollins College now.
