51st Grammy Awards
Sunday, February 8, 2009
And the Grammy goes to........................
51st Grammy Awards is around the corner honoring the best in the music industry.. what does music means to you?? To me .. a HELL LOT!!!!!
I remember when I was probably 9 years old, I was at my aunt's kitchen and there she was listening and singing to the song that was being played on the radio, I have been exposed to music at a young age but i have never seen this before.. that joy on my aunt's face..the laughter and her out of tune-ness and forgetting the lyrics (just so u know..I'm like that too.. I can't sing to save my life!!!) I looked at her and it puzzled me how a song can turn my introvert aunt to someone that beams with such joy within minutes..I looked at her and cannot understand why she is acting weird.
I was 11 years old when I got the hand down of the transistor radio from the kitchen to my room.. I was freakin elated.. my own radio..ahhh..in my room..it was constantly on till I go to bed. I still remember the radio station back then.. 98.7fm Perfect 10. Every song that came out of my radio nestled my ear with such melody that i could not describe!! Music was my constant company.. having an elder brother, well.. let's just say we always either end up in fights or not talking to each other.. heheh..we were young then, so silly.. strangely, music always manage to magically link my brother and me. He was lucky, he got the radio from the living room..bigger..way way better.. the kind that has not 1 but TWO cassette slots!!!!!!! We would record songs from the radio.. what's worse, we would record our version of Vanilla Ice- Ice Ice Baby, Bon Jovi, Sinead O'connor... gosh so many silly songs... and mind you.. my brother totally knew all the lyrics.. I tend to more often than not humm my way till the end :(
Music never left me since.. from cassette to walkman (u remember those dun u...heh) to CDs to MTV to iTunes..
As days goes by, I have learned to express my feelings through music.. I dance to music, get angry... be sad...happy...mad...LOVE..all through music.
Finally I get to feel what my aunt felt many many years back.. that tingle when your favorite song is on air that makes you wanna sing out loud or head bang to a Guns N Roses classic..or feeling the groove to a soulful song.. or that ache your heart feels when a sad song plays..
Music is a part of me.. I"m glad I have learned to appreciate, love and most of all enjoy it.
