humanity
Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of music professionals, amateurs, inspiring students, celebrities, lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories in the music sphere.
The songs that connect me to you..
Using Music as a connection to my life and feelings each day, It's hard not to relate to songs that flood me with pride, belief and unbreakable love for you. Words are not always easy for any of us to share how we feel, it can be that sometimes another tool is needed to show our emotions towards someone or a situation. Sometimes it's gifts, written words in a card or hearing a song that speaks to their heart and shares our aching expressions through the artist beating with the feelings within, that help us say everything we have wanted too but maybe couldn't find the words yourself.
By Samuel-James 6 years ago in Beat
Music and Podcasting
I am a creative person. I have always been involved in projects and hobbies that have something to do with some kind of music or writing. I have been a musician and a singer/songwriter since I was seventeen years old. I played in rock and metal bands around the Detroit area for many years.
By Vince Smith6 years ago in Beat
Bluer Than Blue
I'm the kind of person who has dedicated songs to most of the major events in my life. I have named all of my daughters after favorite songs. So when I married my husband, I was eager to commemorate my new relationship with my stepson with a carefully selected anthem. He was thirteen and completely uninterested in sharing a special song with his "stepmonster". He told me flatly, "I already have parents."
By Heather M Stuebe6 years ago in Beat
Songs that Transcend Music and Become Pure Energy that Feeds the Soul
If we look back through out history we see that music has played a key role in the life of people. Some might even go with the theory that the world was "Sang Into Existence", (Michael McClain). Music can heal the body and soul, it can create movement in art, and can help a soul crying out in pain to feel whole again. The world is full of different song genre, and a person need only turn on the radio to find the song that speaks to their heart.
By Trycia Lino6 years ago in Beat
How East of Eli Changed My Life..
Have you ever heard a song or an album that made you break down and think about life, stare at the ceiling and feel the lyrics wrap around you like a blanket? That’s how I feel when I listen to East of Eli’s music. Over the past three years I have gone through some emotional and dark times in my life and I was looking for a ladder to pull myself out and this is around the time that Supergirl Season 2 was on TV which started Alex’s character’s coming out story line.
By Maelisha Kahlbaum6 years ago in Beat
Initiation
Ten was gangly white legs, in brown flared cords. It was 1977 in the Pacific Island nation known as Aotearoa, New Zealand. On weekday mornings I felt the wrath of Marilyn’s small, determined hands; brush strokes, tearing my scalp, in an effort to contain fuzzy blonde hair. Marilyn cared. Like a farmyard rooster, she broke our sleep, forced food down unwilling throats and groomed unruly bodies. Marilyn resided over the high gloss, canary yellow kitchen, with faux natural flooring and matching wooden handles. Marilyn also held court in the beige lounge room, between the olive, Sanderson drapes, cheap, European Old Masters and velvet upholstery.
By greenchristine6 years ago in Beat
Behind the beat: til it happens to you
So when you go through something hard or messy it's hard to figure out how to explain what you went through to other people. Imagine when people not only don't get what you went through but they say all the wrong things or they say all those cliches that well meaning people say but they don't really help.
By Lena Bailey6 years ago in Beat
