The best part of having multiple blogs is that there’s always one of them that can handle pretty much anything one wants to write about. Since I seem to have turned into a 6-month blog writer for this one, I figure I can get away with writing about some of my history as it pertains to my hoping to gain glory and professional accolade, while also trying to keep up with the really big time musical and content stars. How’s that for a preamble? It’s going to be long, but probably not as long as one of my blog posts on a different blog (just under 6,000 words); it’ll definitely have more pictures.

Me at 13;
I was gonna be a star!
Although my overall quest for fame and glory started when I was 13, I actually started taking piano lessons months before I turned 11. I was living in Kansas City, MO, and my grandmother had an old, un-tuned piano that I loved picking tunes on. We didn’t have any sheet music, but Mom thought I might have the possibility of learning how to play, so she found a piano teacher somewhere in the city near a shopping mall we never went to, and I started taking lessons. They only lasted 2 or 3 months because Dad came home from Vietnam, Mom couldn’t take me anymore because Dad was in rehab (which I didn’t know at the time), but the last thing my teacher told Mom is that I might have talent if Mom could find a good teacher wherever we moved.
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