It's all coming back, it's all coming back to me know...

So as I may have mentioned before I was a bit of a violin prodigy growing up, I started at age 3 I am told, and took to it like a fish to water. I remember always being extremely passionate about performing, I guess playing the violin is the first time I knew I was a performance whore, I loved the astonished looks of people, the clapping, the whole nine yards.

My mother was the integral part of my playing the violin, for she was a classically trained concert pianist, and I guess even though I am adopted I get my soul and passion for music from her. I used to practice every day for at least an hour, which at some point started getting on my nerves, and I began resenting my mother for pushing me, I must admit if it hadn't been for the violin I wouldn't have seen a lot of the things I have. I have traveled all across the country playing the violin, including a performance at the world renowned Carnegie Hall, natch! Also if it hadn't been for the violin I probably wouldn't have lost my virginity, since I popped my cherry at age 11 with this guy in my violin troupe. But by age 13 I had grown immensely resentful at the violin, and the temper tantrums I threw kept getting bigger and bigger, so I decided to quit the violin, and focus on a new passion of mine...musical theater.

So the violin gathered dust for a while, I took it with me to NYC after one of my trips home, and played it in a couple of musicals, but for the most part it just lay there. One of my biggest regrets to this day is having sold my violin for drug money, I can't believe I gave up something that even though I resented I still had a special place in my heart for. Anyway, let's fast forward to a couple of months ago when I was cast in the AALA show, I came up with this fabulous idea to buy a cheap violin on ebay that was electric blue, because it would be a great addition to the show. I got it, and I have not been able to put it down. First my juices began flowing again when I was asked to put together my music to accompany one of my cast mates in this beautiful song that Sarah Brightman does called Deliver Me. After doing that I have decided to try and get some sheet music to songs I know that I know, and to try and get my brain up and running again and connect it to my fingers. It has been a slow and arduous process, but it is slowly coming back to me. Also last week I decided to buy the books that I learned on, from the Suzuki method. I have been playing around with some of the songs, and the passion is still there, now I just need to get it all coordinated together to make it into beautiful music again. I am just so grateful to sobriety for bringing this beautiful instrument back into my life, and I hope I can do it justice again.

So my music clip for the week is of this amazing violinist name Miri Ben Ari, she is nicknamed the hip hop violinist, she has played with Jay-Z, Wyclef and Kanye among others, and here is her clip of her doing her thang at the Apollo!