Music plays a big role in everyday life. Before my 12 hour night shifts at the ER, I would get ready to some thumping reggae, afrobeat, pop or reggaeton music. I have reminisced about my youth to the tune of those golden oldies. Some songs remind me of my Papa when they play, and others remind me of sweet times growing up abroad, others remind me of sad moments but, all in all, music has been a central character in this play that is my life, a welcome veritable soundtrack that, with each song genre, some particular song, paints a vivid memory for me of my life at particular times.

B&W

Treme Brass Band

Blankets and Wine; Nairobi, Kenya.

The Wailers

Jazz Fest NOLA Bounce dancer

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and Anders Osborne

JBoog’s crew, ROTR Humboldt, CA

Treme Brass Band New Orleans

Luke James on Valentine’s Day in New Orleans

Treme Brass Band

Jazz Fest NOLA Bounce Performers

Brass’ing it up in New Orleans

Kymani Marley ROTR Humboldt, CA

Bounce Artist New Orleans

Gramps Morgan, Humboldt CA ROTR

Chief Boudreaux and Anders Osborne; JF NOLA

Fred of Cowboy Mouth, Pensacola FL

Duane Stephenson

Music is Life

Sign says it all…

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux

Lauryn Hill, New Orleans Jazz Fest

Blankets and Wine; Nairobi, Kenya