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.

Treme Brass Band

B&W

Jazz Fest NOLA Bounce dancer

Treme Brass Band New Orleans

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux

Blankets and Wine; Nairobi, Kenya

The Wailers

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and Anders Osborne

Music is Life

Jazz Fest NOLA Bounce Performers

Chief Boudreaux and Anders Osborne; JF NOLA

Brass’ing it up in New Orleans

Gramps Morgan, Humboldt CA ROTR

Blankets and Wine; Nairobi, Kenya.

Bounce Artist New Orleans

JBoog’s crew, ROTR Humboldt, CA

Luke James on Valentine’s Day in New Orleans

Treme Brass Band

Lauryn Hill, New Orleans Jazz Fest

Kymani Marley ROTR Humboldt, CA

Sign says it all…

Duane Stephenson

Fred of Cowboy Mouth, Pensacola FL