Music. It’s always been a huge part of my life. I remember back when Damon had a party when we were 14 and I brought my cd player. I was intent to dj. Also another childhood friend of mine always wanted to start our own mobile dj company, Starlight DJs. We had a logo and everything. If a new song came out, one of us had it.
One thing I regret about my past is never taking music lessons. I signed up for piano lessons once. I was supposed to show up but never told anyone about it and forgot about it. I sometimes wonder if I had gone to my lessons how it would have changed my life. Would I have played for 6 weeks and dropped it? Perhaps I would have started to dj earlier in my life. Perhaps I never would have gotten into djing and did something else, who knows.
Either way, I know in 1999 I saw an ad in the newspaper that forever changed my life. It read “Looking for DJs. Great pay, will train!”. Attached to it as a number I called. I had just graduated high school, was working 2 jobs at McDonalds and the Board of Education. I could use some extra weekend pay though. From the first show where I watched drunken cops sing 8 different karaoke renditions of Ring of FIre to the last time I spun for a crowd, I know I made the right choice.
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