The Sweet Love of Music that Never Grows Old

“It’s sad to grow old but nice to ripen.” 

– Sharon Lechter

I remember when I was just this little girl turning on the radio and singing along to whatever was playing. I can tell you in truth that I had a million favorites back then and still do.

Now, I don’t only listen along and sing, but I cover many songs as well.  I have about 200 or more songs in my repertory that spans over many different genres and perform many of them when I am blessed with the opportunity to. I guess you can say, I have a very eclectic musical taste. I can thank my mother for that who had me listening to John Denver, Donna Summer, Nana Mouskouri, Placido Domingo and Tabou Combo. She would sing them too while cooking and I think the seed for it landed in the patch of soil where I was planted. 


My dad sang and would always make sure to flex his tenor voice at church and I would be impressed hearing him sing with force, the classical hymns that the musicians would play on the cool pipe organ that was at our church. My older sister liked to sing and dabbled in rapping. She was so cool, she would put on music and have little dance parties with us while growing up and it always felt so wonderful and fun. Love for music was born and still resides here but I think way more proportioned than I would have ever imagined. 

This week, a singer who my older sister used to listen to a lot when I was growing up that I fell in love with listening to known as the songstress, Anita Baker, celebrated her birthday.

I was excited last night to be able to do a little tribute to her, covering a song that never seems to get old in my heart, though I am getting grayer and more frail as the days go by. The song was “Sweet Love.”

I love the lyrics. I love the melody. I loved how she sang it with so much passion and soul. And so, on my way back from a recording session I had in West Haven, CT, I stopped by The Living Room II where Malika Mo and her band were hosting a wonderful night of music and she opened up the stage and allowed me to do a song and there, I got to vocalize and share my interpretation of that cool tune.

I hope you will indulge just a bit and check it out on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/1KsOLyKE6ik

Thank you for checking out my blogpost everybody. Have a pleasant weekend!