I Love . . .

I Love . . .


Pretty notebooks where I can write a world within it of stories from things I have seen. I love to write songs based on my experiences and some not, but whatever I write, it has a bit of my life represented in it.

And I love . . .


going into the studio and laying my written words down onto a track and turning mere lyrics into a melodic tune that is singable with hopes to share it and perhaps perform it in the future.

And I love . . . 

This dress. I saw it and just knew I had to have it. It fits well. It is loose and comfortable on my body. The colors are energetic. I love how it falls on the shoulders. Perfect for an outdoor music festival. I am short and so, a long dress makes me look a little bit taller. And so, I love that it falls just below my ankles.  It was a nice day outside and perfect for a pretty spring time look. 

And I love . . .

My friends who are always there, having my back and lending their ears when I need to vent or when I want them to simply listen and give me feedback. And I love that they lend their voices and share stages with me. They are incredible singers and great friends.

And I love . . . 

JNote Band who from the beginning when I had my vision, stuck with me and were very patient with me trying to do my original music. To take the time to learn songs that you do not know that is not popular on the radio and is new content that the public may not have even heard yet is really beautiful and such a blessing. Thankful to have such decent and wonderful people in my corner. 

And I love . . . 

That I had experienced and seen things beyond my frontier to make me want to talk about love and the world and the importance of unity. It is more important to see the world with your own eyes than with someone else's description. It is more important to plant your feet on your own understanding of people than to judge them based on stigmas. It is important to remember that no two people were built the same and everybody comes with their own uniqueness that is worth taking at full value, even if you do not understand who they are or how they go about things and to love them without limits. We all have stories. We all have our own songs and dances. We all lived life in our own way, carry our own baggage, and strive in our own setting. 

I love . . . "Love No Limit" and hope you might find the time to check it out and maybe, you'll love it too. https://youtu.be/TewqxBCx-Dg

So what do you love? Share some of the favorite thigns that you love? 

Despite your Circumstances, Smile And Enjoy Life

“Do what you’re made for, yes, but then get better and better;

eradicate weakness, yes, but only within strength”

– Jim Collins

I am infamous for allowing vivid memories of the past, be the thicket of briers that I keep falling into and getting bruised all over again for something that is way beyond the current time restraint that I am in. Imagine being someone who is keeled over exhaustion from running backwards into sobering reminders of yesterday.

So what? I was tattered and torn. Darn scars! So what? I fell victim of my own mistakes. Darn detours! So what? The events of the moment that don’t seem so great stimulate thoughts that can mask a smile. Darn Debby downers! So What? Finances are climbing. Darn bills! So What? The driver next to me just cut me off two seconds off of getting snipped. Darn Road Rage! It has become alarmingly obvious to me that these things are a part of life and you just have to deal with it; plus there have been more good days than bad and the good needs to be acknowledged just as much as the bad! Maybe celebrated even more. 

“Today’s clouds can never deny yesterday’s beautiful sunset.

The inconvenience of today’s storms can never turn us from tomorrow’s harvest”

– Nikki Giovanni

I had the opportunity to perform my original tune, “Enjoy Life” live with the JNote Band and it was a great experience to come before the masses and to do it for the first time and share my story in a song. Sometime it takes encouraging yourself to come to the reality of a situation. Check It out here: https://youtu.be/yW9t5G82i68

I have found out that it is more important to thrive and to grow from these things. I have discovered that falling allows you the wings to fly higher than any bird in the sky. I have come to realize that your thoughts about your own self hold magnitude. It is better to think good about who you are and the possibilities than to stack your plate at the negativity buffet. 

Better to set out with confidence and greet each new day with a welcoming smile. The sun itself is pleasing to the eye and it is easier to take on the world with a measure of confidence and to enjoy life. For what is life without a little spice? A smile might just be that pinch of spice to make your life that much sweeter. 

S is for Singing My Song

I had an opportunity to get on the stage with JNote Band at Shrine World Music Venue to do a concert featuring all original music. 

It is not often that I get to do something like this and so when the opportunity arose, it felt really good to focus on lyrics that I brought to life in a song. One of the many songs I sang was "I Am The One" which is the first of seven tracks on the album Finally JNote with lyrics by Stephanie Jeannot and music by Mike LeShore. 

I hope that you will take the time to check out the live performance of the song here: https://youtu.be/7PV_yItyIZA

Hope you enjoyed watching the live rendition of the song with JNote Band. It was a fun night of music and just being able to express myself and to share my songwriting with people willing to listen makes a difference for me and I am grateful for it. 

NYIAS

Ironically, it was an eventful day the whole entire day. I had just left Girls Night Out at the New York International Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and that event set the tone for my drive on the stage.

Anything to keep the wheels turning and to put my energy into full gear. If you liked the song, check out the original song on CDBaby, and maybe it will resonate with you enough to want to download it. 

Thank you for checking out my blogpost!

#SongwriterWednesday: Stephanie Jeannot's Finally JNote

It is songwriter Wednesday and being that I am one, I thought I'd let you know that I have an album featuring all original content. 

"Finally JNote" is the title of my album which was released on September 11, 2016 and it is available on CDBaby. It features seven original tunes which I wrote. Five of them (tracks 1-4 & 7) were works created with producers Mike LeShore and Fred Simmons. I created all the music on tracks 5 & 6. All lyrics, vocals and vocal arrangements by Stephanie Jeannot.

Your support is most definitely appreciated. Here is the link: http:// www.cdbaby.com/cd/stephaniejeannot3 

If you have not already, get your copy today! 

Thank you for supporting Indie. 

#tbt HARMONY

Seems like yesterday when I set out to meet producer, Paul Garrod in Herman Griem Park in Wheatley Heights, NY to film the video for the tune "Harmony." I wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music to this song and also blessed me with the opportunity to film a video for it. 

Seems ironic to have come into harmony with a person to do something that we do not do on a daily basis and to make it work without any drama or issues but with the same mindset of completing something and making our goals come into fruition which was to have a final product of a video and for "Harmony" to also be the title of the song and the moving frame.

After three wardrobe changes in my car, we had something to work with. He did such a great job at editing, using nature's own greens as a green screen to add cool special effects to it. 

Check out the full video if you'd like here: https://youtu.be/Et2DjrOKJAo?list=PLtEabtb9kz4JfOcuFHckwPhoyjqiYJTdq 

Thank you everyone for checking out my blog post. Have a harmonious day! 

My Teacher Made Me Do It! Happy World Teacher's Day!

It wasn’t my fault that we got caught underneath the cover of the sky when the sun came and claimed it. 

We had been told many times to go out and face tomorrow, but it wasn’t our fault that it was already tomorrow. Early morning for that matter and time to go back and to do what we were used to doing routinely in the structure of our lives.

Some may have had genuine concern for us because we hadn’t slept. We never worried. We just jumped in the shower and went about our business. We were always  jittering with excitement about what was next on our agenda. We had learned to go with the flow of things since we had been doing these crazy things for quite a bit of time now. Um like forever! 

We never were in a position where we would be frozen by fear over not being able to accomplish the task for the day though we were almost on empty after we’d been running almost 48 hours without sleep. We owned the night and then we owned the day no matter what; even if our heads never hit the pillow and our hearts beat violently because our engine never rested.

But then you come to a point when you realize and accept with openness that you are not young anymore. It is sad, but I will admit that I am bathed with shame over the things my body can no longer withstand because I am no spring chicken. Sometimes I weep in the darkness over the fact that I must sleep in order not to overrun myself because I now get tired. And then I realized that relaxation and creativity go hand in hand.

It wasn’t my fault on the night when I decided to honor myself and give into the thousand count thread pillows that were calling my name. My energy was plummeting. How could I run like a sheep with no shepherd? I could hardly keep my eyes open to even see what was before me. And that is when I realized that everything must change like the season changes from summer to autumn. I must change with it. 

I have vivid memories of my childhood. I may have gone spinning out of control a bit. Okay, a lot but, it echoes in my heart because it was good. 

I shook my groove thang. I fell, and got up. I learned new things in the process. I wasn’t this delicate flower that fell to the ground because I was unable to shine my worth with true conviction in the sun. I was bold. I was tough. Yet still, I did not truly accept my own being or value the temple that was the whole of me then but I am different now. 

I know my purpose. I can smile triumphantly. I am victorious. And I am growing with strength for real because last year around this time and the years before that, I got depressed and cried a bit when my birthday was approaching and I knew the number of year would go up again. LML! But, my slant on life has changed. I have a broader perspective. I am at peace with myself. I feel purposeful. I can happily look back over my life and say triumphantly, "Je suis toujours La" and the joy that I now feel about that truth ain’t my fault!

Speaking of being Toujour La,  last year for my final project in my French class, my teacher made us do a presentation of our choosing completely in French. I could say thank God I am Toujour La after trying to complete such a difficult task. 

Yeah, I have Haitian roots and yes the official language of Haiti is French, but try to speak it in my home and I am told to speak in English. I am not the best at it., LOL! But I chose to write a song and entitled it "Toujour La."  I apologize to all you true French speaking people out there. I tried my best to complete an entire tune in French and it is on Soundcoud and I hope you will listen here: https://soundcloud.com/stephanay-jnote/toujour-la-by-stephanie-jeannot

I can only blame my teacher. She made me do it. SMH! She was the best of the best of teachers though. Happy world teacher’s day to you Dr Ruiz. You made me do it. I needed a grade. You gave me one. I passed my class. I graduated with high honors. I did it for the educational value. But in truth it wasn’t my fault.

Things Kids Say

When your little nephew starts saying things like dang this song is lit, you know that he ain't no baby anymore, 

And that he actually likes your music. Smiling!!!

But . . . 

When did he start saying dang? What! Lit? Smh! Check it out for yourself here: 

https://itun.es/us/I2kLeb?i=1150594889 

Crocheting A Love Song

Have you ever heard my original song "Crocheted" or seen 

the video? 

It was a song inspired by my 

love for crocheting weaved 

into the concepts of love 

and the video was shot, one 

skein at a time,  inside of a 

park in the North Babylon 

section of  Suffolk County 

in New York. 



If not, here is a #tunefortuesday for you that 



I hope you will take the time to watch the 



full length video on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=kjkGWjqJDvM&feature=youtu.be 

By the way! I did all the video editing and post production for 

the video. Lyrics by Stephanie Jeannot. Music by Derrick 

Smith.

Finally JNote

All the tailor made excuses would not summarize the reason I waited so long.

Writing my own music was always something that I highly favored over anything else and even if told through a different lens, any explanation would be like climbing the most obvious hurdles and raise eyebrows.

Perhaps I can say a shattered spirit might have been the cause of my human imperfection.  But as I looked around and saw the debilitating ailments of the people around me bringing tears to my eyes, I started to think of the possibility of my expiration date coming without ever truly doing something of great enormity because I simply didn't try. All my music would then be locked away like a big secret, never shared and it hurt my heart to think of all these things. Call me emotion driven but, these are the course of events that set off the earnest effort to press towards one of my many goals to the point where I am today.

Finally JNote

On September 11, 2016, Finally JNote which is an album of seven original tunes by Stephanie Jeannot will be available on Amazon, CDBaby and Itunes. All lyrics on the album were written by Stephanie Jeannot. The music on tracks 1-4 & 7 were produced by Mike LeShore and Fred Simmons. The music on tracks 5 & 6 were produced by Stephanie Jeannot.

This album was independently published and contains child-friendly lyrics that can touch across all cultures. I don’t like to classify myself into any single genre but if I were to pick one, I would call it R&B/Soul.  

With the gravity of the situation at hand, I wanted to give you all a little taste of what to expect in hope that you will head over to the aforementioned websites and download my music. It will be listed under my name which is Stephanie Jeannot.

Thank you for taking the time to check out my blogpost and I look forward to connecting with you once again in the near future.

God bless!