For a while I had the Church pay for my rent. I tried to look for work, but I was not able successful.


In 2022 my father passed away. It would be the last time I saw Aleia as she would play the piano at dad's funeral.


Gary and I would speak, as would my cousin Natalie, Uncle Nelson, cousin Janaf, and Brother Blake Bloomfield, who presided and conducted the funeral.


The next year, my roommate, Patrick Henry, who watched out for me while I stayed at the sober-living facility, died of stage four cancer.


But something good happened. My friend Paul called me up and told me that I should get back at creating music. So I would look for a music tracker program for the PC. I found one in RENOISE. I really got good at it. The trouble was if I wanted to save it as a wav or pm3 file, I had to pay for the registered program.


A few days later, I would find a digital music workstation software called BANDLAB. I tried it out, and I found myself creating more music, and so I would use both RENOISE and BANDLAB together.


One day I was in X, the social media stie formerly known as Twitter, and I would post if anyone would like to hear about my music journey. I got a reply from THE LOWDOWN, an Internet music radio station whose disc jockey, Adam, is a big fan of my music. Suddenly I found myself being interviewed via Zoom (a video telepnony software program), and a few days later it gets played on the air.


Being the kind of person who likes to share positive accomplishments, I would save the audio file and share it via social media, ie. X , Linked In, Facebook, and Instagram.


Suffice to say that most of my relatives and good friends were surprised by it, as most of them know I sing karaoke, but never knew I created music.


Now that I have created a lot of music, I have a passion for it and hope to monetize my creations soon.