User:Desi Highfill

Desi was born in Atchison, Kansas as Destiny Elizabeth Highfill on July 16, 1996. When Desi was a baby her parents found out she suffered a disease called asthma. She's lived in Kansas all her life. She currently attends Atchison Middle School. She loves life and believes that everyone should treat others with respect. In her fifth grade year she preached nothing, but peace and ended up reading peace poems wrote by peacemaker Mattie J.T Stepanek and soon started writing her own. She loves to write, sing, and make videos of herself playing her keyboard and herself singing. Her inspirations to learning guitar are Ritchie Valens, Dion, her brother, her nephew, and her friend for 3 months Alix. She has played guitar since she was five years old, but she put it down for a long time and now she's wanting to pick it back up and learn to play it. She believes in trying new things. Her favorite foods are pizza and spaghetti. Her favorite drinks are Dr.Pepper, Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Rootbeer, Water, Tea, and chocolate milk. Her main favorite colors are black, red, grey, blue, yellow, and orange. Her favorite music is rock, punk rock, and rock'n'roll. She loves to listen to the music from the 1950's and 1960's. She met the last member of 1950's group The Flamingos; Terry Johnson. Her favorite places in the world is Bronx, New York, Hollywood, Florida, Boca Raton, Florida, and Rome, Italy. Her favorite movies are the Scary Movies one, two, three, and four, Mall Cop, School of Rock, Twist Around the Clock (1961), Teenage Millionaire (1961), Don't Knock the Twist (1962), La Bamba starring Lou Diamond Phillips, and Frankie Avalon movies including The Alamo. She loves history and she says she got her historical side from her grandmother. She doesn't connect very well to small towns, but she loves her small town roots. She is a family girl. If she sees or hears something she doesn't agree with she'll stand up and fight for what she believes in and for herself. She loves to be with her family, friends, and her music. She loves to write songs on her spare time as well.