User:Valentine Mac/sandbox

The story behind my music, is a story of living happily through tragedies. I was born May 26th, 1995. In Saint Louis, Missouri at St. John's Mercy Hospital. Where my parents brought me home and began to raise me on the south side of Saint Louis on Oregan and Cheerokee. 6 months into their marriage they divorced, leaving me with my Great Grandmother (Dorothy) and my Great Grandfather (Loyal) and their son my Grandfather (Robert). When I was 6 my mother returned for me. Growing up I faced many obstacles that most kids my age don't experience until their late twenties, and if they're lucky, ever. Like many children, my father was absent for most of my life. We didn't really have much money, so I didn't have most things that other children my age had. While my mother battled the addiction with narcotics, prescription drugs, and men, I struggled to protect my two younger sisters from my mothers husbands and unstable lifestyles. Constantly moving due to my mothers lack of responsibility and nack for danger we were always on the move. In my whole lifetime I have been to over 30 different schools. Giving up my own childhood for my sisters, I had hoped to set a better example and provide better guidance than what our mother had shown. These hardships inspired me to not only be better than the lifestyles I had been sercummed to, but to exceed any and all limitations that anyone swore upon me and my sisters. Being that traumatic events accured more often than usual, I found my self dreaming of something bigger than anything anyone could have ever showed me. I wanted to fill a void that had been missing for so long. I was longing for someone, anyone, to be able to understand and relate to me and my story. It seemed like I was the only adult in the household in my early teens. With no time to make friends, and with no teens that I could relate to, I often was frustrated and lonely. My only escape from reality was to write and dream. I would dream of making it big and making music that other people like me could relate to. To be able to make music that would paint a more vivid picture for people to understand my life, and maybe inspire them to overcome theirs. In short, my music is what my dreams sound like.