No I don’t think I am anything like Prince, this is what came up when I searched my image library for music.
When I was a kid I often got complimented on my singing voice. I would sometimes sing not to show off, but because music was inside of me waiting to get out. As you can see with the videos I share, I still have that music passion and interest.
Naturally when it was known in the small town I was in that there was a kids singing group, I wanted to join. Only problem is that you had to have a tryout, and the person running it was known to be very religious and only wanted kids of that religion which I wasn’t one of. Still, I wanted to try and I auditioned.
It was one of the most difficult things in my life. She had me sing the scales, test me with music I did and didn’t know, and saw how I reacted to mistakes like going too fast or too slow. She tested how long I could hold a note, and a ton of things that I never imaged that she would care about. It was at her home and I felt uncomfortable being there first because I had never been there before, but also because she was looking for me to make a mistake.
I don’t know how long the audition was but it felt like an hour. When I finished I thought to myself that I made some small mistakes and that I did my best. She said I was done and I said thank you for giving me a chance and then turned to leave. She said didn’t I want to know how I did. I said that I had made mistakes and that I wished her the best with her group. She smiled and said that I passed and that she would like to formally invite me to her group. I accepted.
I sang with that group for many years until I wasn’t a kid anymore, and it was a great social opportunity. Even though I wasn’t that faith, I meet people who later became my friends in school and assumed that I was their faith. It was a great social opportunity for me in the small town, and it opened doors for me in the future.
The way that we see ourselves is rarely the way others see us.