Soon to come! A cover of “Safe and Sound”! So looking forward to this one. Three vocal tracks, an epic guitar part, and a bass. Maybe more… It’ll be good.
Teaser for “Safe and Sound”
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WinterJam 2013
The beginning of a wonderful week for me started with WinterJam Extravaganza 2013!
For those of you who don’t know, WinterJam is an annual Christian concert. This year, a total of twenty three people from my youth group went and joined ten thousand people at the Sears Centre in Chicago. I think I can speak for everyone when I say it was a blast! We all sang until our throats were sore, clapped until our hands hurt, jumped until our legs were about to collapse, but most importantly, praised God until it brought tears to our eyes.
Something started there. 
During this concert, God moved. When the time came, almost everyone in my youth group stood and rededicated their lives to Christ.
On the car ride home, my van leader asked us kids why we stood. That sparked a conversation and then another and another. That car ride was the best ride of my life. Prayer, praise, confessions, expectations, reality, hurts, concerns were all poured out.
We kids were serious about our rededication. Really serious. God is real. He’s not dead. He’s living on the inside roaring like a lion! He is surely alive!
But life isn’t always a “ride”. There’s something big about to happen. We all feel it. Some struggle or battle. Life isn’t always a mountain top experience. There are valleys too. But God will see us through.
All us kids that stood are keeping in contact with each other. We decided we wanted to start the day out with a song of praise. Over facebook, we are sharing worship songs, bible verses, and just encouraging each other everyday to serve God and surrender to his perfect will.
There’s one song that has a special meaning for all of us. Tobymac sang it, and we sang it on the ride home. Then in church the next day it was sung for worship. And even in other places like my friends sign language class the song was played. I’d like to share it with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E
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Skyfall Cover
Over Thanksgiving and Christmas break, my brother and I did a cover to Adele’s song Skyfall that’s featured in the new James Bond movie. Nate played drums and piano and I sang all the parts. Just to make things interesting, we decided to make a music video to go along with the epic music. Altogether, it took 20 hours of filming and recording, not to mention all the practicing, to make it happen. This song was a particular challenge because 1) this song is at then end of my range — I’m such a soprano — and 2) because Adele sang it first. But thanks to my voice instructor, I muddled through. Nate and I hope to do another cover soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gSPYSLI5-g
To the Sound of Praise
This year in school I am learning about Church History starting immediately after Jesus death’. Now I am right before the dark ages. For this assignment I had to write a poem/song telling about someone’s death and heroism. Since I had just read about Nero’s persecution of the Christians I decided to write about that.
Through ages they grew, grew
A people made new, new
Lost their lives
To gain true life
To serve poor and rich alike
To shine their bright light
To shine the bright light
Part of the world, yes part part
Yet always apart, part, part
Turned their cheek
Tried to be meek
Loved their enemies
Loved, yes always loved
Loved, yes loved
Because of their ways, ways
They were given bad names, names
love returned with hate
Scorn and berate
And light was turned to night
And people turned to fright
And people turned to fright
Locked away they were, were
Old, young, him and her, her
And out they were taken
And murdered like their begotten
To the sound of singing
To the sound of praise
The sound of praise
Colorful Song lyrics
Have you ever felt so in the dark
You wanna shine your light, wanna be a star
You wanna fit in but yet stand out
You wanna show ’em what you’re all about
But they don’t care, they don’t think you’re wonderful
They don’t know inside you’re really… colorful!
(chorus)
I’m gonna shine, I’m gonna take this life and make it mine
I’m gonna gleam, I’m gonna glow
cuz I’m colorful…
don’t ya know
Everywhere you go you get pushed down
Even though you’re trying to stand your ground
You try to be at peace with your mind and soul
But when you think you got it sorted you lose all control
You don’t want to feel so dark and gray
You wanna be colorful in every way!
(chorus)
I don’t wanna always have to hide who I am on the inside
Cuz my heart is full of beauty it’s true
and so I’m singin’ to you
(chorus)
(echo)
Colorful …..colorful…..(etc)