"Jimi Hendrix once famously said 'music is my religion', and I think I would consider myself a dedicated member of that church..."

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Like many kids, I grew up with a fair amount of instability, for a multitude of reasons. However, looking back, music was one thing that has remained consistent throughout my life. It's quite difficult to find a point in my life where music doesn't figure into the equation. 

As I have gotten older and became a "student of history", I've come to appreciate how music is one of the coolest things that we do as humans. It's one of the biggest things in cultures across history, time and the countless divisions that tend to be constructed between people. It's part of our blood that travels between our hearts and brains, and for many of us, a huge part of what we call our soul.  

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I remember sitting at dinner and my dad randomly asking "who sings this?", which was a question we got A LOT. It's actually something we still do and I find myself asking my wife and kids, secretly hoping they also receive my love for music. 

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Not too many years later,  my uncle gave me his old Pioneer stack stereo, which set the start of my real love for music. I would sit in my room, drowning out the world. Being a teenager, listening all day, thinking "wow, these songs have a lot of feeling and emotions I am feeling". 

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One of my favorite quotes that fit my teenage years perfectly is "If you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit your friends". 

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Well, I made it out of my teenage years and now get the privilege of annoying my son and daughter (and my wife of course) with "who sings this?" really hoping they can find the same joy that I was able to find in music.