Sailing Full Speed Ahead!: MAMA'S SURGERY- PART ONE

Sailing Full Speed Ahead!: MAMA'S SURGERY- PART ONE: MAMA’S SURGERY Written by Marcia Y. Sewell                                                                       aka SadaBlue...

MAMA'S SURGERY- PART ONE

MAMA’S SURGERY

Written by Marcia Y. Sewell

                                                                      aka SadaBlue

PART ONE

       “C’mon Mama” I said, “Walk up!” Pointing to a corridor to the right. “Here’s the elevator, the Silver Zone is this way!” I got exasperated when she didn’t move. “Mama the nurse said that the Silver Zone is on the third floor!” Mama walked off in the opposite direction, stubbornly insisting that the Silver Zone was in that direction. Her cane made a rickety-click-click

TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS YOU MAY HAVE TO INTERPRET, AND BRING INTO REALITY, THE DREAMS OF OTHERS.

You have graduated from University, earning that higher degree that you have always longed for. You did very well, graduating at the top of your class. Everyone you meet you tell them,  “I am going to do great things in my field of study, I will be climbing the ladder of success heading straight to the top because the industry needs me!”

A reality check kicks in when after sending out hundreds of resumes

Achieving your dreams.

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Everyone has a dream. If you do not have a dream then you are dead and already buried. Every single person has a dream inside of them. A dream that sometimes lies dormant due to our own insecurities and lack of opportunities. All it takes for a dream to be manifested is an opportunity. An opportunity to showcase your gifts and talents, hoping that someone somewhere will see your potential. Just like a basketball player in High School who dribbles the ball and scores against all odds hoping that a Basketball Scout is in the stands watching so that he or she may obtain that valuable scholarship, you have to be ready for that opportunity. You have to want your dream to come through, you cannot just sit and expect an opportunity to just drop in your lap. You have to work at it. It has been said that "opportunity knocks once", so this means that we are to be in a state of expectation at all times for this opportunity. We cannot be sleeping when opportunity comes knocking so some of us have learned to forego the natural desire of sleep in order to achieve our dreams. Some of us have also had to make serious financial sacrifices as well as sacrificing quality family time in our quest towards success. The rewards, if we endure our struggles, are always great. The sense of satisfaction that we get from our achievements will hopefully outweigh all our sacrifices. This sense of satisfaction, however, is only achievable if we include our loved ones and friends on our journey.

I declare that I will achieve my dreams. I will seek out opportunities to achieve my dreams and, best of all, I have become a light sleeper so that no matter what time of the day, or night, that opportunity stops by, he or she will not catch me napping!

The Role of the Artist Manager in Negotiating the Recording Contract

 I find the negotiations of contracts in the music industry to be a very fascinating subject. I have always wondered about who really took charge of these negotiations, was it the Artist, the Artist Manager or the hired Entertainment Lawyer? I wondered

Wanted: A Development Program for Future Jamaican Athletes

The World Championships are over, preparations have started in earnest for the 2016 Olympics. It is such a pity that in 2015 some Jamaican athletes are still being treated 'despicably' by the powers that be. One would think that when Asafa Powell

JAMAICAN YARD SAGA: NUH WHEY NUH BETTA DAN YARD!

Before sports became the darling of the Jamaican culture, music was the centre stage of all enjoyment...reggae music took Jamaica to the world stage via Jimmy Cliff, Millie Small, Desmond Dekker and Bob Marley. From my little place in Kingston 13, Channel One ruled on Maxfield Avenue. You could stay at the bottom of Waltham Park Road and hear the music thumping not to mention the other HiFis in the area, plus my home stereo....lol....All genre of music was played on the street where I grew up and neighbors would try to outdo each other....it was fun.

 When Big Dances in the area became the norm, my friends and I would try to find some excuse to go up the road (Maxfield Avenue).....King Stur Gav HiFi (Stereograph), Kilamanjaro, Jah Love, Stereophonic, Stone Love, King Tubby, Black Scorpio, Afrique, Silver Hawk and Metro Media, to name a few, were the sound systems that played good music. Loved when Silver Hawk 'string up' and they would play "The Hawk, the Hawk is coming through".....Afrique had a signature tune too, once they started playing it everyone knew that Afrique was in the area!

By the time I moved to Portmore in St. Catherine, it was a new musical experience. This was my introduction to 'House Parties', every weekend there was a party in Edgewater, Bridgeport, Independence City and Passage Fort! We would walk from party to party...yes walk...the good old days. Sounds like Xanadu and Love Child were assured of their following. I remember one time at a party in Edgewater we were alerted to the time only because we heard roosters crowing.....DWL....in those times there was no Noise Abatement Act....you just turn down the music a little and tell your neighbors that you'll soon 'lock off de set'....lol.....
Then there was Rae Town on a Sunday Night...oldies ruled. Persons from Uptown and Downtown and Cross de Waters mixed up just by the power of music....good times...I remember my relatives coming from overseas wanting to go there just to enjoy real good Jamaican music. Passa Passa on Spanish Town Road where Dancehall Music reigned. Fun and laughter and persons having a good time were the order of the night and morning too.  Once again Uptown and Downtown and Cross de Waters mixed up just by the power of music. With the addition of overseas guests, the Japanese and Europeans, it became a blast and a great money earner. This mid week occasion held every Wednesday, however, was a traffic deterrent to persons traversing the route to go about their business on a Thursday morning. It was not fun or laughter for these persons.

The Uptowners now have their own thing depending on the day of the week. Weddy Weddy Wednesdays etc.

Fast forward to today, Jamaican sports icons, like every Jamaican you meet, love their reggae music. We cheer when we see them at the Athletic Meets, the World Games and the Olympics, dancing the latest reggae moves and 'singing' the latest reggae songs. The crowds roar when they see this. Jamaican music is a brand that is expected of Jamaicans everywhere they go. This euphoria however is not expected to carry over to where one lives according to the latest Jinx report.

I stay bolted to see what transpires from this latest saga.....Still....nuh whey nuh betta dan yard..