HAPPY BIRTHDAY YASMIN!!!

Yasmin Baker is the very talented pianist AND vocalist I met through performing with Shakka's band. She also accompanied me and duncan james on my performance and long road trip to CIRENCESTER and recently on one of my favourite songs on my upcoming album.

If you see myself or Shakka perform, after us (hopefully), one of the first things you will notice (apart from the talent of the entire band) is Yasmin behind her keyboard dancing her HEART OUT to the point you start to wonder if she is ACTUALLY playing the keyboard - I mean she moves more than I do and shouts out and backs my verses more than shakka does...lol...but trust me...she plays keys with the best of them!!!

More than anything though, I consider her musical family now so when her 20th birthday plans fell through, me and the band got together to throw her a surprise "do"....here's how it went (Drama's included)!!

HAPPY BDAY YAS!!

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Knew we were trouble

Hope you enjoy the video above. I really really feel what Mr Hudson is doing - I first saw him a while back at a Kanye concert he was opening for - I went straight home and found his blog and was the FIRST PERSON EVER to leave a comment on his FIRST POST EVER ( HERE - the bread and roses post). Then I got his album at the time "Bread and Roses" and realised this dude has got something VERY special.

So yea man, I took his tune (from his new album "Straight no chaser"), looped it over and got some random things off my chest - namely the fact that music has taken over my life and technically it has been "Trouble" from the start. Without music, I wouldve focused soooo much time, effort and money elsewhere in my life and I could be in a completely different space. Fortunately, this path is nothing that I regret - so this song is not a regret song.....its more of an observation.

HOPE YOU LIKED IT!!