Seleyna's cultural journey

 For this blog I choose to interview my mom. My mom was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. My mom has fulfilled every role I have ever needed. My mom has my greatest role model and inspiration to do tough and challenging things. We have a larger age gap than most parents and their kids, so we butt heads about certain things, but she has always been my number one supporter and someone I can look up to.  I started out asking her if she even liked music to begin with, she said yes and that her favorite genre is worship music. She does not like heavy metal, I can totally agree with her on this one. Her earliest memory of music is when she was six years old. Elvis Presley, Micheal Jackson,Lionel Richie, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, and Aretha Franklin are among the biggest artists when she was growing up. I asked if her parents liked the music she listened to growing up, and she said that her grandfather didn't like the music because he thought it was annoying ...

When I was a little girl I grew up listening to a lot of pop, or what was just playing on the radio. I ended up listening to a lot of Taylor Swift. As I have grown up I have stopped listening to her as much and drifted away from her music, but I still listen to a few of her songs here and there. One of my very first purchases was her original 1989 album. I would beg my mom to play it each car ride and I would stay in the car even after the car ride ended. As I grew up and she started to remake her albums, I was first exposed to inequality in music due to gender. I caught a glimpse of how unequal life can be as a woman versus as a man. I know that is a very controversial  topic, and times are changing, this instance holds true to me.       I'm sure some of you know what topic I am going to bring up, but I do think it is important to take a deeper dive as to why I choose this topic. Taylor swift was working with a music producer Scooter Braun previously ...

  Hi  all, my name is Seleyna Nichols, and I am a freshman. I am originally from upstate New York. Growing up I listened to many genres of music, I owe this to the fact that I danced my whole life. I started out dancing at six years old as a ballet and tap dancer. I outgrew these types of dance, and quickly moved on to modern, hiphop, jazz, and lyrical. In the beginning years of my dance career I also played piano. Although I  did not enjoy playing music as much as I do listening and moving to it, I will always hold a special place in my heart for the art. I am thankful for my experiences that I gained playing the piano. It taught me various things, such as how to read music, to conquer difficult tasks, and to not give up. As I stated before I grew up in upstate New York. I grew up in a small town named Oneonta. I had lived 90 percent of my life there, but I knew that I could not be the best version of myself if I had stayed there. I loved my small town, but since I grew ...