406 PRESENTING THE ARTIST.
hi every one,my name is David chijioke Ibekwe A.K.A
SAFARI 24 years old.
This name comes from a personal characteristic of me approaching the music and life, been always a natural expression and a something coming from any feeling or emotive state of mind i’ve been through,basically something coming from my love and connection with Africa as my back ground is Nigerian,and the love for travelling the world,as i was burn in Italy and now living in England. But this name is covering other aspects of me, musically talking is about my versatility on different styles,when i was young i had music influences of different genres,from deep house music to reggae roots and various,and i mean that is a trip all over those music characteristics,at the age of 16 i was dj and were playing house and tekno music,but at the same time i was mad for the hold school hip hop and african caribbean music,the name Safari is meaning even my ability on singing in different styles and uniq melodies and with this i mean for example the variety of animals you can see in the Savannah. and regarding my life story i find my self with this name cause in the savannah is dangerous and plenty of predators and prey,and this how the world look like,my life back in the days been problematic and difficult,and i try to take the reality of that wild in my past experience,cause i’ve seen my self as a prey then realised that i cud be the predator.
I am a song writer an singer originally from Nigeria but burn and rase up in Italy in a city named Perugia placed in a region of the central part of Italy called Umbria.Music is life and my philosophy about it,my style of music is mostly about african/caribbean rap hip hop origins but i’ve experimented different kinds of music on my own artist development.
I felt in love with the songwriting when i was 18,i remember my first songs and i remember the heat i had everyday to go home after school to write songs and express my feelings,my parents they weren't home that much,if that day i was happy angry or sad it was the solution to vent me,music always been an escape,writing been the remedy of an everyday mater, was basically writing everyday,sometimes i was writing even in class and the teachers were complaining continually,i wasn’t the example of the best schoolboyfor my very energetic character,but that was the signal for me to start studying something different.All started as a game was challenging my class mates with the freestyle,i remember that at that time was a crap,we were joking about avery thing.when i started writing was in english cause i preferred,was seeing my musicality more in english than in Italian language.the first song i’ve wrote was on the beat of Dr.dree and snoop dog(still dree) i was madly loving that beat and i was madly loving hold school rap, basically was what i was mostly listening to,snoop dog,2pac,notorious big,fugees and many more but because my family really likes music so much i was influenced by many different artists,big names like bob marley,lucky dube,fela kuti michael jackson,growing up my education been made about african american and jamaican music.i remember when i was in fifth grade,we use to create shows for our parents and in many occasions i been playing percussions,to be honest my innate rhythm that time surprise everyone,my age and my talent surprised the teachers,even for the exams of music i performed playing percussions.Me and my older brother we use to take the jambes dad was selling and we use to play around all time in our youngest years,and we been playing it with a very conscientious rhythm.
At 18 when i started embracing the music in a different way i was in love with the rap and bashment world,and i wanted to sing and perform good as they was doing and my dream was to sing and dance in front of big crowds of people screaming dancing and singing along my music.i was fascinated by the connection these artists had with the audience,i always been someone loves to connect and communicate with people,and music revels as my best way to do it.
i got clear reminds about my young kid,use to play football for years,and i was very good at it, at that time thought was all my life,it was the thing was kipping me alive and out from problems.My father was a musician around his 20ʹs he was playing base for a music band,and i remember him playing sometimes on Sundays or playing vinyls of high life Nigerian music,he been playing various, of different countries also,i remember lucky dube tapes planty,remember congolese music,cofi olamide or on the american pop soul music of sade,me and my older brother were living with my dad,and on the weekends my other older brother was coming to pic us up from dad home that were in (assisi) and he was taking us to mum home in (perugia).my holder brother is a music enthusiast tho,and he was dj when i was younger,and at that time his car speakers where totally modified to be loud.when he was coming out the street we knew it for the loud music he was playing,he was listening mostly dancehall/soca caribbean music and afrobeats,my mother was owner of an african restaurant/pub/club,when me an my brother was visiting on the weekends, we was always there at the restaurant an always between people and music. in my city Perugia and in the cities surrounding it we have a big community of people listening house,deep house soulful house & techno music. I been playing football from the 5 years old till my 19.sins i was younger i always been going school and
and football with my earphones,always had music on me,was listening before any football competition,buss schooling the street.I never thought before my 17 years old that i had this natural passion for music and may was more than a listening thing.ive started writing songs at 18, started with reggae music and rap,day after day my belief about the music world was stronger,when was on secondary school been studying at industrial technical institute,but never felt in love with it till diploma.i’ve started writing songs more or less everyday for this years i where living in Italy i’ve started working with some friends,we started recording and making projects after two years of training and work,i came out with a mix tape,and i had an amazing reaction from people,they was liked it, i was surprised and happy cause never thought that the music i been listening for all my life where what was making me feel good,was surprised someone cud ever like it,ive recorded many songs randomly in that years remember even the raw quality of all and the getting better time over time i been spending in to music,after the mix tape i’ve done an album of 11 tracks but i never released it,I'm planing to release it this months forward.
it.i’ve always been attracted from Afrobeats/caribbean music but my roots coming from old school rap,soul r&b and funky jazz,i got many mentors,and i think my mains that gave life to the music im doing today are singers like stevie wonder,fela kuti,bob marley ,marvin gaye,whitney houston,de la soul,fuggies,soul to soul,
2pac ,B.I.G,Erika badu, method man and many more,music in this years teached me that the listening is one of the best ways to learn,I had influeces by many different types of
music,that’s why today i can not say that i’ve a one mentor.furthermore i can not really give an identity to my style,i’ve started with reggae/dancehall music been doing some rap aswell on many songs,and the album that i’ve never relise was a well done mix of types of
music,from reggae to hip hop fanky soulfull house and dancehall, had other experiences with music,im temperamentally a charismatic person and,that aspect of me helped me on all the live performances i’ve done till today..My first performance been to a event in a club called LIDO,was a freestyle and singing competition,i’ve won the singing one,I never been in many freestyle competitions cause i never been singing in italian apart from a couple songs,was been speaking italian for most of my life so for me been difficult to sing or rap freestyling in english at that time.i was writing more than freestyling was spending most of my day inside my room doing it.for a period i been working every day,after school with my friends,ive performed many times around my city,know im in London from more or less 3 years and im working full time in a bar,i got many things to learn about music many times i feel like im waisting my time doing something different than music,i would love to work full time in the music business and have more time for focus in what i really love and i enjoy to do,to improve it with all my might and kip and make it professional..And i know that the occasions are not many but if it were given to me i’ll do my best to handle it.
Being a Nigerian originally but born in Italy as many others i got my own particular identity,i can not say that i am fully Nigerian as i can not say i am fully Italian,my identity is not clare but is unique,i got a big part of Nigerian culture in me but a big Italian to.
I can relate my own identity to someone representing my generation and the change the world going through,no language assigned to colour,milting pot, love and unity.I can relate my artist identity to music talking to many people in different languages,i can relate my identity as the voice of people that like me coming from different parts of the heart living in Italy and all around the world.
I want my image to be a prove of self made man,i want my image to be simple cause i am simple and i come from a humble family,I want to give power to people coming from districts like mine,big cities around the world,people from villages in Africa and in all the world,i want to encourage people and make them understand that nothing is impossible as is something I’m fighting for,i really feel part of the people and ordinary people is what i want to represent. my first experiences with music have begun at the age of 18, with the help of a friend that was owing a little studio in his house,he’s holder than me of two years and he was already in the music for a bit longer than me, i started to record songs on rap and reggae character i had the first contact with the recording in a studio well equipped,i started to have a clear image of what i was doing little by little,before publishing the first songs i been writing and recording random songs for months,i been performing straight way,when something was ready we was looking for a performance to show what we made,so i was improving even my confidence to performance at the first real concrete contact with the performing artist world,and i been making my confidence trying to improve and give more value on the work we been doing,especially that year we worked a lot,we been performing as well on events.we relies my first ,mix tape.when we relies the mixtape i had a good feedback from the people,and even if my music was raw still, my singing gave me a reason to put it on work harder.
i started to perform my mixtape around my city i been performing in different situations.in some way i feel very prepared for live performances,i think is one of my strongest aspects,after the mixtape we start working on an album called (I’m on the run).my first mixtape was more reflected to artist and mentors i was in to, like the public enemies snoop dog, sizzla,elephant man tony matterhorn
The project we running with urban development is a research project about analysing the artist and developing how to improve personal creativity,live performances, management and promotion of the product by social networks ,how to sell the product,process of the music production,how to work with other musicians,how to solve problems with intellectual thinking,how to make of weaknesses strengths,how to organise and manage projects to have a clear communication with the public,how to provide good material to the music industry using the action technique of questioning(Needs,aims,input,action,output,outcome).
with urban development in the foreground we been presenting ourselves artist knowledge and we were asked to chose images we liked, to motivate the choice and to express the essence of does, we were asked to tell about our background and previous music experiences and influences,we been discussing about whats behind an artist,whats the purpose and all of this here an artist is surrounded, which is very important cause many times artists are not really reflecting on whats behind them own music and we don’t give much attention to what we trying to achieve instead having a clear idea analyzing step by step.We basically did an in-depth research about our selves and how to give more value to our actions.
my intentions with the music are ambitious but not in a bad way,for me is not just a business or a clue for fame,anyone loves success but for me music is a life style,is something that not many people in this world fully understand,for some is just lots of words notes and sounds blended together giving instant pleasure, for others is just music without no reason behind it,for us musician music is expression of human beings lives,music is an escape from difficulties of everyday, is a sound of joy for who’s sad is dedication of love for who’s loving and power for who’s weak.the melodies of music touching our soul and the power of the words enlighten our minds,As we seen in the story of it music can be a weapon.
people told me’’i don’t understand people wanted to be famous,and don’t even like the ideas they share’‘i agreed with them about the ideas that some of them share but i’ve answered,fame is a consequence of an action,not all the people that become famous decide to get it,we got examples of people came from nothing that achieve dreams with passion hard work and devotion without any material issue between them intentions.
20′s he was playing base for a music band,and i remember him playing sometimes on Sundays or playing vinyls of high life Nigerian music,he been playing various, of different countries also,i remember lucky dube tapes planty,remember congolese music,cofi olamide or on the american pop soul music of sade,me and my older brother were living with my dad,and on the weekends my other older brother was coming to pic us up from dad home that were in (assisi) and he was taking us to mum home in (perugia).my holder brother is a music enthusiast tho,and he was dj when i was younger,and at that time his car speakers where totally modified to be loud.when he was coming out the street we knew it for the loud music he was playing,he was listening mostly dancehall/soca caribbean music and afrobeats,my mother was owner of an african restaurant/pub/club,when me an my brother was visiting on the weekends, we was always there at the restaurant an always between people and music.i been playing football from the 5 years old till my 19.sins i was younger i always been going school and
football with my earphones,always had music on me,was listening before any football competition,buss schooling the street.I never thought before my 17 years old that i had this natural passion for music and may was more than a listening thing.ive started writing songs at 18, started with reggae music and rap,day after day my belief about the music world was stronger,when was on secondary school been studying at industrial technical institute,but never felt in love with it till diploma.i’ve started writing songs more or less everyday for this years i where living in Italy i’ve started working with some friends,we started recording and making projects after two years of training and work,i came out with a mix tape,and i had an amazing reaction from people,they was liked it, i was surprised and happy cause never thought that the music i been listening for all my life where what was making me feel good,was surprised someone cud ever like it,ive recorded many songs randomly in that years remember even the raw quality of all and the getting better time over time i been spending in to music,after the mix tape i’ve done an album of 11 tracks but i never released it.but never supposed,i’ve always been attracted from Afrobeats/caribbean music but my roots coming from old school rap,soul r&b and funky jazz,i got many mentors,and i think my mains that gave life to the music im doing today are singers like stevie wonder,fela kuti,bob marley ,marvin gaye,whitney houston,de la soul,fuggies,soul to soul,2pac ,B.I.G,Erika badu, method man and many more,music in this years teached me that the listening is one of the best ways to learn,I had influeces by many different types of music,that’s why today i can not say that i’ve a one mentor.furthermore i can not really give an identity to my style,i’ve started with reggae/dancehall music been doing some rap aswell on many songs,and the album that i’ve never relise was a well done mix of types of music,from reggae to hip hop fanky soulfull house and dancehall, had other experiences with music,im temperamentally a charismatic person and,that aspect of me helped me on all the live performances i’ve done till today..My first performance been to a event in a
club called LIDO,was a freestyle and singing competition,i’ve won the singing one,I never been in many freestyle competitions cause i never been singing in italian apart from a couple songs,was been speaking italian for most of my life so for me been difficult to sing or rap freestyling in english at that time.i was writing more than freestyling was spending most of my day inside my room doing it.for a period i been working every day,after school with my friends,ive performed many times around my city,know im in London from more or less 3 years and im working full time in a bar,i got many things to learn about music many times i feel like im waisting my time doing something different than music,i would love to work full time in the music business and have more time for focus in what i really love and i enjoy to do,to improve it with all my might and kip and make it professional..And i know that the occasions are not many but if it were given to me i’ll do my best to handle it.
OUTLINE RESEARCH METHOD:
in this past three months my activity in the social networks been fundamental and plenty of positive feedback from friends and potential fan base in London and in Italy.i like my connection to people following me to be friendly and to represent them life and mine to,i like to be part of them and to give the best feeling ever listening to my music,i really want them to live the dream i am living.
i think that people relate my brand & image to an expression of an everyday life.I'm trying to put in my music life experiences of all kind,that can be love, adventures,funny moments, party, right moments to dance and laugh social situation and more.
i like how people response to my music,and i really want and appreciate all feedbacks good or bad opinions that people gives me,cause i take them as a teaching and a good reason to do better and improve my weaknesses.must of the times people giving a positive response to my music,they like the vibes an melodies I'm put in in to it, and from performances i can see people bouncing and dancing along my music.i see them responding more to my afrobeats and dancehall music cause is giving them the chance to express them musicality by dancing on a rhythmic sound.I would like people to enjoy my music dancing and feeling part of it, and i think i got skills and abilities to make it happen,and i want people to get what I'm trying to do,i wait people to get the fun side of my music and the life experiences of every day i want them to be part of it.
TASK 2. Design and complete a second action plan covering the next 6 months, consider everything you learnt from your last action plan.
i am actually publishing my mixtape that contains 7 tracks,my plans for this months are to perform around London and to participate to events and music contests between England and Italy,for the month of august and September i am working on video shoots/short films as introduction to my music, and visual elements for my own music brand,to spread my idea on my own town and abroad.my brand is named (BLACK ITALIANO INTERNATIONAL MUSIC)and what I'm trying to do is to gave to the people something different.with different i mean to not give a singular language to the international music,i want to make of european black music more international than it is.i got an E.P and singles ready to go for the months of September and October,then for the 3 months of November December and January I'm ready to work on a brand new album and publish the one that i never publish. then i am ready to start my project,(collaborations with artists of different parts of the world,as i am a black Italian originally from Nigeria and I'm talking 3 different languages i got lots of musicians friends coming from different parts of the world,(Italy,Spain,France,Nigeria,brazil, Portugal,and lots more)obviously I'm going to concentrate on the closest ones to me at the beginning but I'm excited and hungry to get my project well done.
TASK 3. Summarise how the course has changed your thinking or approach and the effect this has had on your artist brand and you personally.
This course literally opened my mind and helped me to understand my own music and the direction i wanted to take,with grate explanations and intellectual thinking,helped me to subdivide and analyse my actions with a clear distinction between music product outcome income marrket own personality social networking and performance URBAN DEVELOPMENT enforce the frame of the artist i am today.
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Excruciating // Jason Blossom
Summary: It’s unclear if it was a play or not but in the end you got into a relationship with Jason but grief struck when he died. You didn’t think anything could hurt so bad until you learnt what he was hiding from you. You would never be the same.
Characters: Jason Blossom x Reader, Cheryl Blossom, Betty Cooper, Jane (OFM) Reggie Mantle (mentioned), and Chuck Clayton (mentioned).
Words: 1225
Disclaimer: I do not own Riverdale or the characters. Nor do I own any gifs, jokes, lyrics or images unless otherwise stated.
Warnings: Possible swearing, agony, angst, death, underage drinking, and cheating (implied).
Requested: Yes. Anonymous.
Author: Caitsy.
A/N: Feels nice making angst ones again! Also I got a new tattoo!
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Parties weren’t something you were excited that happened. Especially since things happened that were taboo and never thought about again. Take Chuck Clayton, the perv hit on anything with boobs and no doubt waited until a girl was too drunk. Nobody went against him because how could you? He was a high standing football player that managed to get out of trouble with his father’s position.
At the same time it was spring break in the small town of Riverdale and any one under seventeen partied in the small town. The upperclassmen travelled to Florida to get absolutely smashed. You were ashamed to say that Jane, your best friend, had peer pressured you into drinking and you were still learning to hold your alcohol.
“I don’t know.” You mumbled pulled at the semi-short sleeve shirt you were wearing. Jane had always been the more wild out of you and took strides in everything.
“Come on!” She groaned, “Even scrawny Andrews is here!”
That took you by surprise. One of Riverdale’s golden boys was in the corner uncomfortably sipping on a beer. He had always interested you given that he was built like a twig that could snap at a simple poke. Somehow he was on the football team among larger built boys and one girl that was probably the toughest on the team.
“He’ll be wasted by the end of that beer.” You snorted at the redhead, “Hey maybe he’ll be the next Steve Rogers minus the serum, cool shield and a hot best friend.”
“Nerd.”
Jane giggled along with you before grabbing two empty solo cups and expertly filling them to the brim with cheap beer that tasted like ass. You were sure that your parents would kick your ass if they knew you were about drink at this party. One that was epitome of high school house parties with the loud music, grinding couples, and stupid drinking games.
“We should try beer pong!” Jane excitedly announced, “Reggie is over there!”
Jane had a slight obsession over the football player that was slightly concerning, the kind that makes you think of how broken and lost she’ll be. On the other hand Reggie placed his attention on her one hundred percent.
“No he’s coming over here.” You corrected her as the man in question gently grasped her arm. You didn’t want to know what was said with the deep blush overcoming her face.
“I’ll meet you later!” Jane called out as she followed Reggie.
You shook your head wandering over to the beer pong table nearly concealed by the amount of teens around it. In the corner was a Serpent definitely passed even the age of a college student holding little cards with names on them. He was selling the drugs that financed his gang.
“Crazy right.”
You jumped at the words coming from someone you never expected to have talked to. Blossom boy wonder was in front of you with a water bottle not opened in his hand. He nudged it into you hands while holding a red solo cup in his other.
“Jason?”
“Y/N.” He chuckled, “I know you don’t drink alcohol much and to be honest I don’t want to chance anything.”
“Change anything.”
“Rumours were going around of Chuck trying to spike drinks. Yours to be precise.”
“You cared?” You asked shocked.
“Of course. I’ll liked you since we were kids but you know how life controls your life.” Jason admitted ignoring the shocked gaze of his twin sister. You could see the near disgusting love she held for him, as if they were truly romantic soulmates.
“You’re sister is staring.”
“I don’t care.” Jason grinned brushing a strand of hair behind your ear. You blushed biting you lip as he grabbed your hand to bring you to the near stranded backyard.
You shot up in bed shaking from the memory of how your relationship with Jason began that one fateful party. You gagged racing into the bathroom to expel the vomit and the imaginary grief. Nothing helped the feeling of lose and loneliness.
Nothing was the same. Nothing would be the same. Not since he was taken from your life.
Jason had tearfully explained how he wouldn’t bring you into the horror story of a family life he had. So he planned to fake his death, earn some money and come for you for a new life. He used an old friend to create a story so you couldn’t be traced by to him. Polly was happy to help knowing that she wouldn’t have to reveal her baby as a creation of drunken night with Chuck.
Things changed. He didn’t make contact with you or Cheryl. That’s when things turned weird.
You had been wishing of him finding you before Betty called asking for you to come to Sweetwater River. That’s when life shattered when they carried your Jason out of the water swollen with water and a new addition to his forehead.
The weeks following were horrendous with the truth of why he was running away and your role. You were branded with suspicion from everyone. The grief kept you from going to his funeral and spending your time in bed next to a bucket. Everyone thought you were pregnant.
“Honey, I need you to do something for me.” Your father said rather uncomfortably. In his hands was a plastic bag with no markings on it.
“W-what.” You tried unsuccessful to clear your throat.
“I need you to go into the bathroom and take these. There’s water on the sink if you need it.”
“Dad.” You started before seeing the contents in the bag, “I’m not pregnant.”
“You’ve been unable to keep anything done and with Jason running away I’m worried. Sweetheart you’ve been showing signs of pregnancy.” Dad whispered brushing your hair back.
“What if-“
“We’ll cross that bridge when we know.” Dad interrupted you, “No matter what I will love you. I will always stand by you in the worst of it.”
“What about M-mom?” You gasped feeling the tears coming back.
“She’ll come around.”
You weren’t pregnant but you were unable to get rid of the agony your life had turned into. It was going to get worse soon enough. The first day back at school Cheryl was telling you she needed you o come with her somewhere. That’s why you were standing near a locker in the middle of night at school.
Where your beliefs and world turned upside down again only this time by Jason himself. The rumoured Playbook that circulated the football team was open in front of you. It felt like you were underwater only barely able to hear everyone talking.
Beside Jason’s name was yours with a clearly written eight point five on the same line. You sank down on the locker in complete paralyzing betrayal. He had used you like you were a game that could be thrown out after it wasn’t shiny anymore. Was he even going to come back for you?
“I know this isn’t the time but I think you need to know something.” Betty said crouching in front of you, “Polly and Jason weren’t pretending. I found her diary. He got her pregnant and they were running away.”
“What.” You whispered before shattering in Cheryl’s shaking arms.
Nothing would be the same.
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