AMY SAVIN

 

Basically, I've been involved in music ever since I was a little twerp. I started playing piano at age 3...started singing around the same time too. On my newer songs you'll hear me busting out some guitar...or at least attempting to lo....all in good time. As for singing, I never really had vocal training because at that time I was kind of embarassed and shy of my teacher...so I dropped out within 3 months - that was in grade 3, I think. Anyway, I started writing music for talent shows in junior high - which did me pretty good...let me see...first prize was um....a bag of sour candy?? Yeeeah...I got more into the music scene entering high school, and travelled around different places performing in a girl's barber shop quartet. However, during my last year of high school, I fully lost my voice for like 6 months. Couldn't talk, sing, laugh, cry....pretty brutal. I had nodules on my vocal chords - so I had to shut up for a good while to let my voice heal. On top of that I developed some other physical health problems, which kept me a vegetable in bed...and eventually I had to drop out of school. It was quite interesting in school, to be a mime for a few months though. I found myself needing to be twice as animated and playing charades 24/7.  While I was extremely frustrated trying to communicate, most my friends thought it fun to "guess what Amy was saying." The answers they would shout out were hilarious. It's amazing how soo many people can't read lips for their life (although I had a few closer friends that were quite good at it). In class sometimes, I would write all over the chalk board to answer a question…especially if it was concerning a controversial issue about Christianity. But honestly, imagine being surrounded by hundreds of people and not being able to say anything. It was insane - worst part, most people who would talk to me acted as if I were deaf too. They would speak super slow and loud, and I was like "dude! I lost my voice, not my hearing!!" No worries though, people probably said a lot more around me than usual, since I was invisible to a certain extent. Needless to say, those were some really lonely times - the more people around, the more alone I felt, and I couldn't complain or share my problems with anyone, unless I wanted to write out a book…or type like mad on the computer screen which I often did. Anyway, to make a long sob story short....eventually things started to get better....my health started improving, my voice came back...and here am I today back into the song writing/singing.

What can I say, the Lord gives and He takes away. We do not own anything, nor do we deserve anything. Perhaps too many people live as though they are something great. How quickly we forget that everything was given to us. So anyone who is rich, famous, beautiful, talented, intelligent...or whatever it may be, it is not theirs to boast in, 1 Corinthians 4:7 says, "...who maketh thee different from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou had'st not received it?" I learned that I had no reason to be angry with God...music was His gift to me in the first place, why should I act as if it were my own, or something that couldn't be taken? I am grateful for the trials and challenges in my life, as they have reminded me of God's sovereignty and man's utter dependance on Him, and it has given me a deeper appreciation for many things in life, especially music. I've recorded a couple amateur projects with friends from church to fund my mission trips to Brazil and Mexico…but currently I'm working with different people on a more serious demo project and sending it out places. I know there are over millions attempting the same thing, and chances are ridiculously slim : But either way, its still fun making music, and even if I just reach the people around me in my own community, I'm sure God will be glorified. God is in control as he as been thus far…and I'm not too worried about where He leads me, as long as its HIM that's leading me. I'd appreciate any prayers in this area…that God would direct my musical ambition…whether it be to do something great or small, to him be all the Glory!! If you like what you hear, spread the word: If you don't, well...at least you are honest.....

 

Take care peeps. And God Bless yas!

 

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