I'm Kandy, I'm 22 years old (will be 23 soon) and I'm from Queens, NY. Queens, the home of Russell and Run, LL and 50...and me. I was born and raised here, spent my adolsecent years here and came in contact with some of the coolest people ever all while living here.
When I was young, I knew I was destined for greatness. Music has always been a huge part of my life. At the age of 2, my father bought me a drum set and taught me how to play the drums to Michael Jackson's "Heartbreak Hotel". From then on, I was remembering the words to songs, hearing rhythms, and reciting ad libs. Early on, I wanted to be a world-famous singer.
As I got older and into boys, I realized I couldn't sing and left my future singing career on the back burner (lol). Before my real teen years, my old friend Tiffany started coming around more and more and me and her got real close. We did a bunch of stuff together, including going up to the radio station to visit her father Ed Lover. Coming in contact with all those artists and celebrities at a young age is what made me fall in love with my new passion: Radio Broadcasting.
While at the station, I'd pay attention to the engineer and what he was doin, how long commercials lasted, whose mic goes where and what buttons on the board were which. When I graduated high school, I took off to Fort Lauderdale, FL to study Radio Broadcasting at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. My dreams turned out to be bigger than my parents' pocket, because after 6 months, I was on a plane back to Queens.
After I left school, I tried every possible way to get back there. Unfortunately, no one wanted to help. So, I never went back.
I got a job at Bloomingdale's and used to catch myself having panic attacks when I would think about the possibility of me spending the rest of my life working there. There were just too many employees working there that had been there for 20 years and were making the same $8 I was making. It was sad. I vowed that wasn't going to be me.
Since working at Bloomingdale's I've had numerous jobs. But I always found something wrong with each and every one of them. I started feeling like sitting behind a desk for 8 hours a day, or watching other people's kids was something I would be trapped doing for the rest of my life.
Fast forward to now. No longer working at LaGuardia Airport (I HATED that job with the strongest passion), I've come in contact with way more people that are in the limelight and my dream of becoming famous has been reborn.
Don't get too hyped, though. You won't see me butt naked on anyone's dvd any time soon, trying to become famous. I'm now in a place where I realize I can wear many hats.
In school, my teachers told my mother that I was a very good writer. Thinking back to elementary, I used to always write stories for homework and itd always be too long, or I'd write just to write and then show my friends, who in turn always had me writing more stories. By jhs (junior high school), I could have put together 2 books worth of short stories.
High school was no different. It was when I fell in love with writing. I'd sit in class, head all in my book, pretending I'm taking notes when really, the words and scenerio's of my stories were spilling out of my pen. I was writing the type of stories like the ones you would read in a Terry McMillan book. I knew I was talented. I wanted to get my words out there, so I started this blog.
At first, I was just blogging to blog. But now, after a couple months, I want to take it further. I want everybody to see what I have to say. I want to have a website people can come to get the facts about any and every thing. I'm getting ready to get the ball rolling and I just hope u guys are entertained by the stuff I put on here and understand that this is something I'm considering doing as a career. I know its not going to happen overnight, but I'm willing to wear that hat.
Yours truly,
Kandy~
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