Cps 2500 Week 3 Mentor Interview

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MENTOR INTERVIEW
Ashley Asigbey
CPS 2500 • February 25, 2012
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When it comes to my career path I have always wanted to work with children but as I got older I developed a great passion for music. Music has always been around me, my dad was a big music buff. Since my father’s passing I feel like I have a special connection to him when I sing and listen to music. I’ve always been shy when it came to singing in front of an audience until I began going to Bethune-Cookman University. While I was enrolled there I joined a band and was singing in a local lounge every weekend and I loved it! Once I moved back home and enrolled in Georgia State I felt it was time to break out of my shell and truly begin to perform.
The opening act for her was an artist by the name of RAHBI, he was amazing. His vocal range and performance was out of this world, I had to meet him. Once the concert was over he was in the lobby doing a meet and greet while selling a few of his cd’s. When the crowd finally left I was able to make my move to meet him and ask a couple of questions. I told him how much I enjoyed his show and told him about what I wanted to do in the music industry, he gave me a little of advice and told me to add him on Facebook. I added him and he began inviting me to all of his
Rahbi felt like it wasn’t really a conscious start. He felt he has a God given talent and people started to take notice. His examples of this are ; 1. He sang all during elementary and middle school and randomly got the opportunity to sign to a boy band on Laface Records, 2. He joined a theater company for fun and Motown recording artist Donnie showed up and asked him to go on tour with him, 3. He began writing music while ing the theatre company and decided to record them and once he started to do that major recording artists and world began to take notice of his craft. He believes lining up with your purpose is the