Albert Kenneth Carrozza Perspective on Promise We Will Soar

Right away Miley Cyrus comes to mind.  She just seems like a real person, down-to-earth regardless she is one of the musical and television legends of all time.   

Another name that surfaces right away for me is Lady Gaga.  She is such an extraordinary talent, and an incredible person. 

Ironically, these two artists, Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga have mainstream transformative stories. 

Miley was a child music-actor superstar and she created her own vision growing into an adolescent and we cared about her career because her nature was wholesome and important to the growth of billions of children world wide and she was original and risque yet always maintained her integrity.

Lady Gaga was born in a theatrical world and she was driven and at first with her creativity of costumes actually her face was hidden.  But she let us into her world slowly, and time after time showed she is as remarkable a individual as she is a performer.  And the once hidden world prodigy, is now shedding the excess while relying more on her talented voice, showsmanship, and natural attractive appearance as evidenced most recently at the 2023 Academy Awards when she performed with no burdensome costume but instead wearing regular laypersons shirt and pants and little to no makeup.

I mean there are so many other performers it would be an incredible honor to perform with, and my choices depend also on the genre my songs are placed.  "Promise We Will Soar" for example is Rock, but it is also Electronic Music, and it is Country, and my song "My Love For You" is clearly Country music, and folksy, as is "America" my singer-songwriter, folk style acoustic version of the more alternative Rock high energy powerful sounding "Welcome to America".

So in addition to my aforementioned Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga, from a country music perspective Carrie Underwood, or Luke Bryan, and an artist who created more hit songs for her and others than MIchael Jackson would be a dream collaboration: she is the legendary Dolly Parton; her and Miley Cyrus already do live-performance together amazingly.

Under Rock, Pop and all the musical genres my album Universal Enzyme is legitimately categorized as there are almost too many dream team colaborations to imagine and subsequently list.  Alicia Keys, Dua Lipa, Susanna Hoffs, (James Taylor and Whitney Houston -- God rest their souls), and Christian artists Lauren Daigle, Jenn Johnson, T.D. Jakes, Kim Walker-Smith and course Amy Grant.

These all and many others would be like dream collaborations.  

I also wrote a few paragraphs right here on all the real people that helped me with my journey into the music industry but I guess it didn't make the editors cut?

I am Al. 

The work I do has involved various skills in multiple disciplines as a reporter, an entertainer, an artist, an influencer, an author, an advocate, a liberator, a censor and ultimately a communicator.    

Well I am hoping Tik-Tok makes me money.  The rest are incredible mechanisms for communication and exchange but I wouldn't hold your breathe if you make lots of money without being money of receiving most any at all. 

As far as related promotion companies Orion ( https://orionpromotion.com?a_ref=641e278032f2f ) came through nicely on my song America. 

What I do suggest is that all musicians copy and paste into your address bar at the top the url right now the following link: 

https://musicvertising.com/?ref=ndlkzji   

I think I already have.  I must say I was blessed to see many concerts in my teenage years.  My first real concert was at age thirteen, my dad took me and my sister on the Long Island Railroad into Penn Station to Madison Square Garden to watch headliner Bon Jovi in their record breaking famous tour of "Slippery When Wet". 

My second concert was age fourteen: Madonna's "Like a Virgin" tour in the Meadowland's at Giant Stadium.  These were two of the great artist/bands that most flourished in the era of the new music television channel MTV.

Soon after I saw my first daytime concert, again in Giant Stadium, five bands performing one after the other, the event apptly entitled "The Monsters of Rock".  The band "Kingdom Come" opened up, and every seat was filled by the time the second band reached the stage. Never before had a musical group with no radio play reached such a level of success. 

At about eleven a.m. eastern standard time Metallica lead singer James Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett, drummer Lars Ulrich, and bassist Cliff Burton changed the universe in front of say one hundred thousand heads banging back and forth to every power-chord, double-bass feet-to-drum roll, anaestetic bass line and scratchy screaming vocal.  Metallica officially ushered the era of heavy metal as its founding fathers, and movement began that echoed through the Tri-State area, from New Jersey into New York City and throughout the american landscape and very soon: global MTV. 

Dokken, the Scorpions and Van Halen finished approaching midnight but this was a monumental concert! 

I was fortunate.  I went on to see concerts featuring Aerosmith, Guns n' Roses, Deep Purple, Motley Crue, Def Leopard, and lots of great artists yet during those years the three best concerts if I were to rank all involved Metallica.

A lesser known band with lead vocalist Geoff Tate opened a show later in the year at Nassau Coliseum. Even with the consistently incredible performance by the then now world-touring Metallica the band Queensryche arguably 'stole the show' --  which is an industry term for rocked best that night.

So the top concert performance by an artist or band I was fortunate to experience was Queensryche: when they headlined at Nassau Coliseum a year later.  The story-telling rock-opera "Operation MInd Crime" was featured front to back in the middle of their set with large screens displaying animated original scenes pertaining to the album's story, state-of-the art special effects, musical originality, and a voice that seemed limitless in range of octave as they played their popular early scores mixed with their recent MTV hits and just a solid performance by a group with a reputation as a hard-working and meticulous band.

But if I had to choose a performance by and with an artist it might likely be Colm Wilkinson in Les Mis'erables.    

106.1 FM WBLI.  And WALK 97.5 FM.  Every Friday night WBLI in the early 1980's would play the top twenty countdown. 

All the music was like my favorite.  Billy Joel.  Lionel Richie.  Whitney Houston.  Bryan Adams. The Police.  Phil Collins.  Prince.  George Michael.  Janet Jackson.  Gloria Estefen.  Paula Abdul.  Huey Lewis and the News.  Kenny Loggins. Tears for Fears.  Howard Jones.  Jon Secada.  And of course a string of hits by Madonna and Michael Jackson.

Lots of great artists with really nice sounding songs and messages.  It was a golden era for music in America. 

Yet, to be truthful, memories of songs went back further to a 10" vinyl record with story book :"The Little Train That Could."  And on the album was one of my favorite songs at that time:

"I'm Moo Moo the Cow.  I Eat Lots of Hay.  I Sit on the Tracks for Most of the Day.  My Milk is Real Good.  It Makes People Strong.  It's for all the Little Boys and Girls who come Along".

And I remember on a different album enjoying the "Alphabet Song":

"You can say that I know my Alphabet.  My Alphabet, you bet I know."

And finally most my earliest and favorite songs I heard first on Sesame Street.

My songs, specifically on this "Universal Enzyme" explores themes of love, intimacy, health, friendship, integrity, social stability, spiritual conflict as well as personal conflictions, community, coalition and the challenges we face to the ideal.  It is a revelations, and now our choices moving forward to preserve and protect as well as to adapt and to change and the lead.

The music is often times the vocalized lyrics in melodic language.  The strums of "My Love For You" representing the conformity of lives to higher-calling and shared responsibility, the ebb and flow of chords in "Epic Advancement" like a body of movement galloping on feudal steads forward to initial negotiation as an evolved collaboration to firmament.

And the electronic strumming of "We Will Soar" sounding like musical composition of wedding bells, and "Promise We Will Soar" exemplifying through electronic repetition of ones word the challenges of sanctimonious traditional in a computerized world balanced only by real world options of opportunity, transparent examination and rational solution, and commitment to higher purpose, respect to dignity, communal responsibility and then love if blessed individual love.  

Like Stevie Winwood all I wished for was to be brought a higher love.

Soon enough, after finding a way to outpace childhood and its aftemath I learned to depend on my vision.  Knowledge is the key, an esoteric moment, and to that extent love is the long-term solution. 

As many a Jean Valjean has sang, yet none perhaps as Colm Wilkinson:

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"Promise We Will Soar"  is my personal background prescription and toward the ever perfecting of a romance-love-commitment. 

"We Will Soar"  is its root, as this original song is the actual intimacy and romance love-relationship template.  It was originally published entitled, "Song of Elena" and "Elena's Song" and this version was recorded anachronistic to the blossoming of our master level friendship to lovers to roomates and even past her graduation. lol 

"Promise We Will Soar" is the celebration of a person's striving and of course its obtainment of love, trust and mutualism.  It is the getting back on the saddle of the horse whether your courting is of new or renewing of original love. 

After all, who is to say?