To miste Paul
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Hello Mister Paul Im so grateful for the opportunity to have contact with you! I can tell you I love you! You've been inspiring me since last year, on April, when i bought you're biography. I used to like the Beatles a lot. They were for like a boy band with funny and thrilling song for young people. I knew about their job since my childhood. I used to dance, sing and play their songs. Generally songs from the earlier times. Oh, God! Thats was amazing! At the beginning of last year, a friend told me a little bit more more about you, specifically about Paul: a boy, with a dream, a visionary and a real musician. I got interested about all that. Then i went to Ireland, on march 2012. What a experience! I lived 9 years in 9 months! On the 4th of april, i was passing by a book store and... Do you know when something thing tells you: enter there, there is something special for you inside. I got into the bookstore. I saw that colorful book about you life. I bought it, even with the tight budget i had in Ireland and thats like a Bible to me nowadays. I inspire me, I identify myself with you. You had a dream, you've believed in yourself and you achieved it! Im a musician as well. I come from a family of musicians. Music is in my veins. I see, feel and live music any and everywhere. Music cures me in any tough situation. I begun studying music when i was about 14. What a phase in my life, brilliant years. Everything was based on music. Singing, playing was my whole life. We were adolescents just having fun with the most precious thing we have in life. That was just pure and sincere feelings. I begun practicing the drums, which is still my favorite instrument. Then i learned to play the guitar, trumpet, sax, flute, trombone, etc. Never learned how to read the scores, never! All came to my ears and translated by hands and feet. 24 hours of the day dedicated to music. But them the reality came: I was 18, ready to go the university, needing to work, to study, to have responsibilities. I felt pressured: I come for a poor family, I was the youngest and the promise, the one who would could change the fate of family. I was so afraid to fail, I couldn't disappoint my mother, the most important person in my life. Its really a shame to have to take such a huge decision when you're just 18. To my family, Being a musician meant nothing; meant that I would be a beggar. So, i decided i would go to the university. From that moment on, I set music aside and begun dedicating my mind to International business, which i like very much and is a passion to me as well. I graduated on 2010 and some months later I got a job at Venezuela. I stayed there for 1 year and 4 months. Rough times: my professional career was on the right path, but loneliness, violence, assaults, corruption turned my bedroom in my world. I was confined, with no friends, no security... That was really making me mad. And then, music reappeared in my life in a magnificent way: melodies begun coming to my mind to express what I was current feeling. That was striking! I had composed some song on my adolescence, but nothing concrete or touching. When the notes begun coming to my mind I used to think to myself those were songs that already existed or foolish thoughts of my mind. But then, they became intense, I could sing some of them for the whole weekend and that became something serious to me. I have realized that I was a musician, no matter what happened in my life, music was inside me and i would be a musician for the rest of life: I could get away from music, but music would always be a part of me. For all those bad reasons, I took the decision to come back to Brazil. Melodies kept coming to my mind and I begun registering them. Oh God! Some of them made me cry. I was thrilled to think that such good things could come from me. Six months later, With the money I have saved at Venezuela, i could go to Ireland to improve my English and that was the best period of my life ever. Too much information, touch with music, I knew news genres... In Ireland, I read a lot about you, about your musician career. The book tells a lot about your personal life, which is great, but your musician career... I could see myself as you. In september I decided I had to know Liverpool, the place where my mentor grew. Paul, ot was a one-day give me the opportunity to watch to your concert at Belo Horizonte. I could stay at the grandstands, but the emotions would be the same when I'll hear you singing "Hey Jude". This is a humble wish of your real fan. I hope you'll have the opportunity to personally read this letter. My best regards to you! Manoel Luiz Rodriguez Júnior manoeluiz@hotmail.com