It's great how music can influence different people across the world. That's something I always had in mind, since I was a child growing up in an environment where none of the people in my family had any emotional connection with music. They would just have something playing in the background while partying, so back then I always had the feeling that something was missing. When I learned that YouTube wasn't just a place to watch gameplay videos, I found out a music video. That was the most brutal thing I could ever listen as I 10 years old boy, the music is called "Psychosocial" by Slipknot. Nowadays, I don't like that band, but I remember listening their musics every day while learning about them.

Even though those musics were too much for me as a child, I'm grateful for the experience I lived. Because I learned that people could express themselves through their instruments in such a deep way, in by doing it, they could get connected with people around the world who might be in the same situation. In May 1st, I'm going to watch Sepultura's last show in Belo Horizonte, which is part of their last tour. I'm sad to know it's going to be my first time seeing them alive, because they are not going to play together anymore after it. Sepultura is one of the greatest Brazilian metal bands, they influenced the start of many of my actual favorite bands(Gojira, Jinjer, Crypta, Alien Weaponry…). I remember coming back of school one day in 2020, and they released the "Quadra" album, so I sat down in my couch and listened to every single music… I was happy for 51 minutes straight.

I'm 20 years old now, and I got to watch 3 bands that I really like. One of them is Red Hot Chili Peppers, and I was really impressed by their performance. It's something I can barely explain, it's like everyone in that place was just tuned to the same frequency, as if the crowd were just one living being. It's the kind of thing that makes you take a step back, and really think about your own story, the moments of happiness and joy, and also the lowest ones. Through RHCP, I learned to take care of my own sadness, which is something that strongly strives to take me down. Learning their musics in an acoustic guitar was kind of my own therapeutic moment, something I would do as a form of relief. I have their symbol tattooed on my wrist to remember what I was, and who I am now… part of me is music.

Sorry for making your reading process so confuse, I don't even remember the last time I wrote in English. I think I just ended up throwing my thoughts together in a huge soup of letters.

Thank you for reading it!