I am a dreamer through and through. I might have mentioned this in my first blog. I started blogging because of my helpless romantic dreamer state. Here is another reason why the world is filled with tickling tinges of excitement and hope.
Music has been a part of me since I was born. My Grandmother is a music teacher (piano) and she conducted a choir for over 35 years. My Great-Aunt was an opera singer. My aunt was in the music business for 10 years in her 20's. So there isn't any doubt that I would come to love singing and piano.
When a piece of music is played that reminds me of my upbringing, my Grandmother, and can connect me to my deepest feelings, I am transported to another realm. To my safe haven. My utopia.
Many artists sing and write music well. However, there is one man that transforms a room he is in by his humor, wit, and let's not forget, his voice. And this is the man.
Now, this man here, his name stated in one of my pictures, has some great sounding pipes! Each time a note floats out of his voice box and into my ears, I'm transcending time and space. His God given talent is undeniable! Not only does he truly have a great baritone (at times tenor) voice, his lyrics are meaningful. It is too often that I hear lyrics on today's top 40 talking about sex, grinding, one night stands, and women given fame and fortune if they give it to their rich men. There is no inspiration there.
Josh on the other hand, is poetic and chivalrous with his music, something that has, on the whole, died when the '60's generation came to be. His lyrics reflect how hard it is to find love or the pain a person goes through when love is lost or let go. He sings about a city he feels connected to and explains to us why he moved there, through his song. He wrote a song about people that are close to you and will always support you especially when you take a step back in life and feel like there isn't anyone to turn to. There are a couple of songs from different albums that relay the life of a soldier and the aftermath of being in the service, a truly sad song. He even sneaks in optimism by re-iterating that hope is found in a "higher window", and we just need to make the decision to embrace it.
"If I Walk Away" by Josh Groban
You can tell the man has experienced much love and heartbreak in his time. A man cannot sing so passionately if he has not experienced a bit of what he sings nor write the lyrics to those songs.
To top of the cake with icing, he even sings in other languages, mostly Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. The romantic languages that just roll off the tongue. A helpless romantic really is taken to another world.
Josh also isn't afraid to evolve with his music. He isn't stuck to the same genre each time he produces a new album. If you listen to songs from each of his albums, there is a different spin in the types of songs he sings. One album had a couple of South African songs while his latest album was produced by Rick Rubin, a man who produced the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The sound of that album is very different than his past albums. You really can't put Josh in a single genre because he's in many. He really isn't in the business for self glory but instead, to inspire and keep himself challenged throughout his career.
Hardworking and passionate. My kind of a man!
"Love Only Knows" by Josh Groban
One of my favorite songs off his newest album
Lastly, I'd like to end this post by saying that there aren't too many singers nowadays, that can write their own music, sing without autotune, play the drums so well, act appropriately in public (eg. interviews, when addressing the paparazzi e.t.c), love and trust his fans to the point where he sings and meets them in the audience during a concert, has suitable fashion for different kinds of events (look above, his photos relay a great taste in fashion!), have a foundation that promotes the arts, stand up in front of Congress to petition more spending for arts programs across the country, and is exceedingly dreamy good looking individual all around (among many other features I cannot think of at the moment).
Even though I joke about Josh being my Plan C for a husband, realistically speaking, if I can find a man who is this passionate and involved with his work and truly loves the people he serves and those who are close in his life, I'd be a happy woman!
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