Lana Layne

I have always felt that young talent is the heart of the entertainment industry, after all they are our future as cliche as it sounds. Disney has been a profitable young talent machine making young talent, every day house hold names.

Either you believe it to be a bias blog review or not take it as you will. I say this as a disclaimer due to the fact that I have watched personally young talent Trevor Jackson grow up these last few years through our love of capoeira. 

Trevor Jackson is one to watch for, more than a triple threat, this young man is a human sponge when it comes to the arts. Music, to dance, acting, to martial arts I haven’t quite ever met a person that can excel at everything that they touch like Trevor Jackson. 

His new project can be seen tomorrow on the Disney channels new movie “Let it Shine.” Far from being his first notable debut. Trevor track list of projects parallels one that many adult entertainers would strive to achieve.

From the beginning of Young Simba in the musical theatrical production The Lion King a broadway hit, current series regular in Syfy channels hit “Eureka.” in addition to be a rising star as a recording artist with influencers like Michael Jackson, Trevor Jackson has his hands in every pot in the entertainment industry and intends to rock all his endeavors to the fullest. 

Despite his busy schedule in a very often at times skewed and unstable industry, Trevor Jackson stays grounded through the people that surronds him. From his extraordinary and supportive mother (far from the stage mothers that we are all too familiar with,) to his outside normal kid activities such as Capoeira and being active in his martial arts group being mentored by my very own Capoeira profesor Axe Vita.

Check out his official website launch tomorrow:

www.officialtrevorjackson.com to coincide with his new release on the Disney Chanel at 8pm “Let it Shine”

Four guys. Four continents. One sound.

Mind The Gap bridges the international divide through their distinctive sound, differentiating them from many indie’s bands  we have all become accustomed to. 

A Korean, a Sri Lankan, a Mexican, and a Jew from Cleveland. 4 musicians from 4 corners of the world aiming to shotgun blast through the insipid airwaves of current music using acoustic harmonies fused with modern technology.

These are four guys standing fore front in musical revolution. Against an industry where commercial radio  and top 100 Billboard hits are derived from calculated equations. 

Mind the Gap unique sound is a direct reflection of their multicultural background, and the lead generation’s use of technology filtering out the noise of generic over-commercialized music.

Where does Mind the Gap stand when identifying them within a specific genre?

As a listener, it is hard to say. Watching them perform,  guitar solos that parallel the rock age of Jimi Hendrix, digitalized beats that matches bass heavy dub beats with hints of international flare, to lead singer Greg Khan’s hypnotizing vocals that is far from typical and ironic.

When I sit here and try to position them like I do with many emerging bands that I hear, and ask where do they fit in this hard long tailed music industry.

My only answer is they don’t fit, and that’s the beauty of it. They are making the music industry adjust to them instead. 

Find them at 

www.mindthegapsound.com

I am so happy this summer, busy but happy. However, sometimes with happiness we need to be reminded what it took to get to this point of bliss. All the upsets. All the heartaches. All the roadblocks.

Remembering all those, allows me at least to appreciate the beauty that is my life currently. 

Man it has been a tough tough year, and it will continue to be tough for a while with surgeries. 

Yet I am hopeful, take that with a grain of salt. I am human there are days where I get up and I don’t feel like myself. I look at my past and saw a girl who love taking pictures, and now I find myself hiding. In time that confidence will come back.

The accident left me more than physically broken and traumatized. Emotionally and mentally, it affects me more I am not going to lie. 

Guidance self preservation and the will to live , keeps me going.

I share a song that everyone can relate to, don’t take it for the obvious lyrics dig deeper and apply it to yourself. Life isn’t worth living if I didn’t have roadblocks, to only appreciate the blissful life that I am living in this moment, this second, this current heartbeat as I write this.