Hi everyone:
I know I haven't been as active as I would like to be, but school is too demanding at the moment. But today I really wanted to find some time to share stuff with my wonderful folks here at SG. As I posted before, I did a photo shoot for a local magazine here in Mexico City. I will share more of the photographs in the near future and I want to give the proper credit to s1ngular (www.s1ngular.com) magazine and of course photographer Jesús Martínez (www.jesusmartinez.com.mx). The thing is, that is not what I have come to talk to you people about; I really enjoyed the shoot, but the interview that went with it got me thinking that I would love sharing what has been a roller coaster ride of a life for me. I won't make a transcript of the interview, but if you want to read it anyway I invite you to visit their site and get the digital version of april's issue. What I can and will do, however, is share the biography that gave way to such interview.
To keep this interesting I decided to split my biography in 4 extracts and I will keep them coming in the next few days. Here is extract #1 for you guys to get to know me better. Enjoy and share your thoughts
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My love for fine arts started when my mother sent me to dance academy in my little town in Tabasco, MEX. She wanted me to be a professional dancer because I was showing all the skills necessary for it. Although I really enjoyed dance, I was too young to know if it was really my thing, so she started taking me to "Casa de la Cultura" where I learned to play the guitar, which I still play with a lot of passion (so much that I am trying to get an acoustic band together). So those 2 were clear notions I had even at such a young age of what path I wanted to take.
I grew up in a matriarchy, for my mom's couple was also a woman. They were both excellent mothers to me and my twin brother. Then it all changed when I turned 15, -which is already a difficult age, full of confusion and anger-, when my biological mom died of breast cancer. I felt the world around me collapse since I was very close to her; everything was just darkness. This changed my view of things, my system of beliefs and my general attitude towards life. I stopped going to church, and with it, church choir, and I started looking somewhere else for my musical development and in general, anything that could feed my passions and ease my restless soul.
At this tender age and in the middle of this turmoil, I decided I wanted to move out and start traveling around southeast Mexico. My second mother, Coco, never stopped helping me, but it was natural, being as young as I was, to spend all the money she sent me in things that were really not worth it. That's how I started to work, playing gigs at local bars, although I had an awful voice, people always seemed to appreciate the feeling that went with my performance.
I grew up much faster than most of the girls my age. While others were still playing, having teen boyfriends and such, I was living different experiences that made me grow up sooner than when a 16 year old really should. I was in love with the fine arts, living in Merida, Yucatán, I was always looking for galleries, theaters anything that would feed my hunger for art. I got to meet musicians, painters, showmen, dancers...I got surrounded by such friendships of people mostly over their 30s while I was still 16.
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Thanks for reading, still to come: years of drug abuse, job hunting and soul-searching.
Love you gals and guys!
Mariell Suicide <3
