Me as The Wedding Singer

If you follow the other blog, Style Insights, you've caught up on my trip back to my home and place of birth, San Francisco and why I was there with outfits and all. But if you haven't, I'll brief you. I was up north to sing for my friend Nicole's wedding.

I had the hardest time with song selection. I didn't wanna just sing any old song, after all I planned on posting my performances on YouTube and I didn't want to re-hash or re-do any songs I'd already done. I originally told her I'd sing Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You, but asked if I could surprise her. So I sang Mary J. Blige - Be Without You and Faith Evans - Love Like This; the most two unconventional wedding songs I could think of and share with you people.

I guess you could say I was waiting for the perfect event to wear this dress I made for my couture class. I was gonna make it a "Vegas" dress, but no trips to Vegas have arise and because of the chiffon-y material, I can't just wear it out since it's pretty dressy. Overall, I'm glad how the outfit came out even though the picture isn't so great (since you can't see my shoes and the sun is in my face and I have that sun squinting look on my face).

Outfit Details:

Dress: Designed and Constructed by yours truly
Belt and Chain: Vintage
Bracelets: Swarovsky and Forever 21
Shoes: Jessica Simpson Dany

Alicia Keys is Preggers!

In the celeb world (one of which I don't belong), one of my favorite artists is preggers! Seems like there's something in the water. I feel like I'm hearing about pregnancies from either someone I know or don't a lot more frequently. I didn't even know she was dating Swizz Beatz. I guess they're getting married.

It would make sense that her current single "Unthinkable" would be dedicated to him after reading this open letter to Alicia Keys from Swizz Beatz's ex-wife.

And if you don't know who the hell Swizz Beatz is, apparently this article lists 10 things about him you don't know including:

"10. He proposed and put a ring on (a 7-carat diamond ring) on Alicia’s finger while still married to his estranged wife. Their divorce is not yet finalized. Alicia and Swizz will be getting married and having a baby later this year."

That's life for ya.

Alicia Keys - Un-Thinkable cover

So after a long hiatus, I posted another video because Jerald loves this song and I wanted to sing it for him for our 8 year anniversary!

Sorry my voice sounds like it only has one inflection and hardly any dynamics. Jerald got me a microphone to attach to the computer and it's been hard trying to adjust the sound levels so my voice and anything else it picks up mesh well together. Still workin' on it so hopefully my other videos don't come out so boo boo...

Aaaaand... This is like try #5. I wanted to try one more time but my neighbor downstairs was giving me shit and frankly, I was tired of singing the same song 5 times. 

But Jerald loves it so that's all that matters!