GrewSum

The new year…

2011 to me has been an off year as a musician. As a matter of fact, the past few years have been specifically dedicated to my health and my family. I was never able to truly find that balance between music and life and as a result I have neglected my career. It’s nothing I regret mind you. My thyroid went crazy on me for a while and made me really sick. I had all the time in the world for music but just wasn’t able to perform to my full ability. Around that same time in 2009 I was blessed with the birth of my son Shane Carter Lambert and immediately became aware of what is really important in this life. I became very consumed in fatherhood and put my music career that I worked so hard the previous couple years to build on the back burner. It was the right thing to do and in the process I slipped down the ladder quite a bit and watched new people come into the game and do some amazing things with it. I loved my life but hated watching these people tour and gain all this recognition essentially doing what a lot of us have been doing for years. Since then things have changed tremendously in my life and while I may not get to see my son as much as I used to I have time to do the only other thing I am good at in this life besides being a father and that is make music. The only thing that makes this ok in my own head is knowing that the success I deserve in this music business will make a better life for my son. This new year I can do right by my fans and my peers in this industry who have believed in me for all this time. I can feel it in the pit of my stomach that I am ready and this time I am prepared. Everything that has been my life for the past 3 years has prepared me for this fresh start. The word “breathe” has found itself written on pieces of paper and and on various things around me as of late. It motivates me in various ways. I can not count the amount of times where closing my eyes and taking a deep breath has flipped a switch and taken me from “overwhelmed” to “ready” in a split second. Not only that, but I know now that success is something that is earned, and until you want success with the same desperate feeling that a drowning man wants a breath of air, you will never reach it. With that said I am back, I am on the top of my game and you have no idea what I am capable of. Happy New Years.