Per my conversation two weeks ago on Charles Mingus, I feel it is important to go back and speak about who Mingus really was as an individual. In our society we shape success around our careers as who we are, our careers define our "being" and physicality on Earth.
Younger Charles Mingus & Older Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus inspires me. He was a jazz bassist who didn't care about his image, what he cared about was his music. He believed his soul's purpose on this Earth was to create songs people could feel alive when listening to them. Our perceptions of artists in the music world is about seeing artist's image change while pop music changes. It is always an interesting process observing evolving artists. For me, growing up I watched Britney Spears evolve into the pop celebrity she has become to be after "...Baby One More Time." Do you remember these days?
Younger Britney Spears & Older Britney Spears
Charles Mingus states in his book, "Blue's People," that he is a man of personality. From being an angel one moment, to being the opposite as a trouble maker, he found himself split among the two struggling to make both personalities surface to a common ground (Mingus 116). Through his struggles of heartache with women and seeing them as goddesses to seeing women as sexual objects, Charles Mingus was one of the first true musicians that defined pop artists to be the evolving ever changing image that they represent today in the mainstream world. In conclusion, it is important to recognize those who built the backbone of inspired pop artists today. People like Charles Mingus represent the Marylin Monroe influence on the acting world today.
Mingus, Charles, and Nel King. Beneath the underdog. Vintage, 1991. 116. Print.
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