Howdy Steemians! My name is Ben Atkins and I am so f-ing excited to be joining your incredible community!! This is my first ever post, so please allow me to introduce myself.
I am a singer/songwriter from Waco, Texas currently living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I started playing music about 4 years ago after realizing I wasn't that great at writing stories, and I discovered I had real passion for song writing. I've been composing songs ever since. That's why I'm joining steemit: to share my music!
For some reason I had this misconception that to share a song it needed to be recorded in a nice studio with expensive equipment, but screw that. My friend, roommate, and fellow musician and steemian @luisferchav showed me steemit, told me about his experience here, and encouraged me to join. I have a ton of original material and I'm tired of waiting to have the money for studio time, so on this page I'm gonna be posting videos of me and my guitar or ukulele, in my bedroom, playing my tunes. When I have the money to record for real, I will eagerly take that step, but until then I still want to share what I'm creating!
My music draws on influences from soul, folk, country, blues, and maybe a little rock and roll 🤘. At this point I do have a few humble live videos posted to my Youtube page, which you can peruse at your leisure. For now, here is a video of my song 'Strawberry Lips' recorded at a Sofar Sounds show I did here in Buenos Aires:
Aside from my solo project I also sing backing vocals and play a little percussion in a rock band called Harm & Ease. You can hear our new album Black Magic Gold here!
Before I started playing music, I studied philosophy at Southwestern University and tried my hand at some fiction and poetry. I have shamelessly recycled a lot of the poems into song lyrics haha, but I figure while I'm here I may as well share some of that stuff too.
I guess that's it for now. Big Ups to my roommates @luisferchav and @pechichemena for turning me onto the steemit revolution!! I can't wait to meet all of y'all!
Welcome man ;) Music sounds like you should definitely check out @dsound! They always look for music there! Resteeming you for some extra publicity! Greets!
thanks so much!! i will check them out post haste
Great intro. Welcome to steemit @gentle.ben.
awww thanks!
Welcome!
Thanks for introducing yourself on Steemit. Upvoted and Followed!
(If you want to some cool posts to read or contests to participate in, you could follow me back!)
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We have a music class too
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Oh yea, I have upvoted you and followed you. Many blessings from @introbot & @bycoleman
You do the only right thing. You go your own way All the best!
welcome ben! kill it here!
thanks brotha. im super pumped :)
Welcome to the blockchain I love your bluesy gravely voice very nice introduction post thank you for sharing.
thanx for listening gail! if that is your real name... haha
Yes Gail is my real name ....lol true story
hello welcome to this community, be very successful, if you like art, I make realistic art, I am from venezuela, we can be friends, greetings
friends indeed. cant wait to see more of your art :)
welcome to this community ...hopefully you can reach what you want on this community ...
Welcome Ben !
I am sure you going to enjoy this platform.
Looking forward your future posts .
thank you!! its only been about 30 mins and i already feel so welcome haha
Here is my 1st upvote to you, follow me for more upvotes and funny videos!!
I upvote every decent comment on my videos!!
Greetings from Las Vegas & welcome to steemit, I made an article to help new Steemians earn an income and learn more about steemit. If you're interested just click on my link here
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Welcome to steemit Ben, I like the "gentle" in there, and sharing music sounds a perfect reason to join, you will find lovely people on this journey that will likely will make you stay. A fellow minnow upvote for you. Best regards from Spain.
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Welcome Ben
Your #introduceyourself blog is very nice.
Thats what its All about on this platform and this blockchain. Blogging is it, blog on and you Will be succesfull! 🤛 and You Will earn money. 💴💸💰be carefull with all your passwords !! Never give that up!
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I blog every day and love it!❤️
Helpfull is the Steemify App , its Free in the Appstore go cheque it out. And good luck steeming and I Will See you around🍀
Greetings from Brittandjosie - Holland
Welcome!!! Sooo nice your picture!!!
hey hey Ben....welcome to steemit. Its nice to meet you !!
nice to meet you too!!
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Hey, Excelente intro, Bienvenido! Voy a estar al tanto de tus post! Espero disfrutar de tu música pronto y que tu disfrutes de la mia, saludos :)
We gotta be friends.
Welcome dude! Nice to see another person who does solo stuff and heavy band stuff too! If @luisferchav hasn't already told you, there are chat rooms on Discord for musicians if you'd like to join! Great place to share Steemit stuff and meet other musicians! Hope you have a lot of fun on Steemit! I know I do! ;)
he did tell me about discord!!! thanks for the tip. cant wait to check out some of your music!
Awesome! And thanks! \m/
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Hi, Ben! I loved your post and your videos! I'm looking forward to read your next posts. I'm new on Steemit too, welcome!
Greetings from Venezuela
hola daniiii!! thanks for the bienvenidoo :)
You should explore the @openmic community
yooooo thanks for the suggestion!! im working on some new stuff now that i will for sure be submitting
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