Challenge - Day Six What Band or Musician Is Most Important to You

Day Six What Band or Musician Is Most Important to You

Lucia Micarelli











Okay, sorry it took a while to wrap this one up and took days to post it. I really wanted a nice answer to this.


Growing up, I’ve listened and liked a lot of artists, bands and so-called musicians. Ranking from Mandy Moore, Westlife, Maroon 5, Dave Mathews Band, Yellowcard, The Smiths, Josh Groban, The Calling, The Corrs and random artists that labeled themselves ‘musicians’. I love all of them, up to now. But I didn’t really know what a ‘musician’ was until I’ve reached college.


To be a musician for me is to take more than writing, composing songs or strumming guitar (no pun intended to taylor swift fans here). There’s go to be more. There’s got to be that fire - that fleeting, fiery ecstasy when they perform. Something more and beyond. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is genuine talent. By that too, my answer to the Day 6 Challenge is none other than - Lucia Micarelli.



24, violinist and great performer. A great inspiration for me. She’s the most important musician and influence for me and why I even pursue this course I’ve taken.
Her talent is just beyond and her passion for it ignites everything around her. She’s uncaring of criticism and she just wanted to do her own music. She was trained classically for 7 years at Julliard Music School for which she left and didn’t graduate from because she wanted to do music - the real thing. The real type of music - made for rules, but broken when executed. Pure music, genuine intentions, without fake or thirst for glamour, without fake people who do it for the sake of their names, no nonsense competition amongst colleagues - things that didn’t matter in the long run.


She wanted to be a musician and she made it. A genuine talent who wanted to be away from the box of tradition because she knew that music was meant to be pure and with genuine intentions of the heart.
Diplomas didn’t matter to her either. She knew she wasn’t going to wear it around her neck when she played at bars, concerts and gigs. They weren’t going to check that as long as she played great and well.
Music only mattered. That is music at its purest form and how one should see it.




She’s a great inspiration for me. No crappy things and commercial fake personas around. Just music. She left school because she knew what was significant in the long run, what only really mattered most. She didn’t want to stay and waste time in a place with things and with people who wouldn’t matter, who didn’t believe entirely on what she wanted to do. But she knew what music was and what she really wanted.
Relating a lot to her and her views in music, I admire her the most and consider her the most important musician for me; like she has said,



“There were a lot of things. I was trained classically but I wanted to try things differently, I wanted to play things and I wasn’t allowed to experiment and try things. But I love music. I love the violin. I just want to play."