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| Jamie Montoya recording Glory In the Highest |
I didn't really care, I was no where near in love with him. He was just a new man (that said they were devoted) and helped while I found my footsteps in Orlando. I didn't know him a week before Brian dropped me off on his front door step. He was Kendra Delight's (my 2nd best friend) trade from out of town. I knew Brian and I would never be over officially as partners...no one could replace what we had. Not yet at least, and I really was running from crack to save my life!
Standing at the appetizer window trying to get the cooks attention so I could smoke some pot in the back bathroom, I brushed off the Darryl incident I just witnessed at home, and introduced myself to another member of the gay army. He was filling his basket with the infamous Olive Garden bread sticks for the unlimited soup salad and bread sticks special with water and lemon..all of us despised, when he took a double take.
"Wait did you say your name was...is...Jamie Montoya....like THE Jamie Montoya?"
Yes, I am T-H-E Jamie Montoya. I just transferred from Tampa because I retired my high heels and moved here to become a recording artist.
"Great!", my name is Jay and I am going to Full Sail Recording School my new friend replied. "Let's talk about partnering up and becoming a vocal duo." And we did.
I was so lost at the time though, but love was following me every step of the way. At least I had a new job with friends who threw me a surprise 28th birthday party only 6 months after I had gotten to Orlando. As always, I was popular, had a lot of great hot sex but was really wrestling with what God had in store for me.
When I had prayed the sinners prayer (unprompted at 5 years of age) asking Christ in my heart, I opened my eyes and turned to my parents (on our knees) and said, "Mom, dad God wants me to do something in music". Now some 20ish years later stranded in Orlando without singing or touching a piano in several years...I ached with a longing for Christian music. My only relief was Rich Mullins and his songs from Awesome God to I see You to Hold me Jesus to Step by Step.
I sang for a grocery store owner while standing in line one day, and he bought me recording studio time. Like I said love had just been leading me even when I didn't notice...till just now. Yeah some stranger booked recording studio time hearing me sing just once. I still have that recording, but I had some maturing to do.
I really needed a moment with God to get grounded and find His direction. I was the kid who sang and danced with God when I was 8 or 9 in the mountains. He even led me home safely after falling out of a tree and landing on a nail. In my heart He told me to stand up, face the direction I needed to go, not look ahead and sing my way down the mountain to Him. I was rescued following Him.
I had always been a wierdo about how good God is to me and I was always bragging about God. Even when people thought I was some kind of lunatic. I knew He is real and loves me and was changing my heart from the inside out.
On the morning of my 28th birthday, I was led a few blocks from my home on a cobblestone street downtown Orlando to Lake Eola. Lake Eola is the park that Disney built for Orlando as a thank you for letting them build the theme park. It is beautiful, and it drew me that morning.
I passed the end of the park where the Backstreet Boys former manager would blow me in his limo for a 100 bucks every Friday. After being drawn to the waters edge in Lake Eola, I decided in my heart not to hustle anymore to get by and asked for forgiveness. I was going to trust God.
I sat by the water's edge and let my spirit unleash all the hurt of losing my career, and my following and my friends and Brian and our family. I prayed with every thing I had. I cried, I sobbed, I wanted a new dream, a new vision.
After I was convinced I was forgiven of everything I had ever done by the blood of Jesus, the life changing prayer was very simple when it finally came out . "God, please restore my talent. I wasted the talent you gave me playing the piano and singing, please return it to me. I am sorry for wasting it. Please restore my talent."
I then fell on his promise and said Psalm 91 out loud that I learned as a child for a bible drill...."He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty whose power no foe can come against". That secret place is my personal relationship with God. No one can take my alone time with God away, and sometimes He keeps us desperate to have alone time with Him.
The glare on the water seemed to jump off the lake and hit me in the eye after quoting that scripture. I was filled with peace, and joy and love. So I sang a few songs to God out loud, not knowing I was anointed worship leader right then, and not caring who could hear me in the park.
I then felt a cool breeze suddenly brush me from all sides traveling upward until it tickled me on my forehead. In my heart I heard God whisper..."I am not done with you by far. Get up, and go claim your destiny." I stood up a new man, no longer a female impersonator, but a man with a destiny.
As I was leaving the park I noticed a handwritten sign that said piano for sale 35$. Knowing it was a God thing, I went in the church and inquired, though I only had 30 dollars. When I found a key that did not work (a low E), I pointed it out and the church accepted my offer. They said I had to get it home though and gave me a dolly to use.
Luckily Brian was on his was to celebrate my birthday and he and I pushed and pushed and broke that dolly trying to get the old player piano in my apartment. People would drive by and asked if we needed help, then when we said yes, they said they would come back...but never did.
But the moment finally arrived when I had that piano in my apartment. The first time I played one in at least 5 years. What was I gonna play? That's when it happened, I sat down and wrote my first song. God did more than answer my prayer that afternoon restoring my talent.
He made me a songwriter. I used to think songwriters were geniuses until I became one. That is what my song on the radio now "What Love Can Do" is all about. I wrote it years before the other song What Faith Can Do came out, and it is nothing like it. It is about starting over, going back to square one, facing everything and recovering and 4th and 5th chances.
You should check out it out at www.party934.com ask for Dale. This is NOT a religious song.
I am an adult contemporary artist releasing my next unit in the Pop/Rock category
Click onto this link to check out the first song I ever wrote and recorded
https://mysp.ac/EGql?play=1
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