Music is life

Fri, Jun 12th 2015, 01:01 AM

Music is vocal or instrumental sounds (or both), combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion -- for Ordain Moss, music is her life expression. It's the place she turns to when she's going through something -- whether it's good or bad, music gets her through it. For the 27-year-old songstress, music is her outlet.

"Life can be really rough, but for some reason, when I put music in my ears everything seems okay," says Ordain. "I can write any day, any time. I will get up in the middle of the night to write music, and come to work exhausted because it just won't let me sleep."

Knowing what music means to her, she recently used her music to try to help make life a little easier for her fellow man. The 27-year-old wrote and recorded the song "Let's Put Our Love To Work" which she made available on iTunes and Amazon with the thought of donating all profits raised to the Hands for Hunger organization. She also made use of Indiegogo, an international crowd-funding website through which everyone who contributed to her cause was able to receive the song for free. Ordain, a Hands for Hunger volunteer raised over $1,500 which she donated to the organization to support the fight against hunger.

"I've been raised to give back. I've always been empathetic and had an open eye to needs, hurts and wants," she said.

This week she also premiered her video for "Let's Put Our Love To Work" in which she replicates what Hands for Hunger does. It's a shoot she describes as "one of the most amazing experiences" of her life. Her goal for the video was to encourage and promote positive community service -- people coming together and lending a hand for the greater cause.

Ordain, the daughter of Tracy Chea and her godparents Edison Roberts and Madge Roberts, has been singing in church since the age of three, and envisions a future with her on the world stage. She travels to the United States at least three times a year in her quest to make her dream a reality. And she's getting the formalized training to help make her dream a reality, working with the husband and wife team of pianist Lee, and the classically trained JoAnn Calendar who she says are her mentors. She's been training with them since her early teenage years.

"When I sang in church, Lee and JoAnn Calendar fell in love with me and started to mentor me -- JoAnn with songwriting and Lee with vocal training."

Ordain has a body of work to her credit already with three songs published on iTunes -- "Passion and Pleasure", "Grab on my Waist" and "Let's Put our Love to Work".
The basis of her music will always by R&B, but she says she has a love for all music and is open to trying it all. She's tested out rock, and finds herself moving into the urban genre as well in her rebranding, so her fans will see her releasing songs with a more upbeat, more uptempo sound.

"My music is a reflection of life. I always tell people you have different sides and you fall in different places. I'm a mother on one end, a daughter on the next and a performer on the next ... I can write a song about anything, so it's almost a true reflection of me, that's intimately written music and fun music as well. So you can't put me in a genre almost. Whatever song is in my heart at the time I write it. If I think think it's really good I produce it," she said.

Ordain, who has performed most recently at the 2014 Paradise Plates and with the Vice Versa Band, said her dream is for her music to surpass even her wildest dreams.

"I see myself in a large auditorium performing in front of thousands of people. I know that I'm going to end up on the world stage," she says. "Once I stay consistent I know I'm going to end up where I should be."

Ordain's musical idols include Babyface, Smokey Robinson, Toni Braxton and the late Aliyah. But she says one of the best things her mother did for her was to give her the godparents she did. She says the Roberts were the most influential people in her life and are a very big part of who she is.

"They basically raised me as their child even though I had a mother." It was her godfather who gave Ordain her start as a precocious child. She said her godmother always told her she had a beautiful voice, and she would always sing before her godfather, a pastor took to the pulpit to preach his sermon.

 


Talented singer Ordain Moss

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