It’s not often you hear musicians comment positively the human derrière, especially in the case of females, but after hearing his latest release ‘Backside’, I was
compelled to get in touch with the musician himself to find out more. Mikel Ameen is musician and
social entrepreneur from North West London who began pursuing his music 4
years ago, since then he has gone from strength to strength accumulating over 900 follower on twitter and multiple video hits via Youtube.
I thought I’d catch up with Mikel to find out his motivations,
inspiration and where it all started.
‘I got into music naturally when I baby. It has always
played a big part in family life. Music got my dad to this country so
it was kind of inevitable that his children would be into Entertainment’.
He would say the best place music has taken him is to ‘a higher
level of consciousness’. He explains ‘I can’t describe how much listening to
the right music has taken my mind to a better place of thinking’
When Mikel’s not making music or reading he’s involved in
social events, such as Dance 4 Life UK
In the same vein he is also involved in the youth
organisation Get Familyar which is a branch of his father’s charity ACDF – African Carribean
Development Foundation – that specialises in entertainment and arts, that aims
to develop social, personal and communication skills for young people, as well
as provide them with productive training via workshops.
Music for him is literally therapy; he says ‘reciting my
pains and loves to a rhythm is refreshing. If something is on my mind for a
while then usually, I’m compelled to right about it. My song backside is a question to men and
women about the obsession with the females BUM, is it natural or is it
perverted. Like most of my songs I’m trying to get people thinking.’
His inspirations include Bob Marley, he likes the way ‘he
delivered his music, his love and his mission to the people’ and he feels ‘he
did so much through his music for the lives of others’, he wants to do the same
in the future. 'Michael Jackson', he says ‘he is the LORD of music entertainment what
cant you take from him’ and lastly ‘Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan’ he says ‘as a
man I look up to him. He is the greatest example of how to conduct yourself
with morals, strength & discipline. He has spent over 50 years dedicated to
the uplifting of black people and is still going strong. I follow him on
twitter.’
He would say the right time for a musician to take the transition from
music to a profession in comparison to it being a hobby is ‘when you’ve
whole-heartedly decided that, that’s what you’re going to do, but he still
understands that ‘it’s different for everyone, he explains 'I know more doors are opening
for me. I just got to continue doing the best for me and my time will come’. He
would advise up and coming musicians to ‘go in’, with their music and ‘don’t look back’.
He thinks ‘the industry right now is the best it’s been, especially for UK
For more of Mikel you can now contact him personally via his Facebook, Twitter and Myspace as well as check out the GetFamilyar Official Site.
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