Athletes on the field, Role Models off the field!

It's one thing to be a professional athlete, but you have to learn to take that to the next level. Most of professional athletes become role models to alot of fans. Torrey Smith is a new role model in most people's eyes. For those of you who don't know Torrey, he is the football wide reciever for the Baltimore Ravens, #82. I know Torrey Smith on a personal experience. He is a regular at my work, Jimmy's Famous Seafood. He can't get enough of our crab cakes. Torry Smith takes time from his busy season to procast a radio show with 98 Rock at Jimmy's Famous Seafood EVERY MONDAY NIGHT. I've experienced how many fans we can bring in on a slow monday night at work. He's an inspirational person on and off the field. He takes the time to sign autographs, take pictures, and make friends with his fans. He has fans from all age groups: from children to adults. I personally am a big fan of Torrey. Not just the fact he is an inspirational player, but also due to the fact he hasn't let fame change him one bit. He's probably the nicest person i have met. He is currently engaged to the girlfriend thats been with him every step of the way. I do not believe the celebrity aspect of his life has effected his abilities on the field, he is an excellent player. The Ravens should be grateful for his new addition to the team. He makes us Baltimore Raven fans proud and our Role Model.

Unfortunately, not all of our Role Models can stay true to theirselves. For example, we all know about the tradegy Tiger Woods caused on his family, friends, and fans. He decided to let fame get to him and ruin his repretation. He had sexual affiars with many women while being married and having a child. He was selfish to his own needs before thinking how it would effect everyone else. Its a shame since he is a tremedous player on the field, just wasn't the role model we expected off the field. Not only did he cheat, but he stayed quiet about the affiars thinking they might blow over. They didn't. You can see how the actions of our role models can affect us.

How Musicans are making it !

 

Singers and artist get discovered in a variety of ways in our society. Just by creating your own youtube account with videos of you singing variety of songs and maybe some of your own music can get you discovered. Everyone is on YouTube, its a huge hit for music. For example, our teen big hit Justin Bieber got discovered on YouTube by Usher. Now the nation has been swept with "Bieber Fever". It's a deadly disease that has young girls falling head over heels for Justin Bieber.

 

Being an artist, there's several things you need to do before marketing yourself as a musician. First off, you need to classify your music. Usher is a famous R&B singer, and you will find his music on R&B stations and categories. Then create yourself several social websites like facebook, twitter, instagram etc. It's good as a artist trying to make it to build a fan base. Your fans would like to be inform on your life and what your doing with your career and life. It's important to network as much as possible. Start off at local gigs doing open mic night. This will help with building your fan base and getting your music spread by the word of mouth. Maintain a database for contact, give out email address and mailing address. This is a great way to see how your fans are responding to your music. After you do the local gig scene for awhile, try to open up for a bigger band, this way you'll get yourself a larger audience and promote your music to people who may never even heard of you. Invest in good social relations, any media you can get is the best for your band. Photographs, newspapers, interviews. Then record a demo, the better the demo the higher chance it will be networked.

 

One major example of musicans starting off small and trying to make it big in the world is the band ALL TIME LOW! All Time Low started off at local gigs and doing open mic in our every own Baltimore city. I remember when they were passing out flyers at White Marsh mall trying to promote their band and get a larger fan base to know their music. After all their hard work, they finally made it. All Time Low is actually a huge band across the world now. I believe if a artist works hard enough and is talented enough, they can make a name for themselves.