'Breathe' Mobile Phone Video by Darren Claxton
Here's a video I put together for my song 'Breathe' it features our children, niece and nephew. It was all shot on the fly with my Huawei P10 smartphone.
I hope you enjoy it.
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I awoke to one of the best emails ever this morning!
My little song has been chosen for BBC INTRODUCING radio show this evening here in the EAST MIDLANDS UK.
For those of you unfamiliar with the BBC (you should know who they are) and the Introducing initiative, it has discovered some huge artist over the past few decades and catapulted them to the big league!
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They're real champions for independent artists and really love REAL MUSIC! To be chosen from the thousands of uploads per week is quite astonishing for a solo minnow like myself. It's not a guaranteed ticket to success but, it's a mighty good start!
So here's the all new and improved studio version of 'Breathe' It's a song I wrote a few weeks ago for an online song contest called 'On Song International' As ever in my ADD fuelled haste, I quickly created a video and sent it to them! To my delight, they loved it and immediately posted it on their YouTube channel. I'm a fan of independent musicians support and want to see it develop into a bigger animal for us all.
What inspired me to write this? well, I was thinking (I do a lot of that) about all the stupid mistakes that I've made in life, and wouldn't want my children to follow in my footsteps. I gave them breath in their bodies, but I don't need it back. they walk the footsteps that I make, just don't follow me, take a ride upon a wing, just don't look down on me. I never thought of myself as a poet, but reading back those words really stirred some emotive thoughts in me.
I hope you enjoy this little song, many thanks for your support.
Lyrics
Breathe the air I gave to you
just don't give it back
sing this song I wrote for you
just don't sing it back
Walk the footsteps that I make
just don't follow me
take a ride upon a wing
but just don't look down on me
Breathe the air I gave to you
just don't give it back
sing this song I wrote for you
just don't sing it back
Walk the footsteps that I make
just don't follow me
take a ride upon a wing
but just don't look down on me
Darren
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Congratulations Darren!! Well deserved!
Cheers mate! Still buzzing this morning!
I bet you are!!
Well done mate! You must be stoked, this seriously could be the ticket to the big time.. and you’ve definitely earned it. Congrats 😃👍
Thanks for the compliment and for listening to my music mate! It's good exposure but you have to be really lucky these days!