Break Down the Walls

I am 33 years old and was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. From a very young age I fell in love with God, music, and singing. I never thought that I would be able to pursue singing as a career because I knew that I didn't want to sing secular music. As a child, it never occurred to me that I could be a Christian singer, and as I grew older I even stopped singing for some time because I grew critical of my voice and felt that my range was very limited. In 2013, God blessed me with my very first song while I was sitting in a class at the university I was attending. I was thinking about how hard and nerve wrecking life must be for people who don't know about God. I felt blessed to have the peace that God gives us, but sad to think that so many didn't share that same peace. At that moment, the song came to me in Spanish and I was able to translate it immediately after to English. After that, the songs just kept coming. I know that God is the real composer and definitely the inspiration behind every song. Even after having composed several songs, I never considered recording them because I still didn't think that it was possible for me. After a friend convinced me otherwise and helped me see that it was possible I began to dream that it could actually happen. At that time my church was going through a major transition from one location to another and there were many barriers they had to get through to attain the new property. I wanted to help in some way and began to create a song that could be sung by several of our singers at church and dreamed that we could create a video in which we could show the transition and special things that God was doing for our church. With God's blessing, it happened just like that and became the theme song for our church. That song is called "Romper las paredes" or "Break down the walls". The message in this song is about how we need to break down the walls of our church so that we can actually reach others. It was fixed on the message that sometimes as church we tend to huddle up and congregate amongst ourselves and do church together, when instead we should be the church outside our walls and reach those in need who do not know about Jesus. This message was preached by our pastor at the time and the message stuck with me. Since then, I have written more songs and have begun the process of recording my first CD. One of my biggest blessings is having the opportunity to be a part of Forest City Worship, which is the worship team at my church. Our worship leader, Denar Almonte, is the one who did the arrangement for "Romper las Paredes" and the one who is producing my CD. I am excited to continue the journey that God is taking me through and look forward to all of the doors that He will open and close according to His perfect will for my life.