2022 is surely going to be a year of experimental looks that will rule the ramp, street, and fashion houses. While 2021 showed everyone going casual and minimal behind the mask, 2022 is going to be accentuating the real you through accessories. Keldamuzik has been promoting her inner style through her accessories over the past few years and this is why she came with her own line of berets, ‘Tinks’. Being a versatile hip-hop singer Kelda’s style represents Bay Area and the urban Black community.

We are eager to share with you her style statements for the year 2022 that is influenced by high-end fashion trends and preppy iconic choice. So let’s take a look at the top 5 accessories Keldamuzik is going to highlight in 2022.

Beret

Yes, you guessed it right! Beret will be her main accessory going forward from street style to concerts and public appearances, a cool chic beret will accompany her, and why not? A beret complements all the dresses and she definitely knows how to style them.

Chain

A hip-hop artist without punk rock chains is a sight incomplete. Keldamuzik opts for sophisticated thick chains to complement her rockstar looks and she never goes wrong with her choice. Chains are making a comeback in 2022 and we are so ready for these.

Cross-body Bag

Who doesn’t love cross-body bags? So easy to carry and so good to look at. Keldamuzik is normally working all time rather it is her podcast shows, her musical events, her fan’s meetup, or Tinks meetings. She is always on the go and she needs a good buddy to carry her stuff. Cross-body bags are the only choice for 2022 since things are going to get moving.

Hoop Earrings

A diva is incomplete without proper earrings. Hoops are this year’s favorite accessory that’s.. going to stay for long. Imagine a turtle neck sweater with big hoops… Keldamuzik is a phenomenal influencer of high fashion and with her new appearances, we can easily say hoops are going to be on her list in 2022.

Long Platform Boots

The last one on our list is the long platform boots which are definitely going to return in 2022 and Kelda is loving these. Are you also a fan of these chic boots?

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It’s a time for rejoicing, and presents are a great gesture to show our love and warmth for those who are loved ones. It is a great moment for Families, Fun, and Festivities so let them know how much you appreciate them with your warm wishes. ❆ May the holiday season end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and bright New Year. 

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” – Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is a time for family, therefore you celebrate the day with close ones. If you know of someone who is experiencing a difficult time or is alone, invite them to cheer up with the festivities of your family. No one should be left out on Christmas. Also, the feel of giving is far greater than the bliss of receiving. There are countless ways to give, let that be donating to a charity, preparing some extra Christmas meal, or giving a gift to someone that otherwise wouldn’t have had it. You can still gather your family around the Christmas tree to open gifts this year—even if it’s virtual. You can use video chat using Zoom or Facebook Messenger, as it will keep the holiday spirit intact with visual interaction.

When I was small, all my siblings and cousins used to prepare our annual Christmas crackers on Christmas eve and also do some little music playing and singing for the whole family, playing instruments and acting. I would have loved to share with you those moments but childhood videos are embarrassing and will probably never see the light of day. However, it was a fun way for us kids to collaborate and present the older family members with some entertainment – even if we weren’t all that good. These traditions live with the children and they can recall these precious moments when growing up and have memories to cherish. You can also bake your favorite cookies or prepare Christmas meals for friends, family, or give them to someone as a charity. Go on packing Christmas crackers and singing out your most loved Christmas carols. 

Here’s to the Christmas!

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The New Year’s excitement is all here! With all the new promises, aspiring goals, and commitments, it’s the right time to start setting new year’s resolutions. If you’re moving gradually, going at your own speed instead of at the pace of the dropping New Year’s ball: take your time. If you’re holding steady instead of resolving to change: follow your heart, not the current. You are enough, just as you are. There is enough time, just as much as there is. Look back, if you can. Look around, for guidance. Look ahead, when you’re ready.

“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” – Kevin Ng  

Get ready for a year full of surprises, fun, challenges, and dreams. 2022 is another year of pandemic ups and downs as we see new variants rising in number, let’s brace ourselves for Covid precautionary measures and be more positive than ever. We have been through tough times globally and 2022 seems to be a year of fighting against the same pandemic so I wish all my fans a year full of health and safety. I wish we get out of this sooner and stronger.

Embrace this New Year with your open arms and get ready to look challenges in the face. May this New Year be a year of being practical, do not only wish, dream and hope but go out and make your dreams become a reality. Kickstart this year by choosing what you really want, make a list with everything you want in this New Year, and then make a plan, take it seriously, as your whole life depends on it and take action. You are their commander-in-chief and you have the power within you to make dreams come true.

Here’s to 2022!

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Peacebuilding is basically about dealing with the causes of why people fight in the first place, while also helping societies to fix their rifts and conflicts without involving violence. There are many definitions of peace, but all of them are rooted in notions of individual flourishing, cooperation, mutual respect, and justice. Let’s begin by taking a look at what really makes people happy. Research shows that the best indicator of a person’s happiness is the quality of his or her close relationships. The question is whether money plays a role? After all, if you don’t have any money, it’s very easy to believe that lots of money will make you happy. But that’s not what studies have found.

In order to truly live your life, you should start to love yourself. We often see ourselves in the worst light, particularly when life isn’t going how we want it to; however, it is important not to be hard on yourself and blame yourself just because you feel something in your life hasn’t worked out. 

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The message is clear: If you want to feel happy, you should focus on your own yourself first. A lot of people are too scared to follow their dreams and do what they crave. Think about what you would say to a fellow or your loved one. Would you demotivate them from doing what makes them happy simply because it has risks? When you do take that leap yourself, you become a motivation to others.

Rather than thinking about your time getting slipped away, get yourself prepped for how you would like to spend your week and how it affects your mental health. The close relationship between mental health and happiness is the real drive enough to make happiness an important priority for parents, educators, researchers, and medical professionals alike, along with the simple fact that we all like to feel happy!

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The Bay Area has remained an important musical center since the rise of the counterculture movement in the 1960s. With the advent of pop music and more commonplace musical experimentation, San Francisco and its neighboring areas have produced some of the most important musical groups in the last few decades.

From music industry leaders to musicians in hip hop, pop, indie, and folk, the Bay Area music scene is fresh and varied. It’s crazy because it seems like a lot of major artists come to the bay to get money, do concerts, press interviews, all that stuff but none of those people have put any bay area artists on. I mean look how far we’ve come and we just now have a famous bay area female rapper which is Saweetie. Why didn’t we have a Her during the hyphy movement? Why didn’t we have a Saweetie in the 90s from the bay?

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I mean come on let’s be serious the bay area has A LOT of talent including Saweetie herself and many others. But why is it just now coming to the point where they are bringing some bay area artists out? Why didn’t this happen a long time ago?  Why isn’t E-40 at the top of the charts when he should be?? He has put out several albums has great production excellent lyrics and his style is unique! And how about Too $hort? He has created his own lane in hip-hop and made the word “bitch” a cool thing to say.. it’s like you would think having legends like them in the bay, major artists or labels would want to open up a label or production company out here to discover more talent.

While it is slowly happening because we do have the bay area’s very own Keyshia Cole and H.E.R as well as Kehlani, Kamiyah, But it seems that Bay is still overlooked. In the early 2000s, you had a lot of family labels come out like young money, cash money, bad boy, murder Inc., Ruff Ryders etc. they always signed talent within their area. And they would put on for their city.  In the bay, we actually never had that and the thing is we could’ve because we have a lot of talented artists out here and a lot of movers and shakers that put in hard work behind the scenes to promote artists. It’s kind of like if you live in the bay area and you’re trying to make it you have to move out to Atlanta, New York, or even LA to create a buzz. Because if you create a buzz out here it will go unnoticed but again it seems like things are gradually picking up with some of the artists that are coming out of the bay now and hopefully we will see more!

And I just want to thank you to all the legends in the bay and the newer artists that are out right now for Reppin us and showing the world that San Francisco Bay area does have what it takes to compete with everyone else. So this is my tribute to all the Bay Area recording artists who have given the world a wealth of great music

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OK, so when I was about 16 I had my first music audition to be included in a girls pop group. I didn’t really know how to sing for shit even though I thought I could LOL. My mom was always supportive of my music career so she allowed me to take a few days off of school and paid for me to fly to Santa Monica and audition for Columbia records. At the time I was working with this older lady who is my manager and she was managing her daughter Who was in many movies and she took me on as a client. I flew out to LA to stay with them in Hollywood on Lankershim Boulevard. My manager Helen was to take me to the Columbia records audition and then take me to a town agency called cavalier associates to sign up as an actress.

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Well, it was around 7 PM in the evening and Helen asked me if I was prepared for my audition. This was my first time performing in front of someone so it was weird I wasn’t really nervous I was just more anxious to see how the setup was. So Helen and I pulled up to Columbia records and it was a two-part building. Just so happens Jessica Simpson and J Lo we’re having a release party for their first album that they dropped. I could see through the glass window all of these men in suits And women dressed up. That was the very first time I encountered the “Celebrity thing” that everyone always talks about when they go to Hollywood. Well, obviously I didn’t go in there because that’s not what I was therefore LOL. So I went into the building across from where the event was I walked into the office and there was a white guy and a black guy they were sitting behind the piano they told me to put my CD in the player and then I performed. Got damn I was horrible! I just remember closing my eyes and singing and one of the guys were tapping their seat I can hear him so I’m like OK great they’re enjoying this.

Well after that I flew back home and my manager was trying to tell my mom that I should take the proficiency test and leave high school early and live in Hollywood to audition for more labels and acting roles. So obviously I didn’t get the Columbia records gig but it was a great experience however that’s not the reason why I never got signed! Once I moved from San Jose to Oakland and I became Keldamuzik that’s when I started rapping.

I started to learn the ropes of the music industry on my own and became my own manager and entrepreneur. I was able to obtain opportunities for myself due to my marketing and business background. I was functioning just like a management company/label using different email addresses to correspond with promoters and event organizers and DJs…And once I hit the jackpot and got myself booked in Tokyo Japan to open up for R&B singer Lloyd that’s when I knew that anybody could play in this game if they had the gift of gab along with the talent to go with it.

I had labels approach me at the time but I did not want to pursue the deal because I was so successful on my own. I did not want to do the 360 deal and be tied down to a company that is pretty much collecting all of my earnings and I’m just given A standard salary possibly under 100,000. No way! And the thing is there’s really no such thing as record labels like that anymore. It’s like social media is a record label and we build our own teams to help market and manage us as artists. So my point out of all of this is to any of you artists who are still chasing a deal don’t do it! Let them come to you when they do make sure they open their wallets! Hahah… But you would rather have it that way anyway because you know you’ve done something right when a label/investor approaches you. Build your own promotion team everyone could wear multiple hats it doesn’t take much nowadays to really become a success on the Internet and to blow up as an artist even if you’re not famous but you’re still making income off your music and you have a loyal fan base online.

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Bullying is a common experience for many children and adolescents. Surveys indicate that as many as half of all children are bullied at some time during their school years, and at least 15% are bullied on a regular basis. Bullying behavior can be physical or verbal. Boys tend to use physical intimidation or threats, regardless of the gender of their victims. Bullying by girls is more often verbal, usually with another girl as the target.

Let me tell you nothing worse than a bully! They are straight-up cowards and they know it. I used to get bullied sometimes because of the city I lived in and there weren’t many black people in San Jose. From kindergarten, all the way up to high school it was always stupid kids talking shit about my hair and the way I dress… This is also why I choose not to have kids! I just can’t see myself getting a phone call one day saying that my child was beaten up or jumped by a group of kids and it caught on camera and placed on social media for the world to see. I will literally go up to the school and fight that kid myself and their parents LOL. Sorry to be so transparent but it’s true! But I think it would be worth going to jail for LOL.

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Your children are an extension of you and when you hear someone else violated their privacy and attempted to harm them it makes you feel a certain kind of way. It makes you look at life differently. And today now we have cops killing black kids and justice is never served. Even with the George Floyd situation it still took time to actually sentence that monster. The footage was literally caught on camera and the courtroom still had to decide whether he’s guilty or not and then took Hella long to give him a sentence

If it’s not the cops killing us then it’s us killing each other and not holding ourselves accountable for the violence and the crimes that we commit within our communities. It’s like you never know when you’ll see your child or family member again once they walk out the door because there’s somebody out there that doesn’t like them and will do harm to them and usually those people are bullies.

Remember, bullying is about the bully making the worst choice. It is vital that this fact is communicated to victims of bullying. They need to be told and reminded that there is nothing wrong with them and they are not to blame for being targeted.

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The Strong Black Woman has been standing tall for many decades. She’s unbreakable, resilient, almost superhuman. I always dreamt of becoming a powerful exponent of social issues. Being an independent woman means you speak your mind – You call people out when they start misbehaving or disrespecting you. It also gives you the motivation of supporting other women and not viewing them as your competition. It is perfectly alright to not care what anyone else has to say about you because you are proud of yourself for chasing after your wildest dreams. It is also important to be comfortable within the walls of your skin.

As an independent young black woman, I’ve learned a lot over the years. Especially after I turned 18. I’ve learned that you have to make your own money don’t depend on anyone else and create opportunities for yourself and learn how to accomplish goals. It’s crazy because all my life my mom has always been preaching the “hoe” route and that’s not me.

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Now when I say this I am referring to women that sleep with men for money gifts and all that. That’s never been my mindset at all. I don’t blame any women who think that way because we all are trying to get that bag but some of us aren’t like that. I’d rather be independent on my own and knowing what my checks look like! and signing checks to pay others. My mom would always tell me to wear certain clothing to reveal body parts and to always look sexy which again I don’t blame any female if that’s the way they want to go but the problem was my mom never understood that. To me it was like dealing with an older sister who is trying to be a bad influence on you, knowing that I have a brain and smarts and that I’m very creative that’s all she ever cared about is me getting with an athlete and living off of his wealth.

Look at the end of the day as females we are all going to do whatever it takes to feed our babies and t

o pay the rent but there are other options out there besides depending on a man with money to take care of us. The last thing I want Is to have to ask my husband for an allowance weekly. To me unless I am disabled or whatever I just couldn’t do that. I remember growing up and watching Oprah, Tyra Banks, Janet Jackson, Queen Latifah, MC light, and many other powerful black women that always held down their own without having to depend on a man. I like that and I think we need more of that to show women that it’s OK to be independent and successful on your own without the help of your boyfriend or husband. Ladies be strong independent Divas and show the world who you are inside out!

Although we still have a long way to go, women have more control today than ever before over their careers, bodies, finances, and lifestyles. A strong woman knows what she wants in life so doesn’t depend on anyone else for what she wants. She stands out because she doesn’t need validation from anyone. Her self-confidence, drive, and ambition come from within, and she’s certainly a force to be reckoned with. These women are called Boss Diva!

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Music genres used to be so easy before. There was hard rock and pop and some other genres. But music and artists keep transitioning and keep pushing boundaries and new genres keep coming. When you’re talking about the Greatest of All Time in music, the personalities that tend to come up are — The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, etc.

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These musicians, for the most part, produced different styles of music. But what if you separated them? While the world may seem increasingly divided and full of rifts, music artists offered hope, solace, and the assurance that at least where the genre’s concerned, borders are only getting more open.

As a kid, I grew up listening to all types of music from pop-rock alternative jazz-blues hip-hop and R&B. Are used to be such a huge fan of Michael Jackson I mean I still an MJ fan but when he was alive and I was a kid I would always enter any of his contests, watch new music videos and his films. The only thing that I never got a chance to see is him in concert! They really need to make a Michael Jackson hologram tour he was the king of pop!

The reason why I call myself Keldamuzik is because I love all types of music but my primary skill is in hip-hop and I just love writing and wrapping. The idea of spitting verses and putting your feelings into art and placing them on top of music to me is just so therapeutic. I like to eventually incorporate other genres of music into my music as well. I liked groups like Lincoln Park papa roach the cranberries garbage bush no doubt.

All of those bands I was a really big fan of and I felt that if they collaborated with more hip-hop artists it could really change the world like how Run-DMC did with Aerosmith. I think all music genres need to collaborate with each other because at the end of the day it’s music it’s what we do and it’s what we love. Why not mix R&B with an alternative? Or country with hip-hop? To me, it’s just creating a hybrid genre of music.

However, some people do it right and some people do it wrong. Some artists try too hard and overdo it and some artists do it just right! I’ll keep my opinions to myself as far as which artists are not doing it right but if you’re listening to music today you know exactly what I’m talking about. People make fun of me to this day for listening to certain international Pop songs and rock songs but I’m like hey this is Music and I’m a music artist right? I don’t discriminate at all as long as it sounds good!!

Spread in the ’80s and ’90s, Hip Hop today is one of the most listened to music genres, famed for melodic sampling, catchy beats, and flowing wordplay. Despite negative linking, many who listen to hip hop find it a powerful source of both self-identity and community empowerment. Hip hop culture is perhaps one of the most prevailing and generous movements in our world today.

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Staying motivated is often the most difficult part of maintaining any aspect of a healthy lifestyle, including exercise. Women’s health matter most and its is undeniably the most understudied area. Feminine health is a sensitive area to explore and treat and I want to share my experience of facing hard times dealing with health issues common in females.

Ahh man yeah, I definitely have to write about this! Sell all my life I’ve always had heavy menstrual cycles I mean so heavy it was unbearable along with the pain. I would have flu-like symptoms and damn near would need it to be rushed to the hospital because the temperature it was so high. But the main reason why I wanted to discuss this topic is that I had 20 fibroids removed from my uterus. Which is also called a Myomectomy. I remember going to several different doctors and telling them about my issues about how my periods were so painful and that they were heavy and each doctor acted like it was too huge of a chore or procedure to even discuss further.

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All they kept doing was give me ibuprofen and told me to use heating pads and to take it easy. But no! That did not help at all because of the heavy menstrual cycles and the flu-like symptoms I would miss out on a lot of activities because it would affect my day. I would have to cancel some show appearances and couldn’t be around anybody at all! Until I met this female doctor in Oakland California who pressed on my stomach the first day I met her and said she didn’t need to look any further she felt the fibroids very strongly. After she sent me to get an ultrasound they said it was like cauliflower sitting on my uterus they could barely even see my uterus. So I went ahead and got the procedure done I stayed in the hospital for about 4 to 5 days massive bleeding and I felt like I just got hit by a truck LOL. But the hospital was so kind to me I had several different nurses that came to my aid for everything. And then my mom walks in with a picture of the fibroids that were removed and oh my god there were 20 of them LOL can you believe that? 20 gross nasty things sitting in my stomach for years!

Fibroids are no joke get them removed if they are bothering you or else it could ruin your life! It’s hard being a woman we have so many things that we have to take care of when it comes to our body on top of looking good, making money, interacting with others and having children. Ladies take care of yourselves and always see your gynecologist if you have concerns about any feminine issues! Oh and by the way divas please please practice safe sex and find the right birth control that’s for you!

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Every woman deserves the best healthcare. Your health needs change at different stages of your life – you may be preparing for pregnancy, awaiting the birth of your baby, going through menopause, or looking for answers to women’s health queries. Whatever stage you’re at, whatever your needs, understand your condition and take control of your own health.

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