Our hair is a reflection of ourselves because it is both personal and public. A bad hair day equals a bad day: when a woman’s hair is too thin, too rough, too dry, falling off, or turning grey it affects her self-esteem and feminity. There is a strong connection between hair and self-esteem in all cultures, races, and religions. Your overall confidence will be significantly improved and allows you to live a more fulfilling life.

I absolutely love my hair although I’ve always had issues with it always been made fun of never could really style my own hair I love it so much. At the age of four, my mom put a perm in my hair when she was not supposed to. My hair started thinning but when I turn six and seven and groove back extremely thick. I’m talking about so thick I had to take painkillers to get a come through it LOL. Anyway, my hair has always been difficult to deal with I remember in high school during PE we would have a semester of swimming, and every time I came home my hair would just start breaking off due to the chlorine. Even if I wore swimming caps the water would still get in my hair somehow. I must’ve lost a gang of hair but still had so much.

When I started modeling and acting I remember at the time I had a manager who said we’re going to get you out of that ponytail Kelda! I would always wear my hair in a bun or small ponytail because I just didn’t know how to style my hair and my mom would only take me to the salon maybe once a month for a relaxer but of course when you exercise and you play sports and do other activities you sweat that all out. I am totally glad that I started getting my hair braided and wearing partial weaves and wigs you don’t understand how it’s a lifesaver for some of us! Our hair is it sure it’s beautiful but it’s definitely a chore and you have to take your time with it.

It’s not like we could just wake up in the morning wash our hair leave it wet and go on with our day we have to blow dry it or let it air dry put moisturizers in it to hold the style applying heat to our hair and other things as well. I just want to say love your hair Ladies! Your hair is what also makes you beautiful. And even if it’s difficult for you to work with your hair find a close relative or friend that can help you out. It’s funny because a lot of my friends help me with my hair and of course

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I have stylists too But that’s only when it’s showtime other than that if I’m just going out with friends or whatever I usually ask them to do my hair for me because I don’t know what I’m doing LOL leave it up to me I’ll probably leave it in a bun as I did in high school. I’m all for natural hair and for wigs or whatever it is that you want to put in your hair as long as you feel comfortable with it and it’s manageable. For me right now wags and waves are definitely manageable because you can apply any chemical or heat that you want to it and it’s not your hair so who cares if it gets damaged? LOL.

Hair is a multibillion-dollar industry. The average hair care expenditure is around $50,000 for a woman for an entire lifetime. Anyway, love your hair take care of your hair. Love you guys!

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In the last few decades, the influence of social media has sky-rocketed from being entertainment to a fully integrated part of everyone’s life. Social media benefits us by expanding our social networks and keeping in touch with far-away friends and family. It is also a creative outlet. Growing up with digital technology may be changing our brain development in ways we don’t yet know.

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It’s crazy because now I’ve been addicted to my phone more than ever always checking my Twitter my Instagram both of my Facebook accounts linked in emails. What in the hell would we do if we didn’t have all these sources? We would be bored and tired LOL. No, I’m just kidding. Science shows it could be good or bad. Social media is a great thing to exist but then when people abuse it becomes bad and harmful to others. I’ve seen countless crimes happen on Instagram people committing suicide or killing others etc. but then again thanks to social media think the camera phones were able to capture the brutal and ruthless murder of George Floyd.

We are also able to capture a lot of Karen’s Beckys and other racist individuals who treat people of color wrongfully. If it wasn’t for social media and camera phones we would not be able to capture any of this footage at all. this is where I would say social media comes in handy for situations like this. Then on another note social media comes in handy for businesses of course so that we can promote our music our products our businesses and brands. And now that social media has given people the option to run ads and other tools to further promote our creative it surely is more beneficial than ever.

Now we have experts out there who specialize in social media marketing to help grow your business. I think it’s an awesome thing and we certainly should take advantage of social media because of that. All in all, let’s try to use social media to promote greatness prosperity, and spread love. Too much hate is on social media and people spreading too many rumors about each other’s businesses and stuff it’s not cool. Also, it seems like social media is damn near an open diary on the Internet for those. I would definitely keep certain things to myself and not post all over social media about how are you are going through a tragic situation or whatever. Unless you really do want responses and feedback. Other than Again let’s make social media our best friend and spread positivity on it rather than hate.

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I would like to share publicly my thoughts on racism and the horrific events that result from it. It sucks that people are still racist. In certain parts of America where you go, aside from the police being racist, there are many others that still do not accept black people in their community. I’m not really into politics or anything like that but I can definitely speak on what I see. Racism has permeated this country since its inception, leading to a health crisis in Black and brown communities.

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As a black child growing up in San Jose I was oblivious to racism because I didn’t know that my skin color would be a problem for someone. I will try to befriend everybody and I would never judge them based on the way they look. Kids of other ethnic backgrounds used to call me names I remember one kid specifically used to call me a grease monkey. I never knew what he meant by that nor did I ever try to find out but as I got older and started understanding exactly what hate for black people is that’s when I came to my senses.

I remember going to the 7-Eleven or local food market and the cashier would just treat me differently they would always follow me down the aisles as I was looking for food or beverages. Again I never thought my skin color would be the reason why I would be treated differently. I remember going to Santa Teresa high school and it was predominantly white people. My parents wanted me to go to that school to get a better education however the students there were unwelcoming. I remember one of the teachers assigned to white girls to help me and this other white girl out with her homework and learning more about the school since we came at the same time. Well, they ended up showing her more attention and learning more about her than the other girl. They didn’t pay me any mind at all I was literally just sitting there at the computer by myself trying to figure out how to solve a math problem and they did not help me. I knew then that it was because of my skin color.

There have also been other situations that I’ve been in where they pointed me out as the black girl. It was something that I started getting used to that point where I didn’t even care anymore I would just ignore those people. Which brings me to this opinion with all this police brutality going on and capturing stuff on camera it seems like this world is only getting crazier? As black people, we continue to live our best life but others want to ruin it for us and segregate us. Why can’t we all just get along? Regardless of skin color, sex, appearance, sexuality we should really judge each other based within based on our mind our emotions, and our soul.

American political activist Angela Davis wrote: ‘in a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist’.

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For decades, the socially accepted beauty standard was something like blond straight hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and gapped legs. This image of perfection has been painted by Victoria’s Secret angels, runway models, and TV to the world for years. With the emergence of social media, this image gained popularity and spread across the world with women yearning to fit in the beauty size created by some brands. However, there seems to be a revolutionary change in the perception and women have started to reject this kind of body exclusive marketing.

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The truth is we all want the perfect body, from the days of looking at Janet Jackson, Madonna, j-Lo, Beyoncé, etc we ladies want to look “perfect” according to what we see in the media. Nowadays we have artists and other entertainers out there that are promoting body positivity and I’m here for it! Imperfection is perfection. We are now proud to promote our curves, our stretch marks, hell and we are perfectly proud to promote all of our flaws because every other girl can relate to it.

I remember as a kid growing up in San Jose all my friends who are not black used to make fun of me for having a bubble butt and big breasts. I used to be ashamed of my body and I would roller skate outside and try to fall on my butt every day to flatten it LOL. Crazy I know but I wanted to fit in with everyone else and I wanted to have the perfect body. My hips were getting bigger and my body was developing quickly when I was 12 and 13. And I remember the media wasn’t promoting voluptuous bodies like they are today so I always felt like I was on the heavy side and disproportion when really I was not. But my surroundings made me feel that way because they weren’t used to seeing Black girls or black women.”

Now, people have been very uplifting and motivating to others and celebrating all body shapes and sizes. On social media, hashtags like “self-love” and “body positivity” trend to aware women who might not fit these traditional beauty standards. I have seen fitness influencers share candid shots of their natural bodies. The gist of all of this is to remind women that the media is not a genuine representation of women’s bodies.

I am so happy and proud now to show off my curves and my voluptuous stature. And thank you to all the lovely and beautiful black women who showcase their curves to the public to let them know that being sick or big is beautiful. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a couple of layers on your stomach or extra booty, as long as you know how to wear it. My divas please never let anyone tell you that your body needs enhancements or subtraction. Not to sound cliché or anything but you are beautiful just the way you are and play the cards that God dealt for you.

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The music industry is an ocean of multitalented musicians, songwriters, instrumentalists, rappers, and producers which pumps tens of billions of dollars to the entire entertainment industry. The contribution of the music industry alone is $21.6 billion which makes it heavily growing and continuously expanding including all genres and people from all over the world.

I’ve been in the entertainment industry since I was 5 years old. As a matter of fact, I still have all of my old headshots. I was signed up with a few casting companies and had an agent in the Bay Area and in Sacramento. It’s funny because at first when my mom got me into all of this, I was like Wait! Do I have to be in front of people?? I didn’t know LOL. Anyway as time passed and I kept doing my thing, I started modeling, and then I got into music. At first, I made an R&B album and I’m telling you was it a lot of work because it was the beginning. But then I started writing poetry, scripts for my imaginative future films and I caught the poetry vibe.

I used to read my poetry to friends and family at gatherings and someone told me I need to rap. I said but wait, I’m from San Jose and I don’t have street cred. At the time, street cred was very important because Hip Hop comes from the streets. But its also an artistic way of expressing your feelings over really good beats. Just imagine speeding up poetry and applying it to music. That’s the way I thought. I cut my first album in 2005 with Squad Music Group and released “Shut Up, Listen!”. The rest is history as far as my success. Now being in the industry and dealing with different people can be a headache.

The influence of music extends far beyond the play and pause buttons. Hip-hop was created in the 1970s as an underground movement and has grown into various art forms and musical subgenres – rap is the most famous subgenre among today’s youth. But the fact that the music industry’s history of marginalizing the contributions of women cannot be ignored, it’s easier to see hip-hop as a boys’ club.

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Before Nicki Minaj came out, no one wanted to sign a female rapper, because they didn’t know how to promote them in the market during that era. When Nicki came out, she pretty much created a platform and opened the door for female rappers again. I bought her first album and I remember feeling like this is a celebration for female rappers. But overall the industry still is what it is women get treated differently especially if you look good LOL.

For me, I’ve always been fighting for female empowerment and independence especially being in a male-dominated industry. I plan to be here for a very long time releasing great music-making good content and I hope that all of our brothers and sisters in this industry come together and we can continue to grow and keep hip hop alive.

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Let’s take you to the back story of this term. Beauty is all about the celebration of confidence and uniqueness in your own skin. Social media, magazines, and brands tell us otherwise. They objectify and set fake standards for generations to follow. Beauty has been studied, analyzed, and controversial for decades. We have all faced challenges and criticism for not being the perfect version that society tells us to be.

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As a growing-up teenager, I had issues with my appearance. When I went to middle school and started growing up, there were no more Disney shirts and bright-colored pants with Mickey Mouse shoes. I had to change all of that including my attitude. Girls were wearing tight-fitted pants, small shirts to show their cleavage, and wearing makeup. I wasn’t used to any of that and I felt out of place. I also felt pressure as if I need to look a certain way in order to have friends. Then there were those celebrities that all the girls looked up to. At the time TLC, DaBrat, Brandy, Monica, and Aaliyah were all popular promoting beauty. I was one of those girls where I just couldn’t catch up to any of that. I couldn’t even do my hair right, I was dipping my bangs in Kool-Aid trying to be like everyone else and it failed.

I even tried using eyeliner and lipliner and I just couldn’t get it. As I grew older, I started to dive more into the idea of “beauty”, what it means, what people are attracted to, and what guys liked. I started letting my friends dress me up and do my hair and I used to show up to school looking like a different person. People actually were talking to me and saying how cool I looked. Well, I didn’t like that kind of attention because it wasn’t genuine. I realized, people only spoke to me because of how I looked and not for who I am.

I began to focus more on personal development, who I want to be, and what I stand for, and the more my career picked up in music, I gradually came into my own and called myself Diva. To me, Diva is a female that cares more about her inner beauty than outer beauty. Her mind, body, and soul are what make her the elegant woman that she is, regardless of what’s on the outside. Diva is a hard-working independent woman that knows how to get that bag the way she wants to. Overall, ladies do not be fooled by what you see on TV, “beauty” is supposed to be who you want to be naturally. Beauty is not about having beautiful skin, or body. It’s about what’s inside. In my opinion, beauty should not be skin deep, it should be beyond the skin, something beneath it something eternal and everlasting.

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Nat King Cole. Ella Fitzgerald. Chuck Berry. Aretha Franklin. Kendrick Lamar. If we look further down the line, Jay-Z. Michael Jackson and Beyonce.

When it comes to understanding the power of black artists in the American musical landscape, there is certainly no shortage of heros from which to choose. It is impossible to discuss the importance of American music without understanding the impact of black music. For fans  all around the world, the influence of black music is clear in every musical hit and masterpiece

Black music adds a layer of diversity to the American identity and consistently responds to the Afro-American lifestyle. The struggles, success, and failures of generations of black Americans are recorded not only in the pages of history textbooks but also by the music and lyrics of the era.Currently, we see an innate struggle experienced by Afro-American woman artists. These struggles to be recognized, signed, and to essentially drive their career forward have only been accentuated by what Covid-19 has done to the entertainment industry as a whole.

The Difficult Climb

I look at my own challenging climb to build what can, in a sense, be considered a success, but it has not reached the pinnacle I had hoped for yet. If you were to really grasp the long road I have personally traveled, you would have to go back right to the beginning, and that would be my early years – growing up in San Jose.

Being raised in San Jose as an African-American was an experience all of its own. When I was a child, I didn’t see color because everyone else was something other than what I was. The first time that I experienced the difference and other children in my grade was when my mom brushed my hair out once before school, I then went to the lineup where the teachers called us from morning recess to walk to the classroom. When I approached the line, before I could even reach it, all the non-black kids turned around, looked at me, and started busting up laughing at my hair. I was like, wow! That couldn’t even happen today because we are all sporting our naturals.

It was only once I moved, and I’m glad I did relocate to Oakland, I really got in touch with my culture, and that’s when Hip Hop artist Keldamuzik was born! I love Oakland, the environment, people, culture, music. It really brought me back to my roots, and that’s when I noticed I had a skill for rapping.

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However, I would still find myself climbing a strenuous ladder of the industry itself. It’s a shocking revelation when you walk into the industry and find that they’re not interested in your music as much as they are about changing who you are into a persona of their choosing.

The industry sells sex, and not soul. A true artist’s message to the audience is diluted and twisted to such an extent that the music itself is an empty shell that no longer speaks to the listener’s heart but rather satisfies only the most superficial of needs.

This is why the music has a shortened lifespan, and artists suppressed creativity is left wandering.

My career up to this point has been dotted with many successful achievements regardless of this troubling state the music industry finds itself in, a few that really stand out are:

• I have released 4 albums and 16 singles.
•  My song “Thirsty” remained on Australia KISS FM’s Charts for 6 weeks.
•  Another musical creation, “I Don’t Care” was placed on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta.
• Other music has been placed on MTV, Bad Girls Club, and Sony Entertainment Film “Please Give: starring Amanda Peet.
• I have toured in Tokyo, Japan, sharing the same stages with Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga.
• Toured in the Caribbean (Antigua, Barbados, St. Maarten), opening up for popular reggae singer Jah Cure and Kirk Brown and DJ OutKast.

It is through my career that I have worked hard on developing my Brand as “Diva.”  This brand is so much more than myself alone. 

 Who is Diva?

Diva is a brand that stands for a strong, powerful, and intelligent female that knows what

she wants in life. 

I could easily be described as someone who went through the ugly duckling phenomena because of how the world perceived me from the outside and not the inside. Sure, I was never a perfect-looking girl and never had dreams to be. I would always be the fly on the wall, the person in the corner, thinking about a master plan to take over the world with her superpowers. 

I believe that “Diva” is every woman who has felt this way, and I want my music and message to resonate and empower her. To be a catalyst of pride and perseverance.

Diva is a woman that has inner strength and manipulates the human mind by her sexual appeal, sophisticated ways, and her beauty that’s inside out.

Our Music Has A Responsibility

It has been said for centuries that music has the power to start and end wars.

It can be an expression of love or anguish, and through the message we spread, we can unite and conquer, but also destroy.

When we allow the distortion of our lyrics and music, we are betraying our gifts and purpose in this world. Living, sounding, and being Diva is the embodiment of change and resistance in the face of control and oppression.

As artists, we need to practice caution when setting the stage and standards for the music we send out into the world. Our message and the power it carries can not be tamed or changed once it has been released to our fans and followers. Whether we like it or not, we inspire human actions and interactions.

It is with this brand and my music that I hope to bring a new dawn on the industry. A fresh and steadfast message that brings hope and real change.

 Join the Diva Movement

Over the next few months, I will be interviewing many of the industry’s most significant players to really dig in and ask the difficult questions most others are afraid to ask.

With my new show Chillin with Keldamuzik, I am cultivating a platform of insight, advice, and real guidance to provide my audience everything they need to be successful.

 From organizers who are taking great strides providing the entertainment industry options for bringing music to a covid-19 impacted world to the producers and music gurus who are responsible for the careers of successful artists.

 I am also going to allow my audience to present their opinions and questions on each episode, providing an engaging and informative experience to all. You can be part of this Diva movement by tuning in to each episode, sending your feedback, and sharing the podcast with friends and family.

 Let’s get together and start asking about the real issues behind struggles faced by artists all around the world.

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