The History of Jakfat

Name: Jerry W Chandler
Birthdate: August 16th, 1979
Likes: Music, friends, and music.
Dislikes: Being tripped or pushed, coffee, anonymous haters, and fake Christianity.

From the top:
I've always been the creative type. When I was a child, I would sit by the window and watch the world go by, expressing myself mainly through drawing pictures. In school, art class for me was a time to draw the craziest picture I could in the time alotted. The teachers never complained, though, I guess they liked to laugh at whatever I had come up with that time. =0)

When I was about twelve, Lego's were the thing for me. I used to build all kinds of things. Buildings, trucks, buses, cities, airplanes, you name it. Spending most of my time alone, I became reserved, and thought about a lot of things on my own. I really feel that God was with me in those days, helping me understand a world I was just beginning to discover.

As I turned from youth to teen, I opened up more to my friends and began to be more out-spoken. I stepped away from the thoughtful, quiet child I once was and now wanted to be at the scene of the party.

On October Twentieth,1996, my best friend got baptized, and I knew that it was time for me to repent, as well. Instead of just turning away from sin, I also wanted to evolve. This was when the Lord blessed me with the gift of music. I asked Him to help me learn, for I am not skilled at learning things. He answered my prayer and I was playing the piano with two hands in three days! All glory to Him, not me.

Soon after this, my cousin invited me to join in a small Christian band. Contemporary Christian Music was just starting to become popular, so it was kind of strange for all of us. I played the keyboards, and we played songs by artists such as Rich Mullins, Ray Boltz, and Philips Craig and Dean. Not even a year after the Lord blessed me with ability to play, we played on stage. It was an awesome thing.

I moved on from that, but not away from music. Instead of actually playing the keyboard, I started learning how to program it, so that you could press play and it would play back the song you had just put in. Since early 1996, dance music was my favorite style of music, so it was naturally my favorite style of music to experiment with, but I experimented with other styles of music as well.

That thoughtful child I once had been was still inside me. But by now, my creative outlet was music, so I began writing songs that expressed my feelings. Now a Christian rapper, I do not feel that I am that far off from where I once had been. Instead of drawing pictures of things I saw outside, I write songs about them.

The Lord is the cause and result of my song writing. I praise Him for the ability He has given me, and the chance he has given me to reach out to others who just don't understand why their lives are in a rut. Praise Jesus!

The End.