Music Star Eyes - Chapter One

Music Star Eyes

By Max Stravagar

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MUSIC STAR EYES is a reminder of the strong spirit in the face of tragedy, tells a fictionalized story based on real events, and gives you a bird’s eye view of the 1960’s sexist and drug music business side of the industry. It is a clash of the old and new world where social morals are challenged, and bad behavior is expected to be excepted. Joanna an inspiring artist a street performer must find a way to survive and keep her dignity, but will she fall victim or become like the wolves she despises?

CHAPTER ONE

Joanna Nunez life began in Puerto Rico, in Mocha and Aguadilla, at a young age she fell in love with music and accompanies a friend to a radio station where she would sing, after the interview on the way home, confesses, she would like to sing too, but was too shy and didn’t know how, her friend replied. “Well sing after me,” what came out of her mouth was extraordinary, singing even more beautiful than her friend had.

Impressed, she asked to start a group, together they sang on the streets of San Juan for pocket change. The first day was a little shaky their nerves got the best of them, singing directly to the audience made their situation worse, once they realized that it was better to glance and than look away, it quickly turned their performance around, Joanna was able to belt a high note that brought wonderful applause’s to her unexpected surprise.

Neighborhood kids took notice and on the way home they were cornered into an alley and stole all what they had made, with nothing to show for, tired, hungry, they came across a roasted pig in a backyard; relieving their empty bellies from a terrible rumbling, running off only when discovered by the owners elderly mother, alerting her over weight son.

They sang the next day near a police precinct, at a farmers market earning so much more than the day before, the holes in their potato sack purse were no match for the bulging coins that jammed it’s opportunity of escape,

with such weight that teared the fabric they thought not to risk it. Joanna had her friend Liza hop into a cab with all of their earnings.

Instructed her friend to take her share and bring it to her mother.

It was a good wise choice they made, the same kids yesterday were  gathering ready to pounce.

Her father promised to pick her up so she had to wait.

Unfortunately in that very moment Joanna’s father Saragozo (Gozo)  has been arrested for boot legging.

She cried so hard and wrapped herself around him, authorities could not loosen her grip, after a few failed attempts and bribery of a sugary candy, they holstered her away, but her daddy rushed to his daughter side and stuck his leg out for her to grab ahold. The police were not amused and accused him of doing so on purpose, to which he denied.

“Stay right here, if you run it’ll be worse,” Officer Raza said,  but while off to the side huffing & puffing hunched over, his colleagues blurted, “worse for who . . . for him or for us?” another officer added, “coño . . . Its been fourty five minutes . . . what is this girl made of?” and another said, “I could of caught two or three criminals by now.”

after a while they decided to call it day and cut him a break, releasing him with a warning, all her efforts paid off and the best day of her life was restored, embracing one another along the way home, “You’re my good luck charm,” her father said.

In the following months, the duo sharpened their act and the crowd grew larger in size but Joanna has bigger dreams, and enthusiastically buys matching suitcases and airplane tickets for both her mother and herself... for America. She believes her luck might fare better, and is the last of all her siblings to settle in 1950’s Brooklyn with her mother.

The plane ride over to the states was a snail slot filled with turbulence that terrified Joanna. Forcing her to wrap her mouth with her sweater now soaked in cola drinks.

The family on the next aisle offered her napkins, paper bags and Maalox, ironically the kind hearted mother and daughter were the last to move to the states too.

They were all headed to Brooklyn, but of different parts that might as well divide them by ocean, a preferred place rather than the lower east side filled with the dirtiest scum of the earth . . . made the news in recent times, the arrivals choice for long island now much desirable.

LIFE in America is not what Joanna had envisioned, in the eight grade bullied in school for her small stature and dress attire, that was unsatisfactory of what other cool kids wore, despite her ability to buy new clothes, all that she made from singing on the boardwalk went to support her family. Her resourcefulness and intelligence,  made it possible to empty the problem quickly and would charge three dollars a week for doing other students homework.

In the mean time Anita her new best friend would allow her to borrow clothes from out of her closet.

The bully bitch of the school didn’t like all the attention Joanna was now getting, she taunted and called her name’s, but Joanna just sat and took it like all the other times.

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