At fifteen, my entire musical world was locked inside handwritten notebooks. Dozens of lyrics, melodic cadences, and vocal arrangements stayed trapped on the page because I didn’t sing, didn’t have session vocalists on call, and lacked the budget, studio access, and industry connections to turn written ideas into recorded sound. For a long time, those notebooks remained a private archive of everything I wanted to express, always limited by the physical constraint of not having a voice to perform them.