INSPIRATION: DJ PRESTON CRAIG of ATLANTA
Friday, August 17, 2007
, Posted by DJ Plan.B at 8/17/2007 09:43:00 AM
As always, God stepped in. (Not that He ever "stepped out") I came across the weekly CREATIVE LOAFING magazine in Atlanta and found a reason to be thankful. I was inspired to renew my drive towards my goals as a DJ.
Here are excerpts from the article:
"Here's this guy," Turner says. "He can't dance. And he's made it his initiative to come here every week and make other people dance. He saw something that we needed in Atlanta, and he made it happen."
"The doctor pulled Craig's mother into his office. He told her he was pretty sure her son was suffering from facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, or FSHD. What's more, FSHD is a genetic condition that can be passed only from parent to child. That meant that not only did Craig have the disease, but his mother had it, too."
"FSHD is one of 40 forms of muscular dystrophy, and in most cases, one of the least debilitative. The disease typically has its most serious impact on the face ("facio"), shoulders ("scapula") and arms ("humeral"). Sometimes, FSHD doesn't become apparent until middle age, which is why Craig's mother didn't know she suffered from it. She had a few small symptoms – an inability to whistle, for instance – but nothing on the scale of her son."
"To Craig, the true art of DJing is to keep people interested – and to get them to dance. Never mind that, because he has such limited use of his arms, traditional DJing would be impossible for him. Because the technology allows the DJ to move in and out of a mix more quickly, it also affords more time to elaborate on other aspects, Craig says, including reading and responding to the crowd."
"He can inspire others to do what he's incapable of doing himself."
Check out the FULL ARTICLE HERE. Peace.
