Ronnie Lee

For Generations to come - Book 14 The next generations Ronnie Lee

Book 14 The next generation - 1960 - 2016 the author's personal testimonyContemporary Christian music was just getting started in the 1960s, and at first, is was called Jesus Music. As a young musician, I believed that the message of the Lord could be accepted by young people, by using the kind of music they liked to listen to, and during the 1960s that music was Rock n Roll. I tried to write 3-minute Rock songs that sounded like something you could hear on the radio. In some of them I wrote about my experience as a young believer. In 1964 when I was 13, I made my first attempt at writing an original song. Going from a 12-year-old to a "teenager" seemed like a big step to me and I wanted to write a song about how I felt at that time. It would become part of the story line and the first song, "12 to 21", in a 60s Rock Opera I was just starting to write. Thanks to Caroline and Pat for giving me piano lessons. Just like my family that came before me, I got the Knauss spirit to travel. I had the willingness to leave one's home and emigrate to some other land and start over. . I had my sights set on the music scene that was happening at that time in California.