About Me

My name is Brad Hickman and I am a music addict. When I was two years old my mother bought me my first record player and gave me a stack of records. Thus began my lifelong love affair with the gift of music. Throughout the years I dabbled at playing piano, trumpet and guitar but never had the discipline to practice enough to be any good. I preferred listening. And listen I did. It didn’t matter if the music was on tapes, records, CDs, orMP3s. It also didn’t matter if I was alone or with someone else; inside the house or in my car; or listening to new music or an old favorite. Music was there. Always has been, always will be. I am not a music critic nor anyone who claims to know more about music than anyone else. I’m just a simple man who wants to share my passion with friends, family and anyone else out there who wants to come along for the ride. I hope you’ll join me.

8 Responses to About Me

  1. Jim Brooks says:
    November 26, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    Hear! Hear! Brad, I understand your passion, it is mine as well :))
    I have no favorite genre: all music could be subject to a listen from me…I even have a moderate appreciation for a few hip-hop selections! Looking forward to alerts from BMR…

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    • Brad says:
      November 29, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      Thanks Jim and welcome. I hope to make it worth your time and will be gathering feedback along the way. Your input will be appreciated.
      Brad

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  2. Angela Diaz says:
    June 21, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    I too love music. I’ve always thought God didn’t give me musical talent, but He made me a true music fan. Music is one of life’s sweetest pleasures.

    I’ve never thought of reading God’s Word and listening to music at the same time. Superb idea!

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  3. Betty minnick says:
    December 21, 2017 at 12:03 am

    Dear Brad,

    for the first time I clicked “about me’’ I enjoyed seeing Your picture & reading about your love of music. I remember visiting your Family on a trip to Spfld. Paul wanted you to play your trumpet for me, you Seemed hesitant & left the room. Before I left you appeared down the hall &
    Played a beautiful melody for us. You then ducked out of sight. I was so
    Impressed. Best ever, Betty Hickman Minnick

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    • Brad says:
      December 21, 2017 at 1:59 pm

      Cousin Betty,
      Thank you for dredging up some (not so) pleasant memories of my short three year trumpet career. I enjoyed playing the trumpet, I just hated practice. Unfortunately one requires the other.
      LOL
      Brad

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  4. Melissa/Bob says:
    July 24, 2018 at 4:09 am

    Brad,
    This is lovely what you do for all of us. You inspire us! We are part of the Brad fan club. Thank you again for your passion to minister to us through music. Hugs from Bob and me until we see you in the Fall.

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  5. Kazuhiro Naya says:
    December 2, 2019 at 1:29 am

    “Hey there,

    I’m Kaz, CEO of the music-streaming platform VIBBIDI. I came across your impressive website and noticed it featured YouTube’s Embed Player throughout, so I wanted to extend an exclusive invitation to you that might benefit your situation.

    Our mission is to be “Everything For Music”, attempting to gather all the music-related content available in one location. To show how our platform works, we’re planning to launch our very own Music Embed Player next spring.

    Starting this month, we began offering limited invitations to the Users we found who have beautiful music-related sites. The community of initial Users chosen will inevitably define the product’s quality, so this is why we’re being very selective on the Users we reach out to. As such, we’d be thrilled to have people like you join our founding community.

    Within our Music Embed Player, you’ll enjoy alternate versions of every song you share, from Official Videos to Live Performances, User Covers to Remixes and much more, plus Lyrics and other Share functions, essentially mirroring the full VIBBIDI experience without needing to visit the site.

    All of this helps give your readers a more fulfilling listening session in addition to increasing the length of their stay on your site, resulting in a win-win situation for everyone. We’ve outlined 5 reasons you and your blog readers will love switching from a Legacy Embed Player to VIBBIDI’s New Music-Optimized Player from embed.vibbidi.net.

    Now, this is how you factor in: We also intend to launch a special landing page introducing Users to the Music Embed Player’s features and benefits, with some bloggers’ posts being used as references. If you’re so inclined try out our Music Embed Player, we’d love to schedule a quick Skype call to hear your impressions; In return, we’ll feature your post on this new landing page as a demonstration to our Users and will promote your website free of charge so you can receive additional site traffic.

    Please let me know if this sounds interesting to you and have a wonderful day.

    Thanks,
    Kaz

    Kazuhiro Naya
    CEO of VIBBIDI
    “

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