Music student gifts bride with original love songs - FIU News

Since the first time I saw you
…I could see you were the one,
The woman of my life

I used to say never
Now am saying I DO
This is now forever,
And am glad it's with you.

Ketler Macome doesn’t wear his heart on his sleeve. An introvert by nature, he doesn’t talk much about his deepest emotions.

Instead he makes music about it.

The lyrics above are part of Macome’s love song to his fiancée – the one he wrote as he prepared for their wedding last year.

Enchanted by his muse (now his wife), the music education major and talented saxophone player decided to create an entire album to celebrate his love and capture the whirlwind emotions he was feeling, from falling in love to preparing for the big day. Fittingly, he named the album – and its main song – ‘I Do.’

“I got inspired by my fiancée to write the lyrics,” Macome says of the titular song. “This was all in my dreams. This album will tell you everything about my feelings. You think these things [falling in love] might not happen to you, but then they do happen. Since the first time I saw her, I knew. You want to build a foundation with someone. I found that in her, and we’re in it together.”

He says music allows him to pour his soul into his songs.

“I’m an introverted person, but once I have my saxophone and I’m writing songs,” he says. “I’m open to saying what’s in my heart, to expressing my feelings, who I am and to tell somebody what I’m feeling. Music gives me this opportunity."

Music, he adds, allows for a particularly rich medium to keep special moments in your heart.

"When I listen to this album 10 years from now, it will take me back to October 2019. I’ll have those memories with me. It’s like you have this story and you wrote it somewhere or you have a picture and you printed it. And it stays with you forever.”

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