Gilbert, a soft-spoken Guitar Genius
After an evening class (duh, thinking about school assignments), our involuntary motor system took us to the Guy-Concordia metro and we were lucky to stumble upon the music emanating from the strings of Gilbert’s guitar. The moment we heard his strumming, the memory part of our brains sprung up and made us realize that the idea for this blog had actually been framed after listening to his music a couple of days earlier at Snowdon metro. We stood near him, wondering how this guy plays at such a frenetic rhythm, whilst being in his own realm, oblivious to the surrounding noise of chatter, laughter, hurried footsteps, and people gawking at him. Gilbert opened his eyes and saw two guys with awkward smiles wanting to ask him something (yes, it was us) and cheerfully spoke to us at length. What struck us during our interview was the positivity in his thoughts and action. Gilbert started as a hip-hop artist, who became a dancer and then started playing guitar ten ye...
