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Such beautiful words!!! Love to @johnnygmusic Posted @withregram • @johnnygmusic Darkness was all around me: I recall the day I was diagnosed with being bipolar shortly after going on tour with Mickey Avalon. I was sitting in a hospital and to my surprise after almost losing my life to addiction during having a manic episode. I had a visitor in the hospital. This man never left my side his name is Ronnie King. Some may know his work being a supper star piano player. But he’s more than that he’s a dear friend and a mentor that embraced me in my darkest days. He always told me that I’d look back at this as just a moment that will inspire others. Through this adversity we would rise above the darkness. You might say that he had a vision far greater than mine for myself. Fast track 10 years later Ronnie and I decided to write something that we knew that needed to be shared. It was a subject that I was afraid of being vulnerable about. That was the subject of addiction and mental health . As all the songs we made before this was gonna be a defining song for us. We called it wide awake. Meaning that we want people to wake up to the fact that this is a big problem in our society. This took on a life of its own. Ronnie expressed that we needed to convey this message to draw awareness to the matter so that we could help someone or many just by us being vulnerable about the subject. Never in a million years would I have thought I’d almost loose my life to both addiction or mental health. But I have lived through both. Our message to the world is to get the help you need. Don’t be afraid of asking for it. Your life matters. Thanks to Ronnie king for being such a special person to place his arm around an artist like me. Music has always be something that has been my saving grace and Ronnie has always shown me how to capture moments in it that have huge impacts. Thanks @ronniekingofficial Wide awake: mixed and mastered @radium_media #howyoulikemenow #johnnygillespie #recoverymonth (at Moody Amphitheater) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUY3WcwDcAh/?utm_medium=tumblr

Yyyeeeaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! Posted @withregram • @johnnygmusic 🔥How you like me now?🔥 Now available on all platforms!! ⚡️Click the link in my bio!⚡️ #johnnygillespie #howyoulikemenow (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTpUYsnMFt7/?utm_medium=tumblr