For those who don't know me yet I am Shavon Bonnie Legion. I am a California Singer Songwriter, multi genre recording artist and collaborative artist. I run my own multi genre collaborative music house (Sound Legion), sharing and promoting original music I have created, and collaborated on with artists and producers from all over the globe. I also showcase other independent artists like myself and some of there collection works.
I joined steemit in November of 2016, off a friends invite 
I had a fire spark at the end of 2008 that completely transformed my life. I started to pursuit my questions for the first time, cause unlike what everything around me was saying, I had this strong feeling that I could and that I needed to. I was in a very confusing and hard spot in my life and went from christian house wife and mother of two, to a spiritually explorative, freedom seeking, globe trotting musical chameleon looking to find the meaning of life. The details of the journey up to this point are pretty enthralling and I am sure over the years I will get into more and more. If you have been a long time follower and fan you have seen these pieces of the journey being thrown out all over the place in every direction through music.
I don't limit my sound or my taste in sound to one genre or a handful of genres, I like the whole spectrum. I am a lover of sound. I love the emotions that can be risen up inside when hearing a song or even one note. One mighty blow from a trumpet can shake the hearts of man. The calming dance of wind chimes can sooth the mind to peace. A songbirds voice, can bring heavy contemplation into the heart. Every instrument has its own personality, brought to life even more by the unique personality of the player. Fusion and experimentation are always high on my list when creating original pieces, and I also like to take on certain molds. I started out playing only acoustic (I am not the best of players, I mostly construct with my guitar) and traveling around to places in the US and also Scotland, meeting with other musicians and songwriters. I then moved into the genre of pop and hip hop, starting to work closely with producers and artists in New York. During this time I made a collaborative connection with a hip hop group in UK and we formed a fusion band together and started releasing tracks and albums. I was also traveling around the states, Colorado, Arizona, Alabama and Georgia, meeting with artists and working on new pieces acoustically. I started traveling back and forth from the states to the United Kingdom to work on new songs, new ideas, videos and promotions. It was through these travels I met the Clyde to my Bonnie, UK rapper "Majik" and completely changed from recording under the name Shavon or Sounds Like Shavon to my alter multi genre ego Bonnie Legion. [ Bonnie & Clyde Legion ] I was getting into a whole new sound of UK hip hop with everything I was learning from Majik and ideas were just spilling. We started doing a lot of global fusion sound releases with many different producers from around the globe. I then started working in Electronic Dance Music, making tracks in Hardstyle, Progressive House, Deep House, Trance, Glitch, Grime and more. I began collaborating with my head producer today 
*This is my Chameleon Collection of past releases in various genres of music. I start it out on a slower more chill side of things and expand it out to many different sound places, with some incredibly talented producers.
I discovered Musicoin shortly after joined Steemit. I was looking for alt coins related to music release and found that Musicoin allows artists to earn per play. I thought in my head of all the times I said If I just had a penny for every play I had, I could have something to stand on so I was eager to sign up. Btw you make more than a penny each time someone plays your song. I believe its been as high as .10 cents. seriously artists Sign up for Musicoin.
I discovered openmic shortly after joining Steemit when invited by 
What I look for in an Entry when judging the Steemit OpenMic Contest put by on 
If I enjoyed your performance its very likely your gonna get a comment from me and of course an upvote. My upvote percentage on openmic entries on judging days are generally low as I have to many entries to upvote. I do upvote more for entries I enjoy more. I score each entries over all feel on a scale of 1-10 and I break this down to the decimal point if need be. I write down everyones name who scores above a 7 and I create a top picks list from entries that scored either 8 or higher or 8.5 or higher, depending on the level of entries that week and the time I have. I then break down my top picks into my official top 5 and my honorable mentions. I used to limit my honorable mentions to 5, but I have been doing as much as 12 cause I just cant bloody well decide.
OpenMic has been a huge success here on steemit. The entries are gonna be reaching close to 1000 a week here really soon and there are $thousands of dollars in steem prizes being given out. With potential for earnings just by entering and engaging in the contest.
https://steemit.com/openmic/@luzcypher/steemit-open-mic-week-68-winners-see-who-won-open-mic-and-join-us-this-week
Another musical Steemit venture I took on shortly after joining steemit is the Steemit Artist Music Compilation. This compilation is comprised of multi genre original songs recorded and performed by artists currently on the steemit platform. Its been a learning and growing process as each volume has come together but we already have 3 successful volumes of talented artists sharing there music with us.
I collect entries for each volume and showcase and albums worth of material in the form of a fully packaged digital album free to download, a stock footage clip video just for fun with 20-30 clips of each track. I do artists spotlights awarding my favorite tracks on the Volume album and I also award the artist with 100% of the post payout off the 4 official posts created for each volume. If you guys wanna check this out and havent yet take a click on the post below. Volume 4 Submissions are coming in Feb. I am expecting a good turn out of entries. I will be calling some of you openmic contestants out directly to remind you.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@soundlegion/did-you-know-there-are-3-volumes-of-the-steemit-artist-music-compilation-featuring-multi-genre-music-available-for-download-from
Currently I am focusing a lot of my time in with Steemit Music Community projects and Outside Steemit Sound Legion projects. I have quite a collaborations request list that has had to be completely set aside in this time. Unless I contact you directly for a project idea I am not accepting anymore collaboration work. I have over booked myself out that end and I have been letting many people down on my ability to get back to them with the project. I apologize to artists and producers at this time who have been waiting to hear back from me. If you have not this is just cause shit has hit the fan this side of the room. I am not even able to get to all my messages on across all the sites im attached to, some I have had to ignore completely as to the stress and discord has been a nightmare for me so I really try to avoid it untill I absolutely have to get on there. I really apologize for this guys, as my year settles in, I am gonna have a bit more freedom coming and a change of scenery.
I am always gonna be making music. This is my Journey as a Songwriter, you are all apart of that journey and I thank you for listening, taking the time to read this. I thank all the artists who are joining openmic for putting there sound art out there for us, I understand everything that goes into doing something like that and highly appreciate what your all doing. I want to thank all my steemit artist music compilation folks, those on the albums and those who support them, you guys rock, you are inspiring the music community and myself on big levels. Massive love goes to 
Big shouts to one of the coolest contest creators on Steemit.com 
Shavon Bonnie Legion
www.soundlegionrecords.com
