This Is Life

Music written and composed in the 70’s by Gabriel Thaib Mella.  This song is about love, breaking up, and the hope of getting back together.

Written and composed in 1983 by Tahir Mella, when he was merely seventeen years old.  This song is about how profound, intense, and passionate puppy love could be, and how it could move even young souls to music.

Written and composed on the piano in 1983 by Tahir Mella, when he was merely seventeen years old – a very prolific age for him in terms of song-writing, it turns out.  And for obvious reasons – that is, among other things, because of the number of simultaneous inspirations he had the privilege of having.

Written and composed by John E. Mendell, “If Lovin’ You” is about the proverbial dilemma one faces when separate worlds and different loves collide, and the choices one has to make when reality bites and clarity takes over.

Written and composed by Alejandro Khasim Mella, with lyrics by Ursula “Sol” Marquez.  Khasim and Sol left this world at a very young age. This was their signature song.

Written and composed on the piano by Tahir Mella, for his loving and beautiful wife, Wanda Ann O’Quinn Mella. Time is often love’s most complex, and yet, faithful, measure – for it brings and foretells happiness, tribulation, joy, and elation, the occasional failure, but often, ultimately, redemption.  It is the reality that tempers, but at the same time, cultivates, both fears and dreams.  What is love, after all, but vain, but beautiful, but true? …

Based on one of Barbra Streisand‘s hit songs in the ’70’s movie, A Star is Born, and reproduced in Melladys fashion.