Lacey Mosley

Angelica Pita

My Inspiration, project
History 10B

For over tree years I have been looking up to this girl. I found her music in a well hidden indie scene website when she was still part of a band called Sporos. Her story is very inspirational yet sad. Lacey Mosley was born on September 4, 1981, and grew up in Arlington, Texas. Throughout her earlier years, she was an outspoken Atheist. At the age of ten she started using drugs due to fights with her mom. Her early life was very traumatizing.
She was once quoted saying, "I was trying to figure out who I was and anything to separate me from my family, or to separate me from my situation at home was good to me," She said. "It was like a warzone going home." When Lacey Mosley was fourteen years old, she received a bass guitar for Christmas and began playing Nirvana and Green Day songs with her brother who played guitar. When Mosley was 16, she got into a huge argument with her family and was soon kicked out of the house because the police started to get involved, and moved to Gulfport, Mississippi to live with her grandparents. There she attended high school and joined a band that was in need of a bass player. Lacey Mosley went on to sing for the band, and picked up guitar so she could write her own songs. At the same year she went through the depression, and lost her boyfriend and her siblings. All went wrong, and one day she decided she was going to kill herself. On the same day her grandmother took her to church. She became “enlightened” by higher power, and turned her life around completely.
I’m not a religious person, but the fact that she could turn her life around like that at such a young age and be so successful is amazing. After that day, at the age of 17 she started a band called Flyleaf. As Passerby, the band released three EPs and played over 100 shows in Texas alone over the span of two years under the booking and promotion company Runt Entertainment. Her songs became an inspiration to teens struggling with family issues and dabbling drugs. I think her song lyrics make you think twice about life. She is now a very famous lead singer, and on her way to a third album after recently debuting Memento Mori.
She has also started an email campaign where she asks all her fans, or just anyone to email her, and her and some volunteers act as a hotline and help out these kids. She has written several songs about some very shocking life stories. She even has a song called Cassie, written in memory of the Columbine shooting victims.
She has inspired me, by showing me that there is more to life. She has shown her strong will to get out of this mess, and instead of ignoring what happened and drowning in her current happiness, she is out there helping teens everyday who struggle through the same things as her. And she is now married, and an adult, but its still amazing the things she accomplished at such an early age.
She is my inspiration, Lacey Mosley.