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Mike Baluja
Приєднався 30 січ 2007
Welcome to my UA-cam channel. Here you will find an assortment of videos that I have produced, some to accompany my songs, some for education and informative purposes, and some of family, friends, and hobbies. Browse through, enjoy, and by all means, feel free to share or comment on anything that interests you. Also, don't forget to subscribe to this channel so that you can get my latest updates as soon as they're posted. Thanks for stopping by.
Latest Release: baluja.bandcamp.com/album/my-refuge
Webpage: baluja.bandcamp.com
Latest Release: baluja.bandcamp.com/album/my-refuge
Webpage: baluja.bandcamp.com
Out There, Somewhere (1981 Casstte Recording)
One of my earliest works recorded on cassette in the early 80s
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Відео
Joy Renewed
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Written in Decemeber 2024. Inspired by the End of the Year Antiphon on Pray As You Go... O Wisdom, Lord and Ruler, Root of Jesse, Key of David, Rising Sun, King of the Nations, Emmanuel, Come, Lord Jesus.
Christmas in Tampa (2024 Unplugged Update)
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Acoustic update using original guitar track from 2012.
Christmas in Tampa (2024 Live)
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A live recording done in my studio in December, 2024, using the Zoom Q2n-4K.
Christmas in Tampa (Live in the Lab)
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A live recording done in my studio in December, 2024, using the Zoom Q2n-4K.
Christmas in Tampa (Braddock Street) 1
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Back in 2012, a childhood friend suggested I write a Christmas song about Tampa. The result of that suggestion was Christmas in Tampa (Braddock Street). It was a nostalgic look back at the magical Christmases of my youth, which always included a ride down Braddock Street, where several blocks of houses combined to create the most dynamic holiday display of its time in West Tampa. The first and ...
Belinda (December 18, 2024)
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Belinda was written in Portland, Oregon, around the time that Mount St. Helen erupted. The picture in the video was taken 3 months prior.
One in Love (1981)
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An early cassette recordings of a song written in the 80's.
Got This Feelin' (1981)
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This is the original cassete recording of a song written over 40 years ago. I was 24 years old at the time.
Christmas in Tampa (Braddock Street) 3
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Note: Over the past three weeks, I've spent many hours doing multiple re-recordings of this song. I did an update of the original 2012 version, with a few lyrical tweaks, and had a friend add some percussion to it. I did a few live takes in my lab, using a Zoom video camera that was handed down to me recently. I've worked on a half dozen holiday greetings using various snippets from these effor...
Blessings to Behold (3Master)
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A song inspired by a photo of my friend's mom, taken in 1954, on the beach of Las Arenas in Valencia, Spain. Sol Romeu Alfaro brilla en los cielos de Las Arenas ha sido así desde agosto de 1954 una chica de 19 años capturada por el ojo de la cámara una imagen que vivirá para siempre desde el momento en que nació una chica de 19 años capturada por el ojo de la cámara La inocencia retrataba de un...
Use Me West Tampa (Reel 2)
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Starring: The Magneto Flobe Throdgie Baby - Vocals, Piano, Keys "da boi" derinho - Vocals, Guitars, Organ, Percussion Also Starring: Maloa Warriors Horn Section - Horns Claude D'Bootsy - Bass "Handsome" Harry Stillson - Drums Chris "Cabeza Melon" Walken - Cowbell Very Special Guest Star: Baluja - Lead Vocals Written by Bill Withers Additional lyrics by Baluja Other Songs Quoted or Referenced: "...
Use Me West Tampa (Reel 3)
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Starring: The Magneto Flobe Throdgie Baby - Vocals, Piano, Keys "da boi" derinho - Vocals, Guitars, Organ, Percussion Also Starring: Maloa Warriors Horn Section - Horns Claude D'Bootsy - Bass "Handsome" Harry Stillson - Drums Chris "Cabeza Melon" Walken - Cowbell Very Special Guest Star: Baluja - Lead Vocals Written by Bill Withers Additional lyrics by Baluja Other Songs Quoted or Referenced: "...
Use Me West Tampa (Reel 4) Fuego
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Starring: The Magneto Flobe Throdgie Baby - Vocals, Piano, Keys "da boi" derinho - Vocals, Guitars, Organ, Percussion Also Starring: Maloa Warriors Horn Section - Horns Claude D'Bootsy - Bass "Handsome" Harry Stillson - Drums Chris "Cabeza Melon" Walken - Cowbell Very Special Guest Star: Baluja - Lead Vocals Written by Bill Withers Additional lyrics by Baluja Other Songs Quoted or Referenced: "...
Christmas in Tampa (Braddock Street) 4
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Christmas in Tampa (Braddock Street) 4
Christmas in Tampa (2024 Short Greeting with Lyrics)
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Christmas in Tampa (2024 Short Greeting with Lyrics)
Christmas in Tampa Holiday Greeting (2024)
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Christmas in Tampa Holiday Greeting (2024)
Christmas in Tampa (Short Greeting 2024)
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Christmas in Tampa (Short Greeting 2024)
Christmas in Tampa: Short Holiday Greeting (Live at the 611)
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Christmas in Tampa: Short Holiday Greeting (Live at the 611)
Christmas in Tampa (2024 Short Greeting w/Cindy's Tree)
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Christmas in Tampa (2024 Short Greeting w/Cindy's Tree)
Thanksgiving 2024 (Good to Be Alive '81)
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Thanksgiving 2024 (Good to Be Alive '81)
Happy New Year!
@@desireemillion 🌲❤🌲
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❤☮️✌️Peacefully ,i close my eyes and im back in the 70's/80's feelings
Cool song here.
Merry Christmas
and to you and yours, as well❤
This particular version is beautiful! I wish I could get it on vinyl. Does anyone know the artist and album?
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Fantastic song and performance ❤
Awesome.
That's actually pretty good
another great one, maestro! love it! the young Baluja was a bad ass! woooo!
@@daboiderinhoDerekDamico thank you, bro...I'm grateful that these babies still play...cassettes were a pretty durable medium.❤😊❤
Sounds great
@@ginawest4154 I was 24 when I recorded that...time zooms by...Merry Christmas to you and yours, Gina🌲❤🌲
Loved Christmas in Tampa Jogging the old brain cells Just beautiful Have a wonderful Christmas
@@ginawest4154 I'm glad you got to see it... I had forgotten to mention it to you.
woooo!
wooooo! loved making this one, maestro! you da man!
@@daboiderinhoDerekDamico Tremendo production...
so nice, maestro! happy xmas!
@@daboiderinhoDerekDamico variation #3....the Tampeño/ Tampeña intro...
Good stuff!
@@BryanBarcelo 🌲❤🌲
Sweet stuff, Mike. Braddock St got more traffic than most of those early Bucs games.
@@jkdooley1Thanks for stopping by, John ... It was certainly more entertaining than some of those first games...
Lovely! Have a good one Mike Baluja!
@@HarryVsingersongwriter Thank you, Harry.... ❤️
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I just love this house my grandparents lived off of Abdullah and we always came to my grandparents for Christmas and we would always come by this house. What a wonderful memory. I am now 62 years old and I still remember how fun it was and how my eyes lit up when I sell all those beautiful Christmas trees my favorite was when they added the skating ring. Thank you so much for childhood memories back to me the good ones and thank you for my grandparents Joe and Ophelia Gonzalez, who brought us every year thank you for our home to yours the Urban.
It never ceases to amaze me...how much those who grew up in our generation affectionately remember those who made Chistmas special for us back then.This song is a well deserved tribute the love they put into displaying their Christmas spirit.
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@@baluja123 💖🌲🙂
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❤She was so beautiful❤
such a nice song! your young singing voice, though not as developed, is cool to hear! it's like a jazzy velvet underground song!! love it! your huge fan, da boi d
@@daboiderinhoDerekDamico yeah, there's a quality to these recordings that I've discovered only by letting go of the inhibitions that kept them buried for so many years. They're really not as bad as I thought they were. The songs have always been with me, but I had totally abandoned these early recordings. I've always loved this song...it tells the artists story...the painter, the writer, the dreamer...it's about you and me... Fer and Booby G....all of us who put our hearts out there for everyone to see.
@@baluja123 damn right bro
Good stuff!
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Amén y gracias 🫂🫂🫂🙏🫂🙏🙏
another genius song by the Bard o' da Wes'! your huge fan, d
@@daboiderinhoDerekDamico just another song...just another day.🙏✌❤
Good stuff!
@@BryanBarcelo Ty, B...❤✌🙏
Incredible clarity!!!!
some great art works! love the song..
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@@GaryDFigg Thank you, Gary...another of my recent attempts to update the cassette recordings of my past....this one goes back quite a ways...1981.
@baluja123 you're welcome. Love it Mike!!
Exceptional! Such a intense passionate beautiful performance ❤
eso fue hace 45 años...cuando tenía una voz llena de pasión juvenil
@@baluja123 the essence is timeless
spectacular ,ever lovin' great, the artist mix of lyric to visual ratio was spot on ..damn i enjoyed this ,,thank you so much
please put this on spotify!!!!!!!!
Thanks for listening. It will be included in my next CD Baby compilation, and on it's way to most major platforms, including Spotify...before the year ends.
Good stuff!
Thanks for stopping by, B...always good to hear from you, and to feel your positive energy. God bless...
What a great song, maestro ❤
@@FernandoGarcin Thank you, Fer...❤
Impressive. Love the vocals and rythm, the words and meaning ❤
i might have to do a "boi Does Baluja" EP...
Ha ha...Hold that thought...give me a chance to put out a few more from the archives, so that you have an ample selection to choose from. I got a boatload of tearjerkers that I'm trying to bring back from cassette recording purgatory.😢
@@baluja123 lol.. keep 'em comin'!!
damn, can i have the lyrics and chords to this one too?
❤you got it, bro...❤
reminds me of Kris Kristofferson so much, maestro! so good... your huge fan, d
Thanks, d...one of my first...1979...the heartache years.
Thank you !💯💛
Resonant goodness.
@@ZJProz thanks for droppin' in, Z...
real music... real art... great song, maestro... reminds me of the late, great Kris Kristofferson... your huge fan, d
@@daboiderinhoDerekDamicoyour responses and observations continue to inspire me, Derek. You've turned so many of us on to quality songs we may never have heard of without your vast knowledge and appreciation for all genres, and your willingness to cover and share those songs in your "basement" recordings. In essence, that is exactly what I'm doing with some of these songs I'm plucking from my own personal archive of ideas. I was probably 18, maybe 19, when I wrote "The Best of What We Learn"... It was obviously my attempt at writing a standard country ballad about heartache. In those days, I didn't have the discipline, nor the technology, to record complete ideas with clarity. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do so now. I'd hate to think that I never tried to get this one heard. Thank you for acknowledging it. It lets me know that my efforts are worthwhile.
@@baluja123 i really appreciate that bro!
Sounds a little.. Kenny Rogers .. style
@@madpainterken thanks, for listening...I can't exclude Kenny from my list of artists who could have inspired this one.
Great song! Fun video! Enjoyed your vocals Mike! Bravo! :)
@@davidjoshua thanks for listening, David...
i love this version maestro... your chords and melody make this one epic... thank you so much... and from now on, please say this version is written by derinho/Baluja... love, d
This is anthemic! Very nice melodies and instrumentation! This has soul! 👏👏👏👏👏😎
@@daboiderinhoDerekDamico I truly believe that great lyrics make it possible for a song to undergo many transformations...musically and melodically, depending on who's doing the interpretation. So, whether it follows the original version closely or takes on a whole new direction, it has a chance to stand out because of the meaning behind the words. This is one of those songs that can be done many different ways, because the foundation is strong...the theme holds true in all genres.
@@baluja123 you da man!
Great Friggin' song!!!! Who is this guy? Why haven't I heard of him?
wooo!
Keep on fighting, I love it❤