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Band Memebers
Mindy Salazar - vocals, acoustic guitars
Band Description
It all started with the movie La Bamba. When Mindy was about 4 years old, she sat down with her family and watched the film starring Lou Diamond Philips—and fell in love. Fell in love with rock and roll, guitars and a dream; a dream she’s never stopped chasing. “I said the sinner’s prayer when I was about 8 years old, but I really got serious about God when I was 11 or so. And, pretty early on, I believe music was my calling in life. The funny thing is, I’ve grown passionate about many different things since then. And, those passions come and go, but music is the one passion that has always been buried deep inside. I guess that’s how I know God put it there.” Mindy has always had a very eclectic taste in music. Her song writing began with rewriting hit rap songs when she was still very young. Mindy remembers, “I used to take some of the strangest songs and rewrite them to be Christian. I mean some strange songs. I rewrote ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’, ‘Loungin’’. I don’t know how I managed to become and singer/songwriter with a guitar and not ‘MC Sal’ with a turntable!” A few years later, Mindy was coming up with her own ideas and writing multiple originals. And, she started playing for people. “I started off helping with praise and worship for my youth group at Light Christian Center in Alvin, TX -the church I was going to at the time. And, they let me sing originals here and there. Then, one day, I met with our worship pastor and played an original for him. He told me he thought my stuff was really good and ‘beyond (my) years’. It really encouraged me. I guess I had always thought of myself as mediocre. When someone actually saw significant potential in me, it helped me see it in myself.” For the next few years, Mindy basically saved her guitar playing for her room. Just her, a pad of paper, and her God she was writing to. “I always struggled with praying. I hate to say, but it seemed so boring to me when I was little. So, my songs were my prayers. My songs at the time were pretty much always directed to God and about the struggles I faced at that time. More often than not, the songs were about my feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness. I always felt God’s love was much greater than anything I could ever dream of deserving.” In 2002, Mindy finally opened up to some friends in her Young Adults groups at Living Faith Outreach in Dickinson, TX. Next thing she knew, Mindy was singing a “special” at her church on a Wednesday night. Then, she was singing “specials” regularly. She also started traveling to churches in the area to lead worship. After a few years of waiting to step out, Mindy fell into an opportunity. “Long story short: A friend of mine was having a show on a Friday night in May of 2010. I had made other plans, but I had this really strong urge to go to the show. I had even made plans that I cancelled at the last minute to go to the show. And, all around the same time, the Lord was really dealing with me about the call on my life and the tragedy of me just sitting around and letting my call pass me by. So, I go out to this show and I asked a friend if she thought it was hard to get a gig at that coffee shop. My friend put me in touch with the girl who books shows around the shop and I had a gig scheduled for the next week. Since then, everything has been falling into place for me and it’s happening really fast.” There’s no telling what the future holds for Mindy. But, one thing that is certain: Mindy is ready. “I believe we’ve been called for such a time as this. I mean, you can watch the news for 5 minutes and figure out that this is a special time and people are looking for some hope in the middle of a hopeless situation. And, if God is willing to use me to shine a little light on the hope He’s put in my heart, then I’m going to do it. And, a lot of times, I feel really tiny and hopeless myself. But, if God sees something more, then I’m going to trust Him more than I trust myself.”