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Blog -Oct 20-2009 Is your name really Blackie?
« Thread Started on Jul 17, 2010, 12:07pm »
From MySpace
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Q. & A. From Fans - Is your name really Blackie Steele or what?
Is your name really Blackie Steele, or what?
Question: Is your name really BlackieSteele, or what?
Answer: Yes, my name is really Blackie Steele, or what! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! OKAY! IT'S MY STAGE NAME! I am fighting the urge to be very saucy and mischievious here!
This name has been with me since High School. I, in fact, never made the name up in the first place. It was a nickname given to me by my friends. One day, my friends in Grade 12 approached me and informed me of my new identity. And that's really how it happened.
They did this in response to a big ruccus I created playing the drums all afternoon in the portable outside of our school. Music class was always held in this portable. Apparently I did a good job of disrupting classes wailing out on the drums for several hours. This was in the early Spring of 1982. When I came back into the school after the bell rang, everyone raced from the class rooms to meet me at my locker; including the Principle!
Well, there was already another issue taking place regarding me in school with all of the remaining student body, and this drumming incident was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. What had already been happening was also in connection to my name. But in order to understand that, I will have to tell you a little bit of a story first!
Okay, so here is the story:
I was born Marie Camille Lucie Lafontaine to my birth parents, Rejeanne and Jean-Camille Lafontaine, somewhere out on the East Coast,at midnight in between the dates of February 14th and February 15th, 1964. At the age of 5 and 1/2, I was illegally taken from my family and placed into the Foster Care System by the Government because of a politcal agenda called The Sixties Scoop Kids.
CORRECTION:
During the year of 2011, Blackie Steele found out that the Children's Aid Society of Ottawa, Ontario CANADA, lied about her age, her birth date, birth year and birth place. Because of her extreme petite size at the age of 6 and 1/2, her true status was altered in order to make her more appealing to prospective Adoptive Parents. As sickening as this is, it is also a very common yet illegal practice. Therefore, Blackie was 6 and 1/2 years old at the time of her illegal adoption. She was born on January 15th, 1963. There is still no solid information regarding the place of birth; however, it is estimated, given the circumstances prevalent during the year of 1963, that her birth place was most likely Gaspe, Quebec.
I was adopted along with my younger brother in 1969 by a European descent Brittish/Scottish family, wherein my name was changed to Marie Lucy H. As I grew up over the next thirteen years, I was given the nickname "Crissy' because I looked like the Crissy Doll.
In Grade 12, a new wine was released onto the market called Maria Christina. All throughout my growing up years, the kids teased me senseless about "What are we going to do with a girl called Maria....", etc. So when this wine came out, and already being called Crissy because of the doll, everyone put the two together and from then on, everyone called me Maria Christina.
In the Spring of 1982, an entire school of kids began calling me Blackie Steele because of my Musicianship. This had something to do with the lyrics from an Alice Cooper song, and it was actually my friend Theresa Hookstra who invented the name. Again, the name just stuck to me like glue.
As the years went by, I decided to legally change my name to Maria Christina. Everyone usually just calls me Chris, or Christine, or Christina, and sometimes Tina (which I really don't favor much). Everyone still continued to call me Blackie as a nicknamed whether I wanted them to or not!
Again I have legally changed my name. My name is: Christina Fontana - Blackie Steele. That is who I am. So, the other issue taking place in High School during that year, in association with my name, was about the wine commercial. Every time I walked down the hallway, I had to pass by all the open doors to all the classes on both sides of the hall! By the time I got to my locker, I had an entire floor of students singing the Maria Christina commercial at the top of their lungs at me as I walked by.
Needless to say, after the great afternoon of drumming I rocked out on in the Music Portable, the Principle relocated my locker down to the ground floor with all of the Grade 9 students! Oh my god! I was mortified! Albeit the Grade 9 students were utterly delighted!
Decades later, something quite amazing was discoverred in regards to my Aboriginal roots. Even though the name "Blackie Steele" seemed to be a natural and innocent evolution of nicknames throughout the course of my childhood, something special was happening on a much higher, perhaps even a metaphysical level. In 2011 I found out that I was born of Crow Clan and that I am a descendant not only of the Chinese (Wabanaki), but also of the Beotuck Indians of Newfoundland. The Beotuck Indians, although extinct now, have left they're genepool in my Clan Lineage, and thus I am also part Viking. And the Viking People were Master Black Smiths, thus Sword Makers. GEE! WHAT A FUCKING COINCIDENCE IS THAT! LOL !!!!!!! Looks like I'm the real thang afterall!
Love and hugs...
BlackieSteele...xoxox
« Thread Started on Jul 17, 2010, 12:07pm »
From MySpace
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Q. & A. From Fans - Is your name really Blackie Steele or what?
Is your name really Blackie Steele, or what?
Question: Is your name really BlackieSteele, or what?
Answer: Yes, my name is really Blackie Steele, or what! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! OKAY! IT'S MY STAGE NAME! I am fighting the urge to be very saucy and mischievious here!
This name has been with me since High School. I, in fact, never made the name up in the first place. It was a nickname given to me by my friends. One day, my friends in Grade 12 approached me and informed me of my new identity. And that's really how it happened.
They did this in response to a big ruccus I created playing the drums all afternoon in the portable outside of our school. Music class was always held in this portable. Apparently I did a good job of disrupting classes wailing out on the drums for several hours. This was in the early Spring of 1982. When I came back into the school after the bell rang, everyone raced from the class rooms to meet me at my locker; including the Principle!
Well, there was already another issue taking place regarding me in school with all of the remaining student body, and this drumming incident was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. What had already been happening was also in connection to my name. But in order to understand that, I will have to tell you a little bit of a story first!
Okay, so here is the story:
I was born Marie Camille Lucie Lafontaine to my birth parents, Rejeanne and Jean-Camille Lafontaine, somewhere out on the East Coast,
CORRECTION:
During the year of 2011, Blackie Steele found out that the Children's Aid Society of Ottawa, Ontario CANADA, lied about her age, her birth date, birth year and birth place. Because of her extreme petite size at the age of 6 and 1/2, her true status was altered in order to make her more appealing to prospective Adoptive Parents. As sickening as this is, it is also a very common yet illegal practice. Therefore, Blackie was 6 and 1/2 years old at the time of her illegal adoption. She was born on January 15th, 1963. There is still no solid information regarding the place of birth; however, it is estimated, given the circumstances prevalent during the year of 1963, that her birth place was most likely Gaspe, Quebec.
I was adopted along with my younger brother in 1969 by a European descent Brittish/Scottish family, wherein my name was changed to Marie Lucy H. As I grew up over the next thirteen years, I was given the nickname "Crissy' because I looked like the Crissy Doll.
In Grade 12, a new wine was released onto the market called Maria Christina. All throughout my growing up years, the kids teased me senseless about "What are we going to do with a girl called Maria....", etc. So when this wine came out, and already being called Crissy because of the doll, everyone put the two together and from then on, everyone called me Maria Christina.
In the Spring of 1982, an entire school of kids began calling me Blackie Steele because of my Musicianship. This had something to do with the lyrics from an Alice Cooper song, and it was actually my friend Theresa Hookstra who invented the name. Again, the name just stuck to me like glue.
As the years went by, I decided to legally change my name to Maria Christina. Everyone usually just calls me Chris, or Christine, or Christina, and sometimes Tina (which I really don't favor much). Everyone still continued to call me Blackie as a nicknamed whether I wanted them to or not!
Again I have legally changed my name. My name is: Christina Fontana - Blackie Steele. That is who I am. So, the other issue taking place in High School during that year, in association with my name, was about the wine commercial. Every time I walked down the hallway, I had to pass by all the open doors to all the classes on both sides of the hall! By the time I got to my locker, I had an entire floor of students singing the Maria Christina commercial at the top of their lungs at me as I walked by.
Needless to say, after the great afternoon of drumming I rocked out on in the Music Portable, the Principle relocated my locker down to the ground floor with all of the Grade 9 students! Oh my god! I was mortified! Albeit the Grade 9 students were utterly delighted!
Decades later, something quite amazing was discoverred in regards to my Aboriginal roots. Even though the name "Blackie Steele" seemed to be a natural and innocent evolution of nicknames throughout the course of my childhood, something special was happening on a much higher, perhaps even a metaphysical level. In 2011 I found out that I was born of Crow Clan and that I am a descendant not only of the Chinese (Wabanaki), but also of the Beotuck Indians of Newfoundland. The Beotuck Indians, although extinct now, have left they're genepool in my Clan Lineage, and thus I am also part Viking. And the Viking People were Master Black Smiths, thus Sword Makers. GEE! WHAT A FUCKING COINCIDENCE IS THAT! LOL !!!!!!! Looks like I'm the real thang afterall!
Love and hugs...
BlackieSteele...xoxox