My parents gave me the name Uriah Fields, a name I like very much, and from time-to-time, across the years, has elicited from people, "Uriah is a bautiful name."

More than a score of years ago on an autumn day, while playing my harmonica in Griffith Park, located in Los Angeles,  a place where I wrote my epic poem "I Go to Nature," I heard a Voice speaking within my soul that said "Uriah Harp is your new name." The Voice said it not once but three times.

Since that day, there have been many times when I called myself and introduced myself by my alias "Uriah Harp." Like millions of people, my original name appears on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace. In addition, on Twitter my user name is Uriah Harp. Quite often when I am playing my harmonica, as I do sometimes in the streets, people expressing appreciation, will comment on my playing and singing. Usually I introduce myself to them as Uriah Harp.

I play the harmonica,
I am a musicmaker,
I am Uriah Harp.

Although I play my harmonica in different keys, my signature key is the "Key of love." The third stanza of a song I composed, "Let's Do It Again and Again," admonishes people to "Give all to love today."

Uriah Harp is more than a user name for me. It is a name that evokes creative energies to flow and causes me to feel, at least when I am playing my harmonica and singing, my eternity.

I play the harmonica,
I am a musicmaker,
I am Uriah Harp.