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The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

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Frankie Cosmos
Age: 30
Born: 1994
Born: March 21
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Greta Simone Kline
Ingrid Superstar
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Fifth
Lewis
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Sixth
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Drums
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Aunt
Everything
Guitar
Boyfriend
Jeffrey
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Bass
Seventh

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