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When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in the mountains in South Africa, and that's when everything started to change for me and I realised that music is my thing.

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St. Lucia
Age: 54
Musician
Johannesburg
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South Africa
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