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Music has always moved me really deeply, and it's always been more about that than about the desire to rebel or annoy people (although, I've had my moments of that as well). I think it was just years of maybe moving slightly away from it but always coming back to it as the thing that I'm best at.

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St. Lucia
Age: 54
Musician
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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