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You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

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St. Lucia
Age: 54
Musician
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
St.Lucia
Children
Surprised
Writer
Growing
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I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.
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My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.
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We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.
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Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.
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I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the few summers I spent in the United States I spent most of my time in my homeland.
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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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[I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I can be and I saw that this institution will act as an avenue to me achieving that goal. I applied to the institution and got accepted based on my impressive portfolio.
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From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.
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I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product.
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What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.
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I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.
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I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.
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We should not let negative influences get to us.
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