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Like all businesses ACID has its ups and downs. There are actually seasons when business will pick up such as Christmas time and carnival time. There are other times when business will run very slow.

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St. Lucia
Age: 54
Musician
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.
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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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A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.
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There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.
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Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.
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It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.
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From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.
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I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.
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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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I was very conceptual about what I was doing I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.
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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 labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.
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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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What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.
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I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.
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The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
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We should not let negative influences get to us.
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A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.
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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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[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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