Church robes to 808's
Mad to think it's been just over a year since my first album 'i think i need to let u go' dropped.
I swear, if you told 18 year old me that I'd be here now, he'd have laughed in your face. Back then I was absolutely bricking it at uni. Convinced music was "just a hobby" and nothing more.
Here's something I've never properly admitted - I was terrified someone from school would spot me in church choir. Every Sunday, living in fear that my mates would find out I was spending weekends in those tragic robes. Got my Voice for Life qualifications and everything (yeah, that's a real thing). Even auditioned for Winchester Cathedral choir. Mate, talk about feeling out of place. Picture a normal kid surrounded by proper posh boys who'd been singing Latin since they could walk.
Absolutely not it.
Then my mum and auntie had this idea: youth choir. First time we did "Somewhere Only We Know," everything changed. This wasn't your nan's church music anymore. I was proper buzzing. Actually wanting to be there. Feeling something I'd never felt before. Like, this is what music's supposed to feel like, right?
Me and my sister Tash became those kids. You know the ones. Absolutely rinsing YouTube tutorials, trying to learn guitar and sing at the same time. She was the natural performer, but something about it just clicked for me differently.
When she moved on from music, I couldn't stop. Wouldn't stop.
That obsession carried me from hiding my choir life to releasing a whole album. Now a year later, everything's shifted. New sound. New direction. Still can't believe the journey, and yet still so much to come.
But here's the maddest part. Remember Winchester Cathedral, where I felt like a complete fraud? Remember those Friday night youth choir sessions that changed everything?
Well, somehow that led to four songs on BBC Introducing. And two tracks sitting on desks at Warner-Chappel and Primary Wave Music.
How the fuck did that happen?
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