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As a 17 year old school leaver, I was a hopeful musician looking to explore my dream of creating music with people as passionate and as scared of music as I was. My dreams, however, were crushed when, for cultural reasons, I was forbidden from pursuing my music. The resulting agony that came from not being allowed to discover that which defined me, forced me to walk away from the musicians that so inspired me and the passions that ignited my soul.

For 12 years I could not so much as touch an instrument, as the painful reminder of the dream I would never realise was too torturous to contemplate. Despite this, I lived a life that most would be proud of. I graduated from University as a Genetic Scientist, worked for a leading multinational IT company as a Senior Business Analyst, got married, bought a house and was very happy, or so I thought, until one day in 2003 I received a phone call that dramatically changed the course of my life.

The phone call was from an inspiring musician who I had played music with when I was 17. With a single question he signified the beginning of the end of a life I had created to mask the pain buried within me. “What are you doing with your music?” My initial response was, “Oh that’s not part of me anymore”, but the more I remembered what it was like to play music, the more disorientated I became within myself and within my life.
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