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.

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