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Introduction

Introduction

For most, having a career as a professional musician comes after years of hard work, practice and imagination. But how did they start out their lives as musicians? And how did their experiences as kids or teenagers have an impact on the musicians that they've now become?

Byron Wallen playing ngoni

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Blues in the hood

Trumpeter Abram Wilson blowing hard into his trumpet

Despite growing up in a house filled with R&B and soul music, Abram Wilson found himself drawn to jazz by its joyful nature...

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Articles
James MacMillan conducting

The composer looks back to his childhood and family inspirations

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kora

Maya Jobarteh describes her earliest memories of hearing the traditional African music of the kora.

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Seb Rochford

Beginning to find your own voice and getting a drumkit of your own

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A look at the benefits and hazards of taking up the double bass

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Different musicians playing different instruments talk about how they started learing music and the music that influenced their early days.

Different musicians playing different instruments talk about how they started learing music and the music that influenced their early days.

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