“I was so surprised, before he started lessons I never would have said he had a good voice!”

- My Mum after I sang in front of many friends, two years after lessons… Thanks mum.

I started singing lessons at age 17. Before then it had never been a big passion of mine. Sure, I sang in the shower and around the house, but I didn’t LOVE it or anything - eurgh.

When I started lessons, there was no explosion of “knowing this was My Thing”. It simply slipped into my life as if it had always been there.

I loved singing but I struggled. I was born with a swimmer's dip (pectus excavatum) which means that my ribs cave inwards. Any mechanical singing technique was very very difficult for me to do because my rib mobility, lung capacity and my diaphragm movement was more restricted than the average person’s.