JT: At one school I went to, we had a steel band, which I loved; I used to transpose pop songs and songs that I listened to at home, reggae and so on. I also learned the violin in primary school but gave it up when I was a teenager. I did GCSE Music; there wasn’t anything in it about Black British music, and what they called pop was a Genesis album. I’ve always liked classical music, and I think Peer Gynt was included in GCSE; and I also did some composition and played the trombone for a little while. I love music, so I had quite a good time with it, but it wasn’t very contemporary. I didn’t see music as a career, and I didn’t really see it as part of me, because I was a raver, dancing and listening to acid house, techno and jungle. I don’t think I ever put those two things together.
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