Every Artist Has a Beginning โ Whatโs Yours?
This community is for anyone who feels called to become the singer-songwriter they were born to be. In the comments, share the moment your artistic dream was born. ๐คโจ Iโll start: For me, it began in 2006. My family and I left Peru and moved to Quรฉbec. I was 9 years old, thrown into a new country, a new language, and a school where I got bullied by the popular kidsโฆ and even by my own teacher. It was one of the hardest years of my childhood. But in the middle of that pain, something unexpected happened: I found the guitar. Or maybeโฆ the guitar found me. I had one guitar class per week, and that Christmas my parents bought me a tiny, cheap guitar. It didnโt matter โ that little instrument became my refuge. After school, when everything felt heavy, I would sit alone and play. Even if the kids at school didnโt like me, music gave me an identity. A place where I could breathe. My first dream was to become like Angus Young from AC/DC. Later, as a teenager, I fell in love with singing โ Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, Jeff Buckleyโฆ that raw, emotional kind of expression that grabs your soul. Iโm not Angus Young, and Iโm not Kurt or Eddie โ but I am writing my own songs today. And you can listen to them on every platform under my name: Branco De Souza. Your turn: When was the first spark of your artistic dream born?