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elementary school.
He never did. (THANK YOU, GOD!!!!) His "coach" was his guitar teacher. His "gridiron" was the kids' choir. His team practice was rehearsals for shows and performances with classmates and friends who played other instruments who eventually became band mates. And when he sang, his voice was so powerful that it'd fill the whole church without a microphone, literally booming into the pews in the very back of the room. When his big sister graduated from eighth grade, the kids' choir was slated to sing at the graduation Mass. I got there early that day and started hearing gossip about "this sixth grader who was such a great singer” that the women in the front office had left their posts to wander over to the church to hear him in rehearsal. People were talking. There was a real buzz about him.
When it was time for Mass, and I was sitting in the back, time for the kids' choir, and he and a little girl both stood up to sing their solos. He went first and just knocked 'em dead. Everybody sitting around me turned around and looked at me and gave me thumbs-up and appreciative enthusiastic smiles. What a MIND-BLOWER!!! I had no idea that he was the one everyone beforehand had been talking about! After the Mass, at least 30 people came up to me, parents, students, teachers, all gushing about him and "OMG! Did you know he could sing?" And my favorite: “somebody said you didn’t know he could sing!” Answer: YES! Boy howdy did I know, because he started as soon as when he was old enough to take a bath in the tub by himself, and he'd sing at the top of his lungs, experimenting with the acoustics that the bathroom provided. You could literally hear him across the house.
At the end of that day, his big sister, the graduate, was completely ticked off. All anybody talked about all the rest of that day was "that boy in the kids' choir who was such a great singer!" Her annoying little brother left her and her whole graduating class completely upstaged.
He had a rock group for ten years, for which he was leader, lead-vocalist, rhythm and lead guitar, and instrument coach for his other band members. They did a lot of touring, across the country and internationally. It seemed he never saw a musical instrument he couldn't figure out how to play. (Yep, one of "those".) Now, he's just starting out as a sound mixer for film and television, having finished his BA degree in college. He's is apprenticing with one of the leading audio mixers in the business. We're BEYOND proud of him!
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