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well i i’m a club i have a really good

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story growing up here in edmonton i was

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sick i’m a 60s scoop survivor so it’s

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raised in white foster care in the dutch

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canadian community

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and actually a lot of my life was just

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over here down the street

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i went to a church just down the street

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here on 96th street and there was seven

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christian reformed churches in edmonton

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so our church was first and then there

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was a second

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christian form church and so they had

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choir classes

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and i remember clearly so mom had

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enrolled me for choir

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and the same day of the choir one of my

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friends at the school had his birthday

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party and i remember going to this

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birthday party and being so i went crazy

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i like had three hot dogs i had so much

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food and nobody was telling us not to

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and so i got to the choir practice

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oh my god so we’re on stage and she

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tells us that this week you know we

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would sing and then next week she would

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deliver who was going to be in the choir

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or who wasn’t

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and

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so anyway

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in dutch if you translate the word to

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english it means

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he gave over well i threw up all over

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his stage

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from eating way too much of the birthday

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party right

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so

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we came the next week and then she was

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telling the kids

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and then she mentioned my name and she

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said well you’re going to be cut from

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the choir

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because your voice is too deep and i’m

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sure who knows why was because who knows

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because i threw up on her stage is it

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because she didn’t like uh indigenous

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kids

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why was i cut but it scarred me for

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years and years and years and i still

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at 63 still lament on why haven’t i ever

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been able to sing publicly because i

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actually i don’t think my work voice is

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that bad

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um and so one thing i’m gonna do in the

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next few months i was power walking the

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other day and there’s this lady and i

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looked and it said voice lessons on her

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gate and i’m gonna call well i think

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it’s a lady call this number and i’m

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gonna just say i have huge fear around

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publicly singing can you help he’ll heal

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me because i would love to sing in

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public

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you know but i can’t because of this

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whole experience so one thing i do love

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doing is singing i sing a lot

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i’m always singing at home in the car

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but to sing in front of you two it’s not

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gonna happen

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well if you think about the longevity of

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what i’ve lived i mean someone who i

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really

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like right now can i say that i love the

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weekend i love the weekend so that’s

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someone current but you know like think

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about my ear i was at the tail end of

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the hippie era so joanie mitchell

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taylor carol king al green uh lou rawls

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i like r b

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favorite how can you have a favorite and

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then if you think about indigenous music

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i love buffy st marie have had the great

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fortune of being at three of her

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concerts met her a few times

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so yeah that’s kind of where i’m at r b

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um

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folk and some contemporary i really like

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no rock and roll though

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