Band 6: Describe a person who inspired you. You should say: Who the person is How you know them What they did to inspire you And explain how they influenced you. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Oh well, I drew a lot of inspiration from other people in my life. However, the person that I really look up to is Lady Gaga, a celebrity who is very famous, eminent, and also very talented in her singing, writing, and acting. The reason I know Lady Gaga is through her songs. About three years ago, I heard one of her songs but didn't actually know her until my friend mentioned that Lady Gaga had just won a Grammy. I asked him who Lady Gaga was, and then he told me about her. I realized that she is the one whose music I've been listening to for a very long time, so I started to admire her. The aspects that inspired me were her incredible singing ability; her voice is outstanding on the global charts. Her talent in playing musical instruments is also impressive. Despite her difficult childhood and struggles, she worked hard to overcome her challenges and became successful, which is very inspiring. I thought that if she could overcome all those obstacles and achieve success, then why can't I? I found inspiration in that, and it really influenced my way of speaking and acting in real life. I tend to be very expressive and a bit crazy in my class, but people loved it, and it felt like my own style. I felt more confident at school and relieved of myself, so I'm just trying to embrace that.

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Oh well, I inspired a lot from the other people in my life. However, the person that I really inspired to me was Lady Gaga, a celebrity which is also very famous, eminent, and also very talented in her aspect of singing, writing, and acting. The reason that I know Lady Gaga because of through her songs when I was about three years ago, I heard a song of her but didn’t actually know her until my friend said that Lady Gaga just won a grand meet and asked him who is Lady Gaga. And then she told me Lady Gaga was dead and I realized that she is the one whose music I’ve been listening to for a very long time so I started inspiring her. And the aspects she inspired me was that she was so good at singing, her voice was so good at the entire or even entire in global charts and also her talent in playing musical instruments was very good and also in many aspects like after her, she was very like poor and not really have a good childhood but she did try hard to struggle with her difficulties and then she becomes successful nowadays which is very aspiring. And then I thought that if she could pass on the grants all the things then became successful over this time so why can’t I? So I inspired her by that terms and it really influenced on my way of speaking and also acts in my real life when I just like being very crazy and my class but people loved it and it was my own size so I could people cannot show to me so I felt more confident as a school and also feel very relieved of myself so I’m just trying.

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