I know that took me a long time to learn is singing and so the reason why I wanted to learn how to sing is because I wouldn’t say it’s like a tradition where I’m from in the Philippines but it’s just like I grew up just hearing people sing karaoke all the time and I always thought like singing is basically just the instrument of a person and it was beautiful to me so since I was young I grew up just watching people singing listening to people singing and then once I got into school I think around the fourth or fifth grade I started going into music class where I would learn instruments but it was like instruments can do so much but I feel like the power of the voice is stronger so I started to have classes where I could learn to sing and then also I would practice at home with my family and we had our own karaoke machine and my sisters were interested in stuff like that too so we would sing together or like we’d play I don’t know if you know the game band hero so we’d play like a guitar and drums and then someone would be the singer which would usually be me and another reason why I was motivated to do that when I got older when when I was in school we used to have talent shows I was always interested in music so I was in the music side of school I guess and so when I was in music class I would go to drumming contests but that was boring then I started to go into singing because everybody else around me was singing and I wanted to be that and then when I got to the talent show I started doing better and better and better and I won a couple times so that motivated me but then the problem is that I’ve been inconsistent like I would you know focus on singing for a few months and then I would stop and then I’d go back to it and so I actually stopped for a few years and then I only just recently started trying to focus on it again so we’ve been talking about a’s
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I know that what took me a long time to learn is singing. The reason why I wanted to learn how to sing is because I wouldn't say it's a tradition where I'm from in the Philippines, but I grew up hearing people sing karaoke all the time. I always thought that singing is basically just the instrument of a person, and it was beautiful to me. Since I was young, I grew up watching people sing and listening to people sing. Once I got into school, around the fourth or fifth grade, I started going into music class where I would learn instruments. Instruments can do so much, but I feel like the power of the voice is stronger. So, I started to have classes where I could learn to sing. I would also practice at home with my family, and we had our own karaoke machine. My sisters were interested in that too, so we would sing together. We would play, I don't know if you know the game Band Hero, so we would play like guitar and drums, and someone would be the singer, which would usually be me. Another reason why I was motivated to do that when I got older was that when I was in school, we used to have talent shows. I was always interested in music, so I was involved in the music side of school. In music class, I would go to drumming contests, but that was boring. Then I started to focus on singing because everybody else around me was singing, and I wanted to be like them. When I got to the talent show, I started doing better and better, and I won a couple of times, which motivated me. The problem is that I've been inconsistent; I would focus on singing for a few months, then I would stop, and then I would go back to it. I actually stopped for a few years, and I only just recently started trying to focus on it again.
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