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“In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and…” quote by Goapele — Download Open image

“In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that's really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that's what I was going to study.”

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