User:Mandrictan

 Berklee This user attends or attended Berklee College of Music.

Choosing music as a profession in Singapore is considered "taboo". The government tailors the education of the citizens to cater for jobs of the middle working class, which drives an economy with no natural resource. For me, passion overwrites social norms and this is the reason why I choose music.

Music had not always been part of my life. For most of my early days, I spent a lot of time dreaming of becoming a sportsman. It then hit me that myopic boys do not have a future in the sport. It was when I was 17 that I first picked up contemporary piano and have never looked back.

Music has given me ample room to express myself, delivering emotions to people who listen to my work. I feel, right now, the most important aspect of music is to be able to deliver an emotion or message. I spent most of my late teens and early 20s looking for bits and pieces of information that lead me to discovering how it could be done. Even until the end of time, I know that this discovery will never end.

I aspire to create music and cater for the regional market in which songs generally sound dated. I feel that a new injection of creativity and a bending of traditions will bring about a change in the industry that has been stagnant for far too long. Novelty, yet familiarity is key to introducing these changes.

Progressively, I plan to inject myself into the market and deliver emotons through my work and that is why I choose music.