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I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

I came to music very young.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I've been doing music in some form since I was seven years old.

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that I really got serious about music.

I've been making music since age five.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.