My first musical memory involves listening to songs from various Walt Disney films such as ‘Snow White & The Seven Dwarves’, ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘Dumbo’.
However, as I was so young the music numbers, though entertaining to my five-year-old self, did not leave a huge impact on me emotionally.
However, this changed when, at the age of seven I first listened to Matt Monroe’s ‘Born Free’ song from the film of the same name.
It was the first song to make me cry and even at a young age I knew this was because of the emotions and meaning of freedom through the song’s lyrics.
To this day I find the song incredibly moving and some days I still get choked up whenever I hear it on the radio.
Phoebe Vaughan