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Background on Matthew R
Hi, I was born on August 12th 1982, in Edgware General Hospital at 11 in the morning weighing only at 3 pounds of sugar,
You wouldn't think that now...lol Anyway My Mum....British, My dad.....Latvian. I have a older sister named Caroline who is
a couple of years older then me and there's little me. I was a child who always had a different view about everything, I wasn't
the most adventureous kid at school, I was pretty much a goody-two-shoes. I was happy at school, being with my friends and
just having a great time was pretty much my priority. At the end of six I started to develop an ear for music, like everyone
else I played the recorder and I was even singing in the choir at one point so I always doing something. At the same age I
did drama as well and I am still there to this day. When I was 6 years old I started to notice to see things that weren't
there, my grandma of my latvian side was always into tarot and palmistry, my great aunt also of my latvian side did healing.
From that age I started to smell and see things that didn't make sense but also scare me, but for years I just didn't tell
anyone about it. But now I am older and alot wiser (Well, sometimes). I can understand it better, anyway carrying on. From
the age of 8 I was diagnosed with Dyspraxia, but my mum noticed something way before that time, that i was 'special' from
the other kids. At first the teachers and the people at the LDD centre thought I was dyslexic, but they soon found out I could
read. So always from the word go, my mum has always been honest with me and said things in a way that I can understand. I
remember the conversation alittle bit, she said "You are not different, just one of a kind". All I did was shrugged it off
and said "Okay". At 11 years old i went to a Senior School (High School) called Oak Lodge School, it was a school at the time
for people who had minor learning difficulties and those 7 years i spent there were the best of my life, I was with kids of
my own age. Who could understand where I came from and we grown closer together during the years like a family, but it wasn't
all roses we all fought like any family would. But we would soon make up again, then I left school when i was 17 years old
(I was the youngest in my year), then when i reached 18. This would be the most testing time of my life to date, where I would
learn to become an adult and how to learn to do thing in a adult fashion. But during that period of about 4 months, I started
what was called a Youth Training Scheme in Business, it didn't work out at all. Because I wasn't happy there, I don't know
what it was. I just didn't wanna be there. But I admit I cried because of the change from school to this, then I left the
YTS thing, to a college called Barnet College, then two months in I was mugged, so i had to build up my confidence again,
then awhile that was going on my uncle had a heart attack, but he is fine now. I soon realised that I didn't wanna be a person
who had given up on life, so I built my life up slowly and I did. So I moved on to another college in Watford, Hertfordshire
called West Herts College, where I would get my first diploma in performing arts, then at 20. I decided to put myself out
there acting wise and I did and I had the most outrageous to the surreal auditions ever, I did get a job for a photo shoot
for a company called Vodafone (Cell phone company) I had to wear this ridiculous t shirt saying guns n roses rule and it may
of been abit long but it was the best experience of my life. Then during those three years, I have been acting, singing, even
songwriting which I am loving, I am putting my songs out there so that the world can see. As for my personal life...who knows.....my
love life who friggin' knows as for everything else, I'll just have to wait and see....watch this space.
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