Australia 33

Listen to Australia 33, a 29-year-old man from Adelaide, South Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 29

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/10/1987

PLACE OF BIRTH: Adelaide, South Australia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/Australian

OCCUPATION: actor/musician

EDUCATION: high school diploma

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

He moved to the United States (Los Angeles) at age 25.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

He studied speech and dialects in drama school.

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RECORDED BY: Joseph Zavala (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/03/2017

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Well, I live in Los Angeles these days, but I grew up in Adelaide, in South Australia. It’s very different from L.A.; um, it was quite, uh, quiet town to grow up in, I guess. I think there was about a million people there when I was growing up, which is a decent size, but, um, it was always considered to be a big country town. Um, it’s always a nice place to grow up as a kid; it was, you know, always something to keep you entertained, but, um, you know, you had to make your own fun at the same time quite a bit. It was safe, and, uh, you know, we lived in the suburbs, but we were five minutes out of the city, which is yeah. … Uh, when I was really young, I loved playing in the backyard, swimming, playing cricket; um, mom had a veggie patch out in the back as well so, you know, playing around in that, and, uh — and then when I got a bit older, I started riding BMX. I really liked [subject laughs] — I really liked riding BMX. Um, I did that for several years.

Um, I was always interested in acting. I would do that throughout school, and, um, did productions and stuff like that and then, uh, got sort of more heavily into music when I started playing guitar when I was 15 and started singing, and, um, I mean those became really my main focus and then my sort of hobby. I had a friend of my sister’s teach me the open chords and, uh, teach me how to read tab, and really if you can — if you can read tab and someone’s giving you the basics and you enjoy it enough, I think you can teach yourself how to play if you’ve got a bit of an ear; and I’ve played some other instruments before, and I, uh, I sort of had a, you know, a way of working out how to learn a song if there was a part I couldn’t play because I’ve done that with other instruments, so; yeah, I had — I don’t even know how many — if it was months or what — of lessons to begin with, but not, not for that long; I just I fell in love with it. I wanted to play every day, so, you know, yeah, taught taught myself from there really. I remember mom and dad suggesting that, you know, if I was going to keep singing, that maybe I should get some singing lessons, um, so, um, I was probably 15 and a half or 16 or something like that, and, uh, and started getting singing lessons. Um, and, uh, it was just down the road: A friend of my mom’s had a pop-singing studio …

TRANSCRIBED BY: Joseph Zavala (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/03/2017

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