Find Your Voice Collective member Jacob Paton-Lee

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Find Your Voice Collective member Jacob Paton-Lee will sing an original song during a performance with the prestigious Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) at Melbourne's iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Video by Find Your Voice Collective.

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00:00I think you're a bit more than what you let on, boy.

00:07That's when I was like, this is easy.

00:10This is what I wanted.

00:12What can you call me?

00:14They call me JPL.

00:18This mask, it really screwed with me over the years.

00:22Like, I liked hiding.

00:24I didn't like crowds.

00:25I didn't want to be part of the crowd.

00:28I wanted to just kind of be myself.

00:32But I expressed it in the wrong ways and the worst ways possible

00:37by hiding myself away from everyone and everything.

00:42There is one precise place for me that when I stand on it,

00:48it's the only time I feel like I'm not a character from a movie.

00:53Random applauses, standing ovations, feeling came back to me.

01:00They saved me.

01:02Emotion itself just brings me happiness.

01:05I don't know.

01:06I keep coming back to this little place to find, I guess,

01:11not just my meaning in music, but myself in life.

01:14The symphony orchestra have been around the world

01:18and they've done some big things.

01:21But I think they're going to find that we're not just finding our voice.

01:25We've found our voice.

01:27And they've seen nothing yet.

01:30You know what?

01:32You might have read this part of my damn story,

01:36but you've never flipped the damn page.

01:39I'll tell you what, I'm proud to be here today.

01:41That mad dog, he's there, you know, on the rise.

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