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Matt Griffiths, chief executive, Youth Music: How I Got Here

2 mins read Leadership
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Channeling a love of music in academia

Music has been a constant in my life. Back in the mid-80s in Cardiff doing my A-levels, I was in various bands playing bars and clubs in the city and in the South Wales valleys. Mum and Dad took me out to lunch as they could tell I was thinking of keeping on doing this rather than going to university. They didn't tell me what to do, but they did set out the options. I took their wise advice and started a performing arts degree specialising in music at Leicester Polytechnic in 1986.

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