Article: Song, sung blue

Shareem Amry
New Straits Times
09-21-2003
Song, sung blue
Byline: Shareem Amry
Edition: 2*
Column: Aside

I CANNOT sing. What comes out of my mouth whenever I try, sounds like a cross between a lovesick cat and Bob Dylan circa 2003.

It's true that I was in my school choir for two years, but I think they took me in to make up the numbers, while I joined after falling in love with the maroon velvet skirts they wore. I felt regal in that outfit. Of course, in the pictures, we now look like we were all wearing curtains.
To limit the damage I could do, the choir teacher buried me somewhere in the back of the soprano section. These days, with no group of angel-voiced girls to hide behind, I've long ...

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