Life, Faith and Music By Gavin M. Cox.
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| Where shall we start? I suppose the best place to start is at the beginning! Well I was born on December 2nd 1969, so now you know how old I am! I am the second child born to my parents, my older sister was born seven years earlier in Worcester where my entire family and relatives come from. Mum and dad made a new home in Exeter, Devon and a couple of years later I arrived on the scene. |
Me looking delighted with all that's going on in my world! |
Me as a toddler |
Me, about 10 yrs old |
A teenager, here engrossed in geology, a real passion then |
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| I was raised as a Christian in a local Pentecostal church, where I was dedicated as a child. I remember at the age of six making a public decision to follow Christ. Church and faith was and still is of intrinsic value and importance to me, a foundation of infinite worth and significance in an uncertain world of change, violence and moral relativism. |
| I remember having an early disposition towards music. My parents owned an old 'Justin Brown London' upright piano in the front room, which I used to love playing on, just banging about making a 'joyful noise'. I soon learned that the notes on the left were low and the notes on the right were high, and that today is the sum total of my musical knowledge! (just kidding, well nearly!). |
| Church music and regular singing was of major influence growing up and Wesley's hymns still stir me with their catchy and often majestic tunes, deep theological themes and clever lyrical constructions. A more modern 'chorus' type of singing was becoming the vogue, which I really enjoyed with their happy-clappy rhythms and memorable words. |
| I soon started composing my own tunes on the old 'Justin Brown' , which I can still remember, and then experimenting with words, rhyming schemes, verses and choruses. I still have one of my first songs written when I was fourteen, a love song of five verses and a chorus, much like a church hymn. |
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