People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
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I made a living out of singing Mexican music.
I was reared on folk music.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
I was raised around music.
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
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