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I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

— Matisyahu

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

— Anthony Edwards

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

— Chingy

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

— Erik Hassle

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

— Jessie Mueller

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

— Helen Reddy

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

— Morrissey

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

— Charles Kelley

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

— Alicia Vikander

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

— Sky Ferreira