The year I graduated high school and started college! Total change of peer group, so there was a bit of a change in my music listening. My HS mates and I listened to U2, Metallica, Guns and Roses, the ol' grunge bands, Irish folk music, Prodigy, Magnus Uggla. College introduced me to jazz, traditional Swedish choir music, Robert Broberg, Povel Ramel, stuff like that.
1996 was the first time I sung choral music. In Sweden and Finland it's common to sing at dinners in college and at other times as well. I got into a crowd that took the singing very seriously. We usually only had men's choir arrangements (stupid old tradition from when engineering students were almost 100% men), so I sung First Tenor. On the rare occasions we did proper mixed arrangements, they tossed me into the Soprano section to fill it out. Yes, by semi-drunk college students' standards, Pip is a soprano.
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