Writing Rights: Robyn Gill (15) 'Expressing Myself Through Music'
Robyn Gill (15) is a singer song writer, and often writes songs with her friend Feargha Clear Keena. They have their own youtube channel, and last year uploaded a music video for one of their original songs 'This Summer' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWnTalOkPo
Robyn talks about how, and why, she started writing songs and how she uses music to expresses herself - to give voice to herself. She talks about the importance of that right and how everyone should have equal rights.
Accompanying Music: 'Training Wheels' by Senekah
http://www.senakah.com/
Fighting Words is a creative writing centre established by Roddy Doyle and Sean Love. http://www.fightingwords.ie/
Transcript below.
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My name is Robyn Gill and I’m 15. I really like playing guitar, writing songs and music. I write songs with my friend Feargha and we’ve always written songs together since we were little. I think it started as we were fantasising about having a band, and pretended having a band and we had names and logos and everything. We didn’t actually have any songs! So then we started writing songs and they had no music, they were just lyrics and really and lyrics. Then I started learning guitar when I was 12 or 11 so then we started putting music to them and Feargha was playing piano and they kind of started getting slightly better and more like actual songs. I think it’s a really good way of expressing yourself, through lyrics and through music. You’re kind of combining writing and combining music and I think together, it’s a really nice combination. I think the right to express yourself is a very important right. Everyone needs to express themselves through whatever way they do it, whether it’s true art or music or writing. Everyone has different ways of expressing themselves but I think it’s quite important that they should be able to express themselves. I think rights are important to everyone, children included. I think that children shouldn’t get any less rights just because they’re younger. I think everyone should have equal rights.
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