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Voice of the youth<br />
SAM ANDRE JACKSON<br />
Name: Sam Andre Jackson<br />
Age: 19<br />
Location: Coventry, Warwickshire<br />
Actor, Extra, Model, Dancer<br />
I was born in Barking East London where I lived<br />
with my mum and siblings before moving to the<br />
city of Coventry. At a young age, I realised that I<br />
had a natural intelligence. This realisation mostly<br />
happened at school, I enjoyed learning but I<br />
wasn’t always attentive, however, I understood<br />
things quickly and managed to get high marks<br />
in my studies with minimal revision. Despite my<br />
intelligence, I felt like I was different from other kids<br />
at school because of my race. Though I was born<br />
in the UK, I didn’t know where I would fit in and be<br />
completely accepted, as I grew older in primary<br />
school, I felt like I was starting to fit in and I was<br />
interacting more with my fellow schoolmates.<br />
When I started high school, I was one of the only<br />
black people in the entire school, at first I didn’t<br />
think I would fit in or be able to relate to them,<br />
but now I would say it Is a factor which actually<br />
helped with my confidence. I was very well known<br />
at the school, and people wanted to be my friend<br />
and learn about the culture, people approached<br />
me freely and I got a lot of attention, this led to<br />
many relationships being formed with people and<br />
my confidence continued to grow around them.<br />
Because of the situations I’ve been in, I am able to<br />
relate and understand all different types of people<br />
and cultures.<br />
I have always been a free soul and have a passion<br />
for basketball and acting, my interest in acting has<br />
always been there, but I had never actually acted<br />
on it. It was a subject that I completely enjoyed, If<br />
I heard about a school play or audition, you would<br />
find me there. I enjoyed acting so much I tried to<br />
get into it outside of school, but breaking into it<br />
always proved to be a problem.<br />
I would say I’ve experienced many things in my<br />
life and they have shaped me to be the man I am<br />
today, every experience leads to a new product,<br />
which Is why I don’t regret or wish things could<br />
have happened differently, and I thank God that<br />
I’m fortunate enough to be able to think like I do.<br />
I have been set up to have a good career and a<br />
comfortable life.<br />
I have always been a highly motivated individual<br />
and always push to achieve what I want in life, this<br />
dedication is showcased through things like my<br />
YouTube channel, I wanted to show off my talents<br />
and YouTube was the easiest way to do so. I started<br />
my channel by creating African comedy videos<br />
which received a lot of love, this motivated me to<br />
carry on.<br />
My lifelong love for music began to creep into<br />
my channel, I began listening to and reviewing<br />
different types of music which started to slowly<br />
gain an audience, the start was slow but the more<br />
videos I put up the more I was noticed, within<br />
a few weeks I was gaining thousands of views.<br />
I continued to create content and within a few<br />
months of hard work, I was gaining thousands of<br />
views per day! I continued to grow and my channel<br />
was gaining 100s of subscribers per month. The<br />
400+ videos I’ve created is just a single example<br />
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3RD EDITION | JULY 2018
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