Until I was about 9, I sang very quietly. > > > >

The short pause was for those who know me to stop ROTFLTheirAO, and to get back in their chairs. Anyway, I would sing so quietly that I was practically inaudible. Then one day, a teacher who was particularly sarcastic in manner accused me of not making a noise, but just mouthing the words. She said something on the lines of 'you make more noise in the playground', so I just took a deep breath and opened up to yell it out, and to our everlasting surprise (and, incidentally, right in her ear), out came this amazing note, in pitch and louder than the rest of the class put together. The rest, as TWKM will testify, is history.

LTS, who hasn't been quiet since!!