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Jane Eaglen

English soprano

Oct 5, 2026

21:36
First of all, how would you articulate that conversation? Then we'll get into whether it has merit.
21:41
It's an interesting one and kind of difficult and certainly from my point of view there's a big difference between singers and instrumentalists.
21:48
When I first started as a musician I suppose when I was like five years old as a pianist I then thought I wanted to be a pianist and I got to sort of 17 or so and it took literally four hours to go through just the scales that you had to do for that kind of thing and I absolutely hated it and couldn't bring myself to do it.
22:06
I wasn't good enough either.
22:07
I then had my first voice lesson when my teacher in high school was like, so don't practice more than 10 minutes a day.
22:14
And I went, oh, I'll do this instead.
22:17
Because she said, when you're young, 17, 18, your muscles aren't ready to do anymore.

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29:23
Is that something you recognized where the classical arts met popular culture and television?

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