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Sam Harcourt
I'm Sam and i'm the lead singer of The Roonies. I found my interest for music in year 8 when I was messing around in my music lesson and my teacher gave me the choice of detention or tidying the music cupboard, I spent the hour trying out all the instruments, did no tidying and got detention anyway.
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I wrote my first song in year 9, I think it was called 'Clouds' and it was awful. I didn't tell anyone at first because I thought my friends would take the mick. I was right, I played the song to a few of them, they laughed and told me how horrific it was, but then they helped and have inspired me and been so supportive ever since.
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Tyler Barnard
Hi I'm Tyler and I play drums for the Roonies. I've been expressing myself through music for a long time, I was a gymnast and one of my favourite parts was choreographing my routines. Listening to the music I'd chosen and deciding how I wanted to perform to it was great, and I knew from a young age that I could express myself and be at my best with music. Then I decided I wanted to be a singer and surprise surprise I'm tone deaf, so had to turn to drums, and I'm so glad I did.
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I've been friends with Sam and Ellie for as long as I can remember and we all just clicked, i love making music with them and I hope you love it too :)
Ellie Williams
Hey I'm Ellie and I play the piano and kind of whatever other instruments need playing for The Roonies. I would love to say I can sing but I can't so we just leave that down to Sam. Like Tyler said, the three of us have been friends for most of our lives and to be completely honest, I was one of those friends that took the mick out of Sam when he played us his first song, but it was terrible and I couldn't lie to him. In fact, I like to think that my judgement helped mold him into the artist he is today.
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And that's really how I got into creating music, listening, re-listening, giving advice and helping Sam make his first songs, with Tyler as well. Then suddenly we're a group and one of those songs that we spent an endless amount of time on became 'My Kind of Heart', our first No. 1 single, and we've just grown from there.
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