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FUN — Stepping Into 40 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll
In September 2024, I joined FUN as their rhythm guitarist — a band that has been rocking the hits of the 60s for over 40 years. No pressure, right? A Different World I’ll be honest: when I first started, this wasn’t exactly my comfort zone. My musical background was rooted in different genres, and suddenly
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Trophy — How a Choir Friendship Turned Into a Gigging Duo
Sometimes a band name writes itself. Take the first few letters of Tobi and Raphael, mash them together, and you get Trophy. Creative? Maybe not. Memorable? Definitely. How It Started Tobi and I first met in my father’s choir, where we spent our time singing gospel and whatever else was thrown at us. Somewhere between
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Financer — Why I Built My Own Finance Tracker (And Rebuilt It. Twice. Okay, Three Times.)
Back in 2018, I had a simple problem: I wanted to track my income and expenses without handing my financial data over to some big tech company. Sounds reasonable, right? Every finance app I found either required a subscription, lived in someone else’s cloud, or wanted access to my bank account. No thanks. So I