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After discovering three chords and the ‘truth’ in his final year at university, Cheynne dropped the security blanket of his corporate marketing career to his parents’ dismay, pursuing something far more meaningful at the time…the love of music and the dream of fame and glory. With no previous musical training he started a naïve journey of creative self-discovery and to his surprise, three years later negotiated and secured a worldwide song-writing deal with Warner Chappell, as well as two live performances on national television and national radio airplay on Triple J and Triple M. Drum media called the rock album he penned with his band Wingspan in 2000 as: ‘ambitious orchestral rock with rare song-writing genius’. A star was rising. Or was it? Record deal scams, band breakups, management breakdowns and financial desolation had Cheynne running for the rolling green foothills of Byron Bay where he resettled on a farm in the tiny Possum Creek village near Bangalow. Inspired by his 12