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Joshua Paparo grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia, in a house where artists like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, and Neil Young received high rotation on the stereo. He learnt the piano as a very young child and discovered the guitar around the age of ten. Early teenage years were spent listening to hard rock acts like Kiss, Guns ‘n Roses, and Soundgarden and emulating them on his black Les Paul guitar. He spent his life from 15 to 30 following dreams and playing original, riff-based, rock music in various bands from Perth, Sydney, and London. As well as his electric “black beauty” he always kept a beat up old acoustic with him on his journey allowing strumming of the songs of his folk rock and country heroes during quieter moments. After a period away from the musuc industry it was the songs of these great acoustic writers which continuted to inspire Joshua on his path of creating music in one of it’s more simple forms: an acoustic guitar, a voice, and a story. His