WINNER

RYAN MCPARTLANE

RAW Arts Performing Arts Scholarship Music

Hi my name is Ryan McPartlane. I am a 14 year old singer/songwriter and I have been playing, performing and writing music for my entire life. I started music classes when I was 6 months old as my parents were singing teachers for children. Then finally when I was 10, Dad taught me how to play guitar. It started off with me playing small chords and my fingers not even being able to reach the chords properly to it being second nature to me to pick up a guitar and play something.

It was only when I started attending high school and joined the ACA at school that my performance and singing levels grew to a new level. I went from in Grade 6 performing at tiny little school events to at the end of year 7 playing in front of a packed out Ulumbarra Theatre for our ACA end of year showcase. Joining ACA has opened up so many incredible opportunities that I wouldn’t have even dreamed about when I was just a kid singing and playing songs in my room.

Earlier this year in February, I released my second single ‘Moving On’. I wrote the song in around October last year in my room at around 2am or so. The song lyrics suddenly flowed into my head as I was sitting there and in all it took me around 20 minutes to write the song. Of course, I changed around some things after but the hard part was done. I wrote the song about what heartbreak feels like when someone that you love moves on in life and you don’t know what to do.

A little while after writing the song, I finally built up the courage to record it in the studio. After lots of going over every aspect of the song and all of the fine details, Dad and I decided it was ready to be released and chose to release it on the 26th of February, exactly 1 year and 1 month after my first single ‘Fall’ was released. Dad and I are both very proud of how the song has finished up and how it sounds.

In April, I released the music video for ‘Moving On’ onto YouTube. This music video was edited and produced by my two friends, Jin Turpie and Max McKellar, and me. The video includes dancing by Jordan Thompsen and acting by Eva Scott.

Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2FjFSaAdxBc&ab_ channel=RyanMcPartlane