PLATFORM Youth Culture Magazine Issue 12

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Hobart Muso Zac Henderson

Zac has been an active young musician in the Tasmanian music scene for a number of years. He started out playing his dad’s acoustic guitar and learning the basics, then went on to create his own band and develop his unique style of song writing. Tell us a bit about where your music journey started, Zac. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, because I never really thought I had a musical family but then as I got older I started to realise that everyone in my family was

either an artist or had been a musician at some point in their life. For instance, my dad plays jazz piano and guitar, but I only really found that out when I was about 19 years old! My mum also plays the trumpet and my nanna plays the piano, so yeah. I learnt how to play the guitar with my brother when I was about 12 years old. I remember little jam-bands in high school and stuff like that. I wanted to be making punk music or be a rapper or something like that. I wanted to do something that was outrageous (haha)! But we just played in average bands making

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