A job that changed me: At 14 I was a basketball musician. If someone missed a shot, I'd drop in a du-ba-dum'

"One of his visions was to upgrade the game experience make it feel bigger, more like an NBA broadcast. Part of that meant adding music. In what I can now recognise as both practical thinking and classic family logic, he turned to me. The outlier was drafted in. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads In many ways, this was a family operation, so I never officially applied for the role."

Music began in infancy, with opera arias calming crying and supporting sleep. By age six, classical guitar and music theory training started at a local conservatory in Athens. During the teens, band practice focused on precision through hours of rehearsal, covering artists such as Avril Lavigne and Muse. Sport barely interested the narrator, making them an outlier in a family where basketball and soccer were central. Olympiakos was nearby, and the brother played basketball from a young age. The father later joined the team’s management committee and aimed to make games feel bigger, like an NBA broadcast, including adding music. Around age 14, the narrator became the team’s unofficial basketball musician.

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