Kehli: 'I didn't have anything on my CAO form, nothing - I was putting everything into this'

Even my guidance counsellor told me to 'ditch the music'

Kehli: "I was always thinking about what I did wrong or how I could have done things differently. There’s no point." Pic: Wolf James

I grew up Ballinteer in Dublin. From an early age, I was always singing, dancing, and acting. Since I was four, I was in the Miss Ali Stage School. I remember doing The Wizard of Oz, I was one of the lollipop kids.

My parents had an old JVC camcorder. There are videos of me when we were on holiday doing karaoke. People always used to say I had such a big voice for a little body.