Forest Blakk: “I found a lot of hope in words and writing and expressing myself…”

For some children, life growing up was tough. Whether those came from family issues, school, friendships or just trying to navigate through an everchanging life, those years, good or bad, can shape your life and who you grow to become. For singer-songwriter, Forest Blakk, life dealt him a rough hand almost from day one. Working out who he was against a backdrop of growing up homeless, moving around the world and surviving a family life amongst gang members, the troubled teenager discovered music, and since joining his first band in school, has forged forward to make sure he never returns to a life that, quite honestly, could have finished him off. In our latest Cover Story, V13 sat down with Forest Blakk to talk about his life story from his torrid childhood, the importance of his Grandmot...

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