Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled howshe became a percussion soloist（打击乐器独奏演员）in spite of her disability.
“Early on I decided not to allow the    of others to stop me from becoming a misician. I grew up on a farm in the northeast Scotland and began     piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion for music grew. But also began to gradually lose my   . Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the     and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never     me.”
“My     was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I   to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can     the pitch of note by the vibrations I feel through my body and through my   . My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every    that I have.
“I was    to be assessed as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of music in London. No other deaf student had     this before and some teachers     my admission. Based on my performance, I was     admitted and went on to
  with the Academy’s hignest honours.”
“After that, I established myself as the first fulltime solo percussionist. I     and arranged a lot of musical compositions since
   had been written specially for solo percussionist.”
“I have been a soloist for over ten years.   the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t    that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be    by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”
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