KK Lewis took to the Electric Picnic stage almost seven years to the day she received her “doomsday” Leaving Cert results.
The singer-songwriter missed out on her first choice college course and decided to defer her third choice – Children’s Nursing at Trinity College Dublin – for a year.
“I thought, ‘Okay. Trinity. I know that’s a very good college’. But I just knew in my heart it wasn’t what I wanted to do,” she told RTÉ News.
During that year, the then 19-year-old discovered her love for music and poetry.
She watched YouTube videos to learn the guitar and saved her wages as a waitress to buy an amp to busk on Grafton Street.
She then decided to enrol in a music course.
Now playing two stages at this year’s Electric Picnic, she hopes that students who are disappointed by their results never give up on their dreams.