KK Lewis took to the Electric Picnic stage almost seven years to the day she received her “doomsday” Leaving Cert results.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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 RT\u00c9 News.<\/p>\n
During that year, the then 19-year-old discovered her love for music and poetry.<\/p>\n
She watched YouTube videos to learn the guitar and saved her wages as a waitress to buy an amp to busk on Grafton Street.<\/p>\n
She then decided to enrol in a music course.<\/p>\n
Now playing two stages at this year\u2019s Electric Picnic, she hopes that students who are disappointed by their results never give up on their dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KK Lewis took to the Electric Picnic stage almost seven years to the day she received her “doomsday”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}