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The Choral Life: 16 November 2025 - Warren Vernon-Driscoll

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He has just returned from a year abroad touring in the concert series Queen: It's a Kind of Magic as Freddy Mercury and is spending some well deserved R & R time at home before heading out again next year to continue on the tour. But Warren Vernon-Driscoll took some time out from the R & R to come into the studio tot talk about life at the Drakensberg Boys Choir, Kearsney College, maintaining vocal fitness on tour, and doing that on top of living with Type 1 diabetes.
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