Christian Sobers: A decade of music
“My life began when I picked up the guitar because that’s when I found my identity,” singer and guitarist Christian Sobers says and it has been a decade since he took up music professionally at the age of 16.
Christian began his musical journey with the teen band Breaking the Barriers as a guitarist, today he is both guitarist and singer in the band Prophetic Breed.
“When I first began playing music professionally it was for a Christian Rock Band… Also part of the band were Andrew ‘Drew Thoven’ King and my brother Jeremy Sobers,” Christian said.
The singer attended New Guyana School, from nursery into secondary, but at the time music was not part of the school’s curriculum. This is no longer the case and Christian has been instrumental in that change. He was in the Science stream, focused on a career in medicine, until an American Idol episode changed everything.
“… I can’t remember which season it was but there was a girl standing barefoot onstage and she was playing ‘I’m Yours’ by Jason Maraz. When I saw that, I said I could totally do that; that’s awesome. Literally, when it went to commercial, I remembered a guitar we had put away and I went and grabbed it… opened it, b it had no strings.”
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