London-born Shirley J Thompson was one of 12 composers personally handpicked to compose music for the coronation. Check out her inspiring story.
Thompson's parents had both moved to East Ham in east London from Jamaica as part of the Windrush generation in the late 1940s, her father becoming a forklift driver and her mother a district nurse.
"Nobody ever said anything, but I would bang away and the sounds were just magical. I would just touch this thing and a sound would come so I was absolutely entranced."She was asked to write the anthem for the Women's 2022 Euros with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra "My mother went down to the director of education - I had no idea she was doing all that because by that time I had settled in my lot of probably ending up in a factory somewhere."
"I can't help myself, I'm driven, as a historian, to mark particular watershed moments in life, so for me as an artist I just can't let these watershed moments go. I kind of mark these moments for myself and if others are interested that's great," she says.For Thompson, it is both the historic nature of the Coronation and the religious basis of the service that have inspired her writing for the King.
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