There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I'd written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school. Freya Ridings More Quotes by Freya Ridings More Quotes From Freya Ridings Me and my mom were just watching the charts like, 'Why isn't it stopping?' And now I've got a platinum disc in my bedroom. Freya Ridings watching me bedroom mom At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing. Freya Ridings dyslexic reading writing school At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do. Freya Ridings open show moments age All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born. Freya Ridings you born experience lost I was in a choir at school and we were part of the BBC Proms back in around 2002. Freya Ridings were back choir school