Music is his calling

If Ayrton's debut single is a foreshadowing of his future, it's bright lights, billboards on cards.

- Hein Kaiser

Some people have a calling to the cloth. Others, well, elsewhere. For 20-year-old Ayrton van Wyngaardt, his music has been his salvation.

He's just debuted his first single and, if it's a foreshadowing of his future it's bright lights and billboards on the cards. Even the track is called I Will Go Far.

Ayrton, how he wants to be known as, might have dropped out of school early, but his passion for music quickly became his compass in life.

For this artist, music wasn't just an escape and a never-ending pursuit, never mind when the going might have gotten tough.

"Seventh grade came, and I decided I'm done. I'm not going to go back to school again. I've got no interest for that," he said.

"Instantly after that, I discovered my love for music." He didn't have access to a professional recording setup at first, so he did what many aspiring artists do he got creative.