Grade: 12

Family: Bianca Felix (sister), Hugo Felix (father), Marta Felix (mother)

Favorite subject: Music. The amount of freedom you can have when it comes to music is vast. The interpretation, the people skills, the auditory skills. All of it is transferable to everyday life.

Activities: Kickboxing. Going to the gym with my Gym Bro (Phoenix King). Making music.

Next steps: Go to music school and gain connections.

Career goals: Become an active musician in the area, and get picked up by a touring musician. Gain enough affluence and experience to start a project with musicians that could help me foresee my ideas.

Heroes: Wes Montgomery, Charles Christian, Julian Lage, Grant Green, George Benson, Misha Mansoor, John Browne, Oily Steele, Joshua Travis, Ethan McCann, my father, my mother, David Goggins

Hobbies: Lifting, kickboxing, playing games with friends, playing extracurricular music with friends, cardio

Volunteer/community work: Performing with my jazz quartet at nursing homes, mall festivals and city festivals

Likes: Dogs, physics, music composition, music production, lifting, kickboxing, Batman, (bands) Periphery, Monuments, Thornhill, The Note Bb

Dislikes: Spiderman, mobile games, horror, being scared, Marvel Comics and its movies

Greatest accomplishment (so far): Starting a jazz quartet and playing out and meeting local professional musicians

Advice for peers: Keep your health in check, mentally and physically. Allow yourself to rest when needed; remember life should be purposeful. Have the humility to know you can be replaced but the confidence to know that it will be a downgrade.

Julia Swan coordinates student profiles for the Bethlehem Press.