User:Traxxx45/sandbox

Summary
Zeke Vearing is a professional musician and retired skater who has had many renowned achievements in his short life. Zeke derives from a Fijian, Australian and Serbian heritage and is related to many notable musicians, such as Lesley McGrath, internationally recognized jazz saxophone player.

Early Life
Zeke was born in Brisbane, Australia and ended up travelling a lot when younger having lived in many different places by the age of 4. Zeke had also started to learn to skate by approximately 4 years old and started entering local competitions by the age of 7. Eventually Zeke started travelling around Australia for skating in various vert skating competitions around Australia but was forced to stop after a life altering injury in 2013 after a competition in Bondi. In his vert skating career, Zeke experienced 11 concussions, 6 wrist fractures, temporary spinal damage and a fracture to the pelvis. Fortunately for him, Zeke also seemed to have a passion and natural talent for music and was gifted a guitar at an early age and used this spare time he now had to play to his full capability.

Early Teenage Years
Zeke has described his time at his first highschool as "not the best". According to some people Zeke had been bullied a lot and had a lot of trouble dealing with some new health problems that had suddenly surfaced, some which will remain permanent. With this trouble though him and his best friend Jack O'Shea formed the band "Indie Division" which wouldn't prove to last long. Jack stopped turning up to rehearsals and was replaced with budding musician Matthew Key. They recorded one song together and disbanded due to schooling differences. The Indie Division project of Zeke's would eventually turn into Sour Straps which is a band he currently plays in as lead vocalist and guitarist.

Later Teenage Years
Zeke eventually changed schools in 2017 and focused on his various music projects and attempted to try skateboarding again, but instead of the vert ramps he took to the streets. This unfortunately put him in hospital again after a major skating accident which involved him fracturing his skull for the fourth time.