A FORMER Colchester Sixth Form College student who landed a football scholarship in the United States has swapped the pitch for the studio as he chases fresh dreams of becoming a music artist.
Kris Kanapathy was living the American dream when he flew out to the US in July 2019 to begin a two-year stint at the HawkEye Redtails, before transferring to a four-year university academy base.
But the Covid-19 pandemic soon wreaked havoc with the 20-year-old’s dream of becoming a professional footballer.
Having played for the first year, the talented attacker was transferred to another school in Texas before receiving the heartbreaking news in summer 2020 the school would be cancelling all sports for the season.
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He was offered another scholarship in St Louis, Missouri, and despite being “disappointed” he agreed to head there to continue studying, but the season was characterised by further Covid disruption.
Regardless, by then Kris, who grew up in Colchester, had become passionate about recording music after experimenting in a studio while bored during lockdown.
He has now released a single entitled Ain’t Blind under his new alias as HeartbreakKris which has already racked up more than 25,000 hits on YouTube.
“Music has always been a big part of me growing up,” said Kris. “I can remember my dad playing artists such as Akon, Usher and Michael Jackson so I think this all taught me melody.”
Now based in Miami, Kris has had complications transferring his classes and so finds himself not playing football for a college.
It means he can focus on his dream of becoming a renowned musician, after shooting the visuals for Ain’t Blind in London.
He added: “I trained with United Premier Soccer League club Hialeah City FC and was enjoying it, however was having some issues with my hip flexor.
“I told them I’m just going to rest it for a while and maybe in a few months I’ll come back.
“I would say I’m just not enjoying like I used to, Covid really messed up some opportunities.
“I’ll always love playing but I just think I prefer doing music now, that’s how I’d say it.”
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