In the stark intimacy of a 2022 acoustic recording session, a then-15-year-old named John Foster sat alone with a borrowed microphone, a scuffed guitar, and a feeling he didn’t yet have language for. What emerged was not polish, confidence, or bravado—but fear. And that fear would quietly change everything.
The song was titled “Someone to Sing to.” It was an original ballad written by a teenager who had barely been playing guitar for a […]