I still marvel at
Trent Reznor’s childhood.
At Mercer Area Junior/Senior High School, he learned to play the tenor saxophone and tuba, and was a member of both the jazz band and marching band. The school's former band director remembered him as "very upbeat and friendly".[16] He became involved in theater while in high school, being awarded the "Best in Drama" accolade by his classmates for his roles as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man.
In some ways, it reminds me of Ice Cube’s. O’Shea Jackson did live in Compton, but he came from a two-parent high school where he did well, then he got a degree in architectural drafting.