About Me

When I first started this Blog in April 2019, I gave a brief outline of who I am and what I do. However, I thought I should give the blog a little face lift and add more “stuff”.

First, I will only blog when I have something I want to blog about. I will not blog something just to blog. I believe that’s the quickest way of getting people to switch off.

So, who am I? Well my name is Phil Sibbald, I am an openly gay guy who loves life, my friends and my family. I am a committed Christian, an absolute Music Nut (preferably classical music and opera) and a lover of jewellery. My love of “bling” is an entire blog on it’s own 🙂

I was born in 1975, raised and educated in Ashford, Kent. Something I am actually proud to say. My love of music started very early. I apparently asked for piano lessons at the age of 3. This was a total shock to my parents and was told to “go and play with my Star Wars toys”….(Oh yes, I forgot to say am also a Star Wars and Star Trek Fan too). I asked again at 5 years of age for the piano. At this point, my Mum looked into it but we had to have a piano at home for me to practice. As we didn’t have a piano at that point, I was given a recorder. When I started playing TV adverts back to them on the recorder, my parents had a rethink and I started piano lessons on 23rd January 1983, aged 7.

I then started Singing/Voice training in 1991 when my love of Opera started and I found Dame Joan Sutherland….the best soprano of the 20th century in my opinion and still love her voice to this day and she remains a constant inspiration to me. While I will always love the voice of Joan Sutherland, over the last few years, I have discovered Sondra Radvanovsky…the best soprano of the 21st century.

Through music, I found my faith which is very strong, and through my faith I was Director of Music at St Michael and All Angels, Kingsnorth and now at St Mary’s Kennington.

So there you go, that’s a brief potted history of me (very brief) but if you want to know more, click the “Contact Page” at the top of this blog page and ask your question.

As I always say at the end of my blog entires “Thanks for reading”