With the help of Rick, and with his father taking a back seat and going back to work, by the end of the programme he is composing music for the company and releases a piece of his own original music, The Ruins.Įxtraordinary Teens: Young, Gifted and Broke is available to watch on Channel 4 on demand 'I'm trying to be a father and then I am accused of being a nightmare.'īut despite worries that Shane would end up 'working in Tesco' if he pursued a career as a composer, the teenager manages to secure a deal with music company Decca as an artist. If I didn’t get in the way and try and protect you then I wasn’t being a proper father. ' didn’t like me being protective of you. But his heart is absolutely in his son.'Ĭlayton has an understanding of the issue, and complained to Shane who is himself unsure of whether he wants his father involved: I saw him as protective but overprotective, ambitious but overambitious. 'Through his own protectiveness or exuberance, Clayton p****d a lot of people off. The music manager, who agreed to take Shane back on as a client in the documentary, advised the teenager to ban him from interfering at meetings and step out on his own. She would break some of my favourite toys.'Īfter the kind donations from a family friend named Clive - which has totalled an excess of £25,000 over the last three years - came to an end, Shane decided to go back to his former manager Rick Blaskey in a bid to secure a lucrative record deal.īut Shane says it's his father Clayton, who took on the role as his son's manager in the interim, that is unknowingly jeopardising his son's future and has been branded 'overprotective' by Rick.Īs his father takes a back seat, Shane works with his manager to secure a deal with a record label as an artist and composer 'Anything she did was just to keep me alive another day, she wasn’t afraid to take her anger out on me and my possessions. 'I think I did feel separate from my mother definitely because she had a very cold relationship with me. I just remember her vaguely like my sister Chanel,' he added. 'I am quite glad that I can’t recall her. 'I don’t know what her face looks like and I don’t want to anymore.' 'I don’t want to have a conversation like that in real life, because I would say something offensive and I wouldn’t be able to unsay it. He added of his troubled mother: 'I want to forgive my mother not because she is innocent but because I want to make peace with people. Now 18, Shane's journey to success is followed in Channel 4's Extraordinary Teens, where he enlists the help of his former music manager to stage a comeback

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