There's a moment in every artist's life when he knows that music is not only his path, but his destiny. Even though Justin Hines grew up singing in church at his grandmother's behest, his realization came at the most unlikely of places— at a Toronto Raptors' basketball game in his hometown 15 years ago.

A then-14-year old Hines won a vocal competition to sing the National Anthem— both the Canadian and American— at the game and his world opened up before him. "In that moment, it all seemed possible," he recalls. "The performance eliminated any stage fright." Thrown in the deep end, Hines, who has performed professionally ever since, realized he could not only survive, but thrive.

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