Graziano Di Prima grew up knowing he was different, but he didn’t let that stop him from achieving his dreams. After years of hard work and dedication, he is now a Strictly pro dancer.
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I love dancing but I had moment where
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said maybe it’s not the right the right
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direction for me it’s better than just
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give up adjust you know that’s it
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[Music]
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I come from a really small town in
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Sicily everybody knew each other all of
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my family work on the vineyards but I
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knew as a little boy it was something
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different to everyone when I was five
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years old I was home and you know I was
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watching TV I was dancing I was jumping
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on the couch and welcome show me
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she told this is weird I knew that I
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loved dancing I could do that for my
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life or work in the vineyard there was
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this guy every day every day he was
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making joke of me yeah you are dancing
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along her you’re like a girl stay one
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day I was home going out from school he
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slapped me from the back you say Oh
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Gretchen oh yeah are you going to dance
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like a lady I said to him maybe one day
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we’ll make it
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basically my dad told me we cannot
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afford any more because we need to pay
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for lessen competition transfer and for
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me was like a punch in the face I still
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remember how hard and dead feeling that
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there was in the room when they told me
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they told me that yeah I said stop I
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will not dance anymore maybe it’s not
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the right the right direction for me is
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better than just give up and just you
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know that’s it
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bust a few weeks I realized new to dance
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and I remember I went to my garage
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downstairs I just put the music on and I
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start to dance alone
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there was like no lights on was almost
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dark and I start to dance around just to
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have the feeling again and I think there
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realized that I can only be without that
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[Music]
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I started with a man she came for doing
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a lesson with me termi yeah I want to
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learn how to do how to cha-cha-cha oh
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okay
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I start with that man after one more
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half I was full of people and started
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you know to achieve some goals make some
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money and with the same Aristotle the
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lesson since there I never stopped
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teaching those people is the reason why
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I’m still dancing
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[Music]
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I received an email from sweetie I
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couldn’t believe it
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I couldn’t believe it everyone was
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crying the robot could hear my leg
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crying my mum crying was was insane I
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think was the best moment of my life
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because there I realized I made it all
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through my life I had so many bad times
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I thought maybe I’m not good enough if
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you really believe in what you do
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wherever part of the world you are if
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you want you can make
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[Applause]
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