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Luke Holdsworth spent his teenage years assuming live music simply wasn’t for him — not until his mid-20s did he attend his first concert, standing in a crowd he couldn’t fully enter. Now, as one of the UK’s most respected British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters at live events, he stands at the front of sold-out stadium shows, channeling not just lyrics but tempo, vibe, and attitude. For Holdsworth, the work is inseparable from many years with no entry point: “As a deaf person, you always have to explain, or ask for access, or have a defense ready” — and the interpreting stage is his response to that. What he offers deaf audiences isn’t a workaround but a full door into what he calls one of humanity’s most basic joys: losing yourself in a shared moment. His story is a quiet argument that access isn’t charity — it’s the difference between a person standing at the fringes of a shared experience and being enveloped in it completely.
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