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Seven-time world champion surfer STEPHANIE GILMORE Hey Arnold!

turns her downtime into jam sessions. By Jeremy Fuchs

SURFING COMPETITIONS NEED and other surfers up onstage to come ACTOR
great waves. And sometimes the best play. Most of the music is hard rock. Will Smith
waves don’t coincide with the “Surfing has always got that tagline of
tournament schedule. That can lead to that chilled-out ukulele sound,” she says.
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some downtime. So how does a surfer “But when I think of the music I grew up
GROWING UP
stay busy? Stephanie Gilmore picks up listening to, it was all punk.” Tim Tebow
her guitar and plays. In addition to playing, Gilmore, who
Gilmore, a 31-year-old from
Australia who won her EMOJI
record-tying seventh world
title last November, has been
playing guitar for more than
20 years, around the same
amount of time she’s been MUSICAL ARTIST
surfing. “When I think of it Future
like that, actually, I should
be way better than I am,”
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she says with a laugh. “My Gilmore is attempting to
Math
dad played a little bit and I just picked it qualify for the 2020 Olympics, which
up and absolutely loved it.” will be the first Games to feature
On tour, Gilmore will get with a group surfing. She’d love a gold medal, but AUTHOR
of fellow surfers and friends and jam. Or she’s also got another award on her Dr. Seuss
sometimes, if there’s a concert at the mind: “A Grammy for sure!” she says.
Interview by Kid Reporter Michael Nichols
competition, the band will bring Gilmore “That would be so sick.”

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