Don’t recall what his final mark was but the marking system bugs me, flawed, suggests if you fail you aren’t someone who could be successful or if you get a high mark you should be but that isn’t reality. Better to just be pass/ fail or even just drop marking altogether. Pourquoi pas?  You sign up to take the course, that’s good enough. After that school year, I invited him to come sing on a record I was producing, he came and was like a secret weapon.  Adding improvised parts, adding counterpoint I never asked for, riffing off the lyrics. Couldn’t ask for more.  Then disappeared. Wrote him three times during the year to say hello and remind him anytime I would help record or assist whatever he wanted, he did previously say he wanted that. He only wrote me back once acknowledging my position and offer, it was over a year ago. Another weird thing about that guy, seriously, he liked Elton John. He performed I’m Still Standing when they had to do a cover. Broke my heart but I tried to keep my mind on the bigger picture, his talent.