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Siva's Early Life
       Siva Kaneswaran
Siva Kaneswaran was born on the 16th of November 1988. He comes from a big family of eight children. He has five brothers and two sisters. He has an identical twin brother named Kumar. Hazel and Gayle are his sisters names.                 
        Siva may not look Irish but he actually is. You see his dad was born in Singapore and his mom was born in Ireland. His parents met six times over six weeks for a whole week each time and at the end of those six weeks his dad proposed to his mom. They lived in Singapore for a few months but his mom was ginger and freckly so she just couldn't stand the heat. Eventually they came back to Ireland and that's where Siva was born.
     
        His dad passed away when Siva was only five years old so his mothers had to raise her big family on her own. Siva grew up in Blanchardstown County Dublin. He went to primary school there and sadly he and his family were sometimes bullied because in those days it was not often people saw people from other countries living in Ireland.  


When Siva did modelling.
     Siva and his brother Kumar had been doing some work in the modelling industry for a few years when he decided to go to London. Gayle, his older sister is a successful model in Ireland so she was able to get some jobs for them. They thought modelling was a good job because all you really had to do was look good and obviously for Siva that was no problem whatsoever.
        Trevor his brother was living in England at the time so Kumar and Siva decided to go over to him because afterall they had enough money and there would probably be more modelling agencies in London than in Dublin. He went over and lived with his brother for a while and got lots of modelling jobs but he realised that his heart just wasn't really into it.
Music in the Family.
   Music had always been a big part of life in the Kaneswaran family. The family didn't have a record player at the start so When Siva was little his dad would bring him down to his neighbours house and they would sit for hours listening to music. A few of his brothers and sisters are singers. His brother david is in a band named Zoo and his sister Gayle sang in the Irish T.V show "Popstars" and she also later on judged on it.  
                                             
                                              
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The Audition.
When Siva was in London with his brothers Kumar and Trevor, Trevor noticed an audition for male vocalists wanted for a band. He, Kumar and Siva had been doing some singing at that time so they all decided to go along for the audition. Obviously neither Kumar or Trevor got the part but Siva did and The Wanted wouldn't be the same without him.