Jula’s father was an English teacher, an accordion player and a “shy singer-songwriter” completely obsessed with music, she says.
“He was always listening to something and almost every single memory I have of him somehow … has music in the background,” Jula, 24, told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
(CBC has agreed not to use Jula’s last name due to concerns about her personal information being shared online, where she has a large social media following, and her personal safety.)
He also had a massive record collection — some 10,000 vinyl albums, sprawling across genres from rock to orchestral music.
When he died in 2015, Jula, who lives in Alberta, inherited the collection. More recently, she’s started sharing an album from his collection each day on TikTok and Instagram at @soundwavesoffwax, in an effort to learn more about her dad and the music he loved so much.
But figuring out what to do with the …