Practice makes perfect for City of Orange Eisteddfod performer Xavier

By Ashlea Pritchard
Updated August 5 2015 - 7:13am, first published 3:00am
STAGE PRESENCE: Xavier Haynes. Photo: PHIL BLATCH 0804pbeisteddfod3
STAGE PRESENCE: Xavier Haynes. Photo: PHIL BLATCH 0804pbeisteddfod3

AFTER being born with a cleft palate, Bathurst’s Xavier Haynes used perfecting his on-stage speech performances as a way to recover after an operation to repair the disorder that affected the way he talked. 

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