Wow, I'm sorry you went through that. I can respect their beliefs and whatever reasons they have but they SHOULD have cleared that there wouldn't be female vocal .. what if you were the only one that could sing and everyone else played instruments? Weird. And yeha it is discrimination but its touchy because of the religious aspects.
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