in singapore or not... is the same. if you don't have the passions, mentality... you wouldn't get any success anywhere.
like i say, same goes to any industries....
I'm surprised that this thread is still going! Thanks for all the replies guys. I'm not sure where I will be going in music, but I plan to focus on studying for now since I'm in poly. Once poly and NS is over, I plan to take 2years off to focus in music supposing I don't get into university.
From what I've heard, many musicians in Singapore actually have day jobs... So in a sense they're semi-professional musicians, since they don't depend on music as their sole source of income.