 He attended St Wulstan's and St Edmund's School and Cardinal Allen Catholic High School in Fleetwood.His earliest musical memories were of listening to his father's Richard Tauber records and at the age of 11 he discovered Puccini's "La Bohème" for the first time.Boe's first public performance, aged 14, was at Fleetwood's Marine Hall in a "Songs from the Shows" presentation organised by inspirational local singing teacher Lottie Dawson.