Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: Sargent was brought up in Stamford , Lincolnshire , where he joined the choir at Peterborough Cathedral , studied the organ and won a scholarship to Stamford School .
Simplified: His father was a coal merchant at Stamford , Lincolnshire , who also played the organ . Sargent grew up in Stamford and became involved in a lot of amateur music making .