1. Thank you very much for your time! Before we introduce your new release to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to zip on while they listen to your new music?
Jack and Coke, bit of a buzz, and hopefully gets you up and hopping.
2. Please give us an update about – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
Currently Disco/Rap cliches of the late 70s and 80s mixed in with contemporary sounding production are an obsession for me. I am alongside my producer and co-writer, Naz Kalsey, working on the next single titled „Turn it up (Have a good time)“, which is along those lines but with more of a straight up Disco and RnB vocals. My schtick is our sound is something Nile Rogers would have created if he was a cockney. We are also writing an EP that should be released by the end of this year, and it seems we are veering away from “Steppin’s“ tongue and cheek approach; things can change, but currently, it is pure 2022 funky.
3. We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which, harmless, theory would you wish were true? (For example Dinos living inside Earth or E.T. living in a home in California)
That Elvis is still alive and did not die on the toilet… I mean how embarrassing.
4. What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
Fake Burberry while wearing Reebook Classics
5. Tell us more about your songs! Topics! Message!?
„Steppin‘ In (Out)“ I knew I wanted to make a song with a blend of sounds from the 70s/80s American goof rap to a chorus that would be deemed Pop sounding. The track is by Sugar Hill Gang, and Early 80s New York Hip-hop mixed with English working-class vocal imagery. Lyrically it might come across that I am mocking the unemployed, but it’s far from the truth. It’s more of a subtle dig at society’s need for judgement at people who don’t work or dare to fight for a dream that they believe in that initially seems unreachable, and if this means not being employed for a time, so be it. It can mean and perceive differently, but overall the song from my outlook is a celebration of freedom and telling people out there that ain’t got there s*** together yet; it’s ok. If you take the track too literally, you will find ways of being upset!
6. Beside music, do you have any special talents?
I must be the only guy in England with no party tricks. I am pretty good at Ping Pong. Bring the table, and we will have it out!
7. Name 5 things we all should know about you as an artist?!
1st. Cheeky
2nd. Contradictory
3rd. Observant
4th. Fast Paced
5th. Not a rapper.
8. How did you learn to sing/ to write/ to play??
By listening and trying to emulate. I remember getting my first CD (Yeah, I’m old) on a trip to Pontins (In the UK, it’s like a working-class Holiday Park), and it was the Jackson 5. I remember just becoming obsessed with the songwriting and melodies of their old Motown era and then later Funk stuff and trying to emulate MJ’s voice which we all know is super high. I still think that’s where I developed my falsetto, as my speaking voice is relatively low but trying to emulate the kid vocal.
I am not an expert musician and play basic bass and a bit of keyboard, but I mostly write basic ideas and concepts and give it to my writing partner Naz Kalsey to turn into a song. My brain whizzes with loads of ideas at times, and he cannot keep up as I have a lot of musical ideas that I blurt out, and most don’t work or make sense. He is very patient. Lyrically my awakening was when I listened to UKG and the emerging grime scene of the early 2000s. I was still in Primary School, but I remember hearing The Streets (Original Pirate Material) for the first time and bursting out laughing at the realism in the lyrics and delivery.
Being from Romford (Just outside of East London), you were exposed to this sound early back in the days of the Walkmen Phones and Bluetooth as it was nearby. My heart, musically, will always be in RnB.
9. A question you’d like to answer, but never been asked in an interview before?! + Answer pls
When did you go bald? – 21…. depressing aint it.
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