When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
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Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.
I've sung background for a couple of bands.
My background was in performing originally.
I do have musical background; I sing.
I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.
Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.
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