So maybe I haven’t learned to sing, actually. I took some lessons here and there, which amounted to paying $40-150 a week to be told that I was doing it all wrong. Q: How did you learn to sing?Ī: In the shower and in school choirs when I was younger, but mostly from playing gigs-that was when I finally got the hang of using my voice as an instrument. Q: Did you study at a conservatory?Ī: No, just one-on-one piano lessons until I was seventeen. Q: How long have you been playing piano?Ī: Since I was five. Whatever gets you to that place, that’s what I’m going for. Q: How would you classify your music?Ī: Most of the time I say “chamber folk” or “indie pop” or mumble something like “I grew up playing classical piano and lately I’ve been doing a lot of vocal looping.” I’d like the experience of my music to be like a good dinner party, comfort food with a few experiments thrown in, where conversation stretches ’til 2 in the morning and books get pulled off the shelf to take home. Then I try to steal from them without imitating. I hear them, I’m astounded by them, I think daily about quitting music because I’ll never be able to do it as well as they do. These days I’m influenced by whoever intimidates me. Later on, pianist-songwriters: Elton John, Billy Joel, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple. That’s what I started with and it’ll never leave me. A: My parents’ record collection: Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Mozart and Beethoven and Dvořák, 60s Mandarin pop.
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