Sergey Lisin
of Early Grey
Early Grey – is a hard rock band formed by Moscow songwriter and guitar player Sergey “Grey” Lisin in 2016. In the same year band has recorded their debut album “Secrets of the Heart”, that received a lot of positive reviews around the world. In July of 2017 the band released their second full-length album “Rock for Life” and then the 3rd one “Bound For Glory” in 2019. The sound of Early Grey music is based on combination of heavy guitar riffs, powerful drums and beautiful and catchy melodies. Combining with the strong but lyrical vocals it ensures that once you hear any song of Early Grey, you will be whistling it for a very long time.
Band members used to say that all you need to know about Early Grey is that the most important member of this band is not the singer or guitar player or anybody else. The most important is a melody. Who or What inspired you to pursue a career in music? I’m probably going to be very trite to say that this was The Beatles, but it is so. After them, I became interested in other music bands - various British and American classical rock bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and many others. But it was the Beatles who were the first to really hook me. You’ve probably heard from many musicians this overused hackneyed phrase that “I saw this and realized that this is what I want to do”. Well, I can say with full confidence that this is absolutely true, this is exactly what happened to me:) How has your music evolved since you first began performing/songwriting? I started writing music quite early. I remember I wrote my first songs when I was 13 years old. Of course, it was mostly very primitive and rubbish stuff, but something worthy was already there. For example, one of the songs written in those years will be included in my next album. But I would like to believe that since then my songwriting skills have grown :) But if we talk about musical evolution and progress, it has a kind of cyclical nature for me. When you first get into something new - some new sound or a new way of composing songs and work in this direction for some time. Then you get bored of it, you switch to something new and so on in a circle. I’ve probably already gone through 5 or 6 such
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