SALIO Singer on the Rise... Who are your inspirations? (as in other artists) Singing wise, certainly Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin - they are my girls but musically anything and anyone from the techno movements of Luke Slater to the atmospheres of the KLF and everything in-between.
What do you think about when your preforming? Nothing. I am in the moment. I am there on the stage and with the crowd sharing. It is that moment and that moment only which exists to us so it is very much a matter of here and now, and nothing out with that.
How did you get started? I wrote my first song ‘Varskvlavebi’ - ‘Stars’ in English - when I was nine although myself and my younger sister used to play journalist interviewing singer much earlier but I would always be the singer and force Elene to be the journalist….sorry, Elene. I used to try and sell ‘tickets’ for my performance and sell them to my neighbours who were kind enough to entertain the seven-year-old before them so I guess it started way back then. Who are your favorite bands/singers? Well, as I said, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, James Brown obviously…. more currently, Massive Attack, Thom Yorke….the usual greats. I have been listening to a woman called Poemme a lot recently, she has a most sublime modern classical output in the form of ‘Moments in Golden Light’, it truly is a blanket to be wrapped in.
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