It is a grind for sure, but each set makes it worth it once you are there with the audience, but as much as I love it, if somebody put a gun to my head and said choose between that or waking up whenever you want and going to a studio on your own time and doing whatever you want with no pressure, I would pick the studio 10 times out of 10 hahaha. Lots of strain on the voice and I’m not really a good singer, so I am always f*cking my voice up haha, sometimes not finding time to get a meal in your stomach, playing a show, and not getting back to your spot until 1 am and you have a 7-8 am rollout time to the next city where you sit in a car for six hours. Outside of that awesome hour of live shows, I would not trade for the world a lot of other shit that goes into just making that one show happen. Shows are cool and I’m extremely grateful to have the privilege to die on this earth having experienced people sing my lyrics.
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J: I prefer studio over live performance any day of the week. It makes music fun.ĭS: Do you prefer a studio to live performance and why? I just chased something that excited me in my room that day and I still do that to this day with no expectations. I spent a year trying to explain it or figure it out or pinpoint what the root was or how that happened or what inspired that so I could do it again hahaha. Something just naturally came out in a room that day and I did a thing. J: I do not think anything really inspired me. ABBA “slaps” too.ĭS: What inspired you to write “Honeypie”?
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But, If I must name a few off the top of my dome though I really like MGMT, Beck, the White Stripes, the Killers, Mac Miller, Luthe r Vandross. J: I don’t think I could ever pick one or put together a definitive list ever. Music is always changing!ĭS: What artist do you consider your biggest influence? I think by now though going into 2022, I have a better compass of where I’m going and what I’m doing but still learning every day.
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I didn’t pay my dues I just got a Disney fast pass from nobody to somebody with streams and I don’t think I knew how to maintain that expectation because I was still learning how to be a better songwriter and producer. I am definitely in a better place than I was in 2019, I didn’t know wtf I was doing when I signed. JAWNY: Like I think so but probably also no hahaha. Let’s get to know a little bit more about JAWNY.ĭustin Sclafani: Did you fully get your sea legs back after the rollercoaster of going from an unknown artist to being signed to one of the biggest labels out there today? That is the case with the amazing artist I had the opportunity to sit down with before his show tonight at the Foundry. There will always be new ways for industry people to discover the next big thing. Or even the gas station encounter that gave us the great Toni Braxton leading to the YouTube discovery turned bidding war that gave us Justin Bieber. Whether we are talking about the old days documenting Americana for the national libraries that brought us Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, or the buzz of the Sunset Strip in LA that brought us the Doors and Motley Crue. It is a collection of some of his songs performed by various artists, including Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige, Usher, Beyoncé, Donna Summer, Alicia Keys, Elton John, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin and more.As music continues to evolve and grow so do the outlets, we used to listen to it and so does the way in which artists are discovered. In September 2005 the album So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross was released. Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, sung at his funeral. Two years earlier he had suffered a severe stroke at his home in New York, and was in a coma for two months. Vandross died on 1 July 2005 from a heart attack, at the age of just 54.
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He won his second the following year, when “Power of Love/Love Power” also took home the award for “Best R&B Song”.īy the end of his career he had amassed eight, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Super Bowl half-time show in 1997 and eight Billboard top 10 albums. Vandross won his first Grammy award for “Best Male R&B Vocal Performance” in 1991.
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Known by many as the “Velvet Voice”, some of his other hit singles include “Here and Now”, “Any Love”, “Power of Love/Love Power”, “I Can Make it Better” and “For You to Love”.