These articles are originally posted at eurOut.com, a site for European lesbian news in entertainment and politics. Since I am the author of these articles I am allowed to post them here as well as part of my ‘In The Spotlight’ series.
Since British singer/songwriter Katie Marie was six years old she´s had a passion, she would call it an obsession, for music. She began playing the piano and got into songwriting. “I just loved having the creating space to work with.”
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The piano wouldn’t be the only instrument she would play. When she was 13 year old, she started learning to play the guitar, which would accompany Katie on her first appearances when she was 16 years old. A year later Katie decided she also wanted to play the bass and drums and she taught herself. When she was 18 years old, Katie worked as a professional artist with several bands and played four to five nights a week, which she says on her website, “…were great fun to do.”
She started promoting her own music about seven years ago, and she got more highlights from that. She’s been featured in many interviews in local and mainstream radio and television performances, including Live Acoustic Concerts on BBC Radio Devonian and Gemini FM. In addition to that, Katie got interviewed by well known magazines such as Maverick.
These articles are originally posted at eurOut.com, a site for European lesbian news in entertainment and politics. Since I am the author of these articles I am allowed to post them here as well as part of my ‘In The Spotlight’ series.
When I was asked to write a portrait about the new wave band The Sounds, the first thing that came to mind was thinking that it was a little pretentious calling themselves The Sounds. That was before I gave their songs a listen, and now I can honestly say they have every right to call themselves The Sounds.
Consisting of Maja Ivarsson, Felix Rodriguez, Johan Bengtsson, Jesper Anderberg and Frederik Nilsson, the band hails from Sweden and was founded in the city Helsingborg in 1999 by Rodriguez and Bengtsson, who wanted to form a group amongst their high school friends.
They enlisted Nilsson on the drums and out bisexual singer Maja Ivarsson as their lead singer (who was also named as one of the ‘Hottest Women Of Rock’ in Blender magazine). While at Hultsfred Festival, they met Anderberg by chance and thought he’d be a perfect fit.
They recorded their debut album Living in America in Stockholm with producer Adel Dahdal, who is a songwriter and producer with an impressive track record. He produced Dutch band Krezip’s album Plug It In. An album that was actually inspired by the sound of The Sounds and has Krezip’s lead singer Jacqueline Govaert collaborating with Anderberg and Rodriguez on several songs. Most notably All My Life, one of the most played singles in the Netherlands in 2008. Continue reading ‘In The Spotlight: the Sounds’
These articles are originally posted at eurOut.com, a site for European lesbian news in entertainment and politics. Since I am the author of these articles I am allowed to post them here as well as part of my ‘In The Spotlight’ series.
Those people that know me know that I have a strong dislike for any type of club music, but I get fairly addicted to it because of the damn good beats that come with the songs. Such is the case with Feed the Horse (click here for the video). The song isn’t actually about feeding horses, but references to a sexual act. Yes, I was as naive as you. Feed the Horse is the love child of Danish queer duo Fagget Fairys.
Fagget Fairys consists of 19 year old Ena (who is a Muslim, a model, a club kid and a pretty darn good bad ass) and Carla Cammilla Hjort, known professionally as DJ Sensimilla, who is ten years her senior. The two met briefly at Vega, a Copenhagen nightclub, and Ena was so smitten with the DJ that, in an attempt to impress her, she stage dived from the DJ booth and ended up with 15 (!) stitches and a busted knee. Ouch. Continue reading ‘In The Spotlight: Fagget Fairys’
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