Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get to know your favorite artist? Not the usual stuff like the name of their latest album, or what their lyrics mean or finding out what their star sign is, no much more interesting stuff. I'm sure you have, we all have.
We already like their music, their style, their image, the way they make us feel, what we really want to know about though are all those things that make them seem a bit more tangible and human like, such as who influenced them, what would they be doing if they didn't enter the music industry, what makes them tick, that sort of thing.
Take Paulo Nutini for example, this Scottish guy with the exotic sounding name has Italian roots and really started hitting our iPods with his second album Sunny Side Up, he wanted it to convey joy and it did. Now if he hadn't entered the music industry he would have been working in the family fish and chip shop. That is if he didn't achieve his other ambition of wanting to be a footballer, a goalie to be more precise.
Paolo has a tattoo on his arm of three of the band we know as Texas, he only has three of them because he ran out of cash. He prefers the markets in London to Harrods, he smokes pot, loves Disney songs, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and he has been inspired by Van Morrison, Ray Charles and the Drifters. He also admits to listening to nineties dance hits like 'I like to move it' by Real2Real and 'Boom Boom Boom' by Out here Brothers. Altogether an all round nice guy is our Paolo.
So what about James Blunt? His father wanted him to follow in his footsteps and join the military, which he did, and after serving six years he got out. Only a couple of weeks later he had signed a contract and was well and truly ensconced in the music market. Now that is fast.
He says his musical inspiration came from his mother who made him learn the piano at the tender age of 7. One of the strangest things that he has ever done is put his sister up for sale on eBay. He really did that. She couldn't get to a funeral in Ireland so he listed her as a Damsel in Distress that needed a Knight in Shining Armour to get her there. In pops a guy with a helicopter to rescue her and the two of them ended up married. How romantic. Yes, our James has a bit of eBay addiction and has sold the entire contents of his flat on the site.
Let's look at someone completely different, like Katie Melua. She grew up in communist Georgia; well she did till she was 8. Katie always wanted to be a politician or a historian and said if she could rule the world she would be able to bring about world peace. Oh, the innocence of it all eh? Her inspiration came from Queen, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan and of course Eva Cassidy. Her song, 'Faraway Voice' is a tribute to Eva.
Kate's early entry into the music industry was at the age of 15 when she entered a singing competition and won. Apart from winning a bedroom makeover and an armchair for her dad, she also got to appear on TV. She was eventually "discovered" by Wombles guy Mike Batt when studying at the Brit School for Performing Arts. Batt wasted no time in signing her up to his Dramatico label.
Back in the old days of Donny Osmond, the Jackson Five and David Cassidy, our 'heroes' seemed so out of reach and took on an almost god like status. Nowadays, with the evolution of the internet and only 3 degrees of separation they are a lot closer. R and R World development over two levels and through innovative social networking site with the same name as an opportunity for fans and artists to communicate and support each other directly in the magic world now cold.
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