Can you tell us a little about your musical interests and inspirations. How has your writing and performing evolved?
Musically, I am mainly interested in performing and collaborating! I love playing in a variety of different venues and styles, from big concerts to little backyard gigs. I love to collaborate with other musicians, and as I am a beat-boxer, I am finding it very exciting exploring the potential of the voice and working with different ensembles. I also enjoy exploring music as a form of therapy and how beat-boxing can be used as a tool to express and help people communicate.
I am inspired by creative thinking people who are able to continually re-define what music and art is in their community. Also those who use very little to create big things. My writing in a lyrical sense has been put on hold for the last two years as I have been focusing on composing and arranging beat-box and vocal pieces. When I was in London I was luckily given many amazing and rare opportunities to acquire as much knowledge and as many tools as I could in regards to beat-boxing, like working with some of the best beat-boxers in the world such as Shlomo and Reeps One. Since returning to Sydney I have been putting all I learned in London to good use and performing about two gigs a week.
What do you like to do when you’re not making music?
I work at a school one day a week doing learning support and teaching a little bit of beat-boxing when I can sneak it in! I am currently training at Fbi radio, too, which I am really enjoying. I work in a bakery and sometimes I do little drawings.
You recently performed at the Metro …
Yes! This is one of my biggest gigs so far. The Thundamentals are from my hometown in the Blue Mountains so I have liked them from when I was about 14. They called me to see if I wanted to play with them on their Sydney show, but it was on April Fool’s Day so I wasn’t sure if it was a prank from one of my friends! I was really excited because they are one of the biggest Australian hip-hop bands at the moment and they put so much energy into their stage shows. The Metro is a big venue so I was excited to change my set a little to be more “big” and technical.
The most exciting thing about the show was having a big sound and playing to so many of my friends who had come up from the mountains, and to the musicians I have admired for a long time! It was definitely a very special gig to me and the Thundamentals were insane!
Do you have a sense of what the next year or two holds for you as an artist?
I am about to start studying music at uni! I want to develop my skills and grow as a musician, and uni is the best place to do that. I am really keen to start writing more with the goal to start planning the creation of my first EP.
