One of the singers on Joe Walsh’s current tour, she talks in this interview about a song of hers written years ago that has been placed on an ABC-TV show, plus she references getting hired to sing on a Kelly Clarkson record and – on a related note – gives her opinion of singing competition reality shows. She also talks about vocal health, having sung on tour with K.D. Lang, life on the road away from loved ones, and more.
“It’s kind of like a fairy tale job… On this tour we’ve been very, very spoiled.”
“You’re a professional and you’re hired to not make mistakes, but, it happens, you’re human.”
“Once you perform now, everything is being recorded by the audience. So this is a new day and age where everyone has a cellphone, everybody’s taking pictures, and most people are recording… so literally within a couple hours everything (is) up on YouTube.”
“Music – and rock & roll especially – is such a human experience. It has so much life. It’s not a computer playing a beat. It’s not auto-tuned vocals. It’s not perfection.”
“When you’re touring and you’re stuck on a bus together, you have a little bit more intimacy than you would in a regular job environment. You’re all brushing your teeth. Or you’re all putting your pajamas on… Because we’re in that capsule together, it’s a little bit more intimate than it would be in an office environment.”
“I’ve been offered many tours that I didn’t want to do because I don’t want to be away from my son and my personal life and I work so much at home.”
“If you’re doing something with an artist that isn’t respected or (is) looked down upon, regardless of the paycheck, your name is attached to them.”
“I kinda just had to learn as I went. And (having been) married to a vocal coach, it was interesting. He would try to give me tips and try to change things about certain things – I was always kind of rejecting it or saying, ‘What I do is fine, what I do is fine.’ But as I get older I see the importance of it; ya’ know, definitely the vocal rest and warming up and things like that. They’re really important things to do.”
“Having the business mind is so much more important than any college education could really prepare you for.”
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