An award-winning female vocal duo in New Zealand who are releasing their latest single next week Friday, July 24th, after having already released new singles this year on May 29th and April 3rd. A video for one of those songs was released just over a month ago and already has more than 8600 views on YouTube. The two of them were individual artists and songwriters before coming together as an act that has performed at numerous venues and events. Meanwhile, they have successfully pivoted during the pandemic to maintain an online presence of a different kind. (NOTE: On the bonus content recorded for Patreon after this podcast interview, Iveta and Simone made a big announcement that is only teased here, near the end, on NHTE 336!)
"We've been working with a producer... from Austria... He usually sends us the music... and then we start visualizing the melody, the lyrics... This is our way of working, pretty much."
"We actually belong to an agency and (the Austrian producer) contacted us. So, most of the producers that we know contact us."
"First we started off in a girl band that we both applied for, and that's how we met... And then eventually we decided that we wanted more... out of our singing. So (we) decided to go as a duo."
"A lot of these songs were written in 2016, but we're deciding to pull them out and get the ones that we think work for us."
"When you want something very strong, it will happen. It's inevitable. If you feel that something is your destiny, yeah, it is."
"It took a good year for us to get our heads around it so we knew what we could label ourselves without offending anybody."
"Piano is (Iveta) and guitar is Simone, but we don't actually play (those instruments ourselves) in our singles. Our job mainly is to... add what we feel."
"It's not all about money. Yeah, show business is business. But it's not all about money. It's about relationship. It's something deep, especially when we're living in this uncertain time together."
"Psycho Baby"
“She Used to Be Me”
** Bonus audio, including big announcement from, Iveta & Simone **