Kelly Sherrod is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the name Proteins of Magic. She is a multi-format artist who just over a year ago released her debut album, with three of the songs landing on New Zealand Alternative radio charts. Recently she played bass and toured across Europe and America with GRAMMY and Academy Award winner Ryan Bingham, which included performances on Jay Leno and Good Morning America. The official music video for one of the songs from her album last year has over 275 thousand views on her YouTube channel and she has received extensive press coverage. She is currently touring as a support act, with her own solo tour to follow, and her next recording project is in the works as well.
“The longer you work on something, sometimes you can lose subjectivity.”
“It’s always worked out in my favor to trust in the process.”
“I was working on some of these songs for years… We worked… furiously probably for about three years.”
“The way that I think about music, or the way that I approach it, is just that the live performance is just so important to me, and it needs to really be delivered in a way where you can really connect with the audience, and they can feel the music.”
“If I get that feeling, that inspiration that just kind of comes to me, I will go to the piano – or, at the moment I’ve been writing a lot on the bass – and just sort of let it come out of me and try my best to actually get most of the song done while that’s happening because I’ve found in the past if you don’t do it, or if I don’t do it, straightaway… it’s even harder leaving it for down the track.”
“It’s interesting how each artist is different, and you can only do what comes natural.”
“It’s just sort of like an obsession really that where there is music there needs to be a visual element that I’m proud of and that I’ve made.”
“As I make visuals and make my music, they do become one in the same. They flow together.”
“These lessons that I’ve had… have been priceless in building live performance confidence and the strength in my voice. I can’t recommend vocal lessons enough.”
“Not using your own name sort of affords you a little more latitude with what you can do… I feel like it suits the project better than my name.”
“Te Hana”
“Hopeful Symphony”