Katy B Interview

Katy B has just finished supporting Tinie Tempah on his tour when I get to catch up with her. As she sits on her sofa relaxing she talks about her experiences at Brit school, her up and coming tour starting on 29^th April and her long awaited debut album ‘On a Mission’ which was released on 4^th April.

How was it supporting Tinie Tepah?

It was so much fun, he is such a nice guy and I sung a song with him ‘let go’ off his album. I just learnt a lot, it gave me a lot of experience of what it means to go on tour.

You have collaborated with Magnetic Man and Ms. Dynamite, who else would you like to work with?

I have been saying in a lot of interviews that I would love to work with Cee Lo Green, he’s cool.

How did the album come about?

I just started singing on anything I could get my hands on. If someone needed backing vocals, I would do it. If someone needed someone to sing on one of their tunes, I would do it. I sung on one of my friend’s brother’s tunes and it started getting played on pirate (radio). Once I did that tune and people heard me I started doing PA’s and stuff and I did other tunes with other producers and those tunes got played on Rinse FM. They approached me to do an album where they were going to get all the producers from Rinse FM on it. Their DJ’s are all producers so they wanted to make this compilation album and I was going to sing across all the tunes to link them together as they were all different genres but in the end it turned into the Katy B album.

Clare Maguire Interview

For Clare Maguire music was always her dream, her calling. She wrote her first song at the age of seven, at the age of twenty she signed to Universal Music and her debut album ‘Light After Dark’ was released in February. In between all that she has partied with Kayne West, met with Rick Ruben and been cited by BBC and MTV as one to watch for 2011.

You seem like a really driven person was there ever a time when you thought you wouldn’t make it in music?

Not at all, I am a very driven, positive person and very obsessive about music. It was never about wanting to be extraordinarily successful or anything I just wanted to make music and I never thought for one minute that couldn’t happen because I think if you want to do something then you can do it.

Was there anything you had to give up in order to pursue your dream?

I had to be away from family and friends, I suppose I had to give up a certain life to try and pursue another.

Do you think it is important to be London for a music career?

I think there is more room now for people not to have to be in London because of the Internet. People can make a success of themselves with Youtube, Myspace, Facebook and Twitter so it’s not that essential anymore to move to London.