Exposed Vocals Interview
Interview
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Exposed
Vocals: So tell us your story. Where did you grow up? What made you decide to
become an artist?
Hello!My name is Rut and I am from Canary Islands, Gran
Canaria exactly, Spain. I grew up on this island, to be more exact in a town
called Teror.
I started with the theme of music when I was a girl thanks
to my aunt who is also a musician. She paid me the piano, solfeggio and ballet
classes.
Later, when I was 14 years old my dad taught me a
three-chord song to the Spanish guitar so that I sang in a religious group but
I left it because I was feeling stage fright.
Time passed and I started university. I studied and worked
at the same time and unfortunately for the stress I developed a disease. This
disease is bipolar disorder. So when I had my bad days I would pick up a
notebook and start writing everything I felt. These notes became poetry and
later became songs. In short, I decided to be an artist because dance, writing,
painting and above all my music help me to cope with my illness. For me it's
life.
Exposed Vocals: Since everyone was a start-up once, can you
give any smaller or local bands or artists looking to get gigs and airplay some
tips?
Just do what you do from the heart and everything will work
out. And to design concerts to promote themselves in social networks. Anyway, I
have not yet been on stage. I am working with more songwriters from my island
with the intention of softening associations on mental health without profit. I
am a simple apprentice. I have to learn much more.
Exposed Vocals: Do you ever make mistakes during performances? How do you handle that?
I get very nervous if I play and sing in front of people.
But a trick that comes to me is to focus on my lyrics and project to the moment
I wrote them. The moment I felt myself composing that song
Exposed Vocals: Do you tour? Anything interesting happen on tour that you think our readers would enjoy hearing about?
No, because of my music, I have not traveled or toured. But
it would be my dream ...
Exposed Vocals: Any planned studio upgrades? What are you
working with now?
Right now, I'm working on my old songs. I want to improve
them and put more rhythms. I also collaborated with more singers from my island
in a studio. They pass the letter to me with the melody and I try to take it to
the guitar.
Exposed Vocals: How do you find ways to promote your music? What works best for you?
For me the most feasible way is social networks like
Facebook or my blog dedicated to my living with my illness. Other pages like
youtube or soundcloud are good for reaching more people.
Exposed Vocals: If you could perform anywhere and with any
artists (Dead or Alive) where and who would it be with? Why?
Without a doubt with Kurt Cobain. I have documented about
his life and letters and I feel very identified with him. There is a myth that
also had bipolar disorder. He suffered many depressions like me and felt
different. I often feel like a weirdo. He is and will be a genius.
Exposed
Vocals: So, what’s next? Any new upcoming projects that you want to talk about?
Of course, my head is always full of ideas. I plan to expose
my blog called "the bicolor girl" in spanish "la chica
bicolor" in a local of my city in addition to my pictures of painting and
make a mini concert with my best songs. That's my project for 2017.
Exposed Vocals: If you weren’t making music, what would you
be doing?
I would be in any Third World country as an International
Cooperator doing music therapy with children or doing sustainable tourism
projects in underdeveloped places so that the inhabitants of that place can
have a better quality of life.
Exposed Vocals: What should fans look forward to in the
next year or so?
Because I will not leave the music and I will work hard to
improve instrumentally. I hope that in this year they can see some video of
myself in some stage, but little haha. I have to work on my stage fright.
Exposed Vocals: Any Shout-outs?
Always look for love in everything you do, that is the meaning
of life.
