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met deze tags moet het goed komen voor de Amerikaanse zangeres Madelyn Grant.

Clement Courtois trio met twee gasten: trompet: Joe Ae Pepe  en zang Madelyn Grant
 

Maar het leek er even op of ze vergeten was gisteravond.

Ze arriveerde weliswaar toen de band al begonnen was maar die nodigden haar niet direct uit.

Ze zat er een beetje verloren bij en Diana twijfelde of ze wel de zangeres was die ik in haar zag. Ze inmiddels wel kort haar en niet zoals op de promofoto lang golvend tot over de schouders.

Het kwam toch nog goed. In de eerste pauze werd ze door bandleider erbij getrokken en de tweede set begon gelijk met een soul klassieker.

uit een interview:

When did you decide that you wanted to pursue music professionally?

 

I started taking music more seriously in college. I was in an a capella group, and I was gigging a lot with them. I [saw] that it’s a more feasible career than people think, even when I was still kind of questioning how am I going to make ends meet if I do music? Seeing that people were supportive of me with music and writing music while it was new to me was encouraging. I think it was what I woke up every day wanting to pursue, and when you find something like that you need to keep pursuing it and keep chasing after it. Nothing in school was really clicking with me — classes were definitely not. The only thing I loved was the music aspect — improving, meeting up with other people, the feeling that you get when you’re performing — was what led me to the next step of reaching out to people to pursue music further, which is how the Odesza thing came to be. That came out of nowhere.

https://www.detroitmusicmag.com/interview-madelyn-grant/

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