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It took a while of performing and pushing the boundaries and starting to involve the audience to feel comfortable.
I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.
The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.
St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this nostalgic, hazy vibe.
I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.
I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.
I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.
I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.
I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.
One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your own music.
An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.
The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making.
We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.
None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.
I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.
I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product.
We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business.
I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow.
I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing.
I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.
The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.
I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.
Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.
It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space.
Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today, but this is just about what excites me.
I'm very interested in how visual artists think because I think the way that I think about music is similar. I'm very inspired by aesthetics and space.
Even though we're really, really happy with what we do, sometimes I think - as an adult, you think, 'Should I be more responsible with my life choices?'
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.
I feel like people associate us with the tropical Hawaiian print because, for a long time, we were wearing a lot of bright colors to exert our personality.
I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.
[My mother] was the one who encouraged me constantly and always reminded me that God gave me a talent and I have to use it. I should not keep it locked inside.
You can only absorb when you look back at photos: like when we played Coachella, and there are thousands of people in the audience, and you just walk on stage.
When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.
I feel like a lot of bands have done amazing covers, but whenever we start working on it, whenever we try it in rehearsal, it never feels right for me to do the song.
One of the secrets of having a long-term relationship is realizing that even if you think the other person's great, at some point, they're going to mess up and annoy you.
I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.
The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.
ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments.
I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.
When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good feeling combined with some kind of melancholy element.
The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'
I am home grown St. Lucian. Born in 1980 I have spent most of my life on this island. Apart from the few summers I spent in the United States I spent most of my time in my homeland.
With Prince especially... he was a really great songwriter and keyboardist and singer and was so good at so many different things, you couldn't pin him down. That really inspires me.
I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.
Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.