Interview Questions
LMF: Why don't we start off with you introducing yourself?
SL: Hey, I'm Shell Lee, I'm 19, unsigned singer/songwriter from Australia!
LMF: How did you get started in singing?
SL: Where do I start? Well I used to be the keyboardist for all the singers at my school, and in my tiny town of 5,000 people in East-Coast Australia. I'm classically trained in piano, flute and clarinet, and when I failed my Associate Diploma in Music at 16, that's when I gave up classical music alltogether and took a 6-month hiatus. Then one day I felt I had to walk back to the keys, and started playing totally different styles of music, like Salsa, and wrote my first song. Nobody would sing it - so I figured I wouldn't let my first song go to the grave that quickly, so I started making home recordings of my songs. That led to bigger studios and producers wanting to re-work the material that I had written.
LMF: How would you describe your music?
SL: Style, I think it is intelligent piano-pop, Lyrically, I think it's intelligent and thought-evoking as well.
LMF: Do you write your own music?
SL: Yes, I do, and it looks like I'm doing things back to front, because only now am I starting to collaborate with other songwriters and musicians.
LMF: If you could do a duet with any artist out there right now, who would it be and why?
SL: Daniel Bedingfield, I love that guy to death, he is what the music world has been needing for a long time.
LMF: Describe a day for you, from waking up to going to bed.
SL: I'll describe you one of my university days (currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Art), I wake up at 5am, sink my teeth and squinting eyes into a bowl of low-fat muesli and low-fat milk, catch a bus at 7 to the train-station, catch the first train, which gets me half-way to uni at 8, then at 8:20 - I take another train to the University station, then it's a 15 minute walk to my class, and I get there at 8:30 (classes start at 9am). The 3 classes I am taking this semester is fibre-textiles, printingmaking/silkscreening and art history: postmodernism. Those classes go from 9-12 Wednesdays and Fridays, and printmaking from 1-4pm. I hit the university gym for an hour and a bit doing classes in weight resistance training, and rpm bikes, this week I'm starting martial art-styled workouts. I have lunch with my friends in the cafeteria, talk a little, then make my way back on the 2 trains and a bus home. I get home 5-6pm, check my email, have dinner and watch an hour of t.v., and start planning the projects for my art majors. Some nights I'll go to the movies or an exhibition opening at the student art gallery in the city. Then it's light's out at around 10:30pm, if I stay up any later I'll give into a can of Red Bull or [v], the next morning.
LMF: Where do you see yourself in five years?
SL: Completed and Released my first album, done some shows around the world, doing some work a charity and doing motivational talks at highschools.
LMF: If you could open up for any artist out there right now, who would it be?
SL: Vanessa Amorosi, she's got a high-charged energetic show happening, and I love when her live band goes into salsa mode!
LMF: What C.D. would we find in your C.D. players right now?
SL: Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
LMF: If you weren't singing, is there something else you could see yourself doing for a career?
SL: Graphic Design and Layout for a glossy fashion magazine, and developing my own fashion label. These things I'll get to do soon anyway for sure!
LMF: What message would you like to send out to your fans?
SL: You can be anything you want to be. Work real hard and reap the awesome rewards!
© LMFANZINE.com
LMF: Why don't we start off with you introducing yourself?
SL: Hey, I'm Shell Lee, I'm 19, unsigned singer/songwriter from Australia!
LMF: How did you get started in singing?
SL: Where do I start? Well I used to be the keyboardist for all the singers at my school, and in my tiny town of 5,000 people in East-Coast Australia. I'm classically trained in piano, flute and clarinet, and when I failed my Associate Diploma in Music at 16, that's when I gave up classical music alltogether and took a 6-month hiatus. Then one day I felt I had to walk back to the keys, and started playing totally different styles of music, like Salsa, and wrote my first song. Nobody would sing it - so I figured I wouldn't let my first song go to the grave that quickly, so I started making home recordings of my songs. That led to bigger studios and producers wanting to re-work the material that I had written.
LMF: How would you describe your music?
SL: Style, I think it is intelligent piano-pop, Lyrically, I think it's intelligent and thought-evoking as well.
LMF: Do you write your own music?
SL: Yes, I do, and it looks like I'm doing things back to front, because only now am I starting to collaborate with other songwriters and musicians.
LMF: If you could do a duet with any artist out there right now, who would it be and why?
SL: Daniel Bedingfield, I love that guy to death, he is what the music world has been needing for a long time.
LMF: Describe a day for you, from waking up to going to bed.
SL: I'll describe you one of my university days (currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Art), I wake up at 5am, sink my teeth and squinting eyes into a bowl of low-fat muesli and low-fat milk, catch a bus at 7 to the train-station, catch the first train, which gets me half-way to uni at 8, then at 8:20 - I take another train to the University station, then it's a 15 minute walk to my class, and I get there at 8:30 (classes start at 9am). The 3 classes I am taking this semester is fibre-textiles, printingmaking/silkscreening and art history: postmodernism. Those classes go from 9-12 Wednesdays and Fridays, and printmaking from 1-4pm. I hit the university gym for an hour and a bit doing classes in weight resistance training, and rpm bikes, this week I'm starting martial art-styled workouts. I have lunch with my friends in the cafeteria, talk a little, then make my way back on the 2 trains and a bus home. I get home 5-6pm, check my email, have dinner and watch an hour of t.v., and start planning the projects for my art majors. Some nights I'll go to the movies or an exhibition opening at the student art gallery in the city. Then it's light's out at around 10:30pm, if I stay up any later I'll give into a can of Red Bull or [v], the next morning.
LMF: Where do you see yourself in five years?
SL: Completed and Released my first album, done some shows around the world, doing some work a charity and doing motivational talks at highschools.
LMF: If you could open up for any artist out there right now, who would it be?
SL: Vanessa Amorosi, she's got a high-charged energetic show happening, and I love when her live band goes into salsa mode!
LMF: What C.D. would we find in your C.D. players right now?
SL: Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
LMF: If you weren't singing, is there something else you could see yourself doing for a career?
SL: Graphic Design and Layout for a glossy fashion magazine, and developing my own fashion label. These things I'll get to do soon anyway for sure!
LMF: What message would you like to send out to your fans?
SL: You can be anything you want to be. Work real hard and reap the awesome rewards!
© LMFANZINE.com