Your discovery and love for R&B is an interesting story, what was it about R&B that drew your attention, especially with that not being the mainstream sound from your home country?

 

What really drew me in first was the rhythm, the groove of the songs and then the melody. R&B music was such a breathe of fresh air to me back when I was starting off, I grew up listening to a lot of rock/pop/ballads and R&B was just so different.

 

What do you say to those who subscribe to the opinion that “R&B is dead”?

 

I think R&B is just in a different space now, to me nothing will ever beat the oldies R&B because of the rawness and the realness of the music back in the day. Their lyrics were so romantic and honest and the melodies were catchy as heck, they were talking about real love and real pain and nobody thought it was corny. But Now I feel like R&B doesn’t have that depth, it just feels like a lot of R&B music is sounding the same and it’s losing the key elements, I guess how people perceive things now is different if you’re singing R&B and it’s not sexual then it’s corny, but I don’t think it needs to be that crazy all the time. There’s ways you can dig deeper and be more classy about it. There are a few artists today however that still make real R&B, I’d like to think I’m one of them.

 

Your Spotify playlist is a whole vibe, how would you describe your musical taste?

 

Right now I’ve been really tapping in on my rock stuff. My musical taste changes overtime and I'm very experimental with it, I’m open to any genre as long as it feels good to me.

 

Who are some of your musical favorites?

 

Right now, Sade, Prince, Queen, Michael Jackson, Tame Impala, The Eagles. These are my musical favs atm.

 

Originally from Australia & now residing in LA, not an easy move...What’s been your biggest sacrifice? — How’s the adjustment going and why the move? Did you feel it was need to advance your career?

 

I guess my biggest sacrifice so far is being away from my loved ones. It’s not easy moving to a whole another country without having any family around but it’s part of growing up. I’ve adjusted quiet well actually and starting to feel like I have a place here. It was definitely a key move to further my music career, I just didn’t see myself doing bigger things if I was staying back home. But I do love being back home in Melbourne, nothing beats the feeling.

 

What is your writing process like? How often do your lyrics come from a place of personal experience?

 

It varies from time to time but majority of the time, I’m jamming on my guitar and coming up with feels. I need to feel the vibe from the sounds before I even start to write songs, although I randomly get ideas throughout my days, like little phrases or song titles that I build on further.

 

I don’t always base my songs through personal experience but I use my personal experience as inspo to write. Like if there was an imaginary situation, how would I feel or react to that? That's how I would find the words.