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ILARAL CANYAN of LA is 8.30 in the morning, and in a living room adorned with books, in the red walls, Roofas Venrite Fits me in her frantic week. He asks if he can turn off the camera so that he can tell what is going to happen next: New York for the weekend, Stockhom To sing in his 2009 production Opera, Prima donnaThen in Wales “zipping”, where he once built an album and spent one night that he would only describe as “wild”. “Was to go to gay clubs in Cardiff Extremely The journey, “he says, his tone is shining.”
Above all, he plays a week -long celebration of storytelling and singing as part of the city’s broad Cardiff Music City Festival. I say, it seems strange. “I’m just living my best life!” He gives an answer full of beans.
He definitely never appears to stop. This year, he has also released the soundtrack Dream request, His 2024 classical work with Merril Streep, as its star Nauretor, was inspired by the Kovid-19 epidemic and the destruction of the climate crisis, and which was a premiere in Paris’s auditorium de radio France. And in November, he will be released with Pacific Jazz orchestra I myself am a stranger: Venerite Do Well, A set of 12 songs by the 20th century visionary German-American-music composer Curt Wayel. Wayel, who along with his fellow colleague Bertolt Brecht, revolutionized high brow arts for the general public, has been a lifetime inspiration for Venerright. He says, “He achieved what I eventually wanted to do as an artist.” “Popular music, bringing classical singing with everyday life.”
Venrite has the right genes to be polygon. Born at the house of French-Canadian folk singer Kate McGrigal and singer-songwriter Loudon Vener III, he grew up assimilating many forms of music and songs. At the age of 21, he sang a song on TV with his mother, his aunt Anna, Emmilou Harris and Scottish folk singer, Dick Goghan and in that important moment he realized what “human voice could do”. His early single albums displayed his attractive, agile tone and ambitious arrangements (his first album of his 1998 albums had the wires of Van Dike Parks), and his rich and gentle chamber-pap has since expanded his reach.
He first presented a concert of Vel’s work in May 2023, two months before his 50th birthday. Did that milestone inspire his activity? “Yes,” he says clearly. “And I didn’t know it until I went on stage, but the first performance was on Kurt Wayel’s birthday, and was not very sick, but he died at the age of 50. Surely a type of cosmic phenomenon was going on!” moreover, Venerite do well It includes songs that have been especially echoing with them when Venrite grows up, such as “It Never Waz You”. He says, “You can understand the feeling of longing and loss at only a certain age.”
Wornerite first fell in love with Veli in his teenage, he said that he saw an album in a record shop “a recorded, gorgeous but gorgeous, smiling but ridiculous woman was smoking cigarettes”. She was the Wely singer (and, twice, his wife) Lotte Lyya, who was a later Bond actress, who led the first performance of Vel’s most famous work, she scored Brecht’s 1928’s 1928 “Play with Music”. The thripeni operaIn 2020, Venerrit told the music website Semiate That piece of Brecht and Vel, a conversion of 18th century English Gathagit Opera Beggar“Shikhar was where all the elements were [Weill] This second animal was influenced by joining together to create. “Today, he indicates Nina Simone and composer Eric Saiti as musicians who achieved something similar:” It is not about doing anything to please the public, but about making this hybrid which is deep, powerful and meaningful in itself. ” Wayle was also famous political, and a track of the album, the 1928 song “Die Muscale von Margate”. [The Shell Of Margate]”, Is about a sea coastal village in the balcony ruined by oil companies. Venrite says,” That song could be written today. ”
Wornerite does not remain calm on politics. In October 2024, a clip of his version of Leonard Cohen’s “Helelozah”, which was being played at the Donald Trump campaign program, went viral. Before somewhat generous, he wrote in response, “It was the culmination of Ishaninda to see Trump and his supporters communicating with this music last night.” “The good people inside me hope that perhaps in listening and listening to the songs of the excellent work of Cohen, Donald Trump may experience a sign of repentance on his cause.” Then he dropped us back to the earth. “I’m not stopping my breath.”
Was they now attracted to recording Vel’s songs due to their political content? “Oh God, yes. The similarities between then and now are very disturbing, and at the same time, I want to say rebellious, but also devilish. Everything is reverse. We are struggling. We are in one of these dramatic moments of world history, and this music echoes very loudly.”
Whatever you do, do not use B-word if you are not from the UK! This is still such a hot topic
Born in New York and her husband, German art administrator Journ Visbroad also lives in the LA where Trump has abolished security for LGBT + people in federal policy and has brought LGBT + advisors to his cabinet. I wonder how it is a vocal, gay Canadian-American today. “Look, I’m very lucky,” he says. “I mean, we have a very good apartment in Berlin, and the idea of ​​escape Berlin is a bit strange, but it is like that, and I have Canada’s citizenship and my family.
Nevertheless, they sometimes face direct opposition. During the first Trump administration in 2017, at a concert with Minnesota orchestra, he gave an anti-Trump speech, which inspired the leading Trumpter and pro-Trump supporter Manny Lorno to get off the stage, an event that he has raised today. “You know, in front of everyone,” he remembers. “So I got reactions, but I think everyone here is in the same boat. Everyone is afraid of what they say and what they do.”
In recent years, when it comes to making art, Venrite has faced a difficult time of a different nature. In 2024, his first music, Inauguration night, Starring Sheridan Smith and adapted by Evo Van Hov from John Casswits’s 1977 film, began in West End. After very mixed reviews, it closed after seven weeks. At that time, he criticized the audience’s reactions, saying: “Since Brexit, England has entered a deep corridor where his approach has become a bit more narrow.” He says, he has learned an important lesson since then. “Whatever you do, if you are not from the UK, do not use B-word! It is still such a hot subject. I definitely wish that the show is more successful, and I think if we had more time, it could have happened to really. But, look, it was my first chance in Rhodio, and when you experience some failures, only then you are ready to fight as you say.
He also knows that theater is usually in crisis. “In the US, Broadway is in the problem of money, the orchestra is losing its budget – but at the same time, the art emerges in this era of stress and disturbance, and so there is still a lot of inspiration. I think there is something in art that has to go through a little problem to get strong.”
He recorded the Wayel album during the last summer results. He was “tired, jet-lagged, emotionally busy”, which he thinks was for the benefit of music. “You won’t want to relax too much to sing Kurt Wayle songs.” While making it, he also thought of his late friend Marien Fathful, who recorded his own version. The thripeni opera In 1998, and in January this year, he went to meet him shortly before his death. Pop culture inspiration, which did not make another compromise with him, was also Katni Love. “We tried to reduce his pain,” he says, his voice is full of deep humor. “Marienne was very funny, so insulting and dirty and very human, you know? We maintained it.”
Wonrite briefly recalls him and Faithful, sharing some “very informative and very dark time” in the past, including Venrite’s calm (his friend Elton John helped him go into rehabilitation after he was temporarily blinded by the addiction of Crystal Meth of Venrite). He is now 20 years old, and I wonder if his productivity so far has partly increased by his health better condition. After stopping for a moment, he says, “I think my creativity is acute, intense creativity.” “A part of it is to avoid dark angels who are always hovering in the corner, but it is very good that it has a sub -product for me – all these songs, music and opera.”
We talk about his daughter, Viva (singer-songwriter Leonard’s daughter, born through sperm donation of her friend Lorca Cohen), who is now 14 years old. Her father says she is interested in Tares for Fires through Taylor Swift, Lana del Ray and several pops of the 1980s. “I really have to stop and think, wow, what a gift to be able to experience it, especially as a gay person who never thought that he can have children until the age of thirty,” he says. He is also close to his younger singer sister, Martha, and recently tells me about a thirty -year -old man meeting in Scotland who asked him his name. “And they were, ‘Oh, Venrit, like Martha?’, And I said, ‘Yes, we are related,’ and he said, ‘Oh, are you his father?’ Martha liked him very much! ”
Roofas Venrite will play at the Wales Millennium Center on this Sunday 12 October at the Cardiff Music City Festival. ‘Venerite Doz Waile’ has been released on 21 November by Rock and Roll Credit Card Inc.