Was it a challenge to give your own personal
interpretation of these songs, which are such
classic and well-known works?
This was the most difficult part. I knew I needed to
make them sound like my own, but my heart was
telling me to stay true to what the Beatles intended as
much as possible. In the end, I’m happy with the
resulting balance. I tried to capture the emotion of
each song and sing it as my own. Hopefully that
shines through to the audience.
How is this album different from your earlier
recordings?
Some of the songs on this album are completely out
of my comfort zone, so I showed a side of my artistry
that isn’t normally on display. I also worked very
closely with the producers to get the sound that I
could hear in my head, and learn from their
I found speech pathology in year 12 when I was
experience in the business, whereas in the past I’ve let
having some problems with my singing voice. I
others take the reins more in the production side.
thought it was closely related to singing, so I applied
for the course thinking I couldn’t make a career out of
You have said that Here Comes the Sun is the most
music. I got accepted into this course, but I took a gap
raw of all your albums. Why is that? Was the
year to pursue music just in case I could make it
recording process very different?
work. In that year, The Voice happened and I also
This album was the fastest album I’ve ever made! The
took the next year off to continue working on my
recording time alone was just 3 days to record the 13
music career. Since this was the last year I could
tracks with the intro and ending. It’s raw because not
defer, I decided to try to balance both music and uni
only were the songs foreign for me vocally, but the
life. I’m basically just doing it to learn some
recordings finished up sounding like live
interesting things, not so much to enter into the
performances.
profession at the end, because I’m hoping to be able
to do music forever. The music industry is all I ever
You also started studying speech pathology at
really want to work in. Nothing else could ever
university this year. What made you interested in
compare.
this field?