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The Returning Sun
By Star Curnin
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SINGER/SONGWRITER
FROM THE FIXX, CY CURNIN, TO SELF-RELEASE SECOND SOLO ALBUM |
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As Cy Curnin still sings in The Fixx, "one thing
leads to another," and what better way to celebrate
one's life at 50, than to self-release your second solo
album-The Returning Sun-and to climb Mount Everest with
40 people for charity and get in the Guinness Book Of
World Records for putting on a rock concert at the highest
elevation in history?
But Cy Curnin always did things a little differently than
most. After hitting the top of the pops in The Fixx, he
turned his back on fame to raise a family and design his
own successful apparel brand, Cy-Wear. Moving to France
from New York for love and wine, he has bought and maintained
a working sheep farm, continues The Fixx, and, now, as
a personal challenge to celebrate life and help people
with cancer has climbed Mount Everest with other musicians,
cancer survivors and mountaineers to stage the world's
highest rock concert.
Cy has purposely side-stepped the obvious label interest
he would have easily garnered-just as Prince, Paul McCartney,
Radiohead and Joni Mitchell have recently done-in an effort
to maintain complete control.
The album is extremely personal. "Having gone through
a second divorce," he says, "there was a lot
of personal stuff coming out in my music that I felt didn't
quite suit the band mode. The band is a club of gentlemen
who don't need to hear me prattling on about my insecurities."
Curnin is living proof that life, indeed, begins at 50.
"Musicians," he explains, "when their bone
structure relaxes, the tone of the music becomes more
vital. There's less angst and more tonality. I felt my
voice had improved. I didn't have as much tension in my
upper body. The body changes shape and it ameliorates
the voice."
If he survives the mountain, he plans on touring. "I've
got a gang of young musicians in Los Angeles and Paris
just itching to go out on the road with me!"
Bottom line? "People have been asking me, `what are
you going to do when you're 50? Are you going to have
a party?' Nah, I really need a challenge, not a party.
Something like this changes your whole attitude. I've
lost some family and friends to leukemia. It's celebrating
your own life, and trying to wave a flag for someone else."
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