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Carmen Reece PCM Interview
 
Carmen Reece (click here to view Carmen's Artist page on PCM)
Carmen in currently on a radio tour that hits Chicago, Detroit, New York City, and other locations all along the east and west coast.
Mark J. Feist even hopped on the phone to gush about Carmen to me. He said he was blown away by Carmen's ability from the beginning. He described her as possessing the ability of Mariah and Celine. After reconnecting with her, she sang him one song and they spent the next 10 days writing and recording 5 songs together, which all made it onto the album. Mark described her as 1 in a million.

Q: How are you feeling about your U.K. to U.S. crossover?

Carmen Reece: "I'm so excited. I can't believe it's finally here. I like being over here. The people I'm working with are amazing."

Q: How exactly where you discovered by Mark J. Feist?

C.R: "We met each other about 3 years ago. I know him from just doing a writing trip for a company back home and they brought me out here. I did 2 days with Mark in the studio, we had a great time, but when my offer was up we went our separate ways. Then, we reconnected through my myspace. Mark contacted me one day, and I really wanted to get out to L.A. to do some writing. So I came out here, and the rest is history."

Q: Is there any one city on your radio tour that you are particularly excited about going to?

C.R: "I'm particularly excited about New York. I actually lived there when I was 2 yrs. old, for just a year with my parents, but I was too young to remember the city. I'm looking forward to it very much."

Q: What artists influence you?

C.R: "My biggest influences growing up were what I call the divas. Which I'm sure everyone calls Whitney, Mariah, Tony Braxton, Celine. I really love coming home to any big soulful voice. Also songwriters, as well as producers I've really taken an interest in, Diane Warren being one. Then I went off to explore my own avenue."

Q: What is your favorite performance/concert that you have done thus far?

C.R: "The showcases I've done in L.A., they've got to be the best cause that's where everything started, the choreography, dancers, team, sound, light, everything. It was a really special moment cause that was the start of everything really."

Q: How do you think attending performing arts schools have shaped you differently musically from other artists?

C.R: "My first school was quite a small school where music wasn't really a forte, but I thought at any moment I could be in the piano room writing songs or be in the school plays. Then I went to The Brit School, and that was for 2 years. It really did open my eyes to working with other people who were professional or just had talent. It really did help structure how you write and perform. It gives a good basis to everything I'm doing now."

Q: What do you want people to think/feel when they hear your music?

C.R: "I like to think they can feel it in the way I do and that Mark does. If any song can move them when they're going through something, and help them or just make them feel good and want to dance. I'm a really big believer in touching people. When I'm singing or recording, I put energy into the performance, so I hope it can connect."

Q: If you weren't a singer, what do you think you would be doing?

C.R: "That's a hard one because I've never doubted at any moment of doing anything else or not being in music. If I go back to when I was younger, the other thing I wanted to do was be a make up artist, so that would be the only other thing. It's always been music, but if it was something else it would be slapping a load of make up on someone's face and making them look pretty."

Q: If you could collaborate with any artist on a song, who would you be?

C.R: "There's one collaboration that I would really love and that's with Stevie Wonder. I don't know if that would ever happen, but he's just amazing. It used to be when I was growing up that I would love to sing with Mariah, still that would be an amazing experience too. Also, Wanya Morris from Boys II Men. I think that would probably be the top one actually."

Q: What would you say your debut album, Love in Stereo is mainly about?

C.R: "It goes through a few different topics and emotions. Some are real club bangers, if you want to just dance. There's one ballad in particular called Longer By, a very special song to me. It's one that everyone can kind of relate to. It's about when you're in relationship and you've been with that person a long long time, and you both know it's kinda not right, but because you've relied on each other for so long, to cut it off would leave you lost in a way. Basically the relationship has run its course. I've had a lot of feedback with that song. Everyone says it kind of gets to them because they can relate to it."

Q: Everyone always remembers the first time they ever heard their song on the radio, what thoughts went through your mind during the moment?

C.R: "I really can't describe it. A lot of jumping up and down, and smiles all around. It's an amazing rush."


 
 

 

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