Bounce Magazine September 2018
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
This month featuring an exclusive interview with artist Gabrielle on her new album 'Under My Skin' - we also speak to front woman Izzy P Phillips of Black Honey. Our reviews take place at Go Ape, Thetford, Suffolk Escape Room and Happy Days RV.
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SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER <strong>2018</strong> | <strong>2018</strong> ISSUE | ISSUE #71 | #71 GABRIELLE<br />
You know, it was crazy, but it was worth<br />
every minute of it.<br />
into the studio to write and record a song<br />
together.<br />
R: I bet! Well onto the first question, I<br />
would love to know how you got into<br />
music?<br />
The producers liked my voice, and<br />
afterwards they said, “we really like your<br />
tone”.<br />
Oh my gosh! Well, I’ve always been into<br />
music in general; I loved listening to all<br />
of the greats such as Michael Jackson,<br />
Madonna, all the pop stuff and the stuff<br />
from my mum’s music collection.<br />
I was always singing but never imagined I<br />
would ever have a career out of it. I<br />
remember as a teenager watching ‘Top<br />
of the Pops’ and ‘Fame’, way before your<br />
time… I loved all of the characters and I<br />
just really loved music.<br />
Although I should have been more loyal to<br />
my friend, she was about ten years older<br />
than me and had already had her own<br />
record released, when I was asked by the<br />
producers to come back, I snapped their<br />
hand off.<br />
Obviously, she found out, and we weren’t<br />
friends again but hey, you know, I was a<br />
young girl and I was in pursuit of having<br />
my own record like she did. So that’s how<br />
it happened, yeah.<br />
It wasn’t until my cousin’s boyfriend<br />
entered a fashion show at a club<br />
called ‘Moonlighting’ and they wanted<br />
entertainment as well as models, so my<br />
cousin put me forward, and I said “no I<br />
cant do it, I cant do that”!<br />
After I went back into the studio I was<br />
then put out on a white label and ahead of<br />
my recording label signing me, the white<br />
label had fallen into their hands and they<br />
came looking for me so that was how I<br />
was put on the radar.<br />
She said “but you love singing”? and I<br />
responded “no, no not in front of people”!<br />
Somehow she twisted my arm, and<br />
although I was scared I wanted to do it.<br />
Come the night I was on edge, I was so<br />
nervous. I was waiting for my mum to<br />
arrive and I was literally pushed on stage<br />
to sing a Luther Vandross cover song<br />
called ‘Any Love’, so that was my first<br />
introduction to public singing.<br />
R: How did you get your big break?<br />
Right so, by me singing at ‘Moonlighting’<br />
I ended up dating a guy who paid for me<br />
to go to a recording studio with my friend,<br />
and her boyfriend paid for her. So we went<br />
R: What music inspired you growing up?<br />
My musical tastes are diverse, bearing in<br />
mind I have a 15-year-old daughter who<br />
loves a bit of Drake, I am the ‘pop tart’ in<br />
my house. I love Britney, Pink, Sam Smith,<br />
James Arthur and Jay-Z and Beyonce.<br />
I go from one to the other, so, what you’d<br />
expect from this middle-aged woman is<br />
not what I am giving you, I just love pop<br />
music. I grew up as an 80s child so it<br />
was like Spandau Ballet, a bit of Michael<br />
Jackson, I love Nirvana, The Beatles, and<br />
Oasis.<br />
R: Well believe it or not, I grew up<br />
listening to you, so it’s surreal for me to<br />
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