How did you get to where you are? I started writing for fun when I was 9. I would write lyrics, poems. I really liked music, but I didn’t know how I wanted to be involved with it. Whether it was interning or working at a record company, or writing songs for someone else, it was always related. I had a real need to create music, and to have it come out the exact way that I heard it. That’s what led me to being a performer — the need to get the art in my head exactly right.
To someone who’s never heard your music, how would you describe it? My father was really into music. Apparently my dad took me to see James Brown when I was really young, even though I don’t remember it. The story goes, I asked my dad, “What’s wrong with his legs?” And he goes, “He’s got soul.” He took me to see all sorts of shows, and my sister was playing punk rock and old classics. By age 11, I was exposed to
everything from jazz to world music to oldies, from The Temptations to Jimi Hendrix to Bad Brains. Then at school we had The Cure and U2, and I was into Salt-N-Pepa and Big Daddy Kane. I never really made that differentiation in my head, like, “Oh, you have to pick a genre that you like.” Once I started making music, it was naturally going to be influenced by all these different styles. I never paid attention to prefabricated boundaries.
Neat experiences in your career? David Byrne from Talking Heads has been a huge hero of mine. He came to my show and sent me an email after that said it was one of the best shows he had ever seen. I didn’t even know he was there. If I could put that in a box and place it on a shelf, that was better than anything I could ever win.
What’s next? You never know, but I know that I’m still the same person I was when I was a little kid. My natural inclination is to try as many things as I can. I do like how with the new trend, musicians get to be artists across the board, in a way that wasn’t as accepted before. Now you can be a musician and be an actor and you can design your own line. I just got an acting agent, so maybe that’ll lead to something.
— Matt Forman A Publication of US Lacrosse
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George Daniel
NLL commissioner talks expansion
Although he didn’t name a timetable, NLL commissioner George Daniel said before the 2013 season that expansion of the nine-team league is “important for us. We need more cities, especially in Canada.” The league, which is in its 27th season, played a pair of preseason exhibition games in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Montreal, and Daniel said the NLL was working with potential ownership groups in both locations. He also said the league would love to have teams in more Eastern U.S. markets.
Central Michigan
adds D-I women’s lax Central Michigan University announced its decision to add women’s lacrosse as a Division I varsity sport on Dec. 6. The Chippewas are slated to begin play in the 2014-15 academic year. Central Michigan is the third school in Michigan to offer Division I women’s lacrosse, after Detroit and Michigan. Central Michigan competes primarily in the Mid-Atlantic Conference, and will be the sole MAC school to sponsor the sport. (UMass, which is an affiliate member of the MAC in football, plays in the Atlantic 10 in women’s lacrosse.)
Lizards rebrand MLL’s Long Island Lizards are now known as the New York Lizards. The team announced the re-branding, a new logo and color scheme on Dec. 14, and said it plans to extend its regional footprint
Albert Maione
to include New York City, Westchester (N.Y.) County, New Jersey and southern Connecticut. The Lizards also will play two games at Randall’s Island in New York City this season, and the team has expanded its camp and clinic schedule to include the new areas.
Mets to host
(lacrosse) doubleheader MLB’s New York Mets will host Citi Field’s first-ever NCAA Division I lacrosse games March 17 in a men’s doubleheader. Colgate plays Michigan at 1:05 p.m. followed by Navy-Holy Cross. Mets majority owner Fred Wilpon is a 1958 Michigan graduate and maintains close ties to the school.
of Jaclyn Foundation and help raise awareness about pediatric brain tumors. The team is captained by Artie Spruill, a former Towson defender. FOJ Elite’s first competitive event was the Bump & Ground Tournament in January, and the team is set to compete at Lake Tahoe, Lake Placid and Ocean City in 2013.
Lacrosse gets more TV time
Get your DVRs ready. CBS Sports Network will air 20 Major League Lacrosse games in 2013, and the network also is slated to televise at least 10 Patriot League men’s and women’s games this spring.
LaxPower rates player impact
LaxPower.com in December unveiled its “Player Impact Ratings,” the newest analytical toy created by the site’s founder, Larry Feldman. The statistics-based breakdown objectively measures a player’s production and value added on the field by position. Initial data covers the 2012 season, across each of the three men’s and three women’s NCAA divisions, and weekly updates for 2013 are planned.
Friends of Jaclyn
forms elite team The Friends of Jaclyn Foundation announced the formation of the FOJ Elite team in late 2012. The FOJ Elite team consists of former college players who represent the Friends
In other TV news, NBC Sports Network will air the Moe’s Southwest Grill Classic, a men’s lacrosse event featuring Penn State-Denver and Ohio State-Jacksonville from Jacksonville’s EverBank Field on Feb. 18.
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