special has to be Al-Pacino in ‘Any Given Sunday’ ever, as it motivates you. Its hard emotionally and touches me in a place.
Kix: Anyone you wish to collaborate with ‘dead or alive’. Nicolay tells us, he wishes to
collaborate with characters, who draws out his
abilities and how will that work musically. Anybody that is not the usual suspects and out the box, to give you that edge, (and mentions lol Susan Boyle). Open to people, with a new perspective, who he wishes to collaborate with, some one that is on a different lane to us, that we look
up to, and Phonte agrees, and says the next
challenge, coming from a production and song writing background, always trying find the right fit for the artist, and not giving them a Foreign Exchange song, creating
People complain about music today, but Nicolay personally believes this is the most creative and inspiring Era that he has ever been in, because of the tools that are available to any artist / musician / producer to reach people…
to promote your music, in any country. Also there is
exciting music technology out there (Phonte Laughs “Auto-Tune”). With the web and social media there is new and innovative ways that music can travel, rather then having
something that is unique to them, that’s were the fun is, any artist that presents this.
Kix: What do you think about Music today, in this Era?
that you couldn’t do 10 years ago, also mentions in releasing ‘Connected’ in 2004 a lot of the social networking systems were not as popular in usage as they are now, where you can use it
your video on TV and do your own thing.
Kix: What advice would you give to any artist producer out there?
The group laughs, and says “Turn back, don’t do It” (Joke, Lol) Phonte says “be prepared to put your time in, we live in an era were everything is instant, people don’t wait anymore, in real life, people are not like that as human beings, in music it takes a lot of time to get things started, with little rewards. If you wish to pursue music you have to take the ups and downs with it ‘starve’ and be prepared to work for your dream, however long it takes.
Kix: How do you get your Kix?
Nicolay says, “finding that great next track for Foreign Exchange and getting vocals back from Phonte and knowing that he is on the ‘Money’, Music is my Kix. Phonte also mentions that music is his Kix, his life is boring out side of music.
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