additional instrumentation and that perhaps I wouldn't do too much of that arrangement. I would maybe just get someone to do that, but in the meantime, while we're waiting for all that to happen, let's see if we can do some writing. That for me becomes a very interesting challenge because if someone says to me that they like the idea, but they don't think they can do it, then all of a sudden I'm in because I think "well, I'm going to prove to you that you can." With Miel, it was like that, we did one session together - I remember it so well because I had the worst cold imaginable, I literally hit a box of tissues during the writing, I'm surprised she didn't walk out like "how dare you sneeze on me so much"! - The result was the beginning of 'Beautiful You' which we got most of it, as Miel said, from my point of view at the time I noticed it was effecting Miel emotionally and that tears were arriving and I realised we were hitting something real. From that moment, it was literally like the dam was being held in by the gates and as soon as we opened it like that, it was actually another 8 to 10 songs within few months. So that's how it started, and here we are two and a half years later with a completed album with a sort of double album and perhaps 40 live appearances under her belt, now becoming a concert performer at the same time. It's worked out very well.
Why the album title 'Magnetic'?
Miel: Being magnetic is a notion which has now achieved more prominence than before. Even when I started, it wasn't that well known. It's the idea of through positive ways of acting and being, attracting positive things to one. Which is my desire, and most people's desire. The question is how to do that. The song 'Magnetic' definitely expresses and puts it out there: this is what I'd like, I'd like a beautiful life please Lord. In the hope that it will then happen.
It is amazing, ask and it is given concept.. Thank you so much, I have really appreciated your time.
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