Define your genre in five words or less:
Soul-induced folk.
When’s the gig and with who?
The Guildford Hotel on Sunday March 17 at 7pm. The show is part of the Castlemaine Fringe Festival 2013. Also on the bill are Vanessa Craven and The Mersons.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Love, death, romance, art, artists, sex, everyday life, and the world we live in.
Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them?
My album is A Gypsy’s Lullaby, which you can get at my shows, at CD Baby or any of the usual digital stores. I have an EP Storyteller, which is only available on iTunes. For more info you can also just check on my website: damensamuel.com.
What part of making music excites you the most?
Playing live, recording, songwriting and collaborations.
What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording?
My latest record Odyssey was recorded in NYC, and in my second week there I ended up getting stuck in the middle of Hurricane Sandy. Half of the city was without electricity and the public transport system was shut down for days. It took me about five hours to get to the studio. The producer was too scared to pick me up by car because most of the petrol stations around the city had run out of petrol, and a good friend of mine who was meant to come into the studio had to cancel the session last minute because a huge tree had fallen onto her house. We somehow still managed to get the record finished, but I decided that from then on I would always check the weathercast before I go into a studio!
If someone made a movie about your life, who would play you?
Lenny Kravitz.
