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Today we will introduce you to two absolutely wonderful girls: Fiona Joy Hawkins and Trysette Loosemore, famous singers and composers who work together on stage creating unforgettable energy of love and beauty. Fiona and Trysette are well known overseas and their tours across America are absolutely sensational. Fiona and Trysette kindly agreed today to tell us about themselves and about their plans for the future.
Introduction. Dear Trysette and Fiona, your music and your singing is an art of most talented and music-devoted women we ever came across with. As mentioned already before Fiona, you can easily be a second but softer and gentler Enya and can effortlessly do a sound track for some mysterious movie with elves and magicians so divine your music and your voice are. As to Trysette we see her soundtraking one of James Bond's new movies. There are some major themes we can hear in your music and in your voice (so intriguing) you feel it right next to you but you can not catch the music. Your songs feel like thin silky thread between your fingers: it slips through giving you the sensation of uncertainty and vulnerability... enchanting emotion that bewitches you to the extend that you want to listen more and more to this voice and the music... Girls, please tell us a little bit about yourselves.
Q1. Did you go to school to study music and singing?
F: I studied piano from age 8 and went through the AMEB classical exam system, I had always fancied being a concert pianist, but much preferred to write my own music! I have no formal singing training but have always loved to sing.
T: I first started having classical piano lessons at the age of 7 in Grafton NSW where I grew up. I then majored in voice at the Southern Cross University in Lismore NSW to acquire a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Music.
Q2. How long have you been writing music and singing for?
F: I started writing at 8 and I remember going to a piano lesson and asking my teacher if she could 'listen to my new music' - it was a little piece with lyrics in Aminor in 3/4 time called Thoughts. I even wrote it out by hand in pencil! I was lucky because all my teachers encouraged me to write and part of my exam each year was the entry of one of my own compositions - I think it surprised the examiners and helped win them over. I loved writing music right from the beginning. Sometimes I used to imagine how Bach would have written his music if he were alive now and I would add rubarto and sustain and do all the technically incorrect things just to experiment. Hopefully he wouldn't be too upset if he heard it. LOL
T: All my life.......can’t give too much away :)
Q3. How would you describe your singing and music style?
F: I am often called the 'Australian Enya' - which I'm very flattered by. I guess I'm Celtic/New Age but with classical, jazz and world influences. The good part about having a unique defining style is that you are different, the bad part is that no-one quite knows where to pigeon hole you or into which genre you fit!
T: I describe my overall style as pop, country, adult contemporary. To give you an idea if you haven’t heard my music, my influences come from artists like Adele, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Feist and even bands such as Coldplay, Snow Patrol and U2.
Introduction. Dear Trysette and Fiona, your music and your singing is an art of most talented and music-devoted women we ever came across with. As mentioned already before Fiona, you can easily be a second but softer and gentler Enya and can effortlessly do a sound track for some mysterious movie with elves and magicians so divine your music and your voice are. As to Trysette we see her soundtraking one of James Bond's new movies. There are some major themes we can hear in your music and in your voice (so intriguing) you feel it right next to you but you can not catch the music. Your songs feel like thin silky thread between your fingers: it slips through giving you the sensation of uncertainty and vulnerability... enchanting emotion that bewitches you to the extend that you want to listen more and more to this voice and the music... Girls, please tell us a little bit about yourselves.
Q1. Did you go to school to study music and singing?
F: I studied piano from age 8 and went through the AMEB classical exam system, I had always fancied being a concert pianist, but much preferred to write my own music! I have no formal singing training but have always loved to sing.
T: I first started having classical piano lessons at the age of 7 in Grafton NSW where I grew up. I then majored in voice at the Southern Cross University in Lismore NSW to acquire a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Music.
Q2. How long have you been writing music and singing for?
F: I started writing at 8 and I remember going to a piano lesson and asking my teacher if she could 'listen to my new music' - it was a little piece with lyrics in Aminor in 3/4 time called Thoughts. I even wrote it out by hand in pencil! I was lucky because all my teachers encouraged me to write and part of my exam each year was the entry of one of my own compositions - I think it surprised the examiners and helped win them over. I loved writing music right from the beginning. Sometimes I used to imagine how Bach would have written his music if he were alive now and I would add rubarto and sustain and do all the technically incorrect things just to experiment. Hopefully he wouldn't be too upset if he heard it. LOL
T: All my life.......can’t give too much away :)
Q3. How would you describe your singing and music style?
F: I am often called the 'Australian Enya' - which I'm very flattered by. I guess I'm Celtic/New Age but with classical, jazz and world influences. The good part about having a unique defining style is that you are different, the bad part is that no-one quite knows where to pigeon hole you or into which genre you fit!
T: I describe my overall style as pop, country, adult contemporary. To give you an idea if you haven’t heard my music, my influences come from artists like Adele, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Feist and even bands such as Coldplay, Snow Patrol and U2.
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To read more about Fiona please visit: http://www.fionajoyhawkins.com.au/
Q4. What inspires you the most in life?
F: I am inspired by people who achieve in the face of adversity. They are my heroes and they are the ones I applaud the loudest. I didn't go the Olympics when they were held in Australia……I went to the Special Olympics. Any two legged person can run, but a one legged person, or a blind person? Now that’s admirable!
T: Love! I’m a hopeless romantic but that’s not to say that I need flowers and chocolates everyday. I believe in love and relationships, family and friends and as a songwriter, I’m heavily motivated by emotional and personal interactions.
Q5. What is your favourite musical instrument to play on apart from piano?
F: I enjoy playing the guitar in my spare time, I can't say I'm very good, but its great for relaxation and I can sing along as well.
T: Sadly I don’t play anything else very well except the cabassa. I know a few chords on the guitar and I played cello in an orchestra as a teenager but only because it was required of me by my teacher. I was never passionate about it and needless to say I wouldn’t know where to start now if I had to play one.
Q6. How long does it take for you to finish one entire song and make it perfect?
F: It comes back to that age old question - how long is a piece of string? I have taken over 10 years to finish a song - or 10 minutes. If I could find the recipe for writing them all in 10 minutes I would bottle it, but it really depends on so many variables. The story has to be complete, the inspiration has to be there, the need to tell the story must be a strong one.
T: The process varies and sometimes it can be a day, sometimes a week or months. I might sit down to write some lyrics which don’t come very easily for a week or two, and then bingo, one day the whole song just comes out. Then I take the lyrics to the piano and work them into a song. I’ll record everything that happens during this process because it’s often the bits that you didn’t think were good that grab your attention when you listen back.
F: I am inspired by people who achieve in the face of adversity. They are my heroes and they are the ones I applaud the loudest. I didn't go the Olympics when they were held in Australia……I went to the Special Olympics. Any two legged person can run, but a one legged person, or a blind person? Now that’s admirable!
T: Love! I’m a hopeless romantic but that’s not to say that I need flowers and chocolates everyday. I believe in love and relationships, family and friends and as a songwriter, I’m heavily motivated by emotional and personal interactions.
Q5. What is your favourite musical instrument to play on apart from piano?
F: I enjoy playing the guitar in my spare time, I can't say I'm very good, but its great for relaxation and I can sing along as well.
T: Sadly I don’t play anything else very well except the cabassa. I know a few chords on the guitar and I played cello in an orchestra as a teenager but only because it was required of me by my teacher. I was never passionate about it and needless to say I wouldn’t know where to start now if I had to play one.
Q6. How long does it take for you to finish one entire song and make it perfect?
F: It comes back to that age old question - how long is a piece of string? I have taken over 10 years to finish a song - or 10 minutes. If I could find the recipe for writing them all in 10 minutes I would bottle it, but it really depends on so many variables. The story has to be complete, the inspiration has to be there, the need to tell the story must be a strong one.
T: The process varies and sometimes it can be a day, sometimes a week or months. I might sit down to write some lyrics which don’t come very easily for a week or two, and then bingo, one day the whole song just comes out. Then I take the lyrics to the piano and work them into a song. I’ll record everything that happens during this process because it’s often the bits that you didn’t think were good that grab your attention when you listen back.
To read more about Trysette please visit: http://www.trysette.com/
Q7. Do you find it challenging to find time you have to divide between for your work and your family/your partner/your love?
F: Yes, most definitely. Its all a balancing act and I would go as far as to say I am driven enough to drive them all crazy - they pull me back from being slightly obsessive. I am still learning the art of balancing all things in life.
T: Not really. I try and keep a good balance but some days I have more time for friends and family and other days it’s all work. I try not to let work situations become overwhelming. I don’t have children so that makes a big difference!
Q8. Does your success help you or does success stands on the way of your progress as talented performer?
F: I try not to think of the reviews, the expectations or the audience perception. You are only as good as your last album or your last concert and my mantra before I walk on stage is "give something to the audience". Previous success only helps for giving a little confidence, but when I go onstage its not about me, its about the music. You can only take the audience with you on a journey if you go there yourself and any success you have goes out the window when you sit down to play - each performance has to stand alone.
T: Success for me is the key to my happiness because it allows me to continue to do what I love and that is write, record and play music.
Q9. What has been your most memorable time of creation and why?
F: I have to be honest and say that drama in my life feeds the music. I asked my Producer once what would happen to me if ever I got happy - would the well of creativity dry up? He said: No you will just start writing happy music. I have to be honest again and say that there isn't as much happy in me as sad for musical inspiration. I wish it were the other way around because life is so much easier that way, but I wouldn't be the musician I am without the drama in my life to write about!
T: The songs on my album ‘Le Cafe Ancien’ and the album I’m currently recording, I can almost say are a diary of the last half dozen years of my life which has been a pivotal period. All the same stuff people go through in life but when it happens to you, it’s like you’re the only person in the world who’s ever experienced these things. These songs are straight from the heart and extremely raw but the joy I get now from audience members who tell me afterwards that they wondered how I knew what they were going through, is something I relish and makes me glad that I put my emotions down on paper.
F: Yes, most definitely. Its all a balancing act and I would go as far as to say I am driven enough to drive them all crazy - they pull me back from being slightly obsessive. I am still learning the art of balancing all things in life.
T: Not really. I try and keep a good balance but some days I have more time for friends and family and other days it’s all work. I try not to let work situations become overwhelming. I don’t have children so that makes a big difference!
Q8. Does your success help you or does success stands on the way of your progress as talented performer?
F: I try not to think of the reviews, the expectations or the audience perception. You are only as good as your last album or your last concert and my mantra before I walk on stage is "give something to the audience". Previous success only helps for giving a little confidence, but when I go onstage its not about me, its about the music. You can only take the audience with you on a journey if you go there yourself and any success you have goes out the window when you sit down to play - each performance has to stand alone.
T: Success for me is the key to my happiness because it allows me to continue to do what I love and that is write, record and play music.
Q9. What has been your most memorable time of creation and why?
F: I have to be honest and say that drama in my life feeds the music. I asked my Producer once what would happen to me if ever I got happy - would the well of creativity dry up? He said: No you will just start writing happy music. I have to be honest again and say that there isn't as much happy in me as sad for musical inspiration. I wish it were the other way around because life is so much easier that way, but I wouldn't be the musician I am without the drama in my life to write about!
T: The songs on my album ‘Le Cafe Ancien’ and the album I’m currently recording, I can almost say are a diary of the last half dozen years of my life which has been a pivotal period. All the same stuff people go through in life but when it happens to you, it’s like you’re the only person in the world who’s ever experienced these things. These songs are straight from the heart and extremely raw but the joy I get now from audience members who tell me afterwards that they wondered how I knew what they were going through, is something I relish and makes me glad that I put my emotions down on paper.
To read more about Fiona and Trysette tours: http://www.twograndimyours.com/
Q10. What is your favourite song/music piece you created recently? What does this music / song mean to you personally?
F; I love Antarctica from 600 Years in a Moment - its about travelling to the Antarctic Circle, about as far south as you can go. I went on an expedition cruise to write some music as I have always been intrigued by Antarctica. Its the coldest, driest, windiest Continent on the plant. The interesting thing was that I actually found very little music there at all and only came away with three pieces. Antarctica is about how changeable and dramatic the landscape is - its in 5/4 and has a cello solo with orchestra supporting the piano.
T: A song called ‘Like Water’. Without getting too deep here, it’s literally written as if I’m there in the moment when my long term partner and I broke up. It’s extremely honest and confronting, but I love it at the same time and I love that it moves some audience members to tears. It’s not a depressing song, I actually think it’s very beautiful and I really love to perform it now, where once I never would have dared in case I burst into tears myself. My heart is joyous now when I sing it because it’s such a wonderful gift.
Q11. What will be your next inspirational idea, your next CD you would like to materialise, the work that your admirers should expect?
F: I'm writing a solo piano album to record live to DSD next May in San Francisco with Blue Coast Records. Its an audiophile format that has fidelity 1,000 times greater than a CD. Its pretty hi tech stuff and I don't profess to have a clue about audiophile formats except that there is a move towards hi res downloads, SACD and surround sound as well as vinyls as an option to the compressed files we listen to on the i-pod!!! Thank goodness!
T: I’ve been recording my fourth album in L.A. whilst visiting the United States over the past eighteen months or so. I’m very excited about it cos it has some fresh and uplifting pop songs on it that show a new vibrancy in my life. I’m playing real piano this time where I’ve only ever played Rhodes before and other keys. I am also excited and honoured to have some of America’s most influential and talented musicians playing on this album. To give you a couple of examples, I am blessed to have Randy Mitchell on guitars (he was guitarist for Donna Summer for 30 years), Bob Malone on organs (Bob is keyboard player for John Fogerty - Creedence Clearwater) and on drums, Mike Baird who you will find on recordings from Pointer Sisters, Hall and Oates, Billy Idol to name just a few!
Q12. You are such a perfect couple basing your connection on love to music and art. How did you two meet and why do you like to work together?
F: We both joined a House Concert website at the same time. Trysette emailed me and suggested we look at touring, and so we met, became friends and discovered our music reached different audiences and yet was appreciated by the same listeners. From there we started touring and discovered that we offer a little of everything thy crossing into several genres between us. Its been a wonderful experience and we have built a rapore that our audiences seem to appreciate (and find funny)
T: See Fiona's answer.
F; I love Antarctica from 600 Years in a Moment - its about travelling to the Antarctic Circle, about as far south as you can go. I went on an expedition cruise to write some music as I have always been intrigued by Antarctica. Its the coldest, driest, windiest Continent on the plant. The interesting thing was that I actually found very little music there at all and only came away with three pieces. Antarctica is about how changeable and dramatic the landscape is - its in 5/4 and has a cello solo with orchestra supporting the piano.
T: A song called ‘Like Water’. Without getting too deep here, it’s literally written as if I’m there in the moment when my long term partner and I broke up. It’s extremely honest and confronting, but I love it at the same time and I love that it moves some audience members to tears. It’s not a depressing song, I actually think it’s very beautiful and I really love to perform it now, where once I never would have dared in case I burst into tears myself. My heart is joyous now when I sing it because it’s such a wonderful gift.
Q11. What will be your next inspirational idea, your next CD you would like to materialise, the work that your admirers should expect?
F: I'm writing a solo piano album to record live to DSD next May in San Francisco with Blue Coast Records. Its an audiophile format that has fidelity 1,000 times greater than a CD. Its pretty hi tech stuff and I don't profess to have a clue about audiophile formats except that there is a move towards hi res downloads, SACD and surround sound as well as vinyls as an option to the compressed files we listen to on the i-pod!!! Thank goodness!
T: I’ve been recording my fourth album in L.A. whilst visiting the United States over the past eighteen months or so. I’m very excited about it cos it has some fresh and uplifting pop songs on it that show a new vibrancy in my life. I’m playing real piano this time where I’ve only ever played Rhodes before and other keys. I am also excited and honoured to have some of America’s most influential and talented musicians playing on this album. To give you a couple of examples, I am blessed to have Randy Mitchell on guitars (he was guitarist for Donna Summer for 30 years), Bob Malone on organs (Bob is keyboard player for John Fogerty - Creedence Clearwater) and on drums, Mike Baird who you will find on recordings from Pointer Sisters, Hall and Oates, Billy Idol to name just a few!
Q12. You are such a perfect couple basing your connection on love to music and art. How did you two meet and why do you like to work together?
F: We both joined a House Concert website at the same time. Trysette emailed me and suggested we look at touring, and so we met, became friends and discovered our music reached different audiences and yet was appreciated by the same listeners. From there we started touring and discovered that we offer a little of everything thy crossing into several genres between us. Its been a wonderful experience and we have built a rapore that our audiences seem to appreciate (and find funny)
T: See Fiona's answer.
Q13. Please tell us the name of the first famous musician/song writer/singer that comes to your mind and why? Is he/she the one who gives you inspiration?
F: Ravel. I used to listen to Bolero over and over and over. I used to deconstruct the parts and work out how the 'build' worked and why it had such an emotional pull. I guess I have take that forward with me somehow. I also love Andrew Lloyd Webber and I used to listen endlessly to Evita and all his works. I also love Prokofiev and as an 8 year old would dance around the house to Peter and the Wolf.
T: There have been so many over the years but at the moment I would have to say Adele. Not only is she an amazing singer and songwriter, but more importantly, she’s happy in her skin and not afraid to be completely herself. I love the fact that she doesn’t hold back in her lyric writing and you get a complete sense of where she’s coming from and what her values are when you listen to her songs. I love that she doesn’t edit her vocabulary either when she speaks! Another inspirational singer is Pink! She rocks hard and totally exposes her emotions in her songs letting us know that it's ok to be vulnerable and open ourselves up to each other.
Q14. What are the ways you market your music with?
F: There are really only three main ways. Radio and online social media. Word of mouth is the third and most valuable.
T: For me the most important marketing tool is playing live. I think that people can love your music and appreciate it and want to buy it and share it, but there’s nothing like the connection that comes from being in a room together and sharing a personal experience through live music.
Q15. If not a singer/musician whom would you be instead?
F: A painter.
T: I’ve always loved the outdoors and I even worked on safaris for a couple of years when I was in my 20’s. I still maintain that if I wasn’t a musician, I would probably be doing something similar involving the outdoors and the tourist industry.
F: Ravel. I used to listen to Bolero over and over and over. I used to deconstruct the parts and work out how the 'build' worked and why it had such an emotional pull. I guess I have take that forward with me somehow. I also love Andrew Lloyd Webber and I used to listen endlessly to Evita and all his works. I also love Prokofiev and as an 8 year old would dance around the house to Peter and the Wolf.
T: There have been so many over the years but at the moment I would have to say Adele. Not only is she an amazing singer and songwriter, but more importantly, she’s happy in her skin and not afraid to be completely herself. I love the fact that she doesn’t hold back in her lyric writing and you get a complete sense of where she’s coming from and what her values are when you listen to her songs. I love that she doesn’t edit her vocabulary either when she speaks! Another inspirational singer is Pink! She rocks hard and totally exposes her emotions in her songs letting us know that it's ok to be vulnerable and open ourselves up to each other.
Q14. What are the ways you market your music with?
F: There are really only three main ways. Radio and online social media. Word of mouth is the third and most valuable.
T: For me the most important marketing tool is playing live. I think that people can love your music and appreciate it and want to buy it and share it, but there’s nothing like the connection that comes from being in a room together and sharing a personal experience through live music.
Q15. If not a singer/musician whom would you be instead?
F: A painter.
T: I’ve always loved the outdoors and I even worked on safaris for a couple of years when I was in my 20’s. I still maintain that if I wasn’t a musician, I would probably be doing something similar involving the outdoors and the tourist industry.
Q16. What talent would you most like to have apart from the ones you already have?
F; I would love to play the cello!
T: I so wish I could hold my breath under water for at least 5 minutes. Imagine the benefits. lol!
Q17. Is there something that you are still learning?
F: I'm still learning music in every way! And…I'm learning life skills. You never stop learning.
T: I’m continually learning about life and how to live it to the fullest. This requires a lot of soul searching and learning about yourself so that you can let go of stuff that holds you back.
Q18. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
F: The piano.
T: This is way too specific a question for me. I don’t actually think I have one answer for it and I think that we have various things and people at different times in our lives that we value more than others.
F; I would love to play the cello!
T: I so wish I could hold my breath under water for at least 5 minutes. Imagine the benefits. lol!
Q17. Is there something that you are still learning?
F: I'm still learning music in every way! And…I'm learning life skills. You never stop learning.
T: I’m continually learning about life and how to live it to the fullest. This requires a lot of soul searching and learning about yourself so that you can let go of stuff that holds you back.
Q18. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
F: The piano.
T: This is way too specific a question for me. I don’t actually think I have one answer for it and I think that we have various things and people at different times in our lives that we value more than others.
Q19. What would be the first thing you do if you win the jack pot lottery or own a large sum of money?
F: Play till the money runs out.
T: Put a stash under my mattress, give a stash to animal welfare and party with my friends and family. Oh and I'd buy myself a grand piano!
Q20. Which five words would your friends use to describe you?
F: Arty, vivacious, driven, spontaneous, creative.
T: OK I actually had to consult my friends about this one and this is what I got - sexy, cute, loyal, kind, creative ...........well now I'm glad you posed the question. Thank you! haha!
Q21. What would you like to be doing in 2-3 years from now?
F The same thing. If I could just add some film writing work I would be happy.
T: Living the dream on a slightly grander scale and sharing it with my loved ones. I want to be able to keep writing songs that people want to hear.
F: Play till the money runs out.
T: Put a stash under my mattress, give a stash to animal welfare and party with my friends and family. Oh and I'd buy myself a grand piano!
Q20. Which five words would your friends use to describe you?
F: Arty, vivacious, driven, spontaneous, creative.
T: OK I actually had to consult my friends about this one and this is what I got - sexy, cute, loyal, kind, creative ...........well now I'm glad you posed the question. Thank you! haha!
Q21. What would you like to be doing in 2-3 years from now?
F The same thing. If I could just add some film writing work I would be happy.
T: Living the dream on a slightly grander scale and sharing it with my loved ones. I want to be able to keep writing songs that people want to hear.
Q22. If you had one wish…
F: For everyone to be happy. To erase sadness.
T: That people could live in harmony with each other and just appreciate the wonder of the playground that we’ve been given to express ourselves.
F: For everyone to be happy. To erase sadness.
T: That people could live in harmony with each other and just appreciate the wonder of the playground that we’ve been given to express ourselves.
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