Interview with Ilaria Graziano, cont'd
- This is a second interview conducted by bubuche93 through email in January/February of 2005 in English. Questions were provided by members of the ykDB forum.
- If Graziano's responses don't make sense, it's because she responded to the questions in English. The interview was edited as best as possible by TenAJs. To see her unedited responses, head over to the forum thread.
Q1 by misssakura: I would like to know how much input she has into the music, whether she has formal training or if she collaborates with the musicians until they work out a sound they like... and if so, does she truly consider it to be all her work?
IG: Every time, the work with musicians is different. For me, it is important to have a good feeling with people who I'm working with.
Working on the same vibration being open, what I care about more is to feel music and go through the emotions, that can be one of my inputs.
..."All my work"?!!! It can't ever be all my work, isn't it? But of course, I'm a good part of it .
Q2 by roger343: I'd like to know if there are artists who influenced her music (of course not only Yoko Kanno).
IG: It is a big list... and doesn't have any genre or time. From classical, jazz, heavy metal to ethnic, popular music, hip hop, and electronic, I don't have any limits. I won't to be influenced by everything that makes me feel emotions!
Q3 by hokidoki: Ilaria Graziano is my favorite. She's so awesome.
Question: Are you working on any more projects with Yoko kanno at the moment? What are the plans for your solo project?
IG: Mmmmm... You know what! Like a good Neapolitan girl, I'm really superstitious...! In my city, we say: statt 'zitt che e' meglio!
Q4 by ykDB: Following roger343's question, I'd like to know what the music industry is like in Italy. And what are the reasons for her to move to London? Hopefully that question isn't too personal...Something more relational to YK, how did she meet Yoshio Nakatani from Chiara Sun Music?
IG: Well, the music business in Italy? Oh my god!... It's... (I don't want to/won't say anything bad) ...Anyway, it is not just about music, is it? Money, money, money! So things can't be too good when $ is around!
Q5 by misssakura: I would like to know what languages she speaks, and how well she speaks them.
IG: Okay, I speak Italian, French, English, and Neapolitan! And I'm really bad in all of them!
Q6 by Megumi: Like Misssakura, I would like to know more about her relation with other languages, specially with French. Did she live in France to know it as well?
IG: I love languages, I mean, you can find a different sound in your voice and play with it! I used to sing with my band in Bulgarian, African, Spanish, and different dialects too. Also because I believe that languages keep the differences and the unity of human beings, are the sound of races and lands, cultures and traditions, the vibration that give us a place in the world. And I like to feel part of the globe!
About French, I'd learn it at school, on holiday, and one time, I had a French boyfriend! (shhhhhhhh!)
Q7 by tlsmith1963: Since she recently did some songs on the new Cowboy Bebop album, I was wondering if Ilaria is a fan of CB.
IG: I love him!!!!!!!!
[ykDB's note: "him"? Hmm...]
Q8 by CiscoMatisse: I'd like to see what she looks like too. A girl with a voice that beautiful has GOT to be pretty. (i loved the answer of another fan : "Try telling that to celine dion" :)
IG: Um, um... thanx baby, I hope that I can be nice for your taste then!
Q9 by mike_s_6: There's this thread in AnimeNation and one of the forumers that I encountered thinks that the female version of Heaven's Not Enough was sung by Ilaria. Can we verify this?
IG: No, it was not me!
IG: thanx a lot to you all!
peace 'n love !!!!!
ilaria