I’m Madonna Too, No thanks!

Jazz Goa, a website of Jazz musicians, interviewed Colin D’Cruz virtuoso jazz bassplayer from India who mentioned Madonna in this interview. The comments are not exactly positive but serve to D’Cruz to explain why he wants to stay true to his own style.

Jazz Goa: What is it about jazz that makes a jazz musician stick to a form of music that A&R managers have scientifically and suspiciously proven to be a musician’s surest route to death by starvation?

Colin D’Cruz: One good reason would be the fact that jazz allows me to be myself as opposed to pop that wants me to be Madonna. I would rather be me than strut onstage wearing conical jocks. I remember a male indipop album released by some genius A&R manager, titled ‘mai bhi Madonna‘ (i’m Madonna too). Jazz as you will see, and if you’ve heard about ‘mai bhi Madonna’, helps me retain my individuality and what’s left of my sanity in this big mad world of music marketing. Jazz, the most open, alive and evolving form of music, is the medium i choose to communicate and express myself musically. I know a lot of people in the audience may not understand my intense shoobee-doo-wop, shoobee-doobee-doo-wop and emotive twidlee-didlee, didlee-doo-dah along with some sensitive chaka-chaka, shaka-dish-boom-thaak. But there’s always the few who can ‘feel’ what they can’t figure. Most of the time the message I communicate may read ‘hey brother, how about a loan.. I’m broke again’ but when i have an audience enjoying my music, I feel like a millionaire.

Source: Jazz Goa – www.jazzgoa.com
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