Nakhane Toure

by PDBY Staff | May 13, 2014 | Entertainment

 

You were also pegged as favourite for many people. As someone who is clearly not commercial and with your inherent humility, how do you deal with so much recognition?

I try to not think about it. I was reading an article on one of my favourite singers Billy MacKenzie from The Associates, and he and a journalist are speaking about an unnamed musician who walks into rooms expecting to be recognised and worshipped. Billy simply says, “Poor boy.”

I don’t want to be that person. It’s strange, it really makes me laugh. I don’t know how to react to it. I always ask Chris how to respond to tweets, “What should I say?” and then he advises me. I always remind myself to not get used to it.

 

Your song “Christopher” was inspired by your real life partner. How did he react to being the subject of the song?

At first he was bashful, a little embarrassed, but secretly flattered. Now he does not hide those emotions anymore. He’s actually directing my upcoming video for the song. I think that says it all.

 

Do you feel that you are as complex and multi-faceted as your music?

My music is a focusing and distillation of who I am, a way to make things make more sense, in a way compartmentalisation. In person, in my mind it’s all just a mess. “Complex” is too polite a word. Maybe “complicated” would be more apt. But on the other hand we all think we’re more complicated than we actually are. We live in an era where you read almost (and I’m exaggerating to make a point of course) every second Facebook post where kids are trying so very much to be “weird”. And that’s just willful. I don’t want to be willful about who I am. That must come naturally, otherwise it just seems like a performance.

 

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