Episode 7
My Inspirations in this Journey with Kandace Springs
In this episode, your host Carl Brown introduces Ms. Kandace Springs who is one of the freshest voices on the contemporary jazz scene. She is a singer, a keyboardist, and a car enthusiast. In her latest release called “The Women Who Raised Me”, she paid tribute to some of her musical inspirations which led her to the musician that she is now. Ms. Spring grew up listening to jazz and soul singers like Nina Simone which became one of her inspirations. In this episode, she talks about her musical influences, her memories growing up in a musically inclined family, how she portrays music, and the experience of performing and making music. In the 'Bout it or Doubt it’ segment, she gives her opinion about Beach Vacation and Travelling by Train, from the Travel and Leisure category. In the last segment of the show, you can hear about her reaction the moment she first heard her song on the radio, her three favorite albums of all time, her vision for the rest of 2021 and the year 2022, and many more. You can listen to Don’t Need the Real Thing, Angel Eyes, and Thought It Would Be Easier from her album The Women Who Raised Me.
Episode Highlights:
3:55 I remember my dad playing Nina Simone. Highly influenced by her and the way she played, I didn’t realize she was playing the piano and the more I dug into her. She’s just one of my all-time favorites.
10:07 I thank them and that’s what this tribute was for. I took bits and pieces of some of the way they portray their voice. Now, I see music in colors. I picture beautiful images when I hear their voices or tones. I’m also an artist, I paint. So, it all connects like an energy that you can’t explain. It’s like beautiful energy.
11:39 I see jazz, it’s like a full huge palette of every color you can think of and you can just mix it and the chord changes, you get a nice cluster of chords. Each music makes its own vibrations make a different shape and that’s how I see music.
17:58 My favorite part of making music is laying the tracks down when you got their song and they push the record and it’s like here we go.
31:58 I like collaborating with other artists. It’s really cool to see someone else play the piano and it's kind of similar to what you do.
36:37 We’ll just see where life goes, where things are going to go but I absolutely love doing festivals. That’s probably my favorite thing, I’ll be just happy doing those. I like to perform and connect with people. Create timeless music, keeping jazz alive, and writing new stuff and I am hoping to put another album out.
55:55 The experience working with a huge orchestra was just amazing. There’s nothing quite like it. You got all these fantastic musicians behind you or surrounding you. It’s almost spiritual. It takes you into another realm when you’re in that moment that the strings just carry you, your soul. It’s something I’ll never forget.
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