Liquideep Interview
When the American born Ziyon (singer/songwriter/producer) who moved to South Africa in 2000 met with Ryzor (DJ/producer) from Alexander, they followed their passion which is making music. They didn’t know that one day they will have eight number-one singles and four number-one albums, and won Channel O Music Award four MTV Africa Music Awards. Today they we have sold over 160 000 1st and second album sales. Check out this Liquideep interview for more inspiration
Youth Village: How did the name Liquideep come about?
Liquideep: The name was used by Ryzor before the group, but Ziyon gave it meaning after we formed a group . ‘Liquid’ = Our music is not ‘boxed’ to one genre we just do music we feel . ‘Deep’ = we take time with our music, we are on a mission to create timeless music and it’s a life long journey
Youth Village:Starting up what were some of the challenges you faced?
Liquideep: Before fairy tale broke we where just dj’s playing at restaurants and where not chasing record deals an stuff, where were just playing our favorite records to those who where willing to give us an ear Lol!
Youth Village: When did you get your first break?
Liquideep: This happened in 2009, when the song ‘Fairytale’ broke into the scene, this caught us by a surprise and a lot of things changed from them on, in a good way tho! 🙂
Youth Village: Your latest single “Welcome Aboard” is really something fresh; take us through the recording and song writing process?
Liquideep: The song was initially recorded in a while back, and it was revisited last year, where Sunnyboy played live guitars and more stuff was added to the song to make it current, it’s one of our favorite song to perform, everyone just looses themselves when it comes on!!
Youth Village: You have travelled all over the world what was your most memorable experience outside South Africa?
Liquideep: Our first time in Namibia was epic, Kenya was amazing, Angola, Dar Es Salaam, Dubai, Maputo, ah!!! just thinking of the love we get when we visit this places is just mind blowing. Places like Portugal, Maimi, Paris, London … man!! only videos or pictures can explain how awesome it gets 🙂
Youth Village: What makes your group different to other house groups out there?
Liquideep: We make music from our hearts, the intention is to share a piece of us with the listener experiencing themselves in the music at the same time, we capture our past, present and future lives into the song … yes the future us lol!
Youth Village: You guys have shared stages with great artists such Akon and Angie Stone, did you always anticipate that?
Liquideep: No, honestly we didn’t anticipate anything, we where just in it for the love, we still are but sharing stages with these type if people is a cherry on top, it’s all a blessing from God.
Youth Village: How do you cope with fame?
Liquideep: There’s no formula to deal with fame, we just try consistently to be ourselves and be relatable, so we are constantly on guard to prevent the praise going into our heads.
Youth Village: Where is South Africa musically?
Liquideep: Africa is the future, and South Africa is among the best in the continent … so we are well positioned to be the next global sound!!
Youth Village: What do you feel are some of the challenges faced by SA youth and what do you think are some of the solutions?
Liquideep: SA youth faces a lot of challenges same challenges we face, crime, drugs, abuse, lack of funds etc … That’s why we as Liquideep are getting involved with the ” Rise Again Foundation ” to raise awareness of various youth formation like yourselves to highlight different struggles that y’all fight agains on a daily! Everyone needs to get involved.
Youth Village: Besides working hard at the studio, what do you do for fun?
Liquideep: Play a bit of tennis, hang with friends, and family … take vacations … the normal stuff 🙂
Youth Village: Any projects in the pipeline that your fans should know about?
Liquideep: We are shooting video for our latest single ‘ Rise Again ‘ it should be epic and this video will be used for the ‘ Rise Again Foundation ‘ campaign as well, so epic moments ahead 🙂 and we have just started the ‘welcome aboard tour’ we its scheduled for all over africa and rest of the global territories from now running into 2014. so we coming to a place near you!!! if we don’t drop us a tweet or Facebook message we will respond !!! promise 🙂
Youth Village: Your advice to young people who are struggling to make something out of their lives?
Liquideep: Don’t compare yourself with your friends, don’t measure your success/ or failures against anyone. Work hard and learn from your elders. and always rely not on your self but your creator.
Youth Village: How can your fans connect with you or buy your music?
Liquideep: We are on social networks and we are very interactive:
Facebook: Liquideep
Twitter: LiquideepSA
Instagram: LiquideepSA
YouTube: MentalwaveTV
Soundcloud: Mentalwave
