Jonas Tomalty interview at the 2024 Maxim Grand Prix Party red carpet in Montreal

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https://www.maximotv.com  Canadian singer Jonas Tomalty (@jonastomalty) interview on the red carpet at the annual "Maxim Grand Prix Party" on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at Gare Windsor Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Interview by Pamela Pagano (@pamela_pagano). This video is available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV

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00:00Hey, pal.

00:01Hi, pal.

00:02What's up, Pam?

00:03What's up, Jonas?

00:04I love you already.

00:05Yeah.

00:06Now, Jonas, we love your music.

00:07You're on tour.

00:08You actually started with Montreal April 27th.

00:09Yeah.

00:10Now, you're going all around Quebec.

00:11Tell us, why do you love touring?

00:12When it's in your DNA and you come home and you live out of one suitcase and the next

00:13suitcase is full of people, it's like, oh, I'm going to live here.

00:14I'm going to live here.

00:15I'm going to live here.

00:16I'm going to live here.

00:17I'm going to live here.

00:18I'm going to live here.

00:19I'm going to live here.

00:20I'm going to live here.

00:21I'm going to live here.

00:22I'm going to live here.

00:24I mean, if you've been in a group or a band or anything like that, your friends and your

00:47You've been in a group or a band or anything like that, they're your friends and your family

00:52and your bros and nobody really understands it quite like that, but there's a beautiful

00:57dichotomy now that I'm a dad of three that I also can't wait to come home.

01:04So the good part about this most recent tour this summer is that a lot of the dates like

01:10you said are close to Quebec or within Quebec, so family's coming a lot.

01:14Maybe a little roulotte, you know, some camping entre-temps, but yeah, and really looking

01:20forward to putting out the new album, the Jonas and the Jaguar Moon Project coming out

01:25in September, October.

01:28So yeah, this tour is great, but it's hard not to look at what's coming up next.

01:35There's always something, there's always something, but now you spoke about your family, your

01:38three kids.

01:39How have they inspired you?

01:41They're incredibly inspiring and incredibly tiring.

01:45That's normal.

01:46I think my parents would say the same thing.

01:48My voice is a little tired right now, and it's not from singing.

01:52It's from like, stop, come here, no, don't do, you know, it's a lot of like, come on!

01:59And then also, just the best hugs, right?

02:04There's no hug like a baby's hug, so they hug good too.

02:08You gotta keep them chunky so that the hugs are chunky.

02:11There we go.

02:12That's the trick.

02:13So now I-

02:14Chubby hunks.

02:15Chubby hugs.

02:16Chubby hugs.

02:17Chubby jokes?

02:18Chubby jokes?

02:19Anyway, you know what I mean.

02:20A new song.

02:21We just made music right there.

02:22That's it.

02:23So now-

02:24That's the creative process.

02:25Exactly.

02:26That's how it all began, okay?

02:27So it's on the new album in September.

02:28So now you're from Montreal.

02:29You went to John Rene High School.

02:30How do you know so much about me?

02:31Oh, I adore you.

02:32Come on, I adore you.

02:33Oh, that's so sweet.

02:34How doesn't someone know about you about this, you know?

02:36So now you went to John Rene High School.

02:38How has this city, how has Montreal, you know, just inspired your music?

02:43It has shaped who I am.

02:45I think there's a real beauty in the simplicity of Montreal, in the challenges of Montreal,

02:57in the friction that comes with politically, linguistically, being an Anglo-bilingual person.

03:05I appreciate all of those things and everybody has seen me and known me as a city boy for

03:13so long.

03:14We just moved up to the country burbs and I think often about the city and about the

03:20Jacques Cartier Bridge and about just the beauty of our simplicity as people and how

03:25accueillant and, you know, chaleureux we are.

03:30Exactly.

03:31Yeah.

03:32So this is a great time of the year too when the Grand Prix comes in and the tourism is

03:36high and we get to shine.

03:38We get to shine.

03:39Yes.

03:40You know what?

03:41You spoke about those hugs.

03:42Can I have a hug?

03:43Yeah, absolutely.

03:44You can have a hug.

03:45Oh, cheers.

03:46Thank you, Jonas.

03:47Thank you so much.

03:48Thank you.

03:49Thank you, guys.

03:50Thanks, Montreal.

03:51Thank you.

03:52Wow.

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