Filipino artist Bamboo talks about The Voice of The Philippines and being a solo artist

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Filipino artist Bamboo talks about The Voice of The Philippines and being a solo artist. Award-winning singer and The Voice of The Philippines star coach, Bamboo, talks about his career as a solo artist and being a singing coach ahead of his concert in Dubai. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00I think we're just a lot more comfortable now. I mean the chemistry is

00:16amazing now between us coaches because now we know each other on a personal

00:20level. Especially for myself, Leia and Sarah, we've been doing this for the past

00:24how many years already? Three years? I mean and with the kids and then the

00:28first season. And then Apple, I just hang out, we just hung out in LA for a while

00:33after the ASAP. So on a personal level, it's just our chemistry is just getting

00:38a lot better and it shows. When we sit down in those chairs, no one's so

00:43defensive anymore, you know what I mean? It's just we just let all out and just have a

00:47lot of fun. And then when it comes to the artists, I think we've gotten such a

00:51great crop this year. Kudos to the show, the producers of the show to finding

00:56these great singers and artists, man. We'll see what they can do, but then

00:59there's a lot more experience, I feel, in the teams this round,

01:05right? And so I'm looking forward to how they progress and how they sort of bloom

01:11into what, you know, with all the pressure and everything. That changes

01:16everything. You could be, you know, you could be an experienced singer singing

01:19for how many years and be great, but there's stories of guys there who once

01:23they get up on that stage, they just freeze up. And they've told me,

01:27I've talked to them, and guys I've known there, I go, what

01:31happened? You know, I've heard you sing so many times and what happened? And they

01:35said, you know, I thought I had it. I thought I had it. And then when I got on

01:39that stage, I just froze. I just kept thinking, what to say to you guys

01:43instead of singing, you know what I mean? So those things happen and I'm looking

01:47forward to sort of finding the real in reality, as always.

01:55I'm hoping. I'm pretty confident to say I have a great team this year, but then

01:58again, it's, at the end of the day, it's by votes, you know what I mean? And

02:02hopefully, they let us have a bit of say at the finals also, a bit of

02:08percent, percentage-wise, because I would like that. I still would like to have a

02:12voice at the end of the show that I can say, this is who I want to win, you know

02:17what I mean? Regardless. So, yeah. So, yeah, Camp Kauai should win this year.

02:26From all the singers, it's about developing sort of the artists within,

02:30you know what I mean? Trying to push them a little more, some of them out of their

02:34comfort zone, because some of them are, because you have, it's so different. Some

02:37are just very raw, so that's easy to teach and you sort of guide them, you

02:41sort of feed them. Some are very experienced, but they sort of picked up

02:44on things that are bad habits. That's even harder to do, so I try to help

02:50them out with that, but it's a matter of taste, right? To them, they sound

02:54great, they think they're doing the right thing, but for me, it's a matter of

02:57taste, and I'm trying to sort of instill that in them. Like, some guy would sing,

03:01let's say, Imagine, and he would sing, oh, imagine all the people, baby, baby, and he

03:05would ad-lib, he would put baby, baby, and I go, you can't do that. I mean, you

03:09can't, some songs are so sacred, you don't ad-lib that way, you know what I mean? So,

03:13it's just certain points. Yes, you have a voice, but how do we sort of put

03:17everything together? Like, this voice, this voice, this voice, so that's my job to do

03:21that. I don't know the secret to that myself, I just love what I do, and I just

03:30continue to push myself, and I continue to try to do different things,

03:34to keep it fresh. I always say, it's always about your album, it

03:38starts right there, and that's what makes me happy first, you know what I mean? So,

03:43once I do that, and once that's established, and I mark that time, and

03:48everything else sort of falls into place. No water, no moon happened, and this all

03:52happened, you know what I mean? So, I'm looking forward to the next sort of round

03:57of things. I mean, this is long overdue, I should have had an album a few years back

04:00already, but then, yeah, I'm just tackling the schedule, how busy it's gotten for me

04:07with the TV show, something I've never done before. So, yeah, now I've sort of

04:12figured things out, like this is how I'm gonna do this, this is how I'm gonna write,

04:14this is how I'm gonna do the TV show at the same time, this is how I'm gonna gig,

04:17and I love all three. I'm great being a solo artist, I mean, when I say

04:24great, I'm happy, that's what I mean, that's what I mean. It's been great for

04:28me, and I love what I'm doing right now. Like I said, when I was here last

04:33year, I'm in such a good place right now, happy place right now. No water was

04:38written at a time when I was sort of, I say the first song's like in shadow, right?

04:42It was, things were a bit dark, did not know where it was all gonna

04:47head, but through the process of that album, I sort of found greed, and I found

04:51myself, found the joy again, and rekindled that, and now through the years, after how

04:55many years, it's been three years since that album, it's just, you know, it

04:59just keeps going up. I keep getting happier and happier, chattier and

05:02chattier, and I'm just having a great time. The secret is just love what you do,

05:06and you gotta work hard. I mean, it's in anything you want, right? It's the day

05:12you say, oh, I'm okay, I'm great, I'm done, you know, that's the day you start, you

05:17know, dropping like a comet, or sinking like an anchor. You just

05:21gotta remain hungry, and I've said that. I mean, this is, for me, this is still the

05:26beginning. I still see this as the beginning. That must be a Zen thing,

05:30because I read too much stuff, to be honest, right? Beginner's mind and stuff like

05:34that, so this is a beginner. So this is a beginning, a start for me, here in Dubai,

05:39here in Manila, and in the rest of the world. So thank you. Hello, love, this is Bamboo,

05:44and you're watching GNTV. Peace.

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