Post by MaybeNext on May 12, 2005 20:40:25 GMT 10
ARTICLE from
"The Advertiser" (Adel)
12 May 2005
Singing on top of the world
SITTING in a cafe in Hindley St, Guy Sebastian is drawing a map - his own little sketch of Sydney's northern beaches.
He's trying to explain Palm Beach, the suburb he now lives in, and reckons it's easier to explain this way.
"People have this vision of Palm Beach," Sebastian reckons, "but it's always like an American, Baywatch kind of thing."
As we stare at the map, and he points out his sheltered cove, we can't help it: "So this is where your million-dollar home is?"
"Oh, it's so not that though," he cries. Sebastian has lost none of his affable nature to his exclusive suburb.
"Even my friends-apparently in BRW, I was one of the top earners as far as entertainers go," he laughs. "It's so funny, because they don't actually get it right. It's money that goes into your account, but they don't realise that part of my business is then you've got to pay everyone else."
Yeah, but you still live in Palm Beach.
"You don't realise how much you pay for such a little place in Palm Beach. I couldn't imagine living in a big house. I struggle just keeping my little one clean. It's a small three-bedroom house, but I love it.
"You pay for the view; you can see the water and everything. But it's something that's already inspired a few songs, just sitting on my balcony. I wouldn't swap it for the world."
But the world is calling the Australian Idol. Now with two albums and his first headlining national tour under his belt, Sebastian has not only begun work on his third album - so far, he says, it has a "modern Motown" kind of vibe, and looks like being fairly stripped back - but concrete plans are afoot for his long-held dream of a gospel album.
"I guess it's a big part of my life, so I wouldn't be sharing musically all of me without doing it," he says with a shrug.
Not only that, but his gospel dreams look like having him beamed into 300 million homes worldwide when he performs as part of America's biggest gospel concert. In the stadium alone will be 80,000 people, and he'll perform alongside gospel legends like CeCe Winans.
"There's a lot of things I've been able to do, which has just been unreal," he says of his pop star life. "Basically what I had in my hand was my gift and a microphone, and I guess I used what I had in my hand to be able to fulfil what was in my heart."
Lauren McMenemy
"The Advertiser" (Adel)
12 May 2005
Singing on top of the world
SITTING in a cafe in Hindley St, Guy Sebastian is drawing a map - his own little sketch of Sydney's northern beaches.
He's trying to explain Palm Beach, the suburb he now lives in, and reckons it's easier to explain this way.
"People have this vision of Palm Beach," Sebastian reckons, "but it's always like an American, Baywatch kind of thing."
As we stare at the map, and he points out his sheltered cove, we can't help it: "So this is where your million-dollar home is?"
"Oh, it's so not that though," he cries. Sebastian has lost none of his affable nature to his exclusive suburb.
"Even my friends-apparently in BRW, I was one of the top earners as far as entertainers go," he laughs. "It's so funny, because they don't actually get it right. It's money that goes into your account, but they don't realise that part of my business is then you've got to pay everyone else."
Yeah, but you still live in Palm Beach.
"You don't realise how much you pay for such a little place in Palm Beach. I couldn't imagine living in a big house. I struggle just keeping my little one clean. It's a small three-bedroom house, but I love it.
"You pay for the view; you can see the water and everything. But it's something that's already inspired a few songs, just sitting on my balcony. I wouldn't swap it for the world."
But the world is calling the Australian Idol. Now with two albums and his first headlining national tour under his belt, Sebastian has not only begun work on his third album - so far, he says, it has a "modern Motown" kind of vibe, and looks like being fairly stripped back - but concrete plans are afoot for his long-held dream of a gospel album.
"I guess it's a big part of my life, so I wouldn't be sharing musically all of me without doing it," he says with a shrug.
Not only that, but his gospel dreams look like having him beamed into 300 million homes worldwide when he performs as part of America's biggest gospel concert. In the stadium alone will be 80,000 people, and he'll perform alongside gospel legends like CeCe Winans.
"There's a lot of things I've been able to do, which has just been unreal," he says of his pop star life. "Basically what I had in my hand was my gift and a microphone, and I guess I used what I had in my hand to be able to fulfil what was in my heart."
Lauren McMenemy
