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Post by MG on Apr 10, 2023 22:45:13 GMT 1
can I take British virgin islands? Confirmations have closed already and the nation is taken by someone else. You’ll be able to confirm next edition when confirmation open with any of the free countries.
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Post by Jan on Apr 13, 2023 20:56:22 GMT 1
CITN has previously announced, that the Cayman Islands will return to the sixteenth Own Americavision Song Contest, after their last edition's break. Today on 13th April of 2023, the official entry for the contest was revealed.BOYS NOIZE & KELSEY LU Boys Noize is the Berlin-based Dj and producer Alexander Ridha. He made his DJ debut at the age of 15, taking a teenager´s love of house and techno to a global scale.
Ridha established himself as one of the world’s preeminent wizards behind the decks, not only technically but also as a showman. His sets are as uplifting as they are unforgettable. He’s been anointed one of the “Top 10 DJ’s Who Rule The World” by Rolling Stone, elected “Best Electronic Act” by Beatport 3 years in a row, and lauded by virtually every dance authority. He´s rocked the world’s biggest stages, lit up Coachella three times, stormed Lollapalooza, and headlined festivals and clubs on every continent – from Berlin techno temple Berghain, Manchester's Warehouse Project to Fuji Rock in Japan and Bon Iver’s Eaux Claires Festival in the woods of Wisconsin. All on his own terms.
As an artist and producer, BOYS NOIZE has created a sound that is peerless, uncompromising, and enduring – respected in the scene, banging from underground to mainstream, his work flies in the face of convention at every turn. He’s remixed Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, David Lynch and Nine Inch Nails, collaborated with Snoop Dogg, Jarvis Cocker and Santigold, worked on Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Special” as well as the soundtrack and theme song for Oliver Stone’s film “Snowden” and german blockbuster “Who Am I” , and founded similarly diverse group projects with genius pianist Chilly Gonzales (Octave Minds), Virgil Abloh (Off-White), Erol Alkan and Mr. Oizo (Handbraekes), to name a few.
American cellist and pop iconoclast Kelsey Lu has been residing on the Cayman Islands while recording their next album and along the way they've been documenting the rise and fall of the sun. Lu didn’t expect to be in the Cayman Islands this long. The orchestral pop iconoclast had envisioned staying there for a short window, leaving, coming back and bringing other collaborators down to work with them. Then Covid-19 happened, and Lu has been staying on the Cayman Islands for longer. Palm trees, blue skies – there are, perhaps, worse places to be stranded.
Lu has been able to find a creative spark during their time in the Caribbean. But it hasn’t been limited to just a record. Inspired by the nature of the Islands, they've worked on an ongoing, audio-visual project of meditative sound baths called ‘Hydroharmonia’. “I performed in the Cayman Islands recently,” Lu tells NME on Zoom. “I had just finished a tour, and my partner’s old friends with the events curator here, and they were like, ‘Do you want to come and stay for a weekend?’” They decided, why not? “I had never been to the Cayman Islands. I think about the Cayman Islands as like offshore financing and you hear about money laundering,” Lu quips.
Their experience, however, has not been anything like the stories they've heard. “The place that I’m staying is centred around wellness, and the person that brought me here curates a lot of art forward and creative figures to come and stay, and get inspired,” they say. Still, in the midst of a pandemic and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Cayman Islands has admittedly been a “bizarre place to be.” “There’s no sense of civil unrest here on the visible spectrum, at least where I am,” Lu, 29, says in a hushed tone. “But then, it being a part of the Caribbean, where historically slavery is at the forefront, it’s interesting.”
Despite being away from America in the Cayman Islands, Lu has also never felt more comfortable in their own skin as a Black, queer woman. “I’ve never been to a place where I was like, ‘Wow, I can really be queer, I can be Black and not feel like everyone’s staring at me,’ or that I’m the only one here like this,’” they say. “It was a different feeling from anything that I had experienced, going to a place that is known to be a resort or a destination where it is usually white and has people of privilege and money – I would not expect to feel comfortable here.”
The singer whose real name is Kelsey McJunkins was born into a musical family in South Carolina. Growing up with a percussionist father and a pianist mother, Lu began studying classical music and composition at just six years old through piano, violin and cello. Music became a central part of their upbringing and transformed into an escape, as they grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness in a strict religious household. It was tough on their identity, and at 18, Lu left home to attend the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. After a year, Lu dropped out and began touring with hip-hop collective Nappy Roots. While they pursued a career in music, Lu has avoided being boxed into any kind of genre label, their music and collaborations have been fluid. Lu has worked with a gamut of artists including Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, Jamie XX, André 3000, Kelela and Solange (along the way they played cello for Florence + the Machine).
For their own projects, Lu intended to bring a slew of collaborators with them down to the Islands. Instead, during that time, the singer has pushed themself into free-flowing art and education. Part of their processing has also included revisiting the complex (and often whitewashed) history of music. Lu's demeanour intensifies as he explores the headiness of the subject, they're a sucker for “nerding out” on sound. “One of the ways that the image of classical music has been imposed on people through time has been this white place,” they say. “I’ve been studying the history of how that’s come to be.”
While they initially came to the Caribbean to work on the follow-up to the vibrant, avant-pop debut ‘Blood’ last year, Lu's focus shifted. “It dissolved into me just making something that’s more pertinent to healing, meditating and processing on, ‘What is the now’ and ‘What is the future?’” Lu says. Their love of nature, which has long been an inspiration for Lu's work, was the spark that led to ‘Hydroharmonia’, these stunning, harmonious soundscapes as a way to ingest what they've been absorbing on the island. In the inaugural episode, they documented the movement and reflection of the sun, just them processing and coping with the protests and the pandemic from afar, while still pulling from nature.
After discovering their love for the Cayman Islands, Kelsey Lu has teamed up with producer Boys Noize and couldn't be more proud to represent the country at the Own Americavision Song Contest 16 with the song "Love & Validation".LOVE & VALIDATION OFFICIAL VIDEO Timeslot: 3:23+Good luck!
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JAMAICA James Indigo "Cxntour"2:59+
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FRENCH GUIANA Goldn.B - "Droga" 1:35+
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