Category Archives for "Entertainment Interviews"

June 11, 2014

A Conversation with Desert Noises’ Kyle Henderson, Tyler Osmond & Brennan Allen – HuffPost 6.11.14

Mike Ragogna: Your music has been described as being made for jumping in rivers, shouting in canyons and getting into a marital status with the road. If you could add to these three, what else would make the list?

Kyle Henderson: Good times with new friends, watching a storm, party party.

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June 10, 2014

A Conversation with Colbie Caillat – HuffPost 6.10.14

Mike Ragogna: Colbie, I wanted to ask you about your video for “Try.” It’s a very strong statement. How did it come together?

Colbie Caillat: We have a lyric video and a real music video, which we shot just the other day, and when I wrote the song it was all about how, personally, I felt like people around me in the industry and, unintentionally, my record label, was hoping I could be a different-looking–a little sexier, showing more or showing less, if you know what I mean. And that’s what inspired the song, and then when I was trying to find out how to do the video I was talking to my boyfriend Justin, and I said, “I think it should be me in my bathroom, with tons of makeup on, and then I take it off.” We just kept unraveling it from there. I kind of wanted to do a time-lapse of the whole process getting done–the hair, the makeup, the nails–from start to finish, and just completely baring all; it was really difficult for the video, because I started out with zero hair and makeup done; not even a blemish or a zit was touched up. And I had to do a bunch of performance shots like that in tons of bright light and with HD cameras right in my face; it was terrifying! Terrifying because you know everyone’s going to be looking at all those imperfections that could have been fixed up. And then as the video progresses, we put more and more makeup on, and then it’s going to be in reverse, a lot of the scenes, and by end of the video, I’m in full-on hair and makeup, have hair extensions. Then they show me taking the hair extensions out. And it was the same for the nine other women in the video.

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June 10, 2014

A Conversation with Morgan James – HuffPost 6.10.14

Mike Ragogna: Morgan, how did your latest album Hunter come into being? At what point did you decide you wanted to do a solo project?

Morgan James: I did four original companies on Broadway, so basically I was on Broadway for about five years straight, and all along I was singing on my nights off with various bands; I was kind of forming what was to become my band. And I didn’t really know what I was doing as I was trying to find my sound, but I knew ultimately I wanted a solo project. When I was signed to Epic two years ago, basically Hunter has been in the works the entire time, I’ve been writing it for about a year and a half, I’ve been trying out the material in front of live audiences, which was a really great way to find out what worked and what didn’t work, and L.A. Reid and Doug Morris at Epic and Sony really kind of gave me the opportunity and the time and space to find my sound. I would bring in music, I would try out music; the cream rises to the top and we eventually discovered the songs that were going to make the record.

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June 6, 2014

A Conversation with Ringo Starr – HuffPost 6.6.14

Mike Ragogna: Ringo, with your All Starr Band, it’s clear you’re getting by with a little help from your friends. How did it all start?

Ringo Starr: Well, it started because I was invited to put a band together and go on tour, and I’d never done it before so I just opened the phone book and called all my friends and they all said yes, so the first tour sounded like an orchestra. It worked so well I just sort of kept it up and kept it going and I’ve gone two years now with this band. You know the dynamics, Todd Rundgren we’d had in a couple of bands before and Richard Page was in the last band, so I just put all the others in, Gregg Rolie and Steve Lukather and them to give it a different feel. We just all got on so well, it’s nothing you can plan–it’s not that I didn’t get on with the other band, but it wasn’t as close as this band. This has been incredible. Everybody supports each other, we’re all good friends, everybody’s out to dinner with each other, hanging out. It’s functioning like a real band that’s been together forever.

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June 5, 2014

A Conversation with Communities In Schools’ President, Dan Cardinali – HuffPost 6.5.14

Mike Ragogna: First off, what is Communities In Schools mission and can you go into a little of its history and successes?

Dan Cardinali: For more than 30 years, Communities In Schools (CIS) has been helping students achieve in school, graduate and go on to bright futures. Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

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