Artist profile

Name: Rory Galvenez
Age: 21
British singer songwriter, alternative style.

First time singer song writer who has become big in alternative music after very successful debut album. Double page spread is an interview with the artist to see where he came up with the idea for his album.
Questions that can be asked in double page interview:

• Where his inspiration came from for his first album and many of his songs
• Whether he drew inspiration from other indie alternative artists and what type of music he was into.
• His early life and what effect that had on him
• How he spent his early life.
• His plans for his next album.
• Whether he'll tour or not?
• How is he different from the other artists?
• What type of guitars he plays.

The article can then lead onto whether his style of music will change the face of Indie-Alternative.

My artist will be dressed in mainly indie clothes. But they will still be casual so I will not have him going full indie to tie into my alternative side. His outfit will consist mainly of skinny jeans, boots and some sort of casual top and possibly a coat of the same indie fashion. My artist is tall.

Rory, has always known the south, and the sea. Growing up on the south coast of England he has been exposed to sea, salt and sand since an early age. However Rory isn't such a keen surfer as more of the guy who likes to lie on the beach and write songs. As a teenager, he worked in a small beach shop come cafe on the Fistral beach front. He tried his hand at surfing and at evening surf sessions he became used to hearing the slow melodious tunes of Jack Johnson drifting across the sands. He picked up his first guitar at the age of 15 and has never put it down. Discovering his was a dab hand at guitar he spent most of his summer sitting outside his cafe and playing a mixture of Jack Johnson tunes and his own acoustic work. When he turned sixteen he was introduced to festivals and travelled a number of folk acoustic festivals in the south of England. Enjoying such exposure he left his sixth form school and travelled to a music college where he developed the skills he needed, perfecting his singing voice. He moved on from his old battered acoustic and brought a Freshman dreadnought body. Enjoying this new sound he became determined to move onto the small stages of his idyllic festival; Glastonbury. On the 9th of May his seventeenth birthday arrived and he was delighted to discover a fender telecaster awaiting him from his parents. It had been a big ask for such an expensive present, seeing as his dad owned the local chippy and his mum worked in a play group. Ever grateful he spent three weeks developing a song to honour his parents. He played his way through the rest of the year; playing "pubs and clubs" in the centre of Newquay. As soon as he could he took a gap year, after saving solidly from his small cafe job and beach busking he had acquired the funds for his travelling adventure. He busked his away across Europe and finally got the funds for his trip to AAustralia and New Zealand. He became the centre of any youth hostel he travelled to and he would play the night away on an old battered acoustic whilst he shared beers with new friends. He became increasingly apt at the ukulele, enjoying the new tunes he could hit. After a year away he returned to start his university career. He had decided it was time to leave the south and he travelled north; studying music and film making at Edinburgh. despite his travelling and exposure to the world he fell on hard times at university. with the death of his mum he almost failed his first year and only just scraped through. He pulled through and at the age of 21 he realised his dream as he was signed by brushfire records, Jack Johnsons own record label. He says he must have been heard whilst travelling Hawaii. Now he has released his debut album and here he is.