You had separate concerts after five years. Why was there such a prolucion?
My last big concert before that took place in 2018. We were also supposed to play for the 2.0 album in 2020, but covid-19 came and interrupted everything. I was going through a musical transformation at the time and was looking for the right sound for my work. We opened our own studio with producer Enthike, where we composed one song after another. I think there were two hundred of them in the year and a half of covid.
It also resulted in finding the audio that is on my new mini-album. The creation of the film Banger., for which Enthike and I recorded the final song, was also important. Thanks to all this, my fan base revived, new people joined it, two of my singles were very successful and I decided to return to the stage.
When you launched your first album in Prague’s Lucerna Music Bar in 2014, basically only girls came and squealed the same way female fans squealed at Beatles concerts in the early sixties in Britain. Was it the same at your concerts this April?
To some extent yes, because girls are usually loud. However, their age has increased, they no longer predominate among those who are required to attend primary school. In Brno, a father arrived at the concert with his twelve-year-old daughter, and I realized that she was two years old when I released my first song.
I’m glad that my music is reaching new people as well. But primarily it is obvious that my fans grow with me.
You talked about the musical transformation you went through in the past years. Has there also been a personality transformation?
Definitely yes. I grew up in show business, I was weaned on it, I worked in it since childhood. I made my first film when I was seven years old and since then I have been constantly spending time with older people on the set and later on the music scene.
I think it caught up with me a bit after that. I started asking myself a lot of questions about my teenage years and had no answers. Serious thinking and finding answers had to come. At that time I wasn’t very active musically, I didn’t have much to say. I had to experience something and come to terms with myself. Only then was I able to come up with a work that makes sense to me.
Did you figure out what demon was preventing you from finding meaning in music before?
The beginning of my career was fast. He came suddenly and I didn’t have the necessary work ethic. I relied a lot on others, I knew that my co-workers would do a lot of things for me. Gradually, however, I realized that it was not supposed to be like that, that I had to be the driving force behind it all.
There were other things too, especially parties and all that goes with them. They also kept me away from work. It was only when I understood their uselessness and removed them from my life that things started to get better. I shifted my energy to work, and that now fulfills me more than anything else.
During that period I was lost within myself and looked for solace in the wrong places. I didn’t have the necessary concentration for work. Then I found out that I suffer from ADHD syndrome. I thought it was impossible for adults, but I had not solved a major problem from childhood, which caused many others in my life. It was one of the demons I had to fight. He was influencing my behavior more than I thought.
Finding out I had ADHD answered a lot of questions I had been asking myself up until that point. Today I am working with him, I have him cured and I feel that I am able to function much more efficiently than before. Greater creativity also appeared.
You came across as arrogant to many people. Was it related to that?
I know it was, but I don’t know how it came about. To be honest, I think I’ve always been nice to everyone. Maybe I just radiated bad energy, maybe I didn’t feel comfortable in my skin and created a mask of inaccessibility, maybe I didn’t feel mentally fit. There could be some kind of defense mechanism behind it.
Do you want to pursue music and acting?
It’s nice for me because I can diversify the two things. I’m playing with one and missing the other, so when it turns around it evens out and that calms me down. It gives me freedom in that I don’t have to stick to just one profession.
I am inspired by Richard Krajčo and Vojta Dyk, who created wonderful roles in film and theater, won credit for them, and at the same time have a successful musical career. Both worlds recently came together beautifully for me in the film Banger., for which the musical aspect was very important. If I didn’t have it in me, it wouldn’t work.
The songs from your mini-album Heart in the palm of your hand are not optimistic. What are you singing about?
There are more of those topics. It’s covid, problems with certain addictions that have been with me since I was young, some of my past relationships that I haven’t resolved, and the transformation I talked about.
Have you gotten rid of your addiction?
If a person is prone to them, he must be careful of them all his life, he must always be cautious. However, the life I live now is not connected with them. There were times when I was the last to leave parties I was invited to. Now everyone is surprised that I only stay on them for a moment and disappear.
They talk about you as a representative of the new Czech musical generation. Do you feel like one?
I’ve been on the scene since 2013, when the music industry started to change drastically. I started in a period when hits were produced by radio stations, whose activities and selections depended on everything.
That started to change and for a while I didn’t know if I should try to make songs for the radio or if it didn’t matter anymore. In addition, the emerging rap subculture did not take much interest in me, although I felt that I was a part of it to some extent. It only changed after my performance in the movie Banger. also by the fact that for my generation rap is mainstream. I mean that I belong to the new musical generation.
