Lise manzambi biography of rory

From the age of three he went with his father to performances and music fairs. At the age of 10 Rory started playing the guitar, at the age of 13 he won the Sena Guitar Awards and at the age of 16 he started recording his first instrumental guitar album. Music has always been his passion from an early age. If you asked him what he wanted to be, his answer was "professional musician".

After primary school he went to the preparatory course of Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam where he studied music theory as well as guitar. After the preparatory course at Codarts followed a year with various projects and Rory learned to integrate music into computer games. After that year he then began studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory Codarts department of popular music.

During the course, Rory's network grew and he was increasingly asked for studio sessions and performances by famous artists. Not only does he produce his own music, he also produces other artists and projects. During projects he is assisted by a number of renowned musicians. Currently, Rory wants to focus primarily on making and releasing his own music.

Instrumental guitar music, but also collaborations with other artists and singers are planned. Ik vind het heerlijk om verschillende muziekstijlen te combineren. Rock, pop, dance, jazz, soul, country.. Ik gebruik het allemaal. And the great thing is: nobody keeps me from making it! With this open-mindedness, Rory wants to share his boundless passion for music and guitar with the world.

The fast rising alt star on beginning a music career in her 30s and processing trauma through songwriting. I am looking forward to it. Then I was meant to play the Underground, but that sold out, so we ended up going to Islington Academy, and then Electric Ballroom. I got a year back. Very badly. I would have dealt with it very badly.

You know, I had a lot of unprocessed trauma, I had a lot of addiction issues that were brewing. Had that carried on… I had some success in my 20s, but luckily not enough to do myself any real damage. My whole worth as a person came from music. I remember feeling so ashamed of my age for so many years, so upset, with a bit of a victim mentality to be honest.

You said that in your 20s you were quite dependent on music and it was quite tied to your self worth. When you write songs now, how much does that commercial, professional songwriter side of your brain affect your process?

Lise manzambi biography of rory

I always get it wrong. What made you want to write about family? The EP was originally something totally different. I think it was called Comeback Kid and it was almost positive — as positive as I was gonna get, anyway. As I was in that process, I was going through some really difficult stuff. I was constantly either upset or angry, ruminating over things that had happened in the past, and just trapped in a negative place.

I went back to therapy to help me process what it means to go no contact with a parent, to unpack those dysfunctional dynamics and what that has done to me as a human being. And as I was doing the therapy, I was realising things that I never knew. I never knew that growing up, being screened out or being hit or being in an environment where there are loads of affairs, I never knew that that was not normal.

And actually, some kids are respected and spoken to calmly at home. That was a real shock to the system. Very quickly, it just felt like the whole EP was going to be about family dynamics. Which is a bit strange, because, you know, my songs are about relationships. To write about family felt a bit odd, but it was so true to what I had been going through for the last year.

Was that a healing process at all, writing the EP or did you find it quite difficult? One of the things that I was denied was a voice. It felt like reclaiming something, to use my voice. When you speak about the issues in a dysfunctional family, you actually invite yourself to be attacked and ostracised even more. A little bit healing, a little bit scary, but I am glad that I did it.

It must be a strange position to be in, being no contact with someone but releasing music publicly, which is almost a form of indirect communication. I wrote myself what I would want to hear from my dad, which came from a conversation in therapy, and I thought, oh my god, that would make a really good song. That song just destroyed me.

I had to leave the studio, I could not record it. When I did the music video, I started crying. I really have thought so many times, what would he think if he ever heard this song? She has been struggling. Maybe I should have been there more after her mum died. Maybe she did deserve an apology for all those years of affairs. Which is hard to deal with.

You hate me talking about this stuff. Do you have any apprehension about playing songs like this live, when they come from such a raw and vulnerable place? I have no doubt that I will be crying on stage during that song. What I hope for is maybe what I found on my last tour, because I had a song about my mum dying that just also did this to me.

It was just destroyed me. But as the tour goes on, you get more desensitised to it, and you can regulate in the moment. So by the end, I was able to sing this song about my mum dying, and be okay. But by the end of it, I will have become almost desensitised. That was one of the most powerful moments from my last tour. It was really powerful and really emotional.

If anything, that shows how upsetting it is to not be understood by a parent that you desperately need. If that means me crying on stage, then so be it. When did that start?