IN MILLION COLORS, IN MILLION VOICES, I AM LOOKING FOR SOMETHING, WHICH WILL LEAD ME TO YOU INTERVIEW 5 APRIL, 1999

 

-       You were grown up in family of actors. What made you become a musician?

-       I can’t tell. Nothing is happening in life by accident. Maybe from the beginning the music energy was coded in me, which revealed by itself. I am fond of music from my childhood. In my opinion what profession is chosen by a person, if he has a capacity to paint, he will paint by all means. The same process was going on in me. I graduated from The Musical School of Talented Musicians and then conservatory. During my study at the conservatory I was playing at Opera House band. As for present, I am going to organize concerts in all high educational institutions of Tbilisi. I have already had concert at the Institute of Foreign Languages.

-       This is your meeting with students and how do you formulate your relations with teen-agers?

-       To tell the truth, I avoid relations with teen-agers, as my music is created for open relations. I am very emotional person of 34 years old who needs properly prepared audience.

-       Can you tell whether the relations towards your creative work, has changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

-       You see, at that time I was alone and I played this kind of music alone and if you are alone, everything is clear - you are mad or different, unordinary one. So at that time I was considered to be mad. The only changing are MTV and NCN since that time. But I still think that at present my music is more familiar.

-       Your unordinary appearance is one more thing that attracts people’s attention. Does popularity make obstacles in your life?

-       I do not think that I am popular. Popularity is the first stage in art and goons for a little period. After founding yourself you are not popular anymore, simply you become famous and one part of the music world.

-       Lado, all your compositions are performed in Georgian…

-       When I came into music world, rock-n-roll was not performed in Georgian. This kind music was performed in English with the arguments, that rock-n-roll is of English origin and it is not necessary to be performed in Georgian. For me this is nonsense. If you are taking civilization you must make some contribution to it and became part of it. So, if you take such kind of music, you must try to play it about your problems and make it familiar.

-       In a clip created for “My Fair Lady” with flower in your hand you are going to Mother Georgia. Who is the author of this idea and how can you explain all this?

-       This idea is mine. I simply, wanted to tell this sculpture to become more human towards me.

-       As it is known, you played several roles in different films. You were grown up in the family of actors, did you dream about being an actor?

-       Never. I was in the six form, when I was taught how to ride a horse and was taken in my first film.

-       Probably you have new ideas.

-       With “Stringed Quartette” I recorded fairytales, also the concert under forte-piano music, electric-programs (computer-cybernetic bank), where the accent is made on individualism. There exist such kind of groups, which always play one and the same rhythms, what shows their respectability. It is different in my creation. I want to produce album and create a club for the fans of music art.