Singer Amy Shark is grateful success came late, otherwise it would have put her off music
AMY Shark is grateful pop star success came comparatively late. With her debut album Love Monster set for release next month, the 32-year-old Adore singer is ready for whatever the future holds.
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AMY Shark is grateful pop star success came comparatively late.
With her debut album Love Monster set for release next month, the 32-year-old Adore singer is ready for whatever the future holds.
“I am so glad that none of this mayhem started when I was like 15 or 16 because I would just be off it,” Shark told The Daily Telegraph.
“I can see how that happens because you are doing all of these crazy things and your schedule is out of control and people tell you you are great every day, so if you don’t have the right mindset with your feet on the ground, you could turn into a total loser. If I wasn’t myself, it would be very hard to keep up an act.
“I am really relaxed because I am not putting on a show.”
Shark’s 2016 single Adore put her on the international radar and scored her a contract with Sony Music Australia.
She won best pop release and breakthrough artist of the year at the 2017 ARIA Awards for her Night Thinker EP and performed on both the Jimmy Kimmel and James Corden shows in the US and counts the likes of Hollywood star Katie Holmes as a fan.
“When Katie Holmes walks into a bar, she is tall and gorgeous and so softly spoken,” Shark recalls of a recent gig in New York, where she met Holmes for a drink before the show.
“We had the best time. It wasn’t like I was playing a massive arena, it was a dingy venue in New York. I had to really focus because I ended up looking at her the whole time.”
Love Monster has been years in the making.
“I am obsessed with this album so at the end of the day if it comes out and everyone hates it and it isn’t doing what it is meant to do or whatever, I know that it is a really cool, honest album and I am proud of it. Obviously there are external pressures but I am not letting that get to me. I never thought I would get the chance to do a debut album. It is just such a big deal for me, this body of work is everything that I have, so I am very attached to it and very protective of it.
“It is very personal, that is who I want to be and that is what is in this record.”