INTOTHECROWDMAGAZINE Kevin Fisher of Sweet Talker shares details concerning the origin of group name and talks all about the recording and touring experience.
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his multi-talented individual, Kevin Fisher, began writing songs and playing music at the young age of 13 years old. Fisher can be found on YouTube covering songs such as Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah and One Republic’s Come Home. In these videos, he can be seen singing, playing the guitar and the piano. And for those of you who don’t know, he also enjoys playing the drums even though he claims to not be professionally good at playing them.
that he records with a band comprised of many of his good friends from He Is We.
He is now on the road with Lydia and From Indian Lakes, and said that touring does have its pros and cons. “Sometimes, the long drives can be a little bit uncomfortable and there is a lot of waiting around not doing much, which actually gives me time to do work for my day job on my computer,” he says as he weighs out the good and the bad sides of being on the road. He continues: “It actually just depends Prior to forming Sweet Talker, Fisher and a because no tour is alike. It’s cool because at the couple of his good friends formed a band based in beginning of tour, you don’t know people. But after, Seattle, Washington called “Fairline”, where he played you get to know them really well and that’s cool.” the guitar. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out and each member went their separate ways. “Right after Can we expect to see him out and bout and that happened, I have always been writing songs touring to promote his new stuff? Absolutely. and took singing very seriously. So, I just started writing some new songs and took those experiences I had in the band and everything I learned and put it into use with this one,” Fisher says. One night, the name of “Sweet Talker” came into mind when he was walking home. “I was thinking of names because I didn’t just want it to be Kevin Fisher and then that just kind of popped into my head,” explains Fisher behind the reason he chose to be Sweet Talker. Although he does admit of producing music that is somewhat in the pop genre, he balances it out by having a calming and subtle voice. So, he thought that “Sweet Talker” could be used appropriately as a name for his music. When talking about what is favourite thing about recording is, Fisher loves simply being him and a guitar or him and a piano. He also mentioned that he think the recording aspect of things is so enjoyable for him because in that element, he get to see everything that he have worked on like the outlines of everything he did and Fisher explained that was when the idea of what it could be and what he want it to sound like comes together. “So that’s my favourite part, seeing the vision you have completely to reality,” he adds. Another reason that would make recording even more enjoyable for Sweet Talker is
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