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Love wins the day SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS SAMANTHA.LEE@PEOPLESPOST.CO.ZA @SAMANTHA_LEE121
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usic has allowed them to travel the world, but it is their love story that has them firmly grounded in South African culture. For husband and wife Kurt and Aleshia Adams, the founding of their duo band Adam and Lee has allowed them to share their story and music across various platforms, celebrating their own unique sound. Aleshia says their name stems from many in the music industry knowing her as Lee, with Kurt adopting their surname, becoming Adam. “Adam and I were part of other bands before and we were working for too long on other people’s dreams and their visions, and one day we decided let’s do what we want to do,” she says. This was when they founded the band in 2015. The pair have been working professionally in the music industry since they were at school and have worked most of their careers on cruise ships. This year, they released their first single in Afrikaans, titled Ons is Een. “Our single is a love story inspired by our love for each other. It took us about a day. We were in China at that time so we just sat down and put something together and recorded it,” she says. “Our main focus is not Afrikaans. We don’t have a main (language focus) but it was cool to (do it) because I don’t think anyone expected us to come out with an Afrikaans song. We do a lot of jazz and people were expecting jazz. I think Afrikaans is a big thing for our culture. We love Afrikaans music and that’s why we went with that.” Travelling to amazing places such as Italy, Jordan, China and Spain are some of the standout moments for their careers thus far. “Seeing different places (is a standout). We are from Ottery and it is easy to get stuck in Ottery’s way of life, but there is a whole world out there. Seeing other cultures, people doing things a different way to what you are doing it and also meeting amazing people along the way. These are moments (we) will take with us,” says Aleshia.
Kurt and Aleshia Adams.
Aboard one of the MSC cruise ships at the announcement of the lockdown in March, the pair boarded a flight home and have not really worked much since then. “As artists during lockdown, it has been challenging. The work is starting to pick up slowly now. Because music is our full time career, obviously things have been challenging but we made it and things are starting to pick up and I think during the lockdown
we could find ourselves again; check in with ourselves to find out if we are where we want to be and what we need to do or change. “That is the positive we took out of this,” says Aleshia. As the duo have had much success in their career as full time musicians, their advice to other budding artists wanting to break onto the music scene is to be themselves. “We all start out admiring artists and big
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