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2021-02-25T06:55:34.841Z


Gaia Shaki was in the "Next Star" final with Eden Elena, Or Amrami-Brockman and Ella Lee • Now she is releasing her debut single | Music


Gaia Shaki (18) has reached the final of "The Next Star" alongside Eden Elena, Or Amrami-Brockman and Ella Lee

  • "I want to be at the Grammys."

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She was one of the standout contestants in the seventh season of "The Next Eurovision Star" and even reached the finals alongside Eden Elena, Or Amrami-Brockman and Ella Lee Lahav.

Now Gaia Shaki (18) is releasing a debut single, "Nothing is important to you", which she wrote and composed together with Gil Wayne and Joseph Bach. 



"After 'The Next Star' I met Roni Brown (who signed her at Helicon - MK) and we started working on songs," says Shaki, now a soldier who has been serving at the Tel Hashomer base for four months. "It was a lot of self-work.

I wrote and composed three songs a day.

We would sit in the studio, I would play them all - and we would continue writing.

In the end we took the songs we loved the most, and that’s how it unfolded.

There are already some songs ready and the goal is to have them at the end of the album. " 



In "The Next Star" you actually appeared for the first time in front of an audience.



"True. I remember at the first audition I was scared of murder. It was the first time people had heard me like that, but after that I was in the hey of life. Those three minutes on stage every time - it's an inexplicable feeling. I enjoyed it. When I was eliminated in the final - I was not disappointed. It's obviously sucks to lose because I'm a competitive person, but I did not take it that hard. All my life it was clear to me that I would play music, with or without the 'star'. Music is something that was always there. At 13 my mother bought me a piano and I started studying. To play alone. "



You did not take advantage of the momentum of "The Next Star" and waited a year until you released a song.  



"For me I had to be whole with the songs. It's more important than the moment you have to go through. It's better to go with something you're whole with, that came after you developed with yourself. This time is no less important, and the process itself was very important to me. Take your time. " 



You participated in the Radio Station 88 project here to mark John Lennon's 80th birthday and performed the song "Oh My Love".

What about you and John Lennon? 



"I really like the Beatles. I did not know this song specifically, but I was very connected to it. I took the song for the current period, close to me, to this place that you have a great love. I have a friend for more than half a year, Omar, and I am in love." 



Can you characterize your musical style?



"The song 'Nothing Matters to You' is a bit poppy like that, but every song of mine has its own style. Every song of mine comes from a different place. The music I love to do and hear is R&B, soul. This song was not written about something I experienced, but "It's our job as artists, to know how to connect to something you haven't necessarily been through. It's a song that talks about a toxic love that's over."



How did you go through the corona period?



"The truth is that the corona did me good. I canceled performances, and I had time to sit in front of the piano for many hours. I created, studied and composed. I took that period to a place of learning, and it did me really good." 



Have a dream?



"I have a sea of ​​dreams, the most extreme dreams there are. I want to be at the Grammys. It is very important for me to succeed in Israel, but I also want the world. I have a lot of songs I wrote and composed in English, which I believe I will record. In the meantime I release songs in Hebrew."

Source: israelhayom

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