After several months of postponement, the new Spielberg is finally out, this Friday, January 29. Not the umpteenth blockbuster of the father ofIndiana Jones, E.T. or Jurassic Park, but the iridescent Spoiled Love, first solo album released by a small independent label, by his daughter Sasha Spielberg, singer and pianist camouflaged as Buzzy Lee. “At first, I postponed the release in the hope of being able to play these songs on stage”, recognizes the just thirty, joined by Zoom in his white house in East LA. “I don’t know when I will do concerts again, but it was getting too frustrating to sit on a record in which I put so many emotions and personal stories. “
Sasha Spielberg once imagined herself an actress, as if to better extend a childhood bathed in the world of cinema. « More than a director, I wanted to be in front of the camera, she remembers. I admired my mother and my stepsister so much [les actrices Kate et Jessica Capshaw] and the stars who came to the house. » Mainly maintained by small appearances in films of his father (Pentagon Papers, The terminal, Munich, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull…), His filmography had difficulty in masking his true vocation. “I’ve been writing songs since I was 8 years old. It has always fascinated me, even though I have long told myself that the life of a musician was not for me, I was so panicked at the idea of going on stage. »
Writing as carthasis
As a kid, she first enjoys pretending to play on the house’s mechanical piano. Before taking his first keyboard lessons. “My goal was to be able to interpret My Heart Will Go On, the main theme of Titanic, sung by Céline Dion. I was obsessed with this movie and Leonardo DiCaprio, I must have seen it a hundred times! », Sasha Spielberg says with a smile.
“Two of the main themes of my father’s filmography – curiosity for each other and nostalgia for childhood – are often found in my songs”
The soundtracks of films rock the daily life of the iconic Hollywood family. “If my father loved the Beatles, he mostly listened to film music”, recalls the singer, whose mother prefers female figures from independent rock, such as Lucinda Williams or Ani DiFranco. « I was very influenced by these soundtracks ”, recognizes Buzzy Lee, explaining that she often conceives her music as soundtracks of imaginary films before words transform them into songs. The dark strangeness of the titles of Spoiled Love will however evoke more the compositions of Angelo Badalamenti chiseled for the films of David Lynch, than the themes many times Oscar winner of John Williams, conceived for those of Steven Spielberg.
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