The place is the Love?, Pump It, I Gotta Feeling or Let’s Get It Began. The American band Black Eyed Peas has among the greatest hits in pop historical past. Out of fifteen Grammy nominations, she turned six into wins.
However fourteen years separate the group from the final golden report participant, in addition to from the final live performance in Prague. There have been instances when it will be laborious to seek out an individual who didn’t know a minimum of certainly one of her hits. She was completely in every single place in her time. However these days are gone.
Singer Fergie, who was an integral a part of the group, left the band for good in 2017, and the seventh studio album Masters of the Solar Vol. 1 was launched in 2018 with out it, as had been the 2 following.
Curiosity within the band and its new work has basically declined. And though just a few hits from the brand new information, equivalent to the one Do not You Fear with Shakira and David Guetta or Ritmo with Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin, attracted consideration, they had been solely distant reflections in comparison with the success of the flip of the millennium.
However the twenty-one-year-old hits from the Elephunk report are nonetheless necessary singles for a lot of, defining the brand new millennium. They usually additionally act as a nostalgia wave set off. And live performance organizer Michael Tardík, who’s behind the return of the Black Eyed Peas to the Prague stage, determined to take a journey on it. He’ll convey the band to Zluty Lázně on July 10.
Tardík briefly talks about BEP’s return to the Czech Republic. How did he give you the thought of bringing the band to the Czech Republic once more and what are the necessities of a band of this measurement.
We then chatted with Black Eyed Peas members will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo about:
- social commentary in music;
- charitable actions;
- and about Fergie’s alternative, Filipino singer J. Rey Soul.
Interview with Michael Tardík
You introduced the Black Eyed Peas live performance only some weeks earlier than it befell, how lengthy did the association really take?
A couple of month. In spite of everything, the concepts of each events wanted to be reconciled.
What situations does an organizer have to fulfill to be able to consider a band of this measurement?
In fact I needed to defend my place in entrance of everybody. However I had already organized a live performance by the American digital music producer Skrillex and I’ve a few years of expertise within the music trade, so it labored. I’ve over a thousand occasions in varied positions.
The Black Eyed Peas final carried out in Prague fourteen years in the past. Their present work doesn’t resonate with listeners as a lot as earlier than. Their fame and recognition is predicated totally on their fifteen or extra years outdated work. What was your impulse to prepare their live performance?
Buddies ask me this query in nearly each pub. Neither
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