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Famous Magazine June

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Music Makers

How Ivana Santilli learned to be direct; Common’s Wanted appearance; what Dr. Dre’s wearing


By Ingrid Randoja

New York State of Mind

When Ivana Santilli (pictured above) moved from Toronto to New York she had no idea it would cause a creative ripple that would lead to a surge.

 

The sultry-voiced former Bass is Base singer, who left the band in 1996 to go out on her own, was in need of some inspiration. So in the spring of 2005 she headed to the Big Apple where the city’s hectic pace and energy pushed her to write most of the songs on her third solo CD, TO.NY. (available June 10th).

 

“One of the things about New York is you really have to be direct, you can’t mince words,” says Santilli on the line from her Toronto home (she has since moved back to the city). “When you’re going through the turnstile in the subway you can’t think, ‘Should I let this person in, or should I go first?’ When that happens four people go ahead of you. You gotta go, you gotta be decisive. And that helped me when it came to writing lyrics for this CD, they’re not flowery at all.”

 

TO.NY. features pop tunes that pay homage to the AM radio Santilli listened to as a kid. “My guilty pleasure is ‘blue-eyed soul’ — Hall and Oates, Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan. I embraced it, and what I like about that stuff is that all the pieces fit, there are no pieces just dangling by themselves out of self-indulgence.

 

“And you have to summarize a great idea in a few of sound bites. It’s a big challenge. You have three minutes to evoke what you mean. I took on the challenge and enjoyed it.”

 

Common

Singers On Screen

He played Denzel Washington’s cousin in American Gangster, a drug dealer in Street Kings and now Common portrays weapons expert “The Gunsmith” in this month’s Wanted. Although his roles are growing larger by the film, the Chicago-born rapper has made time for music with his latest CD, Invincible Summer, slated to drop this month.

 

Listen Up!

If you’re willing to drop $400 (U.S.) you can pick up “Beats by Dr. Dre,” state-of-the-art headphones developed by Dre and high-end audio manufacturer Monster Cable. The hip-hop legend explains his reasons for branching out into audio gear by saying “When I’m making a track I’m trying to capture the sound that makes me go, ‘now THAT’s the sh-t!’ And I want that reaction from everybody who hears it.” 

 
 

Out this month

JUNE 3

Ashanti - The Declaration
Disturbed - Indestructible
Aimee Mann - Smilers


JUNE 10

Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement
N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds


JUNE 17

Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Busta Rhymes - I’m Blessed


JUNE 24

Weezer - The Red Album
Nelly - Brass Knuckles

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