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I thought I would share a small clip of the first single LIFE FIRE off my new TENtation. I call this my happy song off the new album. Tumi and I wrote this in under an hour. You can purchase the single on ITunes by clicking on this link: http://smarturl.it/AuriolHaysLikeFire
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” I love good old George Bernard Shaw. He always hits the spot. This blog post deals with music, imagination and desire. These three things are interrelated, in my thinking, and is […]
TENtation contains only ten tracks and is produced by Tumi Kgosi and Seth Grey. The soundscape of the new album is one that animated her formative years. She is paying homage to her musical roots.Saturday afternoons spent at one of the most iconic clubs is Cape Town, THE BASE, where mix tapes were exchanged and […]
“Hell is other people” I have heard this so often. I was about to say the same thing when I realized that “Hell is my perception of other people.” Honestly, I wish I weren’t so full of shit or weighed down by my expectations of others. Sometimes I expect too much or too little. I […]
This cheeky interview appeared in Bizcommunity.com Happiness is? Lying in the arms of some delicious passionate man, sipping whiskey afterwards, eating chocolate during…Uhm no. Happiness is expecting nothing and being okay with whatever’s there, but I will take the whiskey, the man and chocolate if I must What does music mean to you? It means I […]
This is a very old interview and, I think, one of the first to appear after I released my debut album Behind Closed Doors. I find it hilarious how things change. I ditched the husband and now own my own set of oracle and tarot cards. Perhaps I am indeed a junkie who is beyond […]
MY THOUGHTS ON AURIOL HAYS’ LATEST OFFERING, DREAMING MUSIC […]
I am the proud ambassador of The Living Cornerstone Alzheimer’s Residences. More awareness is needed. I interviewed Gilda Schammell who is the founding member of the TLC homes. I honestly hope this helps. And if more information is needed, please contact Gilda via mail: info@thelivingcornerstone.co.za
Once I sat listening to man sing on a hospital bed, half his face scarred and bloody after a bike accident. I was 13, suffering from amnesia after falling on the ice. In truth I could barely remember my name or what happened, but I do recall his voice. His deep, emotive, delicately textured voice. […]
MY THOUGHTS ON AURIOL HAYS’ LATEST OFFERING Zakes Mda Ohio University, Athens Ohio I am often amazed at Auriol Hays’ comfortable eclecticism – the fact that she has this naughty velvety voice that belts smoky jazz numbers harking back to an era when lyrics meant something and scatting women ruled the roost, and yet she […]