Preview/Interview: Beate S. Lech (Beady Belle) at ReVoice! Wednesday 16th October (2013)
Tomasz Furmanek interviewed BEATE S. LECH, the Norwegian singer/composer with a Polish background and co-founder of Beady Belle, who are appearing at the ReVoice! Festival on Wednesday October 16th: Tomasz Furmanek: The song “Clandestine Bond” recorded at the very beginning of your career with Jon Eberson Group was beautifully haunting and romantic . Is that your nature? Beate S. Lech: Oh…long time ago, this song. But yes, I think I am romantic – as the opposite of pragmatic. I am emotional, sentimental, nostalgic, melancholic, energetic, I love surprises, I cry easily, laugh a lot, am easily excited and I am very affected by the atmosphere around me. I am a filter-less absorber. TF: Your Father, jazz violinist Zdzislaw Lech, is Polish. Do you speak Polish? BSL: I’m afraid I don’t speak Polish. I am quite disappointed that I don’t. It would have been so easy to learn – with a father speaking Polish to his kids. But he didn’t do it to either of us, so no… No Polish. And this language is so intricate and difficult, so when I have tried to learn it after being grown up, I have given up… TF: How was it growing up in Volda, a small place by the fjord in Norway? BSL: Volda is a small town in the western part of Norway, about 10000 citizens. But even though it was a small place, it was a cultural place with a lot of cultural activities – choirs, orchestras, music school, dance and ballet schools, sport – and I was a very active child. I think I was busy almost every day, singing, dancing, playing my violin, my piano or my bass, riding horses, playing volleyball, skiing and…well…being a child. The nature is spectacular in this area of Norway. High mountains are going straight into the deep fjords, fresh air, sheep in the mountains, deer in the woods and fish in the see. I loved growing up in Volda. https://londonjazznews.com/2013/10/14/preview-interview-beate-s-lech-beady-belle-at-revoice-wednesday16th-october/
