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Roman Kemp

lines on the record: 114
first: 2022-03-07
most recent: 2022-03-07
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“No, so I was part of bands. Bands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they put me in bands. Like, I was, you know, bass bank. Or it was like, oh, would you want to write a song for other people? Do you want to do this, this, and that”
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“It's like it's a lot you're putting in your own emotional being into music or into this kind of like thing. I guess the only way I can describe it is how kids must feel if they're young footballers and they're trying to make it and they get cut from teams. It's a lot of emotion going up and down and up and down. You know, you win at one point and then the loss is so hard. And when you're going through puberty, imagine that at the same time you don't know how to handle that.”
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“Real job. Yeah, so no. So I basically did... Universal for a while and wet in a band and in bands and projects or whatever, right? And I then reached a point where that all ended like really abruptly. Partly because I just couldn't do it anymore. And it was a lot. I felt like it was a lot to take in. And I remember just sitting with my mom and just like, I was like, it must have been 18. And I was just crying and I was just like, I just, I can't be a part of this. Like, this is too much. Like the expectation on young kids in the music industry is a lot.”
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“And, like, the music world was normal to me. The film world was normal to me because I've grown up in it. And I guess that's why I wanted to do it. It's never been anything to do with fame. In our house, do you know what I mean? Like, the idea of what you want to do when you're older was never attached to, oh, well, I'll be really famous if I do that.”
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“That you can do. Oh, I mean, you got paid at 15. It was okay. And look, at the same time, I was being able to sit in meetings with people who are now heads of labels and, you know, meet all these people and kind of grasp and understand. It's definitely helped with me now having interviewed so many artists in terms of what they're going through because I've witnessed some form of that. And I did that for Three years, about three years from when I was 15 to 18. Hey, listen, when I signed a deal at 15 and then I went in to do my GCSEs, no wonder the bad on my GCSEs, I could care less. Literally, I walked into some of my GCSEs. I walked in the room, sign my name and walked out. I got you in maths. Of I was distracted at that age, and I kind of guessed, I didn't know exactly what it was, but I knew that world was normal to me.”
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“I saw the record deal at 15, which came through in such a weird way. It was like... Meeting people and someone saying, Oh, would you want to try and do songwriting? And I had an interest in it and I worked with a few people, worked in management companies as a Saturday job. And then they were like, yeah, cool, let's do it. And I signed a development deal with Universal Music, which basically means you're the label's bitch, right? Where you'll be a part of any project that they want you to be a part of. So they basically...”
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“But I would say with my dad, it's never the pressure. And with my mum, it's never the pressure of how well you're doing. And like, you know, tick this off, tick this off. Look what I've done. You've got to do this, this, this, this, this, this, this. It's not that. The hardest thing with my old man and my mom, for that matter. Is the public perception of them is how it is, which is they are so nice. And like there are these amazing people. I always feel like for me and my sister, there's more of a pressure for me to be able to have a good relationship and a wife in the way that my dad has, that for me is more of a pressure than anything to do with work. The relationship that they have weighs massively on me because I don't want to ever go through a divorce. I don't want to ever, you know, go through problems because they never did.”
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“Yeah, but that's society. I always use this as an example. It's like, you know, you look at any famous kid. Like that there is. Me, myself being an offspring of someone who is famous, two people that are famous, I will still look at, you know, Brooklyn Beckham and see him getting a scholarship for a photography thing and go, ah, I bet he's got that because of his dad. And I'll catch myself doing that. But that's a normal thing to feel. That's a normal thing to feel. I'm sure he hasn't. I'm sure he's got great talents. But I fully understand why people would look at me and go, oh, he's got to wear he is because of his dad. Let me tell you, at the beginning, I asked my dad, hook me up. Like, help me out. And he couldn't like he genuinely, like, because of what I wanted to do was different.”
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“Yes and no because to be honest, I'm so again, I'm so lucky because the parents that I have are so supportive of what I want to do. And it's the same way however they've parented me is the same way I want to be with my children. I'm a massive family person. I believe that everything I'm doing now is for my family and to create better people. But I think with my dad and my mum in that respect, you know, my mum was part of the first group. To ever perform in Asia? Do you know what I mean? Like in terms of wham and Pepsi and Shirley was insane. You know, my dad part of Spandau and acting career and all these types of things. I'm insanely proud of that. So, for me to then say, I'm not good enough for it. Could never better it puts a downer on those things, I think so. I put it kind of in separate boxes. I'm not trying to emulate them”
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“My sister, yeah. My mum and my dad are really supportive and they're always like, you know, there in terms of anything I do is great. They love it. I couldn't ask for better parents. But Harley was the first person I knew that she went out at 15 and was straight away at 14, whatever it was, was like, I need to get a Saturday job straight away. She was the one doing it. She wanted to do it. She was asking my parents, when can she go and do it? And I used to be quite, there's part of me that was a bit jealous of that because she kind of had this maturity quite early on where she was making money and she went out there and she became a portraits photographer and then a big celebrity portraits photographer and was being hugely successful. So she was that person that I was like, I need to keep up. Basically”
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“Yeah, but to be honest, like she, yeah, she is, to be honest, she kind of, she's someone that her name's Harley, Harley Moon, one word, very pretentious parents basically doesn't necessarily mean anything. I think my parents were must have been slightly intoxicated after the birth. And it was a full moon. So they named a Harley Moon. But kids with Harley Moon and Roman at that time were a little bit strange. So, yeah, just no greater meaning other than the very pretentious parents. But yeah, she's an amazing kind of person. I got my work ethic from her.”
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“As kids, I was. I'd say verging on attention seeker and yet always just performing I guess I loved mimicking and doing impressions and things like that like when I first realized that I could do impressions I would do them non-stop and I would go home I'd watch my teachers and I'd say to my parents oh this is what my teacher did today and I wouldn't just say what they said I would perform it for them how they did it So I think I was very much so like high energy kid. I would say verging on an ADHD kind of assumption. Was definitely a big change kind of when I went through my teenage years.”
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“It's all about creating tools in our brain to learn how to deal with these issues. Your brain becomes Mike Tyson and is just beating you up and you've not had one boxing lesson in your life. So you just can't do anything. You're just taking it. If you had told me 10 years ago, that would be my job. And that's what people know me for. I honestly would not even know where that would have even started. I'm pleased that I've got a good core friend group around me. I'm glad that I've got my parents around me. I'm glad that I've gone out there and I've taught myself the tools that I need to go and fight Mike Tyson in there and be able to go up against him. And that's why I feel passionate to be able to go and do that for kids now.”
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“Basically, that documentary became my own therapy. She said he's gone. Still such a weird thing that people don't want to talk about, but yet is the biggest killer in men our age”
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