Q: Hey, can you tell us a bit about where you come from, and what made you want to start a career in music?
A: I was born and raised in Amsterdam the Netherlands, to Nigerian parents and lived there up until I was 13 years old. We moved to Belgium to a city called Mechelen in the province of Antwerp.
What made me want to start a career in music? I would say that I’ve always respected and loved the art, I practiced it as well by writing freestyles every now and then but I never felt worthy of pursuing it honestly because I always respected it so much. By writing freestyles I improved over time and once my parents and friends heard some of them, they liked it and told me I had potential in music. My Dad who is a big hip-hop fan himself was the main reason for getting into music.
Q: And what other artists have you found yourself listening to lately?
A: Right now I listen a lot to Aaron may, Dave, J.Cole and Kendrick Lamar
Q: Who were your first and strongest musical influences, and why the name ‘Deore’?
A: In my early teens I listened to a lot of Dutch hip-hop and American hip-hop. The names that stand out, because I had many are Rick ross, Lil Wayne, Tyga, Meek mill and The Game just to name a few. I have to put Jaden Smith in there as well, because he did a freestyle on Tim Westwood’s channel and killed it. Jaden who is the same age as me, doing a freestyle on Tim Westwood’s channel when he was 13 and did well inspired me to start writing.
My name is David which means beloved and I wanted a stage name to still remain personal or something that would describe me. So if you look the word Deore up, you will see many definitions as it is a old-English word but one of the definitions I came across was adored and beloved. It has the same meaning as my name and just the word Deore sounded cool to me.
Q: You have just released your new single, ‘Mystery’. Is there a story behind it?
A: Yeah. Prior to writing Mystery there was a period in my life I just questioned everything about life and struggled to make sense of it all, which affected me then. I was still living in Belgium at the time while my parents were in London, I went to visit them once and stayed there for a while and nothing specific really happened but once I went back to Belgium I just found a way to deal with the endless dialogues I’ve been having with myself for a long time. In the song you can hear in parts that I overcame something I was dealing with.
Q: Can we expect a new EP or even an album from you in the near future?
A: my plan is to attract as many listeners first and then for sure a EP will be put together. But at the moment dropping as many singles is my main priority.
Q: What do you feel are the key elements in your music that should resonate with listeners, and how would you personally describe your sound?
A: the vulnerability I show and personal things I share. I put stuff in my songs that I would normally never share on a normal conversational level.
My sound is a mix of old school elements and new school, I love the new school sound so the instrumentals you’ll hear me most on are trap, drill and R&B soul beats but with a focus on lyricism, metaphors and rhyme schemes.
Q: Do you feel that your music is giving you back just as much fulfilment as the amount of work you are putting into it, or are you expecting something more?
A: At this point I feel that it’s giving me even more because of the improvement I’ve seen from song to song, but the last thing I’ll do is rest on my laurels because I’m very eager to see how far I can take it.
Q: Could you describe your creative processes? How do usually start, and go about shaping ideas into a completed song?
A: I just let the beat play and just take it all in, normally I’m not thinking about ideas at this point but sometimes ideas come spontaneously but majority of the time I’m just feeling the beat out first. Once I have a flow for it I’ll ask myself how the beat is making me feel and I make sure I’m as honest as possible. once I have a subject to talk about I try to find as many subtopics that I can associate with the song title and just arrange them into a complete song.
Q: What has been the most difficult thing you’ve had to endure in your life or music career so far?
A: nothing really comes to mind now.
Q: On the contrary, what would you consider a successful, proud or significant point in your life or music career so far?
A: having my creations online and see people liking it. I was always reluctant on releasing stuff but having my first two releases online is nice.
