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"It’s 10.30am in the western Sydney suburb of St Clair, the sky low and white
and muggy. Grant Perez is posing with his car as the
Guardian’s photographer
snaps away. It’s not uncommon to see rappers and pop idols draping themselves
over Lambos and Maseratis, with Calabasas palm trees waving in the background;
Perez’s whip is a sticker-plastered four-door Toyota JXZ100 Mark II which he
works on in his spare time, often posting videos of himself installing
coilovers or lovingly washing it in the driveway of the family home.
Three weeks from now, Perez – better known online and on the charts as
grentperez – will be out of the suburbs and on a 36-show North American tour
for his new debut full-length album,
Backflips in a Restaurant. The
24-year-old has more than 770,000 YouTube subscribers and fans all over the
world, after nearly a decade of uploading videos filmed in his bedroom
upstairs, singing sweet, soulful covers and his own songs.
Backflips is the
sleek, confidently understated culmination of that decade – of karaoke sessions
with family and friends in the Filipino diaspora, learning his parents’
favourite 70s ballads on guitar, putting melancholy twists on pop hits,
effortlessly effective at getting people to click and then stick around for
that voice."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
