Legendary West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg has joined forces with Multi- Platinum European superstar Tina Karol on award winning R&B recording artist Luca Dayz new single ‘Blow Your Mind’. The R&B, Pop and hip-hop single also features LOE and is released through Dayz’ label, Bentley Records. The lyric video premiered on the Privelege R&B Youtube Channel.
With Snoop Doog’s drawled, laconic rhyming style and mega-star status (35 million albums sold worldwide) on board, Dayz sought out the perfect star to put the track over the edge. He found it in Ukranian pop superstar Tina Karol. The multi-platinum pop sensation, andcurrent judge on The Voice in Ukraine, lent the perfect touch to the crossover hit. “It’s been an absolute pleasure working with Tina Karol. She laid a killer verse, just as expected. Tina has a phenomenal voice, and mad vocal skills,” says Dayz, “Especially in the bridge part you could hear Tina hitting some great high notes. Her vocals were immaculate. Tina added the perfect female touch to the song.”
We got the chance to speak via email with Tina Karol about the song and some various topics:
RMB – Your release with Snoop Dogg “Blow Your Mind” is really blowing up! Can you tell us a little bit about the song and your experience of working with such a star studded line up?
Tina Karol – The work on the track was unexpected for me and coincides with the global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But in detail, how was it? I was sitting at home, the phone rang, I know the person who called me. And I was told great news that we will have a featuring with Snoop Dog. And then I found out that I had an hour to record my part, come up with music, lyrics, and so on. I thought I had great authors and I had great songs. I took a part from one of them, put it into a song with Snoop, it turned out very organically.
RMB – You have just won a star on the walk of fame. Congratulations on that! How does it feel?
TK – I treat any awards with respect: you are chosen, it is not so important that the jury, the state, or the people themselves do it. For an artist, for a creative person, such moments are always important and touching. When I looked at hundreds of people who came to see the opening of my star I said: “I believe that there is one among you, whose star will also be on this alley”.
RMB – You have toured all over the world. What’s your favorite tour memory?
TK – I really love my country, Ukraine, and I like to go on tour around it, to meet with my audience in a concert hall – it’s magic, it’s an incomparable sensation. And the same strong feelings were when I came on a tour to the United States. Of course, as a rule, emigrants come to my concerts, those who once left to live with you. But what I like most is that they bring American friends with them! (Laughs) It turns out such a mix of the viewer, but music does not have a language barrier, music is a language. It doesn’t matter if I sing in English or Ukrainian, I will still remain a singer. The main thing is to get into the heart, get into the soul, if it worked out – it was a favorite tour!
RMB – What other projects are you currently working on with Bentley Records?
TK – On October 9th, the new track “Teddy bear” will be released, which will be included in the compilation of songs released by Bentley Records. And I continue to work on the English-language album. Everything else is surprises and secrets! I am a woman of action, not of words!
RMB – You have just released your Ukrainian album. Really cool artwork by the way. What’s the story behind that?
TK – The cover of the album “Nayti svoikh” (“To find your people”), which can already be listened to on Apple Music New, was decorated with a snapshot of the sculpture by Ukrainian artist Vladimir Tsisaryk. According to him, my portrait, framed in angel wings, symbolizes a simple truth: “You can resist even on a fragile wing if your own world is full and stable.” Vladimir and I have close ideas of creativity: but for me they are forms with sound in time, and for him they are forms in space – this is lightness and power. Light forms and strong ideas.
RMB – Is there anything special in regards to this album?
TK – By the way, this album includes the track with Snoop Dogg “Blow Your Mind”, yes, it is there! As for the rest, my new tracks in Russian and Ukrainian languages are heard there, they are woven by a conventional diary – dialogs: you can hear recordings of telephone conversations, conversations from the set of the video, or from the studio with someone with whom I also sang in a duet and these tracks found their place in the album.
RMB – Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us today. What’s coming up next for you and where can people find you online?
TK – I really hope that further victory over the pandemic awaits us, which means that the borders will be open again, we will be free again and I can fly to you. I think, first of all, people will begin to value each other more, to respect personal communication, and not online. But while we are separated by thousands of kilometers, just go to my Instagram @tina_karol or to my YouTube Channel, and go a little with beautiful music.
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