Killa Kela chats to ilikemusic.com
ILM: So it's organically grown into the live thing?
Killa Kela: That's right, and without being too patronising to the people who've checked us. In many ways it's been a case of persuading my audience who've been checking us from 1999 to understanding that this is a Killa Kela album not a beatbox album. And to show that live has been really important and it's been a slow process but it's definitely worked.
ILM: Pharrell Williams is one of your biggest supporters and you first met him after hiding out at a NERD London gig, pre-soundcheck. After four hours' wait, you got your audience. One 80-second beatboxed medley of NERD/Neptunes/Pharrell tunes later, a fast friendship was formed and you ended up performing with NERD in the UK, Europe and America. Tell us more about that?
Killa Kela: It's all music related right, I tend to meet random people just through the journey's I've been on. I'd gone to Germany back in 2002 and some press guy asked me to do something for the camera, so I did this beatbox of a Neptunes tune. And he said, 'I'll show that to Pharrell'. And then I went back six months later and the German guy said, 'that thing you did for me six months ago, I showed him and he loved it.' So that stuck in my head and I was like, 'ok, so maybe one day when he's over I'll and try and get over. So my sound man knew another sound man at the time who was doing the show at the London Astoria for N.E.R.D. so I said to him, 'we've got to get in. I know he knows me.'
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