Brandi Carlile chats to I Like Music
It's quite the picture of stability; a close knit small family, all of whom sing and play instruments, and jam nights were commonplace at home. She still lives close to her parents and tells me when she gets home she's off on a five day fishing trip with her Dad and brother. Bizarrely Brandi got her first taste of performing as a backing singer to an Elvis impersonator.
"When I was eight or nine I met this little girl who was singing as well and her dad was an Elvis impersonator. We became friends and I was always spending the night at her house and kind of grew up with her. My brother was always teaching me harmonies of Motown singers and these amazing background vocals. Spending the night at her house one time I heard her dad practising with his band so we went downstairs and I started singing the harmonies to the songs and he hired me and his daughter to tour with them as background singers".
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Scott, Thin Lizzy: ilikemusic because... It lets my adrenalin start pumping, it gets aggression out, and sometimes I can actually get emotional with it. There are many reasons why I like music.
Ryan, OneRepublic: ilikemusic because... It is the soundtrack to my life every day.
Tom Baxter: ilikemusic because... It makes you feel alive more than anything else.
Kevin Michael: ilikemusic because... I’ve been singing my entire life. I cannot go without listening to it or singing for a day. I wake up to it, I go to sleep to it, I am music.
Peter Cincotti: ilikemusic because... Of what the world would be without it. It’d be a very scary place. I think we’d all be screwed.
Oliver, Young Knives: ilikemusic because... It evokes a mood and a feeling of when you last heard the track.
dasps: ilikemusic because... it's make me cool and numb n i love to hear music.
Craig David: ilikemusic because... It’s all me
Darren: ilikemusic because... It makes me dance like a motherf**ker
Chris, Orson: ilikemusic because... Well, is there anything else? Music is the perfect thing, it makes you feel good, it makes you feel sad, it makes you feel happy, what else is there?
Rhys, Good Shoes: ilikemusic because... It gets you moving.

