Marie Pratt

My best experience is every time I get on a stage and sing, I record a song in the studio or I record a music video. I can feel this freedom, this pure happiness, my heart switches on and words are not enough to explain how I feel, like in the clouds, and how the audience can make me feel strong with their support. I imagine myself at a concert where the audience sings the lyrics of my songs and I think I’m going to cry. Also, a very important moment of my career was when I won a TV3 contest, and I went to the radio and TV to sing live. I felt so lucky for having received all this support from a lot of people.

As regards the worst, I don’t have a specific worst moment cause, as it is said, when you work on what makes you happy, you don’t care about working until late at night or working lots of hours every day. I don’t even realize what time it is when I am at the studio, for example. Music career is so much work, and sadly, undervalued and unrecognized work because music is something that can’t be seen in a physical way. It’s a kind of art to be heard and felt, it’s not a physical object, it’s an experience, you know? Something that blows in the sky and makes you feel something (actually, I say this in my next single, a song about my music career experience) and for this reason, it’s difficult to be properly valued.

Music career is the result of a lot (highlighting “a lot”) of hours invested working and thinking what is the best way to record everything, what is the best version of each of my songs, how this concert could become a memorable one, etc. So there are lots of times in which you hesitate, you feel so alone, frustrated, literally in panic sometimes because it’s also a rollercoaster job. One month you are fully busy, with lots of concerts, but the next one empty, it’s crazy. Music career is a marathon, and you should embrace how it works and keep going, persevere and never give up.