Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 367 – May 16, 2018

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BY EILEEN SHAPIRO CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT SOFI TUKKER ‘Treehouse’ ‘It’s the sound of traveling and excitement and new friends and endless shows and total exhaustion and learning more about ourselves through it’ The exciting and flawlessly original duo, Sofi Tukker, have unleashed their newest album “Treehouse” to the unsuspecting world. The pair, comprising Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, have quickly elevated their act to stadium size globally. “Treehouse” has been described as “the give and take with audiences—and the feeling of creating a kind of ecstatic communal space—a record that seamlessly marries the vibe of classic house music with deft guitars and exotic percussion.” The band’s career took off after their very first single “Best Friend” was featured in an ad for the Apple iPhone X, and then grabbed a Grammy nomination. The song, adapted from a Brazilian poem and sung completely in Portuguese, took off like wildfire. They have toured all over the world and are currently touring North America. They agreed to take a moment from their booked-until-next-year schedules to speak with me about their overnight success. Both of them were full of magical energy, fun and really adorable.
You guys are the cutest things on the planet. Tucker: You can’t even see me all snuggled up right now. So how did you guys meet and decide to do all of this really cool music? Tucker: It was kind of a chance meeting. We were both playing at an art gallery. It was our senior year at Brown University. We’d both been going there but had never met. I went early, because I was going to DJ the after party for this art gallery. Sophie was playing sort of a jazz acoustic set, like bossa nova music. I thought it was super beautiful but boring to me. I thought it would be fine if it was dancier. So I approached her after and said, “Can I do a remix of your song?” We started playing together, and that was it. Love that story. So do the two of you get along? Sophie: Oh, yeah. It would be so hard to do this if we didn’t. You sing a lot of your stuff in Portuguese. What made you decide to do that? Sophie: I was born in Germany, and then I moved around the world a lot with my parents. So my national identity is a bit confused. I heard Brazilian music and thought it sounded so sexy. I decided I wanted to sing in Portuguese. Once I was singing in Portuguese, I decided to learn the language, and then I ended up doing a study abroad, and I lived in RIo for six months. I thought I would never leave. I just totally fell in love with the language and the culture and the music. When I came back to the United States, I just kept writing in Portuguese. Where would you like to go with your music? Do you have an ultimate goal? Sophie: I think that there are a couple of ways you can answer that. One way to answer this question is that I would say we want to basically live up to our full potential, whatever that means. We want to work as hard as we can possibly work and have as much creativity as possible and see where that takes us. We are open to wherever that does take us. PHOTOS BY SHERVIN LAINEZ
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