Podcast: Platinum selling singer Seal demands aspiring musicians play tennis: "The similarities never ceases to amaze me"
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Joining this week's episode of the Rock n Roll Tennis Podcast was platinum selling singer-songwriter, Seal with over 20 million records sold worldwide including hits such as Crazy, Killer and Kiss from a Rose.
He joined Keith Fraser and John Lloyd to discuss his love for tennis and how moving to Topanga Canyon before the pandemic saw a love for the sport develop.
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"I moved in and four months after that COVID hit however the two things I'm really into sports wise are cycling and tennis, I was in prime position to do these things so in short, this house became a haven for my friends and close neighbours and because there's a lot of outside space so during the pandemic it was cycling and more specifically tennis that kept us all sane," he said on Rock n Roll Tennis Podcast.
"It got me into understanding how much tennis is a perfect antidote if you like to the cycle sematic issues of the pandemic because tennis only really works if you fully commit and fully engage in it and that's when it becomes the World's most beautiful game and so I had a coach up here and I was playing every day. It was two years ago to this date that I started taking tennis lessons for the first time and I realised how much of an allegory for life tennis is."
But how does working in music and tennis have any comparisons, the soul singer explains.
“The similarities between tennis and music and even life itself never ceases to amaze me, and when I coach or mentor any aspiring musicians or singers I demand that they must play tennis."
“In singing, a known proverb is - technique is only there to prevent the body from interfering with the soul’s free expression, and when I am on stage, I just want to let go and forget technique, and trust it’s there. The work’s been done, now let go.”
“There are so many similarities between tennis and music/ singing, you would not believe and tennis saved me.”
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