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Leah Belle Faser - Rising Star
When you first listen to songs such as “Better
Than Mine,” “Back Home,” “The Lift,” and “Second-Hand Store,” from Leah
Belle Faser’s new album Crossing Hermi’s Bridge, songs about
relationships and longing for home, the first thing you want to do is go
to the album credits to find out who co-wrote these songs with her.
Surely, you think, a sixteen-year-old could not write so insightfully
about such mature themes and compose such well constructed songs. Then
you think there must be information missing from the album credits,
because all of these songs are attributed to this affable teenage girl
who answers your questions thoughtfully and you realize not only are her
songs mature, but so is she. Yes, she has all the exuberance of a
sixteen-year-old, but she also is wise beyond her years. Leah Belle Faser
says, “There is only so much that has happened in my life at sixteen, so
there are only so many things that I can write about. There are ideas
and concepts, but I like to observe things and people around me. They
are not happening to me, but it is what is happening to other people in
my life and even to strangers. It is like listening to the booth behind
you in a restaurant (you can hear the smile in her voice), not in a
creepy way, but as you observe what people are going through. They may
not be my age and they may be older than me with problems that I might
not experience at this age. I think that is a really cool way to
approach writing. We share a joke
about your writer imagining her slinking around restaurants with
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Montse Muñoz - Actress, Model
“My first name
Montse comes from Montserrat, which is a really high mountain mountain
range, and they are difficult to climb. My name comes from these
mountains. I always asked my mom why she chose this name and she said,
because you asked for this name when you were born. She said all of your
life you wanted to climb, and you always looked for the difficult way to
arrive at the top. You are doing it step by step and that is why you
have this name,” says Montse Muñoz. She was born in
the small city of Manresa, sixty-seven kilometers from Barcelona,
located in Spain’s autonomous region of Catalunya. Legend has it that St
Ignatius of Loyola, while on his way back from Montserrat stopped in
Maresa to pray and that for one year he lived in a cave not far from
Maresa. She was one of
only two children in her family and her extended family on her maternal
and paternal side was even smaller. When asked if her
creativity is something naturally flows from her family, she laughs
lightly and says, “My mother is the only one in my family that is
creative. When we were little kids, she prepared magical things, or she
gave us surprises at Christmas and for our birthdays. She does amazing
things for us. She makes everything by hand. I think my creative part
comes from my mom. She has always been creative and open minded, and we
needed things. My mother taught me how to do things by hand. She sews
really well, and she paints. I remember when I
had to learn things for school and some things I wasn’t able to remember
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Marta Bascuñana - Actress Interview
She sat down with
Riveting Riffs Magazine recently on the eve of recording a commercial
for an NGO and discussed her theater and film career. “There were not any actors and actresses in my
family. I am the first. Since the time I was a little girl I loved
watching classical films on TV, theater that were shown on television
and films like Gone with the Wind that I would watch whenever I
had the chance. I loved reading a
lot when I was a child. That love for reading grew naturally, as it was
also one of her mother’s great interests and her brother would often
bring home books for her
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French Actress Sandra Leclercq
We asked her how
it felt to have a puppet flirt with her, “It felt really good!” she says
laughing. We were of course
talking about her voiceover work for a French advertisement for Spotify
and Sandra Leclercq was the voice for the female puppet. I really love it
(voiceover). It is really interesting. Even when I audition for animated
movies or things like that, I like to have the picture of the character
and to see what the animated version looks like. If it is an animal what
kind of animal is it? Even when you are just using your voice, you are
still acting. I think if it is TV, theater or voiceover in my opinion it
is still the same, it is acting. I did an audition
before, but this was the first time that I recorded something that I
booked. I looked at the
puppet and I loved it. It was very technical to have my mouth in rhythm
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Jemima - Things I Never Said
The first song on
the EP, is “As You Are,” and it clocks in at three minutes and twenty
seconds and has the perfect blend of retro Pop and modern Pop, with an
easy flowing melody. Jemima tracked her own background vocals creating
the feel of some of the early sixties all-girl groups. One should not
however think of this song as an attempt to merely giving rebirth to an
era of music that has long since vanished, by the time she was born, but
instead it is an artist who knows what she likes and has taken the best
from what she heard as a child, while listening to her parents’ records
and bringing to both her songwriting and to the studio a keen sense for
what resonates with audiences today. She says, “I am
twenty-four and I discovered this music by sitting in my garage, as a
kid and going through my parents’ records and cassette tapes. I really
liked that music. I wasn’t into Justin Bieber or whatever other music
kids my age were listening to. It (the music on the records) sounded so
intriguing to me and there is such a focus on storytelling, which I
loved. It sounded more genuine to me. I went to school as Elvis when I
was ten years old. I had the black wig on, and I wore a gold cape. I had
this skintight white jumpsuit. I don’t know why my parents let me do
that.”
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Enola Holmes - Film Review
The
storyline of the film goes like this Sherlock is disinterested in his
family, as he is heavily focused on solving crimes in London, which is
not where Enola and her mother Eudoria Holmes live. The widow, Eudoria
is portrayed by British actress Helena Bonham Carter looks as beautiful
as ever. Her performance is both sublime and powerful. Carter plays a feminist, a
suffragette using the language of the day, who is raising her daughter
to be independent, strong of character, equipping her with knowledge and
even with martial arts. Really it is Millie Bobby Brown and Helena
Bonham Carter who are the stars of the movie. It is a strong film that
presents in a lighthearted way the importance of women’s rights whether
in the 1800s when none existed or today when women often still find
themselves struggling to be considered as equals in every facet of
society. Henry Cavill is
cast as Sherlock Holmes, Sam Claflin as the evil Mycroft and Louis
Partridge as Tewkesbury, a young member of the
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Cina Samuelson Has a New Album
Cina Samuelson
says it was special to have her entire family participate on the
creation of this album. “I love it when I
can have them with me. Johnny doesn’t work so much with music these
days. It is very nice to do this with my family. Malin has been touring
with me for nine years now. She is great with harmony singing and
playing guitar on stage, so it is very nice to have her voice on the
record with mine. I think my voice fits very good together with Malin
and Johnny. I love to sing together with them. My other daughter Emelie
sings wonderfully, but she can’t sing harmony, but she said she could do
other things. She said she could take the photos and I love that she can
also be a part of it,” she says. Cina Samuelson
wrote all of the songs for this album.
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Cecilia Krull - My Life is Going On
Cecilia Krull was
gracious enough to take a few minutes and visit with us at Riveting
Riffs Magazine earlier this month. As for the success of her song
“My Life is Going On,” from La casa de papel
Cecilia Krull says, “It is a dream come true! I never expected that
success and worldwide. It’s crazy. All of my life I have been a singer
and I grew up in a musicians’ family, so this is a very huge thing. It
is like the difference before and after La casa de papel. I am
not famous, but the song is famous. I am traveling
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Heidi Newfield -- New Album!
She explains why, “The light is still on and
those of us who are still here, are still looking for great music.
Regardless of if I get to tour it or not, I feel it is my duty to put (The
Barfly Sessions) out. Putting a record
out like this has been such a labor of love, with so much time and
effort by a multitude of people, not just myself. To make a record like
this and without having put music out for a while and then boom you go
okay I am going to jump. I am going to put this thing out and then this
happens. I had to search my
heart and ask am I prepared for what may or may not happen when you put
a record out and you cannot tour around it? That is a whole new world
for all of us when we are putting music out. It is like stepping off a
cliff and you don’t know if you are going to fly or not. I pray that is
the case. I hope that is the case. I hope it catches on and if it is a
slow burn that is fantastic. If it catches on fire that is great too.
The world of uncertainty that we live in right now is very difficult. We
are calling it the year that never happened.” We pointed out to
Heidi Newfield there
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Alice Berry - French Fashion Designer
Recently, Riveting
Riffs Magazine sat down with fashion designer Alice Berry of Alice Berry
Atelier from Paris, France to talk about her timeless clothing designs
for women and the importance she places on her collections being
sustainable. “I think timeless
dresses are a better choice, because for example in ten years my
customers can always wear them. On the contrary if the dresses are on
the cutting edge of fashion in one year or two, they will no longer be
able to wear them. The fashion changes very quickly and I think too
quickly. I would rather (create) slow fashion rather than fast fashion.
I choose
sustainable fabrics and
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Actor Miquel Garcia Borda
We quickly learned
about Miquel Garcia Borda even prior to the interview that is he is a
very gracious man, who does not take his opportunities and
accomplishments for granted, who seems to understand that who he is as
an artist is the sum of his life experiences and the people from whom he
has learned along the way. “When I was in college and I was nineteen we
were doing a play The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw and I
was playing the main character. The instructor, Juame Melendres said to
me are you allowed to go out at night? You are too young to do that. (He
laughs) I said I get it. I will try harder. You must have lived. You
have to live a lot to use it for your characters,” says Miquel Garcia
Borda.
Although,
attending Institut Del Teatre in Barcelona, helped prepare Miquel Garcia
Borda for his acting career, like a lot of actors there were many other
stops along the way.
“I worked in a lot of places to pay for my time in college and before I
started my career. I was a tennis instructor and a gymnastic instructor.
I was a motorcycle courier, I worked with children and I worked in bars
and restaurants. I think it helps a lot. When you are in your twenties
you are a young actor and you have potential. It is like when Leonardo
DiCaprio was twenty, he was amazing, but he was not the immense
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Silvia Marsó and Felipe Ansola
The accomplishments of both Ms. Marsó and Felipe Ansola speak for
themselves. Silvia Marsó is one of Spain’s and in fact the countries
that comprise the Spanish speaking world’s most celebrated and widely
respected actresses. Silvia Marsó just completed the ninth and final
season of the daily series or soap opera
El Secreto de Puente Viejo (The
Secret of the Old Bridge). Time and space here does not permit us
to list all of her accomplishments, but we will list a few, in recent
years she appeared in the critically acclaimed television series
Gran Hotel (as Adriana) and
Velvet (as Julia
Lagasca), both of which cannot be viewed on Netflix. She was Elvira
Prieto in Gran Reserva. El
Origen Noelia for three years in
Manos a la obra and in
2019 as Esther in Merlí Sapere
Aude. She has also appeared in numerous films, including
La Conspiracion (The Conspiracy) by Pedro Oléa,
Los Muertos No se Tocan Nene,
Love Curiosity Prozak and
Doubts by Miguel
Santesmases and Judith Colell’s debut film
Nosotros (Us).
Silvia Marsó has three times received various
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This Is Paris - Film Interview
The documentary film This Is Paris is
not the story most of us were anticipating and while it begins with some
of what we already know about her life, it does so not for shock value,
but to provide context for the side of Paris Hilton’s life that has
never been told before. For those of you would quickly conclude, before
watching the film that is merely a publicity stunt by Paris Hilton or an
attempt to capture notoriety in 1:45:12 seconds consider this, Alexandra
Dean is an Emmy Award winner, as well as being the recipient of numerous
other awards and accolades for her documentary work. Make know mistake
about it, people already know who she is.
She also has a message for those who are quick to judge Paris Hilton’s
motives, “Anybody who wants to judge her for doing this film and
thinking she was doing it for publicity or for another stab at fame, I
would ask them to question themselves, would you let someone come into
your life and film you when you have no editorial control? Paris had
enormous trust in me, and I am not surprised
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Andra Cora - Fashion Interview
Andra Cora talks
about the influences that are reflected in the women’s clothing that she
designs, “I like the romantic drama of the late 19 th and early 20 th
centuries and the structural silhouettes of the 1940s and ‘50s. The
silhouettes and construction lines inspire me, but also the social
(implications) within the historical context. I incorporate the past into the present to create
the future
Nowadays making an
impression is increasingly complicated, especially if your work is
focused more on handmade, as mine is and not focused on technology.” There is an
elegant charm about Andra Cora’s clothing that appeals to the feminine
side of women and yet the designs also have a boldness and strength
about them.
It is therefore fitting to here her describe her clothing as appealing
to, “women with clear ideas who have powerful personalities. She is a
woman who is curious and has professional interests in art, culture and
architecture.”
Her designs have a timeless quality about them rather than being trendy.
They are in style this year and they will be next year as well.
“I usually work with stretch satin, organza or chiffon, because they are
the fabrics that best adapt to structure and yet they are also fluid. As
for colors I like monochromatic colors, while playing with different
textures within the same
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