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What can you tell us about your new track ‘King’s Lane’? 

Well it’s a funny story. I woke up one morning with this vision from the dream I just had: a stone path leading to a castle with millions of roses of many different colours on each side. I also had the melody for the song as I opened my eyes, so I went up to the piano and started putting all of it together, telling the story of my dream over the melody. When I got to the chorus, I realized that the true message of the song was, if we were able to live together the same way these roses are, cohabitating in their common space and sticking together as a whole even though they’re all of different colours, it would make the world just as beautiful as the image I had in my dream! That was two years ago and we hadn’t released the song yet for many different reasons. But after witnessing everything that happened in the past months around the world, and especially in North America, I felt compelled to send it out as I needed to share my thoughts with the world, and “King’s Lane” was the best way to express myself.

The track features the legendary Tito Jackson. How was your experience working with him? How did that collaboration come about? 

Working with Tito was great! I’m extremely happy with the results coming out of the process. We actually met through my producer Earl Powell, who worked on projects for both the Jacksons and Tito himself in the past. When I went to record “King’s Lane” in LA, we actually did it in Tito’s home studio, which was a great surprise for me as I didn’t know beforehand! Later in the week Tito came back from London and that’s how we met, then he heard the song and said he really liked it! So when we decided to release the song it felt natural to ask him if he wanted to be a part of the project, and we were very happy to hear that he was up for it! The track sends a message about unity.

How important is it to use your platform to help spread messages that are crucial to society? 

It’s very important to me and I try to inspire my fellow artists to do the same as much as possible. I truly believe we can have a valuable and positive impact on society by way of our collective output to people, namely through social and conventional media. Most people, myself included, rely highly on music to go through their days, whether good or bad. And sometimes we as artists forget the power of our lyrics and how important it is to use our art to bring people together. Being aware of that, I try to do it as much as I can.

The music industry was hit hard due to the pandemic, do you have any advice for other creators during this time? 

Be creative in your own way! With so many of our conventional practices put on hold, we all have to find different ways to reach out to our audience and now’s the best time to think outside the box!

What’s next for Raff Pylon? 

I have plenty more music coming your way in the next year! We are working hard making these songs ready for you to hear and hopefully, if things settle back down in the next few months, I will be able to come somewhere near you and perform live! I can’t wait to go back on tour and play!



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