INTERVIEW: Swansea Beauty Therapist Ready For US Launch When Local Lockdown Lifted
LA producer Danny Saber spotted Elle J on YouTube during lockdown.
Last updated 5th Oct 2020
Danny's a power house in the music industry working with legends like David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Madonna.
He's always looking to develop new talent, so when Lauren Slee aka Elle J started dropping videos on social media he wanted to work with her: "She's Just A Natural. These are the first things she's ever collaborated on or written. It's one thing to sing a cover song over a karaoke track it's something to be able to write someone who has been doing it as long as I have and bring something to the party. It's pretty incredible if you think about it."
Pretty Damn Fine is Elle J's first track - she wrote it whilst furloughed from her job as a beauty therapist in Swansea. She decided during the time out to invest in recording equipment and start following her dreams. She recorded some of her favourite songs and dropped the tracks on YouTube. She told us: "I feel like I owe the world to Danny. I love singing and was always being told I should do a tv show like The Voice but wasn't ready for that. But the perfect opportunity came up when I was on furlough to try something new. I never expected any of this. It's like a dream come true."
Elle J's story has already been picked up by American TV and she is looking forward to the day she can perform her music before an audience. A music video is on the way too, Lauren told us: "Things have been delayed. Swansea has gone into another local lockdown. I feel like the whole world crisis is against me right now - so it is going to be difficult to get anything done anytime soon. There will be one to come and it will be worth the wait."
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Danny Saber is now preparing to launch Lauren's career in America. It's part of a project he's working on called Saber Bytes.
"Elle is the tip of what is hopefully a bigger iceberg to come..which is the whole Saber Bytes platform. It's a lot of thing. It's a music platform, it's a music library and it is also a promotional platform. That will hopefully allow the artist I am connected with to tap into each other's shine and connect the dots, so to speak."
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