Kadri Voorand said in the program “Heli nælg” that he missed mathematics when he decided to study music instead of science at the end of high school, and it was surprising that he decided to study singing anyway, even though he didn’t win a single singing competition I sing as a child.
“I started with classical piano studies in Haljala, I also studied the violin a little,” recalls jazz singer and composer Kadri Voorand. “My great-grandfather was already a village musician, just like my grandfather and my father. My grandfather also made instruments himself. I have a very musical family.”
“I don’t remember us listening to music at home at all, because we were always involved in music and made music ourselves, mostly popular music. My mother worked with different choirs and musical groups, she was a music teacher.”
“We were also lucky to have neighbors,” Voorand was grateful. “We lived upstairs, Tanel and Gerli Padar’s family lived downstairs. It’s amazing that I was allowed to practice the piano so late at night. Tanel played the guitar with the window open, so you could hear the courtyard . All our rooms were filled with funny noise and great joy.”
The association of 90s pop music with fighting
According to Voorandi, disco music of the 90s for him was mainly associated with unpleasant things. “Someone got beat up at a party somewhere,” Voorand said. “The best part was when the band was playing, but when the DJ arrived things started to get out of hand. Only now have I started to appreciate 90s pop music.”
“The greatest influence on a person is the music they listened to in emotionally vulnerable moments,” Voorand said. “Whether it’s adolescence or falling in love. Music helps bring a person from difficult situations to a state where you can cry or laugh. For me it was great spiritual therapy. a capella music, choral music, a capella the combination of ensemble music and harmonies that gave goosebumps in adolescence. From there, I became interested in trying to match different harmonies.”
Angry only at himself
According to Voorandi, the only thing that makes him angry is when he himself has messed up. “I have too little time left for something or I can’t find anything, I’m not mad at anyone else.”
“I first entered a singing competition when I was five or six years old, and I always did poorly in singing competitions,” Voorand said. “I couldn’t win them, at best I came second and it’s quite interesting that I still ended up as a singer. Singing competitions were a big disaster for me.”
Voorand knows from personal experience that no one likes to compete and putting music on the same level seems fundamentally wrong, but the person himself wants to know what his place is, how well he is doing and whether he still has to learn and develop and whether this or the anything else is his business. “The competitions will inform him,” he added.
He was sure he would study real subjects
“I remember that in the second grade I wrote that I could become a singer, but I soon abandoned that idea and until the end of high school I had completely realistic thoughts, I really liked mathematics,” Voorand recalls. “I did really bad in math in high school, and I cried a little afterward when I decided in favor of music. But then I realized that I’ve been involved in music my whole life and who am I kidding.”
“Currently the picture of young Estonian musicians worth listening to is so diverse and exciting,” Voorand said with satisfaction. “As authentic music and character have come to the fore, the pleasant lull in freedom is already behind us, now everyone does what they want and everyone is definitely influenced by everyone. There is no great model that everyone should follow, and this It’s good in my opinion.”
Kadri Voorand “Children’s Night University” Author/source: Siim Lõvi /ERR
2023-12-28 07:57:00
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