Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is  something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Manchester, UK based singer Ade Fabola aka Dr Fabola.

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How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?

I’ve been chilling, working and most importantly, making music. I’ve been fortunate enough to stay creative during lockdown, and I took advantage of the stand-still to reflect, think and make plans for the future. I’ve also focused on my mental health, staying sane and appreciating the little things 🙂

What can you tell us about the new music?

Yessss, I’ve been writing during lockdown, and I was lucky to fit in a week-long recording session just before the winter lockdown in the UK, so you can expect lots of new music in the near future 🙂

5 albums that changed your life:

Careless love – Madeleine Peyroux
The Boy Who Cried Wolf – Passenger
Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder
In Between Dreams – Jack Johnson
Legend – Bob Marley and the Wailers

5 artists that influenced you as a musician:

Bob Dylan
Tallest Man on Earth
Passenger
Jack Johnson
Tracy Chapman

Your 5 favorite live albums:

Madeleine Peyroux – Live in Switzerland
Leonard Cohen – Live in London
Nina Simone Live at Montreux
Otis Redding – Live in Europe
Stevie Wonder – Natural Wonder

Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories:

I don’t have many stories due to limited touring experience, but a few things come to mind, like being mistaken for Will.I.Am, an unsuspecting, middle-aged woman randomly grabbing my suspenders, pulling on them and snapping them against my body as I walked past her, and being offered some (illicit) drugs for a job well done after a gig.

5 favorite movies

Enemy of the State
Titanic
Mrs Doubtfire
Speed
Coming to America

Best and worst advice you ever heard:

Best advice: In the music business, the music comes first, but don’t forget that it’s also a business
Worst advice: You need to start making hip-hop, electronic music and pop-chart trends if you want to make it in the music business.

If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling
name be?

Dr Punch 🙂