Q&A: Star De Azlan Mixes It Up

After seeing her perform at the Stagecoach Music Festival, I was lucky enough to interview up-and-coming country singer Star De Azlan and chat with her about her upcoming record, her influences, and her plans as an artist.

Our readers were big fans of your first single “She’s Pretty,” can you give us any information on when the album is coming out?

We’re aiming for the end of this year or the beginning of next year. We have another single coming out, so we’re going to see how that does and base it around that.”

Is the second song on your myspace, “Like a Rose,” going to be your next single?

Not necessarily, we don’t know yet

Your live set is pretty diverse, featuring traditional country, Mexican music, and contemporary “rockin” country, do you know what the vibe of the album is going to be yet? Is it going to pretty much reflect the live set?

It’ll have some of the rocking contemporary stuff, pretty much like you said, it’ll be a mix of everything. We’re going to have a Spanish language song or two on there too.

Obviously you’re not the first artist to bridge the gap between Mexican and Country music, how do you think the two kinds of music are related?

I think that country music is very rootsy and almost kind of soulful and it tells a story. Spanish music, if you’re familiar with it much, does the same thing, it’s very rootsy and it tells a story.

Do you anticipate bringing more fans of Mexican music to country music, more fans of country music to Mexican music, or both?

It’s tough to say right now, but we’re hoping to do both. We’d like to expand the audience and the amount of listeners for both kinds of music

Who are some Mexican artists that you’d recommend for our readers to check out?

I would say, my favorite is Juan Gabriel because he’s an awesome songwriter. He has like 4000 songs that he’s written. You can’t go to a concert and hear his whole song list because he has so many. I’d start with him.

What’s one more thing that you’d like our readers to know about you and what you’re doing?

I would just want them to know that we’re out here and we really hope to touch everybody with our music and that they really appreciate the country sound and that they grow to love us as much as we love them.

There you have it folks. You can read my review of Star’s performance at Stagecoach over in the Stagecoach Festival Day One recap, and check out The 9513’s review of the single “She’s Pretty,” where you can also listen to the track.