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<\/a>\u201cSongs like \u2018Surrounded\u2019 are my life and soul,\u201d says Kreviazuk. \u201cThose are the songs that gave me life as a musician and are indicative of what I\u2019ve always wanted to create with my music.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSurrounded\u201d was a song Kreviazuk wrote about her friend who committed suicide; she says she found that writing it helped her release her emotions.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of my songs genuinely come from personal experience, and I don\u2019t like writing songs for myself anymore unless they come from sincere experiences or feelings,\u201d says Kreviazuk.<\/p>\n
Kreviazuk is at a place now in her career where she isn\u2019t trying to please everyone. She knows her music falls into a certain category where it needs to be authentic and she wants to wait until she has a plethora of songs that will affect her and her listeners in a profound way before she releases another album.<\/p>\n
Her upcoming performance with the Victoria Symphony is something different that she\u2019s looking forward to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe symphony to me is authentic and that\u2019s the amazing thing about performing with them,\u201d says Kreviazuk. \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018holy crap\u2019 music and it transforms me. It\u2019s bigger than me, and when I perform with them I really go on the same ride as the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kreviazuk and her husband Raine Maida (lead vocalist and songwriter for Our Lady Peace) had a riveting experience when they went to Iraq in 2000 before the war broke out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had an orchestra perform for us that were playing strings that had been under sanction,\u201d says Kreviazuk. \u201cThey don\u2019t allow strings to come into the country, so they only take out their instruments on special occasions so the instruments don\u2019t deteriorate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 50-piece orchestra performed together and that\u2019s when Kreviazuk recalled really taking in all of the magic that happens when numerous people collectively use their skills to create something huge.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, I realized at that moment that that is what life and being free and civil is about. I feel that these performances with huge ensembles are the ultimate symbol of peace and understanding,\u201d explains Kreviazuk.<\/p>\n
Kreviazuk writes for other musicians, movies, and TV shows and creates music with Maida. When Kreviazuk and Maida are in their space of creative flow they push and inspire each other\u2019s creative juices; when one of them gets overwhelmed they step back, have a cleansing period, and end up producing something better as a result, she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaine makes me better in every way and I hope that I do the same for him,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing about partnership we work on everything together about ourselves as people, parents, partners, and because we\u2019re both artists we help each other in that aspect as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The biggest lesson that Kreviazuk has learned in her career is the aspect of authenticity; she believes there\u2019s another currency in life that goes beyond money and fame.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many different currencies in life,\u201d says Kreviazuk. \u201cOne is money, another is notoriety and fame. There are all sorts of ways of feeling validated and fulfilled. The currency that pleases me is being true to myself and having authentic expression. To me, there is just no replacing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chantal Kreviazuk<\/strong> Singer, composer, and Juno Award winner Chantal Kreviazuk\u2019s music comes from a deep place inside of her. And it\u2019s her emotions that make her the impeccable composer she is and allow her to, as she puts it, \u201csponge out\u201d her music. \u201cI came from a musical family and had many influences growing up and felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-issue","category-november-28-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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