Kraki Barnes He has seen his music inspire people to sing covers, hug their loved ones, and even dancing pole.
“A lot of poles dancing. I don’t know where this comes from, but it was just so great to see people take the coward from me, “said Barnes, 43 -year -old, Barnes said US Weekly In an exclusive interview. “If I can do pop music as a man of my 40s, then people can do the thing they want to do.”
The actor known for his roles in The chronicles of the Narnia., Westworld., Shade and bone And more, released his full -length album, Where the light entersEarlier this month. The recording includes stunning vocals, reliable lyrics and many piano songs-which would not be collected if Barnes had not returned to the keys for decades after refusing lessons.
“I had a lesson when I was about 8 and the teacher was a terrible old witch and she laughed at me at the end of the lesson,” he said. “I remember it quite brightly and I thought,” Well, I’m not going back to do a piano. Piano is stupid. I know it is really important not to regret life and to really appreciate everything that has happened to you that brought you here. But if I just came back next week … ”
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It was his mother Trisha who inspired him to take the instrument more than 25 years later against the backdrop of his own battle with ovarian cancer.
“In the mid-30’s, I actually had a conversation with my mother about the priorities and she wasn’t very good at the time and I said,” Well, my priorities are to do this and that and that. ” And one of them was to play more music, “Barnes recalled. “She is very wise and she told me, ‘These are not your priorities. These are ways you would like to see yourself or these are types of dreams you have, but they are not your priorities. Your priorities are the things you do. “
His mother’s advice was Barnes’ impetus to take the time to make music. “It was really a conversation,” he said. “It wasn’t even a long conversation, but it just knocked me to the floor and I thought,” Exactly, those things I want, I think on the list. ‘I got a few lessons and I just started spending some time there. And now it has really become real comfort and peace for me. After a day of the photos or whatever, just sit on the piano, play some chords. It was a very valuable advice. “
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Although he learned the keyboard later in life, Barnes realized that he was training to be the author of songs for years.
“I would even meet a lot of well -established musicians who will speak to me through a musical structure or chord things or key changes and other things I don’t really understand,” he said. “Then they would say,” I also wrote this song, but I am struggling with the second verse. Do you think you could look at the texts? I was like, “Finally, this degree of literature I made has become useful!” And so discovering things that you may be something like naturally good in later life is also a really rewarding thing. “
His texts are positive and reliable, sharp contrast to his acting roles in recent years. His single “loved one” portrays the love of someone as he struggles to accept love (“You are so loved so be loved,” he sings) while “slow him down” feels like a suggestion (“Share your baby’s names with me /Stand in family graves with me ”).
The actor does not feel like his dark roles, as the bad influenced his music, but he admitted: “It was nice to go home for long days to a villain in various television shows and sit on the piano and write these more sentimental songs. There is definitely some comfort in this. “
These optimistic texts are not a hero, but a real performance of Barnes. “I think the reliable aspect of things is just something like a very inherent part of who I am and who I want to be like a man,” Barnes told USAS “I think sharing this message-this life is short and precious and we have to get closer to life in some loving and self-loving way-this message manages to penetrate all my songs, no matter what I have set for the goal of writing them for S I think this is just a part of who I am. “
Barnes will end the American foot from his tour on Saturday, February 1st, in New York, before heading to the United Kingdom and Europe, before returning to play Los Angeles on March 5th. Tickets are available hereS
