RS: What's the response been to the video?
Sylvia Tosun: Really incredible. We're going to be on Music Choice, we're going to be on Logo, and we're doing an American Radio Release really soon. I'm just grateful that people are getting the songs, I really am. It's just nice to be experiencing this.
RS: Very cool. You also are fluent in like three hundred and thirty-two languages, right?
Sylvia Tosun: Oh three hundred and thirty-three. No, just kidding. I actually sing in a bunch of languages but I have a working knowledge of only a few languages and I'm by no means that much of a polyglot. When I studied opera, I had to learn the different translations from English to Italian and French and German in order to be able to perform Arias. I carried that over to when I did the Anthem project and then, I looked into language a bit deeper. Of course to get the gig at the China concert they were like, “can you sing in Chinese?” I was like, “absolutely.” And I didn't, I had to go consult with my friend Jui, who is from Singapore, and he coached me to learn the song, “Moli Hua – Jasmine Flower”. So, I do pull it together but it's not in the way that you would think. It's not just like I wake up one morning and am fluent in whatever language you throw at me. It depends on what I'm learning at the time and for what project and how deeply I get into it…thankfully, there have been residual effects of this, as I am able to ask, “where is the designer shoe section?” just about anywhere I go…
RS: Speaking about going overseas, congratulations, "Underlying Feeling" is number two on the UK Club Chart this week.
Sylvia Tosun: Oh thank you. That was really thrilling, I couldn't believe it. I was like you're kidding; I'm going right over to London in October.
RS: Have you been over there before?
Sylvia Tosun: Oh yes. I've traveled extensively throughout Europe, I know a lot of people in Europe, people who know my music as well so I'm not surprised that it's doing well over there. I'm so grateful for it, like I just have such a sense of thank you and thank you for getting it and thank you for liking it. So I just want to go over there and support it however I can.
RS: Your website is really awesome, how long did it take to put that together?
Sylvia Tosun: Oh thanks, that's Eric Woodland. He put that together for me. We vibed-out over a couple of cocktails and he was like OK, I've got it. He put it together and I really didn't have much to do with it honestly. I tell him the things I like and the things I don't and he basically is the creator.
RS: Speaking of websites, you've also been featured on Masterbeat.com. How did you get involved with them?
Sylvia Tosun: Well, one of my favorite guys in the world, Tim Horman, who is one of the owners of Master Beat, and I connected over a birthday party for a friend of mine named Shelley. I had no idea he was even with Master Beat. That night, we got talking and it was one of those, gay man/straight woman kind of love affairs and the whole night and we just kept on talking and talking. All of a sudden at the end of the night we were like what do you do? He was like oh, I own a company called Master Beat. I was like oh my god, I think I'm on there with a song that I did called "Head Over Heels." He goes oh you're Sylvia Tosun? He goes I love that song. I'm like oh my god. Even though I'd already been on the site, we connected even further and then for "Underlying Feeling," I put it up there as an exclusive right away before I gave it to anyone else. So things happen in all kinds of ways. You never know who you're going to meet in the meat-rack in the Pines. Just kidding, we didn't meet there.
RS: Let me ask you this, what do you want to say to all your fans out there?
Sylvia Tosun: In every language you know, I love you.
Posted September 2, 2008
