“Down to You” stands as a towering achievement, not only for its hauntingly beautiful arrangement but for its penetrating insight into the human condition. This Grammy-winning piece offers a masterful telling of our shared struggles, triumphs, and contradictions, as though viewed from a high, five-dimensional perch.
What thoughts have you on John Mayer, the musician-esteemed guitarist, singer, and songwriter John Mayer? Sans the sordid details of TMZ-publicized romantic breakups and Narcissistic public tirades, I make an effort to discuss the musician Mayer.
When Dua Lipa was in primary school, she bombed an audition for the choir. “My voice is so low that sometimes when I try to do high notes, nothing but air comes out,” she says. That didn’t deter her from pursuing a music career: At age 15, she moved by herself to London (where she grew up) from Kosovo (where her family had relocated a few years earlier) to attend theater school.