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‘I knead the audience, like a baker!’ House music legend Peven Everett on life after cancer and vanquishing the ‘Disco Sucks’ movement
Source: The Guardian · Published
A new documentary follows the Chicagoan from child trumpet prodigy to Gabriel-singing icon and DIY maverick. ‘Not everybody wants to see musical genius’, he says At We Out Here festival in Dorset in August, thousands of people could be heard singing a trumpet melody as if it was a giant brass-band karaoke session. On stage was Peven Everett, performing a rendition of Gabriel , one of the most…
Key points
- A new documentary follows the Chicagoan from child trumpet prodigy to Gabriel-singing icon and DIY maverick.
- ‘Not everybody wants to see musical genius’, he says At We Out Here festival in Dorset in August, thousands of people could be heard singing a trumpet melody as if it was a giant brass-band karaoke session.
- On stage was Peven Everett, performing a rendition of Gabriel , one of the most…
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