Vance Joy
Vance Joy
James Gabriel Keogh, better known as Vance Joy, is an Australian singer-songwriter. He signed a five-album deal with Atlantic Records in 2013. He released his debut EP God Loves You When You're Dancing in March 2013. His song "Riptide" was voted number 1 on the 2013 Triple J Hottest 100. Joy released his debut studio album Dream Your Life Away on 5 September 2014 in Australia and on 9 September 2014 elsewhere. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 he...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth1 December 1987
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.
I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.
I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.
I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.