Kickin' It with Sam Sparro

Welcome to Young Hollywood. com. What's up, Young Hollywood and I mean, I'm Michelle Marie here with a man of style, a man of creativity and a man of soul, I got to say. Sam Sparrow, it's good to have you. So you actually grew up in Australia and then you moved to LA when you were 10 and now you're in the UK. What do you like the most?

I definitely call LA my home. All my things are here and it's been so crazy in Europe. You know, you go out and it's hard to have a quiet night with your friends because it's like, oh my God, Sam Sparrow, they want to take your picture. It's kind of nice to come back to LA and be a little bit anonymous.

Let's talk about your sound, because a lot of viewers out there want to know how you describe it yourself.

You know, soulful music with the kind of electronic, new wave, kind of twist to it. Very influenced by funk, early 90s dance music as well. My tastes are always changing and five years ago I was making music that was very much kind of like new jazz, neo soul, you know, I was very influenced by D'Angelo and Erykah Badu and things like that.

So similar success with Black & Gold, everybody loves that song, whether you're a kid, whether you're an old lady, I mean, I hear the grandmas like pumping it in the gym.

I know, it's all different kinds of people. Yeah, I was working in a coffee shop. I just was kind of lost a bit. I thought my music career would have kind of started already and I've been working so hard and Black & Gold was just kind of about looking for answers.

You definitely appeal to all different audiences. And your father was, you know, a gospel singer. Do you take influences from, you know, inspiration when you're younger?

My grandfather was a successful jazz trumpet player and certainly growing up in church with gospel music, you know, kind of gave me that big soul vocal.

If you can actually create your own I-mean playlist. What would you put on it?

I love Cut Copy at the moment, they've got a great new album. I would put Santigold on there. Björk and another Australian band called The Presets that have a brilliant new album. I really love. Maybe Prince.

You know, people actually compare you to Prince. How does it make you feel?

It's really nice to be compared to Prince. Yeah, you know, it's got an amazing range. But hopefully, you know, in 20 years time people will look at my career and and I'll have my own identity in that way too.

You're definitely developing it. Look at the style. Tell me about your outfit today.

Oh, it's a bit casual today. I just planned pallet with some color thrown in for, uh, extra, you know.

And I love the hat.

Ninety-nine cent store. You're going to fill your wardrobe with anything from, you know, designer couture to just like high street cheap.

Let's talk about your dance moves.

Going back a lot to like dance moves that I did as a child. I'm a big fan of the running man. It's kind of like my go-to move on stage, or like, you know, like the hammer.

What about the Roger Rabbit?

I can do the Roger Rabbit.

You can you show me?

Yeah.

Nobody does it better than Sam Sparrow, nobody does it better than him.

Hi Young Hollywood and I mean, this is Sam Sparrow. Thanks for watching. Take it light.