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Kenny g songbird1/22/2024 ![]() Find a transcript of the conversation, edited for length and clarity, below. Listen to WOUB’s interview with Kenny G by clicking “play” in the Soundcloud widget above. Market St.) on Saturday, July 8 and a return to the Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta (222 Putnam St.), where he played a sold-out show in 2019, on Sunday, July 9.Īhead of commencing that Buckeye State slate of dates, Kenny spoke to WOUB at length about his wide-ranging career. July, 2023 sees Kenny G on tour, which includes stops in two regions of Ohio: the Robins Theatre in Warren (160 E. Rather than bemoan how the lucrative era of releasing albums with Diamond sales certifications is long gone, Kenny has embraced the younger generations’ ideas for keeping his signature sound ebbing in the mainstream. He still practices at least three hours every day, never wavering in his determination to further refine his talent and the documentary’s behind-the-scenes footage of his new album, New Standards, shows how precisely Kenny obsesses over finessing every single note that he records. In fact, as seen in the documentary, Kenny’s Songbird success was struck because Kenny himself made a snap decision to pull a fast one on The Tonight Show’s producers in 1986.Īlthough his legacy is well-cemented, Kenny G hasn’t grown complacent. His Arista Records deal was inked a few years after attaining his degree in accounting and his first Gold single, Songbird, was not recorded until his fourth album - years after begrudgingly weathering the label’s cringe-inducing attempts to make the saxophone player palatable to new demographics. Penny Lane’s Listening to Kenny G, a recent HBO music documentary, chronicles how vigilantly Kenny has practiced the saxophone since he was a teenager. While Kenny G’s journey to superstardom is marvelously unorthodox, it certainly didn’t come overnight nor by chance. ![]() He is widely credited with spurring the birth of a whole new genre, “smooth jazz,” a description that he has no intention of embodying… and to top it off, he’s consistently rocked a gloriously epic coif of hair, that he fears would torpedo his career if he dared to cut it. He is the most famous saxophone player alive, and perhaps the most famous in world history - considering his widespread popularity in China, a territory that was unreachable for Western entertainers until recently, where his Going Home song has been woven into everyday life - and he is the greatest-selling instrumental musician, in general, of all time. MARIETTA, Ohio (WOUB) – Kenny G warrants very little prefacing. Kenny G talks with WOUB Culture ahead of July 2023 Ohio tour dates.
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