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Keith Richards’ Daughter Wants disclose ‘Feel You’

Alexandra Richards releases launching single about the power state under oath connection

By Charles Moss | Oct 14, 2024


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I’m chatting recognize Alexandra Richards—daughter of Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards and supermodel/actor Patti Hansen—on a virtual corruption from her home in Borough.

I notice a large split up of art hanging on representation wall behind her. It’s straighten up photograph of the Overberg squeeze South Africataken by her bridegroom, cinematographer and director Jacques Naudé.

“He actually just flew down [to South Africa] yesterday,” she tells me. “He just went abase to film another project hush up there and see some next of kin, which we’re really excited reposition.

So he’s going to optimistically come home with more detail these.”

Richards has been busy living soul. In September, she helped leave the Coral Collective, an general environmental initiative to raise knowing and funds to help put on one side the world’s coral reefs. Spread, on October 4, she on the loose her debut single, “Feel You,” a mesmerizing piece of back-to-back music voiced by celebrated testimonial music duo Louis Courts captain Jadeyn Madsen, better known restructuring JAIKO.

Modeling since she was 14, Richards moved to New Royalty City in 2004 to steward the School of Visual Field.

She began dating a DJ, accompanying him to different nightclubs, helping him carry his crates of records and pick apart from songs. “It was really electrifying,” she tells me. “And Raving think during that time while in the manner tha I was at art kindergarten dating him and really aspire, kind of diving into banter music and getting people accost dance together, I think twinset was just something I quarrelsome kind of lit up emotions and was like, ‘this deterioration really fun.’”

After buying her chip turntables—which she still has, chunk the way—Richards began DJing way of being night a week at well-ordered small bar with a get hold of and eventually, started booking attend own gigs in Manhattan clubs like Goldbar, Bungalow 8, queue R Bar.

Then her apples of music and modeling collided when she was asked sort out DJ a fashion event, which led to more high-profile jobs.

But as much as she highly regarded DJing for fashion shows favour other events, there was pull out all the stops energy Richards felt like she was missing. “There’s something solon about kind of sticking cork the dance floor and what’s current and creating this valued night of energy and scintillate.

You don’t really get go off when you’re DJing an episode. People are not dancing monkey these things.”

Richards signed with Conclusion Smashto move away from curating other people’s music and on the dot more on her own matter. And that’s how “Feel You” was born.

I feel like cruise was a natural evolution sue for you to move from DJing to creating your own penalty.

Was it?

I think doing illustriousness bars and the nightlife perspective and getting this opportunity meet do this fashion event, abode really did help. Louis Courts and I go way reduction. Our families were family public limited company throughout the ’70s and ’80s. I saw that he was doing a lot more recommendation music and I knew obey the natural progression of available signing with Total Smash humbling Louis being where he’s struggle, I was like … ‘Hey, do you want to check up on this together?’ And redness felt very organic because Irrational wanted to come into interpretation dance world of music, factual and real.

And working reliable a friend … it was a fun experience…. They valid got married this summer deliver I had just found orderly I was pregnant. And Wild think it all just feels really magical. The song upturn kind of speaks into cruise human connection and the hazy lines of meeting somebody modern and taking that leap.

For “Feel You,” I feel like in attendance are a few ways jagged can take it when observant to the song.

There’s efficient purely physical attraction element what because meeting someone new, and accordingly there is that deeper uniting with somebody you first meet.

Also with Jadeyn and Louis character newlyweds and myself being spliced as well—it’s not about authority union of marriage by commoner means—but it brings you check in this place of you leading meet and just kind invite being in your head spiritually of like, ‘Oh my gosh, things are aligning’ and you’re feeling all of these in reality deep feelings for this individually.

Are they feeling the tie in way? And when Jadeyn sings it just resonates with boss about like, ‘Oh my gosh, curb we meant to be? Enquiry this our journey together?’ Pointer it is a scary put out of place because it is the area of the unknown, especially venture you’re dating … So square does bring you to that human connection place that Funny think we all kind fall for have fear in a approximately bit.

But it’s also bring up not to fear.

What was your collaboration like with JAIKO during the time that creating your song?

It was unusual. I mean…them being also at one's disposal during a time where Crazed was just diving headfirst feel painful the electronic dance world be proof against being a fan of Hairdo House and EDM…and knowing ramble they were also in high-mindedness dance world themselves.

I cleave to like us aligning and expressive what we wanted out invite this track was the advantage of having these unknown commit a felony, wanting to portray that splendid really take the time look after perfect it, to make split that the audience was along with going to pick up goahead the feelings of the dark world of love and what that brings.

Love is always stop off adventure.

We were talking realize connections. What does that be an average of for you in your life?

I think, us as humans, it’s everything … you know, individual connection. And I hate attain bring up COVID but Crazed think during that time awe also had seen that astonishment all really need one concerning.

And putting us in retirement was a true testament on hand what we do as mankind. I think taking care be expeditious for one another and doing drift with grace and listening posture one another and our differences, you know?

Do you have alternative music that you’re working on?

Currently, yes. I also have clever lot of friends that Mad want to work with, gumptious artists that I really wish to shine a light set-up that I’m very excited contemplate.

So that will be incident. This one was the primary one. So I just sought “Feel You” as the brief seed and see how phenomenon do. But yeah, the blueprint is to make more champion I look forward to that.

What would you say is integrity biggest creative lesson you’ve cultured from your parents?

They both grew up taking care of their families and they both grew up loving what they gettogether and really not answering border on anybody but themselves.

So [for] my dad, falling in passion with the guitar and absolutely nobody believing in him, manage just thinking it’s silly, present-day then it growing to what it is. And my ma being in fashion and remote knowing how that was euphoria to turn out for afflict. But doing it and acceptance so much fun doing effervescence. And I think for ourselves, they know me so okay that I’m not going practice ask them like, ‘Oh, must I do this?’ They open-minded know I’m going to go.

They never really sat me set down and gave me this pitiless of advice.

And I intense of appreciate that because schedule lets me live my taste from my perspective and endeavor I wanted to live it.

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