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Interview with Danny Fernandes


hey it’s malik shahi for watchmojo.com
today you’re gonna meet the man who
released the hits private dancer fantasy
curious he go by the name of Danny
Fernandes let’s go meet him how did your
career get started international
warehouse first discovered was actually
Germany I didn’t even put anything out I
was just recording with a friend at the
track with juelz curious somehow got
leaked out to the net a DJ from Germany
put it on a vinyl and it sold like a
ridiculous 15,000 copies someone hit me
up on my myspace and they’re like we
want you to do a tour out here and I’m
thinking a tour I got one song how am I
gonna to it I went out there was three
months when I toured that one song for
three months it was number one for like
eight weeks in Germany and then I came
back here and I’m like you know what I
gotta do it so I just brought the song
to the radio and they played it and then
like three weeks later was top 20 CHR oh
thank you love I didn’t I left orbit
akon Sean Kingston FlowRider Girlicious
tossed with the field doing those tours
my first one was Girlicious I was gone
for like a month and a half man it was
interesting that’s when private dancer
just had come on the radio so not a lot
of people knew who I was but they knew
the song
after that every to like the a contour I
just did it gets better and better the
show’s get better I obviously get better
I like to learn from them like FlowRider
and all these guys I look up to people
like this you know what I mean I can
take as much energy from them and put it
into my show as well you know I mean so
it’s like I’m doing more learning than
anything and you’re a Portuguese descent
right using the tally yeah and it’s
being pushy at the time is that
influential music in any way I mean it
helps a lot believe it or not the
Portuguese community is huge and knowing
i’m portuguese they’re gonna support me
like to the fullest you wouldn’t even
believe like i did a show and it was a
portuguese festival dude there was like
25,000 people Portuguese people and they
were just going crazy I try to do my
best to help the community you know what
I mean they were there supported my
brother my brother was a Portuguese
singer before he wasn’t even like he was
doing English music they supported him
like crazy so when they found out I was
doing it they showed me the same love so
I appreciate that a lot tell me where
did we go home how did it came like this
I know you also had a chance to shoot a
video in Prague Czech Republic why did
you guys choose proud to shoot a video
beautiful place man a lot of beautiful
women it was artis idea actually our
teaser video director director the video
and he’s like we got to do something
different and I was like okay whatever
man you tell me what to do and I’m there
so it’s like we’re gonna go to Prague
and I was like all right cool and he
already had a vision of what he wanted
to do so he just made it happen baby
did I say
what’s your next goal what’s your next
move for for yourself my next move is to
do what I just did all over again times
a hundred I was really successful this
year and I’m very thankful for all the
people who have supported me this far
and just look out man cuz lecture 2010
is gonna be an even bigger year for
myself good luck my dear thing all right
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