Cleo Alexandra's first single titled 'Criminal' is one Armidale can claim as its very own because Cleo is also known as 22-year-old Stephanie Alexandra Murat, a member of a well-known local family.
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For her, 2019 will hopefully hold more gigs, both locally and in Sydney and she is definitely planning on travelling to America too.
Criminal did very well for the first song I've ever released.
- Cleo Alexandra
However, as the lead single of her next EP called Everybody Wants To Rule the World, 'Who Can It Be Now' features Rick Springfield, who was touring when Cleo was recording it and so laid down his vocals seperately to hers.
"It's been pretty easy. All the vocals we got from him we were happy with, and he even recorded two videos of himself singing the song that we are lucky enough to be able to include in the music video that's coming out in January," she said.
“The music video was filmed locally out at Petersons Winery by Videographer Tom Bishop.
"We're waiting on a date for that, but the EP itself will be released on January 22."
"It's on all streaming platforms so, Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Music - all of those. It's still being rolled out across all of them and slowly getting out on all of them," she said.
After we release the EP and the video we're hoping to release another video using the material we've got ready for that.
- Cleo Alexandra
Cleo said she is still looking for a guitarist, and feels the need to be in Tamworth this year.
"Even though I don't do country music, I thinking of going down to Tamworth Country Music Festival and speaking to people down there and looking for people to play with and things like that," she said.
"And it has also been very hard to find a guitarist because I can play guitar, but I don't really like playing guitar while I am performing. It's more of a side thing for me, I can write songs with a guitar, but I can't perform with a guitar."
Even with such a busy time ahead, travel to the US definitely remained at the forefront of her mind.
"One of my producers is based in LA, so, definitely LA. A lot of people have mentioned Nashville because it is such a music hub. My other poroducer is in Nevada so, I would probably go there and I've also got some music contacts in Las Vegas," she said.
