Updated On: 28 November, 2011 03:28 PM IST | | Lindsay Pereira
Meet the Essex-born, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Twitter-star and recent collaborator on acclaimed musical television series The Dewarists.
Why is your music not available in India? As an artiste, is there something you can do to persuade the music industry to take emerging markets like ours more seriously?
I have a major label representative in India, but I imagine one of the main reasons they don't put the record out is they can't guarantee a certain amount of sales. If it's a big act, you know a certain percentage of people have probably heard it and will buy it. I have my own label and license the music, so I understand the difficulties. The amount it costs to put out a record, to manufacture a CD and market it, is immense ufffd and I'm not trying to stick up for record labels here, but the proportion of illegal downloads to sales is so high here that it almost doesn't give an incentive to a record label to produce anything.