Eleven years after winning Australian Idol , Guy Sebastian talks about the most enjoyable musical experiences of his career to date, what he’s most looking forward to, and opens up about parenthood and marriage.
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Guy Sebastian has come a long way since Australian Idol. It's now 11 years later, but as I go to meet him, I find myself unusually nervous, as Sebastian played a bizarrely large role in my life throughout my final year of high school. I'm from his hometown of Adelaide, I attended a school he used to teach that also played the songs he used to perform with Christian band Planetshakers. Their song "Reflector" was our school's favourite song of the year, and at the end of the year we were all given miniature plastic disco balls to remind us to all be "reflectors" in our own lives. That year was 2003, the year Guy Sebastian was named the first Australian Idol.
Now, it's 2014, I don't know where that plastic disco ball is, and Sebastian opens the conversation by welcoming me into his studio, which has textured wallpapers and a red lounge. I compliment him on the space, and as he thanks me, he mentions how little time he gets to spend in the studio these days: "It's funny with music, I'm so mobile with it now; I've got my sound cards and all my plugins and all my samples and everything on the drive, and I just take my laptop and I can sort of just work at home. It's only when I record the drums and the things that require… all that," he says, gesturing toward the studio.
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I mention to Sebastian that I'm from his hometown of Adelaide, and that I went to a school he used to teach at, Temple Christian College. Immediately, he starts naming people he knows who attended the school. "I probably know heaps of people who went there, just through church and stuff. ... I used to HATE driving out there, though, 'coz I lived in bloody Salisbury, Golden Grove at that point."
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