Loribelle Spirovski
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Podcast Appearances
And my mum's family was no different.
She was a singer.
She sang ever since she was out of the womb, I'm pretty sure.
And all of her siblings were very musical.
So the house was constantly full of singing and guitar playing and drumming on random bits of furniture.
A little bit of everything.
She actually ended up working at a radio station in her late teens and it was a little bit of everything.
She loved, you know, Nat King Cole and Freddie Aguilar was a huge Filipino star at the time.
A lot of kind of 70s folk music was big at the time and disco, of course.
This is a great banquet of musical influences.
Absolutely.
It's actually extraordinary because if she was my child and she told me what she told her parents back then, I'd be like, no, don't go.
Because she essentially just saw an ad in the newspaper saying, can you sing...
Do you dream of travel?
And she's like, yeah, yeah, to both.
Absolutely.
And she just responds and apparently auditions for some people.
And they're like, we know exactly where to put you.
We have two other Filipino women.
We'll put you in a band.