Suleika Jaouad
speaker
1,033 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 May
Suleika Jaouad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And those first couple of shows, Monica, I was so scared to play
imperfectly, sometimes even badly on stage in front of thousands of people, in front of my husband, who is a very good musician.
Like a Grammy-winning musician?
Yeah.
It's like a kind of exposure therapy that I'm not interested in.
And by the end...
of that tour, I was improvising.
I was having fun.
I was still often out of tune.
And I felt so free.
So we haven't done something with music and painting, but we are always collaborating with each other, even just privately.
And John is someone, as a jazz musician, whose first language is improvisation.
And I am someone, as a classical musician, who's all about technique and preparation and practice.
And I think we meet each other in the middle.
He pushes me to be freer, to play, to improvise in a way that—
that often feels dangerous to me.
It makes so much sense.
Yeah.
That navigating and having control over –
What becomes public is a core part of feeling safe.
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