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Champagne Exclusive Interview With Honk Magazine

Certified Champagne is an American R&B emerging artist, songwriter, singer, and dancer from Detroit, Michigan. With a knack for expressing himself through music, the R&B genre is where Champagne is making his mark in the music industry.
According to NewFireMusic, Champagne describes this album, Truly Yours, as sort of an experiment; a journey into an unknown new sound that he would identify once he got there. We had the opportunity to interview Certified Champagne to talk about his music career path and journey in the music industry.
1: Tell us about your background getting to where you are today?
Champagne – The journey I took to get where I’m at now musically was challenging well simply because everything was shut down when I began to record music so I had to learn everything myself from mixing vocals to even making beats to learning how to shoot my own music videos from home so as time passed I’ve become more skilled with my craft
2: Where are you from?
Champagne – I am from Detroit, Michigan born and raised
3: How did you get into music?
Champagne – I was first introduced to music through my family it has always been a thing from the time I would go to church until I got older and wanted to be a dancer but none of my family took it seriously
4: What is the most challenging thing you have overcome in your life?
Champagne – The most challenging thing you have overcome in my life was being in foster care there were times where I wanted to give up on myself I didn’t believe in myself but I made it through and kept my head high
5: Are you currently signed or independent?
Champagne – I am currently an independent artist
6: Who inspires you the most musically?
Champagne – The one person each and every day that inspires me musically & helps me with bettering my sound and craft is the love of my life she gives me lots of feedback that inspires me with the relationship that we have.
7: What do you want people to take away after listening to your music?
Champagne – What I want people to take away from listening to my music is that you should always stay true to yourself and that its ok to love someone unconditionally & it’s ok to express your feelings and be yourself
8: What is your greatest achievement as a musician?
Champagne – My greatest achievement as an artist to me is the moment someone told me that my music helped them with their relationship and helped them become a better version of themself
9: Do you produce your own music? If not who do you work with?
Champagne – I do both I haven’t really produced anything recently the last songs I produced were from my recent album ” Yours Truly ” but the rest of the album was produced by blindforlove, Malloy, budda beats, zshaun
10: Who is one artist you wish you could work with?
Champagne – I would wish to work with Drake I think my style of writing and the way I come up with my melodies would make an amazing collaboration
11: Tell us about any new music you have coming out? When is coming out? What is it about?
Champagne – I have another project on the way its a summer project and it drops in July or August I don’t have an official release date for the album but its a summer project with summer vibes with a new sound
12: What does a day inside your shoes look like?
Champagne – A day in my shoes looks like mediation, working or working on music, eating and chilling at home I’m a homebody I don’t really get out much.
13: Anything else you want the audience to know about you?
Champagne – I am very athletic I can play basketball, football I love sports and exercise.
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