Voyager’s Daniel Estrin rehearses “Promise” for the 2023 Eurovision Music Contest.
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Voyager’s Daniel Estrin rehearses “Promise” for the 2023 Eurovision Music Contest.
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A couple of years again, an electronic mail in my inbox despatched to not fairly the correct handle led me to an exquisite and weird discovery: there’s a metallic rocker in Australia who shares my identify and has a half-shaven, half-Rapunzel head of hair.
We met 5 years later when he was visiting his sister in Jerusalem. One other 5 years after that, he was again in Tel Aviv when town was internet hosting the Eurovision Music Contest, and we watched the finals collectively, cheering on Australia’s contestant.
Daniel Estrin, lead singer of the Australian pop metallic band Voyager.
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Daniel Estrin, lead singer of the Australian pop metallic band Voyager.
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Who knew then that Daniel Estrin, immigration lawyer and rock star, could be on a meteoric rise to Eurovision fame? This week, his pop metallic band Voyager is representing Australia on the Eurovision stage. For the primary time, followers world wide can vote for his or her favourite music.
This referred to as for a historic Daniel Estrin summit on NPR’s Morning Version, that includes a shock visitor: Daniel Estrin, the lead guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Hoobastank, finest recognized for its ballad The Purpose, which is now making a comeback on the Netflix collection Beef.
Daniel Estrin is lead guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Hoobastank.
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Daniel Estrin is lead guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Hoobastank.
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We Daniels Estrin (that being the right plural kind) spoke collectively for the very first time, and Hoobastank’s Dan Estrin shared his musical recommendation — and inhibitions — with Voyager’s Danny Estrin forward of his Eurovision debut. And we provided up our vocal skills singing the opening lyrics of Voyager’s Eurovision entry, Promise.
This interview has been evenly edited for size and readability.
Interview highlights
On the music that Voyager will carry out at Eurovision
Danny Estrin (Voyager): It is referred to as “Promise.” And the music, lyrically, is admittedly all in regards to the chaos that we see on the planet right this moment, and it is getting increasingly more and extra chaotic. And that typically, you simply bought to seek out somebody or one thing to inform you, hey, what? It’ll be all proper.
Promise is Voyager’s entry on the 2023 Eurovision Music Contest.
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On uniting three Daniels Estrin
Danny Estrin (Voyager): Nicely, it has been a dream to unite all of the Daniels Estrin. So sure, I do, after all. I imply, he is very well-known. And I hope that someday these three powers can mix, God is aware of what we are able to obtain.
Dan Estrin (Hoobastank): Hey, Daniel Estrins.
Danny Estrin (Voyager): That is phenomenal.
Dan Estrin’s rock band Hoobastank had breakout success with the 2003 single The Purpose.
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Daniel Estrin (NPR): Do both of you guys get mistaken for one another or mistaken for me?
Danny Estrin (Voyager): Yeah. I imply we get NPR in Australia and so the variety of occasions individuals go, ‘oh, I did not understand you had been doing, like, radio as nicely, that is actually cool. And, proper, your accent has modified a bit although,’ so I get that quite a bit. It is nice.
Dan Estrin (Hoobastank): I’ve been tagged on, I would say, Instagram, I have been tagged in photographs of you a lot, many, many occasions — even like inside the final week or two — from Voyager. Like there’s been all of the followers of yours which have posted of their tales a photograph of you from, similar to, lately, , final week. After which there’s me tagged in it and I simply get a kick out of it.
On recommendation for Daniel Estrin of Voyager as he performs at Eurovision
Dan Estrin (Hoobastank): I feel that from what I’ve heard musically, it is actually catchy. It is a sick music. I have been listening to it quite a bit … My solely recommendation is simply proceed. Proceed to do what you like, proceed to write down music. And it sounds bitching. That music is admittedly cool. When the band kicks in, like, the hair on my arms goes up a bit. I do not know man, I am digging it.
NPR Worldwide Correspondent Daniel Estrin.
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NPR Worldwide Correspondent Daniel Estrin.
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On what its meant to talk to 2 different guys named Daniel Estrin
Danny Estrin (Voyager): To me, it is immense how wondrous connections are between people and the way extremely carefully and inextricably linked all of us truly are … and, to pardon the motto of Eurovision this yr, which is United By Music, that is actually what we’re. I do know, once more, it is not very not very metallic to be all optimistic and lovey-dovey, however that is the message to me. And it is meant quite a bit that this has occurred right this moment. It is simply weird and superior.
Dan Estrin (Hoobastank): I might have had simply assumed that Danny and the Voyager camp in all probability had been similar to, “uch, Hoobastank.” That is simply sort of the place my head goes quite a bit, , like somebody’s clowning us or somebody thinks we’re idiots or we suck … we’re well-known for this ballad-y music. That is sort of how I felt initially. However then after I was reached out by Daniel, I used to be like, it is in all probability not like that. He is in all probability tremendous dope and funky and, , let’s do that.
Danny Estrin (Voyager): I am sort of unhappy that you just thought this was a spoof. I like your work. I feel it is wonderful. It is likely one of the hardest issues on the planet to write down a music that makes it so large after which it is within the zeitgeist of actually each single individual. So kudos to you. Maintain doing what you are doing.
Chad Campbell produced the audio model of this interview.
