LACUNA COIL Frontwoman: 'As Long As You Believe In Yourself, You Can Always Do It'

May 16, 2007

Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of The Flint Journal recently conducted an interview with LACUNA COIL frontwoman Cristina Scabbia. A few excerpts follow:

On the fact that she counts on professionalism and respect to earn fans:

"As long as you believe in yourself, you can always do it. I always thought if you give respect to people, you always get the same respect back. Of course, if you are expecting to be just the female in the band and then it's easy to make it just because of that — you are wrong. You're absolutely wrong. You have to be able to do your job. You have to be able to have (nerve). But I don't think it's a question of being a woman or a man. It's a question of having the right attitude."

On what she attributes the band's success to:

"Our music is not the typical music you listen to every day. We always could care less about clichés and music. But we always try to be inspired by different things and we created something that's absolutely different — we have two singers, a male and female, but we don't use the voices as the beauty and the beast. We have aggressive parts, but a lot of melody in the music. I think that made the difference. We're successful, too, probably because of the relationship with the fans as well. We always like to interact with them which we always thought was really important."

On why other European hard rock bands haven't been so fortunate:

"There's an ocean in between so it's really expensive to come here and to bring a lot of stuff, to have a decent [stage show] and it's a question of budget and a question of time as well. If you want to tour properly in the U.S. you need a lot of time. It's not like you come here, play for a week and then it's done. You have to be able to touch every territory, touch different clubs — A clubs, B clubs, festivals as well. It's basically a question of time, organization and budget."

On the band's hopes to to start recording a new album by the end of this year or early next:

"We're collecting new ideas, keeping everything together and practicing a little bit. We're definitely working on them."

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