AZIZA! ARIA FLAME
AMAZING WOMAN! WITH A SWEET
FRAGANCE!
By Darkzen
This
week I give you a hot interview! If thanks to our friend Aria Flame! Aziza A.
Poggi! Talented singer with a great history within the scenarios. Some of his
biography! Taken from my Super top!
Talented
Singer! And beauty! She created in the spring of 2011 by dramatic mezzo soprano
singer and composer, neo-classical female fronted metal with a circus flare.
They
are described as a neo classical dark hard rock
outfit with a circus like flare, which was created out of the ashes of
progressive Egyptian themed metal band Dendura. Whom which was heard on Comedy
Central Network, featured in national magazines such as Metal Hammer and
Vocals, and also opening for several international acts such as Epica,
Unexpect, Scar Symmetry, Edguy, Doro Pesch and The Agonist. They disbanded in
late 2010. Their music is inspired from movie soundtrack composers Danny Elfman
and John Williams, classical and baroque composers, Beethoven and Handel, and
metal bands such as Korn, Nevermore, Revamp. On occasion, Aria Flame will
perform Dendura music as well.
Aria Flame’s music features classical and haunting rock style female vocals with classical and symphonic keyboards, electric guitar and intricate bass and drums
Aria Flame’s music features classical and haunting rock style female vocals with classical and symphonic keyboards, electric guitar and intricate bass and drums
Thank you very much! My friend! For
this opportunity!
Aziza: Thank you for the interview! I’m happy to answer.
Have you been?
Aziza: Very good! Staying busy and productive! Everything
is great.
Tell us! You’ve done? Great look! That
made you change your
look?
Aziza: You must be speaking about my new photos with my other
music project “Scarab’s Empire”. I wanted a different image from that
band to my other project. With my main
project, Aria Flame; there is more of a circus and phoenix representation in my
pictures. So I just changed my hair and dress. Nothing else J.
Aziza Poggi who is? Behind the
scenes
Aziza: hehe J. Well behind the scenes, I am always
working on music to some degree, and I’m a bit of a homebody too. I have my
personal time like most people do. I have 2 cats, a ferret, family,
friends, and I mix up perfume recipes and make orders in between all this. It’s
fun. Plus, I take a lot of walks and work out too. I like the fresh air and sitting outside a
lot.
What is your musical training? As
you train your voice?
Aziza: I am classically
trained. I took piano when I was a child. But just wasn’t disciplined. I
took it again and became serious with it prior to going back to college in
2009. I started voice lessons with local voice teachers Dale Schriemer in my
early days of singing with Dendura (formed in 2004, disbanded in 2010) and then
I trained with Melissa Ferlaak (my fellow Eves Apple sister and singer of
Plague of Stars, MY Eternel, formerly singer of Visions of Atlantis) and she helped
me a lot with my high notes and getting self esteem within myself and my voice.
I then went back to college for a degree in Classical Voice in 2009 and I’ve been
in lessons with Diane Penning Koperski in my first year and then later with Dr
Barton whom I still see for lessons. I also trained with master voice
teacher Nicholas Loren (whom has performed at Carnegie
Hall, a professional retired opera singer) weekly for
the whole summer in 2010 and I was in the Grand
Rapids symphony chorus and performed the Lord of the Rings at the local
opera, school recitals and other events the college had performances at. Just getting involved in some of these
performances, has really helped me as a singer. I actually learned so much from voice lessons;
I will never stop taking them. I feel if
I stopped learning, I stop growing. I want to always challenge myself and
evolve. I try and keep a good practice routine going
and always warm up before I sing. I
also try to avoid dairy, starchy foods, and steer clear of being around smokers
during show time and I won’t eat fast food ever before singing. I try not to
eat it period. I also am drinking water
constantly.
What are your influences?
Aziza: I have a lot of influences. I love Nevermore, Nightwish, Korn, Revamp, Rammstein,
Eisbrecher, Muse, Tarja, Epica, Danny Elfman the composer, Tangerine Dream, and
classical singers Maria Callas, Renee Fleming and Anna Netrebko. I listened to
a lot of metal growing up as a teen too. Such as Quiet Riot, Dokken, Queensrcyhe,
Skid Row, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and more.
I think Aria as Flame, and what is
the concept?
Aziza: Aria, means solo voice for
classical music. And because I sing in a classical form mixed with rock style
vocals, I wanted to showcase that in our sound and in the band name. The word
flame, represents the phoenix: always evolving and progressing. That is how I
want our music to be.
As you get inspired to write a
song?
Aziza: It varies. Usually after something very exciting happens
or when a traumatic event occurs.
Sometimes, it has nothing to do with my life, but what I seen elsewhere
and how it affected me emotionally. I see a survival story and I get inspired. For instance, I wrote “Realm of Hate” from the
Cleveland kidnapping case of the three girls who went missing for a decade and
found alive! I wrote “A World of Silence” during a time I was feeling
overwhelmed and trying to stay away from negative people and thoughts. It is about the personal mental breakdown of a
person. I used some of my own personal stories into it, and then made it more
dramatic in text. I wrote it like I was a broken doll being thrown around into
a world filled with jealousy and angst.
Aziza: Scarab’s Empire is only my guitarist Chris Webster and I. We
are seeking musicians, who want to do writing and recording, and then later
we’ll worry of shows and performing with them or a live unit will be put
together. I am so busy with Aria Flame
right now, so it has been a little lacking but were getting it going soon. I
wanted a band that I could show case my middle eastern roots in and this
project will allow me to do that.
You Like Korn, to me is an icon
within the Nu Metal group and one of my groups that I like! As Korn
influence you musically?
Aziza: Yes! Jonathon Davis is a very emotional singer.
I can say he has influenced me by singing about real things, real events
and he is his own person. He is whacky on stage as I seen Korn about three times
now. I also like listening to him in
interviews and express his feelings on his music and music in general. I think
he is very intelligent. I do not sing
the same style as he does and our music is more melodic, but I am moved from
the passion in his voice and the stories he tells. Some of our songs though, do
have a Kornesque feel to the rhythm so there is slight similarity.
Aria Flame and Scarab's Empire,
are two bands of the same concept or different sound?
Aziza: Very different in sound. Aria Flame is more neo classical circus metal and
many who like Nightwish, Revamp, Epica, and Trans-Siberian Orchestra usually
like Aria Flame. Scarab’s Empire is all Egyptian, fusion and oriental metal in
sound. If you like Niyaz and Orphaned
Land, you’ll like Scarab’s Empire when it comes out. But because it is still my voice, I’m sure
people may feel there are similarities. In all my bands I’ve ever been in
or created, there is a continuous story onto the next band and so there may be
lyrical cross over’s.
You will engage the best festival,
Metal Female Voices Fest, you think?
Aziza: This is the biggest show Aria Flame has ever done! We are
thrilled. We have noticed a growing fan
base in Europe and I have always wanted to go so this is a dream come true! To
add to our show, we are bringing three guest vocalists from the community of
professional female singers I was a part of called “Eve’s Apple” (formed in
2010 and disbanded in 2013). Those three guest vocalists joining us are Sabrina
Cruz from Seven Kingdoms, Grace Meridan and Kassandra Novell who are both
between music projects right now. We
wanted to do something different, and also give back to the women, who have
helped our band grow this last year!
We
also are planning on launching our debut EP “A World of Silence” in October so
this is perfect timing for the release! Our EP was mixed and mastered by award
winning Grammy producer Neil Kernon (Nevermore, Judas Priest)
Some duet in which you would like
to participate? And why?
Aziza: I would love to sing with so many artists hard to
name one. I will say if I could share the stage with any singer, I’d love to duet
with Warrel Dane, formerly from the band Nevermore. He is actually one of my
favorite male singers in the world today.
If it were female, it would be Floor Jansen. She is just amazing. I have
been mesmerized by her voice since I knew of her previous band “After Forever”.
Something else we want to share my
friend?
Aziza:
I am also a perfumer. And I make soy candles, Whipped Shea Body Butter (Organic
and scented), colognes, roll on oils, rose water hydrosols and custom orders
for retail stores and individuals. I do not test on animals, and am a 100% Vegan
Company. I also use no alcohol in my
perfumes and use a lot of essential oils in making my perfumes. I also have had
many of the Eve’s Apple ladies featured as perfume models in my advertising.
This is my way, of saying thank you and giving back to the ladies in metal, who
have supported me and my company.
Thank you very much! The last
words are yours to all our readers!
Aziza:
Thank you for the interview! Thank you to our supporters. Word of mouth is still strong! Please keep
spreading the word about us and tell others about our music!
Visit
Aria Flame online at www.ariaflame.com and facebook/ariaflameworld
Buy
your products handmade and not manufactured!
Quality, not quantity! Visit me for your custom order or view my
original products at:
Fragrance
line; www.etsy.com/shop/azizaworld and my personal website at www.azizaworld.com
Here i leave the new pics!
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