Darren Hayes:
I've Found Love By Frodi Holm
Knudsen
If you
haven't been living in a soundproof bubble
the
past 8 years, then you know Darren
Hayes' angelic
voice although
the name might not stir up memories.
Hayes
(32) was the main figure in Savage
Garden,
the australian act, whom in the
late 90's sent
catching songs
out to the whole world and sold
no less than 20
million records.
After
the breakup of Savage Garden, Darren
Hayes
released his first solo-album
"Spin" in 2002, which
sold about 2
million copies worldwide. In Denmark
it
sold gold.
"It
was a happy album, but it didn't make me
happy!
I went into the studio right about
the breakup with
Savage Garden
and I was on autopilot while making
it.
That album doesn't touch me emotionally. It
was
too dishonest," it comes rather
surprisingly from
Darren Hayes
who was visiting Copenhagen
yesterday.
After
that record he actually didn't want to make
any
more music. But his fans can be
happy that he has
changed his
mind and in September he's
releasing
his second
solo-album, "The Tension And The Spark".
The
musical crisis isn't the only bad thing in
Darren
Hayes' life. He grew up in
Brisbane, Australia, with
his big brother
and parents. And his home was
anything but happy.
"There
was violence and alcoholism at my
place,
so I escaped into the world of
daydreams and
started
performing. I discovered that I could
receive love by performing - or at least
applause.
My unhappy childhood has done so I
have had
difficulties recieving love. I can
give love but
the other part
I've had to learn."
All
this newly discovered is of course helped
on
its way by Cupids arrows. Darren Hayes
has
found love. Not the quick,
superficial love, but
the love where
you really can relax in the other
persons company and just be yourself with
all
your baggage - good as well as
bad.
However he doesn't want to tell with whom
he
has found love or whether it's a
man or a woman.
"I
don't want to be put in a box sexually, so
that
I won't comment on any further,"
Darren says
secretly.
