In the program Renze The singer tells that he is not regretted that he went solo. Youssef said goodbye to Kensington in 2021, the band he founded in 2005, due to a difference in the future vision.
“Eventually there was such a big mismatch in how we see life, the music and the creation process that it no longer works,” he continues in the broadcast of Sunday evening.
‘Alienating feeling’
Yet it feels crazy for him to hear music from his old band with a new singer, especially the songs that have a lot of meaning for him. “That is a alienating feeling.”
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Opposite
The singer now does ‘the opposite’ of what he did at Kensington for years. “It is very exciting and very free. I felt much freer as a person to express myself to tell more stories with the songs I write and sing.”
At the end of the show, together with string orchestra Kamarata Zuid and four singers from the Nederlands Kamerkoor, the bombastic and compelling song Old Rain Playing.
In October he continues his tour that started in the spring.