BLU DETIGER
New York bassist, songwriter and DJ Blu DeTiger’s profile has gone stratospheric over the last year or two. We find out why it happened, and what it feels like.
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Welcome to Bass Player magazine, Blu.
Thank you. I’m a big fan, so it’s really cool to do this.
You’re having a crazy year.
Yeah, it’s been pretty crazy. I think it was part of the game plan, though. All the accomplishments the past year have definitely been goals of mine, but I just didn’t know or think that it would happen this fast. I hoped that all this stuff would happen eventually, but I never would have anticipated this accelerated growth.
Have you got good people around you, supporting you through all this?
Yeah, definitely. My family and my team. Everyone’s really good. I’m very, very careful with that.
When did you start playing bass?
I started when I was seven. The bass was taller than me! I don’t even know how I was doing it; I could barely hold it.
Did you start because you had a musical family?
Yeah. My older brother was playing djembe and drums, and I was just like, ‘I want to play an instrument too’. Somehow I chose bass, and I don’t know what I was thinking because I was so young, but I was just like, ‘Oh, the guitar is too mainstream. I see so many people playing guitar. I don’t see many people, especially girls, playing the bass’. I wanted to be a little different, so I took lessons and jammed with my brother and got super-passionate about it at an early age. My parents never forced me to play or anything – they were just very encouraging and supportive.