On the music scene this week, welcome Elme Churr
A wonderful new talent has new music on the scene this week.
Songstress Elme Churr’s brand new single Unbroken Hearts, which opens The Ice Spectacular Show presented at The Grove Mall in Pretoria from 30 November to 2 December, has just been released.
This pop song, written by Nerine Gardiner and composed by Vaughan Gardiner, to loving again after a broken heart because “love can heal again”.
“We wanted to release something that has a good pace and is perfect for the summer.”
“It’s a real singing hit that can be enjoyed by old and young,” says Elme.
According to the singer, the song means that one can get up again after falling. “You can be stronger, better and in touch with that person who makes your heart beat faster.”
To Elme the song means that there is a silver border around any situation and that character is built and strengthened in difficult situations. “I’m sure the audience will receive the song well and that they will be singing and dancing together,” the singer continues.
“The song has rhythm and there is some moves in the music video that will attract old and young to the dancefloor. The song really has a feeling of summer, sand and happiness.”
The music video, filmed at two locations – The Grove Ice Rink and Monte de Dios – takes the viewer to a fantasy world. Elme does not want to reveal much of the video, except that two actors, Luré Delport and Wim Grobler, are featured with talented ice skaters in the video. “The music video is something different with great dances on the ice and a strong storyline,” Elme explains.
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Elme’s fell in love with music while listening to her father play the organ in the front of the family house one Sunday. Her mother is also very musical and belonged to several singing groups at university. “I also remember how my grandfather played a mouthpiece, and the kids climbed on his feet. My mom tells her mother and father regularly sang in church with inaugurations,” she said.
At school she participated in revues and regularly soloed. After school, she obtained her Music and Theater Diploma from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and regularly performed in Barnyard productions nationwide. She has also been involved in corporate work with various brands and was only four years old when she shared her music with the public.
The highlights of her career so far were being invited to perform at the opening of a Walmart supermarket in Hong Kong and as a guest on the SABC 2-programme Musiek
Roulette. Local artists like APPEL, Joe Foster, TWEE and Elvis Blue inspire her and she would like to work with all of them. She is also keen on international stars such as Ed Sheeran and Echosmith and is also fond of Indie/folk music. Elme writes and sings about events that inspire her and says that music must last for a lifetime. If she did not have a talent music, she says she would have become a vet.
She says she would like to live by the motto: “God gave us music so we could pray without words.”
What does the public not know about Elme? “I have a heart for animals and will do everything in my power to even save and grow the smallest bird so they can fly again. Oh yes, and I’m not really a morning person, I enjoy my sleep too much,” she said.
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The music industry has taught her to be constantly innovative but says her biggest challenge was “when I had to write my first few songs myself, I really did not know where to start”.
“It taught me that discipline, endurance and a constant rhythm of trying to be the equivalent of success in confidence in yourself.”
Elme is currently working on her new album and hopes to release it early in 2019. Her plans for the future are to reach as many people as possible with her music and then she would like to act in the Royal Albert Hall. “The most important thing for me is to enrich people’s lives and make a difference,” she concluded.
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