Eric Lewis
Eric Lewis
Eric Robert Lewis, better known by his stage name ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found crossover success playing rock and pop music. He is known for his unconventional and physical playing style, which eschews a piano bench and includes reaching inside the piano lid to pull at the strings directly, as well as the creation that he calls Rockjazz, a genre that "takes the improvisational aspect of jazz and 'threads it through the eye of the needle...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth13 May 1973
CountryUnited States of America
People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.
Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.
I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.
I've never broken a piano. However, I've been banned from particular clubs for breaking piano strings.
The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give.
We're still here. We're going to be here for a very long time.
You can't make an unconditional promise and then simply renege because you find it politically more convenient to do so.