![]() ![]() “I knew I had to get a job or I’d be homeless. I tried for a couple of years and … it kinda went bad”, he says matter-of-factly. Various projects and record deals stalled in the years that followed. He has previously described his experience on the show as a difficult one, saying he felt that he had been made to feel “I wasn’t gay enough, I wasn’t straight enough, I wasn’t man enough, I wasn’t black enough”. Nate Dogg died while Lusk was on American Idol, “I didn’t know what to do when he first started to decline”, Lusk says. Photograph: Darren Gerrish/WireImage for Royal Academy of Arts Gabriels perform at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. ![]() I did my vocals in around 20 minutes and was like ‘OK, nice to meet you … ’” “I wanted to get it over and done with as quickly as possible … I just did it because I love music. “Ryan and Ari showed up at my church kind of unannounced, looking for a choir for an advert they were making,” he explains. It’s the ideal get-up for our meeting in a London members’ club which he reckons “looks like something out of Kill Bill”.īut, back in 2016, life was somewhat different. Dressed in a black shirt with a pussy bow collar and glitter-flecked sunglasses, a super-wide-brimmed black hat beside him, the 36-year-old, speaking not far from where he is staying in north London, looks every inch the dramatic pop star. ![]() It was the beginnings of what would become their genre-defying trio, Gabriels – who have steadily gained ground by mixing doo-wop, soul, electronica and more – but Lusk initially had his reservations. “M y friends were like, ‘Where are you going … and who are these white people?!’” Jacob Lusk mimics a startled face as he recalls his first trip to Palm Desert, California, to work with Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope. ![]()
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