Shannon – What is something you wish you knew about before getting involved with the music industry?Ĭalico – “I think, this goes for entertainment in general, that hard-work doesn’t necessarily equal results. I don’t think anybody was more surprised than I was that I could do that.” They were all like ‘Oh we didn’t know you could do that!’ and I was like me either! On “We Are” it was great because they really let me off the rails and really let me sing. The second record came and they let me do (Feed My) Frankenstein and I was like ‘Well can I at least do it the way I’m hearing it?’ and they agreed and all of a sudden I was crooning and doing a Mae West kind of voice. The first Beasto record I was very much a character, like the squeaky, bratty voice and I just thought we were doing this fun little thing. Both of us were surprised that I could do any of that. And he was like ‘Yeah, but you’re a really good actress so just act like your a singer.’ I swear to you I acted like a singer for so long that when we got into the studio one day, I just started belting it out and I’m like ‘Hmm, I guess I am a singer’. Once he brought the story and the theatrical element to it and wanting to play characters, I kinda thought ‘Okay well you know I don’t sing, like I’m not a singer’. I just never thought it was something that was for me. And I love music, I actually love music so much that I didn’t want to ruin it. It just never was something I was interested in.
Shannon – When Chuck asked you to be a part of Beasto Blanco, what were your initial thoughts?Ĭalico – “I didn’t want to do it, not because of him or anything, I had just always said that I never, ever want to be in a band. But as far as performing and interacting with an audience, I definitely get that from my dad. I’m more aggressive with people than my mom is, I could definitely take a page out of her book when it comes to patience and kindness and everything. I think I deal with people like my mom but I entertain and have my dad’s sense of humor. Shannon – Do you consider yourself to be more like you mother, Sheryl Cooper, or your father, Alice Cooper?Ĭalico – “I look like my mother which is awesome because she is such a beauty inside and out. My mom is super into classical and actually lots of soundtracks too, so a lot of musical arrangements that were just music.” So we had a pretty widespread range of music. I remember growing up in the 10/11 era and really hearing a lot of the rock ‘n roll that was happening at the time like Guns ‘N Roses and things like that. So we had that a lot and a lot of Elvis, Beatles. But of course we had all the sign of the times bands playing, it was like Zodiac Mindwarp and all those real Rock ‘N Roll bands. Shannon Wilk – When you were growing up, who were some of the bands you were hearing all of the time?Ĭalico Cooper – “My parents were really playing classic acts for me, like Laura Nyro and Burt Bacharach and things like that. Today we got the opportunity to interview Calico Cooper – frontwoman of Beasto Blanco and actress.
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