Dan Roth at Music & Art Interviews recently caught up with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA vocalist Chloe Lowery for a chat about her career and launching a new band. An excerpt is available below:

DR: How did you wind up performing with Trans-Siberian Orchestra?

CL: "Well, I knew (TSO Talent Coordinator) Dina (Fanai) and she has known me for a few years from when I used to sing with the Richie Cannata Jam at the Cutting Room. Right when I started with Yanni, she called me for the Winter Tour, and that was three or four years before I joined TSO. I told her I couldn’t as I had just started working with Yanni. Then right after I got off the Mexican tour, I was just moving into my apartment in L.A.; Dina called again, this time for the Beethoven’s Last Night tour and asked if I was free. She asked me to learn some songs and audition for Paul (O’Neill). I auditioned for two days, and on the second day, he told me I had the role.

DR: 'After The Fall' seems like the kind of song that was made for you - it has the tender emotional moments and then the powerful closing section. It's really a tour de force for the singer. Do you feel the same way?

CL: "I love, love, love that song. It goes from such an intimate moment to a big moment and it encompasses every emotion I felt. I loved it, it was great."

DR: Any special memories from touring with TSO thus far?

CL: "I have to tell you, my first spring tour with TSO, if you can imagine Tim Hockenberry, Rob Evan, Jeff Scott Soto, and Andrew Ross all on a bus together - you never stop laughing. But Tim Hockenberry – every night when he would sing 'Believe', I would stand on the side of the stage and just be like, Oh my gosh. What comes out of him are just raw emotions. It’s beautiful."

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