But he insists he knew fame would be a bumpy ride – if not quite how bumpy. "That's the way music is sometimes … most of the time."ĭespite the "incredible high" of being on stage, Derülo makes stardom sound like a lonely place. "When you spend years making an album for someone to tear it down, they have no idea what effect that has." He "moved apart" from Rotem now they don't even talk. When it appeared, he was stung by criticism. By now he had a stockpile of 300 of his own songs to choose from for his eponymous debut album. Rotem used Auto-Tune and a sample of Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek to propel Derülo's first single, Whatcha Say, to the top of the US chart in 2009. But his big break only came when he was snapped up by JR Rotem, the Los Angeles uber-producer who claims to have pinpointed the precise musical notes that can make the masses happy. Did you want that life? "No! I didn't want anyone close to me to treat me differently."Īt 19, Derülo opened for Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour her costume lunacy inspired him to add "magic to my shows". "He'll walk in the room and the whole place will just go …" He does an impression of someone staring at the ground, avoiding eye contact. They weren't used, but he was fascinated by the glimpse into the superstar's life. It was always my dream to have my parents not argue over money." When a chance encounter on a basketball court hooked him up with a law student who had music industry connections, he found himself writing songs for P Diddy while still a teen. "I'm still doing that now! That's why I can sleep on planes."īorn Jason Desrouleaux to a family of Haitian descent, it wasn't grinding poverty that drove him, but "middle-class problems.
Growing up in Miramar, Florida, he studied dance, theatre and classical music, requiring two-hour bus trips each way to Fort Lauderdale.
He first performed live at seven ( singing Jacko's Ben at summer camp, to a standing ovation) and wrote his first song at eight. Soon afterwards, he unravelled the mysteries of the moonwalk: the key, he laughs, is to wear socks "so you can slide". "It's all I've ever known."ĭerülo was just five when he had an epiphany while watching Michael Jackson on TV. But even after almost killing himself for pop, Derülo never considered giving up. You're always in need." When he eventually tried to dance again, "the simplest tasks were suddenly the hardest things in the world". "You can't do normal things, man," he says of the humbling experience. Behind the quietly spoken candour and shy grin lies a year of gruelling rehab, including seven months in a neckbrace.
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Speaking in a Barcelona hotel hours before his first TV performance since the accident, he is a picture of physical fitness, if a more complex and introspective character than you might expect. But what most upset him was having to cancel the tour, describing the ordeal as "something that could really tear a person's spirit down and have broken a career".ĭerülo is the modern pop experience – the desire to succeed at all costs – in microcosm, and he pushes the limits more than most. Although he calls his survival "a miracle", it was actually the fact that he held his head upright, thereby avoiding further injury, that saved his life he puts this down to "innate, animalistic instinct". The star was driven to hospital by his mother before being airlifted for an emergency operation.
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