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DL on their rise to stardom

By Dani Pidgeon

Two best friends from Birmingham - Danielle Pidgeon and Lucy Gray have quickly risen to fame in the last year in their dynamic duo ‘DL’. Two years ago they were stuck playing gigs in small clubs and pubs to audiences of sometimes 15 people but they were determined to be successful and did anything they could to get their music heard by wider audiences. Their album ‘Bodymusic’ topped the house music charts only a week after its first release. Despite all of this they’re still two down to earth girls who just enjoy making music.

TT: How are you feeling about all this?

DL: We’re just in shock at the moment to be honest; it’s all just so surreal to us and how all of this has happened like a few years ago we were just playing gigs to a few people that didn’t even really care about our music and now we’ve got people in high reputation clubs just jamming to our music and cheering us – it’s amazing.

Why choose to make music?

We just love music and the way it makes people feel, we like to make people dance and feel good and we like to show this through our beats and vocal samples.

Who do you get your inspiration from?

We love almost every kind of music and there are many artists that inspire us from Nicki Minaj to Ed Sheeran, but there is so many artists making music of the same genre as us that we think are amazingly talented and aspire to be like them and make the quality of music that they make.

Did you always think about being famous?

(Both laugh) We still don’t see ourselves as being famous! From a very young age we both knew that we wanted to be successful and we knew that we just wanted to make music since we were 14 doing music in school and going home and making music outside of school. We knew we had to work hard and that’s what we did, we just wanted to be remembered.

I know its early days but who would you really like to work with?

Oh god – there’s just so many!! But we think Disclosure are absolutely amazing and talented so it would so great to work with them. Their most recent album ‘Settle’ is just so good.

Do you put your emotion into your songs and does this make you feel exposed in any way?

Although we’re doing this interview right now, we both are actually really reserved when it comes to talking about our feelings,  I think that’s one of the reasons we both wanted to make music as it lets so much of your pent up emotions out and just releases stress, it’s just so relaxing getting to a computer and making a sick beat.