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Final July, WHITESNAKE introduced that it had enlisted Croatian singer/multi-instrumentalist Dino Jelusick for its upcoming tour. Jelusick is a member of multi-platinum promoting band TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA and was beforehand a part of DIRTY SHIRLEY (with George Lynch),ANIMAL DRIVE and recorded with many others. The 29-year-old Dino has been singing, touring and recording for the reason that age of 5. Aside from being a frontman, his primary instrument are keyboards however he additionally performs bass, guitar and drums. He completed music academy and did theater work.
Requested in a brand new interview with Chris Akin what Dino‘s position shall be on WHITESNAKE‘s ultimate tour, the band’s guitarist Joel Hoekstra mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Nicely, [Dino is] a tremendous keyboard participant too, so having his capability there’s actually nice. And he is singing rather a lot — I imply, he is singing plenty of background vocals and there are occasions right here and there the place David [Coverdale, WHITESNAKE frontman] has him singing a line of the tune. So I feel the power to get out and tour the world with WHITESNAKE and have the power to showcase his singing and keyboard taking part in is a superb alternative for him. He is a unbelievable expertise, and he is younger but. So I feel he is acquired an ideal future forward of him. I feel it could be a few years rather well spent for him to do that.”
Final October, Coverdale spoke about Dino‘s addition to WHITESNAKE, telling Antihero Journal: “He’ll be the best way I’ve two guitar gamers.
“I’ve at all times seen WHITESNAKE as an orchestra,” he defined. “I do not see it as a band-band. I do not need two guitarists taking part in precisely the identical tune, or simply concord guitars, I would like two opposing… you’ve got acquired the incendiary Joel Hoekstra, totally completely different to the electrifying Reb Seashore. And this isn’t to overwhelm Michele [Luppi, WHITESNAKE keyboardist]. Michele‘s completely safe. I am keen on him and what he brings to WHITESNAKE.
“In 2019, Dino‘s band opened for us in Zagreb, and that is very uncommon for me, and I went, ‘Who the fuck is that?’ And I used to be going, ‘Wow, that child’s nice.’ And Joel mentioned, ‘Yeah, I labored with him within the TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA. He is an ideal man.’ And I mentioned, ‘That man’s a snake, dude.’ And I mentioned, ‘Do not say something but. I’ll maintain my eyes and ears on him.’
“So, I feel it’ll be unbelievable,” Coverdale added. “I’ll have an orchestra of keyboards for lots of songs on WHITESNAKE that are large epics, that make them much more musically orchestrated with out having an orchestra on stage with us.
“I imply, the man’s nice, I can not wait to sing with him. I have already got [two] singers who’re adequate to be frontman singers, with Michele Luppi and Reb Seashore; they’re actually nice singers. What’s incorrect with having one other one? And I feel he is a brilliant man. He has his challenges legally in the mean time, however expertise, perception, and braveness will at all times win. And I can not anticipate us to begin rehearsals, I actually cannot. It is acquired to be thrilling to me and including one other spice to an already good cocktail.”
Final September, Dino instructed Mónica Moreira of Extra Than Phrases about his involvement with WHITESNAKE: “Nicely, David talked about that he would like to fly me [to] his home and that he would love [for] me and him to put in writing some songs for WHITESNAKE.
“I will be taking part in keyboards. I will be doing backing vocals. I will be taking part in guitars on a few songs,” he defined. “And that is so far as I do know.”
Requested if he’s in any method a bit unhappy to know that this shall be most likely WHITESNAKE‘s farewell tour, Dino mentioned: “Nicely, no. Each band has an expire date. WHITESNAKE has been going for 40, 50 years now. Greater than 40 years — since ’78 or ’77, when the primary album got here out. However I am proud to be the final WHITESNAKE member ever. If you see the fellows that performed on this band. You had Jon Lord. You had Don Airey on keyboards. You had Timothy Drury, Michele Luppi and myself. It is 5 keyboardists of WHITESNAKE. There have been a few extra taking part in reside — yeah, Paul Mirkovich was in 1994, taking part in that leg. Yeah, there have been a few extra. However, yeah, it is positively an attractive a part of historical past within the making.”
When Jelusick‘s addition to WHITESNAKE was first introduced, David mentioned in an announcement: “I’m completely delighted to welcome the extraordinarily gifted Dino Jelusick to WHITESNAKE. We have had our eyes and ears on him since we performed Zagreb collectively two years in the past. You are going to love him!”
Dino mentioned he has been influenced by WHITESNAKE and Coverdale from an early age.
“I’m past honored to be a part of one among my favourite bands of all time,” he mentioned. “To get the telephone name from David Coverdale is one thing each singer and musician of my era can solely dream of; it nonetheless feels fully surreal. I can not wait to begin hitting the highway with WHITESNAKE and, as the good DC mentioned to me himself, to offer a chunk of my id to the sound of this iconic band.”
Coverdale, who turned 70 final September, lately confirmed that he plans to retire from touring after WHITESNAKE‘s subsequent batch of concert events all over the world.
Coverdale had each his knees changed with titanium in 2017 after affected by degenerative arthritis. He later defined that he was in a lot ache with arthritis in his knees that it hampered his capability to carry out reside.
WHITESNAKE had been touring in help of its newest album, “Flesh & Blood”, which was launched in Might 2019 by way of Frontiers Music Srl.
