Love Music: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Your background, education, music passion etc. ??
New Rules is a duo made up of Celia Stavri on Vocals and Dominik Dybka on Guitar and Vocals.
Celia is a singer/singer songwriter born in the UK and now living in Paphos, Cyprus. ‘As seen on TV’, Celia is a well known award winning singer. She was the runner up out of thousands of singers applying for a Greek singing contest which was televised in Greece called ‘Rising Stars’. Celia has also released several of her own original music which has reached over 150thousand views and plays collectively on all social media platforms.
Dominik is a guitarist and music producer, owner of Overtone Records Cyprus, sound engineer (finished Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw, Poland). His music education stands between Chicago, Warsaw and Paphos. He lived years in the USA where he played in a band but also started producing his own material. In Warsaw he got his degree as a sound engineer, played in numerous bands from blues through punk rock to pop so he is influenced by many different music genres. In Paphos, Cyprus is where he could finally spread his wings as a musician and music producer. Having recorded and produced probably all local artists in Paphos and surrounding areas in his studio his main focus now is New Rules Duo and social media.
Love Music: We’ve been hearing a lot about you and have noticed you’re starting to gain a lot of attention, how does it feel?
To be honest it is very surreal for us! We hoped that our tour to the US would go well but never expected such amazing feedback and recognition. We are overwhelmed with the support. Several venues in other states have also contacted us to book in dates for our return tour this November. So we are very excited to get back on the road and experience as much as we can. We feel extremely lucky to be able to do what we love.
Love Music: Can you please tell our readers more about your latest release?
Our latest album ‘Road to Rendition’ has 12 cover songs. All tracks on the album are completely unique and are our ‘Rendition’ of the songs. All of the tracks were recorded from scratch by us and were recorded by Dom at Overtone Records. We are so proud with the final piece. Each song tells a story and has great meaning to us.
Since its release it has reached thousands of plays on Spotify, YouTube and other platforms with some of the songs having airplay around the world.
Love Music: Any upcoming project?
We are pleased to say that even while in America on tour all of the venues have invited us back this year and we are now in conversation with other venues from different states like Tennessee and Iowa, that also wish to book us. We have also been contacted by a large theatre in Chicago that wants to book us for a ticketed event. The theatre has a capacity of around 1000 so we are really excited for what this year will bring!
Love Music: What has been one of the most exciting achievements of your career so far ?
Definitely travelling to America for our very first international tour. The thought of doing that has been a dream for both of us but it never felt like it would happen in reality. So to have experienced it still feels like a dream! It was definitely the most exciting time for us.
Love Music: What’s your goal in life you want to achieve next?
We have many goals I guess and the list gets longer daily! But of course our main goal is to keep travelling and doing tours and getting our name out there. We also want to write our own songs, which we are currently working on now. Our album will really showcase our individual talents and will have a Blues/Funk feel. We will be releasing the album this year. So keep an eye and ear out!
Love Music: What motivates you to do your best work?
Several things! Family is one very important factor for us. Celia has 2 daughters and she really wants to show them to follow their dreams. If you work hard and follow your passion only good things can come from it. When things get hard its easy to give up but you must get up and keep going no matter your career. To be able to write and perform songs that connect with people is also a great motivator. Nowadays people truly connect less and less. Songs have the power to really mean something to so many people. To be able to have a positive influence on someone is a real honour. Especially if they are feeling lost. We need to come together more and be there for each other. Songs have this great power to do this and we are prove to be part of that industry.
Love Music: Did you choose this industry, as a career, or as a hobby?
We both see this as a career now. When Celia first started to sing it was more to follow a passion that she had of singing. It actually turned into a career by accident! She used to post videos of her singing onto YouTube and Facebook and was contacted by a couple that were getting married and wanted to book her to sing at their wedding. One wedding soon turned into several and she left her job as a teacher to become a full time singer.
For Dominik it was a choice. He had to decide what does he love the most in life and went and did it. Never looked back.
Love Music: Everybody needs time out. What do you do in your free time?
Free time? What’s that?! Our year is very hectic! We have a full diary of weddings and we also perform weekly at some hotels and venues across the whole island of Cyprus. So this doesn’t give us much free time. But we wouldn’t want it any other way. We get to travel a lot and stay in some beautiful locations and hotels. We really enjoy being on the road. We both say often that life isn’t about the things you buy but the experiences you gain. They are priceless. With any free time that we do have we like to work on music.
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Our New Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4pKswtzDE&ab_channel=NewRulesDuo
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