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Spirit Kid
12+ albums
power popalternativeindie rockindie pop
about
There’s something about a well-turned pop song that gets you every time. You start catching the melody and nodding your head to the hook, and three minutes later you notice that the world suddenly looks like a better place. That’s just the reaction that singer/writer and multi-instrumentalist Emeen Zarookian is looking for under his current guise of Spirit Kid. Sporting ten sharp and beautifully produced tunes it aims to hit you in the same magic place where he got hit by his British Invasion heroes. And in the grand tradition of McCartney, Prince, Rundgren and Emmitt Rhodes, this is a true solo effort on which he wrote, sang and played every note. “The name kind of symbolizes a childlike wonder and a positive outlook on life, which is something I try not to let go of,” he says. “I’ve seen too much negative energy ruin different kinds of relationships, and I’m looking to push in the other direction.” A pop obsessive from a young age, he put aside his classical piano studies and picked up a guitar on the day he heard the Beatles do “Twist & Shout.” Playing an eighth-grade talent show wasn’t quite the same as joining the Beatles, but it was a start; and that formative outfit led to a slightly less formative one that got him into the Boston clubs while he was still in high school. By the time began studying audio production at Emerson College, Emeen was starting to live out his pop dreams. He was bassist and co-singer in the Sterns, whose second album Sinners Stick Together w
