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A chat with Peter Andre. In an exclusive interview with tabloid! Peter Andre talks about music, coffee and new ventures ahead of his Dubai performance. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00So I'm here in Dubai to perform at the Mixtape, which is a 90s show, and I believe they do
00:19it once a year.
00:20And this is the third or fourth year it's happening.
00:24And they've asked me to headline the show, which I'm very, very happy about.
00:28It's a great opportunity for me, because I love Dubai, everyone knows I love Dubai.
00:32My family know I have a very close association with Dubai, and how I've always wanted to
00:37buy some property here, which will be something I will hopefully eventually do.
00:42But to come here and perform is also very nice.
00:48I had three number ones in the 90s, and a number one album.
00:52So I think success-wise, yes, but some of the albums I did later sold more, they just
01:01weren't number one.
01:02But they actually sold more than the one that was number one.
01:06So in a way, I can understand them saying in the 90s why they would invite me, which
01:11I really appreciate.
01:12But then again, in England, I do a lot of TV as well, so there's all different things
01:18that I get to do.
01:23When I noticed that the music wasn't selling as much, instead of becoming upset and depressed,
01:33I took other opportunities.
01:35Now, because of those opportunities, I'm very lucky, because now I get to do all of it.
01:40I get to do music, touring, I get to do TV, I get to do calendars, perfumes, I have my
01:48own coffee business.
01:51And all of this comes from, I think, taking opportunities.
01:54You can't take everything, but there are a lot of opportunities that don't come again
02:00twice.
02:01So take them.
02:07I have spoken before about bringing my coffee to Dubai, and I really think that we should
02:15do it.
02:16I've come out here, I've met with certain people who have shops at the Dubai Mall and
02:20the Emirates Mall, and we've talked about it.
02:23But the more I think about it, the more we should do it, because now we've expanded in
02:26the UK, and we've gone into mobile.
02:30So we now do the festivals, all the big festivals, and it's a great business.
02:35And what I love about the coffee business is it's something outside the entertainment
02:39industry.
02:40So if one day people get completely bored and they don't want you anymore, then I need
02:46to have businesses outside of the entertainment industry.
02:49I love coffee.
02:56I remember hearing an interview, I saw it back, that the Beatles once did.
03:00And one of the guys said, we don't know if we're going to be here tomorrow.
03:06We don't know if we're still going to be liked tomorrow, so we want to make the most of it.
03:10And it always stuck in my mind, I thought, this is from the Beatles, the biggest group
03:14in the world.
03:15And I've always adopted that thing, that you never know how long you're going to last.
03:19Don't presume that just because you've made it, you're going to stay like that.
03:25Very quickly I started thinking, you need to have things away from that, away from the
03:30industry just in case.
03:31And that's when all these ideas came up about property and all the different things, because
03:37you have to be smart.
03:38And coffee business is something that we love as a family, so I think that was really something
03:45that was going to happen.
03:50We've worked with DreamWorks very recently, I've done a lot with Disney as well, so I
03:53just did a track for the new Mr Peabody and Sherman.
03:57My song is on that, but I would like to act in it.
04:01And I think that we've got a good relationship with DreamWorks, and we're in talks about
04:06us doing more maybe voiceovers now, soon, and then get into the acting side.
04:14I think you have to be, unless you're somebody like, this is just my opinion, but unless
04:22you're somebody like Bono from U2, or somebody like Sir Elton John, or somebody like Michael
04:27Jackson or Stevie Wonder, where music is, they are superstars with music, then unless
04:36you're them, I think it's good to take other opportunities and do different things so that
04:42you can expand and become, hopefully, good at a lot of things, rather than just one thing.
04:51I feel I have three homes.
04:54Cyprus, where my parents are from, which we're neighbours with Dubai.
05:00Australia is where I grew up, and England is where I was born and where I live, and
05:08my children are in the UK, so all three are like home to me.
05:16But I can't live anywhere else, really, but England, because that's where my children are from.
05:23Friday night is a great opportunity for people to come down who love, not just if they like
05:30you as an artist or anything like that, but we're going to entertain them.
05:35For example, we've just finished a tour in the UK with a ten-piece blues jazz band, so
05:40we did everything from Mysterious Gold Flavour, all the songs that I had, also we did some
05:46brand new songs that we've never done before, but with this band, and then we did Sir Duke
05:51by Stevie Wonder, Happy by Pharrell, Shaky Body Down by The Jacksons, and with the band
05:57it sounds incredible.
05:58So what we've done is we've put together a little compilation of things that we can do
06:02for Friday night.
06:04Some originals, some covers, but expect anything from one of my songs, to Pharrell, to Michael
06:13Jackson, and beyond.
06:16We're going to really make it fun.
06:21Mysterious Gold is, you cannot do a show without doing that song.
06:24It's almost a sin for us not to do it, so I love performing it, and it doesn't get old
06:30because if you ever get sick of a song, you get the crowd to sing it.
06:35But with me, we do different things now.
06:37We dress different, we perform it different.
06:41Even with Mysterious Gold on the night, it's not going to be what you expect.
06:44It starts the same, but we add things to it that's really cool.
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