Paul Lekakis the ‘Boom Boom’ (Let’s go back to my room)’ singer is in Australia on tour, touring with the ‘Totally 80s’ show. Paul was enjoying exploring Sydney when I caught up with him for a chat.
He is very much a renaissance man that can pretty much excel at any of the arts. Paul says it didn’t necessarily have to go that way being from a blue collar family he tells me he could have worked at any career if he had to but luckily it was music dance, acting, fashion and art in which he found his niche and flourished.
He was modelling in Italy when his talent for singing was discovered in a career sense, but his musical talent was discovered long before that by his mother when he was a youngster. Growing up in a family of five children who all enjoyed singing at home Paul was the only one who followed through to make a career out of it and right from the start he was committed to perfecting his craft by singing in choirs and choruses.
He recounts to me the story of when he was practicing singing in the bathroom and opened the door to his mum enquiring’ who was in there with you’. She had heard the distinctive high sounds of Paul’s falsetto voice coming from the bathroom.
Paul studied acting for 3 or 4 years and believes all artistic experience ‘feeds on itself’ for instance his acting experience gave him the skills to interpret and create the emotions of a song.
A visual abstract artist and you can view Paul’s work at the below link
https://www.instagram.com/paullekakisart/
Paul will be performing as part of the ‘Totally 80s’ tour at the Wrest Point Entertainment Centre Friday 22nd July at 8.30pm.
Paula Xiberras
