hello my dear, I would like to invite you to...
Brothers over coffee
hello my dear, I would like to invite you to listening to my interview
with the for KING & COUNTRY
it's an Australian band, winner of two Grammy awards
founded by two brothers
so very close to our hearts
simultaneously they represent very interesting music movement
but not only, because their lyrics about life, lyrics about manhood
about being free and living free
are very enlightening
our talk is even better than their lyrics, so you're more than welcome
- here we go - nice to see you
- allright, you good? - yeah
- where are you? - perfect
- where am I? - yeah
I'm in Texas, I think I'm in San An...
let me look actually. I think I'm in San Angelo
let me look
today, I am in Edinburgh, sorry
- not San Angelo, San Angelo is tomorrow - OK
Edinburgh in Texas
And where's your coffee mate?
Where is my coffee? I know, my brother and my son are going to get coffee right now
if I had the ability to have coffee right now, trust me, I would
probably most of my readers won't recognize you as a band as an artist
so my first question is who are you, if you can say in a few words
who are you and what are you doing for living
yeah, so my name's Luke and I'm with a band called for KING&COUNTRY
originally from Australia but we came to America
when we were young boys and we kind of grew up doing music together and after I
graduated high school, Joel came to me said: "hey man what do you think about
writing and recording some songs and just seeing where this thing could go?"
and it was lot about that time I was going through some things with my life
I'd gotten hurt my ACL on my knee and music really played a big role in my
life and I started thinking myself what would it be like if I could write
songs what if I what would that look like and so my
brother Joel and I went on this pilgrimage of riding music and here
we are now today getting to chat with you and get to come and visit all you
guys in Poland in just a few weeks
yeah that's great I'll be on that
concert I heard... you were in Poland about 2016 right?
that's correct
okay
I have the second question about...
I have many friends who were raised in pathologic
families alcoholic families and I believe in God and it's easy for me to
tell them that with God everything is easy
you're singing about the same so
come to God live free run wild
but isn't it that you
just had luck to be rised and I had luck to be rised in a great environment
great family with many friends
how people without this luck can start this journey with God
what can you say
yeah that's a great question you know obviously you
said it you know we're very fortunate to be in families that have taught us
about Jesus you know and when you go through with Jesus at your side it
doesn't necessarily mean the circumstances are any easier it just
means that you have somebody to turn to for comfort and when it comes to
somebody who, you know, didn't have maybe the upbringing that you and I had you
you begin to realize that Jesus and more is it in more place this isn't
and you're growing up you start to ask yourself a lot of questions you might
you might ask yourself you know how you know how did I you know how is the world
created how is this tree that I'm looking at over here how is it that
it's that it's possible for it to be so beautiful how is it and in my mind
those are the questions that for people that
didn't maybe raise were raised in a situation like you I were raised
those are important questions for us to answer because they point back to Jesus
they point back to you whether or not you see Jesus or you've experienced
Jesus through your family or not
there are still so many other ways for you to
be able to see the evidence of Jesus and so my hope is for people that don't know
they're wondering who he is to explore who he is to ask those
questions to actually don't be afraid of something that you don't know about be
afraid of not asking the questions of who could he be and you and I are on the
same page of knowing that he is the savior of the world and and I want the
people that I want my kids to know about Jesus
but I also want people that're going to come to this show tonight
that maybe they didn't had the upbringing that you and I had
for me to be able to introduce them to Jesus
okay
you said about circumstances, It's not always that happy
it's not always that good you had, as I recognize, you were very ill, right?
in one moment of your life so the circumstances weren't that good
what questions you had at that moment?
yeah, well I mean you ask yourself
you know, for me up until that point
I think I had a relatively easy life to be totally honest you know
I started to ask questions like you know God I'm out here you know doing what
I feel like you called me to do I feel like I'm out here writing these songs
singing these songs for people and telling them about you in hopefully
a fresh way and these are the things that I believe that you've asked me to
do and yet here I am super super sick I think I felt in that moment that
that it was a little unfair and for what... for me
I just asked him those questions you know I just said: "God why am I so
sick" you know I'm out here doing these things for you why are you allowing this
take place because I believe that God could have healed me in an instant if
you hadn't wanted me to and I feel like well there was one particular
night that God spoke to me very clearly and he said: "Luke I don't want more
songs, I don't want more shows, I don't want more of you know saying
different things to people. I just want your heart. I don't want you to do
anything more for me, I don't want you to try and live a more moral life, I just
want your heart" and when I stumbled upon that it made me realize
that the sickness and all the things that I'd walk through are worth it
because it had brought me to a place of wanting to really know who Jesus is
quite you know more intimately not just as somebody that I follow but as a
friend someone who's compassionate somebody who loves me enough to maybe
allow me to walk through some difficult things so that I can know him more and
that to me was a very powerful lesson to me to walk through
okay and now you're a successful artist
you had won two Grammy Awards and many many more
you have almost 1 million fans on Facebook and how do you define success
I do not define success trough awards, that's for sure
you know, If I
if you were to win every award out there but not feel fulfilled in what you do
I think you lose at that point I think success for me is it is actually a
little bit more personal it's the way that I love my wife my success is the
way that my kids look at their dad because it's those things a lot of times
are the fuel that allows me to write songs that are allows me to be
vulnerable off on stage about maybe the things that God done in my life and so a
success is not about record sales or about awards, success to me is about when
you speak about things are important to you and in this case about Jesus
are people listening and if they're
listening that that means that I feel like I'm walking in God's calling
for my life and at that point when you see people being truly impacted by the
things that you're saying that are coming from who Jesus is
that's very fulfilling because that I think you're actually fulfilling your
calling you're not just doing your calling you're actually fulfilling it
and so I think that's probably more so the way that I find success
okay, and your music has impact
you tell on concerts that you impact people with
your music do you have any examples
yeah yeah
man it's almost mind-blowing the amount of comments and emails that you get from
people I'll tell you one story I'll tell you two stories I years ago we were
fortunate to play a late night television network here in America and
and it was a mainstream television network it was the Jay Leno Show I don't
know if you guys know - yeah, I know Jay Leno
since we're tired yeah well we played that Network and we
got some I got this this email back from a lady who is angry that we had
gone on to Jay Leno's news program or a nightly program and I was sitting
oh men we sung a song called the proof of your love like let's just talking
about who Jesus is and if million if you can go on a network like that and
perform that song for the millions of people how amazing is that but this lady
didn't understand that she was like I can't believe you would go and you do
that and literally like the next email that I opened up it was from a gentleman
and he just said:"hey I was going to commit suicide tonight and I was
flicking through the channels on television and I stumbled upon your
performance on the Jay Leno Show and I realized that I might not have an
earthly father who loves me but I but after watching your performance I
realized that I have a Heavenly Father who does and so because I stumbled upon
the Tonight Show with Jay Leno I decided that I'm loved maybe not by my
earthly father but by my heavenly father" and that guy didn't commit suicide
after that so you know I sent that story to that lady and said hey this is the
reason why we went on on The Tonight Show these are the types of stories that
we hear back over and that's the story from a few years ago but that's a
reoccurring thing over and over again a few times ago there was a girl who was
sitting on the second row and we're singing our song so called pricelist and
she was singing it out as if it was everything to her and towards the I got
the bridge "sisters we can start again give honor to the end" and I could just
see tears that we're just streaming down her face and you real... and these
are just two small isolated stories those are the things you know when
people write you if they face that one there when there are faces you get
what's we donate there they comment on something those are the ones that are
actually brave enough to share a little bit of that story what about the
hundreds of thousands of other people that were impacted in a way but they
didn't actually comment they didn't email so then you start to realize the
music has power it does something to people's lives it has great a great
effect and so yeah but those are just a few stories of things that take place
well so on the may 31st you'll be in Poland
you'll be impacting people in Poland
what do you remember from your last
concert in Poland? what are you looking forward to?
yeah I just remember loving
it I mean I've never been to Poland before and you know I travelled almost of my life
and the thing that I love about travelling is is you get to see people from all over
the world in all walks of life unified by my Jesus and I find that amazing that I
don't know you but yet somehow I feel like I do just because we're following
through Jesus is and I think so when you go to our place like Poland and you go
to this event you know you might have tons of tons of people there
that are attempting essentially when you go to that festival you're
wanting to be spurred on in your love for Jesus and if I can play a role in
spurring another person on in following Jesus I can't that is one of
the greatest honors of my life and so to be able to go to a place you know this
will be my second time ever in Poland and yet to be able to say something and
it be understood it because of our commonality in Jesus I find that wonderful
okay, do you know any words in Polish?
no, I don't know any words in Polish, no
want to learn something
of course of course
what's your usual phrases on stage? what would you
want to say to Polish fans?
- I would say probably one of the first thing to say: hello Poland - hello Poland
oh that's hard: "Cześć Polsko"
what did you say
"Cześć Polsko" that'll be pretty hard
there you go, maybe when
were in maybe when we're in person you can show how to say that
so last question: how would you invite
your Polish fans to join "Be like Jesus" festival?
yeah well hey you know one of
the things that we like to do as for KING&COUNTRY is we want to put on the most energetic interesting
show possible and and obviously when you come into the Poland, a place a very very
special country we want it we're gonna bring an extra dose of you know
everything that we have there and and we have a show that you know is you know
you got six other guys on stage we like to run around we like to to perform for
people and so I would say we look forward to seeing anyone and everyone
come and we'd love to be able to meet you love to be able to spend some time
and we love the country of Poland so when you merge all those things together
I don't think there's any reason why all the Polish folks should... they should
definitely come to the festival
okay great so thank you for a talk thank you
for interview we'll meet on the day of concert
and probably that's that's all for now
I appreciate your patience with me and I look forward to
meeting you in Poland
thank you thank you for interview bye Luke
hey thank you man bye bye
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