Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Actors and singers are close relations. As with their siblings on stage and screen, the vocalist\u2019s role involves words, intonation and characterisation. In the past, they joined the same trade associations as actors. It was not until 1967 that the Musicians\u2019 Union began admitting British singers as a matter of course.It should not therefore be surprising that so many actors want to be singers and vice versa. But an odd note of mockery attends one side of the equation. In the words of Don Johnson, speaking after releasing his album Heartbeat in 1986, the move from singing to acting is treated as a \u201cnatural evolutionary course, but the other way around seems to be a big taboo.\u201d The Los Angeles Times greeted the Miami Vice star\u2019s foray into polished 1980s rock with a don\u2019t-scare-the-horses headline: \u201cDon Johnson: Yes, He Can Really Sing.\u201dThis tradition of scepticism explains why the singer-songwriter Djo used to disguise himself at gigs in a shaggy wig and sunglasses. He did not want audiences to see him for who he really is: the actor Joe Keery, famous for the hit Netflix series Stranger Things. But the word is out following the TikTok-fuelled success of last year\u2019s single \u201cEnd of Beginning\u201d. Keery, aka Djo, has now ditched the costume and embraced hyphenated life as an actor-singer.His musical career runs parallel with his acting. He used to be in the Chicago band Post Animal, whose debut EP came out in 2015, the same year Keery was cast in Stranger Things. His first album as Djo, 2019\u2019s Twenty Twenty, was hazy psych-rock in a Tame Impala vein. His third solo outing The Crux has a brighter, more melodic feel.\u201cLink\u201d is exuberant power pop about a high-achieving high school graduate suffering an existential crisis at the prospect of tedious adult life. \u201cDelete Ya\u201d is delightfully feathery 1980s pop-rock about a protagonist who cannot get over a break-up. Its catchiness illustrates his inability to stop thinking about her. Meanwhile, the music gives his woes a wittily stylised quality.The songs are light on their feet. They skip across previous eras of music, including The Beatles and west coast psychedelia, without turning into costume drama. Kerry\u2019s vocals go from mellow murmurs to a more declamatory mode. Yes, he can really sing. His songwriting hits the mark too.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018The Crux\u2019 is released by AWAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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