Stephen Sanchez chatted with Billboard on the red carpet of the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.
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00:00 Hey guys, I'm here with Steven Sanchez.
00:03 You look like someone I would know.
00:05 Where are you from?
00:06 I'm from Nashville.
00:08 Dang, I've never been.
00:10 It's beautiful.
00:11 It's great. It's amazing.
00:12 It's full of southern people and Waffle House and fried chicken.
00:18 I mean, it sounds like a time.
00:19 I'm a big HGTV girl and they go down there a lot.
00:22 Can we get into this outfit?
00:24 We can get into it.
00:25 Yeah, it's a...
00:26 We got Balenciaga.
00:28 We have an unnamed brand that I don't know.
00:31 We have Gucci.
00:32 We have Saint Laurent.
00:34 And I think I'm wearing Hanes underwear, but who's to say?
00:36 I can't remember.
00:37 I love this bow.
00:39 It's giving, I was told, Seinfeld episode, something about a pirate shirt.
00:43 Does this ring a bell?
00:44 Oh, amazing. Wow, thank you so much.
00:45 I actually got that earlier today.
00:47 That's really nice.
00:48 I mean, some people are showing their age.
00:49 We're young, they're old.
00:51 Yeah, there you go.
00:52 Okay, so I have something exciting to share, right?
00:55 You are working on an album, Angel Face.
00:58 Angel Face.
00:59 Comes out September 22nd.
01:00 It does.
01:01 It's a Libra.
01:02 It's a Libra album.
01:03 What can we expect on it?
01:05 I mean, it's got this '50s and '60s flavor.
01:07 It's set from the years 1958 through 1964
01:09 and it's highlighting the career of the Troubadour Sanchez,
01:11 this fictional, famous crooner back in the day
01:14 who falls in love with this character named Evangeline
01:17 who is dating a mobster club owner named Hunter back in the '60s
01:23 who inevitably kills the Troubadour Sanchez
01:26 because he finds out about the secret love between Evangeline and them.
01:30 This sounds like an awesome, awesome plot.
01:34 Thank you.
01:35 How many tracks are on it?
01:36 There are 13, and it takes you through the whole record.
01:39 The whole story is in tandem with the song's order.
01:43 And then you're going to tour this album.
01:45 Can we expect a big production?
01:48 What am I going to feel when I come on set?
01:50 I mean, it's going to feel like we're going to bring you back to that time.
01:52 We're going to play the characters and the roles,
01:54 Stephen Sanchez and the Mooncrest, the boys in the Mooncrests,
01:57 and I'm going to get shot and die on stage, you know, fictionally.
02:03 Not in reality.
02:05 So you've had quite a last year, right?
02:08 So you performed at Sophia Rich's wedding.
02:11 You were invited by Sir Elton John to perform at his final glastonery.
02:16 What did that mean to you?
02:19 I mean, gosh, I mean, it meant everything.
02:24 It meant everything.
02:25 I mean, Elton is such a wonderful human being.
02:30 And the fact that he would even consider me to come out for something like that.
02:33 I mean, this whole thing, even being here at the VMA,
02:35 is like I don't feel like a big deal.
02:37 I don't feel like famous or that important or anything.
02:39 I may be dressed like a president or something like that,
02:42 but this is all a tremendous gift to be here,
02:44 and to get to do something like that was a tremendous gift.
02:46 And to have him as a friend and even a mentor
02:49 and somebody that I look up to is a tremendous gift.
02:52 gift.
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