Backstage with Evan Taubenfeld

Evan Taubenfeld is the ultimate rockstar. While you may remember him as “the boy in Avril Lavigne’s band,” this 26-year-old is flying solo these days and on the fast track to fame. We were invited to hang out with Evan, a Maryland native, for his hometown gig last week and, trust us, he’s adorable…

GL: What are five things that you could never live without?
Evan Taubenfeld: "I'd say power, I really like my senses, Starbucks, music and my family. Everything else matters, but I can make without it."

Any guilty pleasures?
"On this particular tour, I think my biggest guilty pleasure has been sleeping in late. I've been sleeping in until 5 pm. on some days, that's been nice."

So, who are your celebrity crushes?
"Emma Stone...I have a huge crush on her. I want to take her on a date—a very polite and romantic date. I think Taylor Swift is kinda cute."

Any embarrassing or unexpected songs on your iPod?
"The things on my iPod that would probably be embarrassing would be if you found the random lectures and audiobooks I listen to. I've had that come on, on shuffle sometimes, when we're listening to music and like this weird lecture comes on, it's like ‘uhh.....yeah, skip!’”

What was your first job?
"My first real job was a pizza boy. I would throw pizza up in the air, make my own pizzas and ship 'em out. Then I worked at Starbucks and then on a boat as a first mate in the [Baltimore] Harbor."

What's going through your head while you're performing?
"When I'm performing, I'm just having fun, but what's going through my head is how can I make sure that every single solitary person in this place is having fun with me. When I'm finished here, I don't want you to forget who I was."

What can we expect from you in the future?
"Well, I would hope to be the biggest artist in the world, sometime soon. You can expect as long as I'm alive and happy to be constantly making new music. So I hope a lot more songs produced, more songs written, more performances, bigger bands, more records, all of that! I want all of it."

Watch Evan’s performance of “Boy Meets Girl” below


Wanna catch Evan on the road? CLICK HERE to see where he’s heading next. 

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by Emily Jang | 2/1/2016
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