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Los Angeles singer records album with guitar-playing rescue horse
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Mikayla Khramov is preparing an album featuring sounds made by her rescue horse, Yupia. The horse uses his nose, lips and teeth to strum a guitar and pluck a…
The Story in Brief
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Mikayla Khramov is preparing an album featuring sounds made by her rescue horse, Yupia. The horse uses his nose, lips and teeth to strum a guitar and pluck a harp, according to the Times of India. Khramov met Yupia while volunteering at a California horse rescue and encouraged his interest in instruments without force or treats.
The project will combine the horse’s guitar and harp sounds with Khramov’s vocals, plus his whinnies, breathing and hoofbeats. Musicians from Portugal are helping produce the recordings, with an EP planned afterwards. Videos of Yupia’s sessions have drawn millions of views online. Khramov says the activity supported his rehabilitation and built trust, rather than turning him into a conventional performer.
The Indian Opinion
The viral framing of a horse as a trained musician is fun, but it stretches what the recordings show. Equally, dismissing the sessions as staged ignores the reported videos of Yupia approaching the instruments and Khramov’s emphasis on patience. The fair test is the music itself: can the finished album use his sounds respectfully, without stressing the animal or overstating his musical intent?
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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