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grandMA Travelled Light with Queen Latifah

Lighting designer Scott Warner put his grandMA to work on Grammy Award-winner Queen Latifah’s nine-week Trav’lin Light tour last fall. The tour supported Queen Latifah’s new jazz CD of the same name. Warner had previously used the grandMA to control LED lighting for the Pussycat Dolls, but this was the first tour where his grandMA controlled moving lights.

“Having used another console for eight years I was initially reluctant to give the grandMA a try,” Warner recalls. “But after using the grandMA with the Pussycat Dolls and Queen Latifah, I would never considering working with anything else.”

Warner gave Queen Latifah’s tour a vintage look with Vari*Lite VL3000s, 5Ks and Pixel Par LEDs, the latter used to change the colour of the singer’s logo. “We had a lot of saturated colours but not a lot of movement with the moving lights,” says Warner who also programmed the grandMA. “It was a case of high-tech fixtures giving a low-tech look, and Queen Latifah was very happy with that.”

He notes that, “with other consoles I have to figure out what to do. But with grandMA everything is there right in front of me - it’s really easy, and it’s never, ever crashed. I just did a one-off show with the Goo Goo Dolls; I walked in and did the show overnight. I could never have done so much in such a short time with any other console.”

With his purchase of the grandMA Warner believes he has made an investment that will last. “It’s nice to have a console which I think is going to be around for many years,” he says. “Consoles change so fast - you're always learning one you've never seen before. That's why I was originally reluctant to buy my own grandMA. But once I realised I could customise it, I knew I needed it. Now, there’s no going back. I couldn’t think about using another console on tour.”

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grandMA Travelled Light with Queen Latifah

25th March 2008

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