USA - Lighting designer Scott Warner put his grandMA to work on Grammy Award-winner Queen Latifah's nine-week Trav'lin Light tour which 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."

(Jim Evans)


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