Has success ruined Joey Boy, |or are you just jealous?

RAPPER-PRODUCER Apisit “Joey Boy” Opasaimlikit takes umbrage at suggestions that he’s not much of a musician now that he’s on TV every week as a judge on “The Voice Thailand”. He’s still making music, he tells Thai Rath Online, just as he kept on making music when he “became an athlete for a few years” (he took up paragliding) and then a movie director and actor. “I was always still around in the music industry,” he points out.
Joey Boy acknowledges that he’s not performing onstage as much because he has to balance that out with his other duties. “But I welcome the chance when it comes. It’s like with TV series – if the character clicked with me, I’d take the role – and it’s the same with advertising work.”
Ah, yes, the advertising. Joey has just produced a song for Cornetto ice cream called “Love at First Sight”, featuring Violette Wautier, a member of his team on Season 2 of “The Voice Thailand”. “I accepted that job because the client and I shared the same ideas,” Joey says.
Cornetto wanted a woman’s voice on the track too and he immediately thought of Violette. “She was the right choice and she’s actually the first ‘Voice’ artist I’ve worked with seriously.”
He says being a judge on “The Voice” has also enhanced his music career. “It’s given me opportunities to create and produce music for the artists on my team. And it’s much better than producing commercial music, because you don’t have to worry about sales figures, so it’s quite enjoyable.”
Hard for some of us to believe, but Joey has actually been in the music biz for two decades. He’s reached the age where people ask you what your secret is, still hanging around like an ancient oak tree or something. He’s answer comes as no surprise, though, and age be damned. It’s all about fun, whether in work or the rest of life.
“I enjoy working, so it doesn’t feel like I’m working,” he says. “I haven’t had a holiday in 20 years, but I don’t feel like I need it. My working day is my happy day.”
Outside the jobs he’s just an ordinary guy with the usual responsibilities. Five months ago he gave up his bachelor pad to move back into the house where he’d installed his mother, who’s getting on in years. “I’ve built many houses but no one thought they were mine because I built them according to my mum’s tastes, so I have pink and blue houses!”
He’s the first to admit he works too much, but he’s trying to rectify that now by balancing out his leisure, work and other requirements. He also admits it’s pretty easy to do when you’re loaded with cash.
Any other questions? Yes, obviously, the love life. Well, Joey says there’s no girlfriend at the moment, but he doesn’t think he’s the sort of guy who should be in a relationship anyway. He knows he has a playboy image, but he would like to point out that his line of work involves a lot of babes. He sampled the relationship route and kept losing his way, and now he’s past the point of caring.
“Right now life is really good and I have enough money to spend and energy to work and live my life. I think I’m a very happy guy.”
No arguments there.