Celeb Savant
The Celeb Savant show is a weekly entertainment show hosted by Barret Edelstein. Each week we will have long-form career retrospective type interviews with celebrities namely, singers, actors and industry experts.
Margaret Gardiner and her new book - Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar
Margaret Gardiner - a South African-born, American-based model, television personality, journalist, and author - joins us live in studio on this episode of Celeb Savant. Margaret tells us about her multi-decade journey in the industry, which includes being the first South African to win Miss Universe in 1978, her work…
Kev Sherry - soloist and part of Attic Lights and Disco Mary
Kev Sherry - a Scottish songwriter, indie singer, and musician - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Kev explains how having a cousin who was part of the Talking Heads motivated him to choose to become a professional musician. We also discuss the structure and creativity of a…
Up-and-coming South African DJ - Dench
Dench, an up-and-coming South African DJ, joins us on Celeb Savant. Dench explains the meaning behind his stage name. He explains how he always went to his first love of music while growing up, which ultimately led him to pursue it professionally... and what he did to achieve his goal…
Performing to 250k fans in 2025 - Casey McQuillen
Casey McQuillen - an American-born, London-based singer and songwriter - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant… from a tour bus in Budapest! In 2025, she will be performing to a quarter of a million people, supporting Loreen and Anastacia on their tours. Casey explains how and why she…
R&B Billboard chart topper - J.Brown
J.Brown - an American singer, songwriter and R&B Billboard chart topper - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. J explains how being successful at a talent show in college gave him the motivation to pursue a solo career in the industry, why he decided to return to the…
Desiré Gardner on Reënboogrant
Desiré Gardner - a South African actress, writer, and SAFTA and Silwerskerm award winner - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Desiré explains how she loves to escape to another world through her imagination, discusses her award-winning journey in film and television, which includes 7de Laan and Binnelanders…
Comics Choice Awards winner - Schalk Bezuidenhout
Schalk Bezuidenhout - a South African stand-up comedian, actor, and Comics Choice Awards winner - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. He explains how his initial goal was to become an actor, that he discovered stand-up at a later stage, how experience has allowed him to become an…
ARIA Award winner - Conrad Sewell
Conrad Sewell - an Australian singer, songwriter, and ARIA Award winner - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Conrad explains his journey in the music industry, which includes having his first band signed to a record label at the age of 17, the difference between being in a…
Guinness Book of Record Holder - Whigfield
Whigfield - a Danish singer, songwriter and producer - joins us from Italy on this episode of Celeb Savant. Whigfield explains why she chose her stage name, the story behind how she became a Guinness Book record holder as the first artist to go straight to number 1 on the…
7× Juno Award winner - Gino Vannelli
Gino Vannelli - a Canadian singer, songwriter, author, 7x Juno Award winner, and 4× Grammy Award nominee - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Gino tells us what keeps him motivated to create music and perform live, and what inspires his creativity. We also discuss various aspects of…
Irish top 40 chart singer Darren Kiely
Darren Kiely - Irish top 40 chart singer and songwriter - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Darren explains how he balances the flow of creativity and the structure of strategy, what it's like to now have a team behind his career, and his upcoming tour to South…
The next generation of success - Arwen Lewis
Arwen Lewis - an American singer and songwriter - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Arwen is the next generation of success - her grandmother is Oscar winner Loretta Young, and her father, Peter Lewis, is a founding member of Moby Grape. Arwen tells us about how having…
Singer and Songwriter SOMA
SOMA - an Australian singer and songwriter joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. We hear how SOMA started playing the piano the age of 5... how at the age of 16, she bought a native instruments machine, which motivated her to pursue music professionally, and about her latest…
5x Juno Award nominee - Jamie Fine
Jamie Fine - a Canadian singer, songwriter, and 5-times Juno Award nominee - joins us for a second time on Celeb Savant. Jamie catches us up on what has been happening in her world since we last spoke, which includes why she became and what it means to be an…
Goo Goo Dolls - 15 million records sold
Goo Goo Dolls - John Rzeznik from The Grammy Award-nominated American punk band - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. With 15 million records sold worldwide, John tells how they chose the band's name, why they keep creating music after all these decades, and about their upcoming South…
Alternative Rock band - Snowing Down South
Snowing Down South - Gust Greyvenstein and Lihan Puren from the South African alternative rock band - join us on this episode of Celeb Savant. We hear how the band chose their name, Gust and Lihan's individual, and the band's journeys, why they went on hiatus, and what’s coming up…
3xGrammy Award winner - Wouter Kellerman
Wouter Kellerman - a South African flautist, producer, composer, 3×Grammy and 9xSAMAs awards winner - joins us live in studio on this episode of Celeb Savant. Wouter explains how he started his professional career in engineering and how, after 20 years at the age of 44, he went into music…
Up and coming artist - Melanie MacLaren
Melanie MacLaren - an up-and-coming American singer and songwriter - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Melanie explains why she only pursued music professionally at a later stage in her life, how the COVID lockdown helped her focus and create a vision for her career, and why she…
Fleur Du Cap winner, Stuart Brown, on 'Dear Evan Hansen'
Stuart Brown - a South African Fleur Du Cap winning performer - joins us live in studio on this episode of Celeb Savant. Stuart tells us about his journey of pursuing performance as a career, we discuss some of the technical terms in performing, and his current role as Evan…
Introducing Livvy Lauren
Livvy Lauren - a British singer and songwriter - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Livvy explains how following a creative path helps focus her ADHD and high energy, the difference between singing classical, pop, and musical theatre... and her creative process. Instagram - @livvylauren Facebook - @livvy.acock…