Working as a Cruise Ship Musician

Here's some tips, pros and cons and a bit of my own experience working as a cruise ship musician! (guitar vocalist)
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[@JS_bass]

Great video! very detailed...thanks for share...

[@lostatsea1996]

I'm glad you liked it! thanks!

[@rhythmwithshivam]

Can we sing in hindi i am a singer from india I want to work as a solo artist on cruise ship do they prefer hindi language?

[@markquiroz3460]

As an available and experience, saxophonist guitarist, what is my best method of finding a contact to be a cruise boat musician? this is a long time dream of mine. 🎷🎼🎸

[@MrSDFD18]

Do you have additional boat duties other than playing music?

[@jaymark_quillo]

❤❤❤❤ omg this is my dream to work in crew ship

[@lostatsea1996]

It's got pros and cons but it's so much fun :)

[@randybeidelschies]

I really enjoy your videos and wish you would put out more of them. I was a cruise ship musician (part of a 'Party Band' with contracts mainly on RCCL) for a number of years, and I liked every aspect of the cruise life. It would be cool to see live performance clips of you. Keep the videos coming - Cheers !

[@lostatsea1996]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you like them! there's lots of new videos coming soon! starting today!

[@ma.storysinging]

Augustín!! Te he conocido en Londres por la calle (tenía pelo largo), que lindo que ahora trabajas en cruceros…trabajé en MSC y ahora quiero cambiar de agencias! Que tal, te está gustando?

[@lostatsea1996]

Me acuerdo! que bueno :) si, me encanta! a vos?

[@emiliosaldana5670]

I love your videos, I really would like to work in a cruise ship , as a Magician, or dancer or singer, but maybe it would be very hard because of my age ( over 50), meanwhile I will enjoy your videos

[@emiliosaldana5670]

or enjoy as a client hehehe

[@lonetrout]

Can you give us an example of a typical set list?

[@cathybarcena3893]

This is one of my dream to work in a cruise ship..available singer here🙏🏼

[@lostatsea1996]

It's so much fun :)

[@savagecalibre5178]

I like This Video Bro Do A lot of Videos like This if its Possible. I Like This One Bro Awesome Content.

[@lostatsea1996]

Thank you! There's a lot of new videos coming! starting today

[@user-cb2di7sb6c]

Helo i want to sercjh informate aabout this job ,im from Indonesia ,when i try apply at mmy labtop as singer at ceusship line ,not answear from my labtop Let me know ,thx

[@dubafeik1784]

nice video! here´s my question: if your instrument breaks, you don´t play until you can fix it, do you still get paid?

[@lostatsea1996]

That's a good question. I don't know, I've never been in that situation. I don't think they'll stop paying you but they won't be happy. Having a back up instrument is a good idea, or for example in my case, I can play piano and guitar, so if my guitar broke I could just play piano until I get it fixed.

[@mitiasmirnovmusic]

Hi! I have a question. As a solo musician who is required to know hundreds of cover songs, are you allowed to read lyrics/chord charts while you are performing? Or are you expected to know all of them off by heart, and if someone requests a song, to just "pull it out of the bag"?

[@lostatsea1996]

Yes, you can have an IPad with you, everyone does. I don't cause I like to memorise the lyrics, but everyone I know does :)

[@mitiasmirnovmusic]

​@@lostatsea1996 What happens if the song you are playing is longer than one page worth of lyrics/notation/chords? Is there apps for this kind of thing?

[@larryjohnny]

@@mitiasmirnovmusicyes but you need another piece of gear so you can tap it with your foot to change the page. I still prefer to use paper until they create an entire music stand that is a screen 20’X13’.

[@mariacareyb]

I dream to become a singer on a cruise ship. Tell me where to start?

[@basscarvalho]

How many hours each show, please.

[@georgemartinez4355]

I wanna do this job so bad!! 😢

[@Michael-Oh]

In your experience, what are the best Cruise ship companies

[@lostatsea1996]

I don't know! I wanna work for many and then I can talk about it. so far I've only worked for 2 cruise lines

[@LuigiMichelangeli-tr7en]

Hey man,thank you for your video!It is necessary to complete the vaccination cycle to be able to work inside cruise ships?

[@BG-kq6cn]

Thanks for the informative contents 😇 Do the soloists (singers to be specific) need to perform a brand new program each day?

[@lostatsea1996]

Thanks! yes, otherwise it'd be too repetitive. If it's a long cruise then you'd probably be fine repeating your songs after a week or 10 days

[@AdnanHussainMusic]

Can you please share you set list ??

[@Lonnie_Jones_Photography]

Hi. Can you tell us what Cruise lines you've worked for? -

[@susancoelho8765]

You mentioned that everyday one plays 2-3 shows.... How long is each show for?

[@RogerioSales]

45 minutes -1hour (maximum) each

[@stewartgatsi3180]

Can I play original music? Do I need to know covers?

[@lostatsea1996]

Yes. you might get away with playing some originals (I do) but it's mostly covers what they're looking for

[@stewartgatsi3180]

Thanks! How does one apply?

[@drewcolello3224]

Do you know if there is any room for Jazz trios? (Piano, bass, drums)

[@nanaoaheibam7611]

Hello! I am from India. I play drums, bass guitar and acoustic guitar and I am looking forward to work as a musician in cruise ship but don't know how to start off. Please reply if anyone is interested to work with me.

[@BrianBess]

How to be a musician in a cruise ship ?

[@Adiko686]

I am a bassist and ready on journey of a cuiseship musician, how?

[@thelolguy007]

Love the video. Really enjoyed it. 👏. I have a question. Can you play blues, rock as a Solo Musician on a Cruise Ship? I’m a solo musician who plays with tracks and mostly the Tourists circuit (all the hits, classics etc) but I do one gig a week where I get to play blues & rock etc and it’s my favourite gig of the week (as they are my favourite genres) and I was wondering if that’s possible to do on a cruise ship? I haven’t been on a cruise ship so I don’t know if there would be a demand for that type of gig?

[@lostatsea1996]

Yeah, most cruise lines would be fine with that. It's good to have a wide range of songs rather than to focus on just one style. however, most cruise lines won't hire someone who plays with tracks. they mainly look for singing guitarist / pianists without tracks

[@facundogalvan1097]

Hey mate, thanks for sharing your experience. Have you got any agency to recommend? Cheers

[@iuliagherasim4777]

but the food....for crew is a nightmare 😅😂

[@fordtahoma]

How many hours do you have to sing per day?

[@bharataniyaliya3553]

Yes

[@AyuRistanila-vp9ze]

Can i joined with u as a team?

[@andym28]

Hi mate are you guys on p and o?

[@lostatsea1996]

I Rather not say with companies I work for publicly so I can be honest about everything!

[@YedidiaVoice-hd5kl]

is there wifi???

[@bekacynthia]

Tell us about the salary 😅❤

[@rhett-BA-Lit.]

YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT NAVY ENLISTED PEOPLE GET ON A SHIP. You get a bunk bed in a unit three bunks high in a compartment below the waterline. You live in the same room with at least three or four dozen other men. Your mattress is only two or three inches of foam rubber on top of sheet metal. I couldn't understand it because I specifically requested a double bed with a sea view. Aside from that, all they give you is a locker about the size of two 25-inch medium suitcases for everything you own. You have no other storage unless it's unauthorized. If you get caught with unauthorized storage you could be assigned extra manual labor, fined, or even demoted in enlisted rank and pay. The Navy is long on punishment and short on pay. Chief petty officers E-7 and above have roughly the same sleeping quarters, except with fewer men to a compartment and more storage space. *Petty* is the key word here, as in small or insignificant. Your superiors regularly tell you just how insignificant you are, even after you've been in there for years. They are not trying to be funny. Sometimes they yell at you, or otherwise verbally abuse you. Navy officers and senior enlisted have no respect for your rank/pay grade, or your job specialty. Either one can be changed at any time with little more than the stroke of a pen (or keyboard). So you think you're an aircraft mechanic? Congratulations. Now you're a deck hand. Here's a mop. Alcohol is never permitted on the ship. There is a shared shower room with toilets. If you've been in the Navy less than three or four years, you'll probably be spending a lot of time scrubbing toilets and doing other cleaning work, no matter what you think your real job is supposed to be. Recruiters lie to prospective applicants all the time and make false promises. They don't tell you that you'll be spending half your time as a cleaner. Commissioned officers, usually just referred to as officers, are the big shots in the military. They have a cabin or stateroom alone or with another officer. The most junior officer is superior in rank and authority to even the most senior enlisted. The main difference between an (a) commissioned officer and a (b) enlisted/noncommissioned officer (NCO)/petty officer, is that an officer entered the Navy with a college degree. An enlisted person entered with less than a college degree. There are exceptions. Almost everything on a warship is metal and painted gray. The military is about 80 percent enlisted and 20 percent officer. Enlisted pay starts at approximately minimum wage and stays there for a long time. Anybody can look it up online. No enlisted person could ever afford the average rent in New York City or Boston, not on his own. You do get average, sometimes bad, cafeteria food three times a day. Think lunch at a public high school. Officers have a separate dining room, superior cuisine, and enlisted servants. Officers and enlisted men always have segregated living and dining spaces, as well as separate working areas if possible. Officers are instructed to *not* socialize with enlisted persons. As a rule, the Navy treats its enlisted workers like garbage regardless of what you do; always have. Students of history know that. Of course with human beings there are always exceptions, individuals who get special treatment. Other branches of the military may be slightly different. Not everybody contributes to creating a hostile environment, but plenty do. Navy life is always legalistic and impersonal. It resembles working in a detention center or low-security jail. You are a virtual prisoner for the duration of your enlistment. Anybody who tells you different is lying to you. Over time, some enlisted people become okay with the verbal and psychological abuse, perhaps risking your life for minimum wage or little more, and being treated like a servant for military officers. Everybody else gets out. You can't compare the military to any civilian job. Very few are that bad, and only the military has a rigid officer-enlisted social class system. My abusive lawyer parents in Mississippi forced me to join when I was 17. That's probably one reason why I didn't make a good flunky for military officers, because I grew up around lawyers and other professionals. My father died, and then my mother provided virtually no financial support. They never supplied much to begin with. That was deliberate. The full GI Bill in the 1970s did not begin to pay for all my tuition, fees, and living expenses. Maybe 10 percent. I had to work off-campus the entire time, and I was still a very broke college student. I went to a private college in the South called Millsaps (BA, 1982, 3.2 GPA). However it was not expensive compared to other schools, especially in the Northeast. Even some 45 years later I am frequently the target of verbal abuse and harassment perpetrated by some ex-military people, all strangers. Trash. Persons I would have never associated with, at least not outside the Navy. I have reported it. I was an enlisted medic or Navy corpsman, and I helped them. A corpsman is never an officer. It's almost impossible for me to get an attorney in this country. Most of them simply refuse to work for possible clients who contact them. Most lawyers don't return phone calls from strangers about a legal problem. Most lawyers don't respond to email inquiries they ask for. It's not entirely clear why they advertise. I had to do my own divorce about ten years ago. In 2007 two Gladstone (Kansas City), Missouri police officers entered my apartment one afternoon for no apparent reason. Screaming and yelling, officers Picard and Steele assaulted me and demanded I call my estranged mother I hadn't seen in years. They were laughing about it the whole time. I was amazed they didn't make up something to arrest me for. I could have been killed (Clay County Pro Se Case No. 07CY-CV10003). I have not been impressed by what passes for legal scholarship. Much of what attorneys do is simply filling out forms and submitting them to a judge-another lawyer-for approval. Some cases are more complex and require staff and overhead. My Millsaps peers who became attorneys are definitely not my friends. They obviously couldn't care less about me or the public. I've also been turned down by the Mississippi Bar Association several times. They claim they don't do referrals. I've been turned down by attorneys at the University of Mississippi Law School. My deceased father William Ethridge was a state judge and part-time instructor in Constitutional Law there in the 1960s. They've got a picture of him displayed in their moot courtroom unless they took it down. I obtained a legal name change to the name Rhett Butler a long time ago. I went to court without an attorney for the name change. Does anybody really want to be named after a family of thugs? People who lie about you to everybody? In addition to my violent parents, my older brothers Bill and Paul Ethridge have assaulted me multiple times and caused obvious physical injuries. They don't enforce the law down there, especially when it comes to domestic violence in an attorney's family. RB

[@lostatsea1996]

omg that's horrible :(

[@Howtospellmark]

hey brother I just sent you an email, asking for your support getting a gig as a soloist/Tribute SInger, I hope you get my email