“Ten years ago, the only thing I ever saw was the world stage, the travel, the audience all over the place, chart success, appreciation, adoration, et cetera, et cetera. When I look at my life now, all that is completely secondary. And the only thing I really care about now is to be the best musician I can be.”
Miloš Karadaglić, 41, the classical-guitar superstar who goes by the mononym Miloš, was speaking by Zoom from his home, in the London district of Battersea, across the Thames from Chelsea. Where some practiced interviewees dispense print-ready sound bites, this one holds forth in run-on paragraphs alive with the thoughtfulness and passion and independence that carried him, at 17, from his native Montenegro to a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, in London, and on to a storybook career as a concert artist and recording phenomenon.
