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single, and we're gonna play something
more of hers in a little bit after

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we talk. But now hopefully she's
with us, because sometimes when we skype

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with people across the pond, it
doesn't always go smoothly. Sofia, are

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you there? Yeah, I'm awesome, awesome, I got nervous. You

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said this was your first time using
Skype, so you are now officially initiated

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as a Skype user. By the
way, so am I saying your name

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correctly? Yes? You are Sophia
okay, wonderful and it's Goalani. Yeah,

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okay, just making sure, very
good. Yeah, I really like

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the track. It's catchy. And
we're also gonna play a little bit later

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after we talk for a little bit. We're gonna play Levels, which I

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believe was your previous single, which
I also really really love, so great

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stuff. Whereabouts are you? Where
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sorry in England, so like the
countryside bit of England? Yes, very

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very nice? Is that is that
where you're from? Originally? I was

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actually based in London originally, but
now I'm sorry at the moment, for

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the summer. Oh okay, okay, why for the summer? Is it

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just better to get out of the
city. I just love the countryside,

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man. I always, you know, like to think. I think it

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makes me think clearly when I'm in
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see family and you know, see
all the pets that we have and stuff.

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It's nice, nice to reconvene after
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long. Yeah. Yeah, does
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Do you find yourself writing more music
when you're when you're there and able to

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kind of relax and get away from
the city. Yeah, I think the

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hustle and bustle the city is great. But also when you're like in that

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really calm mindset like sitting in a
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walking like for fun, it's like, you know, oh, I can

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really take this time for myself and
think about what I want to write about,

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what I want to produce. So
it definitely does give me fresh perspectives

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and messages I could put my songs. Yeah, yeah, I can understand

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that. Even you know, here
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people will tell you, like,
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away from Boston, and I've had
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the city and the energy of it
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whatnot. But sometimes you just have
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head, and that's when some real
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so many different sounds, so this
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of concentrate on yourself, I definitely
think that the countryside is the way to

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go. Yeah, now is Wyn
How long has that been out? That's

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relatively new? Correct? Probably like
one or two months old? Oh okay,

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baby love My Love Wyn. It's
one of my favorites. Yeah.

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Yeah, has that been played on
American radio before? Now? Not really?

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Actually it's one of the first.
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Excellent, excellent, No, happy
to do it. Now. Do you

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have a full album out or are
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Well, at the moment, I
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all, all the singles that I've
released and nine few extra ones into this

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project piece. It's, you know, such a cute little it's not an

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album. I would say, it's
like a project of all the songs I've

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already done, like just a recollection
of my starts music. And I've been

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doing a few HMB performances. I've
got a few coming up later this year

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in basing Stoke, Brighton, Winchester. It's gonna be cool. And I've

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already done some just now in working
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really cool. It's interesting, how, you know, we live in a

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time where people musicians use a number
of different approaches in terms of release music.

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And a lot of the people that
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because I'm old enough to remember when
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know, you put out an album
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But now what a lot of musicians
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your approach is releasing a series of
singles which eventually become an album. So

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the process has become kind of inverted. But I think the advantage to doing

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it that way and I don't know
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but I feel like the advantage of
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you're continuously giving your audience new music
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and wait. And you know,
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technology, with the Internet and social
media and everything, where you kind of

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have to feed that machine right in
order to maintain that engagement with your audience.

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I think, you know, the
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very hustle and bustle, so when
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you know, something new. I
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now, if I did it completely
new music and just release an album,

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it's really, in my opinion,
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of storyline or if I really feel
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album. But you know, it's
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is fun. It's playful, and
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performances, it's just a nice way
of me being able to put out loads

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of music and stuff and still be
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have it in that so you know, package album, you know, kind

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of way right right. And also
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one at a time, you can
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attention that it deserves. You know, you can make a video, you

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can make a lyric video, you
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produced, fully produced video. You
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kinds of things with it. You
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want to in terms of social media, Whereas when you put out an album,

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you can't really you know, you'll
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you can't give every single track on
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standpoint, from a social media standpoint
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it makes sense. Yeah, and
it gives it a bit of breathing room

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as well. When I released a
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talk about, the only thing I've
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Is it's all digital, but you
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project with all the singles in it. But when I do release single of

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the single, it's nice to be
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media and talk to people about in
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the room it deserves. So yeah, definitely agree. You referred to physical

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media as well, So I'm curious
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still very much a thing. Vinyl
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the past decade. I think twenty
twenty two, vinyl for the first time

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actually outsold CDs. But we have
guests on the show too who still put

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out CDs, not not all,
some of them don't. But I'm curious,

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what is it like there is is
physical media still an important part of

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all of it? And do you
do you release these songs as CDs as

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well or have you ever put out
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it digitally? I right now at
the moment, I'm it's all like digipack

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album pieces. It's like it's just
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branching out, you know, inter
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we're doing it one bit at a
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you know, it's I think it
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to have that kind of fun CD
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they're like, oh, you know, this is you know, a part

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of an era of your life.
This is part of your news. And

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while we could definitely branch to other
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one bit of a time because as
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vinyl is important, CD is important, but right now it's just you

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know CD. Yeah, yeah,
absolutely. Where do you record? Do

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you do? You work with a
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now again, we live in an
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if you want to. What's your
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process? In terms of recording,
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so he would release all the time. Yep, he was, and so

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we had that. That's originally what
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had that equipment at home and so
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just do it in our conservatory.
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home. In terms of producing,
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good friends with them. But you
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the process actually when creating my songs
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I do most of it at home. Wow, Well, you had a

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great start, right, that's pretty
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active musically. Your father, Yes, he is actually, but he's you

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know, he's given a great deal
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He's always kind of motivated me and
he's taught me very valuable life lessons

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in music as well, which have
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do things such as release a dig
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have the support of your family,
that's that's great. And of course,

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you know, to come from a
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also a music holder? She's not
us, but you know she's always the

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number one, biggest bad films,
all that good stuff. That's great,

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that's great. No, I'm sure
they're I'm sure they're very proud of you.

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know, because not everyone has that
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that's remarkable. What what's kind of
the future? What's the future trajectory

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for you? Are are you going
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still pretty new. Do you have
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actually thinking of releasing a new single. It's called I'm very very excited for

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it. It's actually it's it's quite
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methodical, a lot more harmonies.
It's you know, something I've been working

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for actually quite a while. So
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Excellent, excellent. Well, we'd
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to play it when it's ready.
If everything fantastic, fantastic, We love

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to do that. So, uh, that's great. Are you playing out

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a lot? Do you play a
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some have been jet packed. I've
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Hazel my fringe festivals, playing main
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doing a few London gigs, all
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But you know now, I think
for July and August, I'm gonna

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enjoy the summer, and then later
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be doing some more record store gigs, just on that grind. Yeah,

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excellent, excellent. Is that is
that still a big thing there? It

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seems like in America maybe maybe in
big cities they still do it, but

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it seems like in America, you
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still exist certainly, but you know
the you know the in store promotions where

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artists coming and play live in record
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a thing of the past to some
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You do a performance in the record
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but like people can come into the
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like record stores nowadays, people like
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all want to go back to the
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stores and we hear those live performances, it like reminds us that we are

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all part of a community. And
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only like you know, it's fun
to meet other people who love like music

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in general, love promote my music, but it just creates this like really

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beautiful culture of just promoting music,
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community. I think in your video
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I think there's a it looks like
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of you performing at a record store? Am I Am I wrong about that?

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like you're in a store. Yeah, I think I am at one point.

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I mean, we wanted levels to
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article, article, gig, you
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so that probably is something in there, but I did. There were so

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many gigs in that video I remember
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and we just wanted that one to
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No, it's a cool it's a
cool video. And I really love

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the song too. That's the one
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of our conversation. Great, great
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after I listened to it, it
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hours, like leveled levels, levels
very good, Well, Sophia, What

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should people know about how to find
you online? And and obviously you know,

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uh, we have we have listeners
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to check you out, keep up
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your music and so forth. What
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online? So I'm literally on majority
of social media platforms on Instagram, I'm

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Sofia dot Anissa dot Glani and on
like, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify or

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stream platforms, I am Sofia Galani. So yeah, stay, especially the

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Instagramlani go on that it will be
the most updated social media platform for any

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gigs coming up. Any new songs, the one in September. There you

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go, excellent, excellent. Hey, and before we play this, is

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there anything we should know about this
song? Levels, any any anything special

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you want us to know about it. It's just it's such a vibe.

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I think when I made it,
it was just for fun and it was

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just you know, it was I
did write it in the spring, so

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i'll, you know, go going
into summer. Everyone was excited, so

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you know, listen to it.
Just bot man, it's got that vibe.

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I know what you mean about,
you know, in the spring,

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going in the summer. Definitely,
definitely Sofia Galani. We'll let you go

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and we're gonna spin this. But
thank you so much for talking with us

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today. And yes, definitely when
the next single is ready, let's do

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that. We'll have you back on. We'll we'll spin the track and really

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looking forward to that great stuff.
Love what you're doing. But thank you

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so much for joining us today,
thank you for having me. It has

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been so lovely. All right,
Sophia, thank you bye bye bye bye.

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All right. That is Sofia Galani
all the way from the UK,

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skyping in and let's give this a
listen. This is called levels