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Speaker 1: Vero G.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, welcome?

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm doing good. Thank you guys as far for

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I'm good. I guys doing good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. Yeah, we just played brand new media great.

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Speaker 1: Track, thank you and you appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So, so what's been going on? So we

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Uh it's been more than a year since you've been

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on the show with us. Uh, what's uh? But you've

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always got a lot going on. You know, you're you're

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a musician obviously, but you don't just release music. You've

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got your kind of a I think I refer to

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you as a multi what did I what did I

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say on Facebook? A multimedia sensation something like that. Uh

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So yeah, get us, yeah yeah, get us up to speed.

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What's been going on?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely another problem. So yeah, first, as you guys know,

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all the albums already out it's called Brandon Me is

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almost of your platforms. Prior to that, I just got

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a book out which is called Going Too Soon. And

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as you know, the song Guests played last time that's

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based on that, which is you know, Losing a Child

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and esports and it's out now on Amazon's and that's

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that's really all supported that you guys can Prior to that,

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I'm also working on other film projects for next year.

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It's going to be like an uplifting, motivational kind of

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short film or dark film they call it uh so

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beel sometimes for next year, made by January. So also

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you guys getting an exclusive on a show as well.

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I will be releasing a single based upon me. My

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mother had passedway this year in May, and I wanted

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to do something and honored her. So I decided to

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work on a single which will be called Since You've

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Gone Away, and that'll be coming out next year in

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January as well. So I'm working on a lot of

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projects in network.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's the thing. Like I said, you've always got

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a lot going on at once. What so Yeah, sorry

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to hear about your mother, that's uh yeah, it makes

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me whenever I hear that, you know, it makes me

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kind of take stock and I, you know, realize how

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fortunate I am to to still have my parents. But

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was was she a big Was she a big influen

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and saw on you growing up?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, she played a huge role into the like

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this variation you can say, behind me getting into music

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and the passion behind that. And you know now that

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she's gone, I kind of like just really hits me

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home sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. The reason I'm curious about that is,

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you know, you you obviously you have a very impressive

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work ethic because you do so much. And I wonder

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if that's something that you got from her, or if

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that's something that you just kind of you know, sometimes

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not everything we get from our parents, So some things

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are just kind of the wiring in our brain is

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what it is for whatever reason, and we just kind

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of go go in different directions. But I was just

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curious if that was something you got from her or

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from other family members.

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Speaker 1: For the most part, I mean, my parents always show me,

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especially young as like to really work hard in which

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you belie even go all the way, So they had

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somewhat of a pivotal role for that. But I think

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for the most part, I just think you're generally it's

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something that was a drive of mind that I really

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want to just I want to if I have to

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get something's gonna have to with myself and doing it

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for many years, I was like, you know, I gotta

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go and do it because somebody will do it that

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way I do it. Yeah, And you know you've seem,

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like you said, the journey. I think we also for

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many years and you know, just to see the amazing

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feedback of love beginning receiving from you know, your soul,

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you guys and other people, and it's just an amazing

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it's an amazing journey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, What is your uh And by the way,

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I'm looking at your website by the way and vog

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music dot com. And you know, I'm curious because you know,

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a lot a lot of musicians listen to the show,

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a lot of industry people. How do you you know,

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what is your approach to kind of because you do

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have a lot going on and you're able to to

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promote it all and get it all out there. Do

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you do you have a strategy that you use in

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terms of social media or marketing yourself, Like, I'm really

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interested in what your approach is to that because sometimes

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when someone has these various different creative outlets, it's hard

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to sort of disseminate that to the you know, to

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the public, you know, and build a fan base because

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they're not sure what to pay attention to. Like, what's

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what's your approach to marketing? Or if you have one

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and maybe you don't maybe you just kind of put

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it all out there. I don't know, but you must

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be doing something right because you get a lot of

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you do get a lot of positive attention.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. No, I honestly, Matt, I

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think it's like Toronto error. That's how I learned from

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doing it for a good amount of years.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I think it's from error and how I work. How

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how are I do with the marketing and promotions is

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like like yourself. You know, I have for friends like

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you who are really like supportive and you know, I

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also I've been realizing that I've been using Facebook ads,

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which helps a whole lot now, because you know, it's

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one thing is you as one person alone. You can't

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do it the only one person. You have some many

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things to do. You've got to bamage your life and

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in your personal life. So it's like you just can't

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be able to spare all day promoting promoting. So I

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realized that helps a whole lot with my marketing plan

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and my strategies with that, and also just the word

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of all people putting out the word you know, hey,

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looks check her out what she's doing. And it's just

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just been amazing. It's been really supportive and it's been

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an interesting situation.

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Speaker 2: Do you enjoy that part of it because a lot

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of musicians don't like doing the you know, they'll do it,

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but they don't like doing that part of it, you know,

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the promotional part, or like you said, using Facebook ads,

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I'm someone who it's all fascinating to me. You know,

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I'm a musician. I played in a lot of bands,

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but to me, like all aspects of the business have

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always been fascinating to me. So I'll do anything and

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I don't mind doing it because I actually enjoy it.

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Do you do you enjoy it or is or is

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that part the promotional part is just something more you

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have to do to get where you're going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. And then you said you saw you're ultimusician,

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so you know more first hand how hard it is

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that you can get your self help there and people

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to pay attention to what she's doing. So I think,

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you know, by doing this now as kind of a

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strategy with Facebook ads or other ways of promoting yourself,

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I do have some way enjoying doing it because it

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gets you to know, like people to know that they're

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paying attention or engaging with music or engaging or contacting

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you like hey, you know, I want to check yourself

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out or and it's that source. So it's it's and

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I thought about this somebodys as well, like, you know,

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one thing we don't have anymore is technology wise, We're

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so focused on just putting that's it. I'm just kind

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of go to school. I like to meet people, like

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just engage with them and get to know what they're like,

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you know, talk to them like your friends, your supporters.

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And we don't have that anymore. Seed, so I mean

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we should have that more of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and tell me about a brand new me this

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is Is this a full album that you've released or

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is this an EP or what? What is this exactly?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, so this album is a full album. It

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has ten songs, and this is actually long way way.

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It's been a long way, like holding up like it's

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been a while. I finally get this album out and

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it's just a phenomenal doing music as you guys heard

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things so plain that. And it has other amazing tracks

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on the Young Girl as a Lot, as Lot as

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a body, He is a lot of great other songs

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in there, big shots to Relens, but that's my producer

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for similar tracks on there, and all the producers have

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a chance to have, you know, worked on this album.

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But it's just amazing to see the feedback on it

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and the title of brandomly the constable of that, it's

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pretty much of me skating like like you know, it's

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a new leaf, new chapter, and it's a new way

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of looking at life differently in.

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Speaker 2: Lessen excellent excellent. Did did you you mentioned delays in

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getting this done? I'm just curious, like what what what

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was holding things up?

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Speaker 1: Yes, So one of the factors I was kind of

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going through it at the time before you I'm a

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release was the financial part, is to say, because as

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you know, like being an independent artist, you don't really

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have a backing or support in essence to help you

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invest into your you know, your projects or anything in

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that nature. So with this, I had to financially put

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all the money behind back on this project. And now

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I'm starting to appreciate the feedback and the love and

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support with this, which has been a long time coming.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And there's so you said, there's ten

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tracks on the album correct, Yes, yeah, Were these all

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recorded in the same studio or did you kind of

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mix it up as far as what the process was.

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Speaker 1: For the most part, yes, it was at one particularly Eddie.

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year's album and to finally getting completed and put it

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It was all but it was worth it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you learn a lot along the way with

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something like that, right, you know when when things I

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mean that's the thing, when not not just in music,

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but in anything in life, when things don't necessarily go

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as quickly as you'd like or quite as planned, at

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least you learn you know as you're going what can

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what can hold you up, and what can what to

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prepare for and you know in the future and whatnot.

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So there's always learning involved, which is a good thing.

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It's silver alzed. And then once you come up which

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and then what you come out with is uh is

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uh worth it? Did did you work with you mentioned

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a producer. Did you work with the same producer on

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all the tracks or did that change?

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Speaker 1: Uh? No, No, I've been working for a good many

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years now and with this album, I think it was

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a two or three songs. He produced this other artist artist,

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other producers I've worked with, also a new producers that

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I worked with, and you know, the song is just

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we get Chest to hit. The album. The sound is

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totally different and when you hear the vocals, you see

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the growth in the vocals is totally expand and it's

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just like a whole new Christian sound of house.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So it sounds like has your approach changed over

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the years, because it sounds like this is an evolution

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for you, which makes sense because you know the the

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albums called the brand New me as as your approach

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in terms of singing, as that specifically changed over the years,

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because you were talking about the vocals changing.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, definitely, since you know where we're beginning. You know,

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my other projects is done. I don't just like, I

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don't really discredit that because this is who I am,

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my journey. But I feel like this album particularly now

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that's all now, I think it's really shown, uh, the

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the amount of growth as they say as me as

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in my artistry in my songwriting and you could. You're

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definitely here. It the difference in the change, but it's

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definitely more stronger polity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it sounds like you're more confident with it. Yeah, No,

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that that's that's great. And uh so, uh we're gonna

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we're gonna close out in a moment. We've we've we've

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got a busy show today, but we are gonna play this.

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We're gonna play this track. You are the one in

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a moment. But vo g, what should people know about

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how to keep up? Like I said, you've got a

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lot going on. What should people know about how to

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keep up with you online? Any? And do you have

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anything coming up? I don't know if you have any

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live performances, if you're doing any songs from this album live,

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but anything our listeners should know about.

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Speaker 1: Yes, definitely. So Actually, as we speak, I won't be

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performing definitely next year for the new songs. I'm still

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working on that. But as we speak, I do have

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a toy drive coming up next Sunday on December fifteenth,

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and I won't take the place here in New York

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City down come hand and we'll be having toys, thank you,

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thank you. We'll be having toys. We're having live performs

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from other artists and you know, families and kids will

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be come in and get their toys and then you know,

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just the celebration of joy Christmas for that. So I'm

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very excited for that. That'll be from four pm, I

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think with n PM, so it was interested. I also

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in my information by social media, you to find me

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at IG is at official Vero G. Also website is

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www dot verog music dot com. My artist page is

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at for Facebook at v E r O twenty eighty

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four and you know, you guys want to welcome to

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check it out if you want to follow me or

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book me or anything. Just definitely company there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding. All right, well, Vero G. Congratulations on

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the new album and everything that you've got going on.

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And absolutely we're gonna thank you. We're gonna play this track.

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You're the one to close out. But hey, thank you

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so much for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys again in the heptadays as well.

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Speaker 2: Happy holidays. See you all right, Vero G. Thank you.

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We'll talk to you soon, I'm sure