Going The Distance - Ira Green Interview.mp3
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Oh yes, of course.
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I'm joking.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I love Deep Purple.
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I listened to Deep Purple when I was a kid too.
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Yeah.
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And he likes it also ACDC.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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That's, I think that, oh, Led Zeppelin.
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Of course.
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All the big rock gods.
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All the big ones.
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Yeah.
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Well, sure.
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Well, they're big for a reason. They're worldwide popular for a reason because they're the best at the game.
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Oh, yeah. You can say it. Yeah.
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So how old are you right now?
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Guess it.
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I think I kind of know because I read it online.
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You think it. So say it.
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24?
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It's okay for me, 24.
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Okay.
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I'm 28.
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Oh, okay. Well, that's still very young. I'm 42.
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Whoa.
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Wait, you're young too. You're young too. You know, times change.
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That's true. Yeah, 40 is the new, or what is it? 20 is the new 40?
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Yeah, it's the new, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Quite this. Yeah, yeah.
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You started to enjoy the rock and roll and the metal music.
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And what was the first CD or what was the first band that you kind of fell in love on your own with?
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I don't know. I have to think about it.
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The first band that I heard was Pink Floyd.
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Yeah.
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And it was Echoes.
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Is that right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Echoes.
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Yeah, Echoes.
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Yep.
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Is that the right way to say it?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Echoes.
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Yes.
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Anyway.
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I heard Led Zeppelin.
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But the first song was that. That one from Pink Floyd.
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Okay.
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It was the... I never listen to all the albums, you know, but single tracks from different albums.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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I don't want to listen to all the same things.
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Right.
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Yeah, so you listen to a lot of different bands.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, of course. That's great.
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The music that you play now, jumping ahead a little bit, is a little bit different than Pink Floyd and what have you.
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It's quite different. Yeah. Because at the age of 18, I was 18. I just discovered Nirvana in the 18th. In my 18th. Yeah, I guess I always... I'm gonna say avoid. I try to avoid this kind of music. Then it comes to me.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I love grunge, metal, you know, Pantera. Pantera. You say Pantera, but we say Pantera.
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No, we say Pantera.
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Oh, I don't know. Some guys that I know always say Pantera.
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Well, he's wrong.
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Whoa. You son of a bitches.
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You could tell him he's wrong. We say Pantera.
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Pantera. Okay.
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Yeah.
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So, huh. That's a kind of band that I love, even today.
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Yeah.
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Megadeth.
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Yes. Did you say Megadeth?
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Yeah.
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Yo, I've seen Megadeth live five times.
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I cannot go to concerts.
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Why?
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Why?
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Yeah, I have panic attacks.
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Oh.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah, that's weird because you have to stay on the stage with music. Yes. But I don't know. It's different. I can do that. But if I have to stay between all these people, I get an easy panic attack.
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Okay. Okay. Well, that's interesting. You would rather be on the stage performing than be in the crowd. Yeah. Yeah. That's very interesting. Yeah. It's strange.
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Because for a lot of people, it would be the opposite. No, no. I don't know. I turn myself in another universe. Okay. I'm on the stage. Yeah, absolutely. I've never performed in front of anybody on a stage. I don't know how you can do that because I would be very self-conscious about how I look and what I sound like. And I don't think I could let myself go. So, I really admire that you can put yourself out there.
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Yeah, but you know, I'm always a bit shy. A shy person. The first time that I started to sing a song, it was not in front of people. I was under a desk of my father. And it was the phone on blanks. What's up, you know? The song? Yeah. And I was under the desk of my father's studio. Because I was too shy to sing in front of people.
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Oh, wow. So, before we get into the next stage of your progression, did you watch Rocky as a child or did you watch it as an adult?
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manager and my boyfriend and he just said one day did you ever seen rocky the film i said no i don't
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know i don't like it you know thinking about that i was a fighter in the kickboxing you know in a
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gym kickboxing game i don't know if i like this kind of film he said no you have to watch it you
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have to watch it okay let's watch it and i was rocky just a year ago i know it's it's it's a shame
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no no so and when i saw it i fell in love with this kind of old story it's it's the first one for me it's
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a love story and it's amazing it's it's full of emotions and you know what i can't see it's a love story and it's amazing it's it's full of emotions
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and you know what i can see myself in rocky because in the elementary school i've been bullied
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you were in military school elementary oh elementary
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i'm not for this kind of life you were bullied in elementary school that's unfortunate and terrible it
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looks like being bullied seems to be a human behavior no matter what country you're from it's
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a problem here in north america if you don't mind sharing what were people what were they saying to
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you what were the kids saying to you to make you a target they just uh in the in the bathroom and they
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closed me in and they were saying all the you know backwards to me just because i i love my brother's shirt
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i was wearing today in this day for them maybe it was strange i don't know and they start to saying
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backwards to me it's not being so easy to to i'm gonna i give up i just given up it was so brutal you know
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it's not being rude for a kid to be bullied in this way yeah because i've been in in that room in the
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bathroom for four hours whoa you know what it means yeah you were trapped yeah i was trapped that's terrible
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yeah that's terrible i know i perfectly in the way but you're okay now yeah yeah unfortunately okay the bad side of this story is that then i became the bully
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yeah yeah it's not a good story but but then i understood some things and i had some people with me that make me understand that there are things that are most important that this kind of life the anger is good but it's good if you put it in your music in your heart you know that's how you have to use anger
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yeah absolutely to speak to you being a bully it it's unfortunate that's kind of what sometimes happens is
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sometimes the victim can become the person who causes harm to others and it and then that cycle continues but
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you recognize that and you've obviously stopped but in a way that's maybe that is how you you defended and
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coped with your i mean you were being hurt and sometimes that survival is just to change whatever
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it is you need to do to not be hurt anymore if that makes sense so you're just young i mean we're all young
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and trying to figure out life there's yeah you know sometimes we're the bully sometimes we're not nice
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sometimes we are nice it's just human nature yeah yeah i think it too but it's been a really a mistake
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for me yeah not everyone can admit that and the the fact that you can say hey that was wrong but you moved
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on then you can not be that way anymore and that's a message to everyone just just be nice everyone just be
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be nice because there's no time there there was a line from a song of beatles they say life is too short
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to forcing and fighting yeah you know yeah i love that i think that's my favorite song of theirs that's
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uh we can work it out yeah we can work it out right yeah that's my favorite beatles fighting that's right
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that's my favorite favorite beatles song yeah i've got it in my head now yeah life is very short
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there's no time i won't sing we start singing yeah well i won't sing i don't want to scare off my
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audience i i i can't sing why you say that oh i i because i've heard myself you can do it no no so we're
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going to actually talk about singing because you were a contestant on the italian version of the
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voice yeah i'm actually interested to hear behind the scenes stuff i don't know if you're allowed to
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because we have the voice here in north america the american version yeah with adam levine and christine
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aguilera and tim blake and whatever yeah the big stars over here so were the italian hosts were they
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like considered stars in italy yeah yeah yeah yeah they were stars in italy okay so there were
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celebrities there so that's cool like as we know every country has their celebrities i know a lot of
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americans a lot of americans and i'm canadian mind you you know a lot of americans can sometimes think
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that they're the only ones that have celebrities but every every country has a celebrity um yeah yeah how did you
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go on the show tell me how you got there and what was it like and i've done a million of auditions all
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around these kind of tv shows everywhere they tell me your voice is too aggressive you're too strong so
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i cannot put you on tv because it's it's too much for tv right and i would say yeah yeah you're right
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and then i go away but this time i just done my audition with no hope you know because everywhere
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they always tell me oh no no it's not for tv it's not for tv it's not for tv so this time i i don't know
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maybe because i went there without thinking about it and they just tell me wow that's that's amazing wow
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oh i want this on my show i want this on my show it's all they call me now when you auditioned behind
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closed doors this was with no cameras yeah what song did you perform for them where you're gonna laugh
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you're gonna laugh now because first one was black dog from yeah that's happening i saw that on youtube
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that performance yeah yeah and they chose it for the show but this one one of these of the songs i kiss the
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girl from katie perry the rock version that's all right it was cool because it was a rock version you know
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they just they just they just lamp door oh that's cool well that's just it it was something different
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you took a pop song and you made it into kind of a rock song and yeah yeah yeah that's it was it a male
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person that you sang it to no no no okay i figured if it was a male i'd be like yeah yeah come on back
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that's great that's great we'd love to have you no i'm just teasing i'm just teasing that's great so you
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got the call and what was it like to say hey we'd love to have you back were you scared nervous excited
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i was just what are you sure that it's the the right number you're calling
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no no but it was this energy all all in my body and it was amazing for me i was so happy do you get to
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choose your own outfits when you go on stage or do they dress you back there how does that work
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no they let me choose it let me choose it for the first the second and then maybe the third third time
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yeah yeah and they let me choose my outfits well but you can see it
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that's that's good okay how many weeks were you on the show like how far did you get into the
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into the competition i've been in the in the final rounds oh wow yeah i've been in the final round yeah it
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was uh something really special because it's kind of like a dream you you think you're dreaming
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you think oh no that cannot be possible and and it's possible i want to say to every little kids all
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around the world out there they have to try you always have to try you don't have to be scared of what you
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want because you have to fight to get it but you never have to give up i like it that's the rocky spirit
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yeah and i had it before i watch it yeah yeah of course of course that was something that was already
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in you that you didn't even know that you had yeah that's awesome before we close the chapter on the voice
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was this the largest audience you ever performed in front of at these competitions yeah i think because
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at this time in your life yeah yeah because before it was uh kind of uh you know shows in uh in the pubs
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and something a little bit little you know okay that must have been a good work experience in a way a good
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yeah to work a crowd and to maybe even uh not be afraid as much to be in front of people oh yeah you
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just close your eyes and say yeah okay i can do it oh yeah absolutely being on the voice must have helped
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you get more fans and get more audience yeah yeah you've released an album yeah and i want to talk
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about that album it's really good by the way oh thank you yes i've listened to it i don't own it yet
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because i haven't figured out what the cost will be to ship it from italy oh yeah i don't know because i
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don't take care about it yeah no worries but i've listened to all your singles everything that you've
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released on your website and on your facebook i'll have those links for people and today we just
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released all the tracks from the album it's fall asleep you can see it on my page and the youtube
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channel yes so that's ire green uh it's called the ire green official is your youtube channel yeah the song
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that you released today yeah it was called fall asleep and i look yeah and i listened to it because i saw
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that you release it today and i think you did that on purpose you released it on the day of the interview
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maybe who knows yeah you will never know no i probably do know no it has nothing to do with me
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i want to say that oh maybe it does i thank you so much it's a great song and it definitely does have
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that grunge that you're talking about the grunge yeah that'll have you ever listened to alice and
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chains whoa it's my favorite band there you go yeah i love alice and chains so you definitely draw from uh
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a lane staley there yeah i love lane staley yeah he's incredible what a loss to the rock world when he
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passed away wow yeah boy you must have been in the 94 right yeah i was gonna say you were a baby yeah i was a baby
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maybe you're reincarnated maybe you are now the new lane staley his his spirit lives through you don't
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say it well he's too much well fair enough but he but you know what that's what rock and roll is all
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about about passing the torch we want we want more people to carry the torch of rock and roll because
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it's a dying art out there so you're saying that your manager is your boyfriend and soon to be husband
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so all the guys out there are going to be very disappointed to hear this ira because
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i know a lot of my listeners find you very attractive and they're going to be bummed to
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hear that you're uh you're taken i hope you don't mind me saying that because in today's culture we're
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not we're not we're not we're not allowed to say anymore that somebody's attractive anymore we're not
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allowed to say that no we get we get in trouble okay no why well it's because america is so sensitive
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now that we can't even we're not only even allowed to say that you're a girl oh why oh enjoy your time
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in italy have have fun there because so anyways but that's quite different in america yeah it's very
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different so we want to say that's cool that your manager and your boyfriend good for him uh number two
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it's awesome that he introduced you to rocky bravo bravo bravo i will say it to him okay thank you
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what's his name marco marco of course it's marco of course it's marco marco polo if uh
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it couldn't just be mark it has to be marco marco come here marco they're talking about you
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tell marco from the rocky fans that that's great that he did that because that's how i found you is you
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covered eye of the tiger have you ever heard of iron the tiger the song before you saw the rocky films
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yeah of course now you also released no easy way out yeah which is a better song than i of the tiger i
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think you think yeah don't you think it's a better song i don't know my favorite you know what is my
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favorite is uh burning heart oh wow oh that's one for me it's really cool have you have you done that one
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not yet but who knows maybe we'll be the next one please please i beg of you i don't know i have to
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think about it okay well the no easy way out i love and i love that song we actually interviewed robert
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tepper the uh singer of that original yeah because it's you see italian is he i think his name is roberto
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tepper though oh wow i think i don't remember so i wish i knew that i would have asked him when you saw
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rocky did you know that the character was italian before you saw it oh yeah okay the italian stallion
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how did you like that it's cool i want to be an italian stallion one day is he a stallion is
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stallone a handsome man oh yeah i think yes oh god yeah
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sylvester stallone he's a stallion yeah yes yes he is we love him we love our sylvester stallone um so you
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have you have you seen all the rocky films now yeah sure i'm ready for creed two oh wow so you are a
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fan fan now yeah yeah and i'm really a fan that's awesome because it shows how international the character
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is that it speaks to every language yeah speaking of which did you watch the film in english not yet but i
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want to do it because for me it's been difficult to understand to this is the song when he talks
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because it's it's different from all the other characters i have to try but i have to try yes that's
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your assignment that's your homework yeah okay back to elementary school for you oh god no not this kind of
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go please i would recommend ira if you do watch them in english put the english captions on and then
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you can read the english as they're talking and that will help you understand yeah you're right yeah
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i even listened to stallone with captions
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really hey yo i told i slow i slow my voice you know what i'm saying so but it's okay your rocky videos
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as you can imagine they get a lot of exposure and a lot of views yeah because the rocky world is so big
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and of course that just helps you get more views and listens because i want to say that your singing
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and your passion and your powerful voice we need that female rockers are awesome wow thank you yeah no
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problem now let's talk about your visit to philly whose idea was that to come to philadelphia oh guess it
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yours marco i know i i figured it was marco marco just found this the yo philly rocky tool uh just
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said oh we have to do it we have to do it and i say wow wow oh yeah yeah we can do it we just went there
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and it was amazing we just met my kunda there is yeah the tool manager you know it's a wonderful person and i
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want to say thank you that it's been a really uh a wonderful experience really mike kunda has been on
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our show i've talked to him a few times i obviously talked to him online as well he's the best you've
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been to philly i haven't even been to philadelphia so that's amazing oh that's your homework boy
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okay fair enough all right so you watch the stallone films in english and i'll go to philly that's a good
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yeah yeah your homework assignment is much cheaper than mine it's easier for me yeah it's cheaper right
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oh boy when you sing in english yeah it's harder for you it must be harder to do it's not as natural i
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don't know because i always sing in english in the in the first time of my life i didn't sing in italian
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i just start to sing in english okay i have a question about language and this is a question
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i've always wanted to ask people you're the first one i could really ask you know in songs when you
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sing a song in english because i forget what song you sang but you sang a song that was english first
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then you did an italian i think i can't remember now which song that was wait wait think about it it's
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my song or it's cover what kind of song is i can't remember i can't remember i just remember how
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i think it was i mean 99 sure it was something you sang and but you sang in italian so the question
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i had for myself was you know in english we have rhyming you know we rhyme our words in in songs right
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so oh yeah yeah you you mean mundo senza regole it's my song okay it was first yeah the first version
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was in english music strand and it's in rebel legion album yeah and then we we start to think about
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change the word change the word and change the language and we turn it in italian and it's cool
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it's really cool song how do you decide because i'm sure when in italian songs they have rhyme
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yeah yeah right but the words that translate back to english wouldn't rhyme the way they would in italian
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so how does that i tried i tried to let the meaning it's the same of the song in english it's the same so you just
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have to find right yeah i just have to find the rhyme yeah okay so you have to find a word that rhymes but
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has the same kind of meaning the best you can yeah yeah that's right okay that's a whole new challenge
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yeah yeah it's been a challenge you're very hard because not only are you doing that different words
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have different amount of syllables i just find translating so yeah i think that you have to give a birth to a song so the song it comes to you in italian you have to do in italian if it comes in english you have to you have to go with english you know okay interesting yeah i like it so i think you don't have to change it's been a good experience it was it was cool but i think you have to feel what even in the language of a song
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oh i like that i want to ask about your album the name how do you say is it rebellion rebellion yeah yeah i like it you combine the word rebel yeah and religion were you religious growing up were you are you rebelling against religion is that the meaning this brackets
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Yes, because you combine two words.
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And it's B in the center of it.
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Because I think that your B cannot come out if you let, I don't know, some institutions let ruin your life.
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And you have to be rebel with every kind of politics, these kind of things.
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You have to come out with your B, with your human being.
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You have to come out with your universe.
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I like it. Be yourself.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Don't let politics, religion.
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Yeah, all these institutions.
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All these institutions tell you who to be.
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Be who you are.
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Be nice and be good to people, yes.
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Yeah, sure. That's the right thing to do.
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Yeah, because we don't want to be a jerk.
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Yeah.
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We don't want those people.
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But be yourself.
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And don't, yeah.
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And don't destroy.
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Don't be scared to be yourself.
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That's it.
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I like it.
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Don't destroy others when they're trying to be themselves.
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Yeah.
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I like it.
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Oh, okay.
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You're right.
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Well, I just want to make sure I understand because I don't...
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You just understood this kind of thing faster than more people that I know.
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Well, it's because I'm a smart guy.
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That's why.
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Oh, yeah.
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You're a smart guy, of course.
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Well, no.
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No, I'm not.
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No, I'm not.
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I wish I was.
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Oh, boy.
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So, when's your next performance?
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When's your next live show?
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Oh, we just stopped with live show because we're working on a new album that will be in Italian.
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Okay.
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And we're working with Fabrizio Simoncioni.
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He's a good producer and he's a wonderful guy.
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And I want to thank you to let me know some kind of things of music that I didn't know.
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And it's wonderful to work with him.
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And we're working on a new album.
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And I don't know exactly when it comes out.
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But I think in the new year.
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I will let you know.
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Oh, awesome.
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And you said it's going to be all in Italian?
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Yeah, all Italian.
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But you never know.
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I don't know.
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I don't want roads on this kind of walk.
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Well, sure.
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There's a lot of international artists who do that.
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They'll do both.
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They'll release albums to their native country type language.
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And that's totally understandable.
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And then there's artists who will do English.
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But English is not.
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It's just weird.
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Because English is not the most spoken language in the world.
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It has this weird kind of market where it's like artists feel, I wouldn't say obligated, but they feel like they have to do it in English as well.
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It's strange, but it's cool.
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Because I think everyone should learn this language.
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Because it's international for me.
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That's my thought.
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I don't know.
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Italian sounds sexy anyway.
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Oh, that's good.
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The way...
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Not if I said it.
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But, you know, the men always seem very in the movies and stuff.
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Italians, Marcos, you know, all the Marcos of the world.
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They're very sexy men.
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Marco.
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Marco's the Italian stallion.
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Yeah, it's the Italian stallion.
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Yeah.
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For me, yeah.
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Well, Ira, it's been a real joy to have you on the show today.
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It's been my pleasure.
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It's been fun.
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It's cool.
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It's cool.
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It's really cool.
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And I'll put down on our interview the links to your Facebook page and to your homepage so people can see what you're up to.
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Yeah.
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We're also on Instagram and Twitter.
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Okay.
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That's right.
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Yeah, you're everywhere.
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That's good.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'll put those all down.
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Well, it's a social media world that we live in.
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Yeah.
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Oh, thank you.
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Well, thanks for taking the time and have a happy new year and all the best in the new year.
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Oh, I want to thank you and you have a good holidays and happy new year to everyone.
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Thank you, Ira.
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Thank you.
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Bye.
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Oh yes, of course.
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I'm joking.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I love Deep Purple.
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I listened to Deep Purple when I was a kid too.
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Yeah.
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And he likes it also ACDC.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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That's, I think that, oh, Led Zeppelin.
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Of course.
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All the big rock gods.
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All the big ones.
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Yeah.
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Well, sure.
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Well, they're big for a reason. They're worldwide popular for a reason because they're the best at the game.
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Oh, yeah. You can say it. Yeah.
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So how old are you right now?
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Guess it.
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I think I kind of know because I read it online.
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You think it. So say it.
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24?
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It's okay for me, 24.
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Okay.
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I'm 28.
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Oh, okay. Well, that's still very young. I'm 42.
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Whoa.
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Wait, you're young too. You're young too. You know, times change.
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That's true. Yeah, 40 is the new, or what is it? 20 is the new 40?
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Yeah, it's the new, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Quite this. Yeah, yeah.
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You started to enjoy the rock and roll and the metal music.
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And what was the first CD or what was the first band that you kind of fell in love on your own with?
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I don't know. I have to think about it.
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The first band that I heard was Pink Floyd.
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Yeah.
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And it was Echoes.
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Is that right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Echoes.
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Yeah, Echoes.
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Yep.
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Is that the right way to say it?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Echoes.
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Yes.
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Anyway.
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I heard Led Zeppelin.
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But the first song was that. That one from Pink Floyd.
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Okay.
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It was the... I never listen to all the albums, you know, but single tracks from different albums.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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I don't want to listen to all the same things.
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Right.
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Yeah, so you listen to a lot of different bands.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, of course. That's great.
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The music that you play now, jumping ahead a little bit, is a little bit different than Pink Floyd and what have you.
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It's quite different. Yeah. Because at the age of 18, I was 18. I just discovered Nirvana in the 18th. In my 18th. Yeah, I guess I always... I'm gonna say avoid. I try to avoid this kind of music. Then it comes to me.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I love grunge, metal, you know, Pantera. Pantera. You say Pantera, but we say Pantera.
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No, we say Pantera.
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Oh, I don't know. Some guys that I know always say Pantera.
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Well, he's wrong.
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Whoa. You son of a bitches.
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You could tell him he's wrong. We say Pantera.
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Pantera. Okay.
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Yeah.
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So, huh. That's a kind of band that I love, even today.
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Yeah.
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Megadeth.
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Yes. Did you say Megadeth?
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Yeah.
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Yo, I've seen Megadeth live five times.
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I cannot go to concerts.
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Why?
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Why?
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Yeah, I have panic attacks.
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Oh.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah, that's weird because you have to stay on the stage with music. Yes. But I don't know. It's different. I can do that. But if I have to stay between all these people, I get an easy panic attack.
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Okay. Okay. Well, that's interesting. You would rather be on the stage performing than be in the crowd. Yeah. Yeah. That's very interesting. Yeah. It's strange.
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Because for a lot of people, it would be the opposite. No, no. I don't know. I turn myself in another universe. Okay. I'm on the stage. Yeah, absolutely. I've never performed in front of anybody on a stage. I don't know how you can do that because I would be very self-conscious about how I look and what I sound like. And I don't think I could let myself go. So, I really admire that you can put yourself out there.
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Yeah, but you know, I'm always a bit shy. A shy person. The first time that I started to sing a song, it was not in front of people. I was under a desk of my father. And it was the phone on blanks. What's up, you know? The song? Yeah. And I was under the desk of my father's studio. Because I was too shy to sing in front of people.
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Oh, wow. So, before we get into the next stage of your progression, did you watch Rocky as a child or did you watch it as an adult?
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manager and my boyfriend and he just said one day did you ever seen rocky the film i said no i don't
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know i don't like it you know thinking about that i was a fighter in the kickboxing you know in a
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gym kickboxing game i don't know if i like this kind of film he said no you have to watch it you
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have to watch it okay let's watch it and i was rocky just a year ago i know it's it's it's a shame
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no no so and when i saw it i fell in love with this kind of old story it's it's the first one for me it's
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a love story and it's amazing it's it's full of emotions and you know what i can't see it's a love story and it's amazing it's it's full of emotions
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and you know what i can see myself in rocky because in the elementary school i've been bullied
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you were in military school elementary oh elementary
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i'm not for this kind of life you were bullied in elementary school that's unfortunate and terrible it
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looks like being bullied seems to be a human behavior no matter what country you're from it's
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a problem here in north america if you don't mind sharing what were people what were they saying to
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you what were the kids saying to you to make you a target they just uh in the in the bathroom and they
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closed me in and they were saying all the you know backwards to me just because i i love my brother's shirt
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i was wearing today in this day for them maybe it was strange i don't know and they start to saying
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backwards to me it's not being so easy to to i'm gonna i give up i just given up it was so brutal you know
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it's not being rude for a kid to be bullied in this way yeah because i've been in in that room in the
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bathroom for four hours whoa you know what it means yeah you were trapped yeah i was trapped that's terrible
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yeah that's terrible i know i perfectly in the way but you're okay now yeah yeah unfortunately okay the bad side of this story is that then i became the bully
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yeah yeah it's not a good story but but then i understood some things and i had some people with me that make me understand that there are things that are most important that this kind of life the anger is good but it's good if you put it in your music in your heart you know that's how you have to use anger
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yeah absolutely to speak to you being a bully it it's unfortunate that's kind of what sometimes happens is
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sometimes the victim can become the person who causes harm to others and it and then that cycle continues but
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you recognize that and you've obviously stopped but in a way that's maybe that is how you you defended and
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coped with your i mean you were being hurt and sometimes that survival is just to change whatever
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it is you need to do to not be hurt anymore if that makes sense so you're just young i mean we're all young
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and trying to figure out life there's yeah you know sometimes we're the bully sometimes we're not nice
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sometimes we are nice it's just human nature yeah yeah i think it too but it's been a really a mistake
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for me yeah not everyone can admit that and the the fact that you can say hey that was wrong but you moved
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on then you can not be that way anymore and that's a message to everyone just just be nice everyone just be
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be nice because there's no time there there was a line from a song of beatles they say life is too short
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to forcing and fighting yeah you know yeah i love that i think that's my favorite song of theirs that's
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uh we can work it out yeah we can work it out right yeah that's my favorite beatles fighting that's right
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that's my favorite favorite beatles song yeah i've got it in my head now yeah life is very short
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there's no time i won't sing we start singing yeah well i won't sing i don't want to scare off my
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audience i i i can't sing why you say that oh i i because i've heard myself you can do it no no so we're
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going to actually talk about singing because you were a contestant on the italian version of the
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voice yeah i'm actually interested to hear behind the scenes stuff i don't know if you're allowed to
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because we have the voice here in north america the american version yeah with adam levine and christine
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aguilera and tim blake and whatever yeah the big stars over here so were the italian hosts were they
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like considered stars in italy yeah yeah yeah yeah they were stars in italy okay so there were
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celebrities there so that's cool like as we know every country has their celebrities i know a lot of
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americans a lot of americans and i'm canadian mind you you know a lot of americans can sometimes think
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that they're the only ones that have celebrities but every every country has a celebrity um yeah yeah how did you
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go on the show tell me how you got there and what was it like and i've done a million of auditions all
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around these kind of tv shows everywhere they tell me your voice is too aggressive you're too strong so
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i cannot put you on tv because it's it's too much for tv right and i would say yeah yeah you're right
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and then i go away but this time i just done my audition with no hope you know because everywhere
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they always tell me oh no no it's not for tv it's not for tv it's not for tv so this time i i don't know
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maybe because i went there without thinking about it and they just tell me wow that's that's amazing wow
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oh i want this on my show i want this on my show it's all they call me now when you auditioned behind
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closed doors this was with no cameras yeah what song did you perform for them where you're gonna laugh
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you're gonna laugh now because first one was black dog from yeah that's happening i saw that on youtube
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that performance yeah yeah and they chose it for the show but this one one of these of the songs i kiss the
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girl from katie perry the rock version that's all right it was cool because it was a rock version you know
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they just they just they just lamp door oh that's cool well that's just it it was something different
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you took a pop song and you made it into kind of a rock song and yeah yeah yeah that's it was it a male
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person that you sang it to no no no okay i figured if it was a male i'd be like yeah yeah come on back
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that's great that's great we'd love to have you no i'm just teasing i'm just teasing that's great so you
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got the call and what was it like to say hey we'd love to have you back were you scared nervous excited
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i was just what are you sure that it's the the right number you're calling
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no no but it was this energy all all in my body and it was amazing for me i was so happy do you get to
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choose your own outfits when you go on stage or do they dress you back there how does that work
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no they let me choose it let me choose it for the first the second and then maybe the third third time
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yeah yeah and they let me choose my outfits well but you can see it
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that's that's good okay how many weeks were you on the show like how far did you get into the
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into the competition i've been in the in the final rounds oh wow yeah i've been in the final round yeah it
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was uh something really special because it's kind of like a dream you you think you're dreaming
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you think oh no that cannot be possible and and it's possible i want to say to every little kids all
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around the world out there they have to try you always have to try you don't have to be scared of what you
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want because you have to fight to get it but you never have to give up i like it that's the rocky spirit
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yeah and i had it before i watch it yeah yeah of course of course that was something that was already
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in you that you didn't even know that you had yeah that's awesome before we close the chapter on the voice
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was this the largest audience you ever performed in front of at these competitions yeah i think because
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at this time in your life yeah yeah because before it was uh kind of uh you know shows in uh in the pubs
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and something a little bit little you know okay that must have been a good work experience in a way a good
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yeah to work a crowd and to maybe even uh not be afraid as much to be in front of people oh yeah you
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just close your eyes and say yeah okay i can do it oh yeah absolutely being on the voice must have helped
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you get more fans and get more audience yeah yeah you've released an album yeah and i want to talk
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about that album it's really good by the way oh thank you yes i've listened to it i don't own it yet
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because i haven't figured out what the cost will be to ship it from italy oh yeah i don't know because i
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don't take care about it yeah no worries but i've listened to all your singles everything that you've
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released on your website and on your facebook i'll have those links for people and today we just
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released all the tracks from the album it's fall asleep you can see it on my page and the youtube
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channel yes so that's ire green uh it's called the ire green official is your youtube channel yeah the song
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that you released today yeah it was called fall asleep and i look yeah and i listened to it because i saw
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that you release it today and i think you did that on purpose you released it on the day of the interview
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maybe who knows yeah you will never know no i probably do know no it has nothing to do with me
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i want to say that oh maybe it does i thank you so much it's a great song and it definitely does have
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that grunge that you're talking about the grunge yeah that'll have you ever listened to alice and
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chains whoa it's my favorite band there you go yeah i love alice and chains so you definitely draw from uh
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a lane staley there yeah i love lane staley yeah he's incredible what a loss to the rock world when he
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passed away wow yeah boy you must have been in the 94 right yeah i was gonna say you were a baby yeah i was a baby
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maybe you're reincarnated maybe you are now the new lane staley his his spirit lives through you don't
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say it well he's too much well fair enough but he but you know what that's what rock and roll is all
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about about passing the torch we want we want more people to carry the torch of rock and roll because
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it's a dying art out there so you're saying that your manager is your boyfriend and soon to be husband
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so all the guys out there are going to be very disappointed to hear this ira because
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i know a lot of my listeners find you very attractive and they're going to be bummed to
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hear that you're uh you're taken i hope you don't mind me saying that because in today's culture we're
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not we're not we're not we're not allowed to say anymore that somebody's attractive anymore we're not
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allowed to say that no we get we get in trouble okay no why well it's because america is so sensitive
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now that we can't even we're not only even allowed to say that you're a girl oh why oh enjoy your time
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in italy have have fun there because so anyways but that's quite different in america yeah it's very
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different so we want to say that's cool that your manager and your boyfriend good for him uh number two
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it's awesome that he introduced you to rocky bravo bravo bravo i will say it to him okay thank you
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what's his name marco marco of course it's marco of course it's marco marco polo if uh
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it couldn't just be mark it has to be marco marco come here marco they're talking about you
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tell marco from the rocky fans that that's great that he did that because that's how i found you is you
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covered eye of the tiger have you ever heard of iron the tiger the song before you saw the rocky films
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yeah of course now you also released no easy way out yeah which is a better song than i of the tiger i
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think you think yeah don't you think it's a better song i don't know my favorite you know what is my
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favorite is uh burning heart oh wow oh that's one for me it's really cool have you have you done that one
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not yet but who knows maybe we'll be the next one please please i beg of you i don't know i have to
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think about it okay well the no easy way out i love and i love that song we actually interviewed robert
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tepper the uh singer of that original yeah because it's you see italian is he i think his name is roberto
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tepper though oh wow i think i don't remember so i wish i knew that i would have asked him when you saw
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rocky did you know that the character was italian before you saw it oh yeah okay the italian stallion
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how did you like that it's cool i want to be an italian stallion one day is he a stallion is
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stallone a handsome man oh yeah i think yes oh god yeah
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sylvester stallone he's a stallion yeah yes yes he is we love him we love our sylvester stallone um so you
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have you have you seen all the rocky films now yeah sure i'm ready for creed two oh wow so you are a
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fan fan now yeah yeah and i'm really a fan that's awesome because it shows how international the character
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is that it speaks to every language yeah speaking of which did you watch the film in english not yet but i
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want to do it because for me it's been difficult to understand to this is the song when he talks
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because it's it's different from all the other characters i have to try but i have to try yes that's
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your assignment that's your homework yeah okay back to elementary school for you oh god no not this kind of
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go please i would recommend ira if you do watch them in english put the english captions on and then
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you can read the english as they're talking and that will help you understand yeah you're right yeah
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i even listened to stallone with captions
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really hey yo i told i slow i slow my voice you know what i'm saying so but it's okay your rocky videos
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as you can imagine they get a lot of exposure and a lot of views yeah because the rocky world is so big
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and of course that just helps you get more views and listens because i want to say that your singing
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and your passion and your powerful voice we need that female rockers are awesome wow thank you yeah no
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problem now let's talk about your visit to philly whose idea was that to come to philadelphia oh guess it
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yours marco i know i i figured it was marco marco just found this the yo philly rocky tool uh just
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said oh we have to do it we have to do it and i say wow wow oh yeah yeah we can do it we just went there
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and it was amazing we just met my kunda there is yeah the tool manager you know it's a wonderful person and i
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want to say thank you that it's been a really uh a wonderful experience really mike kunda has been on
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our show i've talked to him a few times i obviously talked to him online as well he's the best you've
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been to philly i haven't even been to philadelphia so that's amazing oh that's your homework boy
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okay fair enough all right so you watch the stallone films in english and i'll go to philly that's a good
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yeah yeah your homework assignment is much cheaper than mine it's easier for me yeah it's cheaper right
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oh boy when you sing in english yeah it's harder for you it must be harder to do it's not as natural i
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don't know because i always sing in english in the in the first time of my life i didn't sing in italian
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i just start to sing in english okay i have a question about language and this is a question
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i've always wanted to ask people you're the first one i could really ask you know in songs when you
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sing a song in english because i forget what song you sang but you sang a song that was english first
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then you did an italian i think i can't remember now which song that was wait wait think about it it's
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my song or it's cover what kind of song is i can't remember i can't remember i just remember how
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i think it was i mean 99 sure it was something you sang and but you sang in italian so the question
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i had for myself was you know in english we have rhyming you know we rhyme our words in in songs right
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so oh yeah yeah you you mean mundo senza regole it's my song okay it was first yeah the first version
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was in english music strand and it's in rebel legion album yeah and then we we start to think about
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change the word change the word and change the language and we turn it in italian and it's cool
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it's really cool song how do you decide because i'm sure when in italian songs they have rhyme
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yeah yeah right but the words that translate back to english wouldn't rhyme the way they would in italian
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so how does that i tried i tried to let the meaning it's the same of the song in english it's the same so you just
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have to find right yeah i just have to find the rhyme yeah okay so you have to find a word that rhymes but
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has the same kind of meaning the best you can yeah yeah that's right okay that's a whole new challenge
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yeah yeah it's been a challenge you're very hard because not only are you doing that different words
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have different amount of syllables i just find translating so yeah i think that you have to give a birth to a song so the song it comes to you in italian you have to do in italian if it comes in english you have to you have to go with english you know okay interesting yeah i like it so i think you don't have to change it's been a good experience it was it was cool but i think you have to feel what even in the language of a song
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oh i like that i want to ask about your album the name how do you say is it rebellion rebellion yeah yeah i like it you combine the word rebel yeah and religion were you religious growing up were you are you rebelling against religion is that the meaning this brackets
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Yes, because you combine two words.
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And it's B in the center of it.
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Because I think that your B cannot come out if you let, I don't know, some institutions let ruin your life.
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And you have to be rebel with every kind of politics, these kind of things.
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You have to come out with your B, with your human being.
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You have to come out with your universe.
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I like it. Be yourself.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Don't let politics, religion.
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Yeah, all these institutions.
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All these institutions tell you who to be.
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Be who you are.
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Be nice and be good to people, yes.
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Yeah, sure. That's the right thing to do.
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Yeah, because we don't want to be a jerk.
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Yeah.
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We don't want those people.
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But be yourself.
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And don't, yeah.
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And don't destroy.
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Don't be scared to be yourself.
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That's it.
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I like it.
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Don't destroy others when they're trying to be themselves.
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Yeah.
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I like it.
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Oh, okay.
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You're right.
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Well, I just want to make sure I understand because I don't...
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You just understood this kind of thing faster than more people that I know.
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Well, it's because I'm a smart guy.
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That's why.
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Oh, yeah.
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You're a smart guy, of course.
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Well, no.
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No, I'm not.
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No, I'm not.
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I wish I was.
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Oh, boy.
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So, when's your next performance?
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When's your next live show?
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Oh, we just stopped with live show because we're working on a new album that will be in Italian.
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Okay.
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And we're working with Fabrizio Simoncioni.
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He's a good producer and he's a wonderful guy.
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And I want to thank you to let me know some kind of things of music that I didn't know.
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And it's wonderful to work with him.
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And we're working on a new album.
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And I don't know exactly when it comes out.
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But I think in the new year.
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I will let you know.
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Oh, awesome.
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And you said it's going to be all in Italian?
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Yeah, all Italian.
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But you never know.
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I don't know.
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I don't want roads on this kind of walk.
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Well, sure.
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There's a lot of international artists who do that.
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They'll do both.
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They'll release albums to their native country type language.
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And that's totally understandable.
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And then there's artists who will do English.
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But English is not.
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It's just weird.
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Because English is not the most spoken language in the world.
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It has this weird kind of market where it's like artists feel, I wouldn't say obligated, but they feel like they have to do it in English as well.
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It's strange, but it's cool.
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Because I think everyone should learn this language.
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Because it's international for me.
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That's my thought.
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I don't know.
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Italian sounds sexy anyway.
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Oh, that's good.
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The way...
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Not if I said it.
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But, you know, the men always seem very in the movies and stuff.
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Italians, Marcos, you know, all the Marcos of the world.
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They're very sexy men.
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Marco.
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Marco's the Italian stallion.
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Yeah, it's the Italian stallion.
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Yeah.
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For me, yeah.
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Well, Ira, it's been a real joy to have you on the show today.
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It's been my pleasure.
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It's been fun.
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It's cool.
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It's cool.
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It's really cool.
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And I'll put down on our interview the links to your Facebook page and to your homepage so people can see what you're up to.
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Yeah.
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We're also on Instagram and Twitter.
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Okay.
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That's right.
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Yeah, you're everywhere.
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That's good.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'll put those all down.
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Well, it's a social media world that we live in.
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Yeah.
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Oh, thank you.
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Well, thanks for taking the time and have a happy new year and all the best in the new year.
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Oh, I want to thank you and you have a good holidays and happy new year to everyone.
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Thank you, Ira.
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Thank you.
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Bye.
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