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AND THE WINNER IS ! --Starr Parodi and Isolde Fair · Inside The Moms Club

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Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a mom is the
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coolest place to be. Here in the Mom's Club, we believe that what
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embarrasses you now will make a great story later. And let's face it,
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you don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having a good laugh
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together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now inside the Mom's Club, your
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private destination for all things mom. Hi, mom is welcome inside the Mom's
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Club. I'm your host, Monica Samuels, and I am here with my
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co host, Julie Orton. Hi. Happy twenty four, Happy Happy.
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You know, so I have been busy. I you know, we started
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and this was all Julie's idea that we take guitar lessons together, and that
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was her idea. But I'm the one that's been taking the initiative. Yes,
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So I just want to update you. I just said it was an
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idea. I'm not updating. So I went to the music store. Oh
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gosh, and I already have a guitar. So I got a new pick.
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That's like I got a good thumb thing. Because I used to be
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back in the day. I played the guitar once as a kid and picks
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would fly everywhere. So I got a thumb pick and I got something to
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to, you know, test, did you make sure I've been the right
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key whatever? They yes, I don't know yet. I haven't taken the
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lessons. So I go to the checkout at this big music store where they
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say said music lessons. It's as everything, and I tell the guy my
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friend and I are going to take guitar lessons, and but I'd always wanted
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to for some reason, when to play the banjo. I don't know why.
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I don't either, So I mentioned him, I said I kind of
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would like to take the banjo, and he looked at me in the nicest
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way possible, was basically saying, lady, I don't think you're going to
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live long enough to play the banjo, so let's try to stick with this
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guitar. And so then I said, okay, well, I know you
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have lessons and we want to take lessons, and he kind of looked at
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me and said, well, we have some great music books I could sell
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you, and you can learn to play the guitar on YouTube. I think
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he was blowing you off a little bit, like I feel like that was
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happening, like I feel like he I mean, are we not worthy students?
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I don't know. I mean I feel like we've done our fair share
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of music. We've done a million whiles last year exactly. We're on our
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way to see YouTube with this fear. We're very excited in two days.
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We're very excited about So, yeah, you know you've done You've played instruments.
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I've played the flute. I have played the piano, and that's it,
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and then as soon to be the guitar. But I think we don't
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do it because we're afraid, because people put fear in us, like they're
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not encouraging. Now. I guess if you knew my music history, you
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might not be encouraged because I I did take the piano at my parents' insistence,
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and that didn't quite go well. And then I took the violin and
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if you like a lot of squeaking sounds, if that's you're into that,
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that would I'm the person you want to invite to your next concert. And
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then I took the guitar and that was okay. I mean I like it.
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I like the guitar. Listen. It's kind of similar to like I
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don't cook, but I can sit in the kitchen and talk to you.
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So maybe if we just go to concerts and keep up with that. I
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like that. I don't want to do the guitar. All right, we'll
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do it. I mean we may have to do it on YouTube. We're
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going to do it in Austin. We lived in a hostage. Just yeah,
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we're all in, but we got to. Yeah, and then someday
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on this show, we're going to play the guitar. Okay, we have
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experts here today and I'm really feel challenged. I'd also kind of like to
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play the banjo. Maybe we'll play dueling banjo if you know, that's a
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good come out. See. Sometimes I have to squash the idea being too
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ambitious a little bit. Okay, Okay, Well anyway, I'm still in.
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So I just wanted you to know I'm still all in on that.
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I'm sorry you had that experience of someone not believing in you. Yeah,
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I think that. You know, ladies, never never give up, never
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give up, And so do you? Did you ever make your kids play
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an instrument? Like? Definitely. I try to make my kids do all
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kinds of things. But you know the kids have gotten a lot stronger willed.
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I feel like you know, so did they play We had a piano
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for a while and a keyboard, and they did a little bit of that,
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but they really went down the acting. Yeah, that's true, which
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I like a great actors. Yes, sometimes, Well they're good, they're
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good. Yeah. Well, my oldest son I really love the saxophone.
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So I made him play that and he did it for several years until finally
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his music teacher came to me and said, you know, Monica, i've
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heard him play the drums, and i've heard heim play the saxophone. I
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think you should get more drum lessons. So that was the end of the
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saxophone. But he's a good drummer. Well, I mean, and if
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he doesn't get a job after he graduates, he could pursue that this is
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the other song. Oh oh my gosh, we've been and we paid for
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drum We accidentally paid for drum lessons until he was like twenty five years old.
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We didn't realize that it killed credit card. Yeah, yes, so
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he's really good. We're kind of wondering, you know, how many lessons
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do you still need? Yeah? Exactly. Well, we are very very
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lucky, Julie that here in our studio is a mother and daughter ju duo
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who have been extremely successful in the music business. I'll tell you a little
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bit about them. The mom is a Grammy Award winning artist, composer,
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and producer. Her first big gig in the music industry was as a keyboardist
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for the house band in the Arsenio Hall Show. She was invited to play
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at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, so we'll have to ask her about
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that, and then she has scored hundreds of episodes for TV and film.
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Please Welcome Star Perot to the club. William Start and her daughter is a
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single songwriter, a violinist, and burgeoning fashion designer. Now by the age
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of thirteen, she sang and performed for three thousand people at Lincoln Center in
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New York City. First song she co wrote called to All the Little Girls,
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which was inspired by Hillary Clinton's concession speech. At the age of sixteen,
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she became a Grammy Award winning artist thanks to her song Rise Until We
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Stand, and weeks later BMI honored her with its Impact Award, and she's
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soon to release her single strip Away, which she composed and co produced.
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Please Welcome is Old a fair welcome to the most club you were having me
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welcome. Well, we are so excited to have you. We always love
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to have a mom and a daughter or a mom and a son, because
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it's always nice to get the perspective, you know. We only hear the
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perspective from the children's side, from our children when they do things like my
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son saw on Instagram post and he commented on it and said, I think
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I have a defamation suit here, and I said, truth is a defense
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once you go to law school, that's okay. So, but so we
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like to hear you know, how it all, how it works between you
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and you guys collaborate and work together, so you're a good team. Well
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let's start. Let's start where it began, because Star, you have been
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in the business for a long time. Yes, tell us how it all
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started. I mean, obviously you were much more successful at playing musical instruments
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than Julia or I, which I'm sure we have other talents, but tell
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us your story. You know, it's so funny that you were saying that
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you were forcing your kids to take yeah lessons, because my mom, when
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I was very young, she you know, she said, you have to
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take piano lessons, and I literally took piano lessons for a year and my
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teacher was an alcoholic and threw a book at me, and I just like,
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I hated piano so much that I literally came back and I made my
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mom sign a contract saying that I never had to play piano with Wow.
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Yes, really I did not know that. Yeah in the day, what
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I mean, you know, after that, I when I was about fourteen,
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I picked it up again. I went to a party at a Yeah,
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I went to a party a college dorm and with your mom. Didn't
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know my mom, of course, And this guy had a Fender Rhodes piano
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there, and he just showed me a few things and I picked it up
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kind of quickly, and he said, oh, you should play piano,
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And I thought, yeah, I should. I should play piano. When
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I started, it just became kind of a very much a focal point in
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my life. And I started to practice hours and hours every day. And
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because I had such a late start. You know, so many people like
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a soul day, they start when they're four or five years old. You
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know you helped me with that part, Yeah, I mean you were more
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encouraging, definitely, Not that was the actual teacher itself. That's a story.
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But yeah, so you know, I just I just I took lessons,
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I found some teachers. I practiced really hard. I got into interlock
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in, which is you know, school, and I wasn't good enough to
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get in for piano, so I got in for creative writing. And then
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when I was there, I practiced, you know, seven eight hours every
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single day, and I just said, this is what I want to do.
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And when I came back, you know, I got an apartment and
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I went to college for a couple of years, lived with friends, practiced,
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played with everybody I could, played with as many good people as you
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know, like the better people that you can play with you really learn and
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grow from from that. So I was just always jamming and looking for gigs
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and playing and then I started writing, and you know, things just kind
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of went on from there. But that was the beginnings. I heard you
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an interview somewhere. So your first gig that was with the Chippendale Dancer Party.
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Yes, maybe she doesn't know this story either. I did not know
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the story. Sorry, No, it's fine. I love learning new things
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about something because there's this struggle to make it and you do something like encouraging
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the artists out there. It's not all oh no, well, you know,
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you just I just took every gig I could. But the very first
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gig I got called, I just didn't even barely know how to play,
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you know, but I was I had some friends that were in bands that
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were good, and they would you know, they were just anyway. They
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called me and when I showed up at this house, it was for a
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party, and this lady that answered the door didn't have a top on.
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It's kind of party, yeah, And then you know, we just it
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was it was just a you know, where you just play some songs or
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whatever. But there were some Chippendale's dancers. I was like, oh my
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gosh, that is hysterical. But you know, I have a ton of
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stories like they kept on going. And so the Arsenio House show, how
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did that come about? Well, there's a few steps to there. There's
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you know, a ton of a ton of practicing, a ton of playing
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weddings and you know, every kind of event and some little clubs and stuff
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like that. And then I got this random call to play on Fame And
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so I never knew who who told, you know, told them about me.
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But They called me and they said, do you think a girl,
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you know, anyone will believe that a girl could play keyboards? And I
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said, yes, I think so. And so I ended up being a
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sideline musician on Fame and then touring with their live band, and then I
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ended up writing some songs with Maureen Crowe, who was she was? That
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was She's a very prominent music supervisor now Wonderful Time. That was her first
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gig. So we wrote a song for Janet Jackson, who was on the
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show at the time, and did a bunch of stuff, and then after
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that was our Sineo show. I auditioned and you know, so fortunate to
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get the gig. I mean, your mom is so cool. It was
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cool. I mean, I agree, yeah, I agree. When did
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you know she was so talented gifted? How did I know that she was
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talented? Well, I mean I think it took me a few years to
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you know, because I came out of them. I came I was born,
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and I did not know how to talk nor do anything besides you know,
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live in a studio my whole life, you know, And I grew
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up. I remember, I'd say, my first really like massive memory being
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in the studio was I loved to sleep under the console. We had this
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SSL, she has twenty four console, and they'd be working very late and
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I just want to just like cuddle under there. It was not even that
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cuddle. It was a bunch of just like tech and cables and like dangerous
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stuff that I could wouldn't really want to play with. But I was kind
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of like the opposite. You know. Younger kids would like to go on
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the monkey bars or go down a slide and me, I would love to
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hang out with the cables and I like crazy mics. That was about it.
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But I remember she has this gold record and she did a trailer.
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She did the music for the trailer for GoldenEye. Yeah, And I didn't
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know how big that was. And I started at a young age kind of
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understanding who who Bond was and the Bond films, and I didn't really know
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how big the franchise was until later on. And I always saw that gold
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record, you know, in the studio, and I'm like, I didn't
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know what that means or are I AA what what is that? I had
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no clue, And so, you know, I think I was around like
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age five or six when everybody's like the Bond films. And you know,
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even for me, I was more I was into more films. Like I
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wasn't the girl watching G films. I was the girl watching PG thirteen,
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you know, just like no, no, no. And that's to five
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years old or yeah, became an adult by that. Yeah, but that's
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because that's because that's what my parents were working on. You know. It
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was I you know, I mean there's times where I'd watch like the Teletubbies
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like that was a memory of fond memory as a kid in the early two
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thousand. Yes, loved watching the Teletubby Tubbies. There was like Sprout.
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I don't know if that still even exists, but it was so good and
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like Baby Einstein was so like reminiscing everybody on this exactly like the little kid
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era that was, and watching a lot of like Disney movies, like Disney
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Princesses, you know. But besides that, like I was really into whatever
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they were doing, you know. And and then they started doing a lot
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of animated series for has Bro and they did like Transformers, Rescue Bots and
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g I. Joe. And again that wasn't for a five or six year
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old, Yeah, but it was still something really cool, and I really
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got into that type of animation. And then you know, then I you
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know, one day looked on their website and I was like, oh,
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they have some cool stuff. Yeah, that was pretty cool, right.
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They just would never tell me because they were so focused on whatever project they
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were working on. So I was like, one day They're like, we're
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working on our website, and I was like, one day I was at
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school and I was like, I'm gonna go on the school computer and like
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see what they're up to. See who they are? Yeah, who they
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are. But you're so talented yourself, and I want to know, Like
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last night when I got out, I was very tired on this flight and
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I and I played your video rise until we stand and I wasn't expecting to
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drop a tear or two. You have a very deeply moving voice, like
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I always shut my eyes when I listen. You know. This is why
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I like that show the voice, because you don't you know. And then
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I opened and I get to see how talent did you are? So when
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did the lyrics come to you? Is it in the middle of the night?
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Is it you know where you have to stop and get up and when
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you think of these creative visions because you're doing something that women your age that
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you're really you're lifting them up. You're saying, let's not lose hope.
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You guys have been through a lot. You've been through COVID, You've been
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you know, to art schools, and I just want to know, like
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when this inspiration comes to you. I feel like that song too. It's
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spoke to the whole generation. Yeah, I mean so many kids, Our
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kids are about your kid, your age, Yeah, and going through COVID,
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all the the whole world went through a crisis. But that's a difficult
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time to go through that kind of christ and pressure of college. Like,
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for those of you out there who haven't listened to it, you should.
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I even downloaded it. It's really really good. So yeah, where did
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that that inspiration come from? Well, it was really funny because I was
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I was I think I was fourteen when we first started. When I first
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started writing it, it was after the whole Hillary concession speech viral sensation thing
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happened. And of course I was a thirteen year old. Like typically thirteen
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year olds, you know, during their spring break, they'd go swim at
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the pool, which I wanted to do, and I wanted to go hang
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out with my friends. But you know, there was one moment where,
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you know, like they were like, what are you doing for spring break?
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And I was like, oh, going to New York And they're like,
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what are you doing New York? You're like playing in front of three
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thousand people? Yeah, you know, yeah, but stuff, you know,
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And then I come back home and they're like, how was it.
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Then You're like, then you're trying not to name draw because you know,
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you're trying to like be a normal child whatever that means. But it's funny
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because I just remember at that time in my life, I was also playing
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violin for a significant amount of years, and it was something that I loved,
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but I didn't I was with a teacher who wasn't giving me the opportunities
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that I wanted. Like she would put all the other kids in front of
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an audience and they'd be in gowns and they'd be playing all the recitals and
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I'd play like one recital and I wasn't wearing the gown or whatever, you
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know, and I kind of like, I really admired this one violinist named
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Sarah Chang, and she was so good and also like the sweetest person,
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like that's so rare to find in the classic coal industry, but she was.
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I remember meeting her. I met her twice, and the first time
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I looked all like I was a fifth grader coming back from a party,
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I think, and I was like, I met her, and I was
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like, the picture didn't look good, you know. But I remember the
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second time I met her, I was wearing actually my mom's old honeymoon dress.
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I think I was trying to take me well. I was trying to
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impress the boy and because he wasn't talking to me at the time, and
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I was like, I'm gonna wear my mom's honeymoon dress and he's gonna be
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reading his life, you know. And I just remember my friend was taking
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photos of me. We were at UCLA before the concert started. Sarah Chang
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was going to play with this incredible orchestra called ays American Youth Symphony, and
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so she was debuting like a solo piece with them, and anyways, I
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was just like so excited. But I remember my friend and I were taking
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photos beforehand and I saw him and I went like living the hair. I
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was hilarious, Oh my god, but you know, I loved her,
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and I just you know, loved violin. And then I remember I got
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introduced to Lindsay Sterling, who was also somebody completely different, but somebody that
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I think inspired me so much to kind of do something different and realized I
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realized that I wasn't meant for the ball gown for it, I wasn't meant
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to play the solo pieces that I actually didn't care for, you know,
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like I was meant to do something else with the violin. And and I
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loved singing. That was something that I start at a very young age.
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And then I had piano lessons with an incredible teacher that I she's like one
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of my best friends and mentors, and like we we talk with each other
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like almost every week, and you know, she she was like my first
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co writer when it comes to writing songs, and she taught me how to
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write songs. And well, you were amazing. And go back a little
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bit to the Hillary Clinton consent. So was that a contest? When you
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see it online, it suggests that it was something that was offered all the
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students to come up within you yours was chosen? Is that right? So?
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My friends and I we were all in a music theory class at this
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music school, and we had a very quirky teacher, but she was so
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sweet and she made like the best chocolate chip cookies. Besides, you remember,
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those are the good things about her that I loved. But it was
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me and a group of girls and every Saturday, like around noon, we'd
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sit in this like office empty office space with like a massive tape and there'd
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be a whiteboard and they'd be writing down notation about music theory things that we
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were doing. And I never did any of these assignments. It was not
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something that I liked to do. The music theory wasn't really my strong suit.
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I believe, like my stronger suit was writing and singing and doing all
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of that, like actually playing the music without learning about what it meant.
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And I think now it makes more sense why we had to learn about that.
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But again, like I would never do the assignments. And I remember
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the teacher she was like, oh, so, so she was devastated about
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the whole election, as a lot of people were. Yeah, and at
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the time, like in middle school, we were like writing you know,
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reports about it because it was something that was so historically, I don't know
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it was a highlight in history, I guess, and something that I didn't
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care for at the time. It was whatever, and but we were doing
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assignments on that for history class. And then I remember going back to to
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the music theory class. The teacher came in this one Saturday and it was
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after the election, and she had like a black outfit on it, so
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dramatic, and she was like she had printed pieces of paper that had the
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words for Hillary's Clinton's concession speech on them, and she was just passing them
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so dramatically around the room and she was like, you know, and she
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was like, I want you guys to do an assignment this week. I
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was I thought, I wasn't going to give you assignment, but we're going
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to do an assignment and you can either do a poem or make a play
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or do whatever expresses your your yourself, you know, in whatever way,
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but just use these use these words. And of course my friends and I
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were like debating about They're like, are you gonna do it? And I'm
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like, I don't know, you know, And so next week I I
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had like a melody idea for for the pieces of you know, for your
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mom, like where does come into the picture of you Testingah, so so
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we had a moment. So, okay, so I got the paper,
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I came home, I had a melody. And this was the time where
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I was still so new to songwriting, like I had only been literally professionally
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writing songs for like three three four years, you know, something that was
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fairly right at the rifle thirteen thirteen. Yeah, I started and just put
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you in the company of some great teenage composers. I mean, like Mozart
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sub Ndelson. The only thing I don't recommend that you read Almadas and watch
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again, didn't well, I know, yeah, I put you in like
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that company. I mean you're three years ago, three years I was ten,
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you know. Okay, so you end up but you did at Lincoln
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Center. So this and you it's performed. So so this is where my
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mom comes into the picture. So I came up. This is like,
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this is the first time where you know, I think I was like interjections.
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We something. Well, the teacher I remember her telling me that she
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did the assignment and mentioned, you know, having the kids write a song,
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but she actually did it because she knew that the only kid that was
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going to write the song would be so so I didn't know that. I
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think she's going to write a song. So that's why she gave the assignment.
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Yeah, that's that's an excellent way to work with children, Like get
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them to like, you know what I mean, and do what they love.
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Yeah, and then they get to produce. So tell us about the
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song that's coming out. Yeah, oh okay, I want to hear what
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that's about. And how much your violent is your violin? Oh yeah,
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yeah, well I figured it was segueing back to the Hillary Clinton session speech.
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We so anyways, so my I brought the melody idea to my mom.
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I'm like, I like this melody idea, but I don't know how
24:56
to write chords yet. I didn't know how to write chords. I knew
24:59
how to like, I knew how to play chords on my own, but
25:02
not really write a full song without help. Yeah, you know. And
25:06
that was, you know, because I was still starting and Mama was like,
25:10
what about these chords? And she started playing They're like, oh,
25:11
I love that, and then you know, and then I started singing over
25:15
it. And then anyways, we kind of made like a demo version of
25:21
the song. And next week, you know, I played it on the
25:25
piano and I sang it to the class and the teacher think the Lord,
25:27
she wasn't wearing black anymore. She was like, she was like, this
25:33
is it. We we need to do a music video and we need to
25:37
bring in a full orchestra, and we need everybody in the school to like
25:41
to be a part of this music video. And we're like, okay,
25:45
yeah, interjection, this would be perfect for your parents to write a string
25:49
a string arrangement for our string class because it was a string school, so
25:53
they wanted to bring in the string studenes. They want to an arrangement and
25:57
have the stringstooth play. So that was a part of it. So it
26:00
was kind of like a whole family affair. Yes, and we we had
26:04
a moment where like what this is so cool? Like I was in middle
26:07
school and you know, we'd be you know, whenever we got a good
26:11
grade, we'd get like donuts from like Krispy Kreme and they give out like
26:14
freeze, you know, speaking of my heart. You know, That's how
26:17
it was. And I remember this one day, my dad and I were
26:18
at Krispy Kreme and he's like, you know, I think we're gonna do
26:22
a new music video next week with this, uh, this guy named Terry
26:26
Sanders. I think he was like an Oscar winning or you know, director
26:30
for a documentary. I'm like, no way, like what people think of
26:34
like this song, Kylie, Like I had no clue, you know,
26:38
And then we did the music video interjection. I always going to say something
26:45
now at theoint, he's a teacher that gave her the assignment. Her really
26:49
good friend was Terry Sanders and he is an Oscar winning director and his wife
26:55
is Freedom freedoly Mock is also a friend of mine, but not not you
26:59
know at the time, wasn't a good friend, just some you know,
27:02
an acquaintance, acquaintance through the industry friend. And so she said, hey,
27:06
why don't you have Terry come over? Film the girls playing the strings.
27:10
Film is soul day singing and you know, just haven't been a fun
27:12
thing for in the school. So that was so it was incredible. Again,
27:18
my my definition of like what I was going through was so different because
27:22
you knew more about everything happening. I mean, she was like the coordinating
27:25
everything. That was more like what we do, we're professional. Let's how
27:30
my son got to play baseball in college for I love that. You know
27:33
what, It's all because of the moms. You know it really right there?
27:41
Absolutely absolutely, thank you, thank you and actually thank you. I
27:48
learned so much from her too, So they are our biggest teachers. Yeah.
27:52
Well, so a lot of moms out there, because, like I
27:53
said, I got my son to baseball, So a lot of moms out
27:56
there. They went, they went and as soul day. Okay, I'm
28:00
praying for adoption. So you really you how did you feel like you supported
28:07
her? I mean, obviously you supported her by doing some of these things,
28:10
but staying you know, you have to play the violin. Trust me,
28:14
I know it takes dedication if you're if you get discouraged on that one,
28:21
it's yeah, how did you how did you parents? How did you
28:23
like this? So? Okay, you know what this actually goes. She's
28:27
gonna enerject because I think you saw this a different way than than I did.
28:34
Because so you were in the car one day and you asked me like,
28:38
what instrument do you want to play? You know? And I was
28:41
like banjo actually, but I was he but again, nobody can really trust
28:51
a three year old with a banjo. So and and at the point I
28:55
didn't know like how to pick up a banjo, you know. Anyways,
28:59
my mom was like, pick a different. I was like, and I
29:03
didn't know, you know. I was like, maybe piano. Two,
29:07
Maybe I'll play piano, and like maybe a string instrument because I don't want
29:10
to be playing like a french horn and where my lips are going to be
29:12
like ginormous and like for two hour practices and I'm gonna be like out of
29:15
breath every time. I was like, no, I remember, just you
29:19
know again, growing up in a lot of sessions with my parents, and
29:22
then there's always like string sections sessions, and like quartets would come in and
29:27
and I was like, oh, what is that beautiful sound? It sounds
29:30
like a violin, but maybe it could be a cello, like I don't
29:33
know. And then I think it was the sound of a cello, but
29:34
the look of the violin. So I was like, I didn't know the
29:37
difference. And because the violin looked a lot easier than putting a thing between
29:42
your thighs, yeah, you know, and playing some weird way, I
29:47
really loved the violin. And I was like, what about violin? And
29:49
You're like, I don't know about that. So I begged them for a
29:52
year. So but my career, I'm a lawyer, and I can tell
30:03
you this how this happened, your story, So okay, okay, sounds
30:11
good. I remember when I had to beg you for like a year.
30:17
You know, no, you told me, you told me that this is
30:19
you know that it was. You know. Anyways, I did have to
30:22
beg for a year. And then you found a great teacher. I did
30:30
you did for me a year to find one? Yeah, a decently great
30:34
teacher. That's another story where Anyways, but she you know, I had
30:41
a fun time I think at the beginning of my journey with violin and I
30:44
had a little, tight, little violin and the case was the jeweled It
30:48
had like diamonds on it whatever, like fake diamonds obviously. Yeah, but
30:53
you know, I think from that point that's when I really started loving the
30:56
violin. And yeah, well you're a joy to watch it. Watching your
31:00
videos and when you do them in your room, it's very cool. I
31:03
like that. And also the fashion listen, she hands down these red gloves
31:10
you have on today are fire. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Well,
31:15
you know, we have a group of moms out there who also want
31:18
to ask you ladies some questions and they are our zoomer moms. So let's
31:22
welcome the zoomer moms. Welcome to the Mom's Club. Ladies. Hi,
31:30
hi, Hi, This is such a fun conversation, and I want to
31:37
introduce each of the zoomer Moms, and just as I introduce you, tell
31:41
the ladies a little bit about yourself and ask a question. So, Lisa,
31:45
welcome to the Mom's Club. Do you have a question for Starr and
31:48
his old day? Thanks for having me. This is so fun. So
31:52
this is directed towards Star And so when you start to compose music for a
31:57
movie or a show, when you're when you're hired to do that, tell
32:01
us a little bit about how do you begin getting inspiration? Where do you
32:05
start? Oh? Man, well, I have a really special piano.
32:08
It's a nineteen twenty eight Steinway B and it was it was rumored to be
32:13
the piano that was on the soundstage of MGM for The Wizard of Oz that
32:16
it was reported. Al it's really cool and it still has the MGM tag
32:22
on it. And I just kind of empty my mind and sit at the
32:28
piano even if there's no piano in the score. And I just kind of
32:30
try to try to kind of connect with whatever comes in, you know,
32:37
and then I just start watching the film and looking at it, you know,
32:42
without music, and seeing kind of what characters there are. Maybe sometimes
32:46
there's even characters that aren't people, but there's maybe a you know, a
32:51
town that's a character or a house that's a character or whatever. And then
32:54
I start thinking about themes and I just start start coming up with ideas and
32:59
write and I try to not have any judgment when I do that. And
33:02
I'm so lucky. I work a lot with my husband, and because we
33:07
you know, we know each other so well, I don't feel that pressure
33:08
of, oh my gosh, I suck, you know what I mean,
33:12
Like I know that I'll just be able to play anything. And sometimes you
33:15
run across something that's just you know, you feel like, oh, this
33:17
is right, and then you just go with it and you try not to
33:21
judge it and just kind of run with your ideas because there's really no time
33:27
to overthink when you're on a deadline line for a show. Yeah, Lisa
33:32
likes to her daughter is at usc And Theater and so she's getting to come
33:37
to California a lot so I know she gets to like share your story and
33:42
you know, amazing, see how the creativity sparks. Yeah, Janie,
33:46
welcome to the mom's Club. Do you have a question? Hi? Oh,
33:51
I do, and thank you so much. This is a lot of
33:52
fun. I think within every household there's going to be hustle, buzzle,
33:59
busy but busyness and just trying to stay on top of things. How do
34:05
you guys as a family, when it's just that basic fundamental core group in
34:12
your house, how do you all handle boundaries and the respect of boundaries.
34:17
To answer that question, boundaries, it's like, I mean, they all
34:28
work so much together, but they also have your basically wants to roof.
34:34
Do you like each other at the end of the day. Well, I
34:37
mean yes, but of course there's gonna be bumps. It's you know,
34:43
I think growing up as a kid, I didn't I was an only child,
34:46
so I didn't really understand even though hey, I would love slash you
34:52
still are you but you know, and my cousins kind of have become more
34:57
of like my brothers and sisters, like you know, through family, and
35:00
but more like distant family. But I love them. They're you know,
35:05
I think our family dynamic. It's really interesting because of course we're always going
35:10
to be having like crazy ideas in our head, and we really really talk
35:15
about really only talk about just like music. That's all we really talk about.
35:22
There's times where we it's rare to have a conversation about food because it's
35:25
like we talk about okay, yeah, but like music. Music is the
35:30
main main conversation in our everyday lives, you know what, I think.
35:36
We help each other a lot and then we you know, for instance,
35:38
sometimes you need help from me or from your dad. Sometimes you know,
35:43
we ask you to play on stuff for us, or you know, we'll
35:46
say, what do you think about this? Do you like this? Because
35:50
I just so so you know, value her opinion because she's got such a
35:53
great ear, you know, or what do you think about this that I'm
35:55
wearing? And she'll be like, you know, so, I mean,
36:02
but hey, it's a good thing, I think. Yeah, I know.
36:06
We love being with each other. We have a studio that's separate from
36:09
the house so we can get away from each other. And she has a
36:15
studio in her room, which is kind of cool. But we don't have
36:17
a huge house, so you know, we are a little bit on top
36:21
of each other a lot of times, and so we take lots of walks,
36:24
yeah, we do, and separate walks, and then sometimes we have
36:28
like conjoined walks. Yeah, you know, but we just I think we
36:31
try, we really try to keep the lines of communication open, and sometimes
36:37
we do kind of you know, get a little bit like we have to
36:40
get away from each other, you know. But I think that the busyness
36:45
that you might be talking about, I don't know if this is true,
36:49
but like when when you have a child in school, there's so much going
36:52
on, right because there's homework and there's after school activities and all that kind
36:57
of stuff. So that was really hard to navigate because you know, with
37:00
the with the pandemic and you know, online school, and then she was
37:05
doing homeschool for a while because she was you know, performing and practicing all
37:10
the time and writing and stuff. So we were, you know, we
37:14
were working with her a lot, and it was kind of stressful actually,
37:16
you know. And and then there's the whole you know, kind of paul
37:22
of you know, is her school going to be shut down because of of
37:25
a threat, which has happened on many, you know, many occasions for
37:30
her. So there's also that underlying feeling of distress and stuff like that too.
37:35
So I think it's just something that you have to kind of, you
37:38
know, it's it's it's just kind of a united front, like, Okay,
37:43
we're going to get through this and we're going to do this and it's
37:45
going to be great, and it's gonna be great. It happen, it
37:50
seems great. It's a good question, Dolores, Do you have a question?
37:53
I do have a question. Uh. In a former life, I
37:58
was a public school team and one of your comments really struck me, and
38:02
that was that one of the recitals you didn't have the proper gown. And
38:12
I was just wondering what your recommendations if you have recommendations or insights on public
38:17
schools, and I know private schools have a lot more choices sometimes than public
38:23
but about music and what we should be doing. So actually, this is
38:30
a really good topic because I was at a private school for six for like
38:35
five years of my life, I went to a private preschool and a private
38:38
elementary school. And I actually didn't really care for the elementary school and I
38:44
went to it was very small and for me, I didn't I couldn't really
38:47
work one on one with people, even though I love my teachers and I
38:51
still love them to this day. It was more of the kids. And
38:54
you know, and again like when you're when you're in a group of you
38:58
know, twelve girls, like I don't know ten boys, it's just like
39:02
that's not enough, you know. Yeah. And I had a best friend.
39:07
I was around nine years old, and of course I wasn't friends with
39:09
many girls in my grade, like they were just you know, you know
39:14
girls, they could be cut throat, they could be cut throat bullies,
39:16
you know, and that's kind of what I was experiencing in private school.
39:21
And I remember, you know, like with this best friend, like they
39:24
were just trying to like integrate themselves into our lives. And I mean it's
39:29
so hard, especially when you live in a really small part of LA Yeah.
39:32
It's in between Santa Monica and Malibu, and nobody really knows about it
39:37
besides some people, you know, but it's you know, when you're in
39:39
a small environment, all you can do is like I don't know how to
39:43
get out of this. Yeah. And then I remember I was in fourth
39:45
grade and I was really begging my parents. I was like I really want
39:49
to go to public school. And I loved public school. I remember the
39:52
last day after I was going like, you guys, I'm believing you for
39:57
good. Happy, And I went to public school and I had the best,
40:02
oh my god, the best time. And I already knew some kids
40:07
that were going to the public school that was going to I went one year
40:15
for fifth grade in public school, and then and then I automatically went to
40:20
middle school, also public school. But it was funny because I just remember
40:24
the teachers were so so sweet, and I had this one teacher and every
40:29
morning before we did any like academic classes, he had an upright piano in
40:35
his room, and so we played fly Me to the Moon and we put
40:38
a lot of Frank Sinatra songs, and you know, it was just so
40:42
fun and so warming. And obviously in the classes there was like forty kids
40:46
and not like ten, fifteen, twenty kids, you know, so you
40:52
got to like really make a lot of friends. And then then I moved
40:55
districts to a different school for middle school, and that was me for the
41:00
music part of it, and I had an incredible, oh my god,
41:04
he's like my favorite classical music teacher. He actually went to USC and just
41:12
so great. And I remember I was like auditioning very intensely to get into
41:15
the top orchestra in middle school and I out of two sixth graders, I
41:22
was one of them, and I got into the top orchestra, And to
41:24
me at the time, that was like a big deal. But I remember
41:27
because of because I wasn't really in the or living in the district, I
41:32
had to really kind of shut myself down socially, which was really something that
41:37
I was sad about because I'm very much of an extrovert social person, and
41:43
it was kind of it was great that I had the friends that I did
41:45
from the music school where we were doing the Hillary Clinton conception speech thing,
41:50
you know, and they were going to the same middle school, so I
41:52
had them and they were the only people that knew where I lived and whatnot.
41:57
But anyways, I I mean, I love public school. I love
42:01
thee to be as creative as you want to be. Mentor amazing hearing that.
42:10
And also I guess it prepared you too because it was competitive. There
42:15
were so many kids that actually forces you to up your game a little bit.
42:19
When the school is a little bit bigger, you don't automatically know I'm
42:22
going to be first chair because I'm the only chair whenever you know you you
42:28
know true. I had to compete against the seventh graders and eighth graders,
42:30
and I kind of learned about more healthy competition instead of like interesting and I
42:37
loved it. Amy, Do you have a question you're on mute? Sweetie?
42:45
How about now? I love it? Okay, I'm so enjoying listening
42:51
to you. To your such a fun and creative mother daughter duo. I
42:54
also have two daughters who I love to have adventures with, and so my
43:00
question is would all have like a dream getaway some sort of mother daughter I
43:08
feel like two different opinions are coming on this. Well. I mean,
43:15
if it was just us, I feel like, oh my god, I
43:17
feel like we really need to go to a spa. We like, we
43:23
talked about spot. Let's go to a spot in you know, Italy.
43:29
Yeah, we need to go visit our family there anyway, so I could
43:31
see you two in Paris? Yeah, we be Paris. Remember, Like,
43:37
You're like, I want to go to Paris and hopefully one day you
43:38
will too. And I'm like, when you know what, we have so
43:43
much fun when we do stuff together. She has so much fun to do
43:45
things with because she is such an extrovert that I end up meeting people I
43:50
would never meet, you know, and but and super fun, you know,
43:55
super easy to travel with and stuff we have. We have traveled a
43:59
bit together and going to a lot of places together. But I also,
44:02
what do you feel Iceland would be fun? Okay? Right? Maybe some
44:07
of those like thermal spas. Oh yeah, the nights, Oh that would
44:13
be so pretty. I love that idea. I mean, I feel like
44:17
we talked about going to spas my favorite if we had to get away,
44:22
I'd say my favorite getaway if you call this to get away. We went
44:28
to the Grammys last year. I was just about to square. It was
44:32
crazy, and my my dad was not at the ceremony. He was getting
44:38
foed because we couldn't eat for like the amount of hours that were at the
44:43
Grammys. It was crazy. And so I remember she just got her Grammy
44:46
and I had a video that was going ballistic on social media. It was
44:51
crazy because I just didn't know how to I knew how to deal with it,
44:53
but it was just like so surreal, like yeah, this is life,
44:57
even real. And I remember we were just sitting sheets for the televised
45:00
version of the Grammys. We're watching Stevie Wonder and and Harry Souls like literally
45:06
all of our favorite artists of that year and then going to see them live
45:08
with such that's an incredible share together. Fun. Yeah, And we were
45:13
looking at each other and we were like, I think we did this.
45:17
I think I think it's happening. Yes, when when they announced when they
45:22
announced my name, she goes, that's my mom, and I was like,
45:29
yeah, and of course, you know, it's just such a such
45:31
a blessing and so it's such a miracle to have that happen. I mean,
45:36
all all these you know, things need to align. Really, you
45:38
know. The funny part about that is them announcing your name and she's like,
45:42
that's my mom. And the funny part is that having her is really
45:45
the greatest role. That they can say your name, but having a child
45:52
is really you know, it's something that is you know, and I know
45:55
this sounds cheesy and like, but I mean, like to your mom,
45:59
for you to say that like that, like that's the gifts ye yeah,
46:07
I mean, oh yeah, all the getting Grammys is great too. I'm
46:13
not going to know that not a bad thing. We have so enjoyed this,
46:17
And tell us where what's your next project? Store? And where can
46:21
we find you on social media? Oh? Okay, social media, let's
46:27
fin what's my Instagram? That's I don't know. I think I think it's
46:31
Instagram is star s T A R R Dot Paroti P A R O d
46:36
I. And then I'm on Facebook as well. I decided to go on
46:49
social media. I know, I know, you know I actually I'm really
46:52
excited. Well, I don't know if you guys, probably people not from
46:57
l A don't know about this, but there's a thing called the Laguna pat
47:00
you know, the Masters. It's a really cool thing. So I just
47:01
got my assignment to write for the orchestra for that this year, and it's
47:05
actually this year's it's all about fashion, so it's gonna be really fun.
47:10
I'm going to start writing for that probably later today. And I also have
47:15
a commission from an orchestra in Houston, which I'm really excited to text says,
47:21
And I'm I'm producing three different projects coming up too. Wow, you
47:25
wrote, I've got a lot of plays. Very busy, really busy.
47:30
That's amazing. Do you have strip Away coming out. Yes. So my
47:36
project wise, I have strip Away coming out which has it was a single
47:40
that I created actually around a year ago. I that was like a three
47:45
am moment. Yeah, oh, I don't know what there's this is going
47:46
to be good. And then I remember I started learning how to create my
47:51
own production for for songs and I brought it to a friend and he really
47:54
helped me enhance that and then I kind of reproduced some stuff and it was
47:59
definitely collaborative effort. And so my manager and I have really been prepping it
48:05
getting to it to be released and we have a whole team behind it now.
48:07
Really is great. And where can they find you? On social media?
48:12
So they can find me on Instagram? My Instagram handle is a Zulda
48:17
fair I s It's I s O l D E and then f A I
48:23
R R and in big letters motart girl, and then on Spotify it's just
48:35
a zuld A fair I S O l d E f A. I are
48:37
great. I encourage everybody to listen to your voice. I mean it's really
48:43
angelic. I mean just all of their work. You can listen to them
48:46
on YouTube or you know, on on on any plant, any platform.
48:52
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49:24
has gone by so fast. It's been so to see you guys be so
49:28
normal, like a mother daughter like, that's not right. I should introduce
49:34
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49:43
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49:46
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