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UnIdentified: Astrid Veronika - Stirring Up Dreams & Ube Boba · PHLV Radio

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to another episode of Unidentified.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode six of one identified. Thank you all
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  for watching and supporting us all the time. My name
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  is Brenn and my.
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  Speaker 3: Name is Scharon T.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome, like I said, like he said, episode six, and
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  we have here and excellent the rising talent thirteen year
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  old at Veronica. Everybody as for it to actually start
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  in several theaters, musical theater like Lion King, The Lightning Thief,
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  and the Percy Jackson Musical. When did you start performing?
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  Speaker 3: It was during COVID.
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  Speaker 5: I started doing musical theater and then I came home
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  that day and my dad was and I told my
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  dad like, I auditioned with the I.
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  Speaker 3: Carly theme song. And then he was like, wow, you.
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  Speaker 4: Can sing, So you audition on your own.
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  Speaker 3: Or on my own.
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  Speaker 5: The first day I walked in, they said we're auditioning today.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, huh, so what made you like audition
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  on the spot? Like what made you think? How old
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  were you then?
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  Speaker 3: I was nine?
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  Speaker 5: It was any any junior and we just they just
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  said raw auditioning today. I thought there was gonna be
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  a few classes before audition, but I just walked up
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  there I sang a theme song and.
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  Speaker 3: Stress.
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  Speaker 1: So did you know you like you always wanted to
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  be like in a music Did you always want to
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  be in a musical.
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  Speaker 4: When you were younger?
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, well.
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  Speaker 3: I never thought about it.
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  Speaker 5: Actually before singing, I wanted to be a YouTuber.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to play games and record.
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  Speaker 4: And old were you when you started that YouTube I've seen?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I used to vlog when I was six years old.
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  I did Eminem's.
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  Speaker 2: World and I know that video that had a lot
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  of views.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was Eminem's eight hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Thousand opening like stuff, opening boxes of toys. That was fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the child YouTuber era.
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  Speaker 4: So when did you realize that Hey, I can say mom,
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  it's in dad.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: So during rehearsals, I had the role of Molly, Annie's
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  best friend in the Orphanage, and I really liked rehearsing.
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  It got me out off of my devices, it got
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  me out of everything. I just really enjoyed it, like genuinely,
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  like thoroughly, and it was way better than just like
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  playing on my iPad all day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was the passion coming out of you.
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  Speaker 1: And like, what was your experience with Annie the musical
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  and like Percy Jackson the musical.
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  Speaker 3: The So I did.
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  Speaker 5: I've done a lot of like junior musicals because I'm young.
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  So what happened was every time, like I stepped on stage,
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  I'm so nervous. I come, I come back into the wings.
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  After like my first scene, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh my gosh, I was so scary, especially.
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  Speaker 5: The first time, and then eventually going through doing more shows,
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  it just started to fade away.
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  Speaker 4: But you know that there was hard work behind that.
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  So how how how was your experience doing all those
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  rehearsals and no sleep and having to have like muscle
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  pain because of the dances that you've done over the
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  series of rehearsals.
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  Speaker 5: Rehearsals, my fate. That's my favorite part about doing shows
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  because I get to meet all these lovely people who
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  share the same passion as me. And you know, you
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  step on that stage and you think, you think like
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  oh my gosh, I'm I messed up, But you have
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  a whole net, which is your cast. The rest of
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  the cast is backing up no matter like if you
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  make a mistake, if you do that, they they know
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  the show.
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  Speaker 3: You know the show.
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  Speaker 5: It's all gonna like come together, like you've done nights
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  and months of rehearsal, you can get it.
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  Speaker 1: And I like that you said that rehearsal is your
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  favorite part of the show, because rehearsals are very important
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  to the success of a show. If you know, if
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  you don't show up to rehearsal, then what are you
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  there for?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 4: And then you get to bond with the other cast,
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  and that's the that's the fun part, the fun part
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  of getting to know each other and getting to do
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  exactly the same the same passion as the other cast
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  and you're doing at the same time, like friendship develops there.
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  Speaker 1: And I know musicals involved a lot of acting as well.
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  How do you incorporate that and how do you How
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  can I say this, like how do you how is
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  your I guess I can't explain it.
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  Speaker 4: I think she's a lot of acting things to sow
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  to incorporate that into like musicals or how do you
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  incorporate acting and musicals into acting on TV?
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  Speaker 2: Because I know that's different.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, acting on TV is a lot different because of
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  course in theater there's rows of people. It gets so
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  like you need to be big and you'd be like
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  huge or else the people in the back won and
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  be able to see your actions, your the emotion you're
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  trying to put on your face, the things. With TV,
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  it's on your face like it's close up. They the
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  TV can capture your subtle like eye movements, eyebrow, like
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  the your body language changing.
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  Speaker 3: It's very different.
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  Speaker 5: So when I started taking classes for TV acting, it
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  was a lot different for me.
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  Speaker 4: And of course TV you can and you can do
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  it again over and over again. With the theater. Once
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  you do it, like there's no turning back, that's it.
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  Did you mess up? You mess up? You know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I remember.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of times where I go back and
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  see I go back to my friends and the wings,
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  I'm like, oh my gosh, I messed up.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like it's fine. It's fine to I don't think
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  anyone notice it.
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  Speaker 4: But that's the fun of it. You grow after messing up,
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  you know, you get to learn like, Okay, this time,
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  I'm gonna do it the right thing, do the right
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  thing and not messing up. Yup. Wow. So since you've
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  done all this theater thing and you're really good at
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  it too, now you have this first single that you've
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  done and I believe that you co wrote it with
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  your equally talented dad who is a songwriter in a
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  Philippines for big artists like Latin Missalucha and other big stars.
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  So how did we how did you? How did you?
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  I know you've been doing cover songs, We've been performing
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  here and there, and and then you transition to writing songs.
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  How did that started?
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  Speaker 5: When I started singing, like generally, my dad used to
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  write duets like missing You on Christmas Day to love You.
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  Speaker 3: Those are all on my YouTube.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: But then when I started growing older, he was like,
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  do you want to like help writing songs? So I
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  would sit next to him while he wrote everything, and
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  I would try to pick up like rhyme, like rhyming,
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  rhyming schemes, like some of the rhythm and flow. My
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  dad usually writes all the melodies. I try to tap
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  in with the lyrics.
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  Speaker 3: We do, but we do do a lot of what's
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  the word.
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  Speaker 4: Collaboration?
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  Speaker 3: Collaboration?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think that's you know, bonding with your dad.
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  I've seen a lot of videos when you were young
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  and you were just singing the songs that he had written,
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  and you were probably only like six too.
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  Speaker 5: Wright I started around nine, asking, well, us, I can't
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  just talk about myself. I'm only part of the amazing madrigals.
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  Speaker 6: You amazing house.
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  Speaker 5: You're not gonna leave me alone. Okay, so many keys
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  in your house. Let's turn the sound up.
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  Speaker 4: You know why?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's time for grand arab stick us swimming
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  ready to letty didn't know what them people asking my questions.
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  Speaker 6: And get some answers.
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  Speaker 5: What's the fire and why is it?
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  Speaker 3: What's the world?
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  Speaker 6: But when in my time I love love to explore
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  that sure love all the way fell the waves to
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  hide to and so we just to me now, I
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  don't know, is.
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  Speaker 5: Just love.
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  Speaker 6: My house? I love you, I love you, I love
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  you my house, I love you.
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  Speaker 3: My house beca.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you grew up. And then there's another
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  segment that we did for BHLV and then you started
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  singing that live and that was so exciting from that video.
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  And so what made you like decide, Okay, I wanna
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  I want to write this first single that you have
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  right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, my first single is uba streaming on all major
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  streaming platforms. We're sitting at the dinner table, we're thinking
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  of songs to write. My dad, me and my dad
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  we threw in like and then he starts making the melody,
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  and then when we started writing mostly the verses, the verses,
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  the rap part, we just kind of like threw in
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  a little bit of my ideas.
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  Speaker 3: We he like made it like.
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  Speaker 4: The song.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, with all the credits together. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. Also, were you at a boba place? And is
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  Ube your favorite?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 5: I love Uba with all my heart, especially from Red
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  Ribbon the role cake.
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  Speaker 3: I love that so much.
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  Speaker 5: I love but I'm more of a I'm more of
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  a strawberry person. Oh yeah, but strawberry doesn't roll off
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  the tongue.
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  Speaker 4: Like and then Uba is just a very small but
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  it's strawberry. But it's too hard. It doesn't Yeah, yeah,
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  it's not gonna be. It's a it's a hit now,
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  you know. But it's a hit single and it's also
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  playing a page Shelby Radio.
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  Speaker 1: And just a random thought, I guess if you were
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  to describe yourself as a fruit, what would you describe
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  yourself as?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, there's a lot. There's a lot that I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, like, I don't know what's what it's called, Like
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  clementine or like those small oranges that you just peel.
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  You just peel it and then you take it apart.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, with no no seedless.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes there's seeds cum quat.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not a kumquat. Okay, I forgot it's oranges.
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  Speaker 2: And why would you? Why would you?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you describe yourself as a like a clementine
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  or something.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, it's just like this feeling. It's just
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  it's a feeling like it's just like this small little
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  thing ite like cuties.
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  Speaker 4: It's delicious. It's delicious sweet.
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  Speaker 3: You know it's sweet.
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  Speaker 5: It's mostly sweet. Sometimes it's a little bit like tardy.
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  Speaker 1: So what is your your overall goal as an artist
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  now that you have your first single?
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  Speaker 2: What's your goal now as an artist?
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  Speaker 5: My dream since I was and I was always to
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  be like a Broadway star. But now that I'm like
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  seeing all this like uh media, I feel like pop star.
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  I would love to be a pop star like Olivia Rodrigo,
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  Subrina Carpenter.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you're gonna be writing more songs, So
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  you're just going to be focusing more on on writing
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  songs and releasing them, writing songs after one song to
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  the other end, then are you going to be uh
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  do you want to perform more on bigger stage of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: My vaguest dream right now as of right now is
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  performing at and where's that Chicago?
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  Speaker 3: Chicago?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, festivals? Of course, we all we all want to be.
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  Speaker 1: There Coachella, yeah, and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're going to get there, Yeah, with all
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  with hard work and uh, like I said, we were
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  talking about AI and I know you you and your
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  dad really write your own songs.
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  Speaker 3: Not a I.
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  Speaker 4: Created, So I I like, I like it that you
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  do that with.
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  Speaker 2: Your dad, And I know you also had a photo
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  shoot for but To Yeah, that.
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  Speaker 3: Was a fun.
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  Speaker 4: It was actually her first shoot photo shoot for the
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  Uba Boba single, and we do have some clips of
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  that and we did enjoy that with the very famous
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  photographer Mark Eli Hi Mark. He does all our of
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  our photos for born famous artists and he is really
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  great and he works well with you. What what was
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  your experience with him?
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  Speaker 3: It was really nice.
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  Speaker 5: So they showed me like the reference photos, like I
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  think we're gonna do this, We're gonna do that. And
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  then two les, you gave us free food, so.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, and then we got all the the
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  ubi all the purple colored yummy stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Two lets you gave me a free cup.
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  Speaker 5: It's like it's like the tumbler.
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  Speaker 3: It's very nice.
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  Speaker 5: Especially working with photography is not like a thing I'm
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  familiar in. So it was you know, it's different from
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  like my dad going okay, just do this and and
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  then he has the photo my face to do this.
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  Speaker 3: And then smile. I'm like okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And more thing about Mark, he will make you very comfortable,
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  and he will make you so what you have or
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  what we have on that very place that we have
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  to lose you in a very corner. He's like very
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  creative guys. Yes, so he made you more comfortable to
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  be wearing the exact clothing. So it's going to be
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  more like you know. And uh more ubba single appropriate photo.
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  Speaker 3: He did this one, this one shot that I really liked.
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  Speaker 5: It was like through the window and I'm luckily looking
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  at the window with the on the table.
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  Speaker 3: That was fun.
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  Speaker 4: I know he wanted we wanted to capture something. I
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  believe Mark wanted to capture something. We did capture it
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  the right way, but not fully because of I don't know.
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  He even wiped the window just so it will make
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  it more. Yeah, it was fun. It was really fun.
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  And then while we're you know, enjoying the tulju pastries,
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  somebody visited us. Somebody came by and said hi to you.
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  He's another artist of a born famous and he's already
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  he's a finalist of American Idol and he is also
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  performing now everywhere here in Las Vegas. Trip. Do you
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  remember his name?
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  Speaker 5: McKenzie?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So, how did you feel him coming over and
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  interviewing you? Actually, he asked you a few questions.
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  Speaker 5: I remember I saw him walking like in through the doors.
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  I'm like, wow, he's tall. He's really tall, and he's
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  like really nice. He seems very calm. You know, he
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  was really kind for me. He asked me to help
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  open the cup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. He even gave us like pointers on how we're going
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  to do it. Yeah, right before we even did the
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  video one of the videos.
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  Speaker 1: You know, looking back at those videos and pictures, we
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  had a lot of fun during doing that photo shoot.
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  Speaker 2: We were there together at the zoo.
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  Speaker 4: And then having fun with all the drinks and the
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  drinks and the food.
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  Speaker 3: Food.
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  Speaker 4: The free food can make more fun because of the food.
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  Speaker 1: And so now that we talked about your first single,
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  Ubi Boba, you have Christmas song out, So would you
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  explain to the audience what the Christmas song is about?
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  Speaker 2: And I guess how did it come about?
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  Speaker 3: So I just released my Christmas song.
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  Speaker 5: I forgot when.
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  Speaker 3: It's called. Is it Christmas?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Also on austreaming platforms under Ashon Veronica. Really, we just
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  wanted to make a Christmas song because I love Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: I really love Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: I love Do you know that his birthday is December
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  twenty fifth?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 4: Christmas birthday?
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  Speaker 2: Boy?
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  Speaker 4: We love persons too, right, So talk about how it
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  came about. I know the title.
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  Speaker 5: Is is it Christmas yet?
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  Speaker 4: Is it Christmas yet?
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  Speaker 3: Is it Christmas yet?
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  Speaker 5: You know, a lot growing up, especially when I was younger,
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  I'm like, oh my gosh, why isn't it Christmas?
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to be Christmas? Can it be Christmas already? Uh?
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  Speaker 5: My dad mostly worked on all the stuff, especially the melody,
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  the arrangement.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, most of the lyrics.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of helped in with a little bit of
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  melody and the chorus.
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  Speaker 3: Is it Christmas? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's a great start. So who was
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  you when creating this song? Was your inspiration in this song?
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  Speaker 3: Inspiration?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Kelly Clarkson Underneath the Tree.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh okay, Yeah, that's a great song. I was
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  I was hoping, not hoping that you're gonna say so
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  that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So so you released it, and uh, did you have
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  a music video or you're just.
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  Speaker 5: Having we go around h to We went to the Bellagio,
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  I think that's what it's called, when we recorded a
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  few videos and a little like Christmas y outfit and
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  we just stitched together make a few reels, you know
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  with the song. Uh, there's a specific part in the
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  song that I always get like tongue tied on.
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  Speaker 3: It goes.
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  Speaker 5: The smell of cook is making coca mouths, mouth of sugar, bumps,
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  app of pie. Holiday, Hi, is it Christmas yet? Because
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  it's so fast and the words are like jumbling together,
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  Especially when I was first like rehearsing it before we
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  recorded it, I was like, oh my gosh, I'm never
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  we're gonna get this.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, the trick there or the technique there,
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  it's not to breathe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then now that we talked about your Christmas song,
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  which is out on multiple streaming platforms by the way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and PHLV Radio let's look.
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  Speaker 1: Back at twenty twenty five. It's almost the end of
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  the year, which is crazy. Oh gosh, which is weird
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  that it's the end of the year. What was your
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  favorite performance or just favorite part of twenty twenty five
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  in general?
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  Speaker 5: I especially liked the month of September overall because there
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  were so many performances.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, this week, there's gonna be one. The
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  next week there's gonna be one performing.
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  Speaker 4: What we all do and it was fun, but we
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  were tired. We're all tired after tired, tired, happy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What about what's your what's your favorite part o this part?
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  Speaker 1: What was well, my favorite part was releasing my new
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  single Resume.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when we were launching single.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple platforms as well, under brand b R E n
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  N Shameless plug for Me.
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  Speaker 4: And Painful Passion. Sometimes I really forget to plug it,
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  but it's there.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that was my favorite part. That was like
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  four years in the making. I hadn't released a song, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Four years, which is four years and making.
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  Speaker 2: So after this was the only time I had time
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  to make music.
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  Speaker 4: After conversations, after your after my first single, we were
• 20:47
  both inspired by you guys, you know, having those songs recorded, rehearsed,
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  and yeah, we we're having launching and like, you know,
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  you should launch ours too, So that was that was fun,
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  was really fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, really busier, really funnier though.
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  Speaker 4: And Unidentified started twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another great milestone for us.
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  Speaker 4: We started with the Sophronia you were with a concert too. Yeah,
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  she's been performing with us and she's also performing in
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  other shows too. So now for twenty twenty six, do
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  we have any plans that you can divulge?
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  Speaker 5: The first The first plan is graduating middle school. I
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  graduate eighth grade, so that means next year I also
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  start high school. Scary, but I am homeschooled, so I
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  will have hopefully time to practice, really work on my craft.
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  That's what I'm really trying to aim for next year.
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  Practice every day, practice, acting, singing, dancing, everything become muchorable
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  threat little at that threat, so I'm ready too.
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  Speaker 4: Hard artist you know, doesn't mean that you don't want
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  to go to school. She's really you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, she's driven.
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  Speaker 4: She's driven. She's a driven artist. And uh yeah, I
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  can see that you're going to be successful in.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever, and it is inspiring just to see like you
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  at your age, just very determined to determine, very serious
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  about singing.
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  Speaker 5: I actually just got a guitar, like guitar, so I've
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  been learning how to play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great, which.
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  Speaker 5: Means songwriter, it's going to be a lot easier because
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  I can just play the course with a melody. And
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  my dad knows how to play as well. He knows
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  the piano, he knows a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And of course, you know, without your very extremely supportive parents,
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  you're not going to be able to do whatever you're
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  doing right now with all your passion and creativity. And
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  this is that because of your parents, and kudos to them,
• 22:53
  you know. Well, as for Veronica, your life is so
• 22:57
  interesting and very inspiring. What would you share to our audience,
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  especially the younger generation your age or even younger, what
• 23:10
  would you share to them, like about getting into theater
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  or singing, just about in general.
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  Speaker 2: Just music and in general.
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  Speaker 5: When I was starting out, what I really like struggled
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  with was confidence because I always I staid on that
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  stage and I'm shaking because like what if I mess up,
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  or if I do this, or if I do that,
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  Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of the crowd. Because
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  the crowd.
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  Speaker 4: Will be the decision maker, the judge, the judge. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And especially when my parents started posting like this
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  stuff on my performances on social media, I'm like, what
• 23:46
  is one from my school sees this? Like what if
• 23:48
  somebody I know sees this? Don't be embarrassed by that.
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  If it's what you love, then you shouldn't be embarrassed
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  of it, because, especially especially me when I was growing up,
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  I'm so scared of like what other people think.
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  Speaker 3: But it's all here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: When I mess up, I'm in my I'm in my head.
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  I'm like thinking, like, oh shoot, like if I just
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  did this, if I just did that, just practice, practice
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  what you want to do, and.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be stuck in this one place because you're just
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  scared that somebody somebody's gonna see this.
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  Speaker 3: Like, don't be embarrassed of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, put your one hundred percent in it, you know,
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  And like you said, practice and don't be shy that
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  you are. You are actually different. You're different because you
• 24:43
  stand out from the rest of them. So that's why
• 24:45
  you're different. You don't sometimes you won't belong as an artist.
• 24:48
  We felt that sometimes you don't belong to that one
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  room because you are meant to stand out in another room,
• 24:55
  and that's going to be being a leader and standing
• 24:59
  out being yourself. You know, So what do you think
• 25:03
  about that? Like, I know you also have felt that,
• 25:07
  like sometimes you don't feel like accepted in a room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when I started my civil engineering journey in college,
• 25:16
  I didn't really feel like I was meant to be there.
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  But not because I wasn't intelligent or I'm smart enough
• 25:25
  I guess to get by in college, but I guess
• 25:29
  it was like I just didn't feel like I should
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  be there. I guess like something more was meant for me,
• 25:39
  and I think we all feel that way.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So just like what the astrap Veronica is saying
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  to the audience, to the young generation there, don't be
• 25:48
  scared sometimes. You know, if you don't fit in in
• 25:51
  one room, you fit in in another room. That's best
• 25:55
  for you and you'll find that out in your music
• 25:59
  journey and whatever journey music journey that you have, right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, especially when I started this, uh this year, when
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  I did Percy Jackson and everybody there really just love
• 26:13
  to sing, dance, perform, I was like, Wow, like we
• 26:16
  all just clicked. Yeah, and I I still talk to
• 26:21
  them sometimes. They're always like wondering, like, oh yeah, what
• 26:24
  are you doing?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: What are you doing now?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, you know, I'm performing. They're like, wow,
• 26:28
  that's so nice.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: So that's the that's where you belong.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the bonds that we share with people who
• 26:35
  love to sing, just love the performing arts in general
• 26:37
  is very it's special.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: It's just very different from it's different.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: We feel like we're aliens that were you know, you know,
• 26:43
  but it's different. But just continue, you know, if the
• 26:47
  door doesn't and you open and you're not welcome there,
• 26:51
  it's okay, you know, just go to another room and
• 26:53
  you will be more welcome. Like Asfred said that she
• 26:56
  went to this she to performed for Percy Jackson, and
• 26:59
  everybody was the same as hers passion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was really great getting to know you more, Asterid.
• 27:08
  We've known you for quite a while now, but it
• 27:10
  was just want to get you back here again, like
• 27:14
  to talk to you and see your parents again.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I know it's been been a while since you've seen
• 27:19
  it a.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Couple of months. Yeah, but then yeah, it's great to
• 27:25
  know you even more. There are things that we've really
• 27:28
  didn't know. We didn't even talk about it, you know,
• 27:31
  we we always talk to your parents. But now that
• 27:34
  you know, we know that you're very passionate, and uh,
• 27:37
  we're glad that you are here with us and Unidentified,
• 27:41
  knowing that you are an identifying.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: And so before we end, just I guess plug your
• 27:47
  social media to the audience.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: On Facebook, I am with Love Astrid, Instagram, TikTok, I
• 27:53
  am asked you to underscore on stage, and on YouTube,
• 27:56
  I am just ascid Veronica Official.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And so that is I guess the end of this
• 28:02
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  Speaker 2: My name is Brent and my name is.
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  Speaker 3: Sharon t I'm as Veronica, Rise up.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: And Shine to BC.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Gaby.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Star you mad.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Riser and shine to be.
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  Speaker 6: Mom didn't decide, didn't