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INTERVIEW: GASTON | 20 OCTOBER 2026 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: And in the studio, if you're with us on 987's TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: we are live as well. All-round good guy. I promise
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  Speaker 1: you some very nice, sultry and soulful vocals. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the studio, Guest Liu.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: How's it going,
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  Speaker 1: man? It's been two years since you stepped foot in
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  Speaker 1: this studio. Yes, two years. What have you been cooking
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  Speaker 1: in the past two years? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the last time I released a song was, uh, yeah, 2024.
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  Speaker 2: It was called I Love You in Five Years' time
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  Speaker 2: and after I kind of released that, I took some
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  Speaker 2: time to kind of think about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in the long run, what's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: music that I wanted to do. So, ah, there was
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  Speaker 2: a bit of kind of really, um, taking the time
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  Speaker 2: of soul searching, finding what's the kind of sound I
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  Speaker 2: want to create and this single now, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: really representative of the stuff I want to do and
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  Speaker 2: it's will be part of a 44 song
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  Speaker 1: EPP. Does the 4 song EP include If I Loved
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  Speaker 1: You in 5 Years?
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would be, yeah, in the past. OK. Is it,
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  Speaker 1: is it me or is his voice? Always, every time
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  Speaker 1: he speaks, I'm like this guy should be a DJ
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  Speaker 1: or something. I know, but what have you been up to, man?
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  Speaker 1: How's school? Yeah the updates. What you up to?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm currently in my last year of school
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  Speaker 2: in uni. I'm in NUS and I'm in the Conservatory
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  Speaker 2: of Music. Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Music collaboration, production, where we kind of have to do, ah,
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  Speaker 2: produce our own projects and it also includes some form
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  Speaker 2: of like, ah, usually some research and studies into like
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  Speaker 2: understanding audiences, understanding how to, you know, um, what, what
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  Speaker 2: are the different areas that you're interested to look into.
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  Speaker 2: So some people look into, you know, maybe a certain
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  Speaker 2: um age group that they're trying to reach out to,
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  Speaker 2: do some research into that and then basically create a
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  Speaker 2: a a project that
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  Speaker 2: has a production output that reaches out to these audiences.
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  Speaker 2: So what I've been trying to do is try to
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  Speaker 2: work around um the development of artists. I've been researching
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  Speaker 2: into that and like, you know, project management, artist management,
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  Speaker 2: And all the songs that I'm doing now, I'm also
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  Speaker 2: using it to to kind of help my my FYP
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  Speaker 2: to to kind of use the songs as a material
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  Speaker 2: for my production output.
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  Speaker 1: So who,
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  Speaker 1: who is your ideal demographic then? Like when you write
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  Speaker 1: a song now, since you're talking about like your audience
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  Speaker 1: and all that, do you have that audience in mind
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  Speaker 1: that's listening to your track?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because what I kind of got to realize for
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  Speaker 2: myself is that I do have an affinity.
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  Speaker 2: For for like older older songs. Yeah, yeah. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I do enjoy like of course the new stuff I'm
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  Speaker 2: always being open-minded to new genres and everything, but I
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  Speaker 2: always kind of have a soft spot for for like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, music in the eighties, seventies, so yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to to kind of ah incorporate that
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  Speaker 2: into into what I'm the music that I'm writing. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a bit, it's not fully like classic 70s, 80s,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also a bit of mix of pop.
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  Speaker 2: So I think one of my inspirations of of the
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  Speaker 2: more recent years was when Silk Sonic, you know, the album,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of that's that kind of retro sound but
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  Speaker 2: it's still so fresh and new and I was really
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  Speaker 2: inspired by that. That's one of my inspirations. I don't have, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mention to to get the ticket. I think
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  Speaker 2: there will be more, there will be more available and
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  Speaker 2: I'll look out for that, but definitely one of my.
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  Speaker 2: Inspiration. So I would say the target audience would be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm trying to reach out to as many, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is, it's kind of like the current, ah, the
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  Speaker 2: old sound, but in a new interpretation,
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  Speaker 1: diverse
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  Speaker 1: range of people that want to reach out to. So,
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  Speaker 1: so you have your guitar with us in the studio?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: What's the song you're gonna give us
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  Speaker 1: this morning,
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  Speaker 2: my friend? Yes, so I'm gonna be playing my latest single.
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  Speaker 2: It got released, um, I think just about two weeks
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  Speaker 2: back on 9th October. It's called Won't Stop Loving.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think it's a really um a song
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  Speaker 2: that's representative of what, what I want to do now. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: with this song, I really wanted to explore that that
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  Speaker 2: kind of old older sound with kind of like the,
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  Speaker 2: the current interpretation of it. So, the modulations, really more
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  Speaker 2: like rhythmic groovy stuff, and yeah, I think I, I,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really proud of, of, of this track and I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to, to also start to release the others and
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  Speaker 2: Let it build upon each other.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear it, man.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear it. OK. Thank you for bringing all your
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  Speaker 1: stuff here today. We would love to hear it live
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  Speaker 1: right now. Are you ready to go? Yeah, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Alright, anytime, Gaston, take it
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  Speaker 2: away. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: 234.
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  Speaker 2: Never stop loving you, loving
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  Speaker 1: you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning 97. It's Guston over here.
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  Speaker 2: The latest single called Won't Stop Loving. Hope you guys
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  Speaker 2: enjoy
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  Speaker 1: it.
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  Speaker 1: I never felt the
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 1: you
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  Speaker 1: I can get you
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  Speaker 1: just
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  Speaker 1: Dreams come true
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 1: get all.
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  Speaker 1: A
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  Speaker 1: to be
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  Speaker 1: you took me to
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  Speaker 1: I wish come true.
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  Speaker 1: you
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  Speaker 1: It
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  Speaker 1: have
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  Speaker 1: It's, by the way, this guy, Gaston Liu live for
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  Speaker 1: you on 987. That was amazing, Gaston. That was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Just God-given vocal talent right there. Yeah. And you know what,
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  Speaker 1: like just kind of feeling you enjoy that like made
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  Speaker 1: us happy, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for chasing the haze away for a while,
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  Speaker 1: at least in the studio. No, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: That was so great. Gaston just performed his latest single.
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  Speaker 1: Where can we find It Again? Tell us,
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  Speaker 2: man. Gaston. Yes, you can find it on all streaming
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  Speaker 2: platforms under the artist's name Gaston, G A S T
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  Speaker 2: O N in caps. Yeah, Gaston Gaston.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's figuring out like how he wants to say
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  Speaker 1: it and all. OK, so graduation not too far away
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  Speaker 1: for you. Not too far away. What, what is gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen after that? Like, are you gonna put your full
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  Speaker 1: time and energy into music or like what's happening?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think the idea is to kind of
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  Speaker 2: do music full time, but the reality of it is
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  Speaker 2: probably doing a few different portfolios at the same time
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  Speaker 2: to begin with. So like even on the side now
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  Speaker 2: I've started like teaching, teaching, teaching guitar, teaching vocals.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm also trying to branch out into different areas.
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  Speaker 2: I have some friends that have been, uh, doing like MCing,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm kind of like interested in that as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to like get my like trying to
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  Speaker 2: get some experience in that as well over time.
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  Speaker 1: But I must say you can talk, and when you
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  Speaker 1: talk you actually drive forward. So I think you got
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  Speaker 1: that going for you already. But when you say you
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  Speaker 1: teach vocals, right, just a quick one. How do you,
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  Speaker 1: are you qualified? How do you teach them the techniques
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  Speaker 1: and all
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  Speaker 1: that,
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  Speaker 2: right? Um, I think.
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  Speaker 2: For what what I'm teaching is more like pop vocal. So, OK, so,
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  Speaker 2: but I did do classical singing actually like in the
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  Speaker 2: past few years when I was doing like A level
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  Speaker 2: music because he had to sing like classical stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of, I do have my qualifications in that
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  Speaker 2: sense on my CV
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think anything can help me.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, for real. But anyway, we were, we
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  Speaker 1: were curious earlier, right, because we were saying like, what
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  Speaker 1: exactly does your name mean? I don't know why we
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  Speaker 1: were like talking about this off-air. So I did a
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  Speaker 1: quick search on Chat GBT actually. OK, here we go. So,
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  Speaker 1: Gaston is a French masculine name derived from the meaning
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  Speaker 1: of guest or stranger.
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  Speaker 1: OK. OK, and it means confidence, strength, and masculinity. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: no wonder it's very aptly named Gaston in Beauty and
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  Speaker 1: the Beast. Yeah, exactly. You can eat 4000 eggs, eggs.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being with us here today. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Anything you want to share or say to your newfound
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  Speaker 1: fans or followers who are tuned in to us right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hi everyone. Yeah, it's so nice to meet all
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  Speaker 2: of you. My name is Gaston and I'll be releasing
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  Speaker 2: more music, actually one, hopefully by the end of next
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  Speaker 2: month and it's accumulating into a 4 song EP around
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  Speaker 2: April next year. So I'm really excited. Do follow along
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  Speaker 2: with me, uh, follow me on my socials at Gaston Liu.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I'm still using my full name for for
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  Speaker 2: my IG and you can use, ah, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: all the different socials to find me and and follow
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  Speaker 2: me on this journey. I'm really excited to be able
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  Speaker 2: to to put out these songs that I think are
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  Speaker 2: really representative of what I wanna do and the songs
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  Speaker 2: are meant to, you know, lift you up, get you going,
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  Speaker 2: make you feel good, you know, touch your soul.
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  Speaker 2: That's the kind of music that I want to release
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  Speaker 2: and I hope you guys enjoy it. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited. We're excited. We're rooting for you. Any idea
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  Speaker 1: on the name of the EP just yet or you're
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  Speaker 1: figuring it out? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm still
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  Speaker 2: figuring out some ideas, but I think I will review
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  Speaker 2: it over time.
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  Speaker 1: No, don't you better hire another marketing manager. Don't hire joking.