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Nutsa Buzaladze - Eurovision & American Idol | From Georgia to Hollywood Against All Odds · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  My first performance, it was in Hollywood Week. Nobody would expect me to win that contest.
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  It was international. I was the youngest and I won. When I was that young, it kind of
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  got to my head. Then I broke my leg. I thought I was winning that and that I couldn't dance anymore.
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  And I realized, oh my God, look what God gave me. And then he took away everything.
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  What if your dream was so powerful that no stage in the world could contain it?
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  Nutsabuzalazi grew up in Georgia, a small country with a big spirit, but her voice carried far
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  beyond its borders, from small competitions to America's biggest stages.
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  We can have a lot of goals and a lot of dreams, but we don't have to forget what we live it for.
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  There are certain things that you can buy with money, but there are so many things that you
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  cannot buy with money. That's what people forget. When I say something, I make myself believe
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  that. That it's possible. When you believe that it's possible, then it's just the matter of time.
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  It's so important to be kind and caring and loving towards yourself. I do feel like that if
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  person doesn't love herself, then she cannot love anybody. So it's the all starts from within.
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  She turned rejection into resilience and resilience into success. Her story is about chasing
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  the impossible and proving the world wrong. One performance at a time. This is Nutsabuzalazi.
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  How did it feel to get a standing ovation from Luke Bryan, Katie Perry, and Lionel Richie?
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  It felt like a dream come true, definitely, because I've been dreaming to be on this show since I
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  was like eight years old, so for a very long time. The jury, they were like really iconic
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  people that I admired for a very long time, and I would never in a million years
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  imagined while I was performing that song for the first time. So in the live shows,
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  on the live shows, I got standing ovation on every performance. But my first performance,
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  what I did, it wasn't Hollywood week. When I saw Lionel Richie doing wow things like that,
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  and then I saw all of them standing up and giving me standing ovation, I was crying the whole day.
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  I couldn't stop because I felt such a big gratitude because of this moment, because one thing is
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  when somebody does something to you, or somebody calls you there, but the second is when you
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  reach out to every single person and you do everything on your own, it feels different than every
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  success, every small step, even feels different. I was going to say that moment.
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  Listen, when I saw, I was watching that moment on YouTube, and that was why, because I've seen
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  American Idol and not everybody gets that kind of reception from the judges, right? But that
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  moment, the more I learned about your life and how long you sort of been pursuing this dream,
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  this was the culmination of years, and years, and years, of work towards this goal.
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  Yes. And I'm assuming like when you started very, very young, when you were, what, eight or five or
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  so I was eight when I first time went on a TV show, I was very young. Just still insanely young.
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  I was very young, yeah, I was eight years old, but I knew that time that I wanted to be a singer
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  on my life, and it never changed ever. Like there is not a single profession that I would trade in
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  to have, like singing as my first priority. Oh, I can be actress, I can be dancer, I can,
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  I can be entrepreneur, I can be producer, I can be songwriter, but performing is something that I,
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  I love to do back eight years old. Um, how did you know that this is what you wanted to do? How
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  did you know that this was your obsession and your focus and just what you were put on this earth
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  to do? Well, because I had a lot of energy since I was a little, little kid, a lot of energy. And
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  I would, like, I, when I would look at the singers on TV, we had MTV, right? So when I would look
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  at this music videos and just like, I would always act as if I was on that music video, or if I was
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  given an interview, or if I was putting, and I would, every week, I would put a show for my family
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  and for my neighbors since I was like six years old. So, and like for two hours, like I would,
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  I was not getting tired. And my mom was always very concerned about my health because she,
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  she was like, no, like, she's got, like, she's got like, she's, like, breathing like that. Like,
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  she's getting tired. But like, I'm like, mom, no, stop it. I love it. I want to continue singing.
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  So it was like, they couldn't stop me from singing since I was a little girl. I was like, I have
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  to finish my concert. Did your, did your parents ever, because I know that, I know that your mom
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  early on was supportive, obviously. But were they ever concerned that you didn't have a backup
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  plan? That there was nothing else that you were really interested in? Was that ever a concern or no?
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  Um, it was never a concern to be honest. Well, I had big support from my aunt and from my mom.
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  So my, uh, even bigger from my aunt, my aunt would always call me a Hollywood star. Like, even when I
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  was six years old, she would see that energy. She was like, you are born to be a leader. You're born
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  to shine and you're born to be on a stage. And she would also tell to my mom, my mom would say,
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  oh, come on. Like, like, because my mom was not that big of a dreamer as my aunt. But, but then my
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  mom also became very sure of whatever my aunt would say, because like, she was all the way with me,
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  with all this, this baby steps we did together, me and my mom. And she was always there. And she
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  saw every struggle, every win that I had and everything that I was telling her that I would do.
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  I did. So my mom is my biggest, when my mom and my aunt, they are my biggest supporters ever.
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  It's so, that's so important. It's very important. It's like, I think that a takeaway just for
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  parents is like the, the, the ideas that you put into your kids. Yes. That forms their whole life
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  for good or bad. Yes. Yes. Yes. 100%. It's so important. Well, I had a great relationship with
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  my father. And, but, but I never spent so much time with my father that I would have his thoughts
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  about about my, my career when I was growing up. But when I was like 18 or 19, he would also tell me,
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  like, do whatever it takes to, to pursue your career because you have got given talent. So my
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  father was also supporting you. Well, he's not a fan of me dressing up, you know, with this like
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  high outfits on a stage. He doesn't love to watch that. But he's proud of, of the things that I
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  did for my country and the success that I bring to my country. So it's also nice to have
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  support from both of your parents and your family because then it affects your mental health a
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  lot. So obviously your, your aunt, your mom, super supported. But when was the moment in your life
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  because you've had so many wins along the way, like you mentioned before, like every time you set
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  your mind to something, you just sort of accomplish it. And I don't want to gloss over the fact that
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  there was an insane amount of hard work behind accomplishing each one of those things. Nothing
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  came easy. But when was the moment when you, you and your mind, what was the thing that competition
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  you won, the TV spot you booked when you were like singing is my life? I, I have unbelievable
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  trust in myself now to do this. Yes, it was when I was 17. It was that night when like nobody
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  would expect me to win that contest. Nobody ever would expect me to win that. I was 17. I was the
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  youngest in that competition. It was international. It was like a lot of singers like 33 singers.
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  And I was the youngest 17 because you were allowed to compete after your 17. I was the youngest
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  and I won that competition. And I was like, it was so unexpected. This was my first big win
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  because I won 50,000 euros. That's good for 17. When I was 17 years old, yeah. So I kind of do,
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  this was my first time dealing with money. That big of a money because I started earning money when
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  I was 16. So I also won a TV show when I was 16. So like, I won some money, but not that
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  big. Well, I didn't birthday for my mom. I did birthday for my, you know, I did the small wins.
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  But 50,000 euros for 17 years, I was still at school. So I, but you know what I started? I kind of,
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  I think that when I was that young, it kind of get to my head a little bit because I got so famous.
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  And I had money. I was famous. I was young. And then I wouldn't listen to my mom that much anymore.
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  Like, mom, you don't know. You don't know. Like, let me do it. Let me think like whatever advice
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  she would give me then, I kind of became, you know, a little bit aggressive to my mom. So we also
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  mean my mom that one year, we also had a little bit hard time because I thought that, oh, because I'm
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  winning so much. And now I'm on dancing with the stars. And you know, I'm dancing and I'm going to
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  win that also. And then I broke my leg on the competition. Oh my God. So it was I think God telling
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  me that you got to stop because it was too much in my head. I was like, oh my God, I'm so good.
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  You know, and when you say that, I'm so good, you are done. You know, you never have to be
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  satisfied with yourself or with your talent or what God gave you because he can take it. And he
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  did took from me. I got like, then like after that, I broke my leg. So I dancing with the stars.
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  I thought I was winning that and that I couldn't dance anymore because I was laying in bed for one
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  month with my broken leg. So it was such a hard and I realized, oh my God, like, I was the kid going
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  to church every Sunday and look what God gave me. And then he took away everything, you know,
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  when that period when I broke my leg, and then I had to start over again. It humbles, it humbles you.
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  It's wild. That's a wild timeline. It's so that's almost a little bit spooky because the second
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  you're successful, you get like the ego, like, get into your own head. And then all of a sudden,
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  like, you're not like disrespecting your mom, but you're not, you know, the same level of
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  relationships you did. Yes. Yes. And it's so hard. And then break your leg. And it's like,
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  God is just telling you, like, listen, you have to, you have to, okay, this is what I gave you.
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  Slow down. Don't disrespect the people that supported you on the way up. Yes. Yes.
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  That which competition was that? Because obviously that was still in Georgia. That was still in
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  Georgia. Yes. And it's interesting how at that moment, obviously, you're probably second guessing,
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  like, okay, so what am I going to do? I broke my leg. I'm out of the game for a little bit.
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  You're not obviously completely out of the game. But what I find interesting is right after that,
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  or closely after that is when you took your biggest sort of career leap and you're killing it in
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  Georgia. And for everybody that is listening, this is Georgia that's very close to Russia, not
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  obviously Georgia, Georgia in the US. And you're killing it in Georgia. But then you're like,
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  I'm sort of a big fish in a small pond. Yeah. That's probably the best analogy.
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  I'm going to restart and figure out how to dominate in the US. Yes.
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  What makes you want to take that move after such a major step back?
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  After that step back, first I went to Turkey because I know Turkish also. I can sing in Turkish also
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  because I grew up there also. My aunt was living there. So I was like spending my holidays
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  always in Turkey. So I went to Turkey and I went also to finals of the voice of Turkey.
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  So I was 18. There was, there was after that setback. And I was kind of a little bit chubby
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  that time. So I was not really feeling so confident. But I did my best in that competition.
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  After that competition, I went to Russia's competition again. And then I went to Albania's
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  competition. So I was like always like trying to showcase my talent and trying to, you know,
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  get the deal with the producer and do my album and do my songs. Because in Georgia,
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  it wasn't possible. I couldn't find anybody. But I still produced my album in Georgia. And I
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  released it when I was 22. But I knew that with this baby steps in this country's, my
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  neighbor countries, I would get to the bigger one. And after Dubai, after I was living in Dubai,
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  was my last stop, I could say before coming to US. So after Dubai, I decided that it is,
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  I was telling to my friends also when I was in Dubai. Next year, I'm going to go to US and I'm
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  going to stay there. That's what I was saying. You just said it. You just like spoke it into
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  existence. Yeah. Well, because when I say something, I make myself believe that that it's possible.
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  So when you believe that it's possible, then it's just the the matter of time. So I learned that
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  you are, I think one of the only, definitely the first non-Americans to get onto American Idol.
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  I didn't, I guess like it makes sense that they don't look at a lot of non-Americans. It is
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  called American Idol. Yes. So and I would only assume that it's a difficult thing because like,
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  now there's like work visas and issues like without because if you want. But I've had. So,
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  so if you want to go and work in America as a singer, you have to get extraordinary visa,
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  which is a one. Yeah, which is called like alien visa. So if you have some extraordinary talent
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  then and you're going to show them, this is what I've done, this is what I've done and I want to
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  do the same in America. And so it's like you're you want to do good in the country, right? You want to
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  create a music or you want to do concerts or you're a performer, whatever you want to do, you have
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  to have that visa. Yeah, so this is actually the same visa I had to get to come down from Canada.
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  But it's it's a lot of work to get that and I know, but I got it so quickly and easily. I think
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  God every day it was meant to be. You say quickly and easily, but also you've been doing the work
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  since you were eight years old. That's true also, but I do feel that everything I do if I do it
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  the right way. And if I do it with my humble self and and and with good intentions, then God
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  really helps me. You know, I do I do have that feeling a lot because there are some things that
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  happened into my life, even that visa. I think it was like I got the answer. So it was I had very
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  short period of time in American Idol wouldn't allow me to compete if I didn't have that visa. So
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  I had the tickets book. I had everything booked already. And they were like, if you we don't have
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  the answer that you have it now, you cannot come to sing the live show. You cannot. We are not allowed.
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  No, they'd be a trouble. So so I literally had that one night too because the next day I had the
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  flight. So that same night when it was like coming morning already when it was like the coming
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  the next day, I got the email confirmation while I was speaking to my friend a nagging that oh my
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  God, if I'm going to lose this opportunity, I'm going to die. And I get the email confirmation.
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  It was the quickest the visa answer that I've ever received I think in my life. And they were
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  even shocked. And I'm like, and that's what I had this thought, oh my God, this is I think destiny.
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  Like this is meant to be I have to do this. There has to that's wild. That's that's that's
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  wild. So there's been a lot of very like interesting like God moment, I had a lot, I had a lot,
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  yes, I had a lot. And when I disconnect and when I start acting, oh, yeah, I deserve that. Oh,
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  yeah, I'm so great. Oh, I'm so good. Oh, I'm a such and I'm after I have this thoughts in my
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  because we're all human. I'm we might have this this thoughts in our heads all the time or
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  judging some other people or or you know, having this like not a like negative thoughts as I call
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  it, right? It's it's it's your ego. It's you thinking that you're better than ego thoughts. I
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  immediately disconnect with that power of of miracles and with that power of God and with that
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  power of love. So I'm learning a lot on the way and on the journey of my life that has humble
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  bunch of different things. But I think that if you don't believe in some sort of spirituality and
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  you think that you're the only thing that matters. If you believe that you're sort of like
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  top of the totem pole, I think it's very toxic. I think that having that kind of ego.
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  And something happens that it humbles you. It always does. Always. Always does.
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  And then you got to wake up and see what really matters. And you have to really see that we are
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  all equal. We have to treat each other with respect and with love. And we don't have to think that
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  we are better than somebody else just because we had this opportunity. And we have to try to help
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  them to get that. Because one time somebody helped us. So it's a lot of things definitely that
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  I'm learning every day. So this is why I hate the idea of self-made. I don't like the idea of
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  self-made because it doesn't matter what you've accomplished. It doesn't matter how hard you've
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  worked. Yes. Whether or not it's your parents, your friends, customers, investors,
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  like there's always somebody helping, helping someone help you in some way. Yes. It's impossible
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  to do anything without other people. Exactly. But also I think that you cannot really preach that
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  because then people are going to get lazy. So I always say that I had the initiative first to go
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  for it. You know, like you have to have that motivation to go for it and try it out and ask for help.
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  I asked so many help in my life. So many. It's crazy. Some people would be shy to ask, but you know,
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  I'm not shy because I'm like, why should I be shy? Because of something that I feel like it's
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  bright and I feel like it has to happen. So many helps I asked. I love it. So the reason why I
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  mentioned that you called yourself a workaholic is because I don't want somebody to just think that
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  things were handed to you at all. Because that's like I've seen like now I've sort of like going
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  down the rabbit hole and I've learned your story. You work so fucking hard and I think that that's
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  the other half of it, right? So there's opportunity, say there's miracles, say there's things that are
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  that just seem to work out. But on the other side of that, like you mentioned before you asked
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  for a lot of help, but also you put in the reps yourself. What is your thought about
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  like workaholism or just putting in the work? Like how do you look at if I want to accomplish
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  something? What are the steps that I'm going to take to get there? Like how do you look at
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  I want to win, you know, a miracle. You didn't. Yeah, I didn't win. But you got on American
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  idol and you got to the final, even for Eurovision. Like you have a project, you have something in
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  your sites. And there's a whole bunch, I have a whole bunch of places where you've performed,
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  which is just like fucking phenomenal Lakers Games Times Square Eurovision we mentioned.
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  So when you set your sights on something, how do you deconstruct? How to get from where you are
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  right now to the point where you can actually be successful at that thing? I write down. I have
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  journals in my room. And if you see my journals in Georgia, since I was a little girl and the things
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  I wrote down and how many of them came to reality, you're going to be shocked. I was crying when I
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  read that because I was like, oh my god, like look at that little girl with I was writing it,
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  even not believing that oh my god, I'm going to write it, you know, because I want it, I'm going
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  to write it. Maybe it's not going to happen now. But you know, I'm going to write it. I writing
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  and journaling really helps me a lot because it helps my mind to kind of come down and
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  and write a plan how to do it. Obviously, I don't have the 100% plan. I don't know how to achieve
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  that thing exactly. But I know that if I'm going to be filling my 100% energy, which is working out,
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  eating well, dancing, keeping myself busy and working on myself, because I feel like that if
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  I'm not working on myself, then I lose the fire inside of me. So it's very important for me to work
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  on myself, to work on my vocals, to work on my dance moves, to like I also started taking acting
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  classes. So I have to be learning something. So you're constantly, absolutely. I constantly have to
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  do that. And I don't want to show it to people. I don't like to show off or brag about it,
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  because it's something that you have to do in the backstage, you know. And if I don't do that,
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  I really feel like that I am becoming very hard to say, like not so, like I'm not shining
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  from way back anymore. I'm not at my best anymore. And I feel like, oh, like I don't like this,
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  this feeling. I have to start moving. I have to do something. But it's good because the work
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  that you do and the practice that you do is aligned with what you love. Yes. So it's not working
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  anymore. I hate doing, if I do something I don't love, I hate it. But there are some things that you
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  have to do that you don't love in order to get something that you never had, right? So when I
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  realized that that newtsa, you cannot be doing everything you love every day and living in this
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  pink bubble. So for example, like I started pushing myself more in fitness because obviously,
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  I see that the fitness routine I had was not working. Then I start pushing myself in eating habits
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  too, because I had that eating habits. And I'm like, newtsa, you cannot call this healthy lifestyle
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  and don't lie to yourself or to anybody else because this is not. So I wrote down my reality,
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  what I was lying to myself. And I said, I have to improve in those things. And then let me see if
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  I can achieve or not. Because for example, I've been writing for like nine years or eight years,
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  I want to have this like perfect body, my dream body that I have. But guess what? I was not making
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  any steps consistently. I would take steps for one month and then give up. Then second two months
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  and then give up. And that is not like, I've realized that in order for me to get something,
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  it's so important for me to stay consistent and never lose spark.
• 26:07
  Well, I was going to say also like one thing that I love that you're saying is yes, you have your
• 26:11
  your craft, which is singing. But you also understand that like you're trying to sort of
• 26:15
  master all the other aspects of your life. Like I think a lot of people what I don't think is good
• 26:22
  is when they only focus on that one area of their life. I see it a lot with entrepreneurs. So
• 26:26
  they're very good at making money. They're very good at building a business. And then they're
• 26:29
  physical health declines and they're mental health declines and they have no spirituality in the
• 26:33
  life. They have poor relationships like, you know, three X wives, you know, they don't talk to
• 26:37
  their kids. They're like, well, I see some of them on the show. There's like two versions of
• 26:43
  exited entrepreneur on the show, right? People that have sold companies that are sort of living their
• 26:47
  best life healthy, great family. One of my favorite stories is Mark Randolph was a co-founder of
• 26:52
  Netflix. And he every single Tuesday when he was building Netflix, he stopped working at five o'clock
• 26:57
  and went on date night with his wife. That's how much he honored that relationship. That's very
• 27:01
  important. I also know guys that are worth, you know, a lot of money that are single and still
• 27:07
  acting single when they're like 55, 60 and there's nothing wrong with that. But I'm just saying like
• 27:11
  some people lose themselves in the process of only focusing on one thing. Yes.
• 27:15
  You're young, objectively young compared to some of the people that I've spoken to on this show.
• 27:20
  And you already understand the power in not letting one part of your life fall apart in pursuit of
• 27:26
  everything else. Yes. Yes. It's very, it's very important because we can have a lot of goals and
• 27:33
  a lot of dreams. But we don't have to forget what we live it for. I mean, the money, the obsession
• 27:40
  about money that people have, yes, it's good because we want to have a good life. And there's
• 27:46
  certain things that you can buy with money. But there's so many things that you cannot buy with money.
• 27:50
  That's what people forget because they become so obsessive about it. For me, the biggest foundation
• 27:56
  is the family. And that's why I'm 28. And last year I sat that next year I'm going to get married
• 28:03
  because I already felt that I'm ready to create a family. I partied a lot. I've seen, you know,
• 28:09
  a lot of countries I've traveled alone or with boyfriend or you know, but I felt that now I'm
• 28:15
  ready to take next step in my life. And I got engaged. I saw that. Congratulations. Thank you so
• 28:21
  much. So we got engaged. And you know, it's very important then to find a partner. And also the
• 28:28
  thing that you said to go on date nights is also very important. But for me, the biggest foundation is
• 28:35
  to take care of your soul because I feel like that it's great to live your legacy obviously and
• 28:42
  to change other people's lives. But what you have to take care of is your soul because that's
• 28:48
  eternal. Your soul never dies. And you have to nurture that. And as you brush your teeth every
• 28:56
  morning, you have to take the same care about your spiritual life and about your mental health.
• 29:02
  When you talk about not losing your soul, not losing your mental health,
• 29:05
  definitely part of this whole equation for sure. What does that really mean to you? And then how
• 29:10
  because you mentioned before, you got 50 grand when you were 17 years old. How did you not let this
• 29:15
  happen to you? Well, it's very, I think you have to kind of experience it on your own because when
• 29:22
  you experience it on your own, that's when you take action. And because you want to get out from
• 29:29
  that state of of mental health or whatever is going on in your life. And and I've spoken into
• 29:37
  my friends a lot of things. I would say do this or do that or do that. But they wouldn't listen
• 29:41
  until they're going to experience it on their own. So I feel like that if young people going to
• 29:48
  study some biography of like successful people and successful entrepreneurs, how they started what
• 29:56
  happened to them in their lives. It's going to help much more people to not have the same issues like
• 30:04
  to have the, for example, mentor that's going to tell you, you know, I've been through. I've been
• 30:08
  there. And this is how it happens. I mean, this is how I felt. Don't do that if you don't want to
• 30:12
  go through that hell again. So influence of other people that went through the same thing is so
• 30:18
  important. But but I feel like that you have to be seeking to have that knowledge and have a mentor.
• 30:26
  I think having a mentor is super important and having someone someone that you can call and ask
• 30:31
  for advice. Because if, if, for example, when I was 17, I would have a person that when I was going
• 30:37
  through that thoughts in my mind, I would like openly tell to other person that been through that
• 30:44
  and has more experience than I had. Definitely would have helped me.
• 30:48
  Also not just mentors, not just mentors in like a business context like mentors in like how do I
• 30:53
  approach life? How do I find the right people to spend time around? How do I, how do I not lose
• 30:58
  myself? How do I not let my ego get out of control? Yes. But but always when I have even small
• 31:03
  problems in my life or something that it's hard for me to tell, you know, in the family or outside
• 31:08
  of the family or my career or sometimes I feel stuck. For example, sometimes I feel like I'm
• 31:14
  putting so much work, but you know, where is it going? I do have sometimes this questions. But
• 31:21
  then when I do have this questions and I ask them and I answer them, I spend time with myself.
• 31:26
  I call to my priest a lot. I spoke with my priest. I spoke with my fiancee. I spoke with my mom.
• 31:32
  So I have this people around me that I can open up to and then I find my questions. So you, we
• 31:39
  have to realize that this is not an evil world. There are so many kind and good people. There's so
• 31:45
  many kindness and goodness around us. Just we have to be open to let them in and open to ask for
• 31:52
  help also like because some people have such a big ego, they don't want to ask for help. They
• 31:57
  want to say, Oh, everything is good. Everything is good always. There's no way that all your life,
• 32:02
  everything is like this because it has to be, you know, it has to be like sometimes low,
• 32:08
  sometimes highs, but you have to I think learn how to deal with that.
• 32:15
  What was a point in your life where you did have some sort of doubt about what to do and you sort
• 32:21
  of pushed your ego aside and asked for help from somebody and that sort of put you on the right
• 32:26
  track. What's the what's the moment that you can remember that was a major inflection point?
• 32:31
  I think the fact that I was going to church since I was 11 and my religion really helped me and
• 32:37
  my priest really helped me because because God says like you have to ask for help. I'm not I'm
• 32:45
  not telling you to ask for millions or something like like small help, whatever you need in life
• 32:51
  and in different parts of your life. Yeah, it really helped me but my biggest motivation to be
• 32:58
  honest was my mother. So she gave me the biggest because when I was growing up, you know, my mother
• 33:03
  was a single mom. My aunt was helping us a lot. My grandfather, my uncle and everybody, right?
• 33:10
  But since I saw like how good of a person she was and she would always do so good and so kind
• 33:19
  for other people, my biggest motivation was to make her proud and to make her happy and to do
• 33:26
  everything for her so that she has the life that she wanted to have. And that was my biggest
• 33:33
  motivation to be honest to, you know, do everything in my power to have that life that we dreamed of
• 33:40
  because me and my mom, we were like a team. I love that. And we were always going everywhere
• 33:45
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  You mentioned your mom being a source of motivation when you're going to some of the more difficult
• 35:52
  times in your life. What was something that sort of carried you through? Was you mentioned God,
• 35:58
  you mentioned your mom, you mentioned like working hard. Is there anything else that you lean on
• 36:03
  that really helps you through hard times? I think also the fact that I worked so hard and I've
• 36:14
  been through so many things that gives me motivation to keep going to my goal because I always think,
• 36:20
  oh my God, I always go back and think where I started. And then when I feel and see where I am
• 36:28
  right now, this gives me the biggest motivation to never give up because I was like, oh my God,
• 36:34
  no, it's a you've been through so many things and you passed that. So now you're even stronger and
• 36:40
  now you're even smarter. So you can do it. Like I had two times the setbacks, the biggest setbacks
• 36:47
  after I had the experience when I was at my highest and the next day at my low. Was this like when
• 36:52
  you broke your leg? The broke your leg was the first one and the second one was when I finished
• 36:57
  American Idol and I went to Library of Congress in Washington and then I came back to Georgia.
• 37:04
  I had the biggest show there and everything and then I had some performance to do for my friend's
• 37:12
  birthday party and I went to Russia and people were hating on me so much because of going to my
• 37:20
  friend's birthday that the next day literally I received so much hate. I've never received in my
• 37:28
  entire life because of going to Russia. That was it was because of going to Russia. Yes. Yes.
• 37:35
  Just because of that. Yeah. So the hate is coming from the fact that like you are now representing
• 37:41
  your country. Yes. I'm assuming that there are not a lot of huge singers that have now built a
• 37:47
  massive name globally coming out of Georgia. So you're like a big deal coming out of Georgia.
• 37:51
  People are looking up to you. Obviously there's some animosity if you're going to Russia and
• 37:56
  Georgia's. Yes. Because Russia occupied my country and like we have big histories. Of course.
• 38:02
  So that's what they hate now. I understand the hate. The lesson is or the thing that I would love
• 38:09
  to understand is how do you deal with pressure because you've dealt with pressure on a stage in front
• 38:14
  of like celebrity a list of celebrity judges. Some of them being like the people that you idolized
• 38:20
  growing up and you look up to you deal with pressure because you represent your country. You do
• 38:24
  with pressure when you sing in front of thousands and tens of thousands of people. Yes.
• 38:29
  How do you manage pressure? It's stressful to be honest but I praying definitely helps me a lot
• 38:36
  in meditation and working hard. So when I when I'm under pressure, I can rehearse the same song
• 38:44
  for a hundred times. I'm not kidding. So when I was on a revision, that song with my dancers,
• 38:52
  my dancers were joking on me. They were like, are we going to dance for a hundred times really?
• 38:57
  Because when I'm under distress, I just like to work hard so that I'm not when I'm on stage,
• 39:02
  I'm not thinking about anything but I'm in that zone. And if I know that I rehearsed well,
• 39:09
  if I know that I put a lot of work into my performance, it doesn't matter where I'm performing.
• 39:14
  You know, that's the thing. People think that I'm performing differently. I'm front of
• 39:19
  in the millions or if I'm front of five people. It's the same performance for me. It's the same
• 39:25
  because I need to touch even one eye. My goal is to touch even one person.
• 39:31
  So it doesn't matter if I'm singing for millions and nobody's touched. I didn't do my job.
• 39:39
  So I love to put a lot of work when I'm under stress and also pray.
• 39:44
  So it's all it's preparation? Yes, preparation, prayer and the thing that I started working on
• 39:51
  is also when I'm stressed. I would have before I would have
• 39:57
  give it to other people also. So for example, I would scream or I would be anxious or angry.
• 40:03
  Like don't talk to me or something like that. So now I change that. So I started to whatever is
• 40:09
  going to happen. You have to be nice. When you're stressed, you'll have to be nice to the people
• 40:15
  that helped you all the way and they want the best for you. So that that thing I was guilty
• 40:22
  and I realized that I was guilty for it. So now I change that. How do you how do you outside of
• 40:28
  just like practicing preparing when you are in that moment? What's going like what's going
• 40:34
  through your head so that you aren't overthinking? You don't screw up. You don't fumble like what's
• 40:39
  the thought? I don't have that thought. So I don't have negative. When I'm on stage, I never think
• 40:44
  that I'm going to fall or I cannot hit that note. Never. I never had that thought because first of
• 40:51
  all, I worked so hard for it. I know that it's not going to happen for sharp and that's why I work
• 40:57
  so hard so that I don't have those thoughts. When I'm not so well prepared, that's when I might
• 41:02
  have this thoughts. Oh, because I because I didn't practice that much. So practicing a lot
• 41:10
  allows me then to enjoy my performance. So on every performance that I'm having, I'm enjoying it.
• 41:16
  And when I'm on stage, I love it. When I'm not on stage and there is some period of my life when
• 41:21
  I'm not on stage, I really get like sad because this is what I live. I love to be on stage. So when
• 41:29
  I'm on stage, I'm the happiest, excited. I'm like, this is what I was born to do and all the thoughts
• 41:36
  are going to my head. So I'm actually I'm very happy when I'm on stage. I love performing for
• 41:41
  people. Was there ever a moment where it didn't like work out where you didn't show up on stage?
• 41:47
  Yes. Yes. I had I had this moment like for in front of 10,000 people. That's a big audience.
• 41:55
  Big audience. Like in this huge arena, Georgians did first time ever musical in this huge arena.
• 42:03
  And I was singing the lead role. I was the lead. I was 20 years old and there is like this
• 42:10
  biggest song for this musical and there is a light coming out and you have to be already
• 42:15
  standing there to start singing. So light comes out and light comes in and I'm not there. I was on
• 42:22
  my backstage room because I forgot that it was my time to sing. So it was so like I was so ashamed
• 42:31
  and then people are coming to me. So where are you? Then I run into stage. It was really,
• 42:35
  really bad moment and funny, obviously. Funny, but obviously stressful and that doesn't happen
• 42:42
  anymore. No. No. When you prep for an event, how many hours, how many days, weeks, months,
• 42:49
  do you put into that? It depends on a show. For example, for Eurovision, I was preparing for three
• 42:55
  months because I needed to come up with the idea with staging and with everything. I definitely
• 43:02
  needed three months because it's big production. For American Idol, one week because we have one
• 43:10
  week to prepare another. So it's wild. Yes, it's wild. But for my shows and if I'm planning like
• 43:18
  my solo concert in Georgia, I definitely need two, three months to get ready for it and to start
• 43:24
  and plan it. If there is like a small gig, I need 10 days to get ready. So I could say for it,
• 43:32
  small gigs, I could say 10 days. That's not bad. So you do have, but that's after years of
• 43:37
  actually putting in the work so that you can only put 10 days towards something and so succeed.
• 43:41
  Yes. Yes. And once the band is built and once the band knows your song and everything,
• 43:47
  then if you have some gigs and concerts, you don't really, you really need like to rehearsal.
• 43:53
  Last thing that I think you've done exceptionally well is just overcome a lot of rejection
• 43:57
  because you've asked for help multiple times. I mean, you've... Yeah, a lot of people told me
• 44:01
  no multiple languages. Yes, yes. When you think about when you think about overcoming rejection,
• 44:07
  how when you are told no or you're told like this isn't going to work out or we don't want you to
• 44:12
  perform or whatever that rejection is, how do you sort of stay in the game? How do you like get
• 44:18
  excited about the next opportunity? Well, they give me motivation. Definitely. They give me
• 44:24
  motivation and I'm like, you're going to see, you're going to see in a couple years or in a couple
• 44:30
  months that you are very wrong. That's what goes into my head all the time because I've seen it.
• 44:36
  There are so many people that didn't thought that I would achieve so many things and I don't
• 44:42
  even remember them to be honest but they see me everywhere now and you know, I truly believe that
• 44:51
  you have to have that attitude that you know what? You are wrong. It's not that. No, you're right.
• 44:56
  I would say thank you and it doesn't it doesn't hurt my ego. If somebody doesn't like me or doesn't
• 45:02
  like the idea or doesn't like what I'm asking, it doesn't hurt me at all. It's their point of view.
• 45:10
  Everybody is different. You cannot have the same mindset as I have or you cannot believe
• 45:15
  the same things I believe in and I'm totally okay with that. So if I'm going to ask you something
• 45:20
  and and you're going to say no, I'm fine with it. I understand. You have different point of view.
• 45:27
  I have different point of view but there are many people that that's going to like my idea and
• 45:32
  believe in me or like there's many other people. You connect with other people. I connect with
• 45:38
  other people. There's plenty of people in the world. There's nothing to get mad or sad about.
• 45:44
  I just move on. What would be the hardest lesson that was a useful lesson for you to learn but
• 45:50
  you would never wish that lesson on anyone else because it was so difficult. I would say
• 45:55
  heaven and ego and after some success that you dreamed of thinking that you're on the top of
• 46:02
  the world and you're the best, it's not good because it really if something's going to get to
• 46:08
  your head and you're going to have those thoughts, it's going to make you feel depressed and it's
• 46:14
  going to make you life is going to humble you really fast and I don't like that because something
• 46:23
  happens in your life so unexpectedly and nobody is guarded from that because God sees everything
• 46:30
  in your intentions, your thoughts and everything and it's it's kind of like spiritual bottle in
• 46:36
  this world right now I feel like of bad and good and we as humans I think we always have to strive
• 46:43
  for kindness and love and goodness. It's hard in this time. It's really hard especially with
• 46:52
  social media. It made people jealous and envy of each other and I feel that and also judgmental.
• 47:02
  People are very judgmental and I feel like that when I'm judging other people, me myself,
• 47:09
  when I judge other people, I feel like that some joy from my life is taken away. You know,
• 47:15
  I agree. Like it goes some joy goes away and you kind of feel feed yourself and you're
• 47:21
  so with some negativity before what? You know why and that's I realized that one and I don't
• 47:28
  want anybody to do that ever again because it's so easy. We see all this pictures and all this
• 47:34
  people around us and we always judge them. Yeah. Why don't we stop judging? You've had tons of
• 47:40
  like mentors and people that have helped you along the way and whatnot. What would be one
• 47:45
  piece of advice from a mentor that's really really changed your life? I would definitely say to
• 47:54
  well my first mentor that I had told me that when you achieve your success also help other people
• 48:02
  along the way. So I would say that yes and because she told me I remember and I wouldn't see that
• 48:09
  because oh my god like now I'm like I'm struggling so much to achieve something. How am I going to be
• 48:13
  able to help other people along my way because I have so many things to do but she was so right because
• 48:21
  she helped me in that in that she was a very famous singer in Georgia and she helped me a lot
• 48:27
  in that period of my life and she told me that so like whatever has given to us it's a blessing
• 48:35
  but we don't have to forget also to share with others that needs it. If you could only pass on
• 48:41
  one lesson that you've learned to your kids because it's the most important thing that you've
• 48:45
  ever ever learned what would that lesson be in why? Be kind to other people and to be kind to
• 48:51
  yourself and not so strict. It's so important to be kind and caring and loving towards yourself
• 49:01
  because sometimes we want so much from ourselves we put ourselves in this bad mental situation that
• 49:12
  oh my god I have to do this I have to do that if I don't do that I'm not good enough I'm not good
• 49:15
  enough I'm not good enough and just like you know it takes away joy and I would say definitely
• 49:22
  to be kind to yourself and to be loving to yourself because it's so important to have that
• 49:29
  love for yourself it because then I do feel like that if person doesn't love herself then she
• 49:37
  cannot she cannot love anybody so it's the all starts from within so I would definitely work on
• 49:43
  on love with my kids. I love that and last thing please tell people where they can connect with you
• 49:50
  but also in the future what are you working on what are they going to get excited about I mean you're
• 49:54
  working on new music a whole bunch of new projects so social media where are they going but also
• 50:00
  everything else. So I have Instagram YouTube TikTok Facebook and you can find me as Nutsa Bousa so
• 50:08
  Nutsa is my first name Bousaladze is my surname but I shorten it so it's Nutsa Bousa now also in
• 50:14
  Spotify you can listen to my songs my music and by the way a week ago my song firefighter has reached
• 50:22
  7 million streams so I was I was still a rating that yes so now I'm working so as I move to LA
• 50:29
  I connected with amazing musicians and I formed my band already and also I released my first
• 50:37
  single here in America all my life it's called and it's performing really good it's like very fun
• 50:43
  and very joyful song about love and then the next song is also about love because I feel like I'm in
• 50:50
  my like love era now it's then my next song is called Amen and it's going to be out for
• 50:58
  the end of August and it's also fun and very good vibe song