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July 20, 2026 — “Sammy Interviews Xefer” · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and cultures can be found around the world.
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  Speaker 1: We tracked down the best and presented here for you
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  Speaker 1: on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everyone, this is Witch Meet Care and you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to the Bridge with Sammy Chunk.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, this is Kurt Charlie and you're listening to the
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  Speaker 3: Bridge with Sami Kun.
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  Speaker 4: Hey everybody, this is on Ya and you're listening to
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  Speaker 4: the Bridge by Sami chan.
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  Speaker 5: Hondy. Hope y'all had a great weekend.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome to the big show and thank you very much
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  Speaker 6: for finding this signal wherever you may be around the world.
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  Speaker 5: Man, what a weekend.
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  Speaker 6: And the ending of the World Cup and a big
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  Speaker 6: shout out and a big congratulations and a big thank
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  Speaker 6: you to Spain were winning that thing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the lads came in third. I'll take it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 6: Got a big show for you today on a Monday,
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  Speaker 6: We'll be joined by Bungala day She Bungala Bengali singer
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  Speaker 6: actor extraordinaire. Her name is Zephyr and she's joining us
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  Speaker 6: on the show today to share her story with us.
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  Speaker 6: A fascinating story.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody.
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  Speaker 6: When you think of taking things in stages on their
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  Speaker 6: way to start them.
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  Speaker 5: You think of Zephyr and in her early.
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  Speaker 6: Going was singing songs in front of her mom's old
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  Speaker 6: digital camera and was uploading them. She was singing covers
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  Speaker 6: and now she has songs out there and the hundreds
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  Speaker 6: of millions of views. It's remarkable, what a great story.
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  Speaker 6: We'll talk to Zephyr today. On this show. We'll be
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  Speaker 6: joined by the Ruckets Avenue Radio All Stars, as.
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  Speaker 5: We do every Monday.
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  Speaker 6: On the Big Program, We'll be joined by Daniel Johnson
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  Speaker 6: from the un News Department. We'll be joined by Doctor
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  Speaker 6: Roy with Today's Word on the Avenue. We'll be joined
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  Speaker 6: by Dohita Das Gupta got Mira Sharma with Today's Mindful Minute.
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  Speaker 5: A full program coming at.
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  Speaker 6: You guys today, but we'll begin with the weekend's number
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  Speaker 6: one song.
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  Speaker 5: This is ward Us Sahib Sumra. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 7: Ho Nia.
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  Speaker 8: InCom sonn Very full Slave, Kali lea singer, major star
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  Speaker 8: laid Sdani ho lo Yah married to Kiari Girora Pillow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a woman, so.
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  Speaker 9: A man.
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  Speaker 1: Holds the day.
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  Speaker 8: They aren't all the manly love Geno, love you Mark
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  Speaker 8: my shortdayurah In Chad Jaggi Polas is a Fano party
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  Speaker 10: Tell Mary you see there is real to lung again.
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  Speaker 8: Hola were in the Kiani hold the grover billow In Constructrina,
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  Speaker 8: I'm a woman sank the antic marriage, the hordes, Oh
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  Speaker 8: what you do allow this Hardy Gallikari, Brando Harne Hardy
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  Speaker 8: Laruato Blosikudia Brani Constructrina hard Oh Jack Danny Miriam or
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  Speaker 8: is har capilaak Denny. When I asked a little loom
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  Speaker 8: raaba dv glamatzer.
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  Speaker 1: Off, what do you got, oh clinch Grai.
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  Speaker 8: And it Chaldai and Helia to her parish to be like, hi,
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  Speaker 8: any what they is your name?
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  Speaker 11: Any Hoili panade that's a horse for you, billy and
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  Speaker 11: were logic to this.
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  Speaker 6: Mar s have Samra the song called it's his second
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  Speaker 6: number one song of the year, and talk about an
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  Speaker 6: arrival onto the scene, especially onto this show.
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  Speaker 5: My goodness, Well, we've got a big show to deliver
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  Speaker 5: to you.
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  Speaker 6: When we've started with a big bang here shub The
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  Speaker 6: song is called Sonia.
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  Speaker 12: Hand out of bucket. Then Hia wanted tool.
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  Speaker 13: That here to Langa Janda by this Jack one is
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  Speaker 13: on here and your nisage Lagan's any number a mannis
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  Speaker 13: I'm okay, so.
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  Speaker 10: Maja bucker Ama, what chilen anymore?
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  Speaker 1: We need to jam in your career dark and he's only.
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  Speaker 12: Done the change your name, says Knell dry Acabara born
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  Speaker 12: and on war by comany tell to im Bara band
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  Speaker 12: lak nothing Amalayan at your party.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't in his Hoi.
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  Speaker 5: Shu have just kind of dropped this song out of
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  Speaker 5: nowhere and we're so happy for it. The song is
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  Speaker 5: called Sonia.
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  Speaker 6: You're gonna be joined today by Zephyr and as I
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  Speaker 6: mentioned to you, Bangla Daishi by heritage, but came up
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  Speaker 6: singing English songs in the scene and recently putting out
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  Speaker 6: some Bengali stuff too.
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  Speaker 14: We'll talk today, John Lata, pass me a card as
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  Speaker 14: Maja gardener does the two Millenos. Hat Mager joined the
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  Speaker 14: chen Lena what second Lata pass me a card as
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  Speaker 14: the Americ lassman.
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  Speaker 1: Ramile was sub.
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  Speaker 14: America cast a clad as the Americ classman. Jasy Hog
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  Speaker 14: sasly you card the am red last night, Jamdani Aru
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  Speaker 14: Sabuko baby bulling Naga Biko Chabi ing to Nani Byriman.
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  Speaker 5: Bar chal my term this lissal.
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  Speaker 14: Garbora saliful Auli maj just like she and a Foolsuli
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  Speaker 14: plays for the couple para the BHD Carlo paris the.
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  Speaker 5: Play the Appla. John Marty declared was sub Now. We
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  Speaker 5: had a big week on the show last week. Kersh
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  Speaker 5: klais stop by Emmy verrk stop by, Vishnuvadka stop by.
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  Speaker 5: I've been texting with Vishnu lately. He's great man.
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  Speaker 6: I love talking to Vishnu and gave him his flowers
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  Speaker 6: for going out there. And really putting our culture out
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  Speaker 6: there and wrapping us right, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: Shout out to Vishnuvaka. Now let's bring in doctor Roy
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  Speaker 6: to the show. What's up Doctor Roy?
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  Speaker 3: Hey guys, this is.
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  Speaker 15: Doctor Roy with Today's Word on the Avenue. In film
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  Speaker 15: and TV News, Riz Ahmed has earned an Emmy nomination
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  Speaker 15: for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series
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  Speaker 15: or Movie for his acclaimed performance and Bait, already the
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  Speaker 15: first South Asian actor to win in the category. For
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  Speaker 15: the Night of Emmett continues to break barriers for his
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  Speaker 15: latest role while further cementing his place as one of
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  Speaker 15: the most influential South Asian talents.
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  Speaker 16: And global entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: In Media, News.
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  Speaker 15: Celebrated designer Rajo Mishra's Autumn Winter twenty twenty six twenty
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  Speaker 15: seven hote coteur collection Bevy The Eternal Muse pays tribute
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  Speaker 15: to India's timeless artistic heritage by drawing inspiration from the
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  Speaker 15: intricate temple sculptures of Upsidas, babes and celestial dancers. Blending
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  Speaker 15: masterful Indian craftsmanship with contemporary coteur, the collection transforms ancient
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  Speaker 15: Hindu stone artistry into breathtaking fashion, celebrating the enduring beauty
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  Speaker 15: of India's cultural legacy and.
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  Speaker 7: The global stage.
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  Speaker 15: In event news, Indian American NASA astronaut on Ill Menon
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  Speaker 15: is set to begin his first mission to the International
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  Speaker 15: Space Station on July fourteenth, launching aboard Russia's suyos MS
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  Speaker 15: twenty nine spacecraft for an eight months day in orbit.
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  Speaker 15: During the mission, Menen will conduct vital scientific and medical
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  Speaker 15: research aimed at advancing future human exploration of the Moon
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  Speaker 15: and Mars, marking another proud milestone for the diaspora in
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  Speaker 15: space exploration. That's it for today's word on the avenue
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  Speaker 15: until next time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, shout out to Rizamed and all those dudes over there.
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  Speaker 6: Man always putting out some great stuff in the culture.
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  Speaker 6: And shout out to the We gotta have him on
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  Speaker 6: the show at some point. We really do just like
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  Speaker 6: this man right here. Emmy Verk really enjoyed talking to him.
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  Speaker 3: Silky silky out, the milky rang, the.
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  Speaker 17: Cheriki kambauld the Congo, Leggy delivery, doody hot doggy hoody,
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  Speaker 17: Look gir what dog dot goody, Look Girna.
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  Speaker 6: What doggy.
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  Speaker 10: The leg to get up.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see you.
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  Speaker 2: Nnkey doody, Hot doggy hoody Look gir what dog dot
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  Speaker 2: goody gird what.
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  Speaker 5: Doggy joby.
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  Speaker 18: To be?
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  Speaker 1: He looks a romantic Oh this.
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  Speaker 10: Who do you the Indama doodle know?
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  Speaker 7: Ho doggy?
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  Speaker 1: What do Jaca food and gunn o?
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  Speaker 19: What dog.
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  Speaker 10: The check.
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  Speaker 5: The paymas, the rock of the car.
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  Speaker 2: And food Hot doggy pood what Jaca foody?
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  Speaker 5: Look gun over doggy.
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  Speaker 8: In the che snakey dot food in.
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  Speaker 7: What doggy in the over?
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  Speaker 3: Dog jack bad food?
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  Speaker 10: And look you know what summer days.
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  Speaker 7: Final by you?
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  Speaker 3: So go doggy do for doggy?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know what it was.
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  Speaker 6: I caught Emmy during his workout. It was his what
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  Speaker 6: late night or night see. I kind of caught that
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  Speaker 6: kind of energy there where he was.
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  Speaker 2: He was on it.
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  Speaker 6: But I feel that's how he is, you know, to
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  Speaker 6: accomplish so much. Here's Mira Sharma for you today.
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  Speaker 20: Hey Sammy, Hey everyone, Mirashama here with your weekly dose
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  Speaker 20: of mindful sass helping you stay self assured, spirited and strong.
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  Speaker 20: Here's your reminder of the week. Your life is happening
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  Speaker 20: right now. Don't save your happiness for one day. Don't
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  Speaker 20: wait until you have the perfect job, the perfect time
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  Speaker 20: in or the perfect person where the outfit, take the trip,
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  Speaker 20: watch the sunset, laugh until your cheeks. It make the
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  Speaker 20: most of an Audrey Monday. Because the days you're living
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  Speaker 20: now are the ones you're going to look back on
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  Speaker 20: one day. So promise yourself this week that you'll stop
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  Speaker 20: waiting for life to begin and you're going to start
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  Speaker 20: living it right now.
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  Speaker 3: You've got this.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Mira. Mira shows up every Monday
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  Speaker 6: with this beautiful, mindful SaaS minute for our show and
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  Speaker 6: it gets you going for the week. And now let's
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  Speaker 6: bring in Daniel Johnson from the UN News Department. How
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  Speaker 6: are you today, Daniel?
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  Speaker 21: This is UN News Today with me Daniel Johnson. The
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  Speaker 21: headlines in Sudan, the UN World Food Program warns that
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  Speaker 21: l obaid is becoming the new focus of a massive
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  Speaker 21: displacement and hunger crisis. Meanwhile, you and Human Rights chief
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  Speaker 21: ol cold Turk appeals for Khan in Pakistan Administered Kashmir
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  Speaker 21: and the complicated task of trying to stop the Ebola
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  Speaker 21: outbreak in eastern Deer Congo. Insight from one of the
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  Speaker 21: agencies tackling the deadly health threat. You and humanitarians working
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  Speaker 21: in war torn Sudan on Friday, highlighted rapidly growing needs
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  Speaker 21: among the more than one hundred thousand displaced people now
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  Speaker 21: sheltering in camps in the city of Elobeide. There is
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  Speaker 21: not enough food to give everyone a full monthly Russian
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  Speaker 21: but recipients are still sharing what they have with other families,
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  Speaker 21: said Abdullah Alwadat, Wild Food Programmed Country director for Sudan.
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  Speaker 21: Mister A Well provided an update and what he had
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  Speaker 21: seen in l Obayed City, which now hosts hundreds of
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  Speaker 21: thousands of uprooted people. He described meeting a frail aid
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  Speaker 21: recipient and when I ask you know, do you have.
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  Speaker 13: Any other source, Queenker, she just said, it's only what
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  Speaker 13: WP is giving me, and it's not enough.
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  Speaker 21: WFP has been providing food assistance to more than one
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  Speaker 21: hundred thousand people in camps inside l Obed, but there
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  Speaker 21: are many more displaced individuals sheltering elsewhere in the city
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  Speaker 21: and they need urgent assistance, mister Alwadat insisted. He noted
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  Speaker 21: that the agency also provides nutrition support to seventeen thousand
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  Speaker 21: children caught up in the crisis and living in camps.
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  Speaker 21: It is more than three years since Sudan's rival militaries
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  Speaker 21: embarked on a brutal war that followed the collapse of
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  Speaker 21: the country's transition to civilian rule after the overthrow of
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  Speaker 21: long time former president omer Al Bashir. The Sudanese armed
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  Speaker 21: forces continues to battle former allies the Rapid Support Forces
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  Speaker 21: militia for control of the vast country, where more than
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  Speaker 21: fourteen million people have been uprooted, and both sides have
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  Speaker 21: been linked to grave rights violations. The UN Human Rights
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  Speaker 21: chief Volka Turk has appealed for kalm in Pakistan administered
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  Speaker 21: Kashmir amid unrest ahead of regional elections. Dozens of people,
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  Speaker 21: mostly protesters, but also law enforcement personnel, have reportedly been
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  Speaker 21: killed since June, a head of the vote for the
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  Speaker 21: Legislative Assembly on the twenty seventh of July. The movement
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  Speaker 21: behind the protests is the Joint Awami Action Committee or
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  Speaker 21: the JAAC. Its members include traders, students and lawyers, and
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  Speaker 21: it is banned under anti terrorism laws for allegedly threatening
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  Speaker 21: public order and security. Some of the group's leaders have
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  Speaker 21: been arrested, said you In Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Lawrence.
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  Speaker 22: The criminalization of the civil society organization and imposition of
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  Speaker 22: strict limitations on gatherings raise serious concerns about infringements on
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  Speaker 22: the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.
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  Speaker 21: Mister Lawrence noted the UN Rights chiefs call to restore
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  Speaker 21: full Internet access and his appeal for meaningful and inclusive
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  Speaker 21: political dialogue to address underlying issues and grievances of the
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  Speaker 21: local population to the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC,
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  Speaker 21: where the ongoing EBuLa outbreak has grown by approximate least
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  Speaker 21: seventy percent in just the past two weeks, with an
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  Speaker 21: average of more than forty new cases reported each day.
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  Speaker 21: The UN Migration Agency IOM stressed that people uprooted by
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  Speaker 21: violence in eastern DRC are particularly vulnerable. IOM's France Celestine
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  Speaker 21: Regional director for East Horn and Southern Africa, said that
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  Speaker 21: detection and response were initially hampered by the fact that
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  Speaker 21: it was not known that this ebler outbreak was the
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  Speaker 21: Bundibugo species. He said that it's nothing like we've seen before,
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  Speaker 21: both in its scale and nature.
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  Speaker 23: Of particular concern is the fact that sixty percent of
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  Speaker 23: the reported deaths have occurred in communities, which highlights continued
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  Speaker 23: challenges and early detection, surveillance, entirely access to care. In
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  Speaker 23: several affected heazone, we are seeing our capacity to surveil
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  Speaker 23: and timely response is constraint, which means that we don't
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  Speaker 23: know the true impact of what's happening in the communities.
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  Speaker 21: The outbreak has expanded into two new provinces, ho Luel
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  Speaker 21: and Schoppo, which highlight how important it is to manage
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  Speaker 21: the highly mobile health threat. Strengthening surveillance at points of
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  Speaker 21: entry land and riverine communities along the Congo River holds
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  Speaker 21: the key to effectively preventing further spread, not just within DRC,
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  Speaker 21: but across borders. Mister Celestine said, nearly one hundred and
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  Speaker 21: fifty thousand internally displaced people live in sixty nine sites
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  Speaker 21: supported by the agency in eastern DRC. Another three hundred
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  Speaker 21: thousand are supported by host communities. Daniel Johnson, you and news.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for that, Daniel.
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  Speaker 6: And we're getting ready to bring in Zephyr into the show,
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  Speaker 6: and before we do, I thought i'd play one of
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  Speaker 6: her latest songs. This song is called dor Chaya. I
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  Speaker 6: hope you enjoy stand by for Zephyr.
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  Speaker 16: Come sure, Hobby, give on. Jake could the Shady.
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  Speaker 24: Dotty go Turkey, Johnny Nakee.
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  Speaker 7: Mona, he came on Je the Donna Joam thought has
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  Speaker 7: she thought? Cho Johnny gam don MONI go give on
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  Speaker 7: her Camon my dy Jiomy newb Shop bun Oo, Hooty.
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  Speaker 25: Jenna, she Shoon Johnny ge Evona.
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  Speaker 7: A cammon.
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  Speaker 25: Ja the Donah Jenna ha Goolo Collgemon what.
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  Speaker 7: Haatica Donna and.
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  Speaker 26: The Hush, the choicemm don it moned bron.
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  Speaker 9: Talk Molock looking the flocks.
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  Speaker 1: Shop don.
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  Speaker 7: The hash the charge Alma.
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  Speaker 6: It is my distinct pleasure to introduce into the show, Zephyr.
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  Speaker 5: How are you miss.
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  Speaker 3: Finally?
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing finally?
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  Speaker 6: I think we've been planning on doing this for I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, eighty five thousand years.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a long time.
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  Speaker 3: It's for a while for sure, for a while it has.
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  Speaker 6: It's finally time we got some good Bangladeshi representation on
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  Speaker 6: this show. It's been a long time coming, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: So thank you very much for doing this with us today.
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  Speaker 6: Your story is phenomenal. It starts off singing cover songs
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  Speaker 6: in English and now here. You are a star in
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  Speaker 6: the homeland and for me it's a really inspiring story.
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  Speaker 6: So I want to get into that. I want to
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  Speaker 6: get into the young girl before you started singing cover songs.
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  Speaker 6: You know, what was that girl like, you know, before
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  Speaker 6: she became this big star. How innocently was she going
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  Speaker 6: into singing covers?
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  Speaker 3: Tell us about this first of all, like, I'm honored
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  Speaker 3: to be in your show, thank you so much. And
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  Speaker 3: I was so glad finally we're doing this. So okay,
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  Speaker 3: you want me to go back, right? That was way back.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I started off with English covers. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I was really young in Bangladesh, right, and I was
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  Speaker 3: doing everything by myself. I was in my room with
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  Speaker 3: my mother's digital camera back in the days, and I
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  Speaker 3: just sang, you know, I just sang different English songs.
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  Speaker 3: But it definitely had my own texture, style, personality, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it definitely had it. I was not that too like
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  Speaker 3: put out my originals or like things that I composed
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  Speaker 3: back in the days. So I started you know, light
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  Speaker 3: and from there. Actually, also I had a different hairstyle.
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  Speaker 3: I was mentioning, you know that hairstyle used to raise
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  Speaker 3: a lot of browse. So it was the music and
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  Speaker 3: the hair. I think book played a big part and
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  Speaker 3: from there people noticed me because it was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: like from Balladesh, She's doing these songs like in English.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, they were surprised basically. And I think
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  Speaker 3: later with time I matured, I started writing and composing
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  Speaker 3: myself with you know, worked with different producers and I
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  Speaker 3: I came up with my debut album, which was completely
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  Speaker 3: in English. So that was like something you know, people
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: were like, she's Bangladeshi, right, why is she like singing
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: in English?
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: And there was.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Like a lot of questions like that. But I followed
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: my passion and I went with it. I you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: released the album with right that. That album was called
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Uncaged and the producer of the album was his name
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: was Nagib His name is Nagib Hawk and he we
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: both actually you know, worked together on the album and
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: that's how I started. But over the years, I think
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: since I was growing up right things, definitely, I was
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: always experimenting with sounds. From day on, I loved experimenting
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: my vocals and sound. So should I go to the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: next space or you have anything to say.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: No, that's great, that's you know from my side, I
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: think for me, if you don't mind it, for I'm
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: going to embarrass you a little bit.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Your voice to me is very unique.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Your sound of your voice is something to me that
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: is a really endearing quality. And I think that the
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: masses out there need to hear it. You know, when
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: now here you are, you're singing in English, and you've
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: done this set of covers, you've put this album out,
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: and now you've and then all of a sudden in
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: your story comes along this song that you will eventually
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: end up having, you know, one hundred and fifty plus
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: million views on how did it get to that? How
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: did you get to that song?
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: So when I was doing.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Doing songs in English, I was called or I was
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: considered as a niche artist, you know, and that was
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: my that was part of my personality or I think,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: you know, as an artist. Even I enjoyed it, you know.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: So also I don't have that background where I learned music.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I have zero, you know, I've never learned it. So
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: it's completely like you know, I don't know, it's like
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: naturally self taught. Completely. So I enjoyed when you know,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I was not really available to everyone honestly, Like I
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, let me let me do my thing,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: you know. I like it this way, this is the sound,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: this is the way I want to do it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: It was like my own little world. But later I
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: think when I was growing up, I grew up a
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: little bit, and then I was thinking, what am I
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: afraid of? You know, like as an artist, I personally
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: personally like to experiment, right and explore. So if I
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: keep calling myself a certain type of artist or okay,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: this is the sound I like, and this is the
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: sound I just want to explore that kind of box
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: that's that kind of boxes me right in a way. Yeah,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: it labels me. It also doesn't really help me explore.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: So I actually I that. That's when I was thinking,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: you know what, I will do things that might fail me.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And it was right around when there was COVID. Right,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: everyone was like shut like everyone was in their house,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: shut down everything. There's nothing to do. That's when I
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: have this realization. I could think of the whole transition
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: where I was like, you know what, I want to
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: try sounds or I want to compose songs that I
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: don't usually go for, okay, or even I don't picture myself.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Actually I never even preached myself. Absolutely, I did never
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: pictured myself So that's when the next phase started, which
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: was in my own language. And people used to be like,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: why don't you sing in your own language, you know what.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: They used to have a lot of opinion about that, right,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: So I was like, that's not the reason. The reason
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: is I want to try it. I want to say, like,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: if I can explore this side, and even if I fail,
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: it's all good, you know, it's completely fine. I was
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: not afraid. So that's when I started composing in Bangla.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: In Bangla, and I think in the first one year
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: or two years, I actually came up with the song.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Me and another artist, his name is Musa. We both
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: sat and came up with this song called Chunka that happened,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: which was completely different than what my identity was, you know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: completely just it's unbelievably like different. So that song when
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: I composed, even the melodies and stuff, it was so
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: different than what I usually do. And then Chunka happened
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: and people completely like it was like instantly I got
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: a lot like acceptation. You know, what is it called acceptation?
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Actually?
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: You know, yes, it was like right away, I was
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: like it was released and I'm accepted right away, and
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: I'm like, whoa, that's this is a different world right
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: right here? What is this world like? And I got
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: curious and then I dived into this world where now
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I can say that I have done a lot of
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Bengali music in different styles, and yeah, I have. My
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: identity has completely changed.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, it's phenomenal. It's quite a journey going.
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: From that space of English to you know, singing into
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: native languages now more so into the Bengali buglass space.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: You know, you know, yeah, it's interesting.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: You know, you came up in a space entirely through
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: YouTube and social media, and you picked up this huge
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: following through it. You were an amazing represent of Bangladeshi
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: culture to the diaspora and all the bastions of the
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: areas that were in the space. And then you know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: as you see the space of how and you've been
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: around the world, of course, you've mentioned that you've you've
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: traveled in different places.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: You seeing the growth of South Asian music out there.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: But whenever you hear people talk about it, it mostly
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: goes to maybe a couple of other countries, like specifically
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: India or Pakistan, and people don't talk about the entire
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: movement that's happening, Yeah, on the entire east side of
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: our subcontinent.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: And why is that? What is it that we need
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: to do to put that entire east side of our
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: culture on the map?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: More So, I feel like with time, and especially in
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: recent times, a lot has changed, and you know, the
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: people are actually appreciating the sound and the Las Whige
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: itself actually way more than I mean, especially globally. I mean,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: there there is acceptance, but I think what we need
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: to do right now to make it more out there
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: is I think collaborations, to be honest, you know, that's
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I think there's lack of that actually because if you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: we have amazing artists in Bangladesh and definitely there's way more.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I mean they're there are really good artists out there
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and there. We also
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: have some similarities, like we all have some similarities, right,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: and I think if we can make some really cool
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: collaborations between you know, some of us, this this, this,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I see a great, great thing happening and I think
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: we're going towards that and a lot of things has
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: happened already.
• 36:07
  Speaker 20: And.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Proudly I can say that when I converted singing in Bangala.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: That's when I actually found the acceptance even from other countries. Actually,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: there were a lot of great artists actually who approached
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: me or reached out to me, maybe because you know,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I actually took that step and maybe that sounds unique
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: to them. Maybe that's something they were kind of like, oh,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: this sounds different. You know that that happened to them
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: and I have. I'm very hopeful, to be honest. And
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: since I'm from Amavish and I love creating Bengali songs,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I see something great happening.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: I think, I think, I'm hopeful. Yeah, I am hopeful too.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: It's going to take more and more artists coming from
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: the space creating their own identity, much like yourself. Like,
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: I wanted to talk about something that you've done and
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: add to this kind of link. You know you you
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: you started out of course singing in English, and then
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: you cross over into Golli space in the Banglass space,
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: and now here you are acting, and you specifically did
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: something very cool that a lot of singers really hope
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: they could do, which is sing their own song for
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: something that they're acting in for themselves, right, which is
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: really awesome. You put out a song called dor Kaya,
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: and you know, you have this track that you you
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: write yourself, you compose yourself, and then you're on screen,
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: you know, playing that character character, which is interesting.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I honestly I think that's something you know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I started as a musician, right, I appeared in music videos,
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: or I appear in my music videos. But this is
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: a completely different way when you're acting, when you're the
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: character and you're also your song is also in the background.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Ye you know, that whole combination was very like I
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: can only thank to all the members of the team
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: that made this happen. And I don't think it's only me.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: I think it's the whole team. We all came up
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: with the project it and it actually touched a lot
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: of people, not only musically, it touched with the story
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: as well. Right, So I think that is such a
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: beautiful marriage in a way, like the way it happened.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: So I'm very glad it happened that way. And the
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: song actually, that song is doing really good in bandadesh,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: I mean really, and yes, it's like the Reals and
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: TikTok and like it's a very romantic, melancholic song. And
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: and I actually made it for for this film. You know,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I composed it thinking of all the all the feelings
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I went through as a character.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: So that was a different way, right, Like usually maybe
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I wrote songs for films where it was played by
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: other people, but in this one, it was all my
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: emotions in the in the in the song, I played
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: the character I acted, and I also acted or put
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: my emotion in that song. So this combination was something
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: very different and I and I loved the experience and
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: also the way people loved the song and the content
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: is crazy. Honestly, I'm so so grateful.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: It's so cool.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: A big shout out to Shihab Shaheen, the director of
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: the film Domi Ami Shudhu is that the pronunciation there awesome.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's the content, that's the film. And he's a
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: renowned director in Bangladesh. He has done amazing films and
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: he actually also trusted me. You know, I am glad
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: that he trusted me and the co actor. Interestingly, even
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: the co actor in this film with me, he is
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Tom Hassan. He is also a big musician in Banladesh
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: by the way, so we're both musicians.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: That's so cool.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: In the film, Yeah, yeah.
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: I have one last question for you here before we
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: let you go. I wanted to thank you for hanging
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: out with us today on this show. What a great
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: time we've had with you so far. My last question
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: for you is, you know, I hear you talking about
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: the marriage of film and music here and you know
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: you just mentioned you have two music stars leading this
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: film as actors, and to me, that's really interesting. We
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: see it very commonly in different areas of the South
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: Asian entertainment industry, specifically in the Punjabi industry and places
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: like that, where the musicians then kind of graduate, if
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: you will, to another level of making films.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Is this an area that interests you going forward?
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Absolutely? Even actually after this film specifically, I have to
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: mention because the reaction I've seen, you know, the comments
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: and messages I get even now even today, it really
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: motivated me. And they loved my acting, which was really
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: surprising for me because that's not what I do. But
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: that gave me, gave me that hope or what do
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: I call it, like the inspiration that maybe maybe the courage, yeah,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: the courage that maybe this is also something I I
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: should explore and see where it goes. Because I I
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: definitely loved acting when I did this film with and
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: of course I have to say that director was phenomenal.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: He knows what he does right here, what he what's
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: what like his experience and the way he guided us.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: So definitely that's there. But also I loved doing it.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: So maybe in the future, yeah, I would love to.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: I would love to write my songs as well.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, that's what I was going to say, Zephyr,
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: and you get a chance to sneak in your music
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: like you just did here in a really cool way
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: and write for your own character, which is so awesome.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you well, thank you so much for
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: hanging out with us. I have one last request. We
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: wanted to play the song Jumka for everybody right here
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: on the bridge. If you don't mind me, please please
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: introduce this song for our audience.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: All right, you will be listening to Junka. This track
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: is by me, Zephyr and Musa. He's also an amazing
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: artist from Banadesh. So yeah, enjoy Junka.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Sephy, ladies and gentlemen. Here's the track.
• 43:31
  Speaker 25: Jo Do Me Mahaka Cano jube bechu be joy shout out, Hey, Hello,
• 43:39
  Speaker 25: that coy loo.
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: In pubic Jo shoot like.
• 43:55
  Speaker 24: Ms COMI.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: Cats like can comic like.
• 44:47
  Speaker 27: A shamano ice Sha borrow a mona mona take a
• 44:51
  Speaker 27: I take a borrow Hallo Loge Double of the Colennables,
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  Speaker 27: Lam Carr Yama, Solena Hector.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: You do say THET I can't get you my mind.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Can die No, no, no, no, baby, I always no time.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Tell me how you feeling sad.
• 45:17
  Speaker 27: I'm just trying to make your mind that that is
• 45:22
  Speaker 27: again Mont short touch like he hery.
• 45:27
  Speaker 24: I mean you Canna Jennicking nosib cat you like Carny
• 45:45
  Speaker 24: high Shay Richard casually can high sh like why Richard.
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: I wanted to thanks Zephyr for coming on to the
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: show here and now you know what I mean. She's
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: got the voice. She really does something distinctive in the
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: quality of her voice. Really looking forward to see where
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: she goes with it. It was really interesting talking to
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: her today and wishing her all the best of luck.
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: In the future.
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: We'll be having her back, I'm sure on the show
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: here and I'll close this show with some closing remarks
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: very shortly. But now let's bring in our own Douita
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: Dos Gupta to the program. She brings you a daily
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: artist spotlight.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: How are you today? Douita Hi?
• 46:55
  Speaker 18: Everyone, this is da You're Rokasavni Radio music correspondent. Back
• 46:59
  Speaker 18: with another artist Spotlight Where Spotlighting j Justlyn Royal the singer,
• 47:03
  Speaker 18: songwriter and composer known for blending Indie sensitivity with Bollywood
• 47:07
  Speaker 18: scale emotion. Born in Lodiana and now one of India's
• 47:11
  Speaker 18: most distinctive musical voices, Justlin first broke through with soulful
• 47:15
  Speaker 18: hills like Coolguy, Humkahan, Ranja and Hidee, earning major recognition,
• 47:20
  Speaker 18: including a Filmfare Award for her music direction work on Sheershop.
• 47:24
  Speaker 18: In twenty twenty five, she expanded her global reach by
• 47:27
  Speaker 18: performing as the opening act on Coalpla's Music of the
• 47:30
  Speaker 18: Spheres tour in India and releasing a Hindi featured version
• 47:34
  Speaker 18: of we Pray, bringing her voice to an international audience.
• 47:38
  Speaker 18: She also continued her Indie run with singles like Jenna
• 47:41
  Speaker 18: and other soundtrack collaborations through the year. Kicking off twenty
• 47:44
  Speaker 18: twenty six, Justlyn entered a new creative chapter with their
• 47:47
  Speaker 18: emotionally driven single Koi Nam, released in January in partnership
• 47:51
  Speaker 18: with Universal Music India, a minimalist, introspective track that signals
• 47:56
  Speaker 18: a fresh artistic era for her. Known for heartfel songwriting,
• 48:00
  Speaker 18: soft yet powerful vocals, and estyle that blends acoustic warmth
• 48:04
  Speaker 18: with cinematic storytelling, justin World continues to stand out as
• 48:08
  Speaker 18: one of the most unique and emotionally resonant artists in
• 48:11
  Speaker 18: contemporary Indian music.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Today.
• 48:14
  Speaker 18: All that's all for me Stay tuned for more only
• 48:16
  Speaker 18: on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's got a great following in India.
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: She really does.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: Here's just Lene Royal and her latest song. It's called
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: enam enjoy dirty.
• 48:29
  Speaker 28: Cooma Cooji covey Lord dukena hum gouinavchively dirty come Cuji
• 48:40
  Speaker 28: covey Lord dukena hum guina vigi Ama do he and
• 49:02
  Speaker 28: am miron There is a hooray jit them, who toma
• 49:11
  Speaker 28: do he and amamero. There is a hooray he git them.
• 49:28
  Speaker 28: There a kamenamim sa hana saku sorry dey madunnia kinazer romazodnosa,
• 49:43
  Speaker 28: considerly man, the.
• 49:48
  Speaker 19: Rigami, the rill gampio.
• 49:58
  Speaker 29: Who to open.
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  Speaker 19: There are torre is so hooray, then there are.
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: Is so hooray.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Dot com cokay.
• 50:22
  Speaker 30: Okay, say Ericaers.
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  Speaker 31: Okay to Amrisoba to America has John jul Mira to
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  Speaker 31: a Marichi.
• 50:35
  Speaker 29: Ama pay Amration, Cool Fund.
• 50:41
  Speaker 32: The Covanamerra to Jama Mirror and Okia.
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: Then there are doing.
• 50:56
  Speaker 19: There is Hooray.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: It's just Lean Royal.
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: The song is called Inam another artist that I'd love
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: to talk to here on this show.
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: It's a great track.
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: This next song We've got for you as an artist
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: that we have championed quite a bit. In fact, the
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: only two artists to ever sit in for me on
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: this show, Jenny Nata in the.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: The song is called she Knows.
• 51:25
  Speaker 6: And after this, I'll give you some closing remarks on
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: today's show.
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  Speaker 1: Im what you got again?
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  Speaker 33: Into the man then got again, tron through the and
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  Speaker 33: he not like turning them at home and cloudy aiming but.
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  Speaker 5: Hoy jumping into beneath and I s.
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  Speaker 33: E but jumping up like an shiny like a Noma myekback.
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  Speaker 10: Let me hell aday you hold no bron again, carry
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  Speaker 10: a moment Late.
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  Speaker 1: Again Johnny and Korea.
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: Johnny Nothan and the follow God. The song is called
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: she Knows. Their latest track right there. Big shout out
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  Speaker 6: to Zephyr for joining us on this show and thirty
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  Speaker 6: years in this business. And I'll tell you the kind
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  Speaker 6: of artist that I find most fulfilling to watch. It
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  Speaker 6: isn't the overnight arrival. It's the organic one where a
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  Speaker 6: voice grows level to level with no machine behind it,
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  Speaker 6: and the work does all the talking. Zephyr sat with
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  Speaker 6: me today and she is that story start to finish.
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  Speaker 6: It starts in a bedroom in Bangladesh, a girl with
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  Speaker 6: no formal training, singing English covers into her mother's digital camera.
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  Speaker 6: Think about how many gatekeepers said no by simply not
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  Speaker 6: existing for her. No label, no studio, no industry infrastructure
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  Speaker 6: waiting for a young Bangladeshi woman with an R and
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  Speaker 6: B voice. She built the road as she walked it.
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  Speaker 6: Covers became originals. Originals became an album in English, while
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  Speaker 6: everyone around her asked why. And then she made the
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  Speaker 6: move I respect the most. She turned to Bungla, not
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  Speaker 6: because the critics demanded it, but on her own timing
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  Speaker 6: asked herself one question, what am I afraid of? The
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  Speaker 6: answer became a song with over one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 6: million views. The fear became the doorway. And today she
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  Speaker 6: told me the sentence that sums up her whole philosophy.
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  Speaker 6: I will do things that might fail me. That's not bravado,
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  Speaker 6: that's the working creed of an artist who understands that
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  Speaker 6: the box is the only real enemy. And every time
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  Speaker 6: the industry decided what kind of artists she was, she
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  Speaker 6: did the thing nobody pictured and it worked. Here's what
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  Speaker 6: I want you to hear in that Bangla Dish, one
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  Speaker 6: hundred and seventy million people, one of the richest musical
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  Speaker 6: traditions on Earth, barely gets a seat when the world
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  Speaker 6: talks about South Asian music going global. Zephyr's part of
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  Speaker 6: the generation changing that the Bengali Bungalow corridor of our
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  Speaker 6: culture is rising, and she's at the front of it now,
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  Speaker 6: carrying it onto the screen too, acting, composing for her
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  Speaker 6: own characters, the voice and the face telling one story.
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  Speaker 6: That voice speaks before any word comes forward. It just
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  Speaker 6: needed sunlight, and she built the sunlight herself. Go find
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  Speaker 6: her music today and keep the name close. I'll see
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  Speaker 6: you guys tomorrow, and I'll leave you with this badsha
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  Speaker 6: song called Velvet Flow.
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  Speaker 5: Have a great day, everybody, see tomorrow.
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