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Missed Opportunity With British Singer Songwriter Gaurika · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: It's really all about having fun. Ero dot net, arr
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  Speaker 1: twenty one different podcasts I'm serious, twenty one different platforms
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  Speaker 1: on one network. Ero dot net, Aarroe dot net. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: your exploration. Hey, welcome to Missed Opportunity. I love sharing conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Hosting them is going to require some show prep. My
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  Speaker 1: podcasting platform has featured thousands of guests, and what you
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  Speaker 1: don't have access to are my missed opportunities. The show
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  Speaker 1: prep was one hundred percent completed. The conversation didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Missed Opportunity is a lost piece of history. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a message and a bottle that's been tossed out to
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  Speaker 1: see I hope to locate a destination. This week, we're
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  Speaker 1: putting focus on my missed opportunity with singer songwriter Garrika. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's how you pronounce it. Grika gau r i Ka
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  Speaker 1: a British pop and world music singer. She's also a
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  Speaker 1: songwriter with Indian and English roots. She first caught the
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  Speaker 1: attention of music fans and followers because of her very
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  Speaker 1: empowering music style. Greka is the twenty sixteen voice heard
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  Speaker 1: on the anthem girl Alive Now. Some of the notable
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  Speaker 1: collaborations that she has had has been with Sean Kingston.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty sixteen song was later remixed by the amazing
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  Speaker 1: and I love talking to this guy, Dave Aday. As
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  Speaker 1: a philanthropist, Greka works very closely with the BBC in
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  Speaker 1: the UK to build and to bring to life campaigns
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  Speaker 1: for children in need and those who need relief. She's
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  Speaker 1: so actively involved. So I was very excited about receiving
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  Speaker 1: the invitation to share this conversation and that arrived with
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  Speaker 1: Greka on September fourth, two thoy nineteen, three years after
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  Speaker 1: the original release of the song I'm Alive. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why I had to write to him. I said, look, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I said, listeners need to know about this remix with
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  Speaker 1: Dave Aday. The pr man instantly responded, fantastic, she's in
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  Speaker 1: the UK. Can you accommodate to this, I said, a absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: Let's create the path. Well. The day was set Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: September twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, one pm Eastern, and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen because they wanted to move it and move
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  Speaker 1: it and move it, so it became a missed opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, my questions, my statements for Gerrika. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to Missed Opportunity this week. My missed opportunity
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  Speaker 1: is with singer songwriter Greka. How important, especially today, is
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  Speaker 1: it to write music You've created with John Sicata. I've
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  Speaker 1: been with that guy. That's been one of my all
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  Speaker 1: time favorite conversations. Not everybody gets to walk the global path.
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  Speaker 1: How are you staying so humble knowing the world is listening, Grika.
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  Speaker 1: It's Indian English roots with a Caribbean mix. This is
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  Speaker 1: what I call fusion. We got to talk about that song,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Alive. There's a lot to talk about when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to your collaboration with Sean Kingston as well as
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  Speaker 1: Dave Aday. The BBC. They like you, they call you angelic.
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  Speaker 1: Songwriting is a huge part of your creative process, but
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  Speaker 1: the stuff doesn't just happen. What do you do in
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  Speaker 1: those moments when you need and it's not providing. We're
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  Speaker 1: in this digital age. I mean there is a global
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  Speaker 1: message in the song that you call digital age. How
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  Speaker 1: did you break it down to put it into lyric form?
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  Speaker 1: How do you protect your voice? I mean, you do
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  Speaker 1: some amazing things with that voice that other people are
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  Speaker 1: going to emulate. How do you keep it so fresh
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  Speaker 1: and always growing? And that's it, another missed opportunity, a
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  Speaker 1: lost piece of history. You now know the questions, so
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  Speaker 1: let's get the answers. I mean, the door is always
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  Speaker 1: going to be open. If you are or no Grika,
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  Speaker 1: please reach out to me at erroc at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's a R. R O E. C at gmail dot
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  Speaker 1: com and as always, be brilliant