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You found a whole new range and a whole new place to go vocally.
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Must have been really fun to record this and realize you can take it there. I don't know.
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I've just kind of been making a hell of music and during quarantine and like just like figuring out what I want to do. But yeah, thank you. I'm glad you like it.
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You know, and and also hearing you go there vocally like this makes me think that someone must have pressed a button in you.
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It just maybe listening to a song, being inspired by somebody, realizing that that tone is something that you wanted to try and then you found it.
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Um who were you listening to that got you here?
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I was listening to Purple Rain, man. Yeah, man.
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Like the highest You know, those highest notes at the end.
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So, how do you I mean just tell me about the recording of the song. Put us in the picture.
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Where were you when you made it?
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You look like you're in the studio now.
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I was just like kind of freestyling melodies and then I I came with the the hook that "Baby, I want you around."
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Like and then from there just kind of everything else just kind of came naturally.
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It was just like and then I finished and then I finished it.
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I did it like probably in like 30 minutes and then like and then I had just like the first verse and the hook for a little bit and then like maybe 2 months later I wrote the second one and then I just like Ruel asked me to get on the song and I was like, "Well, I got a song you can probably get on."
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When when did you guys first meet When did you meet Young DiCaprio for the first time? Oh, oh we were on tour. It was uh Laneway.
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Um I met like a every artist there and like we just all became really cool and just like stayed in touch.
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So, yeah, that's We met there then like um yeah, just just stayed in touch.
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Same with like Charlie and like Benny and stuff. They're all really cool.
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I've asked a few artists this.
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It feels like another life almost.
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Like that was a life before this life when you were able to go and hang out with people and associate and and communi- and be a part of a community on a tour like that, right? Definitely, man.
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It's It sucks that like I was I was getting used to my life like that so much and now it's just like dang, okay, now I just got to be more and like which is like low-key what I I but now I'm like, "Damn, I didn't realize how much of of like touring became part of my life and and how much I really loved it.
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Before I let you go, you've been making music.
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If this one came out in the first month of quarantine, we've been in quarantine now for 9 months.
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So, talk talk to me or eight.
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So, talk to me a little bit about what this is all lettering up to and and you know, what what are you building here? What's the big picture?
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I just made a project called Apolonio.
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Um and yeah, it's kind of just So, I had been making a lot of music over the years and like just trying to become like a better artist and singer and songwriter and I kind of just like like trashed everything that I was making and just started during quarantine just kind of like you know, just came up with some fresh ideas, fresh like just literally all every song I made like during quarantine.
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So, it's it's like really new even to me.
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Like it's new to my ears.
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Like all these songs that are coming out and stuff I've made like not even that long ago.
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So, yeah, it's just been it's been it's been really cool.
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I I feel like I finally am like I'm actually proud of this project and I'm like super excited and yeah, it's just there's a lot of I've always wanted to tap into and like make and like flows and like melodies and harmonies and um even people I've wanted to work with.
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Um yeah, I got I got the chance to and I was like blessed enough to like like DJ Dahi and then Michael Uzowuru.
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Um I always work with Blake Slatkin. Um Teo Halm.
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Yeah, just like and then Oscar Santana, my guitar.