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[EP 25] Interview with Chiara Pellegrini
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Dec 25, 2024
Chiara Pellegrini is the new Booking and Events Manager at Frontiers Records, an Italian rock and metal label with an extensive roster of artists, including Blue Öyster Cult and Stryper. With more than a decade of working in the music industry, Chiara has become a professional booking agent known for her activities with important bands from different styles. In her new position, Chiara will be at the helm of Frontiers Records’ events planning and management to increase the label’s footprint in the live music territory. She happily said she would promote the label’s first tour, which would be a big step for Frontiers and her. Join us as Chiara shares insights about her journey in the music industry and the exciting developments at Frontiers Records in this podcast episode. --- 🔔 Give us some love; Subscribe, like, and hit the bell icon to stay updated with our latest episodes! If you like the Denim and Leather Podcast, give us fuel and buy Us a beer. ❤️ Support Us: https://buymeacoffee.com/denim.and.leather.podcast 🌐 Denim and Leather Podcast home page: https://musicnonstop.today/2024/03/03/denim-and-leather-podcast/ Hosted by Uros Veljkovic and powered by Music Nonstop Today (https://musicnonstop.today)
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okay welcome to the new episode of denim
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and Lea podcast to Kiara Pelini Kiara
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Pelini is that that's how we say it
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right yes it's correct okay the new
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manager of booking and events of the
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world famous label Frontiers music from
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Italy uh hi K thank you for joining us
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hi thank you for the for your time of
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course uh first before we got into
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before we get into Frontiers music uh uh
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news uh tell me about yourself how did
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you start working in the music industry
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or involvement into
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music uh well um I start uh well many
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years
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ago uh I start first in uh writing in
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magazine and webzine of course Italian
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magazine so I start with doing review
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then interview and then I had the chance
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to know band
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promoters and slowly yeah I start to
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work in the concerts first local concert
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local
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shows and then
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slowly I start to yeah to eat the road
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so I became um a tour manager so I was
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working with bands
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um and yeah and then slowly in um
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2012 uh um I joined um the booking uh
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company Alexis that at the time was
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really really big because they had
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vantasia um Creator emerl gay
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so was really
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really for me was the start of this
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uh or of being you know a professional
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yeah into the into the bigger league in
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with big bands yeah yeah uh do do you
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sing yourself or maybe play something or
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no uh no of course I
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tried but I tried yeah when I was really
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really young uh but yeah it was not
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really my thing I try with guitar but
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was not good and then I tried to
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sing but yeah was even worse I
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think and yeah then I had the talent to
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understand that I didn't had any Talent
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at all so yeah I had the talent to work
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with people that as real to say probably
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probably yeah you probably need to be a
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little bit more extroverted to to work
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with a lot of people like that uh what
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kind of music uh rock metal did you grw
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up on or maybe it was not rock that you
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grew up well yeah of course rock
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yeah well in the when I was a teenager
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of course I was listening a lot into
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classic metal like Haram Maiden judah's
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priest but yeah I have to say that um I
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was
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also um listening to any kind of music
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because I really like to have a music
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culture
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so yeah was different different kind of
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music but mainly yeah rock music yeah
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maybe some Italian metal or
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BS well we don't have too many rock
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bands but yeah of course I was listening
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to
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some I love I used to love a
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lot rap you know the Italian
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V yeah yeah of course it's a that I work
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with and um I still work with them
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because I'm their agent oh yeah and I
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doing yes I I just I just saw them I
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just saw them this Summer in Bulgaria I
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I went to the concert to the to some
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show I mean a big festival and I saw
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them they were
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great was in The Bu Winery wery yeah yes
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yes yes yes I booked the show so yeah
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yeah yes yes yes yes how how many in how
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many labels have you worked with until
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now well I used to so I worked but yeah
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many many years ago with two label one
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was the real small label in
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Greece uh and yeah I was doing mainly
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not the same job in Frontiers but mainly
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you know I was um handling
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the the pre listening party live shows
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or yeah what was a real small level but
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I had really good memories of that and
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about gree and then I also work for
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Scarlet records that is an Italian label
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I was mainly doing the same but of
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course they have different band than
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Frontiers and yeah then when I joined
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all access I I quit because of the yeah
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all the work yeah did did you maybe
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formed your own label or your own
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company back in the day or
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no no no but of course I worked a lot as
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um yeah like self employee or like fre
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so so yeah a sort
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of a sort of not a real label or I
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didn't lead a real company yes but I a
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lot a lot have you have you thought
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about it to to make your own label maybe
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or your
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company uh No Label no because yeah I
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think there's many people that they can
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do it better yeah like years for example
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but um yeah maybe agency well maybe
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but yeah I'm I'm fine now with with what
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I have yeah yeah of course of course uh
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on which big festivals have you worked
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with uh with some bands as a tour
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manager maybe you've been through all
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around the world or only Europe no I've
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been around the world as tour manager
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and I work with the well I mainly work
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in the most biggest the festival in
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Europe oh okay uh well Alo maybe also
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outside
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Europe that's um I also work for the
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biggest Festival I think in the world
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that is Ban and I used to work there oh
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you work for w you worked for w I worked
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from
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2015 and till before the
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pandemic so I used to
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there that is the biggest Festival in
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the world yeah of course I have uh I
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have my band uh here is here is our our
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vinyl and uh because you mentioned vakin
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we we were we were sponsored by vakin
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Foundation you see the logo here oh the
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foundation okay cool very cool they they
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sponsored they sponsored the release of
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our of our
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vinyl very good very good yeah uh so uh
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so so any other festivals not only
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Europe I mean you you played maybe uh
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Rock In Rio or maybe yes yes I've been
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there I don't remember which band but
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I've been there and yeah maybe Rock
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probably is also really really big and
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yeah mainly in Europe I went to most of
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the Festival of course now I'm not
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anymore
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into yeah into life I mean I don't
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travel a lot only for
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short short distance or short period
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because I'm really busy you know with
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the job and because I had a bab recently
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so yeah that's something that which are
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which are the the famous band that you
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ever worked with until now I
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mean the band yeah as I mentioned before
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uh in all access I we had they had very
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very I mean cool band and and I had the
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chance to work with them like Fantasia
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Garay head
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guy um emerl Stratovarius rep Studio
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fire um yeah a lot of a lot of power
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power metal and syo metal yeah a lot of
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power metal yes yes yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah those are the power metal uh
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the biggest the biggest Ben in power
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metal yeah yeah yes yes but um yeah but
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I mainly work with uh different um
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different band because yeah yeah I think
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maybe maybe now in now in Frontiers
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maybe you will have more access to more
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old school Hard Rock and some
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traditional heavy metal bands yeah ex
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exactly like um yeah there's a lot of
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bands from different kind of music you
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know yeah a lot of a lot a lot of band
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on that on that label uh uh I I I
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remember like 10 years ago Death Leopard
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and wh snake used to release albums for
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for Frontiers uh Ur hip also I think uh
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I followed everything I mean the the
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career of of of Frontiers for the last
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10 15 years uh but uh how did you how
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did you got in contact with were you
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asked how how did you get the job of of
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of becoming a manager of book
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events well um there's well Frontiers
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they I mean they extend a lot the their
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own crew their own team yeah and um I
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got in touch with them through um the
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enr Frontiers one of the enr Aldo uh I
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don't know if you know him but I oh I I
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yeah I I know of him but I I don't know
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him personally yeah yeah I know him
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since many many years and he knows me
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yeah because uh my job in um in the
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booking agency in several booking agency
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so and we worked a lot together
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so since from years wanted to invest in
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this um yeah in this adventure in this
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uh Department uh he thought I was the
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right person to handle this so that's
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how I got in touch
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with them and of course I was really
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really honored and happy to join this uh
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Adventure yes yes a good a big uh
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company big label and uh the the guys
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know know know what they're doing yeah
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yeah know and it's incredible how they
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renew it they renew the company and how
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they really really love their company
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the the bands sarapin and on they are
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really
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amazing person and amazing um worker
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because they really really love the the
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bands and the why they invest in this um
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in this department because they want
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their band to play and to be you know I
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I saw they made they just made another
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uh label like sub label for Frontiers
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like a sister label uh for for a little
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bit more hard or metal or something like
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like biohazard like BS like that right
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yes this is also really good I mean they
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used to be an they label so I mean it's
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incredible how they extend yeah you know
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their Market yeah really good and they
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also had um they they got more band more
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different kind of bands yeah so it's
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really really good and I mean now that
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the Market is
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uh so are you going to work for it's
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changing I mean yeah are you going to
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work for Frontiers and for the other
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label I mean the metal department
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or well mainly yes mainly uh I will
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follow I will um you know I will work on
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their event because there lot of event
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coming and uh mainly you know uh for the
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they they don't have an agent in Europe
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or they don't have an agent at all
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so yeah they have this service for the
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band yeah so so so you're going to uh
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for for every band on the label you
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you're going to be a booking engion for
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festivals around the around Europe or
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around the world yes well mainly uh most
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of the band they have their own agency
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so the that they have the the agency of
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course they they won't be part but yeah
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who knows
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maybe maybe everything will change one
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day who knows right yeah of of course
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but uh maybe you will organize tours of
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some of some of the bed uh yes yeah
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that's the goal to you know organize
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tours
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or package so yeah that's the main
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reason of this they they they still they
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still do do that festiv in Milan live in
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Milan I mean
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uh
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Frontiers yeah well it's it's something
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that is uh yeah it's it's a project that
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yeah you will yeah it's like every year
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yeah yeah it's like every year yeah they
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stopped a few years ago maybe because
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with the pandemic but yeah you will see
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some news soon I had I I had a I don't
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know on this
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show a lot of uh the artists that are on
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on the label of Frontiers like Jo Joel
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HRA was here uh you know Joel HRA uh I
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don't know mileno movich from steelart
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was my guest also sergean brankovic from
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the big deal
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band yeah Alexandro who is no longer in
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Frontiers was uh my my guest on the show
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and uh yeah a lot a lot of a lot of the
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talent and the artists from fronti were
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were guests on on my show talking about
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music they all they all have uh you know
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that that in intense uh work ethic that
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you know like uh that I've met the guys
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they all work a
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lot yes yes and they are they have
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incredible talent and yeah they are all
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super good yeah have good musician and
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good bands and it's
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incredible yes what do you think of of
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of the of today's music
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industry well I mean I mean I mean music
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industry in releasing albums in uh plays
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in streams in downloads or maybe buying
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physical copies of CDs and vinl is it
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pay pays off or or they only leave the
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bands only live maybe from live shows
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and merchandise I don't
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know well of course I mean I can answer
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from where I start of course it changed
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a lot the the
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industry in many many aspects and of
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course I mean I think that now is more
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easy to record an album and to release
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an album it's really easy but of course
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then you have a lot of bands you have I
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don't know how many bands we have more
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than than in the past so yeah yeah of
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course um this is uh this is really good
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because it's I mean it's great that we
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have all this band playing but of course
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I mean in terms of um for example
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Festival you know the festival they have
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a lot of band to choose yeah yeah yeah
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it's hard to choose yeah so it's more
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difficult I mean it's easier to make an
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album but it's more difficult to you
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know to reach the top of course it's
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easier because we have social so it's
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get to know but yeah there's also many
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bands doing many bands on the road
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and yeah yeah I get it's very hard to to
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sell right now
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yeah to sell yeah of course I mean the
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more they play Live the more they sell
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merch so of course this is also good end
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and yeah mainly it's good for them to
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you know to keep touring and keep yeah
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making Al
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and yeah I mean it's yeah it's different
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before was different in the 90s you
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2000s yeah yeah okay so uh because
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you're new in Frontiers uh what are your
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future plans me future plans are short
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terms and long-term plans to stay in the
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company to make some name for yourself
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yeah of course I mean that's uh my goal
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is to of course grow this my my
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department yeah and of course I mean I'm
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really really excited to start to work
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on this new project and with new bands
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of course as as I said with bands that
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before I didn't had the chance to
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work and yeah and of course beside this
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job in Frontiers I also have another I
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mean I'm still a booking agent for for
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another uh booking
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agency so of course I will continue this
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job in Dragon
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production and yeah that's mainly you
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know uh yeah in the in the before the
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pandemic I was also you know 50% on the
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road now I'm more concentrated on
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booking shows so that's
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my which bands are you going to work
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with now right right now
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right now as I saw with blue with
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bluester cult maybe as as I read
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somewhere no no no with them no uh for
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the moment yeah I work we work with big
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deal big deal oh great uh then we are
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working with uh Grand Bonet that is of
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course a big name in the of
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course and yeah and there
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yeah there will be soon um website where
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all the
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band or where you can see all the band
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that they will join the booking yeah so
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you will see them pretty soon awesome
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and with most of them we are we are
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already
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working and yeah you will see some news
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uh I hope
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soon awesome uh okay at the end end of
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the interview I want to tell you
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congratulations on the on the new job
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and uh and uh just uh great things to
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happen and and to grow into a bigger and
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more bands for you you
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[Music]
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know yes yes that would be good of
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course yeah conat congrats congrats and
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thank you for the for the episode for
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the
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interview thank you and yeah um we see
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probably somewhere or in some of the
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some shows yeah I hope so yes yes thank
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you thank you
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ciao oh thank you
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