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[EP 33] Interview with Ira Green
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Apr 18, 2025
We’re thrilled to welcome Ira Green to our podcast! Ira is a powerhouse vocalist and songwriter with a raw, soulful sound that has captivated audiences worldwide. Known for her dynamic performances and heartfelt lyrics, she brings a unique blend of passion and authenticity to her music. Today, we’ll dive into her artistic journey, creative process, and what inspires her to keep pushing boundaries in the music industry. Stay tuned for an inspiring conversation! --- 🔔 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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in the new episode of Den Leather Podcast in the 31st episode of D Leather Podcast we have uh a green from Italy
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metal and hard rock singer uh welcome to the show Hello hello thank you for
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having me we both uh say the uh that tough R you know yeah yeah it's exactly
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like that yeah some people uh usually uh say my name as
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Ira as you say before yeah i Yeah but I I asked you because uh I know uh few
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languages so I know how it goes you know you're wise man that's why my look my
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name is uh my name is Uros uros yeah with with R but Americans call me Uros
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you know with R or Aros urus yeah okay uh thank you for being here
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and uh first uh I wanted to ask you about your musical career but when you were a little uh girl you know how did
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you start yeah that was so long ago i mean uh I was uh 30 at the time and
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the first uh time that I pick up the guitar and just playing trying to do
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some nirvana songs uh it was the only thing that I can do because it's easier
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you know and um then I start just like just like that to to do my own songs and
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um then it came a period uh where I was in uh different bands um I had six bands
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at the time like teenage when you were teenager i was a little bit uh more
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grown up okay uh I was um 20 maybe no no 18 18 okay i start to
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to go in live sections look 18 is 18 is still a teenager 18 yeah yeah yeah just
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just say like that yeah yeah I was a teenager actually yeah and uh then in
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2015 I've done the voice of Italy and uh it was my first um uh touch with
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the TV and I enjoy it it was a good uh experience it taught me a lot and uh now
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I'm just uh going by myself with my idea about music and I've done free albums uh
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only thank to the fans that my followers that paid for it because I always do the
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crowdfunding for for doing albums so I have done three albums just with the
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help of all my followers and uh and I'm so proud of that and I have to thank them all the day all the of my life
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however how many uh I mean uh how many copies did you did you release uh you released
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CDs or vinyls or something or no cds actually uh in the first place we've
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done some viners uh and uh for the first and second album maybe the second just
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the second one and um I don't know many copies actually you ask me something so
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bad so bizarre yeah yeah because I don't take care of these kind of things no
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because because it it's a crowdfunding I don't How how much uh can you can you
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get from crowdfunding i I did uh when we released our second album with my band we did crowdfunding and released only
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CDs but then a label released uh our vinyl uh after after the CD was released
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like a year after so I was asking you know technical stuff because I was interested in crowdfunding i'm not the
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technical person ah okay i mean I mean um we've done for each
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um in the the last two we've made around
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the 13k euros yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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that's great for for the both the second and third album that is awesome awesome
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yeah yeah it's awesome you have all the time and all the money to organize all the stuff and do
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whatever you want to do to make your music better yes buying softwares and
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buy guitars because you need that guitar for the clean sound uh this one for
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the distorted one so there's a lot going on when you doing an album when you
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create an album and then when you when you when you're done with the cities you have to ship them everywhere
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and I feel like publicar actually because because it's the tiny little
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package you know black ones like it's cocaine in
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but but it's the but it's the most satisfying job when you're signing them and when you're sending them right yeah
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i always sign it even if you buy it now one of uh the copy of my albums I always
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sign it and I always sign them on a little piece of paper because I don't want to uh waste the the CDs i only want
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the CDs to be perfect for the customer for the fun and uh and I just do it uh
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on a piece of paper so who is who's playing on your albums you have a band
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i actually have some members that are usual and some that come and go so the
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one that it's always with me is the the person that believes in me since I was
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uh newer it's Marco Brana
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marco marco marco Brana yes it's uh it's
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the basement and uh he really believes in this project it's kind of
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the first person that said "Okay let's do it because you you got something and
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I want you to go along with it." And um then we have a lot of uh it's like a
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flower full of musicians so uh actually now I'm changing my um my musician just
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for the next season for the for the concerts you you have scheduled some tour or
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something no not for now uh I have some uh gigs in acoustic and uh we are doing
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the the season for the concert day by day because uh some a lot of the of the
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gigs comes in the in the summer yeah yeah yeah usually I prefer the summer because I want to work even for the I'm
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just working for the fourth album so uh I want to stay clear with my Yeah uh you
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have uh how are the how are all of your albums called i I think the the one was
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called uh religion rebel rebel religion rebel
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is the first one right yeah it's the first one like a religion of rebel rebelling right like rebel religion okay
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nice religion sorry rebel be religion
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there's a lot of uh sentence in Yeah interesting uh how are the other two
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called it's one is called set that is seven
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in Italian in Italian it's okay and it talks about the seven deadly sins uhhuh
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uh but from the point of view of the sinner no it's a totally different kind
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of um perspective as I like to say and it's
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actually seven uh tracks it's just seven tracks it just talks about that like the
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concept album actually like the con like the Iron Maiden seven son of the seven sun concept album exactly
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yeah nice the third one is
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uh many many colors of uh of the money no all all the colors of me
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actually of me okay okay and uh it's um the one that I love
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the most maybe i don't know because it talks about uh my children so I don't
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know which one I love most you always love one more than the others so and um
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in this one I want to communicate uh all around my my background so I
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used they told they tell you you don't have to do in Italian and in English
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it's not correct because you always do or in Italian or in English i don't give
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a [ __ ] i just use two languages i don't know i just write songs as I feel so
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maybe one day I feel to write in Spanish I'll write Spanish down who cares so the
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the point is I want to put out all the colors of my voice so I used to I
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usually uh do some kind of heart rock alternative grunge okay that's my my
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background my primary background yeah but in this case I used everything i've
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done blues i've done funny songs uh soft
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ones ballads i used everything I I know and I want to do because I don't want to
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uh these labels that you usually have okay this kind of okay you're a metal
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singer you're a this you're that no no I don't care i want to be music i don't care what gender yeah i love I love it
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when uh some of my hard rock and metal heroes uh play play blues or single
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blues or you know even even I because I'm a drummer I played I Oh nice yeah I'
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I've played in a band for 25 years you know and uh uh we're still recording but
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but I've I've done some gigs with some friends when I can play blues or when I can play rock and roll or you know it's
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not just uh not just the metal stuff you know yeah if you think that Moto
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actually some kind of blues motorheads yeah yeah it's a kind of blues they they
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do have some yeah it was a it was a tommy Lee from Mly Crew uh when they
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asked him once and and he said you know sometimes you got to write a ballad you cannot be like all the time you know
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yeah that's true cannot be I totally agree with that cannot be metal all the
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time by the way the most emotional songs are written by metal heads the balls you
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know yeah if you think about uh Panta that actually there are some songs
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hollow from Panta it's awesome and it's a ballad actually starts as a ballad
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cemetery gates yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah born in winter of Kira it's a
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ballad and it's awesome yeah a lot of a lot of stuff yeah a lot
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of uh lot of brutal bands that sing uh slower ballads yeah yeah uh you you do
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all your uh albums on in Italian no no uh first one Revel was all in
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English yeah okay the second one totally in Italian the third one is mixed it's
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in Italian it's in English okay so all of them are just mix them yeah yeah and
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and the last one you are preparing yeah the last one is the same i want to
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mix because um you know what I travel a lot i love to see the world even if a
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couple of days I'll go out and I have to see a place that is not like my country
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because I have to open my mind and uh when I came back from this uh kind of
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trip you want to write down something from your emotions for your feelings and
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uh I don't think uh there's some songs just born uh as in English
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and you can sing it only in English i I think in this way some songs just uh
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come up uh with the language they they deserve that's the point yeah you're right about
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it you know even mixing sometimes maybe I'm thinking about making a songs in
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Italian and Japanese because I'm studying Japanese now i Yeah I'm totally
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weird person i have to say "Yeah I'm because I just fixed with things." Okay
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I'm going to study Japanese now i want to know it i don't know why i I I read I
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read your biography somewhere online and it said that you were shy and you were bullied when you were a kid and that you
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beat that with uh with showing up on television and stuff you know yeah yeah
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actually I've been bullied uh in the elementary school and it was not funny at all guys you
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know uh I was um uh very short at the time i was a very short little girl and
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I was shy um I was always silent um and people used to um joke about me and
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never even pick me up you say in elementary school yeah they pick me up in an elementary school because I used
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not to stay in silence with people what I mean I'm I was a shy girl okay
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but if some arrogant [ __ ] come to me and say "Oh you this you're that." Oh
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[ __ ] even if I was a little kid I don't care how big you are you're just in me
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it's engraved in me i don't know why and um the most uh brutal uh sensation that
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I felt is when they locked me up in the bathroom and uh even if they didn't
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close with the key the door I was totally free i was totally
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uh paid and I just stayed in the bathroom sitting down on the floor uh
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almost two hours before a teacher come to me uh-huh so I was a little bit uh
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even um in distress for the situation you know yeah and um
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actually before that uh I am I after that I be I became the bully and I'm
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sorry about that but I became the bully and and I start to um have questions
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with with the people just to uh get beat or beat people because I had to to build
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something and I had uh um very uh particular
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um the time when I was a teenager i had um some situations in my family and
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I don't know how to to fix it how to face it and uh I tried
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um I always felt uh some pleasure take me with the the right words um some
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comfort to uh go against people i don't know even if I am clear with my words
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actually make me feel better i know it's not a good thing but I made it and and I
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I faced it and uh I'm free to tell you now with no pressure in so when I came
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and um I took part in uh 2015 in television with uh the boys I was
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totally different persons and they taught me even how to be different because when you're on
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camera you cannot be shy you actually not be shy even if you uh on a stage you
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cannot be shy because people can uh uh now uh you know uh the attention of
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people have to burn you have to call people hey you what you doing you have
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to entertain people you have to do uh so much work that's my
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point of view anyway that you have to um make fun with
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them uh make music now social media ask that from every musician you know to be
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everything that's that's totally true once if you uh were a singer you just have to sing
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now you don't now you do have to do the social media manager you have to do the
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music and the digital marketing you know yeah yeah and I totally hate this kind
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of and you have to make some silly videos and stuff yeah man I I love to
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make silly videos actually love it i love to make all the stuff all the stupid stuff that it's in there i love
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to put it on the effort of the people you know yeah yeah yeah
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yeah uh so how did how did that uh talent show you you you finished second
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on the talent show right yeah on the semi-final in the Yeah uh so it was a
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close call if you could have make it i I heard some of the songs that you sang there it was it was incredible and uh I
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think let Zeppelin and uh AC/DC I think mhm uh and uh how did that help you in
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the in your after that in your career
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you mean the the TV yeah the Yeah yeah like were you well known after that and
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could you do some stuff because of that actually actually in Italy uh when you
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do some talents uh it's not like at the UK the USA the the label just took you
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off the stage and okay I make you become this this this this no it's not like
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that um I mean the voice is not like that i seen the voice of uh UK is
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totally different actually and um after the show
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um I actually had to struggle uh to to stay inforced by myself because uh they
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don't help you at all you totally no one for them so a lot of people seeing bull
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[ __ ] on TV say you know I want to do stuff with oh yeah yeah I want to stop
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do this do this no they don't do nothing so I started to be a little bit
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skeptical maybe and uh start to do everything uh
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by myself i'm actually independent
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so maybe uh it's a it's a great thing that you show your uh your voice your your
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voice and vocals there but in some regions of the world or or in some cases
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you you can even lose credibility in the metal uh in the metal community yeah
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it's totally true i actually I don't know what they feel about me because uh
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it's totally different if you're a male or if you're a
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female oh she's done a talent i don't like it they don't even read the book
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they just saw the the cover and say I don't like it i don't know if it's male
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or female because uh you know you know the the American talent that guy uh I
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think he won or he was second James Durban you know Durban
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uh he he was he was great he's a metal head you know and he went to the talent show and he he was like second or he won
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I don't know but no signing deals not you know every nothing and uh then he he
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started making his own records uh his solo records but uh it was hard sell for
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the metal and for the hard rock community because he was with the pop stars and all you know and then he had
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to uh work twice as hard to get into the metal community again you know that's
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true yeah that's actually true as I said I don't know if I'm part of the metal
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community i can do metal that is different to being in a metal community
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because I have a totally different point of view from all the the kind of music i don't
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think that doing metal you have to do like this no for me you can laugh and do
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stupid stuff i don't care so uh maybe they don't like this kind of stuff about
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me that I always make jokes or stupid things
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i don't know probably I I envision every rocker or
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metal guy or or girl that likes jokes why why not you know why not yeah but
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for um as a presence they prefer to be serious uhhuh okay i don't I actually
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don't need to be serious i'm serious when I'm singing or on the stage when
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I'm talking or I'm doing my stuff on the social medias why should I be serious
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yeah yeah yeah do you I see some some paintings there do you paint uh yeah
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that all gifts from the the fans i have everything even there uhhuh okay i
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thought I I thought you were the one that's painting no no i'm actually a mule about that no i I know how to draw
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something but I'm not that good uh the the big one that that you see there yeah
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yeah that's the cover from the third album
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this one is made from a fan this one is made for my Yeah portraits great yeah a
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lot of portraits and um one of my fans got a Polaroid instantaneous and made a lot of
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pictures and gave it to me and it's kind of like grunge section so I love it i
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love it yeah they I love it because they uh artist yeah yeah they share the heart
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with me and I'm very proud of it that's awesome you maybe have to put some something from that on like on your
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cover like there you know i used it yeah yeah yeah yeah the the
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one I meant from the from the new album yeah i have to think about it uh did you
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did you uh constantly had tours back in the past like through Europe or I don't
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know maybe worldwide yeah uh Europe and even outside of Europe because I've been
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in many places and um I'm actually I don't know all the countries of Europe
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so but I've been in um all the Italy i've done all the Italy
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uh Swiss Austria um uh Ireland France uh Czech Republic
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um turn the only ones there's a lot prague
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Prague Prague is Prague is in check yeah yeah yeah i remember that precisely
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because it was very weird it was at a private heaven and it was
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very weird but it was kind of cool actually
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and I've been even in um Brazil but not for play for be a judge uh for contest
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yeah the feminine contest all all girls band made by girls and it was very cool
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really yeah the mosquito were that big but it was cool
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from Brazil yeah oh I had a I had a guest guitar player from Brazil uh on
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the show it was a girl uh play Issa Nilson i don't know if you know her yeah
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yeah yeah yeah female guitar player she is great awesome great
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uh so what's your what are your future plans uh now i mean after the album or
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when you're preparing the album and future plans long term short term
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uh in the short terms I want to uh work about the the album i don't know uh
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exactly what I want to do about it because I want something different from the
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others and I'm working about uh the waking up people because uh I don't know
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if you know the reality the musical reality in Italy is not good uh because
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we got um I don't know if you know festival yeah I know I know yeah it's uh Italian
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song festival but actually nobody thinks I mean
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is very popular from back in the day yeah I know like but it's like sch slunger songs
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like uh like pop songs right pop uh pop pop soft songs Italian songs but um
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actually I don't like this because uh they all use auto tune and I'm totally
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against it i never used it in my life my entire life never used it i prefer to
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record five times a vocal i don't care i have a studio i have time i do it i
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don't use altitude i hate it so um right now working some tracks i just start
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some tracks then I say "Okay I come back later from this i start with that so I'm working for this and long term I don't
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know because I don't make plans actually okay i just go on feeling what I have to
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do spontaneous uh yeah I'm totally spontaneous i don't make any plans even
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just just for the albums you have to plan it actually if you don't plan it you're going to hell uh but I keep going
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with my um my kind of uh of work on socials to make my music come to the
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people and uh that's it and in the meanwhile I'm just doing some gigs uh
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it's in winter so we doing an acoustic but so I'm I'm planning some gigs in uh
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electric with all the musicians all around all around the Europe yeah so you
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you might tour right yep that's after the album
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but I don't know actually because I want you I don't want pressure for doing the
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album okay so I want to take care uh with calm uh with with all my stuff I
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have to think about and then maybe in 2000
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X will be out the album nice okay okay where i didn't ask you what region from
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Italy are you where what's it i'm actually I'm actually from uh Napoli napoli napoli yes napoli yeah but I live
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in north Italy long north i uh it's north Italy it's
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um no kind of near it's uh what's there very close it's fencia there fe it's a
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little bit uh down from it's Uhhuh okay i had a I I I had a guest
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musician from Italy i think he's very famous uh Alessandro Devio maybe you
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know him he plays in a lot of bands you know keyboard player uh they know him
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there and Frontier he was in Frontiers Records now he's uh uh he's he has a
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recording studio by himself and he was a guest and he's from North Italy from a
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small place somewhere a lot of uh Sweden and etherist from the banks living in
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north Italy because it's quite similar for the weather nice
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nice okay i I I wish you great success with the new album and with the tours
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and whatever you plan on and uh thank you one more time for being a guest on on the show thanks to you to have me uh
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here in the program and uh want to thank all the people that followed me uh thank
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you for make me do that because it's all thanks to the people that I do this of
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course we'll do another one when when the album is out okay yep totally thanks
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you get it thanks bye
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