July 6, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest Rob and SophiaMarie Suarace

The Sound of Gold with guest Rob and SophiaMarie Suarace
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Season 2

A father daughter duo that musically inspires each other. Tune in to learn about how Rob impacts the music world and community with his talents. His talents has inspired his beautiful daughter Sophia to be a fabulous singer that has led her to be a contestant on The Voice and more.

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Hi, welcome to the Sound of Gold. It is so

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good to be here with you, and I love doing

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these shows. Focus is, as you know, and if you're new,

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my focus is on music, musicians, music venues, music studios,

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music schools, music teachers, composers, anything related to music. And

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that's why we're here. And it is a true passion

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for me to have some wonderful connections and to bring

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us onto my show and have them in the spotlight,

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because there is so much talent around us and in

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our communities and in our world that you know, we

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grew up with the icons of like the Billy Joels,

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the the Michael Bublea, the I mean, I can go

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on and on, but you know they they've been such

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an inspiration to us and we've grown from them. However,

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it's almost like we don't get that same light, and

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why not, right, we have a gift to share with

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our world. We have the gift of music, the gift

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of giving, and it's a gift from God because we

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embody that passion and we get to share it with

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our audiences and with you. Today's Monday, So whether you're

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watching this live or listening to this live, or whether

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you're watching or listening to this on another day. I

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always like to start out my show with a little

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bit of piano because it's Monday, it's the end of

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a work day, and wherever you are, whatever you're doing,

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you're tuning in to listen, and it's thundering and lightning here,

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so you might hear that in the background in addition

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to the music. So if you know, you know, if

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you don't know, I play music that's channeled in for me.

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I don't have anything memorized or specifically practice. I feel

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the energy from my audiences and I play that severy ward.

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Sit back for a few minutes before I get to

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introduced some fabulous guests I have waiting backstage. Thank you

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for being here. You can see me, I can't see you,

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So whoever wherever you're tuning from, and again, thank you.

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Every week, I have these fabulous guests that join me

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on my radio show, and it's a pleasure that I

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get to know my guests and that I get to

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speak with him offline. And today my special guests are

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personal friends. And not only are they personal friends, they

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have made such an impact to me and they inspire me.

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And I don't know them well like well, well, I

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know them well enough to say that they are inspirations

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to me and that I know that with what they

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have to share today, they will inspire you as well.

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I have mister Rob Seras and his beautiful talented daughter

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and Rob, you're talented too, is beautiful talented daughter Sophia

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Marie and you are both backstage. Please come out and

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join me. There's so much we have to talk about

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today and share with our audiences. Hi, Hey, thank you.

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For having us.

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Yeah, thank you so much for taking the time out

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and being here. And so our audience is out there,

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and I mean we go worldwide, and our audiences out

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there are either musicians looking for inspiration on how to

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get to the next level or musicians that are maybe

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amateurs and feel like you know, they want to do

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something someday. Maybe there's all different levels. And as we

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know as musicians, we weren't born this way, you know,

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we were just we were born with talent. We didn't

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know we had until we put an effort into growing

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our talents. Yes, so Rob and I love you both.

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You like I said, this is my third time saying

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that you're such an inspiration to me. And you're so humble.

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You're both just so humble and live life just like

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everybody else. You have you know, you have a job,

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you you know, you have family, and it's but outside

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of that, not outside but inside out. This is a

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passion that you get to share with the world. And

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I would love to hear Rob and then and then

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Sophia Tart with us and our audience has some backstory

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as to how you got to where you are and

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where you are now with what you're doing.

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Well, Lisa, thank you for that very kind introduction. Wonderful

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and so thankful to be here to be a part

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of your show, and thankful with my daughter and share

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this beautiful gift with her.

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I'll take you back.

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I was a kid born and raised in New York

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on Long Island and you mentioned her before, Billy Joel.

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He lived about fifteen minutes from me. Okay, when I

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heard Billy. My mom wanted me to play piano when

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very young, but I thought I was into sports. Italian

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kid from New York, and I took my mom asked

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me at seven that wanted.

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Me to play a piano. I said piano was for girls.

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I said, I'm a bit I.

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Want to play baseball and basketball for girls. But then

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I got a little older, Billy Joel came out and

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I heard him play piano and sing, and my world

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was forever changed.

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All the patches went.

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From sports to music, and he was the reason I

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started playing and then the reason I started writing music,

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you know, just music became a huge passion and was.

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Able to make a living since.

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I'm twenty one years old, performing music all over New

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York the Tri State area for many events, and always

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came very close with recording deals as a songwriter producer

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from seventeen years old with a record had a few

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deals with Atlantic Records and different labels publishing with music,

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but it know, nothing ever materialized fully. Anyway, fast forward,

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life goes on. I married my beautiful wife Sophia, and

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we give birth to a beautiful daughter, Sophie Marie, and

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I prayed for God to give her a passion for

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music and was truly blessed that she got that passion.

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And from two three years old we were playing music together.

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When I moved to Florida twenty years ago, I had

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a band and were performing out solid Gold and you know,

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great but kind of a New York style band.

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But in Florida, okay.

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From four years old she was performing with us, singing

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Hannah Montana, Katie Perry, and that started her on stage

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and she never wanted to get off.

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Remember, yes, that started her.

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She used to rehearse in my garage and we had

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some great female vocalists.

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And Janelle will mention.

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Janelle, one of Sophia's favorite, really started her, you know,

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singing and going. But from that point on started working together.

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When your teenager started writing together and then worked with

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a great team of producers and writers, she became an artist.

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For fifteen sixteen, has been on Spotify doing amazing and

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we write together, but she writes alone, be produced together.

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But now she's producing for other artists.

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I mean, she took the ball. She took the I

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should say the baton. The baton, yeah, and she's running

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with it. But I'm so glad we do get to

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still work together all the time. And I've said enough,

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I'm gonna let my daughter speak, but she's an incredible

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God gave me more of.

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Sophia. Before you take this stage, I have a couple

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of questions Rob for audiences. Can you share a few

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nuggets about your journey and then we're gonna focus I said,

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we're gonna focus on Sofia, but a few nuggets as

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to like how you how you got to make the

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connections you made to make to like be on stage

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and be performed, because that's not easy. That just doesn't

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come easy for any of us. How did you in

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the past and we're going you know, we're here in

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the now, we're going into the future. Not sure how

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that's all going, but and times are changing. So what

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worked then and what's different now?

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You know what? At least that's a great question.

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And I was a kid brought up in the church,

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So what was great about the church? They gave you

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opportunities to perform very young. So and actually another reason

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I started playing the piano was my cousin Henry used

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to play the piano and sing that Billy Joel and

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Elton John songs. And I used to see all the

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girls crowded around him and I go, wait a minute.

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You know, you're at that age where you want to

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know how do you attract members?

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Yeah, I said, this is a great idea.

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But church started, you know, me being able to play

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in front of people, and I did that for many years,

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and then you.

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Know, when you're a teenager.

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I was with my first band at fourteen and we

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used to play sweet sixteens and parties for kids at

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the school and thank you guys. It was always very

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comfortable in front of people. And I always loved the

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fact that what we do, as you know, with music,

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to bring joy to people. Our job is making people happy.

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What a job.

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That's a wonderful thing to do. So I never really

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got nervous from young on. I just felt I was

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in my living room, but there's England.

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Front of me.

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And that followed through for the rest of my but

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my whole life performing in front of people.

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And now she's doing the same same thing. But yeah,

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and I would say if anybody out there you have

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a passion and.

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Love music, and just do what you love and just

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you know, whether it there's two people, five people. Some

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of the best times were playing in my living room

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in front of my friends, hearing the new song, sitting

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on the couch, and of four or five people, and

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it's like, it doesn't matter if there's four or five,

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four or five hundred or four or five thousand. I

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played in front of all those different numbers of people.

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You're doing the same thing. It's exactly the same. You're

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playing you and you bring people joy, which is to me,

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the best thing you do.

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It is the best. It is the best. And you

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have a recording studio, you have an at home recording studio.

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Yes, we have a studio at home. That and again, Sophia,

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she's great. She learned all the technical things that you

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need to do to work at it. And we also

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work at different studios, have a team of some great

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producers and engineers, you know, professionals. So but we could

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do amazing things right in this room.

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Sophia, There's so many questions I have for you. You know,

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it's like where do I want to begin. You've been

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playing since you were a very young girl, and you're

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a beautiful woman now and you have. You know, I

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sometimes I feel or I think certain things and I

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just don't say. But then when I get to be

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have like my guests on my show, then I get

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to like share it. It is so beautiful and hopefully

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I don't get teary eyed to see the relationship. And

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I met your wife. Your wife is a beautiful you

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have a beautiful family. But Sophia, you and your dad,

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I would have to say, I have never met a

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more beautifully entwined family net and what you share with

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your dad, I think, I think every parent it's almost

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like a dream every parent has. And what you have

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with your dad, you know, that's something to cherish and

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I know you do, and it's just it's a measured

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relationship that you have and it's so beautiful that you

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support your support each other in this journey. Sophia, you

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started at a very young age, so it was probably

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like I think of Amy Winehouse, she started at a

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young age and like she never thought anything of it

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because she had this gift. And you have this gift

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that you share with your your dad. Well, you have

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your own gift and your dad has, yes, yes, but

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you bring them together. Share a little bit about your journey,

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what's it been like, What has been your highs, your lows,

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what's helped, what hasn't helped.

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my whole life. I'm twenty one years old now, and

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growing up my dad had the band, like he mentioned,

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and just being around that band my whole entire life,

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I've gained so much experience and just information from seeing

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the singers, the musicians, to how a set is coordinated

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and you know, how they're singing out live. And I've

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learned a lot. And I would say I've been watching

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the bands, what right? Yeah, yeah, just you know, I

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would hop on the stage sing but still at that age,

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you know, wasn't really thinking, but it just gave me

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experience and inspiration. And then from that point on, as

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I got older, I kept going to the shows and

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I started more around nine ten eleven. Then around the

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age of eleven, I think it was a nine or

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eleven I started writing.

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So you were writing at eleven but mentioned releasing your

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YouTube videos. Yeah, doing from seventy.

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I did a lot of YouTube videos, like you know,

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cute little videos that all kays to do, but except

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I was doing covers yeah, I would singing, do covers,

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and around the age of eleven, I started writing and

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I would write some songs in my little notebook here

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and there. But then, you know, I realized that I'm

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really good at this, so I need to keep pursuing that.

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So I would say around thirteen fourteen, that's when we

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started writing together too, started producing together, and we got

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some songs, we got them into a studio. We worked

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with the producer at the time. I think one of

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my songs back then that we did was want to

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Want You, and I put that out on my old

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Spotify account. But then from that point on, I realized

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that music is something that I want to do. But

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I would say around the age of eighteen is when

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I got really serious with it. And that's when I started,

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you know, growing myself as a vocalist, as a performer,

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as a songwriter, and as a producer. You know, because

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when you're younger, you're not really sure. Yeah, you know,

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you're not really sure. But then I was really sure

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at the age of eighteen. And I have so many

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inspirations like Arianna Grande, Ray Billie Eilan and so around

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the age of eighteen, I really started taking it serious.

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We worked with a great group of producers, a great team,

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which we still do, and I released some songs back

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then that we did together, Someone did on my own,

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Something did with the producer, and I learned a lot,

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and I learned what style I like and I learned

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what style I don't like. So from that point on,

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I would say around the age of twenty twenty one,

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I really got my writing down what style I want

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to do and what style I love. And also when

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I was eighteen, that's when I really started taking seriously

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performing and singing. I auditioned for The Voice. I've been

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auditioning for America Idol and The Voice ever since, gotten

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a few callbacks. I'm actually in touch with the producer

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from Idol and working out when I'm going to audition

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this summer.

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What's that like? Tell if you could share a little

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bit with the audience, Like, because we most people just

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sit in front of the TV and they watch it.

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They don't know what goes into the behind the scenes,

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Like from your experience, what's what's it taken you? What

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have you stepped out of your own comfort zone to

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show up in that that way? Or I don't know

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what's expected, So.

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For auditioning, they mainly want you to sing covers. So

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for the auditions, you know, I'll do it alone. Sometimes

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I'll just have a karaoke track for I'll have my

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dad play in the background and don't play the piano,

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and then I'll sing a song. But it's really really

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good to know a wide catalog of music, so I

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know songs from the eighties and nineties, two thousand top hits,

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and it's also great that I have a set list

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that I could sing. So for these auditions, I'm just

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picking the best song that showcases my voice the best.

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So I auditioned for the voice. I got a call

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back for that having gotten.

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On the show and actually got in the room. She

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got in the room with the executive producers. One time

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she went through wow ages and was with the executive producer.

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But she's not there yet. She's she's working hard even

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get her voice, working with a great mucial coach to

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another level. Okay, great work after which, so I've.

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Been auditioning for those shows ever since, and I know

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I'm going to get on it one day, just a

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matter of time, and that will be such a great

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opportunity for me. Because millions of people see you, they

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see your social media, your platform. And so not only

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have I been writing for myself, but I've been writing

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and producing for some other artists what I like to

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call my clients. So you know, I'll post on my

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social media, I'll say I can produce for you guys,

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and then I'll figure out what style they like or

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what I'm going to need to do, and then I

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charge my rate. So I've been doing that. But we

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also work with great producers, and we work together. We

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produced together in this studio, and that's what's great about today.

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You don't need to fly out somewhere big or go

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all the way to New York or California to do

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a song. We can literally do a song in this

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room right now if we wanted to. And I think

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that's what's so great about what we do and being

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an independent artist, and I think that's what makes me

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unique and special. And also I did I entered a

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competition last year and it was an iHeartRadio competition and

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I ended up as a finalist in it Wow with

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some of our songs, some of my songs, and it

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was a great experience to be a part of. And

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I learned so much from that competition.

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It was great. She was actually top ten.

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Oh wow, so out of I believe there were like

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ninety thousand people who entered.

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That number.

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Well, I don't know if I mentioned, but we will

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our show. This show that we have are all my

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shows also airs on iHeartRadio, so there's a connection there.

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I love that, Okay.

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I've also been a part of some commercials. I actually

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model and some TV film and I got to be

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in a McDonald's commercial abo and half about a year

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and a half of the Yeah, so that was great.

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And I do some modeling here and there. But the

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main thing that I'm focusing on is really social media

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and music and growing my platforms.

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That's awesome, thank you. I had my foot in the door,

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or over the years, I had my foot more in

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the door with film and television and I've had some

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friends do you McDonald's commercials and other things and like those.

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I'm going to use the word your nuggets, like those

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little nuggets, Sophia like that. You'll have it forever. But

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it's such a platform to build off of. And I

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don't mean not only literally, but just you have grown

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and you have such a vast experience already that as

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you continue to move forward, it's just so beautiful to

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see how you're putting out, giving out your talent, and

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not not giving it out, but sharing it from that

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hard place because it's a passion. It's not something you

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have to, Yes, it's work to I guess, meet with

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you know, yeah, executives, and tell us a little bit

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about how you get over that anxiety of having to

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let's say, whether it's being on stage or being in

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a zoom with wanting to promote yourself, how do you

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deal with the anxiety of that.

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I would say when I was younger, I definitely was

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more nervous on a stage. But then at some point

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you're just like, I really don't care what people think.

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And sometimes I think it's more of a confidence thing.

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So you know, the more you gain confidence and the

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older you get, which the older I got, I'm matured moment,

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and I think I'm at a very confident point in

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my life where I can get on a stage and

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I'm really not that nervous anymore. In but that's something

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you do have to prepare for. So the more I

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sing out, the more I practice, the more I'm in

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front of people, whether it's on a stage or whether

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I'm singing live from my phone on Instagram or TikTok,

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I'm way less nervous. So I'm really never that nervous anymore.

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Maybe I'll be nervous if I'm singing at the Grammys.

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Rob, you, I'm.

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Sorry if you're at the ground.

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Yes, yes, I remember. I took acting lessons for many years,

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and I remember one of the biggest things that I

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took away that I still remember today is that if

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you're not even a little bit nervous, like it's healthy

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to be nervous, because then it shows that you care

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about how you're showing up. And I mean not I

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would you say this, not from self conscious way, but

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caring as far as wanting to give your best performance.

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Yeah, yeah, so healthy.

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It is absolutely absolutely And Rob, you have so many

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different connections, and Sophia, you're kind of taking the baton

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as you said, how do you continue? And you made

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it it is easier today you don't have to go

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to New York to audition. But Sophia, Rob, how are

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are you finding it to make connections? Are you just like, oh,

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doing research on it or oh, hey, I know this

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person that knows that person, what's what's the tactic that

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you can share with us?

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Interestingly enough so because Sophia has a great presence on

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social media, yes, which is and she's actually has a

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lot of companies that she's doing brand deals with. That's

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the new way, which okay, But even through social media,

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she someone contacted her about getting placements into TVM films

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sync fields and that was through you know, hearing music

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on social media. And actually there's a pretty big company

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that is you know, asking for certain songs to be

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put on be in film commercials.

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And that's a great way, another way to get into

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the business, not through the front door, but through the

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side door, so to speak. But that was true.

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I mean day in my day, you had to put

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a demo together, three songs. You had to go to

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Atlantic Records, knock on the door, you know, Columbia Records,

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there were Arista six labels. Today it's social media. You

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have to build that presence actually do it yourself independently. Yeah,

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and that's the way it happens.

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But what I love is very good with social media.

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There are some artists who they're so talented, they don't

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like social media. You know, artists, you want to play

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in front of people, you want to do gigs. It's

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social media is different. You got to talk, you got

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to put yourself out there. You got to know everyday stories.

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But she's been on video camera since she's a very

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young kid with YouTube, so very natural, and now she's

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that he loves it.

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He loves it. So's it works well with the music career.

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Actually, you can't have a music career without a social

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media career today.

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I was brought up in the day where labels work

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with you.

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They kind of put their money in the time and

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effort and made your grave And don't do.

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That any You have to be up there before they

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even talk to you.

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But I think that's great because it gives us more

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of an opportunity because you know, let's say, labels only

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want a specific amount of people. Now, you don't need

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a label to be successful or to be big. You

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could just have social media followers and if they like

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and support what you do, I guarantee that you can

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become successful from that.

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Yeah, now, how do you? Social media is constantly growing,

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Like every day we wake up, it's more social media stuff.

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And I get that too because I live in your world,

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but not not yes, in the world, in the music world.

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How do you in this way it's it's something I

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can't relate to yet, but rob with your experience, and

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sof you're with your experience, how when you're moving forward,

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when you're making these connections, how do you h if

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I could say the word decipher, how can you how

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do you know the difference between somebody being true and

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somebody that's something that's a scam out there?

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Oh, and we were very familiar with that.

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Unfortunately, there's a lot of fakes in this business, just

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trying to make money off they they always choose people

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who really are so that's all they want in this world,

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and they take advantage of your passion. And because I've

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lived a long time and have been all that, I

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kind of can protect her from all that. And all

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the people who actually we work with are truly vetted

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and you know, just the real deal and the same

470
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with the same goal.

471
00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:05.359
But but she doesn't get taken advantage.

472
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.240
And that's one good thing about being an older dad

473
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:11.519
who we could see through all that and all all

474
00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:14.359
the stuff, and and there's been a lot of that,

475
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.160
but we've had some fantas and we have some We

476
00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:21.640
have a mutual friend who you know very well, Frank Lacarrie.

477
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:27.319
Uh you or Frank is awesome. Yeah, he's so great

478
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:30.759
and he was a big fan. Yeah, And and set

479
00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:35.839
Sophia up with a major publishing company because he loved

480
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:37.559
you know, her music or.

481
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.960
Singing and writing. He Frank was the reason we moved here.

482
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.480
He knew Sophia from two years old and that she

483
00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.359
was a performing arts agether and set up a very

484
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:51.880
big meeting with somebody, uh of.

485
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:53.799
A publishing I could say, yeah.

486
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:57.519
Yeah. So last summer this time actually went to Nashville

487
00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:01.160
and we met with the president of Anthon Entertainment, which

488
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:05.039
he set up. And Anthem is a very big publishing company.

489
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:09.799
They own, They work with Taylor, a bunch of Brits.

490
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:13.599
They have a big catalog of Justin Timberlake, Steven Spielberg.

491
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.480
So we were working out, you know, whether in the

492
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:20.759
future I can maybe sign with them as a songwriter,

493
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:22.400
which I would love to do because that's one of

494
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:24.559
my goals in my career to get signed as a

495
00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:27.640
songwriter and write songs for other artists. So that's what

496
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.319
you know. I'm always working forwards, but we know whether

497
00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:33.400
someone is real or fake.

498
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:38.319
And we actually sat down because of Frank with the president,

499
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:41.880
the guy who runs the whole publishing company, and he

500
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:48.000
loves Sophia. So it's still in process, you know, still

501
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:49.160
working on it.

502
00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:53.839
This business, it takes time. It takes years, Bob. You know,

503
00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:55.559
through good people.

504
00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:58.559
Like a Franklin carry that set up a beautiful meeting

505
00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:02.079
that Putten actually could be a springboard.

506
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.039
In the future. And he believed in Haranah.

507
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.359
You had to do that because you just don't do

508
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:09.279
that for anyone.

509
00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:12.680
But you know, and Frank, I know Frank and Natasha,

510
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:15.799
and I know the family many many years, and they're

511
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.680
just they're like extended family to me. So if Frank

512
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:22.160
says something or Frank you know, shows up for you,

513
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.319
it's no joke because he's got some great connections and

514
00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:30.680
he's he's the real deal. He's not gonna like schmooze

515
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.000
you or say things you want to hear. He'll justus

516
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:38.160
say it like it is. And he's funny.

517
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:42.880
So yeah, and I'll have all I knew Frank forty

518
00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:48.319
years from New York City. Wow, when he first moved

519
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.039
to the city. My brother's a write a playwright. Okay,

520
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.799
actually wrote movies for Disney for years.

521
00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:57.960
My brother Okay, he might know my cousin in California.

522
00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:00.880
Yeah, that's what we're gonna find out. Yeah.

523
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:06.880
Yes, And Frank was in Merry Christmasmas, Molly. My brother

524
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.279
produced it off Broadway in the Ages. He was one

525
00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:12.480
of the stars in the show. And my brother wrote,

526
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:15.519
produced it, and performed in it. And they've been very

527
00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:19.079
good friends for forty years. And that's why I told

528
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:23.279
you I moved here because of visiting Frank twenty three years.

529
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:25.720
Ago and the nerve. Frank, if you're listening, the nerve.

530
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:32.559
He moved out of state. He's back to Jersey.

531
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:34.680
But great guy, great guy.

532
00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:39.319
Yes, yes he is. Sophia, what what are you working

533
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:42.440
on now? Like, what's your main focus? What are you creating?

534
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:44.519
What do you have coming up that you'd like to

535
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:47.759
share with our audiences? And how do we connect with

536
00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:50.599
you and Rob at the same you know, how do we?

537
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:54.720
Yeah? So right now? Definitely focus on social media. I

538
00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:58.920
do a lot of fun content everyday, lifestyle content and

539
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:03.240
on my Instagram, I will be sharing a lot of covers.

540
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:05.640
I have so many covers out and some that I'm

541
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.880
going to put out and original music which I have

542
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:14.359
an eth kay actually that we created some songs and

543
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:16.440
I'm so excited to put that out. I think it

544
00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:19.480
should be coming out towards the end of this year.

545
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.000
Some songs that I wrote, some songs that we wrote together,

546
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:26.759
and we work with a really great producer Ian on them.

547
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:30.240
And so you guys should be looking forward for that

548
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:32.920
to be released towards the end of this year.

549
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.279
And tell her about the brand deals.

550
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:38.400
Oh yeah, and on my social media, Like I said,

551
00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:40.799
I do a lot of content, So I do a

552
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:43.480
lot of brand deals that I get offered. So that

553
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:45.960
means that if a company wants to send me a product,

554
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:48.039
they want me to post it and promote it and

555
00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:50.279
they will pay me for that. So I've been working

556
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:51.400
on a lot of those.

557
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:58.200
And yeah, I'm sorry, Rat, I'll tell you, yes, Yes,

558
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.359
you've done well, Dad, you did From John, my.

559
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.680
Goal was for her to you know, we worked together,

560
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:09.519
but I wanted to be able to make everything firm

561
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:11.880
and be able to do it herself, and.

562
00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:17.119
And and so thinks doing it, that's amazing, it's amazing.

563
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:21.320
I kind of derailed my train like was going then.

564
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:28.360
So I want to rewind a little bit. We I

565
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:31.920
think when I first met you you were I was

566
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:34.679
voting for you, really and so.

567
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:40.719
Voting on the contest last year, yeah yeah, almost two

568
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:42.719
years ago, crazy Yeah.

569
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.559
Can you share with our audience a little bit about

570
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:48.159
your experience and what that was all about and how

571
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:51.239
that's different from like I had. We talked about that

572
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:53.880
a little bit in text. I re arranged what I

573
00:34:54.000 --> 00:35:00.639
said because I misunderstood your involvement on the How is

574
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:04.599
that different from being there and all that with the

575
00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:08.440
competition or the voice, But well maybe both share a

576
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:11.360
little bit of both because you have so much experience.

577
00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:14.360
But with the competition, I actually entered it myself on

578
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:17.880
social media. I saw that this competition was going and

579
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:21.960
it ended up being an iHeartRadio competition, and I think

580
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.679
every round you would share your own original music and

581
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.159
people would vote on which one that they liked the best.

582
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:29.519
And it was great because I connected with a lot

583
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:34.079
of other artists too, and musicians and people were clicking

584
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.559
on my page hearing my music more and more that

585
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:38.719
I shared it and promoted it. So that was a

586
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:41.559
really great way to get myself out there too. And

587
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:44.679
then I ended up being a finalist on that competition,

588
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.440
and then with the Voice, I actually got reached out

589
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:53.280
with Idle and that's how I auditioned for that. And

590
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.840
then with the Voice, I just signed up online and

591
00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:59.679
got some callbacks for that. But those the audition processes

592
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.840
have been really great and fun because I learned a

593
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:05.559
lot and gain a lot of experience and now I

594
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:07.360
know how to talk in front of a judge, and

595
00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:09.960
you know, it made me way more contant than I

596
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:12.719
first started with, So I know when I get on

597
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:14.800
the show, I'm going to be great.

598
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.559
Yeah, And that takes the edge off when you know

599
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:20.360
what to expect. And I don't think it matters like

600
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:24.000
what our ages when we have a new experience. That's

601
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:26.880
the gift of like the new stuff or even like

602
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:29.960
I've been playing, this is different, but I'm relating. I've

603
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.800
been playing piano for over forty five years and I'm

604
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:35.599
still a student. I'm still learning. There's still stuff I

605
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:39.239
don't know or what I'm dealing with, different connections, different people,

606
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:42.280
different platforms. Like you just don't know what you don't know,

607
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.519
and you think you have to we have to train

608
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.559
ourselves to be okay with that and just keep moving forward.

609
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:54.679
And so you've you've got great thank you an.

610
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:57.440
Interesting thing to reply to? That least.

611
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:00.960
I always tell Sophia all the time, I learned every day,

612
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:05.239
when you stop learning, life's over. Yeah, Like you always

613
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:08.119
have to have the ability to want to learn more,

614
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:09.239
get better at.

615
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:12.800
What you do. It's till till you're done. I mean,

616
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:16.639
this life is all about learning and getting better.

617
00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:19.719
I remember when my my dads passed on. But I

618
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.320
remember I was in high school and I said to

619
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:25.719
my dad, now I'm going to say, I'm going to

620
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:29.519
back myself up first in defense. I'm a student for life.

621
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:31.719
But with that, I mean I said I'm going to

622
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:34.360
be I'm going to defend myself before I say what

623
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:36.639
I'm going to say. I'm a student for life. I

624
00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:40.039
love to learn. My passion is always I want to

625
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:43.239
always almost like compete with myself. I want to always

626
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:45.960
better myself. I always want to outdo what I did

627
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:50.079
yesterday for me, yeah, anybody else. But I remember being

628
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.599
in high school and I said to my dad, you know,

629
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.239
I can't wait till high school is finished, because then

630
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:57.639
I'm done with school. I don't have to do all

631
00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:00.760
this homework, all this stuff anymore. I meant laughed at me.

632
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:02.760
He's like, no, it.

633
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:05.320
Doesn't stop there. You'll always be learning.

634
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:06.639
And I'm like, what do you mean?

635
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:14.320
And you know, I didn't really grasp the idea of

636
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:17.599
how you know, life is so precious and we have

637
00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:22.400
this gift that we're given to constantly learn, constantly grow.

638
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:26.000
And when you find your passion like you have, and

639
00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:28.719
you can just hone into that and focus on that,

640
00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:33.360
I think in a spiritual way, you attract all the

641
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:36.639
people and all the energy and all the opportunities to

642
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:39.800
you because you're doing the work right. And it's not

643
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:41.800
always about the money, like how much are they going

644
00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:42.199
to pay me?

645
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:47.840
Yes, it's absolutely you do it because you love it.

646
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:52.559
You as you know, Liza, you don't get into music

647
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:55.559
for the money in the beginning. You don't get it

648
00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:58.159
because you have to love it because you don't make

649
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.519
money for a long time. And so and sometimes, and

650
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:04.800
I tell her all the time, enjoy the journey, enjoy

651
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.960
the ride, because sometimes that's all you get.

652
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:10.320
But if you enjoyed it all the way through.

653
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:12.639
Because if you want to be, you know, a hand artist,

654
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:14.679
that's fantastic to shoot for.

655
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:17.840
That, but you might not get it. But if you

656
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:21.280
enjoyed it, like me all the way through. I loved

657
00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:23.920
my what I did. I love my life. I got closed,

658
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.400
you know, and and I got a second chance for

659
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:28.639
my daughter. How how lucky is that?

660
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:32.079
It's very yeah, And I will say the goal isn't,

661
00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.360
you know, always to be a hit successful artist, which

662
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:37.239
you know, I do want to be a successful artist,

663
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:39.880
But there are so many other lanes that you could take, Like,

664
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:43.519
for example, since I write songs, since I produce, I

665
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:46.079
could be a songwriter. I could write songs for other artists.

666
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:48.519
I could produce songs for other artists. I could work

667
00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:51.159
for a label. I could do social media marketing. So

668
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:54.000
that's the great thing about you know, if you love something,

669
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.039
I would definitely stay in that lane and just grow

670
00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:58.920
as as much as you can.

671
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:03.920
And a couple of different things come to mind. I

672
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:09.039
heard ed Sheernan on an interview and he goes, there,

673
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:12.000
goes to tell us about your success, and he goes,

674
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:17.400
once you're successful, there's nothing to talk about. You're there, right,

675
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:21.519
And then another person I won't mention, Well, I worked

676
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:24.480
very closely with Burt Reynolds for many years, and I

677
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:29.599
remember he would always say, it's not being the celebrity.

678
00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:34.920
It's not being successful. It's the journey that tells the story.

679
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.960
Because once you're successful, you're not going to talk about oh,

680
00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:40.360
like here I am, You're going to talk about how

681
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:45.920
you got there. That's that's like, that's it, that's it. Yeah,

682
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:48.880
And that's the beauty and the journey.

683
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:53.760
Some people, like I know people from my life who said,

684
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:56.199
I'm not going to be happy till I'm successful, till

685
00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:59.199
I make it. I know that's a terrible attitude because

686
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:03.599
you know, you have to enjoy the journey, the ride.

687
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:04.840
It's all about the.

688
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:08.599
Journey, about the journey. Yes, And I recently saw or

689
00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:11.960
read a quote that said, once upon a time, where

690
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:16.800
you are right now was your goal. Yeah, And it's

691
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:19.159
you know, like I hold on to that because I'm like,

692
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.159
that's so true because once upon a time, like I

693
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:24.400
wasn't here, this is maybe where I wanted to be.

694
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:28.320
But you know, you know, when you're when you're standing

695
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:30.400
where you're at, you don't we don't think about it

696
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:33.239
all the time, and sometimes those little quotes are great

697
00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:36.280
reminders to be like, you know, tease me, hey, like

698
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:39.000
you know, remember once you know, once upon a time.

699
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:45.880
But we have a few minutes left, Sophia is there. Well,

700
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:48.119
First of all, how can our listeners out there and

701
00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:51.440
our viewers, how can they hear you sing? How can

702
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:55.119
they connect with you? How can they learn more about what?

703
00:41:56.079 --> 00:41:57.239
We want to hear your voice?

704
00:41:57.320 --> 00:41:57.360
Like?

705
00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:00.960
How can you can definitely follow me on my social media?

706
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:06.079
Instagram is at the Sophia Marie YouTube is Sophia Marie

707
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.519
and then my Spotify is Sophia Marie as well, and

708
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:10.559
then if you go to my Instagram, it will just

709
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:12.639
lead you to all of those things. And I'll be

710
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.079
releasing some new music soon on Spotify.

711
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:20.320
And she sings all over Yeah, social media and sometimes

712
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:22.119
and I gotta thank my daughter.

713
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I'm not a social media person.

714
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:28.400
I never was, but she got me to do a

715
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:32.280
lot of videos with her, and now I enjoy that

716
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:33.800
I watched them.

717
00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:36.559
I love YouTube. It's just like I'm like, oh, I

718
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:38.800
didn't know that, or like I watched you guys, and

719
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:40.920
I'm like, this is so great that you guys that

720
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:41.800
you both do this.

721
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.800
We really enjoy it, really fun. I love it. It's

722
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:49.519
you know, it's the dad daughter thing, which is fun

723
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:51.920
and people enjoy. So it's awesome.

724
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:56.079
No, now rob your home studio. Is it that your

725
00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:58.760
home studio for the two of you or do you

726
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:02.079
produce other people's worked you have way people can get

727
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:02.679
in touch with you.

728
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:08.159
Yeah, I just worked with my daughter now I am.

729
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:11.159
I mean I worked with, produced, wrote and produced for

730
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:16.000
many artists about thirty years. But once my daughter turned twelve,

731
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:19.760
that was it. My whole focus was was with her.

732
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.719
But I love my home studios is where I get

733
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:26.159
to play. And you know, we do videos, a lot

734
00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:30.159
of videos here. We do we write songs, covers. You're

735
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:33.559
going to see some cool stuff coming out and you know,

736
00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:36.400
I think you know, Lisa, I'm a music director, which

737
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:40.599
I love for Christ Relationship Church, Yes, almost twenty years

738
00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:44.559
and I've been a part of the beginning of six

739
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:46.519
campuses Wow.

740
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:49.119
Which I love being part of the worship team.

741
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:53.800
It's a wonderful church and I'm thankful that God used

742
00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:55.599
my gift for him, So.

743
00:43:55.719 --> 00:43:56.840
That's that's awesome.

744
00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.920
Yes, it's a beautiful church and they have I think

745
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:04.480
all hands down, they always have the best bands.

746
00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:10.519
The music is really amazed. I love what they've done

747
00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:14.519
and being a part of it is fantastic.

748
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:18.800
So you're very best. We have a couple of minutes

749
00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:24.239
left for our listeners, our viewers. Out there, we have,

750
00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:26.400
I said, we have people from all walks of life.

751
00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:28.400
A lot of them are musicians. A lot of them

752
00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:32.199
are thinking about being a musician. What advice do you

753
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:33.840
have for them?

754
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:41.719
So your okay, My advice is, if music is your passion,

755
00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:42.800
don't give it up.

756
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:43.719
Do what you love.

757
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.320
There's nothing that's been the best thing I did in

758
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:52.079
my life, besides my daughter and besides my God is music.

759
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:56.400
Music has kept me out of trumble. Music has given

760
00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:00.559
me a purpose, something to shoot for. Yes, bos without

761
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:01.480
music be.

762
00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:02.599
Wrong what I do.

763
00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:05.679
So I'm thankful that God gave me the gift and

764
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:09.159
he made me a little crazy enough to never give up.

765
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:13.400
You know, because it's not easy. It's not an easy career.

766
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.920
But I was able to always make a very good live.

767
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:20.360
Thankful that I was able to do enough things to

768
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:24.400
make up a living at just that. Thank you. Yeah,

769
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:27.920
I'd say, don't give up, you know, just hold on

770
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:28.519
to your dream.

771
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:31.960
And again, you don't do music, especially in the beginning,

772
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:35.360
for just money for the money. Yeah, because look at

773
00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:39.199
at leasta forty five years you've been playing, You play beautiful.

774
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:43.400
I'm a piano player, so we share that that I

775
00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:47.360
know what it's like to play and just your home.

776
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:51.239
Yeah, but like I feel home and it's for mental health.

777
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:54.239
Like I even tell my students because I'm a music

778
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:59.559
teacher I've been for over twenty years. When you I

779
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:01.880
have this student he's nine, I go, when you have

780
00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:04.639
these tough days, because he tells me stuff about school

781
00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.000
and nine years old, I go, when you have these

782
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:09.119
tough days, I go, we've been working together for a

783
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:11.079
couple of years. Now, I go, you go sit at

784
00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:13.639
the piano and you play how you feel. Don't worry

785
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:17.159
about what it sounds like. Just express yourself because it's

786
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.800
the most healthiest outlet to you. And I mean, you

787
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.559
don't want to treat a piano as like drums.

788
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:30.320
But it's just it's you understand whatever you And again,

789
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:35.199
if you're a songwriter, there's nothing bad YEA taking what

790
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.559
you're going through, good or bad, and being able to

791
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:42.079
get that out into a song, whether it's a good song,

792
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:43.519
I hit song and no one hears it.

793
00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:47.880
It's an amazing way to get get it out. And

794
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:50.159
it's mental health. That's good mental health.

795
00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:54.000
We have one minute, Sophia, really quick in your writing

796
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:57.159
what inspires you, I would.

797
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.760
Say lately, I would say what inspires as me is

798
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:04.239
to not care what anyone thinks, to be confident in

799
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.679
my own skin. And I think that's what my ePK

800
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:11.599
really stands for and what it talks about. You'll see

801
00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:15.920
what the songs, but it's really all about self empowerment, confidence.

802
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:17.960
And one of my songs that I just released is

803
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:18.800
called that Girl.

804
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.039
Oh it's a great, great song and the song that

805
00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:24.119
changed was reinvent Yeah.

806
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:26.400
So that's when I started this new chapter of music

807
00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:28.840
really talking about myself.

808
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:35.320
And yeah, and so so long you on Spotify, Sophia Marie,

809
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:37.480
thank you so much for being on our show Are

810
00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:41.639
at a Time today and for listeners, thank you for

811
00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:42.199
tuning in.

812
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:46.199
Rob Sophia, I look forward to seeing you and speaking

813
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.119
with you soon. Rob, you and I we have so much,

814
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:57.239
so many connections. Yeah for having Yes, Yes, this is fun.

815
00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:58.760
You will get so fun.

816
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:03.519
Thank you. Okay, we'll talk soon. Bye,