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hi i’m kabisa saku and i’m from the ban

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n2

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so i was born in trinidad and i moved 12

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years ago i actually started at my

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family’s band the band’s name was kazano

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i started singing when i was about 10.

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it was my uncles and my dad’s and my

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cousins and we all grew up in a family

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band in trinidad i mean you’re doing

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gigs maybe three four gigs a weekend you

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can’t have a kid being born without

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having a band you can have

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any type of function any type of

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celebration without having a band

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so n2 is actually a very big group we

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have different aspects of our group we

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have a methyl side of singing which is

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where we do our traditional singing we

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have a group there and then we have the

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band side which is where what you guys

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saw on stage both groups were one big

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family and because when you have that

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family

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vibe from your band it doesn’t become a

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task to produce music and it doesn’t

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become a task to go into the bathroom

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it’s fun it’s like having a pictionary

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night with your cousins you know what i

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mean it’s it just becomes this big

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family gathering and you just you just

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sit there and your vibes and you talk

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and in a way too it’s more comfortable

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because everyone can have an opinion and

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not feel like oh it’s i should not say

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this because it’s not my bad

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we as a band like to put a new twist on

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all sounds so we are doing a couple of

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old songs but we are doing a couple of

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very new uh songs bollywood songs also

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and again putting our own end to twist

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on it so now the boys and the band

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they’re like okay they’re so excited for

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this year because now everyone really

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gets to throw their ideas out there

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because you know anything is is on the

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table so everyone’s super excited we

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talk every day

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the foundation of the band is going to

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be the same crew from last year so we

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have ravion keyboards we have uh andrew

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on the drums dawn on bass and roger on

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guitars but we’re also adding a couple

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new elements to a performance this year

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so there are a couple new members

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i think i spend most of my time um

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working on

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on

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choosing songs that i know would grasp

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people’s attention and that would grasp

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an audience so choosing songs that would

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suit my voice you know you want

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something that just kind of flows so i

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think i spent most of my time coming up

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with different songs that we can use in

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our performance because when you have

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that first note that comes out of your

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mouth when you’re singing it has to be

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dead on you have to grasp everyone’s

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attention from the time you step you

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open your mouth to sing something right

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you don’t want it to be shaky you don’t

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want it to be

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off note you don’t want so for me it’s

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just always putting yourself in that

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zone where you just remain

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at peace and become one with your music

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and your voice and you just

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stop

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there are times where i found myself in

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an invention and i know to me this is

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not me like after the event i would tell

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myself this is not me and i’m not

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singing that again i’m not singing for

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an event like this again it’s not it’s

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not me it’s not my image if the biggest

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song is something that i don’t agree

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with i’m i’m not gonna perform it

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anymore just to please a crowd and it’s

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not content that i like so i will not

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perform it that’s why we always stick to

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what we do and who we are it doesn’t

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matter if we don’t get a gig

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um if it takes us 10 years to be

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recognized we have always talked to who

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we are in our sound you know when you

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say you can feel the vibe we are

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producing the vibes for you to feel

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if that makes sense

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foreign

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it’s been amazing everyone’s very

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professional it’s you know

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i think it’s very important when someone

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says and industry this is going to be

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done that it’s done

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and i find like we have we have had a

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lot of experience in the past with even

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promoters and people like the song

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system in general you know let’s just

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touch on that when we hit that stage

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you know we put so much effort in the

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bathroom into coming together with

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something that would connect to people

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and something as simple as a sound

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system is important and i feel like

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anything we have asked for

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everything has been met and we are so

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excited to work with them again and work

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with you guys again because it’s just

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it’s fun when you know everybody’s on

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the same musical page there’s so many

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professionals every anything you talk

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about they would know what you mean

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not everyone

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you can do that and it’s been a really

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good experience especially with all the

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workshops and stuff

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