Intro

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hi my name is shir Chakraborty you’re

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watching me my friends on Mad we’re

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gonna be putting on a short little

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acoustic set for you guys with some

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mashups and all the funky song at the

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end typically when I’m choosing songs to

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put together a perform I try to think

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about what I’ve been listening to

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recently and that would be a song by

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winds called take so I kind of like the

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vibe of it and I figured what can I do

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with this I did some rearranging with

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the chords so that it wouldn’t be too

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different and then I don’t know I think

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I just looked through a lot of songs

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that I have in my library look through

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some like popular hindi songs that are

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out there

Bunny

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I’ve never been honest with myself fake

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my way through most in whatever what the

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hell and he just left and me like I’m

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saying said he never met somebody else a

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feels the same but I see it all you and

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me and I don’t wanna fall down on my

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knees so you

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the phone cuz I know myself and I do it

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anyway you more some key but it it buddy

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got bunny a bunny potato near make it

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white it watch poor Annie

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Oh booty 30 see me

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Sepideh but the poor Booga he see

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but in the huh it has suffered me bloom

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in Lodi sin the keys

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but see the needed uh the lucky

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Jordan a not the Hanalei I’m only gonna

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take a little doesn’t love you love a

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little of your promise I won’t overstay

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Oh cuz I’m eating with you give me just

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enough a little of y’all

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got a read off the tracks

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we’ll say 4s

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Oh

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you’re more some converted it buddies

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dumb bunny bunny keep only the teeth

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it would put our new booty booty see me

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Oh

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[Music]

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nobody

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of your love

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Oh

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by

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the TC

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I like to think that when I choose songs

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to put together I want the meanings to

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kind of be similar a lot of the time

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I’ll find songs that go well together

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but have nothing to do with each other

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lyrically I just think that’s not a very

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like honest genuine thing to do to put

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something together like that so I do

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have a good time like trying to find out

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like what goes with what I remember

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going to Bollywood monster mashup the

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first time that Jonathan Gandhi came to

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perform and oh my god what a killer show

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that was amazing

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I’d emailed Bollywood monster mashup to

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try and get into the show

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and they had told me at that point about

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this program about Matt and what they do

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and I thought that was a really cool

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opportunity for me to be a part of as

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well because a lot of the time I feel

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like when you’re performing for an

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audience you have to take into

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consideration what they’d want to hear

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like if you build a set of 20 minutes or

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30 minutes whatever it is you got to mix

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it up a little like give them some songs

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they want to hear some songs you maybe

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want to do but I was really interested

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in performing at mad because this is

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where I kind of get to do anything that

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I want to do and show like the creative

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like mashup kind of style show my

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singing style which i think is kind of a

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blend of like western and Bollywood or

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Indian kinds of music so I’m really

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excited that I got to be a part of this

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[Music]

Treacherous

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Qadir who that is such a hummus of

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Achille cocina kisi KO help Anaya

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heuristically

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they demand a hill syllabic I shot a

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model woodchuck open up it it is a geeky

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see can you get they have for the nice

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jaha me so V Gilley kisi na kisi ko

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heaven I have a kissy Kimmy

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they dime in Iowa’s it’ll perk I’d shot

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a model would you go banana peel it is

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it you seek any air so tried to

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rise

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this records this slope is treacherous

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and that my I like it I can decide if

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it’s a choice getting swept away I hear

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the sound of my own voice

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asking you to stay

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and all we are asking and Bo trained to

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get along forever going with the flow

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but your friction

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good you taught him to say duh but

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mother put you thought it did you say

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guess it home to me home a couple I put

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you through to see

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do hums overhead pick Africa Haiti Nikki

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but I

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two headlights shine through the

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sleepless night and I will get you get

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you

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your name has go through my mind and I

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just think you should think you should

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know but nothing

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the word the drive and I would follow

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you follow you a follow you

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I’ll follow you home

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yells all

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this hope is treacherous this daydream

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is dangerous

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this slope is treacherous and I I

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initially I’d wanted to do sort of a

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cover of that Taylor Swift song

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treacherous and Rob thigh is a very

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beautiful song that I feel like is not

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only popular but very timeless I think

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so I felt like the content of that song

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like the lyrical content of it

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really went well with Tetris and again I

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just put that together and thought let’s

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try I’ve been singing for a very long

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time my mom used to say like when I

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started learning how to talk like that’s

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what I’d sing but I only really started

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taking professional training around when

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I was like 8 years old so I took some

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Indian classical training and then some

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Western vocal technique I think the

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pivotal point in my life would be when I

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went to India for two years

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that was after graduating high school I

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was in actually I was in a regional arts

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program in high school so I got

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introduced to like jazz vocal jazz

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ensembles stuff like that but then I

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took a break after high school went to

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India to kind of network and do some

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groundwork in the industry there and I

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was thinking of applying to some like

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academic fields for university when I

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get back just to be like I’ll have that

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as a backup but then I don’t know a year

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and a half into my trip there I thought

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to myself that I can’t imagine doing

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anything else you know like this is what

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I’m meant to be doing I meant to be a

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musician of some sort whether I’m

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singing arranging composing working with

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people with like background vocals

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anything it has to be music when I do go

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through like a process of creating

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something I think what draws me in our

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chords like kind of the harmonics of

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things a chord progression how that

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makes me feel once I sort of decide on

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usually what happens is like a melody

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and lyrics will kind of come to me just

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in one

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at a time and if I get a line that I

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really like then usually I can hear the

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chords in the background as that’s in my

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head and then I’ll write down like what

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those are

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and kind of go from there and based on

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like the mood of those chords that sort

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of sets up what the rest of the song is

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gonna sound like and then I try to work

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with okay like these lyrics in this line

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what do they mean where do you want to

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go with it and then kind of try to

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actually form a song there are key

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things in Indian music that I do want to

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incorporate key instruments maybe like

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using some kind of like Indian solfege

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like people people know about solfege

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but they don’t really know like that in

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my culture we have a whole set of

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different solfege that we use and I

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think it’d be cool to be able to

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incorporate those kinds of things into

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everyday kind of music oh my my my I die

Last Night

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every night with you oh my my my little

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foil every

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shine on diamond don’t make me wait

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another day cuz passion it’s passion you

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know it just as well as me so my baby

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let’s I run for money

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a baby oh my my my diary

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for your

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spark up buzz cut my baby my baby oh my

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Oh

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for ever

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Oh she’ll be the last night she’ll be

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the last night

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Oh

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[Applause]

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Oh

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[Applause]

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I mean my family have been living in

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Brampton for quite a few years now

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probably since um around 2007 or so I

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learned a lot from Mayfield it was that

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time in my life was sort of an

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introduction to jazz music because you

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know we’re a family of Indians we you

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know really like to listen to Bollywood

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Indian kind of music I wasn’t really

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exposed to too much English music or let

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alone jazz until high school so I

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learned a lot about the basics of jazz

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kind of what the feel is like what the

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language is like I was introduced to a

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cappella music in high school and it

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kind of changed my life

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I think it’s incredible it’s so organic

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and that’s something I’m definitely

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gonna be using for my projects and

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little snippets here and there but I

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definitely say that me being able to get

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into Humber’s program is definitely

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credited to the program in Mayfield that

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I went to I learned a lot of things that

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I can carry forward and develop on so

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yeah it was a really important part of

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my life I hope you guys enjoyed thank

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