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>>Nick: Hey guys this is Nick Pandya from Vedik Vibez

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and you’re watching MAD.

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[Transition Music]

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The band’s name came from

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just the people around,
around the band and in the band.

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And the one thing that we try to signify is

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both the cultures that we were brought up in

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so the Western and the Eastern at the same time, right.  

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So we’re looking at Vedik Vibez has that South Asian cultural feel but  

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at the same time Vibez is like the Western feel of,

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you know, what like we’re vibing with it.

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My band members are from various parts of the GTA

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so it’s really fun because we all get together and it’s just one collective

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uh goal which is to be happy and create music.   

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Music is not something that’s in my family

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and it started at a very young age, I 
would say the age of eight,

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where my parents put me into tabla.

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I did tabla for 12 years before I even 
sang

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and it just so happened that it carried with me from India to Canada.

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I did a vocal contest in Toronto, the very first one,

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and I got first prize in it.

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From there um, you know, it’s it’s been 
a journey,

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it’s been a journey full of struggle.

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Finding those moments of joy and at the same time finding

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who I am as an artist, who I want to be recognized as

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and what do I want to put 
out.

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And that’s where everything kind of started.

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For me, the struggle started when I want to find myself,

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what I wanted to do in life,

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and at the same time want to surround myself with people

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that had the same goals as me.

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And it was very hard to do that

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in a community which has artists growing left, right and center.

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And a lot of times what happened was I would do a show,

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but I wouldn’t have that 
fulfillment that I completed a show.

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And a lot of times you would get called for, you know, karaoke gigs,

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you know where you bring your own speakers,  

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you bring your own mixer, you bring your own mic 

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and you’re playing tracks and then you’re singing

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but there’s not that fulfillment.   

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So my dad literally said hey listen when you finish schooling

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let’s come back to this and we’ll talk 
about something grand.

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And as soon as I finish my schooling we open up our own music company.

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It’s called Darshan Entertainment and

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what it allows me to do is it allows me to do the music that

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I like to do and the quality that we like to put out.

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[Singing in another language]

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>>Nick: After I think 12 or 13 years,

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just last year, I went back to India

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and it was a whole different scene.

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And what was really good to see was you know

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my music in Canada was actually recognized in India

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and when I went there for a month I ended up doing a show, in India, with a

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renowned playback singer which headlined BollywoodMonster Mashup

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so 
I did a show with Rajdeep Chatterjee.

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We have been brothers ever since.

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We still talk on WhatsApp, 
we call each other, we do Facetimes and

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I think that’s the beauty that, you know,

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not only BollywoodMonster Mashup, 
but music allows us to do is to  

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connect with people that you literally look up to.

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A lot of times what happens in Ontario or in Canada

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is the value that  
we put on as musicians. 

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So for example when you go to India a local artist is  

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respected the exact same way that an international artist is.

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When you’re in Ontario it’s really hard for you to you know

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market yourself at that point because we’re always looking for international. 

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But the biggest thing in Ontario is getting yourself out there

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because there’s a lot of people that do uh music

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but the audience is not that much 
that would listen to that kind of music. 

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For me COVID has really helped me to like

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look at the other side of things that I never looked at which was production

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uh you know, where do you put your 
camera, what kind of camera do you use,

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uh lighting, 
um and green screen.

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So it’s allowed me to you know spread my wings and go into different avenues.

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[Singing in another language]

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>>Nick: The fact that we were virtual just 
to see everything come together  

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was so refreshing.

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The band actually got together
and we all watched it uh together and

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it was amazing to see and you know seeing all those comments

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I think that was the best part and

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I want to thank the team once again for 

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putting up such an amazing, amazing um broadcast.

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It was really amazing to see, uh you know, audiences from around the world.

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It was something that uh

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we never really got exposed

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uh you know performing
in Canada and in the States but

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you know having your audiences in the UK sending you messages for example

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hey do you guys do shows in the UK and if  

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if you do, how can we book you?

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The talks after BMM are still going on, we still have messages coming in.

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It’s just amazing to see and I couldn’t 
be any happier.

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Working with the MonstrARTity team is always a pleasure.

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Professionalism is at at the top.
You know we got in,  

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we did our sound check and boom we were out and 

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I think that was the best part is how smooth it went.

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And I think the most important thing that 
I love from the team

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is the fact that people are willing to listen

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and understand what our 
needs are.

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And it was amazing to see that the whole team was there watching our performance

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and when we finished everyone was clapping.

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[Singing in another language]

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