Introduction

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so my name is rav new singh and uh i’m a

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part of crosston

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i’m from a punjabi family so i never

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used to listen all even even the

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bollywood music i never got to listen to

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that because my family was not even

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familiar with that kind of music when i

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came to my university i noticed there

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are some other music genres as well so

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then i uh came to know okay hindi music

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bollywood music and these kind of

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singers are available right now and

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these guys are performing something else

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so when i came to my university i had to

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try some of the bollywood music because

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i didn’t have any choice that i mean i

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had to update myself i had to improve

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myself so i started working on

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my vocal trainings and as uh because i

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used to sing very low skill you have to

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challenge yourself right if you want to

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do something new you have to have to

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give yourself

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you know you have to update yourself

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that’s the basic idea

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behind being an artist

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Being an Artist

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whenever you are in college or

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university in india

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other than studies you’re good at

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something for example it’s a it’s music

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it’s sports you get that attention so i

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got that attention when i first entered

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the university and when i first time

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sang there

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Getting Attention

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and that was the moment when i realized

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okay i wanna you know pursue this thing

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if i if i ever get a chance when i first

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sang in my university i by accidentally

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i won that competition

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and after that i was like okay it’s

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worth performing over here and after

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that i started performing in other

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universities

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from that moment i came to know no i’m

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not that good right now because there

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are people who are way better than me

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and because they are practicing

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practicing every single day but i’m not

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doing that so just for the sake of

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getting attention that was uh that

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changed the whole scenario because i

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wanted to improve as well

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Overconfident

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and there was a venue there was another

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university called nit we performed there

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in 2015

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and we won that competition 2016 when we

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went there again

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i was uh i would say i was overconfident

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that time and i nev i never rehearsed my

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uh song

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and i just uh uh i just got on stage and

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i was like okay i’m gonna perform this

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song and i forgot the lyrics i messed up

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with the tone and i messed up with the

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beat and uh i uh i got eliminated in the

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first round and i was the winner of the

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last year

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and i’m going to get it and the judge

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over there he knew he knew about us

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because he he was familiar uh familiar

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with our band and all he and he advised

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me to never to get uh you know

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overconfident about something if you

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even if you are confident about

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something right

Why CrossGen

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you have to take that you know hit at

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least for one time to realize okay no

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you cannot just you know

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sing like that or you cannot just

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perform like without even rehearsing

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your song properly when i came to canada

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it was a whole

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different scenario for me because there

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are so many like talented artists in gta

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only when i came here people are singing

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english songs vegetarian style of

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singing and it’s really uh you know it’s

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a kind of experimental thing for me

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because i’ve never uh been a part of

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kind of a group who sings like western

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songs and fuse bollywood investor music

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right so yeah it’s it’s a whole new

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experience for me so yeah i’m improving

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day by day like i should do that i

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should do one thing that i should

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collaborate with the most talented

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people in gta and should make a whole

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new band and whole new experience for

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gta right so that’s why how i started uh

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contacting these people because i knew

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them since 2017 2018 right

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so that’s how i came with the idea and

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uh came up with the idea and uh that’s

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how cross crosston you know came across

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Importance of Practice

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who give my best performance

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it takes definitely takes a lot of

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practice uh

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for me my dad always used to advise me

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never perform without practicing

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anything so practice is the most

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important element over here for me you

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cannot just make excuses okay something

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happened with me before that that’s why

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i didn’t perform well audience is gonna

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uh no audience they they are not ready

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to listen any kind of excuses from you

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they don’t know what happened with you

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right so it’s for me it’s practicing and

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to if i’m on stage i’m on stage i’m not

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even thinking about anything else that

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time so the thinking process is really

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important

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Thinking Process

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whenever i’m performing somewhere

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whenever i’m competing with somebody uh

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it’s it’s a it’s an opportunity for me

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to learn something learn something new

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about music so i see that aspect in that

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way even when i was of when when i won

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panorama india i uh

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took uh advice

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about my finale song from a person who

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was uh who i was competing in uh some

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different competition before and he gave

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me that advice you should sing that song

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because he knew uh he he knew my style

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very well and that worked for me and i

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want that competition and so it’s it’s

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happy to it’s it’s really good to uh not

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to have any grudges about grudges after

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uh winning or losing it’s not about that

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it’s not about winning or losing it’s

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about learning

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