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i’m darren i am from the band black

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creek reign in the band destiny and i am

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part of the bollywood monster mashup and

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the mad artist development program this

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year

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i was born and raised over here i don’t

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necessarily look like it

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i look like i’m indian but i’m actually

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from the caribbean i’m supposed to like

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chutney music i hate it i’m just kind of

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in between everything so it’s been

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for a long time it was really hard for

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me to really find not only what i liked

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but what i also was good at

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and i settled on the reggae pop funk

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like that sort of thing

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we were a different band before we were

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called heaven’s muse before

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and then when we split up um we decided

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to be something home like black black

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creek drive is not far away from where i

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am and most of us grew up around there

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so we we were black creek drive for

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about a week and then you’ll never

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believe it there was a band in japan

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somehow also called black creek drive

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and we’re like what seriously so

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we changed it and my girlfriend at the

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time had suggested the name rain black

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creek rain and we’re like

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not a terrible idea and so for the last

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like five four or five years we’ve been

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blackberry grain

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i don’t want none of your time

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so as any good musician

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women are my muse they always have been

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they always will be

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specifically women from my past

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because if they’re not here anymore then

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that’s when it’s best to write about

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them apparently

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so because no we can’t possibly write

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about them when they’re here that’s

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where’s the art in that they have to be

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years like gone and now ah yes now i

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feel it because

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because men i try to watch what i eat

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get exercise all of those things because

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those are so important

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for for mental health for physical

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health for everything

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the best performances i do are the ones

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where i didn’t get as much sleep as i

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should have i didn’t warm up the way i

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would have liked to i haven’t eaten in

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several hours but i’m just tossed on

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stage and it’s go for it and it’s almost

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as if i let everything out in how i

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sound like there’s a mental at ease and

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i’ve obviously done

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great performances where i was able to

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warm up i was able to eat i was able to

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sleep i was able to do all of those

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things because now all of that’s not on

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your mind and now you’re able to just

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step on stage and go for it but there’s

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almost a sense of desperation in your

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body now especially for seasoned

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performers they’re almost like a sense

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of all right a few more songs and then

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you can eat all right a few more songs

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and you can take a nap right

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i know what i signed up for and and come

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hell or high water you gotta deliver

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you got me like crazy

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you don’t come to rehearsal to learn

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your part you come to a rehearsal to

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learn everybody else’s part

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because especially in a group

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performance you need to know when to

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come in when to not come in you need to

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know what your queue is what your cue

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isn’t when the song stops when a song

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starts so on and so forth

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and all of these things and the energy

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of a live rehearsal with multiple people

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is significantly different than

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just a solo rehearsal right it’s why

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like stage pro it’s why stage fright is

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a thing right like the actual energy and

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and ambiance of a stage

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being in front of people and around

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people is a completely different energy

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than when you’re by yourself so it’s

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going to be a challenge for people to

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very quickly step out of their home

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rehearsals into

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the big rehearsals

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and kind of

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get themselves in that proper headspace

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let them all pass on

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who has hurt all mankind just

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to save his own beliefs

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it’s such a classic that like like

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everybody will know it

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the indians caribbeans everybody’s gonna

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know it it’s gonna that’s gonna be a

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show stopper for sure it’s it and even

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when it was first out in the 70s it was

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always like a unity unifying type of

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song and it’s one of those things where

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the message is timeless and it’s

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something people still need to hear

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so now that i can record at home i

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realize that at most performances the

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monitors on stage are

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at least the vocal part of it are never

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as loud as they should be i would sing

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and i do a 45 60 minute set and i’ve got

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enough stamina that i can do that no

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problem but i would feel at the end of

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all of these shows like

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i’d feel it was strained i’d feel like i

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had almost pushed too hard and then i’m

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looking at other guys like ed sheeran

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and john mayer and they’re doing these

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back-to-back shows these three nights

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and three shows and three nights kind of

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i’m like how the hell are they doing

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this like

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is there something that i’m missing is

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and now i realize that i was singing too

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hard and the monitors need to be pushed

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much much louder i shouldn’t have to

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strain i should be able to do

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back-to-back shows no problems

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rarely do you see like a brown guy front

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man in bands in toronto at least in like

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rock funk blues bands they exist make no

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i’m not a unicorn or anything like that

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they exist

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but there’s not that many of them right

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so this felt something that was catered

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to

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they like the reggae stuff they like the

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pop stuff they like our skill set and

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they actually have a plan to promote us

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it wasn’t the type of thing where

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they’re like here’s some money go away

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are these workshops here’s this

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information here’s how we’re going to

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help you a very detailed

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list of steps let’s go through it

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together

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it feels like a real mentoring program

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and that’s that’s one of the main

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reasons that i was attracted to this you

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they have all the funding in the world

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where i can take them legitimately

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seriously they’ve been very transparent

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about everything so far there’s been

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lots of communication lots of open line

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here’s our number call us and contact us

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every time this is the most

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sincere effort to build artists so far

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that i’ve ever been a part of and that’s

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been ultra attractive to

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i ever tell me about maxine you know

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what i say i don’t know but i know

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