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coming together with this team has been

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just effortless it’s just a wonderful

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feeling to be a part of something so

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extravagant and amazing and so

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challenging at the same time

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we are here today uh rehearsing a

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bollywood meets indo-caribbean music

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project and dance project what we’ve

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done is we put famous bollywood songs

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and famous caribbean inspired songs

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together and it’s like a remix except

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it’s all being done by live musicians

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and honestly this is the funnest day of

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the year for me i love hearing how this

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comes together and hearing how the

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musicians put everything together

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we have some amazingly talented

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musicians and it’s not an easy thing to

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do what they’re doing today and just the

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final note can you just play it one more

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time and i just want to see how long you

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want to hold the very final note in that

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click you want the whole thing

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whenever you dive into a new genre of

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music you start to understand

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similarities and differences between the

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melodies and the instrument choices

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between different cultures i i never

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really noticed how

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how many similarities there are between

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indian music and like sulka music i’m

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half jamaican half trinidadian so on the

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trinidadian side there’s lots of

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indo-caribbean people and i just didn’t

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realize how much of a fusion there was

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in the music and so

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i saw the or i heard the transitions

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between the bollywood songs and the

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dance hall songs and i was like oh

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this works like flawlessly i wasn’t

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really sure what to expect at first

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i’ve heard mashups of east and west

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style songs done before

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and usually didn’t turn out particularly

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great frankly but this was cool you can

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see the music from these various

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cultures and how they fit together and

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it’s not just music and

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instruments it’s also like dancing and

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other forms of art and it’s great to see

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all these talented musicians from

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various cultures come together to

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perform a show like this

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it’s a universal language no matter what

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race no matter what background color you

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are everybody speaks the language of

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music and

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once you put a chart once you can read

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it or hear it you’re good to go listen

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you can do music in any language music

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is universal like you don’t need to

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understand the words you just need to

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understand the energy and that is

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something we don’t need to communicate

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you just feel it it’s really awesome to

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see everyone collaborating um making

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friends everyone’s so professional like

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they’re all such great musicians so it’s

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awesome to see them like you know even

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before we start like okay let’s let’s

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all run this bar together let’s make

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sure we get it right and then i always

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love after the show every year i’ll see

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musicians like tagging each other on

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facebook wishing each other happy

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birthday and it’s like oh they met here

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and they’re still talking that’s so nice

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well whiskey was um i guess

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ev

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give the you know send the email out of

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what they wanted each and every artist

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to do and me being a reggae dancehall

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based artist

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that song reached out to me

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john paul has this part where he’s

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naming

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all these girls you know he said shake

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that thing annabella joanna

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miss donadana whatever

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figuring out the order for that was

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hilarious my favorite song to work on is

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one love

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i knew it ever since i was really young

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and i just i don’t know i feel like this

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is one of the songs that i always knew

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the melody to but i actually have to

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learn the harmony part this time so it’s

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really fun doing that um and it’s uh

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quite a challenge for me because i

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struggled with harmony for a while so

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having a part written out like that

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memorizing it i think helped

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grow me as a musician a little bit more

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and

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you know help tune my ears

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i look forward to these rehearsals all

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year round uh even though i might be

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making notes i’m having so much fun i

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can’t sort of help myself but dance a

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little bit while i’m listening to

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everything and then on the show day

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i just since i there’s i can’t make any

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notes anymore so then i just get to

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dance it’s fun it’s awesome i love doing

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this do the whole thing one more time so

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get some coffee

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