May 1, 2025 • 13 mins
Brady from 103.5 KISSFM talks to Shab about being seperated from her family as a child and starting a new life in America, how music has helped her heal, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good we are here with shop everybody people.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome. I love you, do you love? Do you love Chicago?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I lived here for almost a year and a half.
What like for thirteen years ago or something? Wow, what
neighborhood I was in, like Randolph, like literally like one
of the glass you know, like high rises and overlooking
the you know.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
River beautiful so so River North. Basically the Loop, the
Loop exactly. What What was your favorite part of living
in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I think the fashion people really dress nice here and
I appreciate fast they.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Do they yeah, and then well I guess when I
was here.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And of course the food. There's so many great places
to pick from.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And uh, the people are they're fun.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have a good time.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, good time. You guys know how to like have
a good time. Goes down the place.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, we don't work. We don't work on Friday shop
in the summer. We're like, yeah, this is Friday, it's summer.
I'm not working for you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Because you have so many that are like it's nice,
so you get you get like a little hooky.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thank you for having me, of course, and I just
want to start real quick, and I know, you probably
told the story a million times, but your story is
so fascinating. I think our viewers and our listeners need
to know a little bit about it, where you came
from to this very moment sitting here with us.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know, I'm a child of the revolution. I would
say that the fundamentalists sort of took over in Iran,
and and my dad he was one of Shaw's, you know,
a guy for petroleum and so. And what happened is
when your revolution happened, they kidnapped my brothers. They were
like shooting at our house every other week. And then
(01:42):
because of the stress, my dad had a heart attack
at fifty three and barely fifty three, and uh and
so and uh, he didn't make it. And so my
mom was left with thirteen kids in revolution. And so
they then gets better. They freeze all our assets because
became maybe became immediate enemy of the state. So it
(02:04):
was just a lot, you know. I felt so bad
for my mom. She was only thirty nine years old, like,
you know, thank god, she had a lot of nice
jewelry and my dad had given her. So she sold
all of it for us to survive in that eight years.
And then she was like, you know what, we got
to get out of here. This, this is not good
a place to live. So she sacrificed a lot and
so we became a refugee of a Turkey. So I
(02:26):
was there for about a year and in Ankara, the
capital city, waited until my paperwork to Germany and they
let us know that my paperwork for boarding school was
ready to go. And so I was only eight and
a half. So I had to say back to my mom.
But I was like, you know, I was like, Mom,
I know you're doing this for me, and she was crying.
I was crying.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I was like, this is for both of us. Is
better life for you know?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And so I went to Germany was there for almost
four years and I finally heard about my papers being
ready for a green card to come to us, and
I lit up and I was like having calendar and
every day I would like scratch it off, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Were excited to come here?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I was, you know, and the American dream baby, yeah,
and so you know, and then got on a Lufton's
a flight all by myself with a tiny little suitcase.
And that's why I hinted the album is called One
Suitcase everything I owned in the world in that suitcase,
and at fourteen, got on a Luftons of flight by
myself and went to JFK. The agents came and got me.
(03:23):
They'd send the tallest ones, like there were six five
and I was like four to eleven, I don't know,
and I was so scared and they were like, no, no,
welcome to America. They were so nice, and they took
me for fingerprints and then I was it and got
on hopped in another plane and my Green card was
in my hand. I was looking at and I start
crying and I was like, God, you know, I've been
through a lot, but this is this is a gift,
(03:43):
Like thank you for reuniting me with my family again.
I saw my mom for the first time after five years.
I was.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was a teenager and I was like, look, I'm
all grown mom.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know right, that is a long time to go
without seeing mo. Yeah, but that built so much strength
inside you. Having to travel all on your own to
make you like a super independent forced you to at
a really young age one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was going to school by myself. I was going
to tennis lessons by myself.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
When I was in Germany. So when I came to US,
I can't drive.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm fourteen, and of course I hadn't seen my other
brothers and sisters in seven eight years, so I was
so excited to see them finally. Because we were a
big family. There's thirteen of us. I was the baby thirteen.
So I was just happy, lucky thirteen, lucky thirty and
my case is definitely lucky. Yeah, but yeah, it was.
It was incredible being learning how to be independent and.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Probably like what was your first language growing up?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Percy?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Okay, so then now you have to and now you
have to learn a whole new language, and you have
to go to school in America.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, well that must have been a big shift too.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Definitely, I was definitely made fun of.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I was bullied and you know, and so my goal
was like, okay, I was like I was in Esoul,
which is English speaking other languages, and so and I
summer it was like summer. I was like, that's it,
summer of ninety I don't know two. I was like,
I'm going to learn I am going to learn English.
I was watching like t I was listening to music
and I was writing all the translation. I was like, oh,
he says her eyes are pretty or like, I don't know.
(05:05):
So I learned English and three months later I go
back to school and these girls were used to make
fun of me. They were saying something and I looked
at him. I was like, I was like, I know
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I was like, yeah, you don't think. I was like,
you better watch watch hot I know. I was like,
I speak fluent now.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They were like how.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I was like, you can't even speak a language. Probably
I know three. I got three on my belt now,
So they didn't mess with me again.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Where are they now?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They're not sitting down being interviewed by Chicago's number one
of music stations exactly. Yeah. Wow, what an incredible story.
So here we are we fast forward. You end up
getting into the music industry. How long ago did you
start this journey professionally?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Really like almost going into six years.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I just didn't have, you know, I was they didn't
have the means or wells to do it, just because
I was working trying to help the family, you know,
and making a living here in us and just make
a life for herself. So I didn't have the didn't
have necessarily the funds or the time, and when the
opportunity came and the dream was still inside of me,
and I kind of like put my hand up in
(06:04):
the sky and I said, Okay, God, you gave me
this stream, and if you still got that gift for me,
I'll take it. And then things just start happening. I
found Hiven Sharp and he's worked with j Low and
then did the song my Love Don't costs the thing
Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Amazing story. It's such an inspiration too. That's so amazing. Okay,
So thirteen siblings?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yes? Can you name them all?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, I only have two, so I do.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Okay, we're gonna ask you because all right, so let's
get to the music. Because I listened to One Suitcase
the double album. It's a vibe. It's like, uh, what
did I label it? As I like to label things
pop poto pop? Photo pop poto pop is positive dancy pop.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I start using that positive dancy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Pop, right, Okay? Is that?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
What the what do you picture when people are listening
to this album? What do you picture them doing? Like?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What's there? What's the environment like around them?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You know?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I think when we were doing the song One Suitcase
is really about my story, you know, fleeing fundamentalism and
finding a new life in the Western world, and you know,
it's about freedom, liberty, love and all of those really
cool things. And I've been exposed to so many different
genres of music throughout my life, and so I kind
(07:21):
of wanted to sprinkle a little bit of everything. But
I always think of it like a dance anthem party. Hey,
you know, we got shab on, let's go. We might
start slow, and then you know, it's an alchemy and
then from alchemy we alchemize everything into something positive and loving.
And let me just go from there and just lights off,
just go lights on.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Me listening to it, what it reminded me of is
not specific artists. Which do you like to get compared
to artists or no, some people say do Alipa.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I think she's so cute.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I like her, you know, I hear a little bit
of that.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But but what I hear is I hear a time
in my life where I'm just having a good time,
you know what I mean. It's not specific artists. There's
a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Like I get the dua stuff. But I'm hearing some
of the two thousands in there too. Yeah, some two
thousands pop, like like when Fergie had her moment, right,
And I also hear a little Middle Eastern influence.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh yeah, definitely do you Is that where you're going?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
For?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Absolutely? I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The reason I chose music because music has been so
healing for me. I remember I was six or seven
years old. There was a Iran Iraq war and the
bombs were coming down, and so the louder the mom's got,
the louder on music got. My mom was cooking food,
the small of the food in the house and the music,
and we were like put ourself in that bubble. And
I always say so, music is so transformational and it
(08:37):
transports you to another place, you know, And that's why
I love music so much. It has healed me so
in my earlier years, of course, we listened to belly
dancing and you know, all kinds of music like pop.
But then when I went to Germany it was like
techno pop. And I went to Baltimore, first time I
ever heard hip hop and R and B.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So I would say, Wu Tang raised me.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That's a T shirt. Wu Tang raised me to make
had a T shirt merch Let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah what Tang raised me? So I thought, I was like,
this is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Then we started going to DC and night life, and
I was like I was exposed to so many different
m and techno and I.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Was like, oh my god, this is cool.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like so I think like through my life, I've just
been sprinkling a little bit of everything in my music
because it's just been exposed to it.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So right, and then Dallas too. Exactly what musical influences
did you? It was probably more the country, my.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Latin oh yes, my Latin brothers and sisters, which I love. Yeah,
and I always feel like I was Latin in my
other life. I just I'm so drawn to the culture,
to the food, to the people. I love them so much.
And of course Dallasians are Texans are just so there's
just so warm and loving and uh, you know it's
it's that it's a vibe.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, proud bunch, Yeah they are and everything's bigger. Let's
let's emogify your songs really quick on the album. Think
of an emoji for the for the songs from your
album One Suitcase, say it with your chest.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What emoji pops in your head?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I would say, like the hard with the eyes.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Like oh yeah, like googly eyes, but hard eyes. I
would say treasure chest. That's the lazy answer. Swerve, What
do you got?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Swerve is kind of like with the glasses, you know,
cool and it's just like swerve, you know, chill exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He's just got so, he's got, he's got so much.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Riz as the kids saying, I like that I'm dancing
lady emoji because he's just having a good time dancing
lady red dress exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Dancing. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mine suck unfold, unfold.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's like maybe a beach that's kind of like a
beach vibe.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I said. If there is a Miami emoji, it would
be that. Yeah, that's the bible.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I like that Miami.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah there isn't one, but we'll pretend. And then last
one suitcase.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I guess maybe just the suitcase, one single suitcase. You
do airplane or yes, you do airplane with a suitcase.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
The way things are going, you can do money sign.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You know this one's gonna this one's gonna be big, right, Yeah, yeah,
that's a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Manifest this for you.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yes, let's go.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Before we let you go, I like to ask this question.
It's the deepest question you'll ever hear. This guy over here,
ask what do you want your legacy to be after
it's all said and done, which you're kind of creating
one and you don't even know it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I always talk about fame is not a selfish fame,
is a selfless fame. And when God gives you this platform,
I think is our job to do something good for
the world. And my thing is I've always been children
like I would love to do schools for refugees, you know,
or regular people that just want to go to international school,
(11:35):
learn international languages, whatever that is. And also adults, like
healing centers for them. I want to kind of keep
them young and healthy. And it's not being obsessed with youth.
It's just I have one body, and I want to
keep this, like, take care of this one that I have.
It's so true, healing centers and schools.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I love that. I know you do charity work.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Too, I already do.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah. Actually the album is going to be my husband
and I be on our own label, and I always
talk about him. He gave me wings to fly. I
love your ob Thank you for everything you do for
me and our family. And so it's called Choo's Love
and they're based in London, and the proceeds of my
album is going to a charitable organization for refugees and
(12:16):
misplaced people in the world to help them show that
there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I love.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And we also have a charitable organization which my husband
is the chairman for it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It's called Hope Supply in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
They're kind of like the Baby to Baby and ninety
nine percent of the proceeds that we get it goes
straight to the to the cause to help homeless children
and moms to provide essential needs for them. We love
giving back, we love helping people and that's something.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I would love to do.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Man, amazing work. Continue to do it. You are a
bright light in this dark world we live in.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I'm changing my algorithm, just gonna follow shops so I
can be positive all that.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Thank you so much for having me. This was an
amazing interview, like really so much fun. You're awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Dropt you. Thanks shop, Thank you
Good we are here with shop everybody people.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome. I love you, do you love? Do you love Chicago?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I lived here for almost a year and a half.
What like for thirteen years ago or something? Wow, what
neighborhood I was in, like Randolph, like literally like one
of the glass you know, like high rises and overlooking
the you know.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
River beautiful so so River North. Basically the Loop, the
Loop exactly. What What was your favorite part of living
in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I think the fashion people really dress nice here and
I appreciate fast they.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Do they yeah, and then well I guess when I
was here.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And of course the food. There's so many great places
to pick from.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And uh, the people are they're fun.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have a good time.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, good time. You guys know how to like have
a good time. Goes down the place.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, we don't work. We don't work on Friday shop
in the summer. We're like, yeah, this is Friday, it's summer.
I'm not working for you.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Because you have so many that are like it's nice,
so you get you get like a little hooky.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Thank you for having me, of course, and I just
want to start real quick, and I know, you probably
told the story a million times, but your story is
so fascinating. I think our viewers and our listeners need
to know a little bit about it, where you came
from to this very moment sitting here with us.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know, I'm a child of the revolution. I would
say that the fundamentalists sort of took over in Iran,
and and my dad he was one of Shaw's, you know,
a guy for petroleum and so. And what happened is
when your revolution happened, they kidnapped my brothers. They were
like shooting at our house every other week. And then
(01:42):
because of the stress, my dad had a heart attack
at fifty three and barely fifty three, and uh and
so and uh, he didn't make it. And so my
mom was left with thirteen kids in revolution. And so
they then gets better. They freeze all our assets because
became maybe became immediate enemy of the state. So it
(02:04):
was just a lot, you know. I felt so bad
for my mom. She was only thirty nine years old, like,
you know, thank god, she had a lot of nice
jewelry and my dad had given her. So she sold
all of it for us to survive in that eight years.
And then she was like, you know what, we got
to get out of here. This, this is not good
a place to live. So she sacrificed a lot and
so we became a refugee of a Turkey. So I
(02:26):
was there for about a year and in Ankara, the
capital city, waited until my paperwork to Germany and they
let us know that my paperwork for boarding school was
ready to go. And so I was only eight and
a half. So I had to say back to my mom.
But I was like, you know, I was like, Mom,
I know you're doing this for me, and she was crying.
I was crying.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I was like, this is for both of us. Is
better life for you know?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And so I went to Germany was there for almost
four years and I finally heard about my papers being
ready for a green card to come to us, and
I lit up and I was like having calendar and
every day I would like scratch it off, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Were excited to come here?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I was, you know, and the American dream baby, yeah,
and so you know, and then got on a Lufton's
a flight all by myself with a tiny little suitcase.
And that's why I hinted the album is called One
Suitcase everything I owned in the world in that suitcase,
and at fourteen, got on a Luftons of flight by
myself and went to JFK. The agents came and got me.
(03:23):
They'd send the tallest ones, like there were six five
and I was like four to eleven, I don't know,
and I was so scared and they were like, no, no,
welcome to America. They were so nice, and they took
me for fingerprints and then I was it and got
on hopped in another plane and my Green card was
in my hand. I was looking at and I start
crying and I was like, God, you know, I've been
through a lot, but this is this is a gift,
(03:43):
Like thank you for reuniting me with my family again.
I saw my mom for the first time after five years.
I was.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I was a teenager and I was like, look, I'm
all grown mom.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know right, that is a long time to go
without seeing mo. Yeah, but that built so much strength
inside you. Having to travel all on your own to
make you like a super independent forced you to at
a really young age one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was going to school by myself. I was going
to tennis lessons by myself.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
When I was in Germany. So when I came to US,
I can't drive.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm fourteen, and of course I hadn't seen my other
brothers and sisters in seven eight years, so I was
so excited to see them finally. Because we were a
big family. There's thirteen of us. I was the baby thirteen.
So I was just happy, lucky thirteen, lucky thirty and
my case is definitely lucky. Yeah, but yeah, it was.
It was incredible being learning how to be independent and.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Probably like what was your first language growing up?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Percy?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Okay, so then now you have to and now you
have to learn a whole new language, and you have
to go to school in America.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, well that must have been a big shift too.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Definitely, I was definitely made fun of.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I was bullied and you know, and so my goal
was like, okay, I was like I was in Esoul,
which is English speaking other languages, and so and I
summer it was like summer. I was like, that's it,
summer of ninety I don't know two. I was like,
I'm going to learn I am going to learn English.
I was watching like t I was listening to music
and I was writing all the translation. I was like, oh,
he says her eyes are pretty or like, I don't know.
(05:05):
So I learned English and three months later I go
back to school and these girls were used to make
fun of me. They were saying something and I looked
at him. I was like, I was like, I know
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I was like, yeah, you don't think. I was like,
you better watch watch hot I know. I was like,
I speak fluent now.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They were like how.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I was like, you can't even speak a language. Probably
I know three. I got three on my belt now,
So they didn't mess with me again.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Where are they now?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They're not sitting down being interviewed by Chicago's number one
of music stations exactly. Yeah. Wow, what an incredible story.
So here we are we fast forward. You end up
getting into the music industry. How long ago did you
start this journey professionally?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Really like almost going into six years.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I just didn't have, you know, I was they didn't
have the means or wells to do it, just because
I was working trying to help the family, you know,
and making a living here in us and just make
a life for herself. So I didn't have the didn't
have necessarily the funds or the time, and when the
opportunity came and the dream was still inside of me,
and I kind of like put my hand up in
(06:04):
the sky and I said, Okay, God, you gave me
this stream, and if you still got that gift for me,
I'll take it. And then things just start happening. I
found Hiven Sharp and he's worked with j Low and
then did the song my Love Don't costs the thing
Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Amazing story. It's such an inspiration too. That's so amazing. Okay,
So thirteen siblings?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yes? Can you name them all?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Okay, I only have two, so I do.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Okay, we're gonna ask you because all right, so let's
get to the music. Because I listened to One Suitcase
the double album. It's a vibe. It's like, uh, what
did I label it? As I like to label things
pop poto pop? Photo pop poto pop is positive dancy pop.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I start using that positive dancy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Pop, right, Okay? Is that?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
What the what do you picture when people are listening
to this album? What do you picture them doing? Like?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What's there? What's the environment like around them?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You know?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I think when we were doing the song One Suitcase
is really about my story, you know, fleeing fundamentalism and
finding a new life in the Western world, and you know,
it's about freedom, liberty, love and all of those really
cool things. And I've been exposed to so many different
genres of music throughout my life, and so I kind
(07:21):
of wanted to sprinkle a little bit of everything. But
I always think of it like a dance anthem party. Hey,
you know, we got shab on, let's go. We might
start slow, and then you know, it's an alchemy and
then from alchemy we alchemize everything into something positive and loving.
And let me just go from there and just lights off,
just go lights on.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Me listening to it, what it reminded me of is
not specific artists. Which do you like to get compared
to artists or no, some people say do Alipa.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I think she's so cute.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I like her, you know, I hear a little bit
of that.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But but what I hear is I hear a time
in my life where I'm just having a good time,
you know what I mean. It's not specific artists. There's
a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Like I get the dua stuff. But I'm hearing some
of the two thousands in there too. Yeah, some two
thousands pop, like like when Fergie had her moment, right,
And I also hear a little Middle Eastern influence.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh yeah, definitely do you Is that where you're going?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
For?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Absolutely? I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
The reason I chose music because music has been so
healing for me. I remember I was six or seven
years old. There was a Iran Iraq war and the
bombs were coming down, and so the louder the mom's got,
the louder on music got. My mom was cooking food,
the small of the food in the house and the music,
and we were like put ourself in that bubble. And
I always say so, music is so transformational and it
(08:37):
transports you to another place, you know, And that's why
I love music so much. It has healed me so
in my earlier years, of course, we listened to belly
dancing and you know, all kinds of music like pop.
But then when I went to Germany it was like
techno pop. And I went to Baltimore, first time I
ever heard hip hop and R and B.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
So I would say, Wu Tang raised me.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
That's a T shirt. Wu Tang raised me to make
had a T shirt merch Let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah what Tang raised me? So I thought, I was like,
this is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Then we started going to DC and night life, and
I was like I was exposed to so many different
m and techno and I.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Was like, oh my god, this is cool.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like so I think like through my life, I've just
been sprinkling a little bit of everything in my music
because it's just been exposed to it.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So right, and then Dallas too. Exactly what musical influences
did you? It was probably more the country, my.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Latin oh yes, my Latin brothers and sisters, which I love. Yeah,
and I always feel like I was Latin in my
other life. I just I'm so drawn to the culture,
to the food, to the people. I love them so much.
And of course Dallasians are Texans are just so there's
just so warm and loving and uh, you know it's
it's that it's a vibe.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, proud bunch, Yeah they are and everything's bigger. Let's
let's emogify your songs really quick on the album. Think
of an emoji for the for the songs from your
album One Suitcase, say it with your chest.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What emoji pops in your head?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I would say, like the hard with the eyes.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Like oh yeah, like googly eyes, but hard eyes. I
would say treasure chest. That's the lazy answer. Swerve, What
do you got?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Swerve is kind of like with the glasses, you know,
cool and it's just like swerve, you know, chill exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He's just got so, he's got, he's got so much.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Riz as the kids saying, I like that I'm dancing
lady emoji because he's just having a good time dancing
lady red dress exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Dancing. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mine suck unfold, unfold.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's like maybe a beach that's kind of like a
beach vibe.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I said. If there is a Miami emoji, it would
be that. Yeah, that's the bible.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I like that Miami.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah there isn't one, but we'll pretend. And then last
one suitcase.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I guess maybe just the suitcase, one single suitcase. You
do airplane or yes, you do airplane with a suitcase.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
The way things are going, you can do money sign.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You know this one's gonna this one's gonna be big, right, Yeah, yeah,
that's a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Manifest this for you.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yes, let's go.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Before we let you go, I like to ask this question.
It's the deepest question you'll ever hear. This guy over here,
ask what do you want your legacy to be after
it's all said and done, which you're kind of creating
one and you don't even know it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I always talk about fame is not a selfish fame,
is a selfless fame. And when God gives you this platform,
I think is our job to do something good for
the world. And my thing is I've always been children
like I would love to do schools for refugees, you know,
or regular people that just want to go to international school,
(11:35):
learn international languages, whatever that is. And also adults, like
healing centers for them. I want to kind of keep
them young and healthy. And it's not being obsessed with youth.
It's just I have one body, and I want to
keep this, like, take care of this one that I have.
It's so true, healing centers and schools.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I love that. I know you do charity work.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Too, I already do.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah. Actually the album is going to be my husband
and I be on our own label, and I always
talk about him. He gave me wings to fly. I
love your ob Thank you for everything you do for
me and our family. And so it's called Choo's Love
and they're based in London, and the proceeds of my
album is going to a charitable organization for refugees and
(12:16):
misplaced people in the world to help them show that
there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I love.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And we also have a charitable organization which my husband
is the chairman for it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It's called Hope Supply in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
They're kind of like the Baby to Baby and ninety
nine percent of the proceeds that we get it goes
straight to the to the cause to help homeless children
and moms to provide essential needs for them. We love
giving back, we love helping people and that's something.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I would love to do.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Man, amazing work. Continue to do it. You are a
bright light in this dark world we live in.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I'm changing my algorithm, just gonna follow shops so I
can be positive all that.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Thank you so much for having me. This was an
amazing interview, like really so much fun. You're awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Dropt you. Thanks shop, Thank you
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