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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're hanging out on K to breakfast and super excited.
(00:02):
Right now, we have a co host from all the
way across in America, so he first time in Australia.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
She is absolutely killing it in the R and B scene.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Mata joins us on the show morning they hostly Welcome
to Australia.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
First time down Under? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Oh my god, down Under?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
How are you finding it so far?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Everybody has been so nice here, Like, I haven't met
any real people, I don't think so. Maybe this guy
that weren't at a hotel, but other than him, everybody's
been really nice.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And you've been performing.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You performed in Melbourne and Sydney. Yes, first time performing
down here. How is it that you've come from half
a world away and these people are there singing back
your songs?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What is that feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Like? It was crazy?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I really did not expect that at all because I
didn't know I had fans here and I'm across the
I'm on the other side of the world.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Took like two ten hour face to get here.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's like people know my songs and the crowds here
were better than my own crowds.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
How so, like, what do we do?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
They just were screaming, they were singing the words. Some
people were crying. I was just like, what, Oh my god.
The beat and green line was huge, So it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Tow that love.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I read in an article somewhere way back in your
sort of when you were starting out, and maybe this
is wrong, maybe this is right, but someone said that
you get bad stage fright.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Is that still a thing?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's better now.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I don't really get too nervous now. When I first
started singing, though, if I had a show in March,
I would be crying about it in January for like months,
Like I was terrified.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So how did that change? How did that process go?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Because you've literally been performing around the world, you were
performing with Chris Brown. You've gone from being super nervous
about it to owning it.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
How did you do that? I think you just have
to force yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I have a saying that comfort is the enemy of progress.
So I feel like, if you want to grow, you
got to just do scary stuff, get out of your company. Yeah,
so you have to just force yourself. But I still
get nervous.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What do you do when you are those nervous like
on the day kind of thing. Is it any little
hype up?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I don't eat, I have no outsite. I like to
take a little shot before I go on stays to
loosen me out. So we always pray and just have fun.
And I like being around my team and my background singers.
We just have fun and laugh a lot and then
make it feel so like free.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, oh that's really a thing.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Now, I really want to talk about your project with
Kate Trinada.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
How did that all come about?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So? I've been working with Kate Trinada since twenty twenty
around then.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I think it's been a hot minute.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
So before Covid, I had just gotten signed to rock Nation.
He was one of my first collaborators. I have a
song with him called teen Scene, so that was my first,
one of my first bigger songs, and then we had
so many loftover songs over the years. So my A
and r Omar was like, why don't we just put
a little project out while you work.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
On your album.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I needed to kind of stall my fans for the summer,
so that was the idea, and we ended up just
falling in love with every song and it turned into
a bigger thing.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But I'm really proud of it and people are loving.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I feel like it's such a difference from when your
first music came out, which was really like in your
feel yeah, and then you have this kind of dance vibe.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So you see your working on the album, yeah, speaks
from that is it's still this kind of vibe.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
We're going different again.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I kind of. I mean it's a little bit of this.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think I just want to try something new and
have fun and as you said, stop being so the
pressed all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Hey, it works song.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I'm like sad love a girl, So that's kind of
just who I am. I think it'll be a little
a little bit of both, but definitely vocals, ballads, pushing myself,
but fun, take myself back to my Indiana roots a
little bit, so a little bit of everything.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And is it gonna be a little gospel on you
because I've seen you teasing that on the Astagram.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, I've always wanted to do a gospel song. I'm
not ready to do a whole project maybe later in life.
Just a little sprinkled when I found myself more but
a little sprinkler gospel, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Wow, okay, I want to talk about the tour you've
just been on with Chris Brown. How did you get
that call? What was that whole process to get on
the tour?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So? I had just signed a publishing give with Warner,
and I think that our team's kind of just connected.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
We have the same people, I guess.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So I ended up getting on a song of his
called Best Ever Last Minute, a few days before this
project came out. I Last Minute recorded it and it
was really quick, and then a few weeks later, a
few months later, I found out I was going on tour.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It was just very, very fast. We had no time
to rehearse.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Oh my god, I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Just like throwing it together last minute, So I didn't
really have time to even be nervous or to.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Be freaking like.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I still didn't realize this happened.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I really don't think I did.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I've seen the photo, girl, You've been there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
When you got asked to be on that track as well,
did you know it was going to be for Chris
Brown or did they just sort of seen du A
mechs and go Hey Chuck and vocals on.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I knew it was for Chris Brown because I had
his vocals. Oh so, but it didn't feel real.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I remember I was in the studio and he called
me to thank me for doing it, and I was like,
this is not Chris Brown. There's nothing Frank call and
then it was just him like hey, thank you, and
I was like what so.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I still like everything still doesn't feel real.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It seems like this whole industry it's chaos. You know,
you started out on SoundCloud and got discovered through that,
and then the next thing you know, you're touring with
Chris Brown. You're in Australia performing What would be the
big dreams? If you could manifest it, write it down
on paper? What would your big dreams?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I have my little list of things. I want a
headline Rock and Rio one day. Yeah, also Gladstonbury. Is
that how you say that? I want to do that
so bad, Like I want to do all those those
worldwide festivals.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I also want to do a song with John Mayer.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh wow, that would be beautiful. Yeah, put it out
there that act that I've.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Been saying that for years. If you watch myviews, I say,
bring it back, bring it back. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So one day.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But those are a couple of the A couple of
the big ones.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, yeah, effect And I'm on this new album that
is coming out.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
How close are we to finishing it up?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We're close. I don't feel like we ever know what
it's going to be done. One day it just is done,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
But we have a lot of songs that I'm in
love with that I've been listening to for the past
couple of years because some of the songs are really old.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What's your favorite song to perform on tour?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Oh my god, the first song of the set, it's
called sexual Love. It's like my favorite song I've ever done.
It's with James Foutleroy and I just am so proud
of that song. I actually listened to it on the
flight over here and I was like, oh my god,
like this is a good song.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I I will hear.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, I love that song.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh I love that. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I do want to talk about your kind of glow
up through SoundCloud and getting discovered. How do you feel
now with music and social media and how a lot
of people getting discovered through social media has helped you.
Do you find it like it's really full on? What
are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It's definitely helped me.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
It is a job, though I feel like as an
artist now the job isn't even music. I mean it
should be, but I feel like it's become so much
more TikTok, get your like little promo videos of like
all that kind of stuff. I feel like it's taken
over the job of an artist, and I hate it,
to be honest, but sometimes I wish that I was
born in like the eighties or something that was the
era that I was growing up in, because I feel
(06:41):
like it was so much more about music then and
all it's not about all that other stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
But I like it though. It's fun, Yeah, it's just
hard when I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, it is such a mixa because it also is
the way you can connect with your fans.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It'll be good. Yeah, I talked to my fans all
day long. I'm in my respond to so many people.
So it's fun. But sometimes it's a little too much.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Have you ever gotten any like crazy dms from really
famous people wanting to get to work with you or
hang out and you're like, hold on.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yes, that's another trip. That's fine. You know a few.
I mean it's mostly like me, I'm not going to
say who.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Though even one? Not even one? Okay, what if category sports?
Yes that is like sport.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Into it, but that's just like normal okay category musicians.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah yeah, to work.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
With you both wants to a little bit of everything
other than John Mayer because we're we're facing that interesting okay.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And then where's next for you? From here? You're off
to Japan.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I'm going to Japan tomorrow. I can't wait. Haven't been
there either. I'm on a little world tour right now.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Wow, So we'll see what happens and plans to see you.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'm sleeping after this.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Get the Alton Girl Okay album, I'm working on that,
but I'm definitely gonna go home.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I want to take myself on a little trip somewhere.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh yeah, well yeah, I was thinking, I mean at
least close to Hawaii. I've never been to Hawaii, so
I was like, I want to go to the beach,
just any beach.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I mean Australia. We have like ninety nine percent beach.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
That's just twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I've already done that.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh well, We're so glad to have you in Australia
and thank you so much for performing it's been incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Hey guys, this is Mada and this is endless night.