Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Getting Dropped by Her Record Label Made Gigi Perez the Artist She Is Today

Gigi Perez says what might have been the lowest point of her music career...ended up being the most important...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Gg Perez is riding high this year thanks for her
smash Sailor's Song, which has been to stream more than
a billion times, already three MTV vm A nominations and
more likely to follow at the Grammys.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
But it wasn't that long ago. Only a couple of
years prior, she was in a very different situation.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
She'd lost her first record deal, and while it forced
her to move back home first, then she actually credits
that era as crucial to her growth.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
And confidence as an artist.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
She tells NME that period of time was so important
to me. It was so formative. It allowed me to
experience what otherwise feels like a very deep failure as
an artist, to be in that position of getting.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Dropped by your label. The best part about it is
nothing happened.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I woke up the next day, had air on my lungs,
got to ride my bike and be around my family.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
And that is the ultimate blessing.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
The only thing that truly stands is connection to the
person next to you. My success comes down to that,
the words of gg Perez, and the music started to
pour out as soon as she stopped trying around at
the beach and every life is out now direct from Hollywood,