Lukas Graham chats with #MostRequestedLive!

Lukas Graham joins #MostRequestedLive for an exclusive chat!

Episode Transcript

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Hey, I'm Lucas Graham and thisis my most requested live Ask Me Anything
chat. Thank you Romeo and iHeartRadiofor having me on the show tonight.
My new song is called cheat Code. I'm gonna reach over. Start by
asking, Oh, so, Constancefrom lock Haven, Pennsylvania wants to know,

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how do you pronounce your full namewith the proper native accent? So
I have two names. I havemy father's name Lucas Graham, and my
dad was Irish, so I guessthat's how we'd pronounce it. And then
my mother's name full comma, Sothat's Lucas full Comma. Easy done.
You could also call me four cameralike my American friends would do and Time

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from Saint Louis, Missouri. Takeus back a few years. When did
you first get the call that somebodywas interested in you and your music?
So it's a funny story because wedidn't actually get a call from someone.
We called someone my still manager,Lese and Casper. We basically created the

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Lucas Grahams sound back in twenty teneleven, ten eleven, and then we
went to a label then called CopenhagenRecords, and little independent label that we
really liked. They had some coolartists and they had some cool people working
there, And I remember we wentwith the demo tape to them and said,

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if y'all don't want to release this, then we're gonna try and do
it ourselves. And I'm still withthe same label. Tobin, who's the
CEO, was working there back then. Christine still working there. It's just
called United Stage now, but yeah, I'm really happy to still be there.
That's home. Lana from Nashville,Tennessee wants to know when do you

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know it's time to release new music. What triggers in your mind that it's
the right time. First of all, Anna, I need the song,
but I like to have more thanone ready, so to speak. I
like working on albums as like awhole. So I like having like,
say six to eight ten songs thatare good enough for a record or for

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an album before I start putting onout singles and then I don't know,
it's a lot about how the windsare blown. I don't think there's a
real rhyme or reason behind it.But I think that it also has something
to do with do I have thetime to go tour and promote I have
two kids at home soon three,and a wife that likes to see me

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as well a little bit. Soit's a got to make everything work.
You know, Will from Statham,Georgia. Have you ever been vocally trained
or are you self taught? Sothere's a mix of things. Will.
I am my classically trained soprano soloistfor me Boys choir, so I sang
professionally from I was eight till Iwas twelve thirteen. When I was twelve,

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I sang at the Queen's funeral herein Denmark when I was thirteen was
actually my first trip to the US, singing in churches on the Eastern seaboard.
But then my rhythmic singing has beenkind of self taught. I use
a lot of classical techniques, butthen just I sing in my own way,
and I have then employed vocal coacheslater on to make new songs I've

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written easier to sing, and recentlytrying to incorporate some new singing techniques that
are more rhythmic, I guess,less classical. I like to have an
arsenal of things to use, soit's a mix of everything. I sing
a lot with my diaphram, Iuse my belly as like a big balloon
sometimes to get air and create support. But I've been practicing using a more

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chest supported version as well. Bothtechniques require the diaphrame to work, just
in two different ways. Mallory fromHenderson, Nevada. Where did you play
your first gig as Lucas Graham?So in Christiania, the neighborhood where I
grew up. We did a littlewarm up gig for an Irish folk band
called Grada back in two thousand andten. And then after that we started

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playing in the local jazz club onMondays, like one or two Mondays a
month, And because the jazz clubis closed on Mondays, so Pascal let
me have the key and we couldsell beer with like three dollars and let
people in for like seven dollars andmake everything kind of go into zero.

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And so by our first show therewas maybe like seventy people, and then
at some point there were so manythat we had to move the chairs and
the tables. There was like onehundred and sixty people in this tiny li
jazz club. It was very itwas very romantic, you know. It
started with friends and family, andthen suddenly we didn't know anyone at the
gig, and our friends was textingfrom outside saying, Hey, we can't

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get in, it's already full.That was a That was a moment.
Lucinda from Pennsburg, West Virginia.Is anyone else in your family in the
music business. No, My motheris a music teacher and I like amateur
opera singer, sings and choirs.My Auntie Nuga is also a music teacher.

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My mom plays a piano and theguitar, and I remember her rehearsing
with me as when I was inthe choir. And my dad's family's Irish.
So everybody sings or plays an instrumentor recites poetry. So it is
a musical family, but not anot as musicians like professional musicians, more
on an amateur level. Kelsey fromHarrisburg, Pennsylvania. Do you have brothers

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or sisters and what do they do? Yes? I have an older sister
who works at a museum. Shehas a master's degree in English literature with
a specialty in immigration, I believe, and my younger sister works at as
like an art factory, and yeah, wonderful sisters. The oldest one lives

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a little too far away and thelittle One lives a little too close.
You know what I'm feeling. Danettefrom Hamilton, Alabama. What has been
your favorite part of your career?When I meet people who have been inspired
by my words, it still surprisesme, and it's something that's really hard

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to become accustomed to. I thinkit's pretty intense meeting someone who was inspired
by something I released almost a decadeago or more. And also when I
meet kids that weren't born when Istart releasing music that have some sort of
a relationship with a song released beforethey were born, that's also kind of

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intense. Tina from Louisville, Kentucky. If you were cremated and your ashes
were turned into a vinyl record,what song would it play? That's a
strange question. Maybe it would play. Funeral, still one of my favorite
songs I've ever written. Shannon fromAtlanta, Georgia. If you had to

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evacuate your house in a hurry andcould only grab one thing, what would
it be and why I'd grab mywife and kids. I would definitely grab
my wife and kids. Everything elseis just things. But if they were
not in the house, I wouldgrab whichever lyric book I was working on.
Everything I've ever written is in bookslike this. Let's see, let's

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see what do we have in thisone? Nothing in the middle, not
one of the good ones. Seefrom Minneapolis, Minneapolis. Boxers are Briefs
Boxers Anita from Tampa, Florida.If you could tell your younger self advice

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about your life, what would itbe and why? So this is a
catch twenty two kind of situation.I don't think I would ever want to
redo anything in my life. Imight want to go back and do something
again, just to kind of feelit another time. But I don't think
me giving my younger self advice wouldwork because I don't think I would listen.

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And I've been pretty blessed. I'vebeen very fortunate. I've had a
wonderful life, and I'm sure it'sgoing to be even more wonderful going forward.
So I think I would just goback and kind of enjoy looking at
myself a little bit and see whatI was doing and laugh knowingly that I
was going to mess up some situationI was in. Yeah, well that

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was it for me on the AskMe Anything Chat. Thank you Romeo and
iHeartRadio for having me on the showtonight. My new single. It's called
cheat code and thank you for playingit. Romeo, me and you.
We talked about the cheat code,the long distance relationship situation. It gets
tough sometimes, you know. Lookingforward to seeing you again, bro,