September 7, 2024 • 7 mins
Mark Ambor joins #MostRequestedLive and answers your questions in this exclusive chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Mark Amber and you're watching my iHeartRadio Ask Anything Chat.
Thanks to Romeo and most requested Live for having me
on tonight to talk about my song Belong Together. This
first one's from Lazette from Plano, Illinois. Plano, Plano don't know.
How do you protect your heart slash your integrity in
the music industry. So I've been at this for about
(00:21):
four years full time now, probably eight eight to ten
years in total, but it's only been the past few
that you know, industry has gotten involved. It was just
me in this room pretty much for most of my life,
and I think what I've learned through Rockwood coming out
my debut album, which Belonged Together's on. I think one
(00:42):
thing that I've learned that's really important is just being
authentic and staying true to myself no matter what. There
was a few years there when I was taking advice
from people that differed from what my gut was telling me,
and I think it led me down the wrong path
a few times. And with Good to Be the first
(01:05):
single off of Rockwood, it was the first.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Time that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I followed my gut fully when people were doubting me,
and it was the first thing that truly started significantly
resonating with a lot of people and led to Belong Together,
which was the song that followed it, and Belonged Together
since has kind of resonated all around the world in
a crazy way. So I think it's just about trusting
your gut and being authentic to who you are no
(01:32):
matter what. Riley from Hamilton, Ontario asks, how is Froggy
Amber doing?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Is he excited for tour? Wait?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So Froggy sits on my You're sitting on my studio
desk right now, and this is Froggy For those of
you who don't know Froggy Amber, Froggy Froggy's funny. I
got Froggy my first headline show ever. It was in Toronto.
It was fan that came up to me and she
(02:02):
gave me this frog and she was like, this is
Froggy Amber, and I'm like, all right, that's pretty cool.
No one has made a gift like that for me before.
And from that moment on, Froggy's been on stage with me.
I think for almost every performance he sits on the
piano or he sits somewhere, but on my shows he
sits on the piano and he has like an Instagram
(02:24):
now and Froggy's kind of popular. He's coming on this
next tour. We're going on in the fall and in
the next spring, and uh yeah, he's doing great. He's
very excited for tour. Thanks for asking. He's blushing. He's blushing.
Lauren from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania asks what does the song Bruises
and Stains mean to you?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I wrote Bruises and Stains In January of this year
in Seattle. I was working with a producer I'd always
wanted to work with.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
This dude. His name is Ryan Hadlock.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He worked with illuminators Vance Joy, like Zach Bryan, Randy Carlisle,
all these people and artists and bands that I that
I that I'm inspired by. And I spent a week
there and was the last night it was like midnight,
the last night. I was able to stay in the
studio because he didn't live there and he had beds
(03:16):
there and whatever. I was crashing there, so I had
access to all the instruments in this amazing studio. It
was like this old converted horse barn crazy in the
woods of Seattle is amazing. I also think, just like
Sewn Mendes was just there for his new album I
Saw Crazy Anyway. Yeah, I wrote Bruises and Stains in
that moment because it was the end of this week
(03:40):
long trip with this producer, and I feel like I
was so focused on getting the songs we were working
on right that I wasn't really present in the fact
that I made it to this place and I got
to work with this person. I was really excited about
that going in and it kind of faded away and
I was it was the trip was over, and I
was sitting there kind of like, Damn, I missed.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I missed really soaking that all up.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And the first line of Bruises and Staines is basically
just about, you know, you never know a good thing
till it passes, till it lights you up and leaves
you in his ashes. It's about being present, wishing I
was more present, And basically Bruces and Stains is about
reconciling who the person you are with the person you
wish you could be. And I think that's something that
affects me a lot, affects probably a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But yeah, that's what that song means to me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It takes me back to that time and that feeling
very specifically, and yeah, I really like bruises and stans.
Thanks for the question. Laura Marianna from sal Palo, Brazil asks, Hey, Mark,
I'm Mari from Brazil. Hey Mari, I would like to
know if you have any rituals before going on stage,
maybe a voice warm up or something specific that you
(04:49):
do every time before singing. I take this opportunity to
ask you to come and sing in Brazil. You are
very loved here.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Thanks Mari. I would love to come to Brazil. It's
on the bucket list. We're gonna try to get there
as soon as we can. A ritual before going on stage.
I mean, I have my band and my little crew
and we'll always huddle up and you know, talk about
how it's the first time anyone out there is seeing
the show and get excited and really pump each other up,
(05:18):
and we do have vocal warm ups and all that stuff.
I've yet to kind of like have a specific weird
thing that I do. We always like have like gummy
sour gummy worms around the around the the green room,
just because that's something me and the crew all like.
So we'll be like popping us sour gummy worms all day,
but I'm trying to think besides that, it's just the
(05:41):
vocal warm ups and we huddle around and yeah, we
just get excited.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Joe from Lancaster, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Favorite song you've ever written go, I'm gonna go with
the with the basic answer, I'm gonna go with belong Together,
our rope together, all alone in my room, staring out
the window with my guitar, and the way that it's
resonated around the world has been so insane to watch.
(06:12):
I mean that I can make something so isolated and
so alone and it just flies across the world and
the way it has is just like mind blowing and
it's really amazing. And I've met so many people through it,
and I've been able to travel with so many places
with my band and do so many things I always
dreamed of doing because of the success of Belonging Together,
and I'm really just proud of it. And yeah, yeah,
(06:37):
Blong Together. Thanks again for watching my Ask Anything Chat.
My new song is called Belong Together on my debut album, Rockwood.
Thanks to Romeo and Most Requested Live for having me
on tonight to answer your questions.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
See y'all soon.
I'm Mark Amber and you're watching my iHeartRadio Ask Anything Chat.
Thanks to Romeo and most requested Live for having me
on tonight to talk about my song Belong Together. This
first one's from Lazette from Plano, Illinois. Plano, Plano don't know.
How do you protect your heart slash your integrity in
the music industry. So I've been at this for about
(00:21):
four years full time now, probably eight eight to ten
years in total, but it's only been the past few
that you know, industry has gotten involved. It was just
me in this room pretty much for most of my life,
and I think what I've learned through Rockwood coming out
my debut album, which Belonged Together's on. I think one
(00:42):
thing that I've learned that's really important is just being
authentic and staying true to myself no matter what. There
was a few years there when I was taking advice
from people that differed from what my gut was telling me,
and I think it led me down the wrong path
a few times. And with Good to Be the first
(01:05):
single off of Rockwood, it was the first.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Time that.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I followed my gut fully when people were doubting me,
and it was the first thing that truly started significantly
resonating with a lot of people and led to Belong Together,
which was the song that followed it, and Belonged Together
since has kind of resonated all around the world in
a crazy way. So I think it's just about trusting
your gut and being authentic to who you are no
(01:32):
matter what. Riley from Hamilton, Ontario asks, how is Froggy
Amber doing?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Is he excited for tour? Wait?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So Froggy sits on my You're sitting on my studio
desk right now, and this is Froggy For those of
you who don't know Froggy Amber, Froggy Froggy's funny. I
got Froggy my first headline show ever. It was in Toronto.
It was fan that came up to me and she
(02:02):
gave me this frog and she was like, this is
Froggy Amber, and I'm like, all right, that's pretty cool.
No one has made a gift like that for me before.
And from that moment on, Froggy's been on stage with me.
I think for almost every performance he sits on the
piano or he sits somewhere, but on my shows he
sits on the piano and he has like an Instagram
(02:24):
now and Froggy's kind of popular. He's coming on this
next tour. We're going on in the fall and in
the next spring, and uh yeah, he's doing great. He's
very excited for tour. Thanks for asking. He's blushing. He's blushing.
Lauren from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania asks what does the song Bruises
and Stains mean to you?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I wrote Bruises and Stains In January of this year
in Seattle. I was working with a producer I'd always
wanted to work with.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
This dude. His name is Ryan Hadlock.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He worked with illuminators Vance Joy, like Zach Bryan, Randy Carlisle,
all these people and artists and bands that I that
I that I'm inspired by. And I spent a week
there and was the last night it was like midnight,
the last night. I was able to stay in the
studio because he didn't live there and he had beds
(03:16):
there and whatever. I was crashing there, so I had
access to all the instruments in this amazing studio. It
was like this old converted horse barn crazy in the
woods of Seattle is amazing. I also think, just like
Sewn Mendes was just there for his new album I
Saw Crazy Anyway. Yeah, I wrote Bruises and Stains in
that moment because it was the end of this week
(03:40):
long trip with this producer, and I feel like I
was so focused on getting the songs we were working
on right that I wasn't really present in the fact
that I made it to this place and I got
to work with this person. I was really excited about
that going in and it kind of faded away and
I was it was the trip was over, and I
was sitting there kind of like, Damn, I missed.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I missed really soaking that all up.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And the first line of Bruises and Staines is basically
just about, you know, you never know a good thing
till it passes, till it lights you up and leaves
you in his ashes. It's about being present, wishing I
was more present, And basically Bruces and Stains is about
reconciling who the person you are with the person you
wish you could be. And I think that's something that
affects me a lot, affects probably a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But yeah, that's what that song means to me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It takes me back to that time and that feeling
very specifically, and yeah, I really like bruises and stans.
Thanks for the question. Laura Marianna from sal Palo, Brazil asks, Hey, Mark,
I'm Mari from Brazil. Hey Mari, I would like to
know if you have any rituals before going on stage,
maybe a voice warm up or something specific that you
(04:49):
do every time before singing. I take this opportunity to
ask you to come and sing in Brazil. You are
very loved here.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Thanks Mari. I would love to come to Brazil. It's
on the bucket list. We're gonna try to get there
as soon as we can. A ritual before going on stage.
I mean, I have my band and my little crew
and we'll always huddle up and you know, talk about
how it's the first time anyone out there is seeing
the show and get excited and really pump each other up,
(05:18):
and we do have vocal warm ups and all that stuff.
I've yet to kind of like have a specific weird
thing that I do. We always like have like gummy
sour gummy worms around the around the the green room,
just because that's something me and the crew all like.
So we'll be like popping us sour gummy worms all day,
but I'm trying to think besides that, it's just the
(05:41):
vocal warm ups and we huddle around and yeah, we
just get excited.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Joe from Lancaster, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Favorite song you've ever written go, I'm gonna go with
the with the basic answer, I'm gonna go with belong Together,
our rope together, all alone in my room, staring out
the window with my guitar, and the way that it's
resonated around the world has been so insane to watch.
(06:12):
I mean that I can make something so isolated and
so alone and it just flies across the world and
the way it has is just like mind blowing and
it's really amazing. And I've met so many people through it,
and I've been able to travel with so many places
with my band and do so many things I always
dreamed of doing because of the success of Belonging Together,
and I'm really just proud of it. And yeah, yeah,
(06:37):
Blong Together. Thanks again for watching my Ask Anything Chat.
My new song is called Belong Together on my debut album, Rockwood.
Thanks to Romeo and Most Requested Live for having me
on tonight to answer your questions.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
See y'all soon.
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