September 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Falling Star Music Video
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Elie Al Hajj, known to fans as ELY, is a romantic at heart, a passionate musician, and a deeply emotional artist whose life experiences shine through every note he creates. A believer in love, a champion of heartfelt storytelling, and a devoted filmmaker, Elie has spent decades channeling his journey into art. His latest release, My Falling Star, captures the essence of that journey with raw honesty and lyrical beauty.Born on July 8, 1982, in Beirut during Lebanon’s civil war, Elie was raised in a Christian Orthodox family where resilience and creativity flourished despite hardship. His father, Michael, a carpenter, instilled discipline and hard work, while his mother, Raymonda, encouraged his early love for singing even though she had set aside her own musical dreams. From an early age, Elie was captivated by the vibrant sound of 1980s hits, but it was the timeless melodies of The Beatles that truly ignited his passion. Inspired, he picked up an electric guitar and began composing songs that carried both joy and introspection.By 1996, Elie was refining his craft, and in 2000 he began performing publicly with his first band, Viceversa. These early years with classic rock cover bands laid the foundation for his later evolution into original, deeply personal compositions. His debut album, The Reflection of Changes (2012), showcased this growth while his parallel passion for cinema led him to direct and produce several feature-length films and shorts—works that, like his music, are rich in emotion and storytelling.After stepping away for a period to focus on film and personal milestones, Elie returned to music in 2025 with renewed energy. He began releasing songs in Arabic, culminating in My Falling Star, a song born from heartbreak yet filled with hope. Written after a profound breakup in 2024, the track draws inspiration from a night by the sea when Elie and his former partner witnessed a shooting star together. That fleeting, magical moment, later tinged with loss, became the foundation for a song that captures longing, reflection, and the fragility of human connection.For Elie, songwriting is cathartic. “I write from the heart,” he explains. “I’ve written more than 15 songs about my ex-girlfriend because every time we went through a breakup, a new song emerged. It’s not all heartbreak—some songs capture happiness too. But the ones born from heartbreak carry the most intensity because solitude allows my feelings to flow freely.”The music video for My Falling Star heightens the song’s emotional impact. Filmed at a historic seaside location in Lebanon during sunset, it reflects both vulnerability and strength. Elie recalls the exhilaration of performing on a massive stone wall with his custom-made guitar and a vintage 70s drum set, drawing inspiration from the timeless sound of bands like The Beatles and Keane.With decades of experience at the crossroads of music and cinema, Elie Al Hajj remains committed to creating art that resonates both emotionally and visually. His vision is clear: to leave a legacy as a kind, honest, and perfectionist artist whose work offers beauty in both joy and sorrow.My Falling Star is now available on YouTube.About Elie Al Hajj
Elie Al Hajj is a Lebanese musician, composer, singer, producer, actor, and director. Known for blending heartfelt music with cinematic storytelling, he draws inspiration from personal experiences, classic rock influences, and a lifelong passion for film. His work reflects an unwavering commitment to authenticity, emotional resonance, and artistry.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/creator-to-creators-with-meosha-bean--4460322/support.
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Bio
Elie Al Hajj, known to fans as ELY, is a romantic at heart, a passionate musician, and a deeply emotional artist whose life experiences shine through every note he creates. A believer in love, a champion of heartfelt storytelling, and a devoted filmmaker, Elie has spent decades channeling his journey into art. His latest release, My Falling Star, captures the essence of that journey with raw honesty and lyrical beauty.Born on July 8, 1982, in Beirut during Lebanon’s civil war, Elie was raised in a Christian Orthodox family where resilience and creativity flourished despite hardship. His father, Michael, a carpenter, instilled discipline and hard work, while his mother, Raymonda, encouraged his early love for singing even though she had set aside her own musical dreams. From an early age, Elie was captivated by the vibrant sound of 1980s hits, but it was the timeless melodies of The Beatles that truly ignited his passion. Inspired, he picked up an electric guitar and began composing songs that carried both joy and introspection.By 1996, Elie was refining his craft, and in 2000 he began performing publicly with his first band, Viceversa. These early years with classic rock cover bands laid the foundation for his later evolution into original, deeply personal compositions. His debut album, The Reflection of Changes (2012), showcased this growth while his parallel passion for cinema led him to direct and produce several feature-length films and shorts—works that, like his music, are rich in emotion and storytelling.After stepping away for a period to focus on film and personal milestones, Elie returned to music in 2025 with renewed energy. He began releasing songs in Arabic, culminating in My Falling Star, a song born from heartbreak yet filled with hope. Written after a profound breakup in 2024, the track draws inspiration from a night by the sea when Elie and his former partner witnessed a shooting star together. That fleeting, magical moment, later tinged with loss, became the foundation for a song that captures longing, reflection, and the fragility of human connection.For Elie, songwriting is cathartic. “I write from the heart,” he explains. “I’ve written more than 15 songs about my ex-girlfriend because every time we went through a breakup, a new song emerged. It’s not all heartbreak—some songs capture happiness too. But the ones born from heartbreak carry the most intensity because solitude allows my feelings to flow freely.”The music video for My Falling Star heightens the song’s emotional impact. Filmed at a historic seaside location in Lebanon during sunset, it reflects both vulnerability and strength. Elie recalls the exhilaration of performing on a massive stone wall with his custom-made guitar and a vintage 70s drum set, drawing inspiration from the timeless sound of bands like The Beatles and Keane.With decades of experience at the crossroads of music and cinema, Elie Al Hajj remains committed to creating art that resonates both emotionally and visually. His vision is clear: to leave a legacy as a kind, honest, and perfectionist artist whose work offers beauty in both joy and sorrow.My Falling Star is now available on YouTube.About Elie Al Hajj
Elie Al Hajj is a Lebanese musician, composer, singer, producer, actor, and director. Known for blending heartfelt music with cinematic storytelling, he draws inspiration from personal experiences, classic rock influences, and a lifelong passion for film. His work reflects an unwavering commitment to authenticity, emotional resonance, and artistry.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/creator-to-creators-with-meosha-bean--4460322/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hi, guys, welcome to another episode of Creators to Creators. Today,
today we have a special guest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hello, Hi, it's Ellie also known as Elia.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you for coming on the show. You know, I
love going back to the beginning. I always say, the
beginning charge our trajectory in life. You know, our little
habits that we pick up along the way, you know,
tend to follow us into our adulthood. So tell me
a little bit about childhood. What was that like and
when did the love for music you know begin?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh, my childhood was it was cool? Actually, although we
had the Civil War back in Lebanon and the US
when I was like five and four and when I
was born to but everything faded out in the nineties
in the early nineties, and I got my inspiration to
become a musician after knowing the Beatles, which I was
(01:38):
introduced to, Yeah, which I was introduced to by a
math teacher that used to give me private lessons and
he had a brother who was a big Beatle fan.
So he told me once well, I was studying, and so,
like I said on the table, he told me, do
you know do you like this band? I told him
(02:00):
I don't know about this band just I both distayed
recently because I heard that my dad used to like them,
but I still didn't listen to them.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So he told me, you have to listen to them
and you might really like them. And that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
First week I tried listening to them, it was a
little bit t weird. The reaverb the fifties and I
mean the sixties sound that was on the Red album
was a little bit old fashioned for me. But after
a couple of listeners, I fell in love with the
Beatles and that was it. I was inspired to buy
(02:35):
guitar and that's where I started my musical career. Back
in nineteen ninety six, I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Fourteen, Wow, I mean that's a great that's a great
person to be inspired by the Beatles. I mean those
those guys, I mean they're just it's that, you know,
their story is it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, how did I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, all all these fans that were Beatles fans back
in the sixties were young too, so it's not like
something so difficult to fall in love with the Beatles.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Very interesting band.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah it is. What did you think? What was it
that I guess kind of you know, made you like
fall in love with Beetles? Like the fact was it?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What do you think the Beatles? You know, because I
think people, you know, I think there's always you know,
we love certain artists because they just exude something, you know,
or we feel something from their music or just something
that kind of speaks to us, like you know, you
hear like Michael Jackson, it's like there'll never be another
Michael Jackson, right, or they the Elvis, Like I feel
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like some some some of these artists they just have
that thing like what do you think that thing is
that kind of connects with people?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What connects me with them? Was I think that the coolness?
I mean they were so cool. They were loved by everybody.
Their music wasn't so hard, I mean wasn't so I mean,
it wasn't so hard to play because when I started
playing the guitar, I felt that, I'm really.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Like, they are a bit like me in a way.
You know, other.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Bands that I got inspired by, like led Zazeppelin and
The Purple were a little bit so strong and heavy
and powerful. But the Beatles were I mean always like
the cool, the chill. And you listen to them every time,
and who you are, you can listen to them and
(04:42):
you'll you'll really be great. I mean you'll be happy.
They have rocks tunes, pop tunes, and that's the interesting
thing about the spand plus I like Ringle Stars so much.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, you know I read you know,
you know you grew up Christian and uh and I'm curious, like,
you know, Christian orthodox upbringing right influencier creativity? Would you
say that it's also like and also emotional awareness right?
And what way did it did it?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You know, influence that oh my my religion, you mean
how it influenced influenced me and what music.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And the career creatively? Yeah, and you know in emotional
also awareness.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Of I don't know. It's like there's always hope for me.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
When I think about Jesus, think about the Lord God,
I'm always there. Positively, I want a better career, you know,
I want people to love me, to give them something interesting.
And this is really important when you put it like
this and you think like this about the career.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, I want a good career.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't want to make bad songs, scary songs, or
something that can influence you to do bad things or
you know, there are a lot of things out there
that are not good.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
But I just want to go be honest with people.
This is me. This is what I can give, you know,
and create.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah no, I love that. So you know you returned back,
you know, to music with you know, a soul stirring
single my phone star. Tell us about the you know,
the process of that and what inspired this song.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Oh yeah, oh the process. The process was.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I recorded the song at home in my small home
studio and it took me maybe a week to be complete.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
To be done.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The idea behind this song was when I was sitting
with my ex girlfriend near near the beach. We were
enjoying an interesting night together eating chips. I think and
drinking some interesting things, and suddenly she saw a shooting
star and she said, oh.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
There's a shooting star up there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I told her make a wish, So she made a
wish and I was like, wow, she saw something interesting.
After like minutes, another shooting star came down and I
saw it. I was like surprised. Two shooting stars, I mean,
after each other. I never saw this before, to be honest,
maybe I saw once, but not like two and three
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after each other.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So I closed my eyes.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I am my wish and my wish so that that
me and her will go on together as a couple,
and I mean to get married, and I mean I
don't want it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I didn't want it to end up so easily. But
unfortunately it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
We just stayed like together other three more years and
everything faded out. So this star that I wished upon
that was coming down, it fell and crashed. In the opinion,
this is what went by falling Star. I mean, it
did not work perfectly. So I called it falling Star.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I like that. I like that title. It's a great title.
How involved were you in the process of making this
song like you did all the I mean as far
as like in the booth in the producer you know room,
are you doing all the sounds? Are you like looking
over the producer's shoulders, Like, how did you know coming
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up with that sound?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That process?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I did all the track, everything I pre did, I
arranged it, wrote the lyrics and everything.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Just in the end, the.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Last part was to exit and master it. So I
sent it to someone better than me, which is like
a professional.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And he did this thing. Yeah, he did this thing.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I like working on my songs at home, especially at
night when there's nobody there. You just sit, take your time,
and very meant this is the most important thing for
a musicians. He had his own recording studio. Yeah, and
experiment and put new sounds there.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, I love that one. When did you first
pick up electric guitar and what inspired you to start composing?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
My first electric guitar was shortly after I got introduced
to the Beatles.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
That was in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It was Yeah, it was like Fender Stratocaster or clone
or copy.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Still somewhere, and I me and my friend bought the drums.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He started being the drums, and I started playing the
guitar at the same time. But you know, someone who
doesn't know much about music and self thought will create
only noise in the beginning.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, thanks God.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Our neighbors were so cool with us because we used
to put the drum set outside and play and you know,
was not a comfortable experience for them, but they helped.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
They were there for us.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I love that. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, you know, I
I think about when I look think about music, and
you know, nowadays the way we consume music is so
different to what it was you know back then. You know,
now everything's streaming, you know, so it's it's a little
bit more difficult to get your music out there or
to you know, or you know, because it's you know,
(10:45):
you're competing against really big artists as well on the charts.
You know, how do as an artist, how do you
like navigate that? And do you think nowadays you know,
is it is it? Is it kind of difficult to
get your stuff heard? And and what what are like
(11:06):
what are some things that you do that you know
kind of encourage you because I'm sure like as you know,
you know, you know, there's there's your beyonces, there's a
halo swifts of the world that has like this big machine.
But also in turn, within the art artistry, we have
you know AI that can help us get our stuff
out there. We have streaming, we have YouTube, we have
(11:27):
all this. You know, everything's online. You know, how do
you like what encourage you to continue to put push
your stuff? As an artist?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Uh? As an artist?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So I came back christianly to music because I had
a pause before and and my dad just passed away
like six months ago.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
And I was always this kind of guy, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I was always this kind of guy that used to
tell I'm gonna make it in the new field, I'm
going to become popular and we'll have I'll have a
good job and everything like this. But it never worked.
It never worked when he was still alive with us.
So after he passed away, I felt really like, just
it's it's the end. I just want to finish this
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chapter and want to start a new chapter. And I
want to show Dad in the sky in heaven that
I did it. I will not stop until this thing
is really done because it's it's my whole life. This
is what I really want, and I always pray for
this to happen, and I think it will happen. So
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this is part of this of the beginning of my career,
which is happening now with.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You guys, with with the.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Song online and just I need to find the people
that might be interested in my in my music and
that's it. They will share the music and that will
go on and on, and this will encourage me to
do more interesting things.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Not, uh give both, I will not. I will keep
keep going.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, yeah, well for sure, you know, I I loved
I love that, you know, I think in this especially
in the music world, you know, or in the in
the world of entertainment, you know, it is a lot
of work that goes into you know, be you know,
because you you are your brand right as they say,
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and you know, it's it's just you have to believe
in yourself with such a such a saturated field, right
there's so many artists every day we hear. But it's
it's just having that faith and resilience to keep going.
And I love that. I really love that, and that's
(14:01):
I think it's what it really takes to do this
music stuff. So I commend you. I really do. It's
really great, great work. Absolutely, Yeah, Yeah, I love asking
this question with with each guest, and there's no wrong answer,
but the three levels of influence, money, power, and respect.
(14:24):
And if you can choose only one of those things,
which one would you choose? And why?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Well, well, the second one.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Was ours money, power or respect?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Power? Power or respect? What inspires me? Is this a question? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What if you can choose only one of those things? Right,
which one would you choose? And why?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Like you?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Would you?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I would choose respect?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay, nice, I would use respec.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I would just because when a person is respectful and
he has this piece inside him, he's always feeling good.
He doesn't need money to feel good. This is thing,
This is something for free. You don't need power to
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respect people or to be respected. So this is the
simplest thing that I will go for, because if I
don't have respect for myself and for the people, then
I'm nothing. Money will not do anything, and power will
not do anything. It's your inner piece. You have to
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be in harmony with your inner peace, and this is
the most important thing. I think the other things are
important too, but not as much else.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Absolutely, I love that, you know, I think I read
too where you it was muse, I'm sorry. Film it
is also a big part of your passion for a film.
Filmmaking has been a big part of your career. How
did you balance your love for music with your passion
(16:14):
for a film.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Actually, it happened by chance. I'm a big of electing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
All the tapes, I mean, like old movies, VHS tapes
and stuff like this. It's like part of my hobbies.
And I watched a lot of movies in my life. Suddenly,
in twenty fifteen, I had a problem with my laryngitis.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
There was a problem there.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I couldn't sing, I couldn't speak anymore, and I was
preparing to shoot my first movie when I was living abroad.
So I could not anymore sing and speak well.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
So I pursued something else. I didn't stop.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I got busy with other projects, and lately, after I
broke up with my love of my life, I decided
to come back and give it one more shot.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The musical thing.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's awesome, that's really cool. Yeah, I love I love
love that. You you know, love film and in that passion,
I mean, I started out as well in a film.
And yeah, I fell in love with film through watching
The Alpha Hitchcock, you know, present series I just I'm
(17:37):
a big fan of Alpha Hitchcock. I just felt like
he was someone that was beyondest time and I really
liked the genre.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I love her movies too, But but the slasher ones,
slasher films more than the the classics.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I love that. Yeah, slashes are fun. So you said
that songs written after a breakup carry the most intensity.
Why do you think that is.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
After? Because when you break up.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
When I broke up with my girlfriend, which happened many
times through these three years, I felt, really I felt
so sad. It's broken, and I really didn't want to
miss this beautiful and amazing person.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
So what can I do other than just pick this
guitar and express my inner feelings through music.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
This is how I expressed them because I'm, let's say,
a quiet person.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't I don't like I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Love nature, I don't love love noise and stud this
on this kind of this is my character. So between
me and my girlfriend, when she's not there beside me,
the only way to do it is to communicate with
her through my songs at that time of a cup,
and then if she comes back or we if we
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come back together. I always used to put these songs
and let them hear the new things.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That I did.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
So it happened a couple of times, and of course
I wrote a lot of songs about us happy happy
ones which were not after a break, I was inspired,
I was happy. So yeah, but to me, writing music,
music isn't interesting, to be honest, I don't like writing
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words lyrics. I don't like writing lyrics because I'm composer
mostly nice, but in the end you have to put
yourself a focus and write something interesting from them.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, that what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, I love that, and I'm not really into It's
so funny. A lot of people, you know, they think
bish because I went to film school and you know,
directed some movies and things like that, and they're like,
do you like writing. I'm like, I didn't for a
long time. I didn't for a long time. I just
I had ideas and I just kind of, you know,
(20:33):
from cinematography background. I was so used to, you know,
a cinematographer first. So so you said, doing the visuals,
and I could see the story in my head, so
I was like, I know what I'm gonna shoot. I
know what it's going to look like, so I don't
need to write it down. But then, you know, I
took a writer's class and it just kind of made
me fall in love with you know, the process of
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it all. You know, I don't know, just it's it's interesting.
I'm glad I took it, of course.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, cool that you are into the skill too.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Actually, I compose the music, this is my process, and
then I write the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
That's why it's for me to.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Write, to write lyrics acording to the verse of Boris
and the sound that you already created. First of all,
I write a song, the music, compose it, and then
I play something like I talk some sounds like well
put on the window, some lyrics that have no meaning,
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but the sound is there, the melody is there. And
then to create the lyrics according to the sound that
you've done.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It's not easy. That's why it's a difficult process to.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Do with me when it comes to write lyrics, but
I always manage it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Thanks God every time it's working.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, I love that. That's cool. That's a cool process.
Thank you for sharing that. You know, your music video
for My Falling Star was shot in a historic seaside location.
You know, how did the visuals enhance the song. Emotional impact, Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The visuals.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
The most important thing was in the shooting on that day.
The drone, the drone. The drone picked amazing, amazing scene
near the beach and it was a historical place where
with the it was like this wall was built to
prevent the enemies from entering, and it was like a long,
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long historical story background behind this.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
So and it really fit the mood of the song.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I needed some kind of isolation and it showed you
are there. The world is around you, the seas all
around you, but still you are isolated alone.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And the Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I contacted the friend sister of my friend and she's
a dancer, a cool dancer.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
She came.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
She did some choreography to this music video. And yeah,
she's a very interesting person. You meet her and then
you're relaxed. She doesn't make you. She has a big heart,
very interesting character.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
She has this her.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Name is Esperla beautiful. Yeah, very interesting. Yeah, I like
working with her. Two music videos actually one Arabic and
one in English.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I love that. I think that's that's really cool. You know,
if if you could collaborate with any artist living or dead,
who would it be and why?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And why ah, As I told you, I love the Beatles.
So it's my dream to collaborate, collaborate with.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Dream, to collaborate with Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Star.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I love them.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I love the sound of his drums, his villains, his offbeats, everything. Yeah,
I would love to do something, play guitar with them
and sing.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah, and as bands I think is interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Very interesting band, No, for sure, Yeah, collaborate absolutely. Your
mouth to God's ears. How do you ensure your music
and films remain authentic, you know, while still being artistic
and also visually captivating, because you know, I think it's
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that's a really hard thing to like, you know, make
sure it's I think there's some artists that can do it,
you know. And you did that really well where you
not only it's really well done, well shot, but it's
also you feel. It makes you feel something, you know,
(25:16):
because I think a lot of times that's true. I
have music videos, you can watch them, and it's just
you know, I see it, it's cool, but I forget
about it. With this, it's more like you feel, but
it also it resonates it, it stays, it lingers with you,
which I think not many people can do.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Most of the people now nowadays shooting clips to show
a beauty and to show that, like, yeah, there was
a lot of money in the you know, to shoot
to show these things that are really not so important.
You know, everything is beauty shots now, like you're watching
a wedding. Wedding shoots and they put them in a
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song and it becomes a music video. No, in this song,
I really want to show sadness, isolation. I wanted people
to understand every verse what's going on there.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
And it shows.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
The clip shows that me and this girl are really
breaking up, coming back again, breaking up, coming back again.
But in the end, I said to myself, I mean
in real life, I said to myself, that's it. I
will wish you a beautiful life. I'm tired. I'm really
tired from this way of living. So like her on
(26:39):
her head on the end of the clip, and really
that was it. We broke up and till now that's it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
It's sober. We still say hello from time to time
because we're not enemies. But this energy and negative energy
that was before, I do not want to come back
to it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, I love that. I love that and that you know,
you set that healthy boundary, right. That's a lot of
times that I think in relationships, you know we can
we can give and give and give, and it just
you know, it doesn't feel maybe sometimes recivical or doesn't
feel I don't know, just doesn't feel connected. What do
(27:22):
you think is the biggest thing you know when it
comes to relationships that makes a relationship work, or or
maybe something that we kind of don't realize we're doing
in a relationship. Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I think.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
To make relationship raceship work, there has respect, mutual respect
between both people, mutual andbending. And you have to really,
I mean, you should not be with so and say,
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oh there might be someone better, there is someone better
out there.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You know, I will just be with him or with
her and we will.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
See, we will. No, it's not enough. It's not enough
at all. When you are committed to a person, that
have to give all that you can and create all
this world that a Q two feel happy and beautiful
together and not just think about out of things that
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can destroy you. So, this is very important in a relationship,
mutual respect, and you should always put it on yourself.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Is this good or the relationship? Should I do this.
If I cheat on her, then and pray to God
asking him please keep us together. Low we don't.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean, I wish with her forever and at the
same time I'm doing something bad.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Then what is this right? It's not logical. It will
not work like this. You have to be committed.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It means committed or else this will will come back
to you and karma is going to get back to you.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, this is what I learned.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. I love that.
You know, I agree, And I don't think we don't.
I don't think the time that we live in now.
I mean again, it's I think to experience love is
just a beautiful thing. But you know, I myself, I
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am afraid of it because of past situations, but I
appreciate that. It's a great way to look at it.
Looking ahead. What kind of legacy do you hope your
art leaves for audience.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Looking forward? Perhads, I don't know it will be here
a long time. Nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You might just sleep and not wake up in the morning.
But if I made it, really, I just want people
to remember me as a good person, as.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
A respectful artist that gives beautiful songs.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And I'm always there for my fans because I waited
all my life for them to appear, to go in
these big auto tunes, to make beautiful concerts for them
and enjoy mutual time together.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
So I'm forty three years old. Now never too late.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Look amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I think, thank you. I mean, it's not too late.
And I started feeling lately that I'm gonna make it big.
I don't know, it's just a feeling that I'm getting.
I'm feeling so much so I believe that anytime soon,
something's going to happen my life.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
This is what I do, and I love the expectation.
I feel like that's what we should do right when
we're believing in ourselves, and you know, I feel like
we should you know also you know, strive, but also
be an expectation of something better for us. And I
one hundred person agree. What advice would you give to
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you know, upcoming artists out there that want or someone
that wants to get into the music world or produce
or you know, anything in entertainment. What what advice would
you give?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Just you should work on your craft, you should take time,
don't just imitate friends or someone online just so I
want to be like her.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I want to be like him. No, you should be so,
you should.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You should do something from the heart, honest, and then
this is the only way that you'll find success, because
if if you imitate others, then it's not you. You're
just taking it. You have to do something from the heart.
Take your time. Nobody is gonna climb the stairs in
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two days. It's gonna take time. I've been trying for
twenty years and more and still I'm.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Little bit, little bit higher. Yeah, but I never lose hope.
Never lose hope. Take time. Practice on your vocals more
and more, because, for example, now I listen to the
song that I sang.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Ten years ago, I was like, what what kind of
voice is this? It's still cool now I've matured more
in the way, so there's always better and better.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I love that. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Thank you for
that advice. Where can people find you on social media
to follow everything you have going on and check out
your music, video and music.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
On social media. I'm on Instagram, I'm on.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Facebook, course, on YouTube, talk, I'm everywhere in general.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Awesome, I'm on all these sides.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
But I'm not active so active, I mean on social media.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Recently I opened not Facebook, but the other.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Ones, my musical pages and stuff like this, So I'm
still new trying to find new people to follow.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Absolutely absolutely everyone go follow, support and again, congratulations on
this beautiful single.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I'm so glad that you liked it, and I'm so
glad to be on your in beautiful interview with you
on your show. By the way, do you know how
to spell my name? E?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
O I E.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, but I mean, do you know how how
does it sound like? It's Alie, elle a, Ellie or Ellie. Yeah,
if you want. My family name is is al al Hush.
It's difficult for you to spell.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I love it, but it's so beautiful. Yeah, I love that.
It's a beautiful name.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
We have to thanks.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
We have two names. Ellie is a Christian name like Elias,
and there's Ali, which is Muslim name is Ali Ali Baba,
So they are a little bit they're a little bit different,
but they sound a little bit similar.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So it's Ellie al Hush also known as Eli.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It's beautiful. Well, thank you so much for your time,
and thank you for sharing your journey your story and
your art with us and blessing us on our episode today,
And thank you all for listening. I'm so glad, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
And I wish you a great day you too.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I hope another time we make this another interview, I'll
be a start.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Absolutely, I agree and it will happen. I have no
doubts about that. And thank you all for listening. And yes,
always remember to live, love, laugh. We'll see you guys
next time. Oh bye,
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hi, guys, welcome to another episode of Creators to Creators. Today,
today we have a special guest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hello, Hi, it's Ellie also known as Elia.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you for coming on the show. You know, I
love going back to the beginning. I always say, the
beginning charge our trajectory in life. You know, our little
habits that we pick up along the way, you know,
tend to follow us into our adulthood. So tell me
a little bit about childhood. What was that like and
when did the love for music you know begin?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh, my childhood was it was cool? Actually, although we
had the Civil War back in Lebanon and the US
when I was like five and four and when I
was born to but everything faded out in the nineties
in the early nineties, and I got my inspiration to
become a musician after knowing the Beatles, which I was
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introduced to, Yeah, which I was introduced to by a
math teacher that used to give me private lessons and
he had a brother who was a big Beatle fan.
So he told me once well, I was studying, and so,
like I said on the table, he told me, do
you know do you like this band? I told him
(02:00):
I don't know about this band just I both distayed
recently because I heard that my dad used to like them,
but I still didn't listen to them.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So he told me, you have to listen to them
and you might really like them. And that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
First week I tried listening to them, it was a
little bit t weird. The reaverb the fifties and I
mean the sixties sound that was on the Red album
was a little bit old fashioned for me. But after
a couple of listeners, I fell in love with the
Beatles and that was it. I was inspired to buy
(02:35):
guitar and that's where I started my musical career. Back
in nineteen ninety six, I was fourteen years old.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Fourteen, Wow, I mean that's a great that's a great
person to be inspired by the Beatles. I mean those
those guys, I mean they're just it's that, you know,
their story is it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, how did I mean?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, all all these fans that were Beatles fans back
in the sixties were young too, so it's not like
something so difficult to fall in love with the Beatles.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Very interesting band.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah it is. What did you think? What was it
that I guess kind of you know, made you like
fall in love with Beetles? Like the fact was it?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What do you think the Beatles? You know, because I
think people, you know, I think there's always you know,
we love certain artists because they just exude something, you know,
or we feel something from their music or just something
that kind of speaks to us, like you know, you
hear like Michael Jackson, it's like there'll never be another
Michael Jackson, right, or they the Elvis, Like I feel
(03:47):
like some some some of these artists they just have
that thing like what do you think that thing is
that kind of connects with people?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What connects me with them? Was I think that the coolness?
I mean they were so cool. They were loved by everybody.
Their music wasn't so hard, I mean wasn't so I mean,
it wasn't so hard to play because when I started
playing the guitar, I felt that, I'm really.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Like, they are a bit like me in a way.
You know, other.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Bands that I got inspired by, like led Zazeppelin and
The Purple were a little bit so strong and heavy
and powerful. But the Beatles were I mean always like
the cool, the chill. And you listen to them every time,
and who you are, you can listen to them and
(04:42):
you'll you'll really be great. I mean you'll be happy.
They have rocks tunes, pop tunes, and that's the interesting
thing about the spand plus I like Ringle Stars so much.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, you know I read you know,
you know you grew up Christian and uh and I'm curious, like,
you know, Christian orthodox upbringing right influencier creativity? Would you
say that it's also like and also emotional awareness right?
And what way did it did it?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You know, influence that oh my my religion, you mean
how it influenced influenced me and what music.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And the career creatively? Yeah, and you know in emotional
also awareness.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Of I don't know. It's like there's always hope for me.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
When I think about Jesus, think about the Lord God,
I'm always there. Positively, I want a better career, you know,
I want people to love me, to give them something interesting.
And this is really important when you put it like
this and you think like this about the career.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, I want a good career.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I don't want to make bad songs, scary songs, or
something that can influence you to do bad things or
you know, there are a lot of things out there
that are not good.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
But I just want to go be honest with people.
This is me. This is what I can give, you know,
and create.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah no, I love that. So you know you returned back,
you know, to music with you know, a soul stirring
single my phone star. Tell us about the you know,
the process of that and what inspired this song.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Oh yeah, oh the process. The process was.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I recorded the song at home in my small home
studio and it took me maybe a week to be complete.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
To be done.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The idea behind this song was when I was sitting
with my ex girlfriend near near the beach. We were
enjoying an interesting night together eating chips. I think and
drinking some interesting things, and suddenly she saw a shooting
star and she said, oh.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
There's a shooting star up there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I told her make a wish, So she made a
wish and I was like, wow, she saw something interesting.
After like minutes, another shooting star came down and I
saw it. I was like surprised. Two shooting stars, I mean,
after each other. I never saw this before, to be honest,
maybe I saw once, but not like two and three
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after each other.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So I closed my eyes.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I am my wish and my wish so that that
me and her will go on together as a couple,
and I mean to get married, and I mean I
don't want it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I didn't want it to end up so easily. But
unfortunately it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
We just stayed like together other three more years and
everything faded out. So this star that I wished upon
that was coming down, it fell and crashed. In the opinion,
this is what went by falling Star. I mean, it
did not work perfectly. So I called it falling Star.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I like that. I like that title. It's a great title.
How involved were you in the process of making this
song like you did all the I mean as far
as like in the booth in the producer you know room,
are you doing all the sounds? Are you like looking
over the producer's shoulders, Like, how did you know coming
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up with that sound?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Like?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That process?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I did all the track, everything I pre did, I
arranged it, wrote the lyrics and everything.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Just in the end, the.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Last part was to exit and master it. So I
sent it to someone better than me, which is like
a professional.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And he did this thing. Yeah, he did this thing.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I like working on my songs at home, especially at
night when there's nobody there. You just sit, take your time,
and very meant this is the most important thing for
a musicians. He had his own recording studio. Yeah, and
experiment and put new sounds there.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, I love that one. When did you first
pick up electric guitar and what inspired you to start composing?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
My first electric guitar was shortly after I got introduced
to the Beatles.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
That was in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
It was Yeah, it was like Fender Stratocaster or clone
or copy.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Still somewhere, and I me and my friend bought the drums.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He started being the drums, and I started playing the
guitar at the same time. But you know, someone who
doesn't know much about music and self thought will create
only noise in the beginning.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, thanks God.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Our neighbors were so cool with us because we used
to put the drum set outside and play and you know,
was not a comfortable experience for them, but they helped.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
They were there for us.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I love that. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, you know, I
I think about when I look think about music, and
you know, nowadays the way we consume music is so
different to what it was you know back then. You know,
now everything's streaming, you know, so it's it's a little
bit more difficult to get your music out there or
to you know, or you know, because it's you know,
(10:45):
you're competing against really big artists as well on the charts.
You know, how do as an artist, how do you
like navigate that? And do you think nowadays you know,
is it is it? Is it kind of difficult to
get your stuff heard? And and what what are like
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what are some things that you do that you know
kind of encourage you because I'm sure like as you know,
you know, you know, there's there's your beyonces, there's a
halo swifts of the world that has like this big machine.
But also in turn, within the art artistry, we have
you know AI that can help us get our stuff
out there. We have streaming, we have YouTube, we have
(11:27):
all this. You know, everything's online. You know, how do
you like what encourage you to continue to put push
your stuff? As an artist?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Uh? As an artist?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So I came back christianly to music because I had
a pause before and and my dad just passed away
like six months ago.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
And I was always this kind of guy, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I was always this kind of guy that used to
tell I'm gonna make it in the new field, I'm
going to become popular and we'll have I'll have a
good job and everything like this. But it never worked.
It never worked when he was still alive with us.
So after he passed away, I felt really like, just
it's it's the end. I just want to finish this
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chapter and want to start a new chapter. And I
want to show Dad in the sky in heaven that
I did it. I will not stop until this thing
is really done because it's it's my whole life. This
is what I really want, and I always pray for
this to happen, and I think it will happen. So
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this is part of this of the beginning of my career,
which is happening now with.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You guys, with with the.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Song online and just I need to find the people
that might be interested in my in my music and
that's it. They will share the music and that will
go on and on, and this will encourage me to
do more interesting things.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Not, uh give both, I will not. I will keep
keep going.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, yeah, well for sure, you know, I I loved
I love that, you know, I think in this especially
in the music world, you know, or in the in
the world of entertainment, you know, it is a lot
of work that goes into you know, be you know,
because you you are your brand right as they say,
(13:41):
and you know, it's it's just you have to believe
in yourself with such a such a saturated field, right
there's so many artists every day we hear. But it's
it's just having that faith and resilience to keep going.
And I love that. I really love that, and that's
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I think it's what it really takes to do this
music stuff. So I commend you. I really do. It's
really great, great work. Absolutely, Yeah, Yeah, I love asking
this question with with each guest, and there's no wrong answer,
but the three levels of influence, money, power, and respect.
(14:24):
And if you can choose only one of those things,
which one would you choose? And why?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Well, well, the second one.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Was ours money, power or respect?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Power? Power or respect? What inspires me? Is this a question? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
What if you can choose only one of those things? Right,
which one would you choose? And why?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Like you?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Would you?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I would choose respect?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay, nice, I would use respec.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I would just because when a person is respectful and
he has this piece inside him, he's always feeling good.
He doesn't need money to feel good. This is thing,
This is something for free. You don't need power to
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respect people or to be respected. So this is the
simplest thing that I will go for, because if I
don't have respect for myself and for the people, then
I'm nothing. Money will not do anything, and power will
not do anything. It's your inner piece. You have to
(15:42):
be in harmony with your inner peace, and this is
the most important thing. I think the other things are
important too, but not as much else.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Absolutely, I love that, you know, I think I read
too where you it was muse, I'm sorry. Film it
is also a big part of your passion for a film.
Filmmaking has been a big part of your career. How
did you balance your love for music with your passion
(16:14):
for a film.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Actually, it happened by chance. I'm a big of electing.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
All the tapes, I mean, like old movies, VHS tapes
and stuff like this. It's like part of my hobbies.
And I watched a lot of movies in my life. Suddenly,
in twenty fifteen, I had a problem with my laryngitis.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
There was a problem there.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I couldn't sing, I couldn't speak anymore, and I was
preparing to shoot my first movie when I was living abroad.
So I could not anymore sing and speak well.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
So I pursued something else. I didn't stop.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I got busy with other projects, and lately, after I
broke up with my love of my life, I decided
to come back and give it one more shot.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
The musical thing.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
That's awesome, that's really cool. Yeah, I love I love
love that. You you know, love film and in that passion,
I mean, I started out as well in a film.
And yeah, I fell in love with film through watching
The Alpha Hitchcock, you know, present series I just I'm
(17:37):
a big fan of Alpha Hitchcock. I just felt like
he was someone that was beyondest time and I really
liked the genre.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I love her movies too, But but the slasher ones,
slasher films more than the the classics.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I love that. Yeah, slashes are fun. So you said
that songs written after a breakup carry the most intensity.
Why do you think that is.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
After? Because when you break up.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
When I broke up with my girlfriend, which happened many
times through these three years, I felt, really I felt
so sad. It's broken, and I really didn't want to
miss this beautiful and amazing person.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
So what can I do other than just pick this
guitar and express my inner feelings through music.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
This is how I expressed them because I'm, let's say,
a quiet person.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I don't I don't like I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Love nature, I don't love love noise and stud this
on this kind of this is my character. So between
me and my girlfriend, when she's not there beside me,
the only way to do it is to communicate with
her through my songs at that time of a cup,
and then if she comes back or we if we
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come back together. I always used to put these songs
and let them hear the new things.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That I did.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
So it happened a couple of times, and of course
I wrote a lot of songs about us happy happy
ones which were not after a break, I was inspired,
I was happy. So yeah, but to me, writing music,
music isn't interesting, to be honest, I don't like writing
(19:55):
words lyrics. I don't like writing lyrics because I'm composer
mostly nice, but in the end you have to put
yourself a focus and write something interesting from them.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah, that what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, I love that, and I'm not really into It's
so funny. A lot of people, you know, they think
bish because I went to film school and you know,
directed some movies and things like that, and they're like,
do you like writing. I'm like, I didn't for a
long time. I didn't for a long time. I just
I had ideas and I just kind of, you know,
(20:33):
from cinematography background. I was so used to, you know,
a cinematographer first. So so you said, doing the visuals,
and I could see the story in my head, so
I was like, I know what I'm gonna shoot. I
know what it's going to look like, so I don't
need to write it down. But then, you know, I
took a writer's class and it just kind of made
me fall in love with you know, the process of
(20:54):
it all. You know, I don't know, just it's it's interesting.
I'm glad I took it, of course.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, cool that you are into the skill too.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Actually, I compose the music, this is my process, and
then I write the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
That's why it's for me to.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Write, to write lyrics acording to the verse of Boris
and the sound that you already created. First of all,
I write a song, the music, compose it, and then
I play something like I talk some sounds like well
put on the window, some lyrics that have no meaning,
(21:35):
but the sound is there, the melody is there. And
then to create the lyrics according to the sound that
you've done.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It's not easy. That's why it's a difficult process to.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Do with me when it comes to write lyrics, but
I always manage it.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Thanks God every time it's working.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, I love that. That's cool. That's a cool process.
Thank you for sharing that. You know, your music video
for My Falling Star was shot in a historic seaside location.
You know, how did the visuals enhance the song. Emotional impact, Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The visuals.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
The most important thing was in the shooting on that day.
The drone, the drone. The drone picked amazing, amazing scene
near the beach and it was a historical place where
with the it was like this wall was built to
prevent the enemies from entering, and it was like a long,
(22:36):
long historical story background behind this.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
So and it really fit the mood of the song.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I needed some kind of isolation and it showed you
are there. The world is around you, the seas all
around you, but still you are isolated alone.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And the Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I contacted the friend sister of my friend and she's
a dancer, a cool dancer.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
She came.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
She did some choreography to this music video. And yeah,
she's a very interesting person. You meet her and then
you're relaxed. She doesn't make you. She has a big heart,
very interesting character.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
She has this her.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Name is Esperla beautiful. Yeah, very interesting. Yeah, I like
working with her. Two music videos actually one Arabic and
one in English.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I love that. I think that's that's really cool. You know,
if if you could collaborate with any artist living or dead,
who would it be and why?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And why ah, As I told you, I love the Beatles.
So it's my dream to collaborate, collaborate with.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Dream, to collaborate with Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Star.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I love them.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I love the sound of his drums, his villains, his offbeats, everything. Yeah,
I would love to do something, play guitar with them
and sing.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah, and as bands I think is interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Very interesting band, No, for sure, Yeah, collaborate absolutely. Your
mouth to God's ears. How do you ensure your music
and films remain authentic, you know, while still being artistic
and also visually captivating, because you know, I think it's
(24:55):
that's a really hard thing to like, you know, make
sure it's I think there's some artists that can do it,
you know. And you did that really well where you
not only it's really well done, well shot, but it's
also you feel. It makes you feel something, you know,
(25:16):
because I think a lot of times that's true. I
have music videos, you can watch them, and it's just
you know, I see it, it's cool, but I forget
about it. With this, it's more like you feel, but
it also it resonates it, it stays, it lingers with you,
which I think not many people can do.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Most of the people now nowadays shooting clips to show
a beauty and to show that, like, yeah, there was
a lot of money in the you know, to shoot
to show these things that are really not so important.
You know, everything is beauty shots now, like you're watching
a wedding. Wedding shoots and they put them in a
(26:00):
song and it becomes a music video. No, in this song,
I really want to show sadness, isolation. I wanted people
to understand every verse what's going on there.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
And it shows.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
The clip shows that me and this girl are really
breaking up, coming back again, breaking up, coming back again.
But in the end, I said to myself, I mean
in real life, I said to myself, that's it. I
will wish you a beautiful life. I'm tired. I'm really
tired from this way of living. So like her on
(26:39):
her head on the end of the clip, and really
that was it. We broke up and till now that's it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
It's sober. We still say hello from time to time
because we're not enemies. But this energy and negative energy
that was before, I do not want to come back
to it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, I love that. I love that and that you know,
you set that healthy boundary, right. That's a lot of
times that I think in relationships, you know we can
we can give and give and give, and it just
you know, it doesn't feel maybe sometimes recivical or doesn't
feel I don't know, just doesn't feel connected. What do
(27:22):
you think is the biggest thing you know when it
comes to relationships that makes a relationship work, or or
maybe something that we kind of don't realize we're doing
in a relationship. Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I think.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
To make relationship raceship work, there has respect, mutual respect
between both people, mutual andbending. And you have to really,
I mean, you should not be with so and say,
(28:01):
oh there might be someone better, there is someone better
out there.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You know, I will just be with him or with
her and we will.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
See, we will. No, it's not enough. It's not enough
at all. When you are committed to a person, that
have to give all that you can and create all
this world that a Q two feel happy and beautiful
together and not just think about out of things that
(28:29):
can destroy you. So, this is very important in a relationship,
mutual respect, and you should always put it on yourself.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Is this good or the relationship? Should I do this.
If I cheat on her, then and pray to God
asking him please keep us together. Low we don't.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I mean, I wish with her forever and at the
same time I'm doing something bad.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Then what is this right? It's not logical. It will
not work like this. You have to be committed.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It means committed or else this will will come back
to you and karma is going to get back to you.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah, this is what I learned.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. I love that.
You know, I agree, And I don't think we don't.
I don't think the time that we live in now.
I mean again, it's I think to experience love is
just a beautiful thing. But you know, I myself, I
(29:33):
am afraid of it because of past situations, but I
appreciate that. It's a great way to look at it.
Looking ahead. What kind of legacy do you hope your
art leaves for audience.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Looking forward? Perhads, I don't know it will be here
a long time. Nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You might just sleep and not wake up in the morning.
But if I made it, really, I just want people
to remember me as a good person, as.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
A respectful artist that gives beautiful songs.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And I'm always there for my fans because I waited
all my life for them to appear, to go in
these big auto tunes, to make beautiful concerts for them
and enjoy mutual time together.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
So I'm forty three years old. Now never too late.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Look amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I think, thank you. I mean, it's not too late.
And I started feeling lately that I'm gonna make it big.
I don't know, it's just a feeling that I'm getting.
I'm feeling so much so I believe that anytime soon,
something's going to happen my life.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
This is what I do, and I love the expectation.
I feel like that's what we should do right when
we're believing in ourselves, and you know, I feel like
we should you know also you know, strive, but also
be an expectation of something better for us. And I
one hundred person agree. What advice would you give to
(31:23):
you know, upcoming artists out there that want or someone
that wants to get into the music world or produce
or you know, anything in entertainment. What what advice would
you give?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Just you should work on your craft, you should take time,
don't just imitate friends or someone online just so I
want to be like her.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I want to be like him. No, you should be so,
you should.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You should do something from the heart, honest, and then
this is the only way that you'll find success, because
if if you imitate others, then it's not you. You're
just taking it. You have to do something from the heart.
Take your time. Nobody is gonna climb the stairs in
(32:13):
two days. It's gonna take time. I've been trying for
twenty years and more and still I'm.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Little bit, little bit higher. Yeah, but I never lose hope.
Never lose hope. Take time. Practice on your vocals more
and more, because, for example, now I listen to the
song that I sang.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Ten years ago, I was like, what what kind of
voice is this? It's still cool now I've matured more
in the way, so there's always better and better.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I love that. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Thank you for
that advice. Where can people find you on social media
to follow everything you have going on and check out
your music, video and music.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
On social media. I'm on Instagram, I'm on.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Facebook, course, on YouTube, talk, I'm everywhere in general.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Awesome, I'm on all these sides.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
But I'm not active so active, I mean on social media.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Recently I opened not Facebook, but the other.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Ones, my musical pages and stuff like this, So I'm
still new trying to find new people to follow.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Absolutely absolutely everyone go follow, support and again, congratulations on
this beautiful single.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I'm so glad that you liked it, and I'm so
glad to be on your in beautiful interview with you
on your show. By the way, do you know how
to spell my name? E?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
O I E.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, but I mean, do you know how how
does it sound like? It's Alie, elle a, Ellie or Ellie. Yeah,
if you want. My family name is is al al Hush.
It's difficult for you to spell.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I love it, but it's so beautiful. Yeah, I love that.
It's a beautiful name.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
We have to thanks.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
We have two names. Ellie is a Christian name like Elias,
and there's Ali, which is Muslim name is Ali Ali Baba,
So they are a little bit they're a little bit different,
but they sound a little bit similar.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
So it's Ellie al Hush also known as Eli.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It's beautiful. Well, thank you so much for your time,
and thank you for sharing your journey your story and
your art with us and blessing us on our episode today,
And thank you all for listening. I'm so glad, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
And I wish you a great day you too.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I hope another time we make this another interview, I'll
be a start.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Absolutely, I agree and it will happen. I have no
doubts about that. And thank you all for listening. And yes,
always remember to live, love, laugh. We'll see you guys
next time. Oh bye,
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