April 3, 2025 • 29 mins
World renowned producer, singer and songwriter Kayla Diamond joined us on the show! We talked about how the music industry has changed since she got her first record deal and so much more about her career! Tune in to hear more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, it's Kala Diamond and you're listening to the
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get to the show also KISW Country and tar Heel
Worldnetwork dot orgon Please for welcome in. One of the
best people I know out there, multi talented and just
pushing boundaries. One of Canada's top producers, young female producers,
label founders. She's not at all, She's a singer songwriter.
Cayleb Diamond any Timon says diamond in the rough. She's
(01:01):
like diamond in the rough. But how you doing, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm good? How were you good?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
To have you there too? It's a mouthful at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Right, Yeah, it is. I love it though, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hey, let's talk a little bit about your background too. Man,
you garnered so much attention, as I mentioned there, one
of Canada's top you know, young female producers label founders.
What was it about music that just made you t
talk about that story?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah? I mean I've always been in music my whole
my whole life. I was in world conservatory piano, so,
like my mom kind of just pushed me, even though
I hated studying piano because it's boring. I just like
was always, you know, studying music. And then I taught
myself other instruments like guitar and drums and then h
and yeah, and then I just started messing around on
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garage band when I was like sixteen, started falling in
love with like making layers of songs and stuff. And
then and then I like won this contest called It's
Your Shot in Canada, and that got me signed to
a record deal right out of like right while I
was in law school, so I was like peace to
law school, and then that's kind of a catapult at everything.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Talk about just the collaborations. We're talking about sixty million
kind of crossover platform streams with some of the top
artists out there that are just phenomenal. You know, Alex
Schultz is one of them too, the huge talent and
so many more and just kind of what that means
to you, hitting those numbers that you never expect going
into this, but you kind of see collaborations Caleb becoming
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more a part of the business right now too.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I think like a lot of people are hesitant to
do collaborations because of egos and stuff. They want to
kind of be the sole producer, the soul writer on stuff.
But like you only get better when you collaborate with
other artists. And you know, I just actually checked the
streams this morning. We're actually close to eighty million right now,
which is so crazy. And when it comes to EDM,
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that stuff goes wild because that people want to listen
to when they're partying, they listen to it at the club.
It's it's kind of like this universal good feeling. So
I find that like that's what's really pumping the streams
is like the d M records, the pop records and stuff.
And it's been really cool. Like I started off as
a top liner just you know, people will send me
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their tracks and i'd i'd write them like a whole
pop song on top of their d M song, and
and that's kind of where it started with with the collaboration.
So I'm happy to see where it is right now.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I love it too, and it's songs like this, and
I'm gonna play a little piece of reader too when
it comes down to you. We're gonna talk about it
here on the show and something I'm doing a little
bit different too, because I can actually play the music
from this PA system and I'll want people here. That's
just for a few seconds. You're gonna talk about this song.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's weird, the last one and then got I thing
is it a twine? Well then free unpathetic me on
sign like then of my Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Welcome to what Big right that's cable Diamond. You listen
to it across all the dsks out there from the
street of the platforms kids. It's got a great bage
dance music. I love it at that pop feel too,
Carnival Hearts. I want to ask you about this one.
This was twenty seventeen. I believe how did this one
come about? The riding behind it and just that you
(04:22):
want to move when it comes down to it almost
feel like, you know, it's just teach someone to dance
or something like that, or just getting the beginnings of
it down. This is a great song.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh, thank you so much. Honestly, it was such a
weird concept. It was like, that's my first song that
I actually put out as an artist, and that song,
like had is my most successful song to date. I
would like just look up people walking through like like
six Flags New Orleans, and me and my friends went
to New Orleans and you know, learned about the fact that,
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like it's crazy to see like six Flags is like
completely buried underwater. I'm not sure if you know about
six Flags New Orleans, but because of Hurricane Katrina got
completely buried underwater and it's sitting abandoned now, and it's
been sitting abandoned since two thousand and five. And I
sort of got this like crazy obsession with it. And
you know, the deeper meaning is like there's this like
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place that was once so like bubbly and effervested and
is like is the main place where kids find their
Like youth is in like an amusement park. To think
of one being abandoned and just like eerie is like
it's so sad. It's kind of like the loss of youth.
And that's kind of what this song kind of represents.
Like I walked into the studio and it was my producer,
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Craig McConnell and like my my songwriter Liz Rodriguez, and
we were all sitting there and they were I was
just like, I have this very strange concept. And the
title came first and it was Carnival Hearts, and we
were just like, okay, let's hash it out. And then
you know, we wrote a part for me to sing
and then apart for me to put my mic out
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to the audience for them to sing, and that's the
oob part. So it was just basically as many hooks
as possible in one song.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Great song. Love it Carnival Hearts across all the DSPs
out there too, well, time me take you quick time
out here. We got a lot more to talk about.
One of the top record producers out there too as well,
and so much more as singer songwriter. She's done it
all out There Kayla Diamond joining us here KKTC True
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On Treaty and so many others have stopped by to
talk about some great, great projects there too. Back here
with Kayla Diamond, multi talented singer songwriter and a great
one of Canada's top female producers out there too. You
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don't want to talk to you about the Junos because
every year I get just a host of artists that
come here on the program, singer, songwriter, producers, a little
bit of everything they do. Congratulations on a Juno Award
nomination for Rap Album of the Year for here in
twenty twenty five. Talk about this project because that's one
of the highest honors in Canada.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Thank you, Yes and people. It's funny because a lot
of people in America don't know what the Junos are,
and that's what it is is the Grammys of Canada essentially.
And I was actually kind of this was a curveball
to be thrown like Rap Album of the Year, because
I'm so not in the rap world, but I'm so
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very much pop that a label called me in and said, hey,
you know, we got this rapper and you know, he's
blowing up, he's amazing, but we need to get him
a song that's more like geared towards radio, that's like
a little bit more pop structured, like any way that
you can come in and just kind of rework the
structure and like, you know, popify it essentially. And I
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was like, oh my god, I've never been in a room,
like I've never been in a rap room before, Like
I don't even know how to work it, you know,
like it's a very different dynamic where like I'm not
a rapper. So I kind of was actually very intimidated
before I walked into that room. And but you know,
everybody in that room was so so nice and so warm,
(09:00):
and I absolutely love I love dom Who's who's the artist?
And I love just ideas who are the other producers
on this record? And we just we made a really
good pop rap song and I'm really proud of it,
and that became part of that album that got nominated,
So it was it was really great because I'm one
of the only female rap producers that were nominated.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Congratulations. They gotta learn those tricks of the trader too.
I'm like you all started messing around with garage band,
you know, years back, and I've been in radio now
thirty years coming up as of next year, twenty twenty six,
and it's just amazing how so much of a simple
program like that too. You mentioned about like laying down
tracks and then producing shows and doing voiceovers and things
that you can do with it, to what musicians can do,
of course, what radio folks like myself could do. It's
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just crazy how technology has changed the game.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Right, Oh, totally. Like it used to be. You know,
you go to the studio and you're like cutting tape
when you have eight tracks and that's it. And now
now it's like you can layer one hundred and thirty
different tracks that are digital and you have all the
software that's that could be analog, but it's software.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It really is too. There's so much out there too
that's doing it's thing out there to get a hold
of it too, hey talk about this, I mean huge
multiple placements out there too. For television. I love this too,
because you've had things with the voice of course. Netflix
is one of my daughter's favorite shows, My Little Pony.
We were looking for a birthday party the other day,
and of course The Ultimatum and a big Korean hit series.
(10:28):
Talk about these projects and just how I'd say it's
almost the same, but I'm sure different. But getting into
a little bit of TV placements to show off your.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Work, Yeah, I think a lot of people don't realize,
especially a lot of artists don't realize that, you know,
an incredible source of revenue for for artists is sync placements,
which is film and television where it's just another place
to get your music heard. And I've had like some
great placements and in my career so far. Like my
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song what You're Made Of was was the intro to
the voice for one of the episodes, and it was
it was amazing to see it was on. It was
on there for like twenty seconds and like it was
the US and Canadians get really excited when when one
of their songs is in a US show like last
you know, this this season of the Kardashians we've had,
(11:18):
we've been really fortunate enough to sing two songs to it.
So it's cool. It's just really cool because I'm always
fans of these shows, and like I happen to love
the Kardashians, so to know that like they're watching the
same episode that I'm watching, but they're hearing my voice
and loving my song is so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It really is. I want to get your thoughts a
little bit on You mentioned the female powerhouse, this girl
power movement whenever you want to call it to right now,
this resurrection a little bit. Looking at from the State
side too, and of course the Canadian side, there for
so many great artists doing their thing out there. And
for me, you know, it starts and ends with the
great Lady Wilson. I've had her here on the show.
We've talked to her. She's done so much here and
just all over the world for globally, for country music too.
(11:59):
And then you look at the ACMs, what you're coming up,
and of course the CMAS later this year. What's it
meant for the female artists? And you see this as
a producer, singer, songwriter and all the collaborations we talked about.
To see this run now of great female artists, you know,
out there.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Doing everything, I think it's amazing. I think more people
are becoming just more fearless in the sense of like
it used to be a boy I mean, it is
a boys club right like in the executive world as well.
And I think the ability to sort of just have
that confidence and call yourself a producer, call yourself an
artist when there's so many guys in the in the
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game already is is It's growing for sure?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It really is too. I know you recently did some
work as a Top twenty as a writer for a
song called hold Me, which was a number one record
on the CDC's Top twenty with a fantastic group by
the Strumbello's. Talk about this project.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, this was really really cool because I when I
was in law school, my sister had sent me this
band and she was like, listen to this record, It's amazing,
and it was a song called Spirits, and I was like,
this is this is like some groundbreaking incredible music, like wow.
And so I became a huge fan of this band,
and then you know, I joined the music industry and
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I started working as an artist. And then I was
fortunate enough to do a show where the Strombells were
also on the bill, and so they actually brought me
on stage to sing Spirits with them, and I thought
like oh my god, this was like I made this.
I made it, you know what I mean, Like I
made it moment and then we just sort of got
to talking. And what was really cool was, rather than
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approach this band as just a songwriter, I was in
the room as a fan, so I was able to say, like,
here's what I would love to hear one of my
favorite bands sing, you know, and then we kind of
we wrote hold Me as well as like three other
songs on that record, and it was it was amazing,
Like it was just so natural because there was a
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fan in the room tact telling them exactly what I
wanted to hear. So it was a really really great experience.
And they're such nice people, one of my greatest friends.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's a great group, no doubt about it. You guys
haven't heard of it, Go check it out across the
DSPs out there, the Strumbellan it's a great group out
there too. And also this current single has garnered a
lot of attention out there too, for the one called
to Never Let Go collaboration there. You did tell everybody
a little bit of a story of this song because
it's already mentioned about the ray reviews.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, no, I wrote this song. Actually the production was
entirely different, and it was my friend Domino and I.
He had sent me this beat and I wrote just
this top line to the song to the beat, and
that was about three years ago. Actually it was a
summer three years ago, and no label was biting at it.
Nobody like nobody was interested in signing the song. And
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then he actually decided to do a reproduction on the song.
And then Hardwell, who's an incredible DJ producer and has
a label called Revealed, Hardwell really loved the song and
he was like, you know what, I want to sign it.
And then and then before I know it, like we're
we're making release plans and everything. So this was written,
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you know, a while back. But then Hardwell really was
really excited about it, and he premiered it at Ultra
Music Festival in Europe, and uh and after that, like
everybody's just like loving it and it's been it's been
spun a bunch of times, remixed, and it's it's a
it's a fun one.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It really is a bum. Dude got it playing a
little bit in the background there too, so folks get
a little preview of that too, and of course go
download and stream the song too. You know, we talked
about all the great success you've had in this industry too,
and of course there's a lot of the ups and downs,
but sometimes fans don't see of this industry. You talk
about just some of the challenging parts that you go through,
and not just a female artist, but just as an
(15:54):
artist in general in this industry, and maybe fans don't see. Kal.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, I mean I think and I always say, this
is why I made the switch to being a producer
primarily before like after being an artist. Like, something that
I noticed when I was an artist is that you're
never fully satisfied because there's always going to be this
jealousy of comparison. And that's something I really hated as
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an artist. You know, You're you're constantly thinking, like you
could book the biggest show ever, but there's another artist
in your genre who booked a bigger show than you,
and you're constantly like comparing and contrasting. You're kind of going,
why am I not there? Like you know, and so
that to me was really, really really hard. And then
when I joined the producer community, it was a lot more.
(16:41):
It was a lot more like there was a lot
more unity in it, and I think there's a lot
more championing each other and being happy for each other
and learning from each other and collaborating. And so I'm
a lot happier as a producer than I was as
an artist. And so I think a lot of people
don't realize that, you know, some of your favorite artists
are are you know, very insecure. And same thing with
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you know, being on the road. You have this really
high high of being on stage and it's absolutely incredible
and there's no high like it for real, and then
you get off stage and there's this wave of loneliness
that happens when you just go back to your hotel room.
And you know, touring was was really hard for me,
and so that was that was it. It was like
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a lot of ups. The highs were really high, but
they were paired with loads that were really low. So
that part wasn't for me.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Take the eyes with the loads there, good with the bed,
they always say too, But sometimes you're right. It can
get a little bit depressing out there too when you
have to go through it. Because everybody fights for everything
they get in the industry, no doubt about it. That's
how competitive it is now too, with both you male
and female artists out there too. And of course you
mentioned we talked about technology, and of course all these
reality shows now that are doing this thing, the voice
and of course Idle, you know, making it's come back
over the last three four years. And of course America's
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got talent. There's so many of them too. And also
there are countries like Canada and other countries are doing
their own versions of what America's shows are, so you're
start showing the versatility of all these great artists out
there too. We've got to take our last time out
here too, last segment coming up with here. Just a
great great guests here, Kaylin Diamond here on the show.
Check her out at Kaylindiamond dot com out there for
more information, and of course all her great work is
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Speaker 2 (19:08):
Hey, back to your final segment, Kayla Diamond. That just
love that name Diamond here on the backstage past Diamond
in the Rough two one of the Canada's best producers
out there, world renowned and of course and music guru
out there too, with great great music out there. Current
single we mentioned with Domino there to Never Let Go.
You heard little Piece of that too in the background
too and Beautiful Chaos. Hey, I want to go back
to this album too for all the affiliates out there
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and the listeners to a the program. I really enjoyed
listening to not this Carnival Hearts, which was that big
single we talked about, but America's Sweetheart, which I'm currently
kind of auditioned here in the background has got a
good little vibe to this one. Tell the folks the
story of this one.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You know what's really funny is I haven't I haven't
talked about this song in like seven years. And my
parents actually called me this morning and they were in
the car listening to it, and they go, you should
do a remix of America's Sweetheart. That song is amazing,
blah blah blah. And I hadn't even thought about this
song in a while, but it's actually a pretty good song.
I'm not gonna lie this one. I actually I wrote
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at my piano. I had just I was I was.
I had a friend who was an actor. She was
she was an act She is an actor, and she's
doing really great right now, and and her and I
were really close friends. And I just saw her go through,
you know, the ups and the downs of her industry
at the same time as I was finding my footing
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in the music industry and she she was experiencing that
same thing. And then I was kind of doing the
starting that tour life type of thing and playing those
shows and then feeling the lows. Kind of like what
we just said with the highs and the highs and
the lows and the lows, and it's that's kind of
what this song is about. Like it's it's this bitter
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sweet kind of feeling. And and she, you know, my
friend didn't come from a family that supported her, and
she kind of did it all on her own and
I was just kind of watching her on the sidelines,
just doing her thing, and this song is about her.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I love it. And then of course you come out.
I love the title of this record too, just saying
dirty Laundry because we always talk about this just many
aspects out there, and I'm talking about these songs because
I always tell people here on the broadcast, we do
our homework, we go listen to tracks, and we love
just projecting it out there to the fans too. But
what a song to lead off Dirty Laundry when this
came out in twenty nineteen for cry Wolf, and I'm
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play a little sniffet of it while we talk about
this song too, because this was a great song to
really just lead off a great record. Talk about this one.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Cry Wolf is great because that I wrote in like
twenty eighteen with my friend Lauren Mandal, who's an incredible
artist I'm gonna plug her right now. Her name's Lolo,
she's doing her US tour headlining. She's killing it right now,
and so her and I wrote that with our friend
Joel Stoffer, who's an incredible producer who I had the
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pleasure of sitting behind and actually learning from while I
was an artist, and I still work with him to
this day, and that song was totally about this. I
was going through a breakup at the time and the
person kept promising like, you know, oh, no, I promised
this time will be better, this time will be better.
And my best friend was going through a breakup at
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the same exact time, and he kept coming back to
her being like, no, I promised, this time will be better.
And then every time, you know, both of our partners
would disappoint us at the same time. So me and
my best friend were just like simultaneously going through this
like ping pong type of breakup. And then I actually
lived with my best friend at the same time. So
she said to me, she was like, ugh, he always
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cries wolf. He's always crying wolf. And I was like,
wait a minute, let me get my notes out, and
I shout up at the studio. The next day and
I mentioned this little thing and we were talking about
it and it became cry Wolf and then Joel kind
of like put some you know, wolf noises in there
and got some drums going and it was great.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Give me the audience a piece of that right now
in the background, too, Dirty Laundry, and check out the
album there, and there's one other two. I'm gonna give
it a little bit of a push here too, because
I love this plug here and I love the title
of it, Lie Lie Lie, featuring just another great artist
out there too. Viva is on this one too. For
you guys on this Dirty Laundry record, talk about this
one for me?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, Oh, Lilaila is a deep cut. Lila Lies actually
my first record where I was openly talking about like
being in a relationship with a man and a woman,
and I have I have to credit that to an
amazing artist named Rea May, who I wrote this record with.
I wrote this with Craig McConnell and Rea May, and
I was in the session and I was hesitant to say,
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you know, to talk about my experiences like like falling
in love with a woman and like breaking up with
a woman and then falling in love with a man
and then breaking up with the men. And I was
being very like, I was not using gender like or
pronouns or anything. And then Rea just looked at me
and she's like, just own it, like do your like
be your truth, like, be your true self. And then
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I was like, Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna
do it. You know what, we should put a feature
on it. And and I was at the time looking
at this, I'm gonna plug it now her carrots now,
and she switched it. She's an incredible actor, she's an
incredible singer, songwriter, you name it. And so I was like, Aviva,
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you should like come on this record with me because
her voice is just amazing. And I was also a
fan of her work. And so we did this little
duet thing and it was one of the first times
in Canadian pop history that there has been a female
and female duet.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I love that, dude. It's such a great great song
there too, and just so much experience. I love the
fact you've got so much experience doing this and learning
the ropes of this industry and knowing how to grind
in this too for successful stories to come out on
the other side, right let's have a little fun with this,
because you and I could sit here and talk music
all day, that's how much I listened to it. Love
your style of music. I love just everything about your
your story too. You know we talk about so much
(25:10):
getting busy with time there too, and I forget sometimes
I do it here on this radio show, and I
forget to actually go have a life and actually have
something just with hobbies to work out or go to
the gym, which my escape, or you spend time with
my five year old daughter now two at the same time.
But for you, when it comes to escape, what what
kind of comes to mind for hobbies? And you're like,
you know what, I have enough of music, I have
(25:30):
to go do this? What is this considering.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
It's so hard to have a hobby outside of music.
But definitely, Jim like, I have to be at the
gym every single day, lifting as much weight as possible
and throwing it around, mainly for my mental health. But
my hobbies have now, you know, become you know, making
fun tiktoks which involve music, so you know, making remixes
(25:55):
and stuff for fun. But also I have a two
year old daughter who keeps me very very busy and
she she runs and I chase her.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I had to workout, as they all say, I got minded,
like so much stuff, the piano lessons and of course
tea ball and soccer. And we're throwing at like a
birthday party for her because the birthday was here in
April today. Oh yeah, all kind of fun out there
too for her, and just love doing what she does.
All right. When it comes to food, I'm like, you
have like probably one, maybe two cheap days out of
the week. It's like either chicken tenders or something fried,
(26:28):
like fried fish or whatever. I'm going more lean now
with like pork, chicken, and of course fish, So trying
to stay away from like a lot of the red
meat and stuff like that and all the MSG and
the chemicals and whenever they put in it to make
it taste good. But you know, for me, it's not sweets.
It's like the carbs. For you. What kind of food
do you like to cook your own food? Eat out?
Combination of both?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, combination of both. But I am a steak and
potatoes girl. Like I give me like the thickest cut
prime rib steak, and I'm like all over it, including
the fat cap like that is me to a tea.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Stars. It's taking protecting, no doubt, all right. When it
comes to pizza, I'm having to back off of the
top things that get like more veggies on mine now too,
and like grilled chicken, all the boring stuff too. But
I love the carnivore and the meats that come on
these pies now too. You're a thin crust person, what
topicings go on your pizza?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh? Oh, thin crust, hands down. But I'm a sucker
for Like when I was in Detroit, like for law school,
I would eat little little caesars like all the time.
So I do like that thick crust with like that
sweet tomato sauce that tastes like probably the most chemicals
you can imagine.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I love always fun. Hey, I love the story. It
is such a great, great, just triumphant success in this industry.
One of Canada's hot producers out there too as well,
world renown and of course out there can check her
out at Kayleadiamond dot com. And Never Let Go is
the current single across all the DSPs and more coming here.
Congratulations of the Juno Award nomination for Rap Album of
(27:57):
the Year and all these great collaborations you've done with
all these great artists to and so much more coming
out of her camp too, and founded a record label
and a great singer songwriter in her. All right, Hey,
we appreciate you being with us, Kayla, and hey, don't
be a stranger. Come back anytime here on the show.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Thank you so much for having me. It's great to
talk to you.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
You got it. One of the best out there, Kayla
Diamond to do it too. And of course, so we're
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Org and welcome inside the backstage past. Always a busy
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get to the show also KISW Country and tar Heel
Worldnetwork dot orgon Please for welcome in. One of the
best people I know out there, multi talented and just
pushing boundaries. One of Canada's top producers, young female producers,
label founders. She's not at all, She's a singer songwriter.
Cayleb Diamond any Timon says diamond in the rough. She's
(01:01):
like diamond in the rough. But how you doing, my friend?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm good? How were you good?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
To have you there too? It's a mouthful at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Right, Yeah, it is. I love it though, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hey, let's talk a little bit about your background too. Man,
you garnered so much attention, as I mentioned there, one
of Canada's top you know, young female producers label founders.
What was it about music that just made you t
talk about that story?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah? I mean I've always been in music my whole
my whole life. I was in world conservatory piano, so,
like my mom kind of just pushed me, even though
I hated studying piano because it's boring. I just like
was always, you know, studying music. And then I taught
myself other instruments like guitar and drums and then h
and yeah, and then I just started messing around on
(01:48):
garage band when I was like sixteen, started falling in
love with like making layers of songs and stuff. And
then and then I like won this contest called It's
Your Shot in Canada, and that got me signed to
a record deal right out of like right while I
was in law school, so I was like peace to
law school, and then that's kind of a catapult at everything.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Talk about just the collaborations. We're talking about sixty million
kind of crossover platform streams with some of the top
artists out there that are just phenomenal. You know, Alex
Schultz is one of them too, the huge talent and
so many more and just kind of what that means
to you, hitting those numbers that you never expect going
into this, but you kind of see collaborations Caleb becoming
(02:34):
more a part of the business right now too.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I think like a lot of people are hesitant to
do collaborations because of egos and stuff. They want to
kind of be the sole producer, the soul writer on stuff.
But like you only get better when you collaborate with
other artists. And you know, I just actually checked the
streams this morning. We're actually close to eighty million right now,
which is so crazy. And when it comes to EDM,
(02:58):
that stuff goes wild because that people want to listen
to when they're partying, they listen to it at the club.
It's it's kind of like this universal good feeling. So
I find that like that's what's really pumping the streams
is like the d M records, the pop records and stuff.
And it's been really cool. Like I started off as
a top liner just you know, people will send me
(03:19):
their tracks and i'd i'd write them like a whole
pop song on top of their d M song, and
and that's kind of where it started with with the collaboration.
So I'm happy to see where it is right now.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I love it too, and it's songs like this, and
I'm gonna play a little piece of reader too when
it comes down to you. We're gonna talk about it
here on the show and something I'm doing a little
bit different too, because I can actually play the music
from this PA system and I'll want people here. That's
just for a few seconds. You're gonna talk about this song.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's weird, the last one and then got I thing
is it a twine? Well then free unpathetic me on
sign like then of my Welcome to the.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Welcome to what Big right that's cable Diamond. You listen
to it across all the dsks out there from the
street of the platforms kids. It's got a great bage
dance music. I love it at that pop feel too,
Carnival Hearts. I want to ask you about this one.
This was twenty seventeen. I believe how did this one
come about? The riding behind it and just that you
(04:22):
want to move when it comes down to it almost
feel like, you know, it's just teach someone to dance
or something like that, or just getting the beginnings of
it down. This is a great song.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh, thank you so much. Honestly, it was such a
weird concept. It was like, that's my first song that
I actually put out as an artist, and that song,
like had is my most successful song to date. I
would like just look up people walking through like like
six Flags New Orleans, and me and my friends went
to New Orleans and you know, learned about the fact that,
(04:51):
like it's crazy to see like six Flags is like
completely buried underwater. I'm not sure if you know about
six Flags New Orleans, but because of Hurricane Katrina got
completely buried underwater and it's sitting abandoned now, and it's
been sitting abandoned since two thousand and five. And I
sort of got this like crazy obsession with it. And
you know, the deeper meaning is like there's this like
(05:14):
place that was once so like bubbly and effervested and
is like is the main place where kids find their
Like youth is in like an amusement park. To think
of one being abandoned and just like eerie is like
it's so sad. It's kind of like the loss of youth.
And that's kind of what this song kind of represents.
Like I walked into the studio and it was my producer,
(05:36):
Craig McConnell and like my my songwriter Liz Rodriguez, and
we were all sitting there and they were I was
just like, I have this very strange concept. And the
title came first and it was Carnival Hearts, and we
were just like, okay, let's hash it out. And then
you know, we wrote a part for me to sing
and then apart for me to put my mic out
(05:56):
to the audience for them to sing, and that's the
oob part. So it was just basically as many hooks
as possible in one song.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Great song. Love it Carnival Hearts across all the DSPs
out there too, well, time me take you quick time
out here. We got a lot more to talk about.
One of the top record producers out there too as well,
and so much more as singer songwriter. She's done it
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one of Canada's top female producers out there too. You
(07:37):
don't want to talk to you about the Junos because
every year I get just a host of artists that
come here on the program, singer, songwriter, producers, a little
bit of everything they do. Congratulations on a Juno Award
nomination for Rap Album of the Year for here in
twenty twenty five. Talk about this project because that's one
of the highest honors in Canada.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Thank you, Yes and people. It's funny because a lot
of people in America don't know what the Junos are,
and that's what it is is the Grammys of Canada essentially.
And I was actually kind of this was a curveball
to be thrown like Rap Album of the Year, because
I'm so not in the rap world, but I'm so
(08:15):
very much pop that a label called me in and said, hey,
you know, we got this rapper and you know, he's
blowing up, he's amazing, but we need to get him
a song that's more like geared towards radio, that's like
a little bit more pop structured, like any way that
you can come in and just kind of rework the
structure and like, you know, popify it essentially. And I
(08:39):
was like, oh my god, I've never been in a room,
like I've never been in a rap room before, Like
I don't even know how to work it, you know,
like it's a very different dynamic where like I'm not
a rapper. So I kind of was actually very intimidated
before I walked into that room. And but you know,
everybody in that room was so so nice and so warm,
(09:00):
and I absolutely love I love dom Who's who's the artist?
And I love just ideas who are the other producers
on this record? And we just we made a really
good pop rap song and I'm really proud of it,
and that became part of that album that got nominated,
So it was it was really great because I'm one
of the only female rap producers that were nominated.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Congratulations. They gotta learn those tricks of the trader too.
I'm like you all started messing around with garage band,
you know, years back, and I've been in radio now
thirty years coming up as of next year, twenty twenty six,
and it's just amazing how so much of a simple
program like that too. You mentioned about like laying down
tracks and then producing shows and doing voiceovers and things
that you can do with it, to what musicians can do,
of course, what radio folks like myself could do. It's
(09:44):
just crazy how technology has changed the game.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Right, Oh, totally. Like it used to be. You know,
you go to the studio and you're like cutting tape
when you have eight tracks and that's it. And now
now it's like you can layer one hundred and thirty
different tracks that are digital and you have all the
software that's that could be analog, but it's software.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It really is too. There's so much out there too
that's doing it's thing out there to get a hold
of it too, hey talk about this, I mean huge
multiple placements out there too. For television. I love this too,
because you've had things with the voice of course. Netflix
is one of my daughter's favorite shows, My Little Pony.
We were looking for a birthday party the other day,
and of course The Ultimatum and a big Korean hit series.
(10:28):
Talk about these projects and just how I'd say it's
almost the same, but I'm sure different. But getting into
a little bit of TV placements to show off your.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Work, Yeah, I think a lot of people don't realize,
especially a lot of artists don't realize that, you know,
an incredible source of revenue for for artists is sync placements,
which is film and television where it's just another place
to get your music heard. And I've had like some
great placements and in my career so far. Like my
(10:58):
song what You're Made Of was was the intro to
the voice for one of the episodes, and it was
it was amazing to see it was on. It was
on there for like twenty seconds and like it was
the US and Canadians get really excited when when one
of their songs is in a US show like last
you know, this this season of the Kardashians we've had,
(11:18):
we've been really fortunate enough to sing two songs to it.
So it's cool. It's just really cool because I'm always
fans of these shows, and like I happen to love
the Kardashians, so to know that like they're watching the
same episode that I'm watching, but they're hearing my voice
and loving my song is so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It really is. I want to get your thoughts a
little bit on You mentioned the female powerhouse, this girl
power movement whenever you want to call it to right now,
this resurrection a little bit. Looking at from the State
side too, and of course the Canadian side, there for
so many great artists doing their thing out there. And
for me, you know, it starts and ends with the
great Lady Wilson. I've had her here on the show.
We've talked to her. She's done so much here and
just all over the world for globally, for country music too.
(11:59):
And then you look at the ACMs, what you're coming up,
and of course the CMAS later this year. What's it
meant for the female artists? And you see this as
a producer, singer, songwriter and all the collaborations we talked about.
To see this run now of great female artists, you know,
out there.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Doing everything, I think it's amazing. I think more people
are becoming just more fearless in the sense of like
it used to be a boy I mean, it is
a boys club right like in the executive world as well.
And I think the ability to sort of just have
that confidence and call yourself a producer, call yourself an
artist when there's so many guys in the in the
(12:35):
game already is is It's growing for sure?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
It really is too. I know you recently did some
work as a Top twenty as a writer for a
song called hold Me, which was a number one record
on the CDC's Top twenty with a fantastic group by
the Strumbello's. Talk about this project.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, this was really really cool because I when I
was in law school, my sister had sent me this
band and she was like, listen to this record, It's amazing,
and it was a song called Spirits, and I was like,
this is this is like some groundbreaking incredible music, like wow.
And so I became a huge fan of this band,
and then you know, I joined the music industry and
(13:15):
I started working as an artist. And then I was
fortunate enough to do a show where the Strombells were
also on the bill, and so they actually brought me
on stage to sing Spirits with them, and I thought
like oh my god, this was like I made this.
I made it, you know what I mean, Like I
made it moment and then we just sort of got
to talking. And what was really cool was, rather than
(13:38):
approach this band as just a songwriter, I was in
the room as a fan, so I was able to say, like,
here's what I would love to hear one of my
favorite bands sing, you know, and then we kind of
we wrote hold Me as well as like three other
songs on that record, and it was it was amazing,
Like it was just so natural because there was a
(14:00):
fan in the room tact telling them exactly what I
wanted to hear. So it was a really really great experience.
And they're such nice people, one of my greatest friends.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's a great group, no doubt about it. You guys
haven't heard of it, Go check it out across the
DSPs out there, the Strumbellan it's a great group out
there too. And also this current single has garnered a
lot of attention out there too, for the one called
to Never Let Go collaboration there. You did tell everybody
a little bit of a story of this song because
it's already mentioned about the ray reviews.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, no, I wrote this song. Actually the production was
entirely different, and it was my friend Domino and I.
He had sent me this beat and I wrote just
this top line to the song to the beat, and
that was about three years ago. Actually it was a
summer three years ago, and no label was biting at it.
Nobody like nobody was interested in signing the song. And
(14:54):
then he actually decided to do a reproduction on the song.
And then Hardwell, who's an incredible DJ producer and has
a label called Revealed, Hardwell really loved the song and
he was like, you know what, I want to sign it.
And then and then before I know it, like we're
we're making release plans and everything. So this was written,
(15:14):
you know, a while back. But then Hardwell really was
really excited about it, and he premiered it at Ultra
Music Festival in Europe, and uh and after that, like
everybody's just like loving it and it's been it's been
spun a bunch of times, remixed, and it's it's a
it's a fun one.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It really is a bum. Dude got it playing a
little bit in the background there too, so folks get
a little preview of that too, and of course go
download and stream the song too. You know, we talked
about all the great success you've had in this industry too,
and of course there's a lot of the ups and downs,
but sometimes fans don't see of this industry. You talk
about just some of the challenging parts that you go through,
and not just a female artist, but just as an
(15:54):
artist in general in this industry, and maybe fans don't see. Kal.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, I mean I think and I always say, this
is why I made the switch to being a producer
primarily before like after being an artist. Like, something that
I noticed when I was an artist is that you're
never fully satisfied because there's always going to be this
jealousy of comparison. And that's something I really hated as
(16:18):
an artist. You know, You're you're constantly thinking, like you
could book the biggest show ever, but there's another artist
in your genre who booked a bigger show than you,
and you're constantly like comparing and contrasting. You're kind of going,
why am I not there? Like you know, and so
that to me was really, really really hard. And then
when I joined the producer community, it was a lot more.
(16:41):
It was a lot more like there was a lot
more unity in it, and I think there's a lot
more championing each other and being happy for each other
and learning from each other and collaborating. And so I'm
a lot happier as a producer than I was as
an artist. And so I think a lot of people
don't realize that, you know, some of your favorite artists
are are you know, very insecure. And same thing with
(17:06):
you know, being on the road. You have this really
high high of being on stage and it's absolutely incredible
and there's no high like it for real, and then
you get off stage and there's this wave of loneliness
that happens when you just go back to your hotel room.
And you know, touring was was really hard for me,
and so that was that was it. It was like
(17:26):
a lot of ups. The highs were really high, but
they were paired with loads that were really low. So
that part wasn't for me.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Take the eyes with the loads there, good with the bed,
they always say too, But sometimes you're right. It can
get a little bit depressing out there too when you
have to go through it. Because everybody fights for everything
they get in the industry, no doubt about it. That's
how competitive it is now too, with both you male
and female artists out there too. And of course you
mentioned we talked about technology, and of course all these
reality shows now that are doing this thing, the voice
and of course Idle, you know, making it's come back
over the last three four years. And of course America's
(17:56):
got talent. There's so many of them too. And also
there are countries like Canada and other countries are doing
their own versions of what America's shows are, so you're
start showing the versatility of all these great artists out
there too. We've got to take our last time out
here too, last segment coming up with here. Just a
great great guests here, Kaylin Diamond here on the show.
Check her out at Kaylindiamond dot com out there for
more information, and of course all her great work is
(18:18):
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Speaker 2 (19:08):
Hey, back to your final segment, Kayla Diamond. That just
love that name Diamond here on the backstage past Diamond
in the Rough two one of the Canada's best producers
out there, world renowned and of course and music guru
out there too, with great great music out there. Current
single we mentioned with Domino there to Never Let Go.
You heard little Piece of that too in the background
too and Beautiful Chaos. Hey, I want to go back
to this album too for all the affiliates out there
(19:31):
and the listeners to a the program. I really enjoyed
listening to not this Carnival Hearts, which was that big
single we talked about, but America's Sweetheart, which I'm currently
kind of auditioned here in the background has got a
good little vibe to this one. Tell the folks the
story of this one.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You know what's really funny is I haven't I haven't
talked about this song in like seven years. And my
parents actually called me this morning and they were in
the car listening to it, and they go, you should
do a remix of America's Sweetheart. That song is amazing,
blah blah blah. And I hadn't even thought about this
song in a while, but it's actually a pretty good song.
I'm not gonna lie this one. I actually I wrote
(20:06):
at my piano. I had just I was I was.
I had a friend who was an actor. She was
she was an act She is an actor, and she's
doing really great right now, and and her and I
were really close friends. And I just saw her go through,
you know, the ups and the downs of her industry
at the same time as I was finding my footing
(20:28):
in the music industry and she she was experiencing that
same thing. And then I was kind of doing the
starting that tour life type of thing and playing those
shows and then feeling the lows. Kind of like what
we just said with the highs and the highs and
the lows and the lows, and it's that's kind of
what this song is about. Like it's it's this bitter
(20:50):
sweet kind of feeling. And and she, you know, my
friend didn't come from a family that supported her, and
she kind of did it all on her own and
I was just kind of watching her on the sidelines,
just doing her thing, and this song is about her.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I love it. And then of course you come out.
I love the title of this record too, just saying
dirty Laundry because we always talk about this just many
aspects out there, and I'm talking about these songs because
I always tell people here on the broadcast, we do
our homework, we go listen to tracks, and we love
just projecting it out there to the fans too. But
what a song to lead off Dirty Laundry when this
came out in twenty nineteen for cry Wolf, and I'm
(21:29):
play a little sniffet of it while we talk about
this song too, because this was a great song to
really just lead off a great record. Talk about this one.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Cry Wolf is great because that I wrote in like
twenty eighteen with my friend Lauren Mandal, who's an incredible
artist I'm gonna plug her right now. Her name's Lolo,
she's doing her US tour headlining. She's killing it right now,
and so her and I wrote that with our friend
Joel Stoffer, who's an incredible producer who I had the
(21:57):
pleasure of sitting behind and actually learning from while I
was an artist, and I still work with him to
this day, and that song was totally about this. I
was going through a breakup at the time and the
person kept promising like, you know, oh, no, I promised
this time will be better, this time will be better.
And my best friend was going through a breakup at
(22:18):
the same exact time, and he kept coming back to
her being like, no, I promised, this time will be better.
And then every time, you know, both of our partners
would disappoint us at the same time. So me and
my best friend were just like simultaneously going through this
like ping pong type of breakup. And then I actually
lived with my best friend at the same time. So
she said to me, she was like, ugh, he always
(22:40):
cries wolf. He's always crying wolf. And I was like,
wait a minute, let me get my notes out, and
I shout up at the studio. The next day and
I mentioned this little thing and we were talking about
it and it became cry Wolf and then Joel kind
of like put some you know, wolf noises in there
and got some drums going and it was great.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Give me the audience a piece of that right now
in the background, too, Dirty Laundry, and check out the
album there, and there's one other two. I'm gonna give
it a little bit of a push here too, because
I love this plug here and I love the title
of it, Lie Lie Lie, featuring just another great artist
out there too. Viva is on this one too. For
you guys on this Dirty Laundry record, talk about this
one for me?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, Oh, Lilaila is a deep cut. Lila Lies actually
my first record where I was openly talking about like
being in a relationship with a man and a woman,
and I have I have to credit that to an
amazing artist named Rea May, who I wrote this record with.
I wrote this with Craig McConnell and Rea May, and
I was in the session and I was hesitant to say,
(23:44):
you know, to talk about my experiences like like falling
in love with a woman and like breaking up with
a woman and then falling in love with a man
and then breaking up with the men. And I was
being very like, I was not using gender like or
pronouns or anything. And then Rea just looked at me
and she's like, just own it, like do your like
be your truth, like, be your true self. And then
(24:06):
I was like, Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna
do it. You know what, we should put a feature
on it. And and I was at the time looking
at this, I'm gonna plug it now her carrots now,
and she switched it. She's an incredible actor, she's an
incredible singer, songwriter, you name it. And so I was like, Aviva,
(24:30):
you should like come on this record with me because
her voice is just amazing. And I was also a
fan of her work. And so we did this little
duet thing and it was one of the first times
in Canadian pop history that there has been a female
and female duet.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I love that, dude. It's such a great great song
there too, and just so much experience. I love the
fact you've got so much experience doing this and learning
the ropes of this industry and knowing how to grind
in this too for successful stories to come out on
the other side, right let's have a little fun with this,
because you and I could sit here and talk music
all day, that's how much I listened to it. Love
your style of music. I love just everything about your
your story too. You know we talk about so much
(25:10):
getting busy with time there too, and I forget sometimes
I do it here on this radio show, and I
forget to actually go have a life and actually have
something just with hobbies to work out or go to
the gym, which my escape, or you spend time with
my five year old daughter now two at the same time.
But for you, when it comes to escape, what what
kind of comes to mind for hobbies? And you're like,
you know what, I have enough of music, I have
(25:30):
to go do this? What is this considering.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
It's so hard to have a hobby outside of music.
But definitely, Jim like, I have to be at the
gym every single day, lifting as much weight as possible
and throwing it around, mainly for my mental health. But
my hobbies have now, you know, become you know, making
fun tiktoks which involve music, so you know, making remixes
(25:55):
and stuff for fun. But also I have a two
year old daughter who keeps me very very busy and
she she runs and I chase her.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I had to workout, as they all say, I got minded,
like so much stuff, the piano lessons and of course
tea ball and soccer. And we're throwing at like a
birthday party for her because the birthday was here in
April today. Oh yeah, all kind of fun out there
too for her, and just love doing what she does.
All right. When it comes to food, I'm like, you
have like probably one, maybe two cheap days out of
the week. It's like either chicken tenders or something fried,
(26:28):
like fried fish or whatever. I'm going more lean now
with like pork, chicken, and of course fish, So trying
to stay away from like a lot of the red
meat and stuff like that and all the MSG and
the chemicals and whenever they put in it to make
it taste good. But you know, for me, it's not sweets.
It's like the carbs. For you. What kind of food
do you like to cook your own food? Eat out?
Combination of both?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, combination of both. But I am a steak and
potatoes girl. Like I give me like the thickest cut
prime rib steak, and I'm like all over it, including
the fat cap like that is me to a tea.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Stars. It's taking protecting, no doubt, all right. When it
comes to pizza, I'm having to back off of the
top things that get like more veggies on mine now too,
and like grilled chicken, all the boring stuff too. But
I love the carnivore and the meats that come on
these pies now too. You're a thin crust person, what
topicings go on your pizza?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh? Oh, thin crust, hands down. But I'm a sucker
for Like when I was in Detroit, like for law school,
I would eat little little caesars like all the time.
So I do like that thick crust with like that
sweet tomato sauce that tastes like probably the most chemicals
you can imagine.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I love always fun. Hey, I love the story. It
is such a great, great, just triumphant success in this industry.
One of Canada's hot producers out there too as well,
world renown and of course out there can check her
out at Kayleadiamond dot com. And Never Let Go is
the current single across all the DSPs and more coming here.
Congratulations of the Juno Award nomination for Rap Album of
(27:57):
the Year and all these great collaborations you've done with
all these great artists to and so much more coming
out of her camp too, and founded a record label
and a great singer songwriter in her. All right, Hey,
we appreciate you being with us, Kayla, and hey, don't
be a stranger. Come back anytime here on the show.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Thank you so much for having me. It's great to
talk to you.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
You got it. One of the best out there, Kayla
Diamond to do it too. And of course, so we're
not done. We're pumping out more shows Nashville recording artists
to Ray Filcher coming up here on KKTC True Country
ninety nine point nine. He's got some unreleased songs and
one actually is called Well, I'm not going to reveal
the time. You just have to stay tuned for that too.
They're not released. We're going to play them here on
the olid great stations out there KYB in ninety eight
(28:33):
point one, KISW Country and tar Heel World Network dot
Org out there too as well, and of course iHeartRadio.
More to come here to it is the backstage past
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com. And of
course more great music coming up. Take care, God, let
us well season
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Hi, this is Robert Roll Keane, Texas country artist Robert
Roll Keane, and you are listening to a grand slam
of music and sports on the backstage passings explicitly on
KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
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