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I came to Vegas for the first time like

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I hardly can speak English back then it

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was like six years ago I just and I

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thought like you know Elvis Elvis Vegas

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all that stuff I was like I was going in

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the stores I was buying some stuff with

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Elvis I bought a small guitar with

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signed Elvis and in the night I decided

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oh I'm gonna go out I'm gonna go so I

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went out there was a bar somewhere and I

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see like the people are dancing in and

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there it seems so happy so I was dancing

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with them and there was one girl and she

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started to dance with me and in Russia

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if the girl is dancing with you

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especially like the way she was in with

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me it means that she's actually ready to

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like almost marry you so it meant that

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you are hurt are you for a night at

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least marry for a night yeah so and

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suddenly now where were you by the way

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exactly it was some some guy to remember

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the name of the hotel okay hotel some

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bar it doesn't really matter but the

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point of the story next

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next thing is happening we're dancing I

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feel very happy I'm in Vegas you know

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I'm dancing with a girl everything is

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beautiful I just started my new life I

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just came to America and next thing is

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happening like the guy is coming to me

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and he saying get a out of here

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and now like what you know there was

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like super unexpectable for me and like

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I'm the guy I'm a big star in Russia so

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it there's no no any possibility that I

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would hear anything like this there you

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know even if I would not be a big star

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you know first thing like a normal

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person would do in any you know educated

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country it punch in the face you know

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like why the hell that guy came to me

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and just said something after I was not

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doing anything I realized that probably

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they are kind of connected with this

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girl

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so I I'd said maybe I didn't understand

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they did something you know my English

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is not so good so do you know who I am

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no no III just said excuse me

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and he said get the out of here and

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this moment you just said to see gasm

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I'm so sorry for people who probably

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will hear this story but not gonna see

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this face

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you know in the second all my future was

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right in front of me like I just came to

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America I have a to tourist visa and I

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have a what euros is six years ago and

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you know I decided that I'm gonna put my

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life here that I'm gonna leave here then

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I'm gonna you know my goals are here

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that basically this is like I'm starting

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a whole new huge step in my life and and

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this guy and you know I slowly starting

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to smile with a with the most fake smile

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I could ever made that second because I

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was so pissed and angry inside so I

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smile to him like with that face like

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you know when you smiling like this and

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you kind of cannot really smile and I

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and I said okay and I started to dance

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I was continued to dance like in a very

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weird way I was dancing for like maybe a

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minute with a silly smile on my face

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when I realized that basically I am so

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smart I'm so smart that I'm like I can I

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can handle my temper right now and after

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that I okay I went to the hotel room

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fall asleep and next day I cried yes a

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actually yes earlier I cried in a pain I

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mean in a bathroom I closed the door Ian

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I was laying down on the floor and

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crying so what was the story who was the

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guy this was just nice no not even close

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you know I don't know probably they are

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kind of connected maybe with maybe that

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was his girlfriend maybe she wanted to

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dance maybe she wanted to make him feel

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jealous yeah I don't know if you got a

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little bit too close to her were you

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putting your hands on her and no she was

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moving her butt right like you know all

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over me so I was not trying to do

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anything so that was your welcome to

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America huh welcome to America yeah a

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little slap in the face yeah you're

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gonna be dealing with some cultural

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differences here well I just realized

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that here if the girl the one thing

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I realized that here if the girl is

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dancing with you it doesn't mean nothing

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it just means you're just having fun

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that's it that's not what I realized and

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I go OK for the girl yeah for the guy no

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the guy thinks the same way you're

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thinking that used to be my big way we

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used to pick up girls in college so we

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find a group out there on the dance

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floor and go start dancing with them and

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being super annoying to them but for

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some reason we thought that was a good

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way to pick up girls it wasn't it wasn't

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very successful but so so what else he

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did some Elvis hunting while you're in

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Vegas in Vegas yes of course

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the Hilton was one of his big stops I

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even called the Hilton anymore to the

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west gate but that's where he headlined

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for many years I haven't been there no I

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I actually later I gave I later I came

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to what is this place Nashville to

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Graceland Memphis everywhere I went

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everywhere so you went to Graceland

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of course cool and the hair is an ode to

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Elvis right it just like several years

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ago I don't know 18 10 years ago I I

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just did my hair once like this and I

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realized that I liked it so much and of

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course I'm a huge fan of Elvis Presley I

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like I cannot do anything about it and I

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don't want to because this is like

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something what made me who I am right

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because when I was a kid I watched some

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show on Discovery Channel there was and

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my mom with she do remember this VHS

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cassette so my mom taped it for me this

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the only Discovery Channel was some

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chibi thing how old I was

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9 7 had 8 something like this I was a

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kid so I didn't know who like I am

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growing up I'm kid in Russia like Elvis

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is like it's like it's really far of

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course some people they know about Alice

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but it was like totally different time

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period so and I saw him on a TV and it

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was not like you know not old Elvis with

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the belly with when he was like $50

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no it was fifties Elvis when he was

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young he was crazy when he was like

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going really crazy on a stage and I

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realize that I've never seen a person

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who can have so much fun doing his job

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and that would changed my whole my life

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because I realized that I don't want to

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be someone who cannot have fun like that

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guy when I'm doing my job

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I want to be like I want to do whatever

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I'm gonna do it's gonna be this once

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it's it's funny how Elvis continues to

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influence people young people cuz your

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story is very similar to my favorite

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artists Bruce Springsteen's story Bruce

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Springsteen tells a similar story of

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being a kid and seeing Elvis on TV for

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the first time in just deciding that's

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what I'm gonna do

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that's amazing yeah III personally think

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that live performances of artists when

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you can see like even if you exceed like

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on YouTube for summer it's a live

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performance there was so much energy if

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there was an real artist there were so

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many things you just see you can just

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suck you know in that person in his

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universe and it's amazing and so

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inspiring so I know you were born in

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Russia but you also spent time in

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Austria yes so give me the years on that

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and where were you when you saw the

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Elvis video was that Russia or I'll sure

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it was Russia that was like small city

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in Russia just you know but just imagine

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like that small city pretty far from

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Moscow was a huge country land wise

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largest country in the world

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nice yeah it's huge kind so like for

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instance from Moscow you're how far if

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like a few hours flight or drive drive

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it's kind of not super far but for any

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person who want to move to big city from

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a small city it's a huge step it's like

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you know to move from Austria or Russia

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to to the US it's like it's always a

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huge step it's always a huge decision so

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for me it was really far so prior to

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seeing the Elvis video were you into

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music at all by that point I was a

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professional accordion player accordion

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player yes I'm a professional accordion

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player since I was six I was playing at

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of a polish instrument is that the

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accordion bigan

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is it big it is a big in Russia the

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accordion for some reason it is okay it

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is and it's very popular in Russia like

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of course not

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nowadays not a lot of kids playing

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accordion your your parents had you on

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the street corner with a little cup in

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front of you now on coins I know I was a

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they pushed me only to win competitions

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and to be like extremely extremely good

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at what I do

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we even had a agreement with them I told

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them you know a mother father I want to

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stop playing accordion it's not fun all

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my friends are playing football on the

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street and I'm playing accordion sitting

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here it's not fun of course are you sure

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you weren't loving it III was like it

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you cannot love something when you're

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just sitting on your body for hours and

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playing the same melody because you have

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to make it perfect and it was a big

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accordion it's bigger couldn't stand up

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and no dance around cannot you cannot

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and and you're a small kiddy you want to

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do something you wouldn't you don't move

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your energies but you were really good

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at it

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I was so you're naturally musical yes

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the accordion came very easily to you

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not very easily but it was just it's

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like with any instrument you just have

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to sit and work that's it it all it

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takes is just hours and hours of

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practicing and then I told him to my

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parents that guys I want to give up I

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wanna I don't want to play accordion

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anymore and my father told me look if

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you start something you have to finish

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it

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go till the to the certain point and

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finish it and if you're gonna be really

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good with the accordion if you're gonna

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like make us proud of yours if you're

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gonna win competitions and yeah you know

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be great you can be bad at school and

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I'm like okay and he said there's only

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one point do whatever you want but so

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we're not gonna you know so teachers are

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not gonna call us and ask us to to come

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and you know to do something just just

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keep it like on your side just you can

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be very bad but you know you know

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without us being part of it another we

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they don't want phone calls from the

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teacher saying that that kids not

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showing I thank you so much for making

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it much easier exactly they didn't want

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to make sure you show up but I don't

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know if you got A's B's

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the seas there but you know here it'd be

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like it's okay to be a sea student

271
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exactly so I was really bad I was that

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was the trade-off that kept you on the

273
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accordion exactly and I started to be

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really good with accordion because I I

275
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you know there was suddenly there was a

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point where you can actually decide what

277
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you want to do and why it's gonna be

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your goal because it's like okay that's

279
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kind of accordion seemed to me a little

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bit easier than to go on a school every

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day and dedicate all my life to know to

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sit with books and so when you saw the

283
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Elvis video at that point you're an

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accomplished accordion Asami I was I was

285
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so good yeah accordion is okay but then

286
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after Elvis did that kind of put you in

287
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a different direction

288
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that was my do you wonder sing and dance

289
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in other words I just started to sing

290
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when I was playing accordion I was you

291
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know I was basically when I was

292
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practicing playing accordion I started

293
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to sing every time like this a melody I

294
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was playing and then when I was only 15

295
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I again I told to my parents ladies and

296
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gentlemen I was 15 where I was telling

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in our kitchen and I said ladies and

298
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gentlemen I decided that I'm gonna sing

299
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so I'm not gonna play accordion anymore

300
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I accomplished this step which we

301
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decided that at night I'm gonna do

302
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did you actually win some competitions a

303
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lot a lot I was really good so they were

304
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really proud of me and that's why they

305
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were shocked that I'm gonna not play

306
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accordion anymore and I said I'm gonna

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sing because I feel like it's something

308
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I really want to do and that was one

309
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thing I told them which they cannot you

310
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know fight I said you know this is my

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decision

312
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and whatever happens it's gonna be my

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decision for the rest of my life and

314
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you're gonna be my support my family and

315
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I'm gonna love you whatever happens but

316
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schools they always liked the idea of

317
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you being a musician you ever supportive

318
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of that because like a lot of families

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aren't supportive of that they think

320
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that's kind of crazy

321
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but my parents didn't like the idea of

322
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me singing they said they thought that

323
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it's a bad bad career move it's a bad

324
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career you have to you know being for-

325
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in top accordion is in Russia right now

326
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making yeah accordion player for nine

327
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years and then suddenly you just given

328
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up you're like you you you I'm gonna

329
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sing like millions of people

330
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like what do you even play with the

331
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accordion is a kind of Russian

332
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traditional songs no a lot like you can

333
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play Bach Mozart everything when you're

334
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going on competition see you playing

335
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like Vivaldi like you playing really

336
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classic music and it's really hard on

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accordin because it was written for

338
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different instruments but you played you

339
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played with accordion and you're playing

340
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solo or part of a Orchestra a left hand

341
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playing Orchestra right hand or like a

342
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three fingers usually like were for

343
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playing solo and one finger we have only

344
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to add some or one more chord like you

345
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playing either chords so it's basically

346
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really hard when you go into that level

347
00:14:07,910 --> 00:14:04,620
that's really hard so then you decide to

348
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shift to singing so accordion went up on

349
00:14:12,530 --> 00:14:10,740
the shelf yes kind of my parents asked

350
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me to not not to give it up just play

351
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play every day just I said where they

352
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were they musicians themselves I know

353
00:14:20,750 --> 00:14:18,060
that's amazing in our story because I

354
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have brother his older and sister she's

355
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younger and we're we're all musicians my

356
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brother he's accordion player my sister

357
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she's a piano player now she became

358
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opera singer but we're all musicians all

359
00:14:35,570 --> 00:14:33,600
the kids are musicians and an abusive

360
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childhood or anything hmm you didn't

361
00:14:38,540 --> 00:14:37,110
have an abusive childhood or anything

362
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other than making you play the accordion

363
00:14:42,430 --> 00:14:40,860
no I just kind of have this theory that

364
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you don't you know what makes somebody

365
00:14:48,230 --> 00:14:45,840
creative you know I'm not create I love

366
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music but I was never my parents ever

367
00:14:53,180 --> 00:14:50,730
maybe play an instrument mm-hmm and you

368
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know so I have no natural ability toward

369
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that even though I love music but I just

370
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wonder what makes people creative it

371
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often seems like when you look at

372
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successful creative types often there

373
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was some kind of weird trauma growing up

374
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I think it's I think it's a I actually

375
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want you to get rid of this idea that

376
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you cannot that you are not creative

377
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because this is the only one thing but

378
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which actually stops you from being

379
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creative and look I would love to do it

380
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now and I've tried my sister got me a

381
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present which was just a single drum a

382
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bongo basically it's not interesting

383
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well but I thought this is very simple

384
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so maybe I'll learn to play this because

385
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I'm thing and anybody could just learn

386
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to you

387
00:15:37,909 --> 00:15:35,969
you know buying it but then I went on

388
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YouTube and I looked up okay how to play

389
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the bongo what I realized is there's

390
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like three different places to hit it in

391
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three different parts of your hands you

392
00:15:46,219 --> 00:15:44,489
can hit it with your hand here flat or

393
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this and you could hit the bongo in the

394
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middle here and I gave up after after

395
00:15:53,479 --> 00:15:50,339
five minutes like this is too

396
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complicated in the beginning everything

397
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is complicated but it's not about being

398
00:15:58,279 --> 00:15:56,459
creative it's like I mean with this

399
00:15:59,959 --> 00:15:58,289
instrument you're not gonna be you know

400
00:16:01,639 --> 00:15:59,969
like a party person you aren't gonna

401
00:16:03,229 --> 00:16:01,649
come to your friends and say hey guys

402
00:16:04,939 --> 00:16:03,239
let's sing together and you will take

403
00:16:06,409 --> 00:16:04,949
this thing about your prom yeah your

404
00:16:08,299 --> 00:16:06,419
uncle and you're gonna be like and

405
00:16:09,199 --> 00:16:08,309
they're gonna say oh my god he's so fun

406
00:16:10,699 --> 00:16:09,209
he's so cool

407
00:16:13,819 --> 00:16:10,709
thinking like that's a little bit weird

408
00:16:15,589 --> 00:16:13,829
like okay why not

409
00:16:17,899 --> 00:16:15,599
okay so guitar is what I should learn

410
00:16:20,449 --> 00:16:17,909
right no you have you should learn in

411
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anything like you wanna play because

412
00:16:25,309 --> 00:16:23,279
it's all about decision like and my life

413
00:16:26,449 --> 00:16:25,319
actually shows me that everything is all

414
00:16:29,089 --> 00:16:26,459
about decision when you're making a

415
00:16:31,489 --> 00:16:29,099
decision it's either bad or good

416
00:16:34,789 --> 00:16:31,499
decision either like I cannot do this

417
00:16:36,799 --> 00:16:34,799
either I can do that it's always after

418
00:16:39,379 --> 00:16:36,809
this decision you actually go into this

419
00:16:41,499 --> 00:16:39,389
direction at some point like I realize

420
00:16:44,509 --> 00:16:41,509
that everything I have now in my life I

421
00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:44,519
had a decision and I had like kind of

422
00:16:50,419 --> 00:16:47,099
dream that I will have this and and this

423
00:16:54,109 --> 00:16:50,429
is amazing even like the car I have it's

424
00:16:55,549 --> 00:16:54,119
a car I'd like maybe 15 years ago I was

425
00:16:58,699 --> 00:16:55,559
thinking oh my god I want this car

426
00:17:00,979 --> 00:16:58,709
exactly the car I got right now and it's

427
00:17:04,819 --> 00:17:00,989
a Porsche 54 speedster like a James Dean

428
00:17:06,619 --> 00:17:04,829
car oh wow what you're 54 Wow my dad had

429
00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:06,629
a couple of he didn't have the speed

430
00:17:10,819 --> 00:17:08,250
this is the same car that James Dean

431
00:17:13,999 --> 00:17:10,829
died oh no he died in a spider spider

432
00:17:15,619 --> 00:17:14,009
but Spitzer I had before and I wanted

433
00:17:17,179 --> 00:17:15,629
like it's more like it looks more

434
00:17:19,579 --> 00:17:17,189
classic not sport car

435
00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:19,589
we'll be careful in that I am very

436
00:17:23,389 --> 00:17:21,329
careful I already got in one car

437
00:17:25,009 --> 00:17:23,399
accident I am aware but we're gonna get

438
00:17:26,210 --> 00:17:25,019
into that but yet your your car accident

439
00:17:29,869 --> 00:17:26,220
was in a Porsche right yeah

440
00:17:34,340 --> 00:17:29,879
and was it in the US yes okay yeah it's

441
00:17:36,139 --> 00:17:34,350
you know another terrible story another

442
00:17:40,399 --> 00:17:36,149
another wake up another wake-up call

443
00:17:43,549 --> 00:17:40,409
oh yeah another amazing amazing thing in

444
00:17:45,740 --> 00:17:43,559
my life which actually showed me that

445
00:17:47,430 --> 00:17:45,750
there's basically really no limits like

446
00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:47,440
for any person and

447
00:17:52,260 --> 00:17:49,510
if we're gonna like get to that point

448
00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:52,270
like okay guys for anyone who doesn't

449
00:17:55,830 --> 00:17:53,650
know and I'm pretty sure that a lot of

450
00:17:57,900 --> 00:17:55,840
you doesn't know or don't know a lot of

451
00:17:59,790 --> 00:17:57,910
you don't know a lot of you don't know

452
00:18:04,380 --> 00:17:59,800
but I'm gonna tell her right now cheer

453
00:18:06,930 --> 00:18:04,390
for grammar right yeah thanks I I was in

454
00:18:09,570 --> 00:18:06,940
car accident and and I woke up in a

455
00:18:12,180 --> 00:18:09,580
hospital and I doctors told me that I

456
00:18:14,340 --> 00:18:12,190
had a stroke right after car accident so

457
00:18:18,330 --> 00:18:14,350
half of my body was paralyzed I couldn't

458
00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:18,340
speak eight not even like not even be

459
00:18:22,260 --> 00:18:20,410
close to be singing or like to act like

460
00:18:25,950 --> 00:18:22,270
half of my body paralyzed and it looks

461
00:18:27,450 --> 00:18:25,960
very very it was this 2011 yep okay

462
00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:27,460
that's what I read but I was a little

463
00:18:35,430 --> 00:18:29,410
confused as to what you were doing here

464
00:18:38,370 --> 00:18:35,440
in 2011 was that just one contest then I

465
00:18:40,530 --> 00:18:38,380
guess it was 12 I can't fault it just I

466
00:18:43,290 --> 00:18:40,540
just came to America and you were coming

467
00:18:45,870 --> 00:18:43,300
here on vacation no I came here because

468
00:18:48,930 --> 00:18:45,880
I sent a music contract actually oh my

469
00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:48,940
life became like exactly like dream

470
00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:52,510
everything was like so perfect I sent a

471
00:18:56,940 --> 00:18:53,910
music contract with the guy who was a

472
00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:56,950
producer of he produced a few songs of

473
00:19:01,560 --> 00:18:57,610
Lady gaga

474
00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:01,570
like a poker face and like huge hits he

475
00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:03,610
had a few Grammys and I sent him music

476
00:19:09,390 --> 00:19:05,650
contract with him and I came to the US

477
00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:09,400
and then suddenly bombs Wow okay well

478
00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:10,930
why don't we let's go back to childhood

479
00:19:16,170 --> 00:19:13,570
then we'll lead after that so

480
00:19:19,590 --> 00:19:16,180
so obviously you give your parents a lot

481
00:19:21,990 --> 00:19:19,600
of credit for pushing you to some extent

482
00:19:25,830 --> 00:19:22,000
into music or making it available yeah

483
00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:25,840
to you and my father you know that my

484
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:29,470
father actually he had to sell his car

485
00:19:35,580 --> 00:19:31,810
and he was a driver he was actually a

486
00:19:37,740 --> 00:19:35,590
kind of taxi driver and he sold his car

487
00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:37,750
because he had to buy an accordion for

488
00:19:42,690 --> 00:19:39,910
me and my brother so we can be

489
00:19:45,930 --> 00:19:42,700
professionals and this is amazing

490
00:19:49,350 --> 00:19:45,940
because we didn't have money I was in a

491
00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:49,360
poor family so to sell his car and my

492
00:19:53,670 --> 00:19:52,000
mom she actually forced my father to

493
00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:53,680
sell his car because she said this is

494
00:19:58,230 --> 00:19:56,530
your kids this is their future and

495
00:20:01,350 --> 00:19:58,240
you're thinking about the car you can

496
00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:01,360
buy another like like small one bad

497
00:20:05,010 --> 00:20:03,370
but it doesn't matter you just driving

498
00:20:08,490 --> 00:20:05,020
other people in this car so she

499
00:20:09,630 --> 00:20:08,500
basically my mom she and that seems to

500
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:09,640
me they would put a lot of pressure on

501
00:20:15,060 --> 00:20:13,210
you kind of because III mean my father

502
00:20:17,970 --> 00:20:15,070
the one who won't let him down after he

503
00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:17,980
saw only one thing he actually had like

504
00:20:23,420 --> 00:20:20,110
a big thing the thing which brought us

505
00:20:27,180 --> 00:20:23,430
money food to our house it was a car and

506
00:20:29,130 --> 00:20:27,190
he sold it to buy an accordion for us

507
00:20:31,380 --> 00:20:29,140
and it was crazy and of course after

508
00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:31,390
that you cannot just know oh you know

509
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:33,910
I'm gonna be okay you just don't have a

510
00:20:36,630 --> 00:20:34,450
chance

511
00:20:38,670 --> 00:20:36,640
you just have to see it and play every

512
00:20:40,260 --> 00:20:38,680
minute and get better and better and

513
00:20:42,420 --> 00:20:40,270
better but do you for you do you think

514
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:42,430
it really was just lots of training or

515
00:20:48,210 --> 00:20:44,530
was it love of it or do you think was

516
00:20:51,630 --> 00:20:48,220
natural abilities every natural

517
00:20:53,550 --> 00:20:51,640
abilities goes with a lot of hours and

518
00:20:55,290 --> 00:20:53,560
days and years of work otherwise it's

519
00:20:58,860 --> 00:20:55,300
not and and they're not gonna happen and

520
00:21:01,560 --> 00:20:58,870
you have to love it don't you uh even if

521
00:21:03,810 --> 00:21:01,570
you don't now if you put a lot of hours

522
00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:03,820
of work you will have a result that's

523
00:21:08,490 --> 00:21:06,130
like the craziest thing in this life

524
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:08,500
like if you just dedicate your time to

525
00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:10,570
something and you just do it do it and

526
00:21:15,870 --> 00:21:13,630
do it you becoming better it there is no

527
00:21:17,670 --> 00:21:15,880
other way it just just happening just

528
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:17,680
periods but it helps to start at a young

529
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:19,810
age as you guys did yeah of course and I

530
00:21:24,090 --> 00:21:22,450
loved music I'm not sure that I love

531
00:21:26,340 --> 00:21:24,100
like accordion itself now when I'm

532
00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:26,350
playing sometimes I feel like I'm like

533
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:30,130
you know um I'm just I'm so much in this

534
00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:32,050
melodies I'm just playing and I feel so

535
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:34,270
good because like the sound of this

536
00:21:39,210 --> 00:21:37,090
instrument makes me feel like yeah

537
00:21:41,130 --> 00:21:39,220
musical amazing some makes me feel

538
00:21:42,630 --> 00:21:41,140
something so what was kind of the

539
00:21:44,250 --> 00:21:42,640
breakout for you how did you go from

540
00:21:47,810 --> 00:21:44,260
being in this tiny little town playing

541
00:21:51,870 --> 00:21:47,820
accordion to being known in Russia okay

542
00:21:55,190 --> 00:21:51,880
then when I was 15 15 I started to sing

543
00:21:58,380 --> 00:21:55,200
and I won like a few huge competitions

544
00:22:00,990 --> 00:21:58,390
as a singer my parents we say huge

545
00:22:03,870 --> 00:22:01,000
you're talking about countrywide yes

546
00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:03,880
even like from other countries I it's so

547
00:22:10,650 --> 00:22:06,370
kind of like our American Idol right it

548
00:22:18,419 --> 00:22:14,900
like I've never explained it before I

549
00:22:21,270 --> 00:22:18,429
had a gold medal it's like you know it's

550
00:22:23,490 --> 00:22:21,280
like Olympic Games but in art so I know

551
00:22:25,530 --> 00:22:23,500
what a go I want a gold medal as a

552
00:22:28,410 --> 00:22:25,540
singer there it's in Russia but there's

553
00:22:30,450 --> 00:22:28,420
like kids from China from Japan kids

554
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:30,460
from other from Europe kids from

555
00:22:34,590 --> 00:22:32,050
different countries are coming for this

556
00:22:35,730 --> 00:22:34,600
kind of that's one thing you seen as I

557
00:22:37,260 --> 00:22:35,740
was looking at your background and

558
00:22:39,330 --> 00:22:37,270
talking to people from Europe it seems

559
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:39,340
like there's a lot more contests there

560
00:22:43,169 --> 00:22:41,050
right then they hear when it comes to

561
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:43,179
music I mean American we have here I

562
00:22:46,620 --> 00:22:44,530
mean we didn't have any contests here

563
00:22:48,390 --> 00:22:46,630
before American Idol American Idol was a

564
00:22:49,860 --> 00:22:48,400
huge deal that started about 15 years

565
00:22:51,540 --> 00:22:49,870
ago and now you've got the spin-offs

566
00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:51,550
from that the voice the next factor and

567
00:22:55,770 --> 00:22:54,130
so on really before American Idol we

568
00:22:58,590 --> 00:22:55,780
didn't have those type of competitions

569
00:23:00,330 --> 00:22:58,600
well X Factor scene about X Factor when

570
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:00,340
I was seventeen I at one x-factor in

571
00:23:04,620 --> 00:23:00,970
Russia

572
00:23:07,169 --> 00:23:04,630
it wasn't a Simon Cowell business I

573
00:23:09,810 --> 00:23:07,179
think I think so but in Russian media

574
00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:09,820
meet Simon Cowell unfortunately I think

575
00:23:17,790 --> 00:23:12,370
that was his show he started it in in

576
00:23:19,950 --> 00:23:17,800
England London and then it came all over

577
00:23:23,299 --> 00:23:19,960
the world I guess so was that the the

578
00:23:26,340 --> 00:23:23,309
really the big breakthrough nationwide

579
00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:26,350
of course the big breakthrough and after

580
00:23:33,390 --> 00:23:29,670
that of course it was a huge realization

581
00:23:35,669 --> 00:23:33,400
that nothing is going to happen right

582
00:23:38,610 --> 00:23:35,679
after that just because I wasn't I was

583
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:38,620
on a TV like you know for like with like

584
00:23:43,110 --> 00:23:41,170
a lot of talented people who was seen on

585
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:43,120
TV and after that there was just nothing

586
00:23:48,330 --> 00:23:46,570
but emptiness that's most of the stars

587
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:48,340
here I mean American Idols got a handful

588
00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:50,890
of great ones but as popular as the

589
00:23:54,180 --> 00:23:52,030
voices here and I don't know if you

590
00:23:55,530 --> 00:23:54,190
follow these shows here but the people

591
00:23:58,310 --> 00:23:55,540
that when the voice never seemed to go

592
00:24:01,140 --> 00:23:58,320
on to anything super significant because

593
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:01,150
and I realized why thankfully I realized

594
00:24:06,740 --> 00:24:02,890
very early because after that you have

595
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:06,750
to put even more hours of your life to

596
00:24:12,210 --> 00:24:10,450
really get to some real point because

597
00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:12,220
now there's no TV who's gonna show you

598
00:24:16,710 --> 00:24:14,710
like every week so now you have to

599
00:24:20,610 --> 00:24:16,720
actually prove who you are you have to

600
00:24:22,049 --> 00:24:20,620
it you have to for real show like what

601
00:24:23,130 --> 00:24:22,059
you really are can you do something

602
00:24:25,620 --> 00:24:23,140
without that

603
00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:25,630
and that was like the moment of real

604
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:27,370
understanding and there's other thing

605
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:29,890
which I want to say like if some if some

606
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:32,050
I don't know kids teenagers just

607
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:36,850
listening guys you have to have an idea

608
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:40,330
of what you can actually say on a stage

609
00:24:44,190 --> 00:24:42,250
if there is no music if there was no

610
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:44,200
cameras if there was just people and you

611
00:24:49,590 --> 00:24:47,770
and if there is no song who you really

612
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:49,600
are because this is like one of the most

613
00:24:56,130 --> 00:24:52,770
important things the personality itself

614
00:24:58,110 --> 00:24:56,140
like you cannot go on a stage just

615
00:24:59,910 --> 00:24:58,120
because I have a great voice yes you can

616
00:25:03,450 --> 00:24:59,920
but there is millions of people with

617
00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:03,460
great voice you have to have something

618
00:25:08,610 --> 00:25:06,670
to say something what can people just

619
00:25:11,550 --> 00:25:08,620
listen and understand you as a person

620
00:25:12,630 --> 00:25:11,560
why they can follow you not just because

621
00:25:14,340 --> 00:25:12,640
we have a great voice some days

622
00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:14,350
sometimes you don't have a great voice

623
00:25:18,350 --> 00:25:16,150
like you get in sick you don't have a

624
00:25:22,260 --> 00:25:18,360
voice and it's not the end of your life

625
00:25:24,270 --> 00:25:22,270
personality like the reality of your

626
00:25:25,950 --> 00:25:24,280
vision I don't know sample that's one

627
00:25:27,180 --> 00:25:25,960
observation I've had as a result of all

628
00:25:29,970 --> 00:25:27,190
these shows that have propped and

629
00:25:31,890 --> 00:25:29,980
cropped up in in America is how many

630
00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:31,900
great voices there are out there we

631
00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:33,910
weren't even aware of that you kind of

632
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:35,110
thought that oh if you have a great

633
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:36,610
voice you make it big and those are the

634
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:37,690
people that are big they got the good

635
00:25:41,130 --> 00:25:39,370
voices and everybody else can't sing no

636
00:25:43,170 --> 00:25:41,140
the truth is there's lots of great

637
00:25:45,810 --> 00:25:43,180
singers out there those shows should the

638
00:25:48,060 --> 00:25:45,820
voice is two or three times a year

639
00:25:49,910 --> 00:25:48,070
American Idol this and that you listen

640
00:25:53,070 --> 00:25:49,920
to everybody they all sound great but

641
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:53,080
your point would be I think that to

642
00:25:57,050 --> 00:25:55,090
distinguish between those which are all

643
00:26:00,000 --> 00:25:57,060
great singers and the ones who truly

644
00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:00,010
become the superstars is having

645
00:26:06,180 --> 00:26:03,130
something to say which means really what

646
00:26:08,190 --> 00:26:06,190
when it comes to singing when it comes

647
00:26:11,610 --> 00:26:08,200
to singing well in other words you're a

648
00:26:14,330 --> 00:26:11,620
singer you're onstage yes but you're

649
00:26:16,590 --> 00:26:14,340
saying you have something to say yes so

650
00:26:21,780 --> 00:26:16,600
let's just imagine the situation that's

651
00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:21,790
like on the stage right and music

652
00:26:34,030 --> 00:26:25,870
suddenly turned off only one spotlight

653
00:26:36,250 --> 00:26:34,040
and maybe microphone is still on and and

654
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:36,260
of course I can continue to sing yeah

655
00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:38,090
without music without everything well I

656
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:40,310
have like nice voice ok let's do it like

657
00:26:45,580 --> 00:26:42,410
great voice let's sing but you cannot

658
00:26:47,380 --> 00:26:45,590
continue like four hours to do this and

659
00:26:49,870 --> 00:26:47,390
if you have something to say something

660
00:26:51,250 --> 00:26:49,880
what can people be connected to accept

661
00:26:54,220 --> 00:26:51,260
your music something you who you really

662
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:54,230
are that what makes you like a real

663
00:26:59,830 --> 00:26:57,010
person for them real artists right

664
00:27:01,300 --> 00:26:59,840
that's I don't know that's kind of my

665
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:01,310
vision something what you can really

666
00:27:10,390 --> 00:27:06,050
share and for you that is what Allah oh

667
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:10,400
my god so many ideas which um which I

668
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:12,970
would love to just say without music

669
00:27:21,220 --> 00:27:16,970
about it's it's not about just you know

670
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:21,230
get into your goals and get to your get

671
00:27:29,860 --> 00:27:23,690
whatever you want in this life do what

672
00:27:36,610 --> 00:27:29,870
you love be with who you love it's I get

673
00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:36,620
I guess about my main I'm just let me

674
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:42,880
make it right my main idea that there is

675
00:27:48,310 --> 00:27:46,490
no limits and that there is no people

676
00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:48,320
who can tell you who you are

677
00:27:55,690 --> 00:27:51,710
who should be or who you cannot be I

678
00:27:58,390 --> 00:27:55,700
even like woke up or one it was like a

679
00:28:01,030 --> 00:27:58,400
month ago I woke up and then I started

680
00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:01,040
to play piano just I just started to

681
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:02,900
play piano in my apartment in my house

682
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:06,050
and then suddenly I was crying for some

683
00:28:09,490 --> 00:28:07,490
reason I don't know the music was so

684
00:28:11,530 --> 00:28:09,500
good so I started to cry I was playing

685
00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:11,540
piano I started to cry and then I

686
00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:13,310
realized that I have to say something

687
00:28:17,590 --> 00:28:15,620
say something I don't know what so I've

688
00:28:20,620 --> 00:28:17,600
turned on the camera and I started to

689
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:20,630
just talk to myself and it's the video

690
00:28:25,510 --> 00:28:22,970
which I have on my Instagram and it

691
00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:25,520
became like very popular on internet it

692
00:28:29,620 --> 00:28:28,310
be called be true be you and I was just

693
00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:29,630
talking basically to myself but people

694
00:28:33,220 --> 00:28:31,430
loved it so much because there was like

695
00:28:34,660 --> 00:28:33,230
a lot of ideas about people who's gonna

696
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:34,670
tell you like that you're not good

697
00:28:38,890 --> 00:28:37,010
enough that you're like that I have an

698
00:28:42,130 --> 00:28:38,900
accent that I have like that

699
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:42,140
you're too young too old like too skinny

700
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:43,970
or too fat they always gonna say that

701
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:46,250
you're not enough at some point that

702
00:28:49,870 --> 00:28:47,130
you're not good enough

703
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:49,880
but they cannot actually decide for you

704
00:28:58,070 --> 00:28:53,130
they are cannot tell you what you can

705
00:28:59,210 --> 00:28:58,080
achieve or you cannot and yeah and you

706
00:29:01,730 --> 00:28:59,220
feel you've been able to get that

707
00:29:04,130 --> 00:29:01,740
message across to your fans in Russia

708
00:29:07,299 --> 00:29:04,140
and that kind of helps explain why you

709
00:29:09,650 --> 00:29:07,309
were so successful there no people in

710
00:29:13,190 --> 00:29:09,660
Russia mostly don't speak English well

711
00:29:16,430 --> 00:29:13,200
but I mean this is your overall message

712
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:16,440
your your personal thoughts and you said

713
00:29:21,110 --> 00:29:18,330
you have to have a voice oh yeah right

714
00:29:23,180 --> 00:29:21,120
and is that the voice that you think

715
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:23,190
resonated with people in Russia because

716
00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:24,450
you're saying clearly it's not just your

717
00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:25,710
voice there was something else

718
00:29:30,289 --> 00:29:28,190
it's a detonation yeah it's an always

719
00:29:32,390 --> 00:29:30,299
combination of different things in one

720
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:32,400
of them it's being someone because

721
00:29:39,409 --> 00:29:35,210
there's a oh I will explain you this way

722
00:29:41,690 --> 00:29:39,419
there was a lot of artists singers who

723
00:29:44,899 --> 00:29:41,700
never wrote any single song for themself

724
00:29:47,390 --> 00:29:44,909
yeah they are just singers and can you

725
00:29:51,140 --> 00:29:47,400
imagine you will take away all those

726
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:51,150
like ten tenths of people which is

727
00:29:53,630 --> 00:29:53,130
standing behind them you will take them

728
00:29:55,340 --> 00:29:53,640
away

729
00:29:59,090 --> 00:29:55,350
and you will leave just this person who

730
00:30:02,029 --> 00:29:59,100
can sing what was written for them they

731
00:30:03,590 --> 00:30:02,039
will be just it's it's it's gonna be

732
00:30:06,380 --> 00:30:03,600
like not just a naked person it's just

733
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:06,390
person who cannot really say or do

734
00:30:10,190 --> 00:30:08,130
something that's the difference that's

735
00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:10,200
why I think that you have to find

736
00:30:14,750 --> 00:30:13,289
something in you is inside of you what

737
00:30:16,190 --> 00:30:14,760
you can share what you want to say if

738
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:16,200
you cannot write lyrics you just at

739
00:30:20,990 --> 00:30:18,570
least have to have an idea I want to say

740
00:30:22,669 --> 00:30:21,000
about this I want to share this idea of

741
00:30:24,169 --> 00:30:22,679
with people I don't know right Frank

742
00:30:26,090 --> 00:30:24,179
Sinatra and Elvis Presley are great

743
00:30:27,980 --> 00:30:26,100
examples of that I mean later in later

744
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:27,990
years I think Elvis wrote some songs but

745
00:30:31,789 --> 00:30:29,370
you know almost all of his early songs

746
00:30:33,980 --> 00:30:31,799
she didn't write I don't believe maybe a

747
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:33,990
couple of them it was not sure he was

748
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:36,210
yeah he was doing a lot of covers and he

749
00:30:39,710 --> 00:30:38,010
were there was a lot of song he didn't

750
00:30:42,350 --> 00:30:39,720
write yeah what about Sinatra your

751
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:42,360
Sinatra fan oh I know a lot about

752
00:30:47,149 --> 00:30:44,730
Sinatra no I'll add him there was one

753
00:30:50,180 --> 00:30:47,159
legendary story about Sinatra actually I

754
00:30:52,130 --> 00:30:50,190
actually like the point that's you

755
00:30:53,659 --> 00:30:52,140
brought up about Elvis and Sinatra that

756
00:30:56,930 --> 00:30:53,669
they actually did not write a lot of

757
00:30:59,350 --> 00:30:56,940
songs by themselves they they were not

758
00:31:00,490 --> 00:30:59,360
writing songs

759
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:00,500
of course that was different time

760
00:31:05,710 --> 00:31:03,110
because like Elvis became a super-huge

761
00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:05,720
because of there was a TV and he became

762
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:07,910
a TV star also and it was become like

763
00:31:12,970 --> 00:31:10,850
it's it's like he became a viral

764
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:12,980
sensation it's like on Internet and

765
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:15,050
there was not no other thing to watch

766
00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:19,210
except TV so it was different time but

767
00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:22,760
maybe he was just not trying well I do

768
00:31:25,990 --> 00:31:24,710
think it right I think in those days you

769
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:26,000
know there were songwriters and there

770
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:28,130
were singers and then I think sometime

771
00:31:31,150 --> 00:31:30,170
in the late 60s that their seventies

772
00:31:35,170 --> 00:31:31,160
this concept of the singer-songwriter

773
00:31:38,260 --> 00:31:35,180
Bob Dylan etc started to take also

774
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:38,270
became more common but also Elvis

775
00:31:44,020 --> 00:31:40,730
actually had a lot to say because he was

776
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:44,030
Oh clearly oh yeah he had he had very

777
00:31:49,450 --> 00:31:46,490
very interesting story of his life and

778
00:31:51,490 --> 00:31:49,460
he was not just a you know born with he

779
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:51,500
was born with an amazing talent but he

780
00:31:55,810 --> 00:31:53,570
was actually making it bigger and bigger

781
00:31:57,940 --> 00:31:55,820
by what by working every day and the

782
00:32:00,280 --> 00:31:57,950
fact that he was trying to break break

783
00:32:02,470 --> 00:32:00,290
through just to record a song he was

784
00:32:05,230 --> 00:32:02,480
trying to come there please please and

785
00:32:10,710 --> 00:32:05,240
dunno actually don't know the crazy

786
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:10,720
story I when I was in in man in Memphis

787
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:15,890
in Sun Studio they told me exactly how

788
00:32:18,930 --> 00:32:18,170
they recorded that first song that's

789
00:32:22,180 --> 00:32:18,940
right mama

790
00:32:24,970 --> 00:32:22,190
they said the exact story because I knew

791
00:32:26,710 --> 00:32:24,980
the story when like Elvis and he is that

792
00:32:29,650 --> 00:32:26,720
the guys from band they started to play

793
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:29,660
something for fun and that's how they

794
00:32:39,010 --> 00:32:36,170
recorded that song like but actually he

795
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:39,020
was really really nervous because that

796
00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:41,770
day when they were recording a song

797
00:32:46,660 --> 00:32:44,630
nothing worked out everything was very

798
00:32:50,410 --> 00:32:46,670
very bad and they spent already like

799
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:50,420
hour or two hours and it didn't work and

800
00:32:54,730 --> 00:32:53,210
he was very nervous and that's why when

801
00:32:58,180 --> 00:32:54,740
guys they took a break he was just

802
00:32:59,260 --> 00:32:58,190
walking around and he was that he was

803
00:33:01,900 --> 00:32:59,270
just nervous and he was kind of

804
00:33:04,510 --> 00:33:01,910
breathless and he was trying to come

805
00:33:08,290 --> 00:33:04,520
he's own down yeah that's why he was

806
00:33:10,180 --> 00:33:08,300
walking around and he started to sing

807
00:33:12,550 --> 00:33:10,190
like really fast and the guys they were

808
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:12,560
like this they just started to play with

809
00:33:15,850 --> 00:33:13,610
him just you know just

810
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:15,860
to support the kid because he was

811
00:33:22,419 --> 00:33:18,890
nervous so much and that's how that

812
00:33:24,130 --> 00:33:22,429
actually happened it was not they were

813
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:24,140
having fun oh my god it's such a fun

814
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:26,090
time in the studio you're not even close

815
00:33:33,789 --> 00:33:29,570
it was so bad so like in the end it

816
00:33:35,110 --> 00:33:33,799
became something outstanding well I mean

817
00:33:37,060 --> 00:33:35,120
we think about a lot of these performers

818
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:37,070
I think the message is similar to yours

819
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:39,290
as far as embracing yourself embracing

820
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:41,570
you know being true to yourself it's on

821
00:33:44,919 --> 00:33:42,890
my main who could have been more

822
00:33:47,770 --> 00:33:44,929
different than Elvis the way he dressed

823
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:47,780
the way he danced and so on and he went

824
00:33:56,590 --> 00:33:51,970
out there and did it without fear yes

825
00:33:58,630 --> 00:33:56,600
but also I I got the you know my story

826
00:34:00,370 --> 00:33:58,640
shows me too to my own self that

827
00:34:04,330 --> 00:34:00,380
actually there was really no limits and

828
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:04,340
that there was like for example I know

829
00:34:08,649 --> 00:34:07,130
it's like a pretty tough thing to say

830
00:34:09,940 --> 00:34:08,659
but like massive stroke on the right

831
00:34:11,590 --> 00:34:09,950
side of my brain right side it's

832
00:34:13,869 --> 00:34:11,600
actually doctors are saying that it's a

833
00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:13,879
creative side so basically when you

834
00:34:19,180 --> 00:34:16,550
don't have like around 45% of your right

835
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:19,190
side of your brain it's huge it's a lot

836
00:34:27,369 --> 00:34:24,530
it's big and I'm creative as hell I'm

837
00:34:29,950 --> 00:34:27,379
creating things every minute I'm writing

838
00:34:33,010 --> 00:34:29,960
songs writing music videos scripts

839
00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:33,020
directing music videos producing my own

840
00:34:40,899 --> 00:34:37,609
music like every minute and when someone

841
00:34:44,109 --> 00:34:40,909
is saying me like you know it's

842
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:44,119
impossible actually it's not

843
00:34:48,250 --> 00:34:46,850
well you know I got big on that message

844
00:34:50,349 --> 00:34:48,260
that's the message I think she gave it

845
00:34:51,790 --> 00:34:50,359
the Oscars you know is that don't let

846
00:34:53,770 --> 00:34:51,800
anybody tell you you can't do it and if

847
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:53,780
you set your mind do something but then

848
00:34:58,030 --> 00:34:55,850
there's you know those of us sitting at

849
00:35:00,460 --> 00:34:58,040
home and saying well easy for you to say

850
00:35:02,349 --> 00:35:00,470
yeah it worked for you you're on the

851
00:35:03,370 --> 00:35:02,359
state not everybody can be Alex sparrow

852
00:35:06,190 --> 00:35:03,380
or Lady gaga

853
00:35:08,380 --> 00:35:06,200
so you know what about what do you say

854
00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:08,390
to the people who tried their damnedest

855
00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:10,670
work their asses off but they failed

856
00:35:15,820 --> 00:35:13,070
they just weren't up to they weren't a

857
00:35:19,330 --> 00:35:15,830
good enough singer oh you know what I'm

858
00:35:22,530 --> 00:35:19,340
gonna say I'm gonna say get to your

859
00:35:25,870 --> 00:35:22,540
goals it's not like an easy target

860
00:35:31,330 --> 00:35:25,880
sometimes it takes some time but

861
00:35:31,780 --> 00:35:31,340
you won't speed it up by stopping that's

862
00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:31,790
it

863
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:34,910
when you just stopped yourself and you

864
00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:39,170
decide oh it didn't work basically

865
00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:40,940
that's that was one of the messages

866
00:35:44,290 --> 00:35:42,710
sorry to interrupt is that you know it

867
00:35:46,810 --> 00:35:44,300
is a ton of work I mean that's another

868
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:46,820
thing that Gaga said is how she worked

869
00:35:52,660 --> 00:35:50,050
her ass off she said she's not shy about

870
00:35:54,910 --> 00:35:52,670
saying that hey I worked my ass off to

871
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:54,920
get to where I am I'm sure you'd puppies

872
00:36:01,030 --> 00:35:57,530
say the same thing yeah and she's

873
00:36:03,910 --> 00:36:01,040
actually right because all it takes it's

874
00:36:08,860 --> 00:36:03,920
in the end all it takes it's just not

875
00:36:13,470 --> 00:36:08,870
just talent but work lots of hours days

876
00:36:18,790 --> 00:36:13,480
nights of work and of course my peers

877
00:36:22,930 --> 00:36:18,800
fail what was your what was your biggest

878
00:36:25,180 --> 00:36:22,940
moment of failure where you really we're

879
00:36:29,950 --> 00:36:25,190
starting to think you know what this

880
00:36:31,870 --> 00:36:29,960
this might not work that honestly even

881
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:31,880
when everything was like that much

882
00:36:35,530 --> 00:36:33,710
confidence in yourself that's another

883
00:36:36,910 --> 00:36:35,540
thing by the way is confidence yeah and

884
00:36:38,860 --> 00:36:36,920
where does confidence come from in my

885
00:36:40,540 --> 00:36:38,870
opinion I think it comes from parents I

886
00:36:42,850 --> 00:36:40,550
think parents instill confidence in

887
00:36:45,220 --> 00:36:42,860
their children and if you're not a

888
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:45,230
confident person you know it's a little

889
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:46,610
harder to get through those hard times

890
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:49,490
right in art you have to be confident

891
00:36:53,860 --> 00:36:52,610
because if you're an actor there's gonna

892
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:53,870
be so many people who's gonna tell you

893
00:36:58,420 --> 00:36:56,930
like no and you're not good like so many

894
00:37:00,640 --> 00:36:58,430
castings when you're just come in there

895
00:37:06,310 --> 00:37:00,650
in the room you're trying to show your

896
00:37:08,890 --> 00:37:06,320
best and they say oh thank you you have

897
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:08,900
to be so confident and so confident and

898
00:37:13,630 --> 00:37:11,270
so sure that you actually doing yeah

899
00:37:15,580 --> 00:37:13,640
what you was born to do there's so much

900
00:37:16,510 --> 00:37:15,590
rejection you know right especially if

901
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:16,520
you're trying to be an actor and you're

902
00:37:19,750 --> 00:37:17,930
going to auditions you know you're gonna

903
00:37:21,430 --> 00:37:19,760
get 1 out of 20 audition so it's it's

904
00:37:23,620 --> 00:37:21,440
all about dealing with rejection and so

905
00:37:25,590 --> 00:37:23,630
many people can't handle that okay and

906
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:25,600
you know another thing about being actor

907
00:37:32,140 --> 00:37:28,930
one of my friends he's actually a big

908
00:37:35,530 --> 00:37:32,150
he's working he works on a radio and his

909
00:37:37,270 --> 00:37:35,540
wife she's an actress and he said oh my

910
00:37:39,650 --> 00:37:37,280
god guys this is awful

911
00:37:41,710 --> 00:37:39,660
because so for for seven

912
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:41,720
months she's trying to find a job right

913
00:37:45,470 --> 00:37:44,130
she's trying to she's going to additions

914
00:37:47,510 --> 00:37:45,480
everyday she's going to like she's

915
00:37:49,579 --> 00:37:47,520
trying really to find a job for a few

916
00:37:52,220 --> 00:37:49,589
months sometimes like for a year then

917
00:37:53,630 --> 00:37:52,230
suddenly boom she found a job she's got

918
00:37:56,359 --> 00:37:53,640
a job she's got a job and she's got a

919
00:37:58,670 --> 00:37:56,369
job for one month that's it then that's

920
00:38:01,099 --> 00:37:58,680
it she's trying to find another job up

921
00:38:05,319 --> 00:38:01,109
to that so for normal people you know

922
00:38:07,819 --> 00:38:05,329
you don't have this you know psychologic

923
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:07,829
you know you pressure on your shoulders

924
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:09,450
if if you found a job you have it at

925
00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:11,130
least for some time like for a year

926
00:38:16,220 --> 00:38:13,470
maybe you know exactly what it's gonna

927
00:38:18,650 --> 00:38:16,230
be for next year you know we have to

928
00:38:21,170 --> 00:38:18,660
acknowledge to just like everything in

929
00:38:23,180 --> 00:38:21,180
life there's an element of luck to

930
00:38:24,980 --> 00:38:23,190
things because you know when you talk

931
00:38:27,140 --> 00:38:24,990
about acting you know that job that she

932
00:38:29,329 --> 00:38:27,150
got for a month well that also could

933
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:29,339
have been pick a dumb example because

934
00:38:31,490 --> 00:38:30,690
it's in my head you know that could've

935
00:38:33,650 --> 00:38:31,500
been the role on Desperate Housewives

936
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:33,660
that turned into an eight year thing

937
00:38:38,569 --> 00:38:35,130
that made her you know three million

938
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:38,579
dollars a year right so yes maybe not

939
00:38:43,339 --> 00:38:41,010
but maybe not and that but that

940
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:43,349
profession in particular is susceptible

941
00:38:48,589 --> 00:38:46,710
I think to luck as opposed to you know

942
00:38:49,910 --> 00:38:48,599
you want to be a lawyer you want to be a

943
00:38:53,329 --> 00:38:49,920
doctor this and that there's a very

944
00:38:55,849 --> 00:38:53,339
defined path as to how to do it oh no I

945
00:38:57,410 --> 00:38:55,859
actually at this point I'm not agree

946
00:39:00,470 --> 00:38:57,420
with you because like even being lawyer

947
00:39:03,109 --> 00:39:00,480
or a doctor there's always a lock again

948
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:03,119
like because if you're a lawyer it's it

949
00:39:07,549 --> 00:39:04,890
depends on like what kind of job you're

950
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:07,559
gonna have what kind of like what is

951
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:09,690
this thing you're gonna take this case

952
00:39:14,150 --> 00:39:12,450
yeah what kind of case it's gonna be not

953
00:39:17,769 --> 00:39:14,160
sure maybe it's gonna make you popular

954
00:39:20,410 --> 00:39:17,779
right next morning that case and then

955
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:20,420
you either gonna nail it either or not

956
00:39:29,029 --> 00:39:24,890
and if your doctor you can actually

957
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:29,039
let's go back to your your actor you can

958
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:30,569
just up somebody's face and then

959
00:39:36,049 --> 00:39:33,210
you're gonna be famous next morning yeah

960
00:39:39,049 --> 00:39:36,059
so let's go back to your failure where

961
00:39:41,059 --> 00:39:39,059
when you were let's go when you things

962
00:39:43,549 --> 00:39:41,069
weren't going so great and you question

963
00:39:46,609 --> 00:39:43,559
things I'm questioning things every day

964
00:39:49,190 --> 00:39:46,619
and I'm just saying that things are

965
00:39:50,809 --> 00:39:49,200
going amazing and they are and I'm

966
00:39:52,370 --> 00:39:50,819
pretty sure if I'm gonna say that but it

967
00:39:53,070 --> 00:39:52,380
hasn't been all roses when was the point

968
00:39:55,620 --> 00:39:53,080
when it wasn't all

969
00:40:01,460 --> 00:39:55,630
roses for you no roses no roses when I

970
00:40:03,630 --> 00:40:01,470
was the bachelor well it does say by you

971
00:40:05,910 --> 00:40:03,640
you're making a joke because it sounds

972
00:40:08,610 --> 00:40:05,920
to me is that maybe you didn't I mean

973
00:40:10,530 --> 00:40:08,620
you worked your ass off but your careers

974
00:40:13,890 --> 00:40:10,540
been pretty successful right I mean you

975
00:40:16,770 --> 00:40:13,900
had any major success for every contest

976
00:40:21,510 --> 00:40:16,780
you enter you win no on one contest

977
00:40:27,030 --> 00:40:21,520
it's Eurovision Song Contest I got place

978
00:40:32,190 --> 00:40:27,040
number 16 out of out of I don't remember

979
00:40:35,490 --> 00:40:32,200
like 17 out of 40 something okay you're

980
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:35,500
in the upper 50% 16 but anyway that was

981
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:37,330
a major disappointment for you

982
00:40:45,090 --> 00:40:40,510
it was awful because I was presenting my

983
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:45,100
country on like in front of whole Europe

984
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:48,130
and I was singing and I did it good and

985
00:40:52,350 --> 00:40:49,750
that's what I was gonna actually you

986
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:52,360
were proud of your performance III just

987
00:40:58,410 --> 00:40:54,790
I did exactly what I was about the

988
00:41:02,580 --> 00:40:58,420
stupid judges didn't get it no I just

989
00:41:05,310 --> 00:41:02,590
think Russian prejudice there's a lot of

990
00:41:07,350 --> 00:41:05,320
politics involved in that competition

991
00:41:09,630 --> 00:41:07,360
but there was it by the way we're worse

992
00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:09,640
in Germany and is it just one

993
00:41:13,110 --> 00:41:11,110
performance yes is that how it works

994
00:41:14,490 --> 00:41:13,120
because I've heard of Eurovision I know

995
00:41:16,710 --> 00:41:14,500
a little bit about it is it being the

996
00:41:17,850 --> 00:41:16,720
World Cups a singing competition final

997
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:17,860
and final basically I have two

998
00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:21,010
performances and you some of the artists

999
00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:23,710
they're not going to final of course so

1000
00:41:33,510 --> 00:41:27,730
and I went to find out and I got 16

1001
00:41:34,710 --> 00:41:33,520
plays 16th place so when you and of

1002
00:41:36,810 --> 00:41:34,720
course what I was doing next next

1003
00:41:39,420 --> 00:41:36,820
morning okay I just said okay I have to

1004
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:39,430
work that's every time I was not good

1005
00:41:43,650 --> 00:41:41,530
enough next morning I was waking up and

1006
00:41:47,190 --> 00:41:43,660
doing something okay I have to work I

1007
00:41:49,860 --> 00:41:47,200
have to get better because whatever like

1008
00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:49,870
it doesn't matter like was it charges or

1009
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:51,910
was like people voting it doesn't matter

1010
00:41:56,850 --> 00:41:54,610
for me it was it just I just have to get

1011
00:41:58,050 --> 00:41:56,860
better so next time when I'm gonna

1012
00:41:59,340 --> 00:41:58,060
perform people are not gonna ask

1013
00:42:02,040 --> 00:41:59,350
themselves the it's gonna be like

1014
00:42:05,580 --> 00:42:02,050
obvious that this is just better and you

1015
00:42:06,570 --> 00:42:05,590
cannot do anything about it and yeah

1016
00:42:07,770 --> 00:42:06,580
that's it one

1017
00:42:09,210 --> 00:42:07,780
some people would get discouraged by it

1018
00:42:12,210 --> 00:42:09,220
you're saying you got motivated by it

1019
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:12,220
yeah well uh and it's been like this all

1020
00:42:17,970 --> 00:42:14,290
my life when I was a kid and I I

1021
00:42:20,010 --> 00:42:17,980
remember how I didn't even get to the

1022
00:42:23,850 --> 00:42:20,020
second tour when I was playing accordion

1023
00:42:29,250 --> 00:42:23,860
on one contest and it was international

1024
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:29,260
contest of accordion players and I was I

1025
00:42:32,010 --> 00:42:30,730
was just okay you know when you just

1026
00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:32,020
playing all the notes and there was

1027
00:42:36,780 --> 00:42:34,270
nothing when there was no soul people

1028
00:42:38,370 --> 00:42:36,790
are not gonna can not not even people

1029
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:38,380
just charges okay he played notes

1030
00:42:43,980 --> 00:42:42,130
amazing he played Bach cool there was a

1031
00:42:45,660 --> 00:42:43,990
whole bunch of different other guys

1032
00:42:47,370 --> 00:42:45,670
who's gonna go on stage and play back

1033
00:42:50,370 --> 00:42:47,380
and they're gonna put their soul in

1034
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:50,380
every note and I wasn't for some reason

1035
00:42:55,830 --> 00:42:52,930
I don't know so uh they didn't even

1036
00:42:58,740 --> 00:42:55,840
allow me to go on second tour of the

1037
00:43:04,800 --> 00:42:58,750
contest and next morning I woke up and I

1038
00:43:10,140 --> 00:43:04,810
just picked the hardest Bach it's a you

1039
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:10,150
know toccata and fuga its editor do to

1040
00:43:17,010 --> 00:43:14,290
do to do to do you know this buck yeah

1041
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:17,020
so I took this and I started to practice

1042
00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:18,970
like next morning I started to learn

1043
00:43:24,870 --> 00:43:21,070
this thing right next morning after I

1044
00:43:28,860 --> 00:43:24,880
fail so every time something was going

1045
00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:28,870
wrong I was just working more and it was

1046
00:43:32,250 --> 00:43:30,400
soon after your vision though that you

1047
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:32,260
said you went to America right yeah

1048
00:43:37,380 --> 00:43:34,210
because you got a contract yes it was

1049
00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:37,390
that with Russian Universal No oh it was

1050
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:40,870
from with mr. Redwan who was a producer

1051
00:43:46,590 --> 00:43:44,290
of first hits of Lady gaga he did Oh

1052
00:43:47,910 --> 00:43:46,600
actually he did so many great heats so

1053
00:43:53,030 --> 00:43:47,920
when did you first have an album in

1054
00:43:58,230 --> 00:43:56,310
eleven eleven I guess right around the

1055
00:44:00,450 --> 00:43:58,240
same time as the I think it was like

1056
00:44:03,090 --> 00:44:00,460
around that time and ultimately how many

1057
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:03,100
of you released there I don't remember I

1058
00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:05,650
don't know how many how many albums of

1059
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:07,780
like you know I mean I almost said yeah

1060
00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:12,610
albums after that I was doing songs I

1061
00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:15,430
was releasing a lot of songs but our

1062
00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:17,710
yeah our albums a thing there I mean in

1063
00:44:20,769 --> 00:44:19,400
the u.s. that's still a thing you you

1064
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:20,779
you come out with your next album your

1065
00:44:26,890 --> 00:44:22,970
collection your CD of ten songs it's

1066
00:44:29,799 --> 00:44:26,900
kind of but not really because nowadays

1067
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:29,809
even like even here in the US people are

1068
00:44:33,609 --> 00:44:31,910
just releasing singles and at some point

1069
00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:33,619
they are released the album and going on

1070
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:34,640
tour right

1071
00:44:40,059 --> 00:44:37,490
but anyway did you ever release an

1072
00:44:42,099 --> 00:44:40,069
actual album in in Russia yes I did only

1073
00:44:44,109 --> 00:44:42,109
once just once I just was and all the

1074
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:44,119
rest like for years I was just really

1075
00:44:51,910 --> 00:44:48,410
realizing different songs yeah so this

1076
00:44:54,460 --> 00:44:51,920
guy who in LA who worked with gaga yeah

1077
00:44:58,900 --> 00:44:54,470
whose name is what again red one red one

1078
00:45:00,549 --> 00:44:58,910
red one red one oh and he yes he

1079
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:00,559
discovered you on eurovision basically

1080
00:45:09,010 --> 00:45:05,930
no story how I got to the US another

1081
00:45:11,980 --> 00:45:09,020
crazy another crazy story guys his

1082
00:45:14,230 --> 00:45:11,990
friend saw me on TV when he was in

1083
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:14,240
Russia I was performing there not

1084
00:45:18,609 --> 00:45:16,010
performing there was just my music video

1085
00:45:19,930 --> 00:45:18,619
and he asked is this guy is Russia in

1086
00:45:23,650 --> 00:45:19,940
this idea is because I was singing in

1087
00:45:26,410 --> 00:45:23,660
English and I said well he's cool I'm

1088
00:45:28,420 --> 00:45:26,420
gonna ask my friend he's looking for

1089
00:45:30,730 --> 00:45:28,430
some new fresh artists maybe it's gonna

1090
00:45:32,890 --> 00:45:30,740
be interested that's how that happened

1091
00:45:35,380 --> 00:45:32,900
he just saw me on in a restaurant on a

1092
00:45:36,099 --> 00:45:35,390
TV on some music channel out there was

1093
00:45:38,650 --> 00:45:36,109
my music video

1094
00:45:40,870 --> 00:45:38,660
which is next thing you know the guys

1095
00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:40,880
flying you out to LA basically no no no

1096
00:45:44,109 --> 00:45:42,710
he called to my manager to my Russian

1097
00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:44,119
manager and he said you know I would

1098
00:45:48,910 --> 00:45:47,569
like to meet this gentleman and maybe I

1099
00:45:51,460 --> 00:45:48,920
would like to work with him

1100
00:45:54,309 --> 00:45:51,470
yeah it just you know it's about like if

1101
00:45:57,039 --> 00:45:54,319
he's a nice guy if he's like as talented

1102
00:45:59,650 --> 00:45:57,049
as we see on his videos if he's a like

1103
00:46:02,829 --> 00:45:59,660
if he's a personality not just a kid who

1104
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:02,839
was taught how to do things then I

1105
00:46:07,779 --> 00:46:05,510
didn't believe this so I didn't even fly

1106
00:46:08,950 --> 00:46:07,789
anywhere which I know I've read from

1107
00:46:10,990 --> 00:46:08,960
time you were a kid you kind of had

1108
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:11,000
dreams of coming to Hollywood right of

1109
00:46:14,529 --> 00:46:12,710
course yeah of course but I didn't

1110
00:46:17,349 --> 00:46:14,539
believe it like not even one single it's

1111
00:46:21,039 --> 00:46:17,359
a I realized that you know you know some

1112
00:46:22,809 --> 00:46:21,049
TV shows when people are getting some

1113
00:46:25,059 --> 00:46:22,819
fake news they come in somewhere and

1114
00:46:27,309 --> 00:46:25,069
they film and they filmed by someone

1115
00:46:29,890 --> 00:46:27,319
it's like a prank thing yeah yeah this

1116
00:46:33,340 --> 00:46:29,900
is this is a definite definitely prank

1117
00:46:36,220 --> 00:46:33,350
I'm not gonna go anywhere because

1118
00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:36,230
this is a such a the guy who

1119
00:46:39,790 --> 00:46:38,630
just got a few Grammys with Lady Gaga

1120
00:46:41,980 --> 00:46:39,800
called

1121
00:46:44,980 --> 00:46:41,990
my office and said I want to work with

1122
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:44,990
this guy I think he's very talented

1123
00:46:52,660 --> 00:46:48,890
ha ha ha very funny and so but my

1124
00:46:54,490 --> 00:46:52,670
Russian managers she said you know ok if

1125
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:54,500
you're not going I guess I will go I

1126
00:46:58,240 --> 00:46:56,210
will see I don't see I'll let you know

1127
00:47:01,660 --> 00:46:58,250
next thing of course I know that

1128
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:01,670
actually that guy who is work who works

1129
00:47:06,610 --> 00:47:03,650
with Lady Gaga who did like a bunch of

1130
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:06,620
songs with JLo Enrique Iglesias pitbull

1131
00:47:12,490 --> 00:47:10,250
and I'm like what and I hardly speak

1132
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:12,500
English back then I can sing in English

1133
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:13,850
because it's like we're gonna ask you

1134
00:47:17,380 --> 00:47:15,530
about English as a kid you weren't

1135
00:47:18,610 --> 00:47:17,390
learning it in school no I wasn't

1136
00:47:20,470 --> 00:47:18,620
learning anything at school

1137
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:20,480
well granted you're playing a chord I

1138
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:22,010
was playing a chord did you have English

1139
00:47:28,450 --> 00:47:25,930
classes no but all I knew is like

1140
00:47:32,620 --> 00:47:28,460
English is the capital of Great Britain

1141
00:47:34,870 --> 00:47:32,630
hello my name is Johnny Edward and

1142
00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:34,880
because that was written in a book it

1143
00:47:37,630 --> 00:47:36,110
doesn't matter what is your name you're

1144
00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:37,640
reading a book that your name is Johnny

1145
00:47:42,250 --> 00:47:38,240
Edward

1146
00:47:46,630 --> 00:47:42,260
so that's walking around thinking of

1147
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:46,640
Johnny Edward that's a real person the

1148
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:48,170
US by the way he ran for president John

1149
00:47:57,490 --> 00:47:54,530
Edwards there you go ok and then I met

1150
00:47:59,560 --> 00:47:57,500
this guy all right ear mmm it was in

1151
00:48:02,740 --> 00:47:59,570
Europe we have where the bead meeting

1152
00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:02,750
with a whole bunch of people and they

1153
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:04,730
all like oh my god I like how are you

1154
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:09,370
blah blah and for me it was like hi and

1155
00:48:16,330 --> 00:48:14,690
all I could understand it's like hi but

1156
00:48:18,970 --> 00:48:16,340
you had sang a song in English you said

1157
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:18,980
yes yeah but I couldn't sing to them

1158
00:48:25,990 --> 00:48:20,450
like you know what every time someone

1159
00:48:27,250 --> 00:48:26,000
asked me I would be just singing a song

1160
00:48:29,350 --> 00:48:27,260
can you imagine if I would say that like

1161
00:48:33,430 --> 00:48:29,360
every time like people ah oh hi Alex I

1162
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:33,440
just control that would be a little bit

1163
00:48:36,610 --> 00:48:35,210
creepy but it's a good thing you're

1164
00:48:37,810 --> 00:48:36,620
saying that's that one song in English

1165
00:48:39,550 --> 00:48:37,820
right because that was kind of part of

1166
00:48:42,430 --> 00:48:39,560
them seeing this vision exactly

1167
00:48:44,140 --> 00:48:42,440
they're only singing Russian when you

1168
00:48:45,850 --> 00:48:44,150
see the connection between them it

1169
00:48:46,750 --> 00:48:45,860
becoming like really crazy because like

1170
00:48:50,950 --> 00:48:46,760
the Kinect

1171
00:48:54,220 --> 00:48:50,960
between me singing Elvis Presley on TV

1172
00:48:58,030 --> 00:48:54,230
on Discovery Channel and me being now in

1173
00:49:01,120 --> 00:48:58,040
Hollywood driving Porsche 54 on

1174
00:49:04,330 --> 00:49:01,130
Hollywood Hills the connection between

1175
00:49:06,220 --> 00:49:04,340
those two points and with everything

1176
00:49:09,970 --> 00:49:06,230
what's what's happening inside of it

1177
00:49:12,070 --> 00:49:09,980
it's like obviously crazy because it's

1178
00:49:14,110 --> 00:49:12,080
like something from out like out of my

1179
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:14,120
understanding how that could have

1180
00:49:18,130 --> 00:49:15,290
actually happened

1181
00:49:20,530 --> 00:49:18,140
yeah but that happened this is what life

1182
00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:20,540
is about that's why it like you

1183
00:49:24,610 --> 00:49:21,950
shouldn't be afraid like of dreaming

1184
00:49:26,620 --> 00:49:24,620
because this is like something what it

1185
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:26,630
doesn't cost anything you just have to

1186
00:49:30,820 --> 00:49:28,130
dream you just have to put some ideas I

1187
00:49:33,010 --> 00:49:30,830
want I want to be this I want to do this

1188
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:33,020
and why not and then just do it

1189
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:35,330
we interviewed on the show a new Shah

1190
00:49:40,510 --> 00:49:38,090
Ansari who is the first Muslim woman in

1191
00:49:42,910 --> 00:49:40,520
space and one thing that she said from a

1192
00:49:46,060 --> 00:49:42,920
time she was a little girl she wanted to

1193
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:46,070
be an astronaut and she said that one of

1194
00:49:49,870 --> 00:49:47,810
the ways that she helped accomplish it

1195
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:49,880
she said if you have a dream tell people

1196
00:49:54,460 --> 00:49:53,090
about it just just tell don't be afraid

1197
00:49:56,290 --> 00:49:54,470
to tell people what you really want to

1198
00:49:58,660 --> 00:49:56,300
because you'd be amazed what doors that

1199
00:50:00,640 --> 00:49:58,670
opens because you don't know who you're

1200
00:50:02,260 --> 00:50:00,650
talking to what cuz so it turned out her

1201
00:50:04,930 --> 00:50:02,270
expressing that at some type of a

1202
00:50:08,830 --> 00:50:04,940
cocktail party mm-hmm connected her with

1203
00:50:10,510 --> 00:50:08,840
this guy that was running XPrize which

1204
00:50:13,060 --> 00:50:10,520
which was looking to basically send

1205
00:50:15,130 --> 00:50:13,070
somebody to into space this is great

1206
00:50:17,260 --> 00:50:15,140
this is amazing I truly believe in that

1207
00:50:19,450 --> 00:50:17,270
thing that you have to actually share

1208
00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:19,460
your ideas because it's becoming

1209
00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:21,710
something what can other people can be

1210
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:23,510
agreed with and when you have enough

1211
00:50:31,150 --> 00:50:27,290
people who agree that this is right it's

1212
00:50:33,970 --> 00:50:31,160
becoming reality like now on my wall mmm

1213
00:50:36,250 --> 00:50:33,980
I'm since I was a kid since I was 15 I

1214
00:50:38,740 --> 00:50:36,260
was putting some pictures on my wall

1215
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:38,750
with some ideas when I was 15 I draw a

1216
00:50:42,940 --> 00:50:41,330
star and I put it on my wall and I was

1217
00:50:44,830 --> 00:50:42,950
with our with your name in them no no

1218
00:50:48,340 --> 00:50:44,840
just just to start with I took a pencil

1219
00:50:51,210 --> 00:50:48,350
and I draw a star as good as I could and

1220
00:50:53,910 --> 00:50:51,220
I'm very bad at drawing very bad

1221
00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:53,920
extremely bad I didn't practice enough

1222
00:50:57,940 --> 00:50:55,250
like at all

1223
00:51:00,120 --> 00:50:57,950
so I started I put it on my wall and

1224
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:00,130
after two years

1225
00:51:05,250 --> 00:51:02,770
was on a TV in huge country and people

1226
00:51:07,500 --> 00:51:05,260
knew my name and everything was

1227
00:51:10,010 --> 00:51:07,510
happening like now on my wall right here

1228
00:51:15,150 --> 00:51:10,020
in Encino I live in a house in Encino I

1229
00:51:17,850 --> 00:51:15,160
got a picture of grimace who grimace huh

1230
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:17,860
grimmy Oh Grammys Oh Grammys that's

1231
00:51:27,630 --> 00:51:24,960
by the way Grammy Grammy that's all I

1232
00:51:30,930 --> 00:51:27,640
say is Grammy by the way do you take any

1233
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:30,940
type of accent classes here yeah can you

1234
00:51:36,900 --> 00:51:34,450
be my coach well so my fiance Alona from

1235
00:51:41,910 --> 00:51:36,910
Kiev she's been taking some with very

1236
00:51:44,820 --> 00:51:41,920
modest success but as you say you have

1237
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:44,830
to work at it so she likes to go to her

1238
00:51:48,060 --> 00:51:47,050
one-hour class and then not practice

1239
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:48,070
there's all these words that you're

1240
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:49,510
supposed to say in the same certain way

1241
00:51:53,940 --> 00:51:51,370
and there's just I think I think the

1242
00:51:55,950 --> 00:51:53,950
answer is there's a few letters that in

1243
00:51:58,320 --> 00:51:55,960
Russian are pronounced differently than

1244
00:52:02,550 --> 00:51:58,330
in the US and when you figure out what

1245
00:52:04,500 --> 00:52:02,560
those are then it kind of all it's

1246
00:52:08,370 --> 00:52:04,510
becoming a little bit easier but

1247
00:52:10,110 --> 00:52:08,380
recently I was in London and after three

1248
00:52:12,210 --> 00:52:10,120
days I started to speak a little bit

1249
00:52:16,260 --> 00:52:12,220
like you know I'd like to have a

1250
00:52:18,210 --> 00:52:16,270
cafeteria and I started to but I for

1251
00:52:19,830 --> 00:52:18,220
some reason I stopped pronouncing ours

1252
00:52:22,290 --> 00:52:19,840
because they are not pronouncing your

1253
00:52:23,730 --> 00:52:22,300
R's right like in actually every city in

1254
00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:23,740
every country there's a slight

1255
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:26,070
difference between how people are

1256
00:52:32,580 --> 00:52:30,610
speaking so it's sometimes it's tough so

1257
00:52:34,140 --> 00:52:32,590
speaking of Ilona she's required me to

1258
00:52:35,850 --> 00:52:34,150
ask you a couple questions so this will

1259
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:35,860
do it this will be a brief interlude

1260
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:38,170
into the story but this was stuff that

1261
00:52:42,390 --> 00:52:40,090
was happening Ilana this is for you yeah

1262
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:42,400
this is stuff that was happening you

1263
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:44,170
know at the height of your stardom I'm

1264
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:45,010
sure you're still at the height of your

1265
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:46,330
stardom but now you're now you're here

1266
00:52:51,830 --> 00:52:48,850
but um so she showed me the video of you

1267
00:52:56,190 --> 00:52:51,840
making out with this this girl on stage

1268
00:52:58,500 --> 00:52:56,200
Irina dub stove ax tell us that story

1269
00:53:00,900 --> 00:52:58,510
because and maybe we'll put a link to it

1270
00:53:02,550 --> 00:53:00,910
but but you're on some type of uh yeah

1271
00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:02,560
then it was all advice show and then you

1272
00:53:06,930 --> 00:53:04,900
start making out with her no I just I

1273
00:53:09,630 --> 00:53:06,940
just kissed her because no no but it

1274
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:09,640
wasn't just a regular kiss it was like

1275
00:53:15,079 --> 00:53:12,690
full tongue full making out he had

1276
00:53:16,609 --> 00:53:15,089
help me I think I think it's a regular

1277
00:53:19,430 --> 00:53:16,619
kiss okay fair enough

1278
00:53:21,650 --> 00:53:19,440
yeah that's like regular kisses that's

1279
00:53:23,990 --> 00:53:21,660
my Russian standards or by Alex I know

1280
00:53:25,450 --> 00:53:24,000
it's my own cinders I guess like with a

1281
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:25,460
girl you have to kiss like this and we

1282
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:27,690
became in my right that became kind of a

1283
00:53:35,270 --> 00:53:29,490
big deal was a YouTube kind of thing

1284
00:53:37,130 --> 00:53:35,280
yeah it became huge news for type thing

1285
00:53:38,870 --> 00:53:37,140
Madonna would do but Donna used to try

1286
00:53:40,910 --> 00:53:38,880
to do outrageous things on stage to get

1287
00:53:41,450 --> 00:53:40,920
attention and she kissed Britney Spears

1288
00:53:44,900 --> 00:53:41,460
didn't she

1289
00:53:46,309 --> 00:53:44,910
yeah a bunch of people I guess is that

1290
00:53:49,579 --> 00:53:46,319
what you had in mind that you are gonna

1291
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:49,589
be outrageous or singing a song and we

1292
00:53:54,500 --> 00:53:52,410
actually for for a few years every time

1293
00:53:56,420 --> 00:53:54,510
we saw each other you know we were kind

1294
00:53:59,809 --> 00:53:56,430
of know playing a little bit with each

1295
00:54:01,460 --> 00:53:59,819
other like you know how do you call it

1296
00:54:03,470 --> 00:54:01,470
when you're just flirting flirting with

1297
00:54:04,970 --> 00:54:03,480
each other for four years we've been

1298
00:54:06,770 --> 00:54:04,980
flirting with each other then for the

1299
00:54:09,050 --> 00:54:06,780
first time in our lives we had a chance

1300
00:54:12,349 --> 00:54:09,060
to sing on a stage and there was a

1301
00:54:15,980 --> 00:54:12,359
moment where we're not singing so I

1302
00:54:19,370 --> 00:54:15,990
decided to take it to the hole so I took

1303
00:54:23,210 --> 00:54:19,380
her I pulled her close it to myself and

1304
00:54:25,790 --> 00:54:23,220
I kissed her she looked at me like what

1305
00:54:27,980 --> 00:54:25,800
the hell am i doing was she with anybody

1306
00:54:28,460 --> 00:54:27,990
at the time no okay of course I mean you

1307
00:54:30,980 --> 00:54:28,470
weren't either

1308
00:54:32,540 --> 00:54:30,990
right yeah we were both single yeah and

1309
00:54:35,270 --> 00:54:32,550
so of course after that she looked at me

1310
00:54:37,550 --> 00:54:35,280
like what the hell she got really scared

1311
00:54:37,940 --> 00:54:37,560
and then after one second she kissed me

1312
00:54:41,300 --> 00:54:37,950
back

1313
00:54:42,829 --> 00:54:41,310
that's what happened that was really

1314
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:42,839
really good publicity but you're saying

1315
00:54:49,069 --> 00:54:45,690
that was not premeditated you it was it

1316
00:54:50,599 --> 00:54:49,079
was spontaneous it you know it's some

1317
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:50,609
kind of things I'm improvising on a

1318
00:54:54,740 --> 00:54:53,010
stage a lot like really ever my

1319
00:54:55,700 --> 00:54:54,750
performance it's it's never the same

1320
00:54:57,950 --> 00:54:55,710
never

1321
00:55:01,370 --> 00:54:57,960
my music my musicians they don't know

1322
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:01,380
what I'm gonna play next and every time

1323
00:55:06,410 --> 00:55:04,170
I like to feel this real energy of of

1324
00:55:08,150 --> 00:55:06,420
crowd of people they can scream

1325
00:55:10,970 --> 00:55:08,160
something and I will definitely gonna

1326
00:55:12,170 --> 00:55:10,980
answer because I like to be connected

1327
00:55:14,870 --> 00:55:12,180
with them it's not like you know I came

1328
00:55:17,450 --> 00:55:14,880
on a stage to sing a song for you no I

1329
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:17,460
came in a stage to have fun like as you

1330
00:55:21,589 --> 00:55:19,530
can have even more because sometimes

1331
00:55:23,359 --> 00:55:21,599
like for half a song I can jump in the

1332
00:55:24,890 --> 00:55:23,369
audience and dance with them and dance

1333
00:55:25,700 --> 00:55:24,900
with them because like I just feel like

1334
00:55:26,180 --> 00:55:25,710
I want to dance

1335
00:55:28,130 --> 00:55:26,190
so I

1336
00:55:29,980 --> 00:55:28,140
of hearing that because as Michael knows

1337
00:55:32,270 --> 00:55:29,990
I'm obsessed with the issue of

1338
00:55:34,490 --> 00:55:32,280
performers lip-syncing in fact we're

1339
00:55:36,470 --> 00:55:34,500
thinking we might do a deep dive

1340
00:55:40,010 --> 00:55:36,480
investigation into that if any in the

1341
00:55:41,450 --> 00:55:40,020
u.s. yes yes I mean major well Justin

1342
00:55:43,010 --> 00:55:41,460
Bieber let's just use kind of an obvious

1343
00:55:45,710 --> 00:55:43,020
example if you look at Justin Bieber on

1344
00:55:47,300 --> 00:55:45,720
his tour he is lip-synching through he's

1345
00:55:49,910 --> 00:55:47,310
been busted multiple times there's tons

1346
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:49,920
of videos on YouTube showing him busted

1347
00:55:53,060 --> 00:55:51,810
and we don't need to go through the

1348
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:53,070
whole list of performers but I think

1349
00:55:57,350 --> 00:55:54,810
it's becoming more and more prevalent

1350
00:55:59,210 --> 00:55:57,360
the excuse being oh well we're dancing

1351
00:56:02,830 --> 00:55:59,220
or these are high production numbers and

1352
00:56:05,690 --> 00:56:02,840
this and that and you know I honestly I

1353
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:05,700
really respect it because cannot expect

1354
00:56:10,130 --> 00:56:07,890
it I cannot respect it because like if

1355
00:56:12,950 --> 00:56:10,140
you're a performer on a stage and if you

1356
00:56:15,050 --> 00:56:12,960
in if it's your profession just you

1357
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:15,060
gotta do it otherwise there's can be

1358
00:56:19,370 --> 00:56:17,490
like any like a lot of millions of other

1359
00:56:21,710 --> 00:56:19,380
talented people who get who should be on

1360
00:56:24,590 --> 00:56:21,720
your spot if you cannot so that's why

1361
00:56:26,630 --> 00:56:24,600
but I am enjoying myself on a stage very

1362
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:26,640
much and that's why I cannot do lip sing

1363
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:29,570
lip sync because you're enjoying singing

1364
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:32,490
for me I will lose the whole fact of me

1365
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:34,410
being on the stage why I came there and

1366
00:56:39,260 --> 00:56:36,450
I came there to have fun not just to

1367
00:56:42,530 --> 00:56:39,270
pretend that I seemed so is it a thing

1368
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:42,540
in Russia that you know of I guess it's

1369
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:45,090
all over the world in Europe everywhere

1370
00:56:51,130 --> 00:56:48,450
you can find like I guess in every city

1371
00:56:54,970 --> 00:56:51,140
in every country somewhere bigger but

1372
00:56:58,520 --> 00:56:54,980
honestly I never thought that here it's

1373
00:57:00,710 --> 00:56:58,530
like it's it's a big thing because me

1374
00:57:03,260 --> 00:57:00,720
like looking at the u.s. from Russia

1375
00:57:04,910 --> 00:57:03,270
from Austria it was like oh my god it's

1376
00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:04,920
like a dream they are always singing

1377
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:07,470
life all those great art is they go on a

1378
00:57:12,170 --> 00:57:09,570
stage and they are doing such an amazing

1379
00:57:15,260 --> 00:57:12,180
outstanding performances I like I was

1380
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:15,270
like oh my god I I want to get there and

1381
00:57:17,690 --> 00:57:17,250
you know to get just closer to that

1382
00:57:20,030 --> 00:57:17,700
level

1383
00:57:22,970 --> 00:57:20,040
yeah like when you see Beyonce on the

1384
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:22,980
stage is like oh my god Ariana Grande

1385
00:57:29,390 --> 00:57:27,330
I'm a big fan what I'm I don't know

1386
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:29,400
ii-i've been done my until I haven't

1387
00:57:33,140 --> 00:57:31,770
done my my Jim Breslow investigation

1388
00:57:36,050 --> 00:57:33,150
into those two particular I just watched

1389
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:36,060
I'm a big Taylor Swift fan actually and

1390
00:57:39,740 --> 00:57:37,890
in her country days I'm sure that she

1391
00:57:43,970 --> 00:57:39,750
was singing but now that she's playing

1392
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:43,980
stadiums I watched her video and there

1393
00:57:47,270 --> 00:57:45,570
was no question she was lip-synching

1394
00:57:49,490 --> 00:57:47,280
other than when she would stop and just

1395
00:57:51,110 --> 00:57:49,500
play guitar and do a couple chill songs

1396
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:51,120
by herself playing guitar then she was

1397
00:57:55,250 --> 00:57:52,890
singing but otherwise when it's the big

1398
00:57:58,160 --> 00:57:55,260
production she's not singing and that's

1399
00:58:00,680 --> 00:57:58,170
you know Madonna started with that and I

1400
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:00,690
think it's very common grande grande and

1401
00:58:05,810 --> 00:58:03,330
Beyonce you know I don't know but I

1402
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:05,820
would be suspect of but you're pledging

1403
00:58:11,150 --> 00:58:08,490
here today that you will never lip-synch

1404
00:58:13,580 --> 00:58:11,160
at a live show of course not and by the

1405
00:58:14,690 --> 00:58:13,590
way for me it's live shows on television

1406
00:58:15,890 --> 00:58:14,700
I understand there's certain issues that

1407
00:58:17,300 --> 00:58:15,900
come up and maybe people can't always

1408
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:17,310
necessary sing live Saturday Night Live

1409
00:58:22,430 --> 00:58:19,290
or that kind of stuff but when

1410
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:22,440
somebody's paying $100 see you perform

1411
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:24,690
exactly you should be performing you

1412
00:58:29,780 --> 00:58:26,970
should be performing yeah it's I I'd

1413
00:58:31,100 --> 00:58:29,790
rather to go and like sometimes of

1414
00:58:33,350 --> 00:58:31,110
course sometimes you but everybody

1415
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:33,360
sometimes can get sick and there was

1416
00:58:38,510 --> 00:58:34,890
several times in my life when I was like

1417
00:58:41,300 --> 00:58:38,520
I realized that I'm sick I don't have my

1418
00:58:42,860 --> 00:58:41,310
real voice right now so it's like when

1419
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:42,870
you're trying to sing but you cannot hit

1420
00:58:47,300 --> 00:58:44,850
some of the nodes and right in the

1421
00:58:48,500 --> 00:58:47,310
beginning of my performance I was

1422
00:58:53,390 --> 00:58:48,510
walking on the stage and I was saying

1423
00:58:57,350 --> 00:58:53,400
guys I am sick now and my voice is like

1424
00:58:59,000 --> 00:58:57,360
not in a good shape so just get ready to

1425
00:59:01,730 --> 00:58:59,010
sing with me a little bit

1426
00:59:03,830 --> 00:59:01,740
backup singers totally fine with backup

1427
00:59:05,570 --> 00:59:03,840
singers because like you should be like

1428
00:59:07,310 --> 00:59:05,580
a little bit louder today because I'm

1429
00:59:09,590 --> 00:59:07,320
gonna need your help I like very much

1430
00:59:12,290 --> 00:59:09,600
and they were like yeah yeah everything

1431
00:59:14,150 --> 00:59:12,300
every time I think like it's why why I

1432
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:14,160
like feel so happy on a stage because

1433
00:59:18,380 --> 00:59:15,690
like everything is becoming like super

1434
00:59:23,330 --> 00:59:18,390
real in real moment one time like my my

1435
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:23,340
pants ripped right on my butt because I

1436
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:25,650
jumped downstairs and you know I sat

1437
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:28,530
down and my my pants just ripped on my

1438
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:32,250
butt and so I went back on a stage and I

1439
00:59:39,110 --> 00:59:36,930
said you know guys um I'm so I'm working

1440
00:59:43,820 --> 00:59:39,120
so hard tonight to make you feel good

1441
00:59:45,140 --> 00:59:43,830
just I mean look at my pants like okay

1442
00:59:46,790 --> 00:59:45,150
give me two minutes I'm gonna try to

1443
00:59:49,730 --> 00:59:46,800
find it now so were you doing major

1444
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:49,740
tours yeah so playing every other night

1445
00:59:52,750 --> 00:59:52,290
kind of thing across Russia I even I

1446
00:59:54,940 --> 00:59:52,760
even

1447
00:59:55,810 --> 00:59:54,950
I've done my first tour in the u.s. here

1448
00:59:58,660 --> 00:59:55,820
on Pacific coast

1449
01:00:01,150 --> 00:59:58,670
I have done eight cities oh there's my

1450
01:00:02,410 --> 01:00:01,160
first tour it was so interesting because

1451
01:00:05,110 --> 01:00:02,420
can you mention I'm going on a stage

1452
01:00:06,010 --> 01:00:05,120
when people are don't have no any idea

1453
01:00:08,020 --> 01:00:06,020
who I am

1454
01:00:09,670 --> 01:00:08,030
I'm first so let's stick with Russia for

1455
01:00:11,170 --> 01:00:09,680
a second so how big were your tours are

1456
01:00:12,670 --> 01:00:11,180
so people get an idea what kind of you

1457
01:00:15,610 --> 01:00:12,680
playing hockey arenas what type of

1458
01:00:19,870 --> 01:00:15,620
places were you playing different ones

1459
01:00:21,940 --> 01:00:19,880
it's a you know concert halls arenas

1460
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:21,950
it's all usually it's like thousands of

1461
01:00:27,670 --> 01:00:24,650
people that's then what about Europe did

1462
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:27,680
you do a Europe not much not much

1463
01:00:33,130 --> 01:00:29,690
because in your Rafa I've done movies a

1464
01:00:37,150 --> 01:00:33,140
lot in Europe in Italy but mostly it's

1465
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:37,160
Russia and now I started to do here in

1466
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:38,810
the US and it's very interesting I'm

1467
01:00:42,370 --> 01:00:40,250
gonna tell you why

1468
01:00:45,790 --> 01:00:42,380
and by the way just so I get a vision in

1469
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:45,800
my head what place in LA did you play it

1470
01:00:52,060 --> 01:00:47,450
was not a late what San Francisco San

1471
01:00:53,530 --> 01:00:52,070
Diego okay I'm gonna tell you the name

1472
01:00:55,090 --> 01:00:53,540
of it because I have it all in on my

1473
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:55,100
Instagram my habit I just don't remember

1474
01:01:00,370 --> 01:00:57,050
no I don't remember I'm sorry but like a

1475
01:01:02,950 --> 01:01:00,380
theater probably it's or maybe even

1476
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:02,960
clubs yeah some some of them like they

1477
01:01:07,390 --> 01:01:04,490
were bigger were you opening for

1478
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:07,400
somebody or yeah I was an opening band

1479
01:01:12,700 --> 01:01:10,490
guys and it it was very interesting for

1480
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:12,710
me because for the first time in my life

1481
01:01:16,420 --> 01:01:14,810
like for the second time actually in my

1482
01:01:18,730 --> 01:01:16,430
life I was going on a stage when no one

1483
01:01:20,830 --> 01:01:18,740
knows me they never heard my music they

1484
01:01:23,950 --> 01:01:20,840
never they don't they have no any idea

1485
01:01:27,850 --> 01:01:23,960
who is this guy and I have seven songs

1486
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:27,860
or eight songs to either make them be my

1487
01:01:35,110 --> 01:01:33,170
fans either okay either just okay and I

1488
01:01:37,420 --> 01:01:35,120
was crashing it every time because I in

1489
01:01:38,830 --> 01:01:37,430
first look because I love it and the

1490
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:38,840
second thing I'm putting so much energy

1491
01:01:43,570 --> 01:01:41,570
in them so when I see on a third song

1492
01:01:45,490 --> 01:01:43,580
they're you know you know this little

1493
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:45,500
moment when you see the guy people who

1494
01:01:48,580 --> 01:01:47,210
is just they are starting to dance and

1495
01:01:51,370 --> 01:01:48,590
they just didn't understand how the hell

1496
01:01:53,290 --> 01:01:51,380
it had that happened actually yeah yeah

1497
01:01:56,530 --> 01:01:53,300
yeah actually dancing already it's fine

1498
01:01:58,510 --> 01:01:56,540
he's cool he's being the opening act is

1499
01:01:59,749 --> 01:01:58,520
very tough right because people are just

1500
01:02:01,429 --> 01:01:59,759
arriving

1501
01:02:03,259 --> 01:02:01,439
they're kind of yeah you know inclined

1502
01:02:05,989 --> 01:02:03,269
to think we can fight it form a knack to

1503
01:02:08,779 --> 01:02:05,999
come out but when you nailed it really

1504
01:02:10,519 --> 01:02:08,789
it's a whole different level of emotions

1505
01:02:12,169 --> 01:02:10,529
because you know that basically those

1506
01:02:14,719 --> 01:02:12,179
people they didn't know who you are and

1507
01:02:17,029 --> 01:02:14,729
they became someone who just that's kind

1508
01:02:18,769 --> 01:02:17,039
of fun and challenging for you right

1509
01:02:22,069 --> 01:02:18,779
because you have been here in Russia and

1510
01:02:23,719 --> 01:02:22,079
then have to try and build it here it's

1511
01:02:26,029 --> 01:02:23,729
just it's just the challenge and I was

1512
01:02:28,519 --> 01:02:26,039
ready for the challenge a lot of people

1513
01:02:30,949 --> 01:02:28,529
they can not you know stop everything

1514
01:02:32,599 --> 01:02:30,959
when they are on top in some place and

1515
01:02:34,989 --> 01:02:32,609
they like to understand that you have to

1516
01:02:37,579 --> 01:02:34,999
start over from the very very beginning

1517
01:02:40,519 --> 01:02:37,589
it's really hard to like really get this

1518
01:02:43,279 --> 01:02:40,529
idea but I realized that like with my

1519
01:02:45,469 --> 01:02:43,289
goal it's there's only one way then so

1520
01:02:47,839 --> 01:02:45,479
and I'm and I'm ready for that totally

1521
01:02:50,029 --> 01:02:47,849
okay so let's go one more story for

1522
01:02:54,109 --> 01:02:50,039
Ilona and then we're gonna heck up you

1523
01:02:56,899 --> 01:02:54,119
getting to LA and I'm and also maybe

1524
01:02:59,209 --> 01:02:56,909
check air a little warm a little warmer

1525
01:03:04,069 --> 01:02:59,219
I know I think I'd put it on heat before

1526
01:03:09,379 --> 01:03:04,079
okay so so you had a famous girlfriend

1527
01:03:12,589 --> 01:03:09,389
right which was Victoria doneck oh is it

1528
01:03:15,289 --> 01:03:12,599
present that only one you among the many

1529
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:15,299
famous girlfriends you had one was

1530
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:17,130
Victoria de nako am i pronouncing your

1531
01:03:21,949 --> 01:03:20,130
name was Victoria but was it was that

1532
01:03:25,099 --> 01:03:21,959
like a long-term serious relationship

1533
01:03:26,539 --> 01:03:25,109
all my relationships are serious even

1534
01:03:31,069 --> 01:03:26,549
for one night okay how about long-term

1535
01:03:32,749 --> 01:03:31,079
long-term it's like two nights come on

1536
01:03:35,389 --> 01:03:32,759
stop kidding around I know it was

1537
01:03:37,459 --> 01:03:35,399
multiple years right several months yeah

1538
01:03:39,889 --> 01:03:37,469
that's it several months yeah it was

1539
01:03:42,049 --> 01:03:39,899
very serious Oh serious and several

1540
01:03:44,179 --> 01:03:42,059
months and got a lot of attention anyway

1541
01:03:46,759 --> 01:03:44,189
then she's she's since been married and

1542
01:03:50,079 --> 01:03:46,769
divorced yes right did you go to the

1543
01:03:54,859 --> 01:03:50,089
wedding mmm unfortunately I was I was in

1544
01:03:58,159 --> 01:03:54,869
tender divorce I was here okay then you

1545
01:04:00,709 --> 01:03:58,169
did a really cool video yes I did where

1546
01:04:02,809 --> 01:04:00,719
you did a song with her where you kind

1547
01:04:04,699 --> 01:04:02,819
of make up this little story about how

1548
01:04:08,029 --> 01:04:04,709
in 10 years we're gonna meet at the same

1549
01:04:10,969 --> 01:04:08,039
bridge it was actually it was there was

1550
01:04:13,339 --> 01:04:10,979
actually a real story behind this music

1551
01:04:15,469 --> 01:04:13,349
video which I wrote a song for Chris

1552
01:04:17,359 --> 01:04:15,479
and I realize that there should be like

1553
01:04:20,689 --> 01:04:17,369
only one girl can sing it with me and

1554
01:04:23,569 --> 01:04:20,699
this is her and why because we actually

1555
01:04:26,839 --> 01:04:23,579
had a footage of us together from years

1556
01:04:29,839 --> 01:04:26,849
ago on the bridge yes

1557
01:04:31,609 --> 01:04:29,849
is that is that in the video yes okay

1558
01:04:32,539 --> 01:04:31,619
and so just let me make sure everybody

1559
01:04:34,189 --> 01:04:32,549
listening then they should check out

1560
01:04:36,319 --> 01:04:34,199
this video what's what's the name of

1561
01:04:37,459 --> 01:04:36,329
we'll put a link up what's a it's it's

1562
01:04:42,140 --> 01:04:37,469
song in Russian though right

1563
01:04:44,269 --> 01:04:42,150
it's a Happy New Year my my love this is

1564
01:04:45,319 --> 01:04:44,279
a translation so in the video let me

1565
01:04:47,809 --> 01:04:45,329
just set the stage and then you can

1566
01:04:49,459 --> 01:04:47,819
correct it or whatever there you are in

1567
01:04:51,559 --> 01:04:49,469
the bridge and you're talking about hey

1568
01:04:53,839 --> 01:04:51,569
no matter what happens to us we're gonna

1569
01:04:57,469 --> 01:04:53,849
meet here 10 years years later ten years

1570
01:05:00,140 --> 01:04:57,479
later yeah and then she comes to the

1571
01:05:04,819 --> 01:05:00,150
bridge and is wondering gee is Alex

1572
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:04,829
gonna show up and she almost and there

1573
01:05:09,829 --> 01:05:07,410
was a real actual footage in this music

1574
01:05:12,559 --> 01:05:09,839
video real actual footage from from our

1575
01:05:19,309 --> 01:05:12,569
phones which was filmed like eight years

1576
01:05:21,140 --> 01:05:19,319
ago and thankfully I she saved it she

1577
01:05:25,489 --> 01:05:21,150
saved that footage somewhere in the

1578
01:05:28,249 --> 01:05:25,499
cloud somewhere she saved it and like

1579
01:05:30,739 --> 01:05:28,259
two years ago she told me look I got a

1580
01:05:32,059 --> 01:05:30,749
footage of us like from years ago and I

1581
01:05:35,839 --> 01:05:32,069
was thinking maybe we can you know just

1582
01:05:38,180 --> 01:05:35,849
know do some kind of video with that I

1583
01:05:40,579 --> 01:05:38,190
was thinking that you know to just you

1584
01:05:43,969 --> 01:05:40,589
know shoot something more that's a dumb

1585
01:05:46,969 --> 01:05:43,979
idea like baby like like so many years

1586
01:05:49,609 --> 01:05:46,979
like already or if we've been through so

1587
01:05:52,370 --> 01:05:49,619
many things your merits they just know

1588
01:05:55,279 --> 01:05:52,380
let's just leave it there and again a

1589
01:05:59,180 --> 01:05:55,289
few months ago I was just whoa I just

1590
01:06:00,680 --> 01:05:59,190
wrote a few I just wrote first verse in

1591
01:06:02,989 --> 01:06:00,690
course and I realized that I'm gonna do

1592
01:06:05,359 --> 01:06:02,999
this song with her and I realized what

1593
01:06:06,799 --> 01:06:05,369
kind of video it's gonna be so it's a

1594
01:06:09,439 --> 01:06:06,809
real story of course there was something

1595
01:06:12,589 --> 01:06:09,449
is reshoot redone because the quality of

1596
01:06:14,449 --> 01:06:12,599
the video was so bad but the fact fact

1597
01:06:18,430 --> 01:06:14,459
that we were on a bridge and that we're

1598
01:06:22,370 --> 01:06:18,440
celebrating our new year which is on

1599
01:06:25,579 --> 01:06:22,380
it's it's a anywhere something right now

1600
01:06:27,170 --> 01:06:25,589
it's a first of December 1st of December

1601
01:06:30,350 --> 01:06:27,180
we're celebrating New Year every

1602
01:06:32,540 --> 01:06:30,360
because it was a very nice story we were

1603
01:06:34,250 --> 01:06:32,550
we've been walking on a street together

1604
01:06:36,650 --> 01:06:34,260
it was first to December I just came

1605
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:36,660
from the US but we were drinking coffee

1606
01:06:41,330 --> 01:06:39,690
and I said oh my god it feels so good it

1607
01:06:43,670 --> 01:06:41,340
feels so good it's like a new year

1608
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:43,680
let's celebrate New Year every like

1609
01:06:50,660 --> 01:06:46,410
every year first of December and we have

1610
01:06:53,540 --> 01:06:50,670
a note in in in iPhone like every every

1611
01:06:55,550 --> 01:06:53,550
1st of December there was a note a new

1612
01:06:57,410 --> 01:06:55,560
year with Victoria and she has the same

1613
01:07:01,700 --> 01:06:57,420
note so it's like very romantic romantic

1614
01:07:04,700 --> 01:07:01,710
story Wow and what is she up to now

1615
01:07:07,310 --> 01:07:04,710
she's single and Nisha Cinco who's been

1616
01:07:07,820 --> 01:07:07,320
0 rekindling since Ilona wants to know

1617
01:07:10,190 --> 01:07:07,830
this I'm sure

1618
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:10,200
Olo 0 rekindling as a result of the

1619
01:07:19,790 --> 01:07:17,250
video yes I'm I'm still I'm still

1620
01:07:21,470 --> 01:07:19,800
waiting to I ran a grinder will and so

1621
01:07:23,540 --> 01:07:21,480
who wrote they sent me back so you wrote

1622
01:07:26,690 --> 01:07:23,550
the song though huh you wrote the song

1623
01:07:28,510 --> 01:07:26,700
yes of course yeah it became a bit did

1624
01:07:31,610 --> 01:07:28,520
it become a big hit in Russia yeah

1625
01:07:32,660 --> 01:07:31,620
that's pretty cool yeah but that's

1626
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:32,670
pretty normal

1627
01:07:38,660 --> 01:07:34,890
yeah yeah everything you do is a hit

1628
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:38,670
right not everything like alright let's

1629
01:07:45,290 --> 01:07:40,410
get let's get to some hit making in the

1630
01:07:47,420 --> 01:07:45,300
US so so red one brings you out and how

1631
01:07:51,650 --> 01:07:47,430
soon after you come out here do you

1632
01:07:52,700 --> 01:07:51,660
smash up the Porsche I wasn't driving it

1633
01:07:54,470 --> 01:07:52,710
actually oh really

1634
01:07:57,170 --> 01:07:54,480
yeah there was a girl who was driving it

1635
01:08:01,060 --> 01:07:57,180
and I was just sitting next to her yeah

1636
01:08:05,390 --> 01:08:01,070
that's who was the girl no she was a

1637
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:05,400
wife of my friend Wow and that just

1638
01:08:10,850 --> 01:08:07,050
happens but but but it was soon after

1639
01:08:14,150 --> 01:08:10,860
you moved here yeah like months you know

1640
01:08:14,510 --> 01:08:14,160
just a few months and where did it

1641
01:08:19,700 --> 01:08:14,520
happen

1642
01:08:22,010 --> 01:08:19,710
on PCH and what was the the thing was I

1643
01:08:25,100 --> 01:08:22,020
live right on PC well I did PCH and

1644
01:08:27,950 --> 01:08:25,110
sunset are you guys I don't know because

1645
01:08:30,110 --> 01:08:27,960
I actually don't remember the fact but

1646
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:30,120
what she told me that it was a car it

1647
01:08:35,540 --> 01:08:33,330
was driving on our line that's what she

1648
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:35,550
said and she turned to the right and hit

1649
01:08:39,879 --> 01:08:37,890
the stone with the car no she did not

1650
01:08:42,010 --> 01:08:39,889
even smash the car like really fool

1651
01:08:43,539 --> 01:08:42,020
but it's a Porsche there was no like

1652
01:08:47,620 --> 01:08:43,549
real seatbelts it's like seatbelts like

1653
01:08:51,039 --> 01:08:47,630
in Europe in old Porsche yeah and I hit

1654
01:08:52,959 --> 01:08:51,049
the car with my head that's it you know

1655
01:08:54,849 --> 01:08:52,969
the front panel I just hit it with my

1656
01:08:57,010 --> 01:08:54,859
head that's it and I knocked out and she

1657
01:08:59,260 --> 01:08:57,020
thought that maybe it's you know knocked

1658
01:09:02,470 --> 01:08:59,270
out that everything's gonna be fine but

1659
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:02,480
anyway she drove me to the hospital with

1660
01:09:06,340 --> 01:09:04,730
the same car it was not you know if she

1661
01:09:08,649 --> 01:09:06,350
was able to drive yes you do the

1662
01:09:09,970 --> 01:09:08,659
hospital the car was and by the way so

1663
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:09,980
at that time you'd only been here a few

1664
01:09:13,209 --> 01:09:11,330
months and what were you doing hit were

1665
01:09:14,410 --> 01:09:13,219
you already recording music yeah I was

1666
01:09:16,390 --> 01:09:14,420
just starting I was working with my

1667
01:09:18,789 --> 01:09:16,400
English I was working with pronunciation

1668
01:09:19,780 --> 01:09:18,799
we I guess we started to just record and

1669
01:09:21,249 --> 01:09:19,790
were you gonna what were you gonna work

1670
01:09:23,349 --> 01:09:21,259
with that producer red one yeah

1671
01:09:24,820 --> 01:09:23,359
and we just started to figure out what

1672
01:09:26,979 --> 01:09:24,830
is gonna be like the sound of Alex

1673
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:26,989
sparrow because it's the most important

1674
01:09:30,459 --> 01:09:28,730
thing you know what it's gonna be wow so

1675
01:09:32,890 --> 01:09:30,469
your big dream of coming to the u.s. is

1676
01:09:34,510 --> 01:09:32,900
happening you know with red ones this

1677
01:09:35,859 --> 01:09:34,520
Grammy winning producer you're starting

1678
01:09:37,899 --> 01:09:35,869
to figure out what you're gonna be in LA

1679
01:09:39,519 --> 01:09:37,909
and the accident happens yes Wow and

1680
01:09:42,370 --> 01:09:39,529
then I'm waking up and I realized that I

1681
01:09:45,249 --> 01:09:42,380
cannot even like I I cannot speak like

1682
01:09:47,470 --> 01:09:45,259
that's it so I'm kind of done and like

1683
01:09:52,570 --> 01:09:47,480
goes because you you hit your head so

1684
01:09:55,359 --> 01:09:52,580
hard dude during that moment the black I

1685
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:55,369
had a clot in my blood cloud and it it

1686
01:09:59,020 --> 01:09:56,570
went to the different direction because

1687
01:10:01,090 --> 01:09:59,030
I have open open open hole in my heart

1688
01:10:04,330 --> 01:10:01,100
so in the blood went to different

1689
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:04,340
direction and blocked some blood stream

1690
01:10:10,030 --> 01:10:08,170
and caused a stroke

1691
01:10:11,890 --> 01:10:10,040
massive stroke on the right side of my

1692
01:10:14,260 --> 01:10:11,900
brain so that's what happened and that's

1693
01:10:16,149 --> 01:10:14,270
my left side who was paralyzed I can

1694
01:10:19,180 --> 01:10:16,159
even one with my one of my vocal cords

1695
01:10:20,709 --> 01:10:19,190
like total full left side left vocals

1696
01:10:22,510 --> 01:10:20,719
what's weird thing so when it affects

1697
01:10:23,830 --> 01:10:22,520
the right side of your brain you can't

1698
01:10:26,740 --> 01:10:23,840
move the left side of your body exactly

1699
01:10:28,270 --> 01:10:26,750
yeah that's why I have a friend dealing

1700
01:10:31,359 --> 01:10:28,280
with something similar right now he had

1701
01:10:33,870 --> 01:10:31,369
a brain tumor but yeah and that's what

1702
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:33,880
happened to me and then then it was

1703
01:10:37,750 --> 01:10:36,170
basically it was crazy and hilarious at

1704
01:10:39,010 --> 01:10:37,760
the same time because like it was

1705
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:39,020
something like out of my understanding

1706
01:10:42,340 --> 01:10:40,850
like it's impossible you know when you

1707
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:42,350
see something what is like impossible

1708
01:10:47,830 --> 01:10:46,489
you're like no look I was laughing I was

1709
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:47,840
looking at myself and I was laughing

1710
01:10:51,939 --> 01:10:50,090
every minute well sometimes I was crying

1711
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:51,949
laughing in the hospital bed

1712
01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:54,770
I was it looked like I was going crazy

1713
01:10:59,140 --> 01:10:56,570
I'm pretty sure because like the doctor

1714
01:11:00,820 --> 01:10:59,150
he was coming to me I know Alex we're

1715
01:11:04,300 --> 01:11:00,830
not sure that you're gonna be able to

1716
01:11:06,550 --> 01:11:04,310
like but it's like seeing again ever and

1717
01:11:08,229 --> 01:11:06,560
maybe it's like we just cannot you know

1718
01:11:10,209 --> 01:11:08,239
say that you're gonna move your left

1719
01:11:11,590 --> 01:11:10,219
hand I'm like okay look at this and I

1720
01:11:13,330 --> 01:11:11,600
was just moving this my left hand

1721
01:11:14,919 --> 01:11:13,340
because I actually couldn't move it but

1722
01:11:16,270 --> 01:11:14,929
I was moving it with my right hand and I

1723
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:16,280
was showing them like different type of

1724
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:19,130
things to impress them a host you know

1725
01:11:22,630 --> 01:11:21,170
you had a sense of humor about it a lot

1726
01:11:24,580 --> 01:11:22,640
and I was laughing a lot and I was

1727
01:11:27,550 --> 01:11:24,590
trying to push myself so hard since like

1728
01:11:29,290 --> 01:11:27,560
day one because I thought that okay now

1729
01:11:30,729 --> 01:11:29,300
I'm gonna fall asleep and I want I'm

1730
01:11:31,930 --> 01:11:30,739
gonna wake up and everything everything

1731
01:11:34,060 --> 01:11:31,940
is gonna be fine because this is

1732
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:34,070
impossible this is just a I'm

1733
01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:35,330
gonna wake up and everything is gonna be

1734
01:11:39,580 --> 01:11:35,570
fine

1735
01:11:41,410 --> 01:11:39,590
of course in the morning but I was

1736
01:11:42,939 --> 01:11:41,420
working and I was pushing myself they

1737
01:11:45,220 --> 01:11:42,949
were telling me oh no you have to take

1738
01:11:46,750 --> 01:11:45,230
it easy no no don't don't stand up don't

1739
01:11:47,919 --> 01:11:46,760
stand up just you have to take it easy

1740
01:11:49,689 --> 01:11:47,929
because we don't know what's gonna

1741
01:11:51,340 --> 01:11:49,699
happen I I know what's gonna happen if

1742
01:11:52,990 --> 01:11:51,350
I'm gonna lay down here for months guys

1743
01:11:54,459 --> 01:11:53,000
I know exactly what's gonna happen

1744
01:11:56,590 --> 01:11:54,469
nothing is going to him so I was trying

1745
01:11:58,740 --> 01:11:56,600
to stand up right away I was falling

1746
01:12:01,750 --> 01:11:58,750
down I was crawling I was laughing I was

1747
01:12:02,890 --> 01:12:01,760
crying like a baby but I mean you had to

1748
01:12:05,620 --> 01:12:02,900
be really scared too

1749
01:12:07,510 --> 01:12:05,630
I was but every time I'm getting scared

1750
01:12:10,180 --> 01:12:07,520
it's like when I jumped with a parachute

1751
01:12:11,110 --> 01:12:10,190
I was very scared in the airplane but

1752
01:12:13,180 --> 01:12:11,120
when I'm getting scared

1753
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:13,190
I have some kind of thing inside of me

1754
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:17,570
which makes me like do it right now like

1755
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:18,890
I'm scared that's why I'm gonna do it

1756
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:21,170
right now like I'm scared before before

1757
01:12:24,850 --> 01:12:22,730
I'm going on on stage performing like

1758
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:24,860
this you know in nervous and that makes

1759
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:27,890
me feel like oh my god so much it's like

1760
01:12:32,410 --> 01:12:30,050
a first date with a girl who you really

1761
01:12:33,939 --> 01:12:32,420
like like she's like amazing and you

1762
01:12:35,890 --> 01:12:33,949
kind of a little bit you nervous because

1763
01:12:38,709 --> 01:12:35,900
you want to impress her but you actually

1764
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:38,719
really want to go there it's the same

1765
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:41,690
thing I guess something like turning on

1766
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:44,570
in my in my brain in my body so I was

1767
01:12:48,459 --> 01:12:46,130
very scared you relate everything to

1768
01:12:49,030 --> 01:12:48,469
picking up girls and I knows but yeah go

1769
01:12:50,550 --> 01:12:49,040
ahead

1770
01:12:54,370 --> 01:12:50,560
[Music]

1771
01:12:59,920 --> 01:12:54,380
being half paralyzed and picking up a

1772
01:13:01,660 --> 01:12:59,930
girl yeah so I unfortunately know a bit

1773
01:13:02,890 --> 01:13:01,670
about this because of my friend in the

1774
01:13:05,110 --> 01:13:02,900
physical therapy you got to go through

1775
01:13:07,510 --> 01:13:05,120
and so on I mean it's really really hard

1776
01:13:09,550 --> 01:13:07,520
right and it's all about getting the

1777
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:09,560
brain working again yeah it's all about

1778
01:13:13,210 --> 01:13:11,930
to get it's not damage to your body it's

1779
01:13:16,810 --> 01:13:13,220
damage to your brain and the brain needs

1780
01:13:21,430 --> 01:13:16,820
to start reconnecting my brain started

1781
01:13:24,340 --> 01:13:21,440
to reconnects thinks so fast and yes so

1782
01:13:25,990 --> 01:13:24,350
I recovered somehow I recovered not not

1783
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:26,000
fully some some things like sometimes I

1784
01:13:30,820 --> 01:13:28,730
for example I cannot still feel like is

1785
01:13:33,310 --> 01:13:30,830
it the cold water or hot water with my

1786
01:13:35,140 --> 01:13:33,320
right with my left hand I don't feel the

1787
01:13:37,690 --> 01:13:35,150
difference so like this have sensation

1788
01:13:39,490 --> 01:13:37,700
of it so we're hitting the table yes yes

1789
01:13:41,380 --> 01:13:39,500
I can feel things you just can't feel

1790
01:13:43,810 --> 01:13:41,390
temperature yeah yeah yeah instrument

1791
01:13:45,130 --> 01:13:43,820
I'm started to play guitar so I'm

1792
01:13:47,770 --> 01:13:45,140
practicing with the guitar a lot because

1793
01:13:49,630 --> 01:13:47,780
it helps a lot because you have to like

1794
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:49,640
work with your left hand on your right

1795
01:13:54,130 --> 01:13:52,250
handed item yes of course

1796
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:54,140
so but there's like you know small

1797
01:14:00,310 --> 01:13:56,570
slight differences between who I was and

1798
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:00,320
who I became what about memory was that

1799
01:14:05,470 --> 01:14:02,690
was funny story about girls one girl I

1800
01:14:08,500 --> 01:14:05,480
met after that was like a year later and

1801
01:14:10,530 --> 01:14:08,510
I remember that I dated her like for

1802
01:14:13,390 --> 01:14:10,540
like maybe like you know a week I

1803
01:14:16,300 --> 01:14:13,400
remember it was like in Russia like few

1804
01:14:17,830 --> 01:14:16,310
years ago and she said well you know but

1805
01:14:20,950 --> 01:14:17,840
there was such nice time when we've been

1806
01:14:22,810 --> 01:14:20,960
together so come on just a week and she

1807
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:22,820
looked at me like her eyes became like

1808
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:25,730
really big that second and she said it

1809
01:14:34,210 --> 01:14:30,770
was actually four months I said are you

1810
01:14:37,300 --> 01:14:34,220
sure she said I am glad I'm sure that it

1811
01:14:40,480 --> 01:14:37,310
was four months exactly and I remembered

1812
01:14:43,180 --> 01:14:40,490
only a week that's it and and I I was

1813
01:14:45,550 --> 01:14:43,190
trying to know like to like connect all

1814
01:14:48,220 --> 01:14:45,560
those like things which I don't remember

1815
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:48,230
at all all since the accident

1816
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:49,970
yes yeah what about memories from before

1817
01:14:54,010 --> 01:14:52,010
the accident did you lose any memories

1818
01:14:55,150 --> 01:14:54,020
no no it was exactly it was some

1819
01:14:56,470 --> 01:14:55,160
memories from before they actually was

1820
01:14:58,900 --> 01:14:56,480
from before yeah after that I remember

1821
01:15:00,520 --> 01:14:58,910
everything yeah there was just just some

1822
01:15:02,939 --> 01:15:00,530
like people who I didn't remember when I

1823
01:15:05,759 --> 01:15:02,949
met them and I was like Hello

1824
01:15:06,779 --> 01:15:05,769
hi and like what's your name I and those

1825
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:06,789
are basically you'd never come back

1826
01:15:11,609 --> 01:15:10,090
those memories they are coming back I

1827
01:15:13,259 --> 01:15:11,619
guess I don't feel like I don't remember

1828
01:15:15,449 --> 01:15:13,269
something I feel like I remember

1829
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:15,459
everything so were you in the us for the

1830
01:15:20,250 --> 01:15:18,610
whole recovery yeah and then I went not

1831
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:20,260
whole recovery I went to Austria I back

1832
01:15:23,669 --> 01:15:21,610
to Austria because there's a lot now

1833
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:23,679
that I was to Russia also try the second

1834
01:15:27,390 --> 01:15:25,690
and third opinion what I'm gonna do but

1835
01:15:29,299 --> 01:15:27,400
yeah yeah we missed the part that you

1836
01:15:34,310 --> 01:15:29,309
know when were you in Austria originally

1837
01:15:37,109 --> 01:15:34,320
when I was when I became like 20 I

1838
01:15:39,709 --> 01:15:37,119
started to travel to Austria a lot

1839
01:15:44,189 --> 01:15:39,719
because like half of my family

1840
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:44,199
it's in Austria and so I was I actually

1841
01:15:49,379 --> 01:15:47,170
got a lot of I don't know a lot of who I

1842
01:15:52,529 --> 01:15:49,389
am from you know you big Schwarzenegger

1843
01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:52,539
fan because I mean that's a good kind of

1844
01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:54,449
role model for you a guy who needed

1845
01:16:00,479 --> 01:15:57,130
California with a guy have your accents

1846
01:16:02,580 --> 01:16:00,489
and yours actually kind yeah I'm a big

1847
01:16:06,359 --> 01:16:02,590
fan of Schwarzenegger but I'm not a such

1848
01:16:07,949 --> 01:16:06,369
big fan of bodybuilding yeah I cannot

1849
01:16:09,719 --> 01:16:07,959
you know I'm every time I'm going to the

1850
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:09,729
gym I'm actually forcing myself to go

1851
01:16:14,850 --> 01:16:12,610
there I this is one thing I am

1852
01:16:17,189 --> 01:16:14,860
struggling with I'm just you know I have

1853
01:16:18,810 --> 01:16:17,199
to push myself so hard to go to the gym

1854
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:18,820
because I'd rather tried music you know

1855
01:16:23,430 --> 01:16:21,010
to create something and you just have to

1856
01:16:26,189 --> 01:16:23,440
just just work yeah and don't do

1857
01:16:27,899 --> 01:16:26,199
anything else just work and that's so

1858
01:16:29,279 --> 01:16:27,909
some of your ancestry though is Austrian

1859
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:29,289
hmm okay

1860
01:16:35,029 --> 01:16:31,449
you haven't met Arnold yet though no

1861
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:35,039
okay no that needs to happen he's local

1862
01:16:41,879 --> 01:16:39,489
I'm sure he's amazing but yeah well he's

1863
01:16:43,379 --> 01:16:41,889
had he's had quite a bit of success here

1864
01:16:45,569 --> 01:16:43,389
so quite a bit of success

1865
01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:45,579
I'd say Mars Nagar well it wouldn't be a

1866
01:16:51,930 --> 01:16:48,280
bad role model for you know politics is

1867
01:16:54,299 --> 01:16:51,940
that in your future no I don't like when

1868
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:54,309
people are doing I'm talking about

1869
01:16:58,439 --> 01:16:56,170
myself now I don't like when people are

1870
01:17:00,270 --> 01:16:58,449
doing something they don't know how to

1871
01:17:01,890 --> 01:17:00,280
do so that's why I'm doing music I'm

1872
01:17:04,739 --> 01:17:01,900
doing creative things I'm shooting music

1873
01:17:07,290 --> 01:17:04,749
videos I'm producing music I know how to

1874
01:17:09,390 --> 01:17:07,300
do that and I do it like really good but

1875
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:09,400
you criticizing Arnold as our governor

1876
01:17:12,419 --> 01:17:10,449
in politics

1877
01:17:14,729 --> 01:17:12,429
I don't understand anything in such a

1878
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:14,739
it's such a big boys games is like it's

1879
01:17:18,300 --> 01:17:16,330
like it's really far from me

1880
01:17:19,590 --> 01:17:18,310
my understanding so that's what I'm not

1881
01:17:21,660 --> 01:17:19,600
if you're picking you're staying in your

1882
01:17:22,860 --> 01:17:21,670
lane in other words I'm staying in

1883
01:17:24,900 --> 01:17:22,870
something what I love to do and what I

1884
01:17:27,210 --> 01:17:24,910
know how to do which is so speaking of

1885
01:17:29,730 --> 01:17:27,220
lanes which which are you more focus on

1886
01:17:35,100 --> 01:17:29,740
now in music or is it yeah music because

1887
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:35,110
yeah my my goal my idea is grammy 2020

1888
01:17:39,990 --> 01:17:37,930
grammy before Oscar yes that's how Gaga

1889
01:17:41,460 --> 01:17:40,000
did it she didn't get her Oscar till

1890
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:41,470
after the Grammys so yes following in

1891
01:17:47,610 --> 01:17:44,890
Gaga's shoes Gaga shoes so the only huge

1892
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:47,620
platform yeah that was big when so so

1893
01:17:50,780 --> 01:17:49,090
music is the focus so what are you

1894
01:17:52,980 --> 01:17:50,790
working on are you working on an album

1895
01:17:57,410 --> 01:17:52,990
I'm working I'm gonna release actually

1896
01:18:04,530 --> 01:17:57,420
uh do songs at this month

1897
01:18:07,170 --> 01:18:04,540
it's April right yeah in April I'm gonna

1898
01:18:08,670 --> 01:18:07,180
release two new songs and then in March

1899
01:18:10,710 --> 01:18:08,680
you know this who's producing those is

1900
01:18:12,390 --> 01:18:10,720
that a big main producer me really yeah

1901
01:18:12,930 --> 01:18:12,400
you're not working with a hotshot

1902
01:18:15,900 --> 01:18:12,940
producer

1903
01:18:18,180 --> 01:18:15,910
no I'm I like to put my soul in music

1904
01:18:19,830 --> 01:18:18,190
and like fully and I'm really good in

1905
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:19,840
producing music so that's why I'm

1906
01:18:23,190 --> 01:18:21,130
producing everything by myself and I

1907
01:18:25,980 --> 01:18:23,200
know that it's like again are you

1908
01:18:28,020 --> 01:18:25,990
working with a label no this is totally

1909
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:28,030
independent absolutely and you're gonna

1910
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:31,650
release it how then incredibly

1911
01:18:37,380 --> 01:18:33,850
incredibly successful I'm gonna release

1912
01:18:40,350 --> 01:18:37,390
it through YouTube through YouTube

1913
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:40,360
through my vision through through my

1914
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:43,170
Instagram which gets of course a lot of

1915
01:18:50,850 --> 01:18:46,530
followers from like Europe from Russia

1916
01:18:54,330 --> 01:18:50,860
some thousands of people from from the

1917
01:18:57,270 --> 01:18:54,340
US so and and will you perform it in

1918
01:19:00,120 --> 01:18:57,280
Russian also I don't know I'm not sure

1919
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:00,130
because I'm planning to be here now in

1920
01:19:05,910 --> 01:19:03,010
two years so it's not about right in

1921
01:19:07,050 --> 01:19:05,920
it's in English songs yeah cuz I noticed

1922
01:19:09,420 --> 01:19:07,060
that some of the recent songs the ones

1923
01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:09,430
that really blew up the she's crazy but

1924
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:11,590
she's she's mine that you recorded in

1925
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:13,690
Russian and English right yes yeah in

1926
01:19:20,550 --> 01:19:16,810
the Russian version I saw on YouTube had

1927
01:19:23,100 --> 01:19:20,560
like 250 million mm-hmm downloads yeah

1928
01:19:26,550 --> 01:19:23,110
sometimes yeah yeah and all over the

1929
01:19:28,260 --> 01:19:26,560
world it got like billion views like on

1930
01:19:30,420 --> 01:19:28,270
Facebook like there's

1931
01:19:32,550 --> 01:19:30,430
some some crazy million so views like I

1932
01:19:33,990 --> 01:19:32,560
wasn't even expecting like that kind of

1933
01:19:34,500 --> 01:19:34,000
attention so you're gonna shoot videos

1934
01:19:36,990 --> 01:19:34,510
for them

1935
01:19:39,480 --> 01:19:37,000
of course release them on YouTube with

1936
01:19:41,700 --> 01:19:39,490
the hope that what would be step two to

1937
01:19:42,930 --> 01:19:41,710
that step two in other words let's say

1938
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:42,940
they really take off and they get

1939
01:19:48,030 --> 01:19:45,370
millions of views in the US is the goal

1940
01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:48,040
to ultimately release an album yeah okay

1941
01:19:55,290 --> 01:19:52,690
step two and I'm gonna have us manage

1942
01:19:56,370 --> 01:19:55,300
our and then of course sign a contract

1943
01:19:59,100 --> 01:19:56,380
with some music

1944
01:20:02,640 --> 01:19:59,110
record record company album to release

1945
01:20:04,770 --> 01:20:02,650
album and yeah videos I'm gonna release

1946
01:20:06,090 --> 01:20:04,780
this year they're gonna be hilarious and

1947
01:20:08,700 --> 01:20:06,100
really funny because I already created

1948
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:08,710
them like I am I already wrote the

1949
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:10,810
scripts for them they can be very funny

1950
01:20:18,090 --> 01:20:11,530
and very cool

1951
01:20:19,530 --> 01:20:18,100
very original yeah and then Grammy 2020

1952
01:20:22,020 --> 01:20:19,540
alright my friend

1953
01:20:23,790 --> 01:20:22,030
well we will have you back yeah I have

1954
01:20:25,470 --> 01:20:23,800
the Grammy in your hand just one or

1955
01:20:27,180 --> 01:20:25,480
you're not gonna have a bushel full of

1956
01:20:30,450 --> 01:20:27,190
them and your your you could start with

1957
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:30,460
one modest start I don't know that's

1958
01:20:34,710 --> 01:20:32,770
that's I didn't plan that let's let's

1959
01:20:37,530 --> 01:20:34,720
take a few well yeah let's take a few

1960
01:20:39,660 --> 01:20:37,540
alright well welcome to the u.s. we're

1961
01:20:41,370 --> 01:20:39,670
happy to have you here we love Russians

1962
01:20:43,110 --> 01:20:41,380
we especially love Russian women and

1963
01:20:46,590 --> 01:20:43,120
Ukrainian women here we're not we're not

1964
01:20:48,210 --> 01:20:46,600
as fond as the guy next time guys I was

1965
01:20:50,340 --> 01:20:48,220
about to say that next time I'll bring

1966
01:20:51,900 --> 01:20:50,350
new sound but no it's wait we can't we

1967
01:20:54,810 --> 01:20:51,910
have to we have to tell one quick story

1968
01:20:56,790 --> 01:20:54,820
before he goes about Rita Ora I then and

1969
01:20:58,290 --> 01:20:56,800
then you're excused you ever just you

1970
01:21:03,690 --> 01:20:58,300
have a Rita Ora story

1971
01:21:05,330 --> 01:21:03,700
I am a qui tu aura oh and that was an

1972
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:05,340
event

1973
01:21:12,900 --> 01:21:11,290
I don't American Music Awards radio row

1974
01:21:17,790 --> 01:21:12,910
I might Rita Ora

1975
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:17,800
she looked so hot she was so beautiful I

1976
01:21:23,250 --> 01:21:20,250
feel the way this was at the awards show

1977
01:21:25,290 --> 01:21:23,260
it was like you know there was a carpet

1978
01:21:29,610 --> 01:21:25,300
and there was the radio you go into the

1979
01:21:32,670 --> 01:21:29,620
radio stations and you say no habla

1980
01:21:34,710 --> 01:21:32,680
so I met Rita order and definitely we

1981
01:21:37,410 --> 01:21:34,720
got some you know strong connection of

1982
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:37,420
course of course I mean look who we're

1983
01:21:46,900 --> 01:21:43,810
she went away she was walking away

1984
01:21:48,460 --> 01:21:46,910
already and she I just and I was

1985
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:48,470
finishing my interview and I just saw

1986
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:51,770
that she's actually going away and I was

1987
01:21:59,080 --> 01:21:54,290
like no no she's not gonna go away so

1988
01:22:01,510 --> 01:21:59,090
and I I ran to her and and next thing

1989
01:22:03,340 --> 01:22:01,520
it's like a movie the elevator doors are

1990
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:03,350
closing and I see that she's there and

1991
01:22:08,020 --> 01:22:06,050
she's like and she's wave waving waiting

1992
01:22:09,790 --> 01:22:08,030
wait you guys had never met before of

1993
01:22:12,310 --> 01:22:09,800
course never but you felt like your eyes

1994
01:22:16,030 --> 01:22:12,320
had connected exactly okay that was like

1995
01:22:19,630 --> 01:22:16,040
like a love of my life you know and the

1996
01:22:21,610 --> 01:22:19,640
doors of elevator are closing and okay I

1997
01:22:25,390 --> 01:22:21,620
understand okay no problem I'm taking

1998
01:22:28,570 --> 01:22:25,400
another elevator I'm going down on a

1999
01:22:30,700 --> 01:22:28,580
parking lot and there's I don't see her

2000
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:30,710
and there was only one car I see it it's

2001
01:22:37,210 --> 01:22:33,650
about to drive away from the parking lot

2002
01:22:39,700 --> 01:22:37,220
and it's a big you know SUV

2003
01:22:43,510 --> 01:22:39,710
so I decided probably she's there and

2004
01:22:45,970 --> 01:22:43,520
it's like of course that it's all black

2005
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:45,980
windows you don't see who's inside of

2006
01:22:51,730 --> 01:22:48,650
course I realized that probably she's

2007
01:22:53,950 --> 01:22:51,740
there from like 10 other cars I realized

2008
01:22:56,980 --> 01:22:53,960
that she's definitely there so I ran

2009
01:22:58,990 --> 01:22:56,990
there I stopped the car driver was like

2010
01:23:02,050 --> 01:22:59,000
what the hell and I knocked in the

2011
01:23:06,210 --> 01:23:02,060
window she opened the window it was her

2012
01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:06,220
I said oh hi look I really like you

2013
01:23:11,380 --> 01:23:09,620
would you like to have lunch with me she

2014
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:11,390
said yeah well why not that's that's

2015
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:12,650
that's there why not

2016
01:23:16,150 --> 01:23:14,210
yeah I said well I'm not gonna bother

2017
01:23:19,390 --> 01:23:16,160
you so can I take a phone number of your

2018
01:23:21,940 --> 01:23:19,400
manager to not know like to be like

2019
01:23:23,290 --> 01:23:21,950
respected do not sure that was good but

2020
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:23,300
keep going yeah of course that was a

2021
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:28,850
bad move I could predict that so

2022
01:23:34,570 --> 01:23:31,010
of course I took a number of her manager

2023
01:23:37,150 --> 01:23:34,580
and that gentleman and I didn't answer

2024
01:23:38,650 --> 01:23:37,160
any of my text messages all of your

2025
01:23:41,710 --> 01:23:38,660
romantic messages that you see me

2026
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:41,720
imagine so I'm still and well of course

2027
01:23:46,150 --> 01:23:44,690
I sent a message and I'm still like I'm

2028
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:46,160
pretty sure that she just you know

2029
01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:47,690
taking her time before she's gonna

2030
01:23:50,020 --> 01:23:48,530
answer to me

2031
01:23:52,150 --> 01:23:50,030
we don't know if Reid has gotten any of

2032
01:23:53,430 --> 01:23:52,160
these messages no of course here she is

2033
01:23:56,250 --> 01:23:53,440
she's thinking about me

2034
01:23:58,950 --> 01:23:56,260
how's the good news is yeah she's a huge

2035
01:24:01,020 --> 01:23:58,960
fan of the hidden fruit show so I know

2036
01:24:02,130 --> 01:24:01,030
she's listening so whatever you want to

2037
01:24:03,570 --> 01:24:02,140
say do you want to give your number out

2038
01:24:07,170 --> 01:24:03,580
or what do you want to say you're gonna

2039
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:07,180
meet on a bridge usually at a particular

2040
01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:09,690
time in place and she'll be there sure I

2041
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:13,930
mean of course it's a funny story it's

2042
01:24:18,990 --> 01:24:16,330
not like you know something very special

2043
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:19,000
but it's all about guys last thing I

2044
01:24:22,830 --> 01:24:21,010
want to say don't be afraid to do

2045
01:24:25,170 --> 01:24:22,840
something stupid in your life yes of

2046
01:24:29,340 --> 01:24:25,180
course some some of your moves are gonna

2047
01:24:31,050 --> 01:24:29,350
be like dumb and hilarious but this is

2048
01:24:34,170 --> 01:24:31,060
what this life is about I mean if I

2049
01:24:35,970 --> 01:24:34,180
would be just stay there oh my god she

2050
01:24:40,710 --> 01:24:35,980
is so beautiful yeah that's cool why not

2051
01:24:42,900 --> 01:24:40,720
but I prefer to do something and to get

2052
01:24:44,430 --> 01:24:42,910
at least some result to have at least

2053
01:24:46,770 --> 01:24:44,440
this story you know which I can laugh

2054
01:24:49,770 --> 01:24:46,780
about with you and this is amazing just

2055
01:24:51,630 --> 01:24:49,780
be free be open to do something crazy to

2056
01:24:54,150 --> 01:24:51,640
enjoy this life you open to do something

2057
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:54,160
crazy but get the girl's number yes not