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Ep#21-Desert Muse: A Guitar Prodigy's Journey
Australian guitarist and songwriter Dani Stefanetti shares her musical journey from Perth to the Coachella Valley, discussing how she found confidence through her instrument and built a career spanning two continents.
• Started playing guitar at age 8 and performing shows by age 12
• Practiced up to seven hours daily as a teenager to master her craft
• Influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Jewel, and Sheryl Crow
• Performed at Perth Opera House and opened for major Australian artists
• Moved to Los Angeles just before the pandemic, then discovered the tranquility of the desert
• Creates as a "one-woman show" with loop station, similar to Ed Sheeran's approach
• Performing at the Tennis Open in March with her band
• Uses social media and networking through the Chamber of Commerce to build her desert presence
• Balances the business side of music with artistic expression
• Maintains a repertoire of around 200 cover songs alongside her originals
Check out Dani's music at danistefanetti.com and catch her performing at venues throughout the Coachella Valley, including La Quinta Brewing in Old Town.
What is up everyone? I'm Robert Mraz and I'm Ina Mraz, and this is CV Hustle, a podcast dedicated to inspiring and informing local entrepreneurship here in the Coachella Valley and for all you music nerds like I am out there. Today we have a really, really special guest. Today's guest is a songwriter, a musician, and she's about to blow up, and we're really excited to have her today. Miss Dani Stefanetti, thank you for coming in today.
Speaker 3:Thank you very much and you said my name perfectly.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3:That's awesome. It's a hard one to say yeah.
Speaker 2:I like Dani. Where did Dani?
Speaker 3:come from? Well, my real name is Danielle, and I think when I was going through a tomboy stage when I was 10. And I was, like everybody call me Dani- oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:I have a girlfriend and her name is Danielle as well.
Speaker 3:Oh beautiful. Yeah, she's a sweetheart.
Speaker 2:I love it. Okay, so I have a question for you. I hear an accent, yes, and want to tell me a little bit about where you were. You know, not born, but I think you told me you're Australian, correct? That's right, yeah. And so how did Australia and the desert get married together? How did that happen?
Speaker 3:Well, thank you both for having me today, and we don't have many podcasts in the desert, so this is awesome what you're doing, thank you. Yeah, I've basically moved from one desert to the other, so I grew up in a place called Perth. Have you heard of?
Speaker 1:Perth I have. Yes, my son probably did. He's a little geography guy. That's eastern Australia.
Speaker 3:So it's on the west coast, West coast okay. Similar weather to, I would say, San Diego Also perfect weather. Yeah, perfect weather by the water. I lived in a beach town and it's a very calm city. What I say about Perth is the worst thing about it is it's so comfortable, which is crazy. There's nothing bad about it, it's just a slow-paced way of living and very coastal Everybody's kind of going to get a smoothie and going for a surf. So it's a great city to grow up in.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like California then.
Speaker 3:Yes, very, very Californian, oh I like that. Yeah, and I was touring for many, many years. I started playing guitar when I was eight and writing my first song shortly after, and then all my focus and direction went into songwriting. Once I was learning guitar and when I was 12, I was already doing shows. Oh my gosh, I dropped out of school. When I was 12. I was already doing shows and, oh my gosh, I dropped out of school when I was 17 so you're a child prodigy, basically oh, I hope so.
Speaker 3:The guitar was always bigger than me and I knew that it was crazy I would make so many friends because of the music, but I was very shy and and didn't quite fit in in school. But but when I had the guitar, everybody liked me, another persona came out right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it gave me this confidence and I wasn't too shy on stage. It's crazy because, you know, when I write these songs, it was a creative outlet of another. When I would go home to practice guitar, I'd practice sometimes seven hours a night, and my parents are so encouraging that it just organically happened and I knew I was destined for it from a very young age wow.
Speaker 2:Well, you know it's, it's. It's a known fact that Beyonce is very shy, but when she's on stage, she becomes Sasha.
Speaker 3:Sasha Fierce, that's right.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that. Stick with me Another fun fact.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I mean, I guess my question is so did you come from a family of musicians, or were you one of the chosen ones, or how did that?
Speaker 3:happen. I will get to the desert question after.
Speaker 2:This is so much to cover.
Speaker 3:What about that? Well, my parents are musicians, or my family, yes.
Speaker 3:So my dad works in construction and he did a lot of road manager, driver, security guard, roadie, you know he was going through the desert with me, we go up to Kalgoorlie, basically played at pretty much every venue in Perth that everybody you know started to. It becomes repetitive and when you know starting to play out the venues, you start to know you one day have to leave because you're becoming very uncomfortable. But my dad, no, he wasn't a musician but he had a great record collection of Peter Frampton, dire Straits, the Eagles, which I got into. And once I heard of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan my life changed.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:But my uncle was a musician. He taught me mandolin, open tunings. My Uncle, pete, was in a Cajun band and he would invite me to open for the folk concerts that he had on, and these travelling musicians would come by our town and they'd have wine and cheese at my auntie's house and they would invite me and I was only 11, to come up and sing before these artists. They were blues musicians and folk. I was very inspired. I remember being a child looking up to them and going, wow, I want to do folk. I was very inspired. I remember being a child looking up to them and going, wow, I want to do that.
Speaker 2:I want to do that Absolutely. So then, how did you learn the guitar? Because I mean, I know that if you're not coordinated, like I'm not, I mean I'd be lost. So did it just come naturally? No, I guess it didn't come naturally because you said you would practice for like seven hours a day.
Speaker 3:Yeah, especially in high school. That's when I really got serious about it. Yeah yeah, I was a very serious kid. I shouldn't have taken the music business so seriously.
Speaker 1:Looking back, Very determined, though, kid right. Very determined, you knew what you wanted to do at a young age.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's pretty rare. I mean that's very rare. You don't meet people that, at eight years old, knew okay, this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life. You know, it's a pretty noble trait, I think, to have you know. I don't think you meet too many people like that.
Speaker 3:Well, I didn't relate to books or anything like that. I wasn't a book smart girl and something about audio and the music that just brought me out of my shell. But it also made people feel good too. So it's like you give and it comes back at you. Even when I heard like you've got Bob Marley back there, I heard him do I Shot the Sheriff. I remember being in year five and hearing that song. It brings back memories. I mean, songs bring back memories and good times. Did you see who's in that corner?
Speaker 2:oh, jimmy hendrix speaking of the devil you know, bobby's a huge like a music guy too, and so yeah, he um definitely a music nerd right here oh my gosh, he's. He listens to all kinds of music, but, um, it does. Music does bring you exactly to where you were when you were falling in love with a certain song. Oh, totally, yeah, I totally get that.
Speaker 3:And it gives you a dream as well. I think when you're a kid, young girls and guys um, I tried the dancing thing. That wasn't for me, so coordination wasn't necessarily my thing. That's okay, you can play the. It was a different type of coordination. But I think when you're a child, you need that dream to aspire to. What am I going to be when I'm an adult? And I think that's a healthy thing to have, whether it's sport, fashion, music, but the arts, you know, it's a way of journaling your emotions too, and people accept that, whereas if you maybe talk it out, they might think you're a little loopy.
Speaker 2:But if you sing about it, I never thought about that that's true.
Speaker 1:See, we have another creative right here. She's very creative too.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to start singing about clients.
Speaker 3:Just put a good riff underneath it.
Speaker 2:You're going to have to give me some pointers, okay so okay so you're hanging out with the not the roadies, but like musicians right at a young age. And then where take me from? Okay, I'm getting really good at this and I want to head to united states.
Speaker 3:How did that, oh yeah. So I give it a good. At least that was a good 15 years of doing the hard yards we call it in Australia.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 3:There's a good 10,000 hours you got to put in before you get good at something.
Speaker 1:That's true. That's the Questlove thing, right.
Speaker 3:And I was trying to rush it.
Speaker 1:He says that all the time right.
Speaker 3:10,000 hours to master your craft, master your craft at anything.
Speaker 1:It's not just music, it's like anything right.
Speaker 3:Yeah it's like. But you know, if you see some of your peers making it and you're still hustling and trying to find your way, it can get frustrating this business because you're like I've been doing this for 10 years and it's still not coming to fruition and you can start like losing hope or getting down in yourself or you need to find new strategies. You need to always be evolving as a musician.
Speaker 2:And like we were talking about business, that is, you always have to evolve in business.
Speaker 3:Yes, totally With the market. Yeah, I think I actually saw on your page that we have to evolve with the times, and that even happens with. I saw something about Financially. Yeah, you have to evolve with the Venmo that even happens with.
Speaker 2:uh, I saw something about financially yeah, you have to evolve with the, with the venmo or something, yeah, yeah, I'm like I get asked about that and I'm like, oh, okay, I better I better get with it.
Speaker 3:It's true, you know why? Because I would have made a sign after you said that. Yeah, because you know what it's like.
Speaker 2:Checks are becoming obsolete. Yeah, you know, and it's just, people want money instantly and everything's just so instant in our world.
Speaker 3:It is Right, yep. So the process from during the hard yards of, I was playing festivals. I played the Opera House. They were building the Perth Arena. I did like corporate shows to festivals, to dive bars, to bigger shows, openings for some very big rock artists and Glenn Shorrock from the Little River Band and Daryl Braithwaite and a lot of our major icons in Australia. So I was opening, just me and the guitar. I was some way doing the Ed Sheeran format where I was a one-woman show and I had my loop station and I didn't have the overheads of a band, because my dad always taught me, like, make sure you're self-reliant, you need to be able to carry your gear. And like, learn how to set it up and do the wires and you learn. You need to learn it because you can't be waiting or you might not have the budget to to, depending where you are. You don't want to wait.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh, my, my musician isn't here and the show must go on, you know yeah he broke down with a flat tire and sorry everybody.
Speaker 1:So even at a young age, you're making some pretty good business decisions. Because that's a good business decision, I always wonder about these bands that travel like 10 deep and they come play a show like their belly up in Solana Beach. You know they're not making any money because they've got to divide that payday 10 ways. The business side is, I think, where a lot of people in your industry struggle a little bit, right yeah because we're artists and we like to think with our heart and our emotions.
Speaker 3:That sounds so good to me. And the business side, I mean, I don't know, I'm a little bit like that too. I like to be airy-fairy, and that's me. I'm very airy-fairy and that's me. I'm very airy-fairy, I love it, and I sometimes have to go think with common sense and you know. But I like to just be in my bubble and just do the music. But yeah, you can't do that all the time. But yeah, when it comes to the business side, that was great advice of my dad to keep it like solo, because years later, ed Sheeran was playing at the stadium in Perth to like 70,000 people and I was just moving to America at the time and I thought to myself you know, I would love to be doing that one day, be invited back to Australia to be like doing what Ed Sheeran's doing A little homecoming tour, a hometown.
Speaker 3:And I do have a little story about that, actually, that I will share and, yeah, I just had these visions. Like you know, I'm just gonna have to struggle and be in survival mode until I work it out, but there's no like shortcut, there's no secret to it. You just gotta love what you do, and I knew the next step for me was about 2018 and I knew it was the right time to move to la, and that's when I um, I did the the la scene for over a year and that was hard. It was.
Speaker 1:It was hard just bring your guitar, spit you out right as an artist sometimes did you have any like friends out here?
Speaker 2:I'm assuming, like music is friendly everywhere. Yeah, exactly, you had friends and were you?
Speaker 3:yeah, okay, and you have to take your cd and knock on doors and and try to get people to like let you in and perform at their venues and all that. And it's the same out here in the desert You've got to see, like where you fit and who wants to see you play. And once people hear the music, then that's the easy part, because then they're like oh, you should do this other show with our friend or you should come play at a private party or a wedding, and that's how it should be. You know they should like, love the music and it gets them on their feet and dance. Yeah, but LA, I got there just before the pandemic and you know I had the dream of you know you've got to make it big in LA and Hollywood and I just moved with a suitcase and a guitar. I love it and I met lots of friends and a lot of people were helping each other. You know I found that really good, like everybody was lifting each other up in LA, like no one.
Speaker 2:You know there wasn't a whole bunch of competition.
Speaker 3:It was like hey, we're sisterhood or brotherhood? Yeah, I like that about LA you can wear anything weird out there and no one's judging. I mean, everybody's just doing their own thing. But for some reason it just works out there.
Speaker 2:It's just you can do your thing. There's so many down people You're like whatever.
Speaker 1:It's also Hollywood the more flash, the better right. It's also Hollywood the more flash, the better right. I mean, it's Hollywood out there, yeah, so you've got to stand out somehow.
Speaker 3:I found like little indie venues and restaurants and that and it worked, you know. But then the pandemic hit and I was in like survival mode. It was a struggle but I found the desert and it was refreshing because you know there's bands that have recording studios and that in Joshua Tree, and I found it really calm out here, no traffic, very calm, I was going to say no.
Speaker 2:Traffic is like what I think of.
Speaker 1:Like people go, you want to move to LA.
Speaker 2:Hell, no, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in traffic, or you know? No, no. So how did you hear about Joshua Tree? Then? Just the musician scene, then, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so, like Palm Springs and all out here, I try to get out and see some local music I'm really enjoying. Do you know Tina Turntable, who's a female DJ? I have heard of her, yeah she's great and one of my first venues I was playing at out here was Kitchen 86.
Speaker 1:Oh, in El Paseo, el Paseo I El.
Speaker 2:Paseo, el Paseo.
Speaker 3:I love their food. I was here on a weekend away and I went and sold myself, you know, and said I can do music, Let me know if you need live music, da-da-da. And I made the move and I actually saw Tina Turntable and I'm starting to meet more local bands in the area because I'm sure there's a lot of hidden gems and great musicians out here. I just haven't met them all yet. But Joshua Tree, I've heard there's, you know, there's great studios and people are making great art out there as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Queens of the Stone Age is up there, right? Doesn't he have a studio up there?
Speaker 3:I think so yeah.
Speaker 1:Anthony Bourdain did a show a but yeah, there's little hidden gems out there. Definitely. You know there's a kid across the street from our house that is in some heavy metal band. That's like tearing it up right now. Yeah, we're like what Shout out to McCoy if you're hearing this man.
Speaker 2:You guys are killing it. What about the place in Pioneer Town?
Speaker 1:Oh, pappy, and Harriet's, oh, harriet. Oh yeah, oh yes, I want to get there. That was so cool.
Speaker 3:We see a show, yeah, in acrisha arena. You've got a lot of acts coming here, yeah, and ice skating you should ice skate while playing. I'm so clumsy I don't know about that that's a novelty, right that would be a cool look if I could spin see so what years were did?
Speaker 1:were you starting to kind of make your name out here? Is this like pandemic you're going like into the like time where people are shutting down and you're out there trying to sell live gigs or is this after a pandemic, yeah, in the pandemic.
Speaker 3:I was writing a lot of songs. I wrote this song called 17 stars and I was forming my band down there in Redlands and I have been, you know, going back and forth. I went like three times to Nashville, won a Josie award and did a duet with William Lee Golden, which was great, and yeah, and and, and. That you know, when you do a few days in Nashville you get on that big high. You know it's like, oh my gosh, I'm making it. And then I come back to reality and I'm like, oh, I've got to get gigs and I've got to figure it out. What am I doing? Like yeah, yeah, it's. You know it's like that in the music industry there's lots of highs, lots of lows, but it's like, as long as the music and the love for the music is in the center, it makes everything worth it.
Speaker 2:I mean, and that's what we were talking about how like being an artist is like running a business. You have to sell yourself, right yeah, you have to market yourself.
Speaker 1:You have to like you said you, just I don't know you have to be able to balance the checkbook oh yeah, overspend everything that you're getting. Yeah, you're able to balance the checkbook.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, overspend everything that you're getting. Yeah, I spend more time on the email sometimes than the music, like you know.
Speaker 2:Getting it all together and reaching out to different people and you're dealing with people Like it's just always, you know there's a lot to it, sure absolutely, but luckily these days, artists, we have the iPhone and we're able to make so much.
Speaker 3:I've been using the Skillshare and the Filmora to make reels. But Skillshare is I just got put onto it from a friend and if I want to like, get better at my graphic design or anything or any skill, set it like. It shows you how to do it. Yeah, from your phone Doesn't YouTube do that too, I guess it could.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We just had a couple of guests in here and they were like youtube, youtube, youtube.
Speaker 3:Really talk to them everything.
Speaker 2:So I'm like I'll have to check out skillshare, though, because you know youtube?
Speaker 3:yes, I do if I have a question on my like I don't know how to do something on the computer.
Speaker 2:Yes, youtube, but then again you're like they're watching like five videos to be like okay, which guy do I like? Which one taught me what I needed?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, you love youtube of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you love YouTube.
Speaker 1:I'm a YouTube person all the time. That's like my go-to. I'm on YouTube all day. It's on in my office all day.
Speaker 2:Podcast, podcast, podcast. That's it.
Speaker 1:That's it. So so 2020, 19,. You came down here, Is that?
Speaker 3:about the timing At the end of 2018. 18? Oh, so you?
Speaker 1:2019 was my main year in LA. You've been down here quite a while now yeah, yeah. So how's the scene? Is it different? It's obviously different from LA, right? I mean it's a little bit oh from the desert. Yeah, from the desert, that's a whole different. Yeah, it's a whole different scene.
Speaker 3:There was a lot of events and social networking all the time in LA, which was great. A lot of my friends moved out in acting and different things when the pandemic hit to pursue different things or move back in with their parents or all of that. You know, a lot of people moved to Texas and Nashville actually Wow. But yeah, the desert's been a whole different vibe and I felt very welcomed here and you know, I hope as a musician, I can bring value to this town with my style of music and my guitar playing and everything, because I'm really enjoying living out here and the calmness of it all and I'm able to create again and write new songs and and it's great- because I would imagine, like you're in an environment, so like you were talking about now, you're here in the desert and you kind of have a good vibe about the people and the environment and all of that.
Speaker 2:So that's kind of what you base your songwriting on, right. I mean like some of the things, or you would. I mean you said there might be like a flair of the desert. Just what is the desert flair, I guess?
Speaker 3:Well, I, actually I have been going to the way I've been able to network out. Here was I joined the Chamber of Commerce. Oh, which one. The Rancho Mirage? Oh, katie's nice.
Speaker 1:We know Katie. He went to high school with Katie. Yeah, katie, she's really good. She's the best in the business out here.
Speaker 3:She's awesome and it was really good, especially in those summer months when it's really really hot in the desert 120, 121. Yeah, it's hot, and it was nice to get out and go, network with everyone and meet people in all different businesses as well, so that really helped a lot. Actually, I've met a lot of connections through that and I'm continuing to, especially the young adults that are other artists or some of them are in Palm Springs and they're into actual visual arts and things like that I'm really interested in. So still learning what's out here. But, like, el Pasito is gorgeous, oh, I know.
Speaker 2:Do you write songs about the desert? You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Yeah, some of my lyrics, even six years or past ago, had desert in it and some of my newest songs. But I didn't know I was one day gonna live out here. It was just I was very influenced by the eagles, so I think I think, it's so easy feeling. You know it's got desert. You know I just like the vibe of the desert, so classic rock huh, yeah, exactly classic rock now um, I like the eagles too.
Speaker 2:I like them and didn't they come to acusha? Did you go see them? I didn't. I would have loved to see them. I think they did. They did Right, yeah, they did. Did your parents, my parents went to it.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, we sent them. Yeah, we got them tickets.
Speaker 3:But speaking of your influences, who else I definitely was? Well, there was some local artists that I was inspired by in Perth and travelling musicians that would come from America. There was one artist called David Lamont who heavily influenced me, and then Stevie Ray Vaughan Double Trouble as a guitar player was my biggest influence, more so than Hendrix actually was my biggest influence, more so than Hendrix actually.
Speaker 1:and um then, I really got into um Sheryl Crow, Jewel and that 90s vibe. There's a little that I because I listened to some of your music before we came here there's a little. There's a little that Jewel vibe, that you got going on, you kind of look like her too right? Yeah, you definitely definitely can tell there's, there's some overlapping there, so that's yeah, they kind of those artists, if you notice Cheryl Crow and Jewel.
Speaker 3:They crossed over to pop and that's where I always it wasn't quite country, it wasn't quite rock. I kind of had this. I was into jazz and a little fusion of things, exactly. And I felt that in Jewel's music, but big time influenced as a teenager by Keith Urban and his earlier work because he made it in Tamworth, which I spent a lot of time in Tamworth Country Music Festival, and he later made it in America and, yeah, his guitar playing definitely inspired me as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can definitely pick up some of your influences in your music. I'd advise everybody go check, check it, check out her stuff, because there's some really good stuff out there. Thank, you.
Speaker 2:Thank you absolutely. Okay. Have another question. Yes, so do you play any other instruments?
Speaker 3:uh, I'm mainly guitar focused, so slide, acoustic and guitar. But if I go into the studio and I have to learn other things like I can, but um, I don't say I'm any of those. I you know I'm mainly guitarist.
Speaker 2:Don't tell anybody, but I play ukulele.
Speaker 3:But sometimes with the keyboard you can make other sounds. You can make other sounds come along.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we're like drum machines now. They're so sophisticated now. Yeah, exactly, you don't even really need to be a musician to make like drum beats. Now it's like you can just loop them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's crazy with technology and I'm still like getting my head around it and learning more as much as I can all the time and how are you feeling about the ai stuff that's been coming out?
Speaker 1:I mean, I know like you know, there's songs that are not even human generated anymore. What's your kind of opinion and feel on that stuff? Have you heard any of those songs?
Speaker 3:I haven't heard the ones. You mean, are you talking AI voices?
Speaker 1:No, AI, completely Like Drake, has a song that well, it's not Drake's song. There's a song by Drake that AI completely did and he did nothing with it. Really. Yeah, it sounds like a real song. It sounds like he did it.
Speaker 3:Are they playing the real guitars or no?
Speaker 1:it's just it was like more of like a beat, it's like a, it's like drake. So it's like hip-hop, it's like you know, pop beats. But yeah but they're making songs now that are completely human, like you know, and that's like to me it's like such a. It's an offense, you know.
Speaker 1:It's like because music because music's like an expression of people's soul. I feel like the artist's soul. It's like coming out and you're having this AI bot create this soulless music. I'm just like. To me it's a blasphemy. I think it's coming, though, because AI is going to be everywhere in the next probably 10 years.
Speaker 3:I mean, a lot of us use AI to make canva and and to make posters, and I I guess we can use it to our advantage. Yeah, um, I like to keep as many real instruments as I can with the guitars, but I know I have, in production, used, um, you can get sound plugins and you can add different things. Yeah, and you can make a keyboard sound like anything really Really yeah, cello or anything. Yeah, so there's a lot that you can use to your advantage. If you can play the chords, you can basically arrange it in the way you like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because there's musicians that don't even play instruments anymore.
Speaker 3:They just play the keyboard Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they just make music like that. So it's a whole new world it is a new world it's a whole new world, but I I lean on the side of real musicians.
Speaker 3:I still think that live music is. There's something about a live show where you're seeing that person play the guitar or play the you know piano. There's something about it that comes from the heart, that feeling, I think in a recording it's different because you can utilize technology Totally.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so have you ever thought about, like teaching others how to play the guitar? Because, I mean, it sounds like you obviously know what you're doing and you love doing it, and so I would imagine like that would be kind of cool to see other people that just have, like I said, have no coordination. I don't even know how I would do that.
Speaker 3:And so has that ever crossed your mind? I have had the pleasure to be able to. Yeah, Some girls have got advice for singing and guitar off me and different things like that. Yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:That'll maybe another business down the road.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, I'm sorry. I need to become an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1:Well, I need to become an entrepreneur. I mean, there's always rich people that will pay you to teach their kids how to play an instrument.
Speaker 3:There's so many young kids that have natural ability, that really just naturally have it, and they just need someone to slightly guide them. Give them that little push and that self confidence.
Speaker 2:Like you can do this, like you said you might be able to take a shy kid and kind of make them-confidence, like you can do this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, and like you said, you might be able to take a shy kid and and kind of make them come alive, like you, and exactly it's nice to see that um, I don't know if australia is the same way, but here in the united states a lot of music, you know music was a big part of school, like once you got to junior high. There was like opportunities for kids to learn full years of instruments.
Speaker 1:Like you could join the band and be in, like when I was in coming up in school, like there was kids that were just in band and music all the way through junior high to high school yeah I think that that budget is getting starting to phase out and it's and it's a real, it's a real tragic tragedy, I think, because it's like there's a lot of kids, like you said, they have talent, they just don't have any access to it, you know. So I think in australia do. Do they teach music still at the primary schools, or is it something that you have to do like individually?
Speaker 3:we had. We had a primary school rock band.
Speaker 1:I remember that oh yeah, and I did fly away by lenny kravitz in year seven.
Speaker 3:I love lenny kravitz and I had this music teacher called doogle stevens and I'd be like mr stevens. I got a new, can you hear it? And he would listen to me in the lounge break. But we did have that in primary school and then, when I got to high school, in order to do proper music lessons, I think you had to be in the choir and I didn't want to do the choir for some reason, because I couldn't sight read. I can only play by ear. So you see, I did a music theory course in primary school and I failed that because I didn't know any of the notes, got it, but I can write a song.
Speaker 3:So I didn't fit in the school format, had a great school and I loved art and all the others and other subjects and I had a singing teacher there for a while actually. But that's what I'm saying with some kids. They might not fall in with the book smart, the knowing how to read the music, like horns or a you know sight, read a certain instrument, like a violin or something, but then they may pick up the guitar and get a great teacher that teaches by ear and be like the next ji Hendrix. Yeah, so everybody's brain works differently, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so I have a question so songwriting, right like I was a little girl and I used to like think that I was the poet, you know like I don't know so I always, or I've always, heard and we watch. What's her name? Amy? Winehouse like wrote the best songs.
Speaker 1:She was heartbroken. Such a talent, or what have you Also an addict, but she was very talented.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. But I mean, like does heartbreak really, you know, bring it home? Or like help with songwriting, like they say it does, I guess.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, adele writes all about heartbreak. That's, belle writes all about heartbreak. Oh, that's true. Maybe my next album will be all about heartbreak, I don't know. Oh, there was a song I wrote when I was 12, called Do you Know what it's Like To Really have your Heart Broken? I hadn't had my heart broken, you know. It was called Emotions. Oh, I love it. Such a sad song. But I love writing songs about love, uplifting. But yeah, you never know, you might, I might write some sad ones. But amy winehouse, my goodness, I loved her she was such a talent, such a talent.
Speaker 1:But that's what you know.
Speaker 3:Sometimes it's the brightest stars burn out real quick, you know yeah, and those songs had so much grit and emotion and heart and, yeah, I still love her records.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we watched a documentary on it and I mean it's just so sad and like crying like a baby and he's you know, it's just like it's so horrible because she was just like such a, such an inspiration into her music, like you said so gritty so gritty?
Speaker 3:yeah, exactly, she had something very different about her to any other artist, absolutely A bit of a tortured soul.
Speaker 1:That brings me to my next question what do you think about the streaming and the digitalization of music? I know that back in the day an artist could get a deal, make some money with the record label. They might screw you on the contract, but you're really getting some money up front to produce your art and just be an artist. And now it seems like streaming has come in and just killed that model. You know, now they just want single after single.
Speaker 1:Yep Singles, not albums, and they don't want albums and to me that's such a tragedy because some of the best art and music is an album. You know those albums.
Speaker 3:There's finals. Even I know Some of the best art and music is an album. You know those albums. There's finals even you enjoy the whole album.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly they don't make albums anymore. So what's your opinion on the streaming? I mean, obviously it opens up avenues for, like, smaller artists to kind of blow up.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's exposure at this stage, not so much about the money. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:But it also doesn't create long-term careers anymore, right? Am I mistaking? Because I feel like back in the 70s, 80s and 90s there were artists that had 20, 30-year superstar careers, like Prince and Michael Jackson and these bands that were ACDC, these bands that were just bigger than life, and you don't exactly and here fast forward to 2025, there's not a lot of contemporary big mainstream bands that last more than five years, and I think it's because of streaming. I kind of want to hear your opinion on what streaming has done.
Speaker 3:I've heard, I think, a good. I've seen artists go from playing at a jazz club to next thing, like, for instance, there was an artist called Passenger who had the song Let Her Go and that just I don't know if it got billions of streams, but overnight. But he wasn't an overnight. I met him many years ago and I remember before his show, lovely gentleman called Mike Passenger, his stage name. He was doing a show and just before you know it was in soundcheck. I said what are you up to next? You know what have you got coming on? And I think he'd been doing songwriting for many, many years. It was very experienced. You could tell from the way he played and his music and I don't know how big his fan base was, but I'm sure it blew up when that Let Her Go song came out because I followed his success and he said to me oh, I'm opening for an artist called Ed Sheeran and I go, who's that? At the time I said who's that?
Speaker 3:And then, next thing you know, becomes a big thing and I think for an artist like him who plays guitar by himself, he can hold a crowd by himself.
Speaker 1:streaming was a way for him to just reach the stars.
Speaker 3:And then artists need to, especially soloists like Ed Passenger, artists like aspiring people like me that are trying to navigate it all. Um, I think we we need to be on the road, we need to be touring because we have to use the youtube and streaming as a way for people to hear us, but then we need to get out there and play, play, play yeah, yeah, handshake and even get to like know, like you were talking about the chamber.
Speaker 2:but even if you went and got to know, like business owners that are, you know, have a, have a venue, like okay, red Barn is right down the street from me, so I mean they're going to have live music there. So I don't know if you know them or anything, but that would be cool because I talked to the owner not too long ago and he was telling me that they're going to have all kinds of like genres of music and they really did a great number on that place.
Speaker 3:It's designed really beautifully. Oh lovely, so it'd be kind of cool to do that. I'll have to check it out. I played a lot of clubs out here and it's been a real treat. They are so fancy out here Really.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of money in these country clubs around here, so what you're saying, though, is that, basically, you've got to stay on the road to make money.
Speaker 3:Right. Is that what the profit?
Speaker 1:source is Shows.
Speaker 3:I saw this. Yeah, you've got to keep your. It is a bit of a half-half business, half-artist thing. You have to be a bit of an entrepreneur to navigate this crazy, uh, music business, music circus. But we love it, we love what we do.
Speaker 3:But I saw something on Instagram and this girl she was, she's on the radio consistently in London and I forget the artist, but I think she invested like 10 or 10 or 20K into taking her bands onto the road and she had like so many tickets sold at a big festival but she ended up losing money on tour and then she brought it to America and it was the same thing because she had such big overheads.
Speaker 3:So I think there's a lot of artists that are on radio and doing like visually so great, but it's still a struggle for the music business in itself, which has kind of warped, and I hope it changes. But I'm sure there is ways to get around that and to take it Like. The great thing about social media is you can take your music straight to the fans and they can buy it, and I think that's the beauty of it these days. But you can't really be in the music industry for money because it really has to. The money comes once people feel the, the art, and I still believe the art comes first yeah, well, it should absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2:So like that reminds me when you were saying like you want to go straight to the fans, right? I love TikTok.
Speaker 1:I learn a lot in like a minute Okay.
Speaker 2:And that's like all my attention span can handle, so it's perfect for me. But I mean, you know, you go on there and you can pick your music and they're from artists like you've never heard of and it's like man, there's some really good stuff on here. So I think like social media has really opened our eyes too. But yeah, it's just kind of a snippet, but I think that's a way to reach other people, because then you can say, oh, this artist and you like that music. Let's go see what they're doing Right.
Speaker 3:And reels as well. People are so taken in with like 30-second video and that's so powerful. Videos are so powerful in this day and age, so that can you can go become a viral sensation overnight from one video these days. So that that's the great thing. We have all this opportunity yeah in front of us all the indie artists that's the reverse side of it, right.
Speaker 1:It's very democratic now, like if you're good and you put it on social media, you will gain Right. You'll gain attraction with your career, and that's the one good thing. A label can't freeze you out anymore, you know you can't. Yeah, it's an equal playing field as long as you're doing good work and we had an entrepreneur on last week. Right Remember, Outcome over profit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the same he was artsy these artists are very passionate about their product.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm kind of picking up, but I think you know, for somebody in the music game I mean, it's just all about. It's all about your art right To really drive the product and the profit. You know.
Speaker 3:We really we're counting on the people. Actually, us artists are counting on the people to carry the music, Because if the people don't like it, we don't have a job.
Speaker 1:Right yeah. So, the days of the experimental album are over. Right, you can't do the Beatles' White Album anymore.
Speaker 3:You got to do a. I can't do a 10-minute solo.
Speaker 1:You got to do the tried and true formula. That's going to get views, you know. So that's another thing.
Speaker 2:Well, and I have a question because obviously music here in the desert is known for what? In April Coach. Because obviously music here in the desert is known for what? In April Coachella. We have Coachella and Stagecoach. So have you gone? What do?
Speaker 1:you think you haven't gone? Are you kidding me? I haven't gone yet.
Speaker 3:You've got to go this year You've been here, how many years and you haven't gone, oh only been one year in the desert, just about a year and a half in the desert.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, so you were down here. Oh, so you just moved down here, okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, palm Springs. Okay, you have an excuse you have an excuse now I really want to go to Stagecoach because there's so many. There's such a great lineup and Coachella.
Speaker 1:I like both of them.
Speaker 3:I know we got to get you to Coachella.
Speaker 1:Have you guys been to those festivals? I went to the first 10 years. I didn't pay to get in. It's past the time where they can arrest me for this right. But yeah, we had like guys work. It was very like. It wasn't like it is now. No, not all corporate and like streamlined, yeah it was a madhouse out there, so you could jump the fence.
Speaker 3:Is it camping like Woodstock? Yeah, you can camp as well.
Speaker 1:It's more glamping now now, but it used to be like a little bit more grimy and not as organized and not as corporate. But yeah, the first what I think I went to the first 10, like 7 or 10, yeah, oh wow, because when they came out I was still in college and it was like we're having this, we're having what in our, in our, in our coachella valley. So I drove back down from college to go to these things because it was just such, like crazy, that we would have a world-class event in the Coachella Valley. And here we are, like what, 35 years later?
Speaker 2:oh, wow okay, five years later, well, maybe 20 25 years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the first one was like 2000, 2001, 2000, 2001, I don't know, yeah, so I was at the first.
Speaker 3:Well, that's on my drain list.
Speaker 1:I want to play at Coachella but you know they have a locals. They look for local talent.
Speaker 3:They do, they do.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, absolutely, I know a DJ that has played there, just because I mean he's good too, but he's local. So they gave him like an opening slot on like the first Friday.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, okay.
Speaker 1:So they definitely are looking for local talent.
Speaker 2:We've got gotta get you hooked up with somebody over there, golden voice, if you're listening, local talent right here, you gotta, you gotta hit us up. But yeah, there's definitely. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I mean, well, you know what you should do. On last season, we had chris miller on and he is in art. He's a photographer great. He worked his way up and started being one of the first guys to photograph coachella oh wow, so he. So he's met many, many artists and he got to get front line. So you should check out that episode.
Speaker 3:I will check it out.
Speaker 1:Awesome, We'll talk to Chris for you see if you've got any connections. But no, there is an opportunity because they do look for local artists.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's great to hear, yeah definitely so.
Speaker 1:be on the lookout, people. We might have sparked something here.
Speaker 2:Let me ask you a question about your website and you're on Instagram and things like that. Are you able to book you through your website? You know what I mean? Like hey, or I mean I guess you can inquire, yeah, inquiries, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they can have inquiries. There's a contact page and an email there as well, and I will be performing with my band this year at the Tennis Open.
Speaker 2:Oh, next month, in March, yeah, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, last year it was like an impromptu thing that happened I got invited to sing America the Beautiful in the Stadium One and that was a real highlight of my year, because I'd just moved out here. Yes, you're right. How did that come about? My agent Ray, they got me in there to do the America the Beautiful and the Desert Sun put it on there and it was really incredible, oh wow.
Speaker 2:That's pretty nice right that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So you're gonna do a repeat performance this year. Are you gonna be doing something different?
Speaker 3:uh, so this one would be for ticketed people that come and watch. I believe I'm going to be doing a band show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are they gonna have on the on the tennis court or no, not on the.
Speaker 3:They have like a side stage. Yeah, they have a stage and everything.
Speaker 2:Wow I think it's like right, where they have all the like car shows and everything and they have like food vendors and all that. It might be in that area. I don't know, I haven't been there in a while.
Speaker 1:That's cool.
Speaker 2:Well they'll hear us anyway.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's going to be a nice little. So, yeah, people can come out and hear us.
Speaker 2:Okay, I have another question how do like? Let's say, if somebody like, do you say I have a two-hour minimum, or how do you do that?
Speaker 3:Every show is different. I just kind of whether it's a private party or you know it's a club or people inquire about you know, sometimes they want a country night, sometimes they want a rock night, so I kind of am able to cater to a lot of different clients. That's awesome. So just hit me up and I can usually make it work. Have you tried Big Rock in India? I haven't played there yet.
Speaker 2:No, we've seen many bands and they're all really great and they have like a stage and people just go and eat and hang out and listen to music. So that's kind of a cool little venue there, okay yeah.
Speaker 1:Our favorite venue. My favorite venue here is the Date Shed. Have you ever been to that one? Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Is that even around?
Speaker 1:It's still around, but it's not open very often. It's right there on the polo fields, okay, and it's an amazing little club that they built out there for artists when they come out to Coachella to have like a little like VIP spot, and then they open it. They used to open it up throughout the year and it was a my favorite little spot here in the valley you know, I don't know if it's even still open.
Speaker 2:I don't know. But what about like okay, now I'm going for, now I'm thinking of ways to like get your book so what about um? What about, like Thursday nights in downtown Palm Springs? Like I wonder if you could like rent a little booth and just play the music and people are walking by and catch a tune here and there and they're like they inquire. There's a ton of people walking around that might be kind of cool, right?
Speaker 1:Downtown India. Have you seen that scene?
Speaker 3:yet. Yes, I played near there in Thermal. They had the beautiful horses and I would be on the big stage there. Yeah, I've had a lot of different concerts out here. It's been very exciting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because downtown India they have those music clubs. Have you heard of the Little Street Music Club. They got down there.
Speaker 3:Yes, I have a friend, dakota, that is a comedian and he does a lot of shows there. So I'm still meaning to go down and meet more comedians and watch a show some stand-up.
Speaker 1:I'd love to watch some stand-up out here.
Speaker 3:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Got a lot of comedians out here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, you know what.
Speaker 2:We had no idea right until what. Tell her about it.
Speaker 1:Well, we just walked into a show one day right?
Speaker 2:Well, he met one of his ex-players and he's the one that was like you need to come down here because he owns this vintage store in downtown India called. Urban Donkey and it's a cool little store. Everything's unique. And so he was like, hey, it's comedian night. He was saying they do that every week, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do it every week, I think they do. Yeah, they do it every week Upcycle comedy or something like that.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but we went and it was actually really good. I mean, we met one dude. He was so funny, right. Yeah, I was like we need to get him on the do it? We just sit here and laugh the whole time but there's a, there's a little burgeoning uh art scene down here. I think absolutely, yeah there's definitely music and comedy and art and you know you fit right into that.
Speaker 3:You fit right into that. You fit right into that scene.
Speaker 1:I think it's going to work out for you.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 1:You're kind of a newbie to the desert now right.
Speaker 2:Definitely a newbie. Okay, I have another question, Because I'm all about questions, right, oh gosh. So like if say we hired you for something right, and then if I said so then, you're going to say, hey, do you want this or that right?
Speaker 3:You're going to say classic rock, and I'll probably say classic rock, yeah, if it's a club or a restaurant or a club, usually I get hired and they want a three-hour set and I discuss my set list with them. Sometimes I just want covers. I discuss my set list with them. Sometimes I just want covers, sometimes a mix of both originals and covers, and I just I tell them the styles that I do, from country rock, a bit of jazz. Sometimes they want Frank Sinatra, sometimes they want, yeah, more of my music. It just depends. It just depends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, every venue is different. So like say, you're there strumming along and somebody says play this song. Yes, what do you do?
Speaker 3:then I do take a lot of requests. I know I have about 300 songs in my I've written 300, but I have probably about 200 covers that I have. You know how the hell do you remember all the words? Seriously, since I was 16, I've been storing them because I had a lot of cover shows in Australia so I had to do a lot of pub gigs where you get sing Jimmy Barnes that's a big artist out there or, yeah, a lot of classic rock I got requested in my high school years so I learn a lot of those you know, kind of dire straits, all that stuff. Yeah, I get requested all sorts of music out here but they love the country and and, uh, they love the jazz. So I get a lot of requests for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would go the jazz route you want to know what's so funny is our um like 13 year old son. He loves music, like his dad and my nephew, who's also 13. Yes, talk to him and they're like you don't know anything about music because you don't even you listen to music with no words. Oh my gosh, I'm like oh my gosh. Just instrumentals. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Those little punks don't know nothing, but that's just, you know, that's the age. That's the age, it's the evolution of growing up and thinking your dad's not cool, I'll be not cool for a little while.
Speaker 3:I even heard that there was a punk hardcore scene out.
Speaker 1:Here too, there is, they do the mosh pit.
Speaker 2:I heard that was a thing out here that's from Bieber. I'm telling you across the street. Okay, I mean what is it?
Speaker 1:No, they're more metal. But there's actually a punk show downtown, indio, I think. Okay, coming up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little hardcore.
Speaker 1:A little hardcore. Yeah, it's more punk. I don't know what's the difference between punk and metal I play at La Quinta Brewing as well. Oh, do you In.
Speaker 2:Old Town and.
Speaker 3:Palm.
Speaker 1:Desert oh awesome, yeah, they're being. I love it over there. It just random. Yeah, it's random, yeah, but I post it on my website, okay, yeah, okay, so we'll be on the lookout for that. You want to check out some good music people?
Speaker 2:yeah, and you know what else you should do, like with the chamber. Yeah, I would say like, hey, your next event, like how about you let me, you know, play for a little bit? I'm telling you just get exposure, and then people that are there are going to inquire.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right this.
Speaker 3:February has been very busy. It's been great yeah.
Speaker 2:That's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what are you kind of looking for right now? Are you looking for gigs? Are you looking for private events? What's your oh a bit of both.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you want it all You'll take it all right.
Speaker 1:I would like that's when it's quiet, so I'm looking for summertime bookings right now and april, may, that kind of thing yeah I think for march should be pretty, pretty like it's a lot of private events in march and april, even march, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll see what comes.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of corporate parties that come in here for those big festivals, right? So definitely, definitely.
Speaker 3:Uh, there's a lot of market for that down here and I'm also um, I more, you know, drummers, bass players and different artists to be able to collab with, because I do need to put bands together for certain things. So it's been cool to learn that there are other players out here.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you, so like you were talking about meeting them or playing with the band, yeah, so like, do you put together a contract for that or you guys just do the whole handshake? What do you do as an entrepreneur? What do you do in that kind of instance?
Speaker 3:Yes, I email my bands. But the guys that usually I have in Redlands they're friends of mine, so where I know they're gonna rock out. But yeah, um, usually I meet another drummer through another reference and they'll be like, hey, my buddy can do the show, you know, it's that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that kind of thing, got it that's awesome and you guys show up we're all musicians never, never played together. But you guys can go to the set.
Speaker 3:We have rehearsals, yeah yeah, because, like my, uh, my other drummer that I'm getting for this coming up show uh, we have a rehearsal soon as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah how many times would you rehearse for something that you know, like you're just getting to know somebody. How long and and is it always vibe?
Speaker 3:well, we always play by ear, so I I hire musicians that play by ear. Yeah, so it's the drummers, because they don't have to learn the actual the chords is much quicker than the bass player. But my bass player that I've got, he already knows my stuff because he's played with me many times before, but he's got such a good ear. I mean the Berklee, you know, he's got that Berklee trained theory oh, wow okay.
Speaker 3:He's good with the theory too, and he can play that jazz and he can do it all so. So that makes it easier, because I don't need to explain it to, he just gets it. Yeah, it's nice to find that oh, yeah, yeah, stay with that that's true in any industry.
Speaker 1:It's good to find somebody talented and just work with them, right? Yeah, they're gonna save you.
Speaker 3:That's ben ben that does the bass for me, and uh, we we did a couple of shows actually in Lake Havasu. We got invited on a tour there a couple of years ago Well, maybe it was, I don't know if it was two years ago now or something, but yeah, he was my bassist for that tour as well and that was cool.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:You need to rent a boat in Havasu and play your thing.
Speaker 1:You got all kinds of ideas Houseboat. See, these ideas are streaming out.
Speaker 2:House mode is a real thing. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Get one with a slide. So we're kind of up against time, but I do want to hear what your advice would be to somebody maybe a younger kid, you know coming up thinking about going into the music industry, and what kind of advice would you give that person if that's something that they wanted to pursue later on and thank you for having me today, guys. It's been really fun awesome we've gone everywhere, yeah two artists right here.
Speaker 3:That's what happens um, well, what I would say to younger artists, uh, that want to be singers or guitarists or musicians, is just enjoy what you love. Don't be too critical of your singing voice or songwriting early on, because it can change. My voice really didn't mature until I was about 17, 18, 19. It started getting better and before that it wasn't my strength. It really grew over the years to be a strength. So songwriting is something that just you know.
Speaker 3:You're going to get criticism from family friends because everybody's trying to help you and navigate the industry that they all everybody's trying to navigate this weird industry where no one has the answer. So you're going to get criticism. You're going to get positive feedback but just as long as you love the music, just find records and other live artists that you can look up to, because that really helped me. I would study DVDs and really watch. My guitar teacher was a big influence because in those pivotal years of 12 to 16, when someone else is doing it with ease, you can get very inspired. But it's like really nice to see that in person and witness someone that loves their guitar, because it just you end up catching that vibe. So I would say, just like, find records and other artists to look up to, and don't be too critical of yourself, because it definitely evolves over the years and you'll find your way. You know, absolutely, it just happens. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1:Well, that's some great advice. Everybody out there needs to rewind that and listen to that again. Where can people find you? If they want to book you for a private party or gig or check your music out. Where's the best place for them to go on online and find you?
Speaker 3:sure. So, um, I don't know if you're going to put a little banner, but at danny stefanetticom, my website, okay, and um, I just had like a whole new kind of look to it. It looks a little bit more desert-y now and a couple of my shows are up there at the moment and my music and people can check it out and watch my music videos. I've got a song out there that has done well, called Moon Looks Pretty Tonight, and I'm still writing new stuff, so there's plenty of videos up there and, um, yeah, come and see a live show everybody yeah, definitely, if you need a private, if you need to have a private event, you want a musician.
Speaker 1:It's your gal right here, super talented, and we're super, we're super blessed to have you come on the show you so much you're I think you're a star in the future. So oh, thank you gonna be your, your launching pad, so and add some howling from a desert wolf.
Speaker 2:I know I have one other question that I think is pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. I just thought about it. Go ahead, honey.
Speaker 2:Okay. So say you're playing reggae? Oh, okay, or what have you right? Yep, how do you bring it? Does the Australian accent come through? Like because I've, I've. Okay, this is what I'm talking about. I've watched movies and they sound like american, right, and then they're on an interview on you know abc or whatever, and then they have like an accent.
Speaker 3:I'm like, wow, they tricked me so, okay, like I'll show you, I'll show you. I want to love you and treat you right. I want to love you and treat you right. I want to love you every day and every night. So it's not there. Yeah, there's no accent, but it just goes, because I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Singing has no accent.
Speaker 3:Well, I did something.
Speaker 2:I thought about.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah, singing has no accent people, yeah, so neutral. The British have taught us this over the years. You know the British invasion has taught us that they do not have accents when they're singing. That's cool, I like it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanks for telling me. In between songs I get that a lot out here, see, people say, because in between songs they can hear the accent pretty thick, and they say where are you from? I say I'm from here, and they're like no, no you're not. Oh, I know it's born in Australia, but for me yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you for letting me ask dumb questions. No, they're great questions.
Speaker 1:These two artists, man. They're on their own level but super talented. Check her out, she's very talented. She's going to blow your mind. Go to her website and thanks for coming out.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having me, guys.
Speaker 1:And we'll see you guys next time on CV Hustle.