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This edition of the Chatterbox Redux podcast

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When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue.

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Welcome back to the Chatterbox Redux Podcast

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with Sue Neck and today our special guest is

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Dimitris Nezis. This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox

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giving you all you need to know about musical

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entertainment. Chatterbox, the best interviews

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with Nick and Sue. Now, Chatterbox, we welcome

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Dimitris Neziz. Welcome. How are you? I'm doing

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well. How about you? Is it that hot in the UK?

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It's UK hot, if you know what I mean. But you're

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saying you were 40 over there. 40 in Mediterranean

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heat is nice. I like 40 in the Mediterranean.

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I like it. I can do that. When you're next to

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the sea, everything feels way better, right?

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Yes. We're lucky because we're near to the sea.

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We're about a mile in. So we're lucky. But yeah,

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as we were saying, you've been in London, so

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you know the humidity in the UK. So this is why

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we can't cope with it. And yeah, where's the

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first place people go on holiday when they're

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British? They go to Spain. They go to a Greek

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island. So this is where they go. So that obviously

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proves they can all cope with it. Anyway, Dimitris,

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we've been aware of you for some time. We got

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introduced to you as an artist by Chris Spearer

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of the Space Angel Music Company, and I think

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we must have been playing maybe five of your

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songs altogether now. uh last maybe two years

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or so um so got to know your songs and we were

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hoping that the chatterbox audience which is

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you know the syndicated show there's quite quite

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a lot of stations over 200 we're hoping that

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uh they will get to know you more look at look

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at your uh your youtube download your songs we

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hope they get to know you better and we're hoping

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you're going to be getting more voters on the

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hit or miss show and more stations will take

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you on that's what we're hoping for is we like

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and eventually And eventually any of my songs

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to be charted in the official charts. Yes, absolutely.

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That would be awesome. That would be phenomenal.

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Absolutely. Tell us, tell us where, how it started.

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Let's go to when you were a child, when you were

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growing up, what sort of music were you into?

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Well, what influences do you have from a childhood

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and maybe what did your parents have in their

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record or CD collection? First of all, I grew

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up in the 90s, so I'm mostly a 90s person. I

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grew up listening to all the local and international

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girl bands, boy bands, all the pop stars that

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were really well known and famous worldwide.

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I'm sure that if I mention some names, you all

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know them. The music that I mostly... listen

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to while I was growing up it has nothing to do

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with any of the type of music that my parents

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or my sister were used to be listening at all

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I mean I was into pop music mostly and they were

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like listening to other style basically it's

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like more local Greek like music style so I was

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way different since I was very small and I grew

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up listening to the same type of music but you

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know while I was growing up sometimes I started

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like listening to other types because I was like

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also trying to dig deeper in myself because I

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knew that I was trying and I was willing to become

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an artist so deep in my heart I was like okay

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I'm not gonna be listening only to pop music.

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I was listening to different type of music, world

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style, epic, cinematic, pop rock, everything

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apart from heavy metal or something. I also enjoyed

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listening to classic music because I know that

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it's not that easy to follow that path. You need

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a lot of knowledge apart from talent. So I definitely

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appreciate that style too. So I grew up listening

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to different styles, but mainly, mostly in pop.

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You know, and sometimes, you know, when we're

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talking about pop, most people believe that it's

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only commercial pop, but... In pop style, there

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are lots of categories included, like endless,

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endless categories. So while I was growing up

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and while I was into the industry, I realized

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that this is true, that pop is not only the music

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that you see that they turn platinum or... very

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successful worldwide. There are lots of subcategories

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in it. Yes, we'll talk about some of the songs

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that we've been playing, you can tell us about

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them in a minute, but I wondered what sort of...

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I believe the Eurovision Song Contest is quite

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popular in Greece. I believe Greek people like

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it in a big, big way. Did you watch it as a child?

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Did it make you aware of an international stage

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being out there? Maybe, oh, I'd like to play

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for all those countries. Maybe not necessarily

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in the Eurovision, but you're aware of all the

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different pop... pop stages there are around

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the place and the different audiences there are.

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I mean, was it something you watched and you

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were into Eurovision? So basically, I remember

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myself knowing about Eurovision since I was very

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small. But when I was 16 and when I was getting

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older, I started watching every single year the

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Eurovision Song Contest and the most important

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thing is that I didn't start watching the Eurovision

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Song Contest because it was very very fancy as

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a soul but in every single year I see that there

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are wonderful songs included every year every

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year there are songs that are not good but they're

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also gems gems in every single year so I started

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watching as a fan since I was 16 years old and

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I'm watching every single year since then and

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I need to admit that you know sometimes there

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are people out there that they're asking me why

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are you not participating in that type of contest

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at least in your national contest or something

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and I need to admit that because I participated

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in Russian song contest. It was something like

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that and I was representing Greece. It was very,

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very, it made me really anxious because you're

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not participating as yourself. You're participating

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as an artist that comes from a specific country.

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So I felt the... the weight that I carried in

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my back. It was basic, but you know, I was 20,

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I was 25 years old. Now I'm older, I'm wiser.

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I would definitely give it a try. And the most

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important thing is that I will not give it a

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try because I would like to win. I would give

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it a try because probably that because a lot

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of viewers worldwide that would give me like

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a step to make my music. Before we move on to

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the Eurovision, I think this is something that

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we certainly learnt from Delta the other day.

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is on the same show and he's basically saying

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well Greece what they do the Greek people it

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isn't like they're not just sending a song to

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a contest the whole country is the whole of Greece

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is behind this artist because they're representing

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Greece like supporting the Greek football team

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in a football match yes uh it is that important

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to greek people which is wonderful when the uk

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more than half the people don't even watch it

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my songs are terrible generally but uh yes i

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i remember uh i remember it was 2014 and i was

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i was in london and i had some great friends

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from the uk and they were like i was like i'm

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gonna watch the revision song contest are you

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gonna watch them with me and they were like Of

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course, we don't care about Eurovision. Most

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people laugh at Eurovision in the UK. But they

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were having fun watching that with me. In Greece,

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sometimes, most of the times, they take it very

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personally. Like this year or last year. But

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it depends on the participant. it depends on

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that but the exposure is really big i need to

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admit that he can be famous in a day at least

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in greece yes yeah sure and because you mentioned

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delta from this year's nationals his song was

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my favorite i need to admit that it was my favorite

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it sounds good very exciting very exciting And

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the story was good. He didn't know how to play

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the synthesizer, so he made that noise. This

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is it. That's the note. That's what I want. And

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it sounds so good. I need to admit something,

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you know, because right now I'm not only a fan

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of Eurovision, but I'm also watching Eurovision

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as an artist. So it's a combination of them two.

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When I heard Delta's song, I was like, OK, I'm

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sure that the Greeks will not choose it. I knew

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it. But artistically, it was my favourite. It

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was the best by far. I need to admit that. But

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I knew they would not decide Delta's song to

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be sent to the UK. To me, on an international

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stage, actually getting selected and going through

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to the semi -finals, to me, that's the one that

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would have done very well with the international

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vote. I think it would have done well. I want

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you to... I want you, when you do have the time,

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to search online for my song which is called

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Viral. It's a duet with Stacey Jackson, a series

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from the UK. Singh has collaborated with Snoop

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Dogg. He's very well known and he's a great friend

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of mine. And we have done a wonderful dance song

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in 2022. It's called Viral. And most of the times

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they were like, why you did not send this to

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the Eurovision? Please go online when you have

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the time and listen to the song. And I'm sure

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you will agree. I think that sometime in the

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future, probably this year because I'm discussing

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this with my producer, we will be sending this

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song to the Greek national. Fantastic. That's

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really good news and every success. Nick and

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remove CO2 from the atmosphere. And you make

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sure you come by I know you're talking about

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Greece But you make sure even just by getting

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into putting the song in you let us know We know

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all the stages from the from the deadline whether

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it be September or and you make sure not telling

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why I'm saying that it might sound daft But you

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do get selected because your songs are certainly

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good enough And just say you did I mean what

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we're working at is those 12 points have to come

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from the UK to somebody Let me get to know you

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see what I mean Normally the 10 and the 12 go

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to Israel or someone like normally but Israel

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will always get the 10 or the 12 but maybe I

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think Greece could get the other top one, you

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know what I mean? You know voting that that's

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the UK political vote. You might have seen it

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always goes that way But but not getting involved

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with the politics is what makes the contest fun

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It's a bit like, you know, you get selected,

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you know, there'd be some pretty good vote coming

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from Cyprus Yeah, and that's what I'm talking

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about, you know I don't care about politics.

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I mean, I don't care about politics when it comes

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to music. All right, all right, that's different

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so when it comes to music and Eurovision Song

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Contest it makes me mad when I see people that

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they vote based on politics it makes me mad but

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it is how it is all right so because it is how

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it is the only thing I do care if I got selected

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to represent my country or another country or

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whatever is to get my music out there I'm totally

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honest with you yeah that's good that's good

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Now, let's have a look at some of your songs.

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How old were you when you brought out your first

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single? What was your first single? My first

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single, of course, was in Greek language. I was

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25 years old. It was called You Gotta Understand

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in Indian translation. My first English song...

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was released in 2020. I need to admit that when

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I was in London, there were lots of friends,

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they were trying to convince me to start releasing

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music in English, but I was like really afraid.

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You know, I wasn't that mature yet. So I decided

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to release my first English song in 2020 and

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it went really well since that date. I've released

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like a dozen of English songs. I've released

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an international full English song album which

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is also charted in the US charts. Wonderful.

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I've won like 70 international awards and all

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of them, you know... uh as an independent artist

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and it's really important right yeah i i do not

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have the back of a big record label or something

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but i'm here because i love what i'm doing and

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i'm gonna be doing it since i will be like in

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Cher's age yes yes yes hopefully not melting

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in the sun because of her you know i will be

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doing my i will be doing my border because i

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think i'm gonna be looking good yeah so it's

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still good at the moment you don't need to worry

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at the moment you're still doing good at the

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moment all right okay you know i'm 40 when i'm

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gonna be eight i'm 41 no you don't look 41 you

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look you look younger i'm sure he hears it all

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the time but no he doesn't that's right sorry

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i do not i do not wear wearing makeup all right

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What makes you look young is your smile in your

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eyes. Everything makes you look young. Sue tries

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to give a compliment but it always backfires.

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So I started releasing my first song when I was

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16. I wrote my first song when I was 16. I released

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it when I was 20. Okay. Now in the UK there are

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a lot of Greek people and especially the big

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big big community I guess would be Greek Cypriot

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really but do you find the there's a ready -made

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Greek fan base in the UK or is it something you're

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hoping to grow on through shows like us and the

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Greek and the Greek Cypriot audience get to hear

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it that way? I have some great friends from London

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Greek Radio. I don't know if you've heard of

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that radio, which is really big. And they supported

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my first songs. So when I was in London, I hesitated

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releasing songs in English, but I promoted my

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Greek songs through London Greek Radio. How fun

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it is. So this happened. I need to admit that

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if I had the opportunities in the UK, I would

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not hesitate right now to come back and do something

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like shows or promotional tours or something

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in the UK. Because I lived there for four years

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and I felt like it was my second hometown, apart

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from Athens. I grew up as an artist, I grew up

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as a person. It was a great experience in my

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life. It made me a better person in general.

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I had, I have great things to remember from London

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and the UK in general. So if something happens

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and I come back, I would target in general, uh,

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people, not only Greeks, I would target, but

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to be heard in different type of, you know, people,

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not only Greeks. I don't, I don't, I don't care

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about people's nationalities. I care about people

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who would be who would like um feel good listening

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to my to my voice to my music and that's all

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that matters i don't care about where you're

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coming from or who you are or your age or whatever

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i i was more thinking because there was a lot

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of greek people living as you know because like

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the greek radio i was just thinking well you

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know i was also i was also singing in a greek

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uh music hall it was called floga which is Flame

00:22:16.619 --> 00:22:20.839
in English translation. And it was North London.

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I don't remember the place right now, but I was

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singing in weekends. It was fun. But also I need

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to admit something. There were almost Greek Cypriots

00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.000
coming there. It was really fun. But I don't

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know why, but after releasing my first English

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song, something inside of me Has waken up and

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invited me to another new world a whole new world

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like, you know I want people who understand the

00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:52.799
English language to follow me You know, you you

00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:55.900
can have like more listeners worldwide because

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you know Greek language can be understood From

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10 million people and English language can be

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understood from billions So I love what I do.

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I love music. And I'm trying to pass a message

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or love what I do through that. And my target

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is to target your heart, your ears, your feelings.

00:23:20.390 --> 00:23:24.450
So I want this gives me the motivation to find

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ways to be heard from more listeners worldwide.

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And singing in English helps me doing that. I

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mean, could perhaps. a song that you really,

00:23:34.730 --> 00:23:38.970
really like. I mean, could it be released but

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there's a Greek edit, the Greek version, there's

00:23:41.009 --> 00:23:42.789
an English version and they could all be brought

00:23:42.789 --> 00:23:46.410
out and they all collectively go to the same

00:23:46.410 --> 00:23:51.009
number of downloads to make the chart? I do agree

00:23:51.009 --> 00:23:53.450
with you. I do agree with you but you have to

00:23:53.450 --> 00:23:55.450
remember I'm an independent artist and everything

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I do, all promotions that I do, I paid it on

00:23:58.630 --> 00:24:02.559
my own. Unfortunately, I'm not rich. I'm doing

00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:05.640
a daytime job and I pay everything on my own.

00:24:06.380 --> 00:24:11.259
So if I have to release a song with like different

00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:14.480
versions, I need to pay extra for that so I cannot

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afford it. I'm totally honest with you. No, I

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understand that Let's look at so you mentioned

00:24:21.109 --> 00:24:24.049
also some some live some touring some concert

00:24:24.049 --> 00:24:27.089
sort of things So what sort of size concert venue?

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What do you aim for maybe in Athens and then

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perhaps one of you? What size venue is it in

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and when you've been in the UK? I don't care

00:24:35.410 --> 00:24:38.369
about the size of the venue because I have sung

00:24:38.369 --> 00:24:42.089
in Russia in front of 20 ,000 people when I was

00:24:42.089 --> 00:24:45.849
doing that song contest that I told you and I

00:24:45.849 --> 00:24:49.470
have sung in big open -air venues in Athens,

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I have sung in Atlanta, Charlotte, I mean I have

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sung in different types of venues. I don't care

00:25:00.009 --> 00:25:03.130
about that, I care only about good acoustics.

00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:07.799
trust me this is very important even if you sing

00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:12.099
for five people or if you sing for 20 ,000 the

00:25:12.099 --> 00:25:15.480
acoustics are really important if I don't hear

00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:20.640
myself well or the engineer are not good or professional

00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:25.700
I would go away definitely because I have been

00:25:25.700 --> 00:25:29.660
into very weird situations in the past and you

00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:34.099
can feel embarrassed or disappointed disappointed

00:25:34.099 --> 00:25:36.779
and it's really sad especially when it's not

00:25:36.779 --> 00:25:40.180
your fault so right now for me the most important

00:25:40.180 --> 00:25:42.279
thing is to have good acoustics i don't care

00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.079
about the size of the venue but i do care about

00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:47.839
that that's good that's good that's brilliant

00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:50.339
uh looking at some of the songs that we've been

00:25:50.339 --> 00:25:53.400
sent of yours i think as you mentioned the duet

00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:58.059
with stacey jackson i can also Yes, it would

00:25:58.059 --> 00:26:00.180
be filtered in at the time you mentioned it.

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You know how this works. That's why I do the

00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:11.859
editing there. We have some duets here. I see

00:26:11.859 --> 00:26:14.859
there's another one, All That Matters with Dawn

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one called Deceive Me with Natalie Jean. Other

00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:19.900
songs I can see, now one that I know that we

00:29:19.900 --> 00:29:23.099
played quite a bit was, I remember this now,

00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:25.859
Spell on the Dance Floor. That was quite a nice,

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lively, lively, so that was a real good, like

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a dance, a real good dance, and I remember playing

00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:33.279
it a lot at one point, yeah, maybe two years

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.420
ago or something, would it have been two, yeah,

00:29:34.460 --> 00:29:36.920
would have been, nearly, yeah. Yes, Spell on

00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.460
the Dance Floor and Not the Saint were... great

00:29:40.460 --> 00:29:43.859
songs from my first international album. And

00:29:43.859 --> 00:29:46.279
Deceive Me with Natalie Jin went really well,

00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:50.839
too. And it received great recognition and lots

00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:54.420
of awards worldwide. Basically, it's three of

00:29:54.420 --> 00:29:57.279
the best songs out of the album. They're great.

00:29:57.859 --> 00:30:00.740
Right now, I'm releasing a global album later

00:30:00.740 --> 00:30:04.799
this year. And it's very, very, very different.

00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:08.819
I mean... I'm mostly pop artist, but we should

00:30:08.819 --> 00:30:11.880
remember that I started my career recording and

00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.079
singing in Greek. So this automatically makes

00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.480
me a world music artist because I sing in more

00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:23.220
than one language. And because I also have great

00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:26.559
respect and love for my mother, I wanted to release

00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:32.460
an album dedicated to her. So I collaborated

00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:38.269
with some wonderful Grammy -nominated artists

00:30:38.269 --> 00:30:42.670
within Mana, which is the first single of the

00:30:42.670 --> 00:30:47.130
album. Mana means mother in Greek. So the first

00:30:47.130 --> 00:30:50.490
single was that, and I dedicated it to her. She

00:30:50.490 --> 00:30:54.849
burst into tears when she listened to it. And

00:30:54.849 --> 00:30:58.369
based to that, I created a whole album. And the

00:30:58.369 --> 00:31:01.160
whole album means... It talks about the love

00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:04.660
to the mother, to our creators, to human nature,

00:31:04.940 --> 00:31:09.380
to Mother Earth. You know, basically, it's an

00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:13.160
honor to motherhood in general, to our creators.

00:31:13.299 --> 00:31:15.940
And it's very, very, very important. Every single

00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:20.579
song is very different. And it speaks straight

00:31:20.579 --> 00:31:23.940
to my heart and hopefully to the listener's heart.

00:31:24.509 --> 00:31:27.470
And the second single is Angel Voices. It released

00:31:27.470 --> 00:31:31.369
yesterday. And also a song that we played very

00:31:31.369 --> 00:31:34.869
recently is Bright Eyes, which we had on Hit

00:31:34.869 --> 00:31:37.509
or Miss just last week. And we both really enjoyed

00:31:37.509 --> 00:31:40.289
it. We don't often play songs that are five minutes

00:31:40.289 --> 00:31:42.849
and leave them playing in their entirety. Normally

00:31:42.849 --> 00:31:47.109
they get cut off in about maybe three and a half

00:31:47.109 --> 00:31:48.769
to four minutes because of the sweeping of the

00:31:48.769 --> 00:31:50.789
show, but we kept it playing for the whole length.

00:31:51.109 --> 00:31:55.099
We were really liking Bright Eyes. it so thank

00:31:55.099 --> 00:31:58.180
you so much you know basically it was my first

00:31:58.180 --> 00:32:02.539
attempt to release a pure country song and it

00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:05.059
was Ethan Johnson which is like a really well

00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:09.200
-known producer and he approached me and he said

00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:13.059
I have a song I want you to sing it so when I

00:32:13.059 --> 00:32:15.680
get when I got it I was like I really love it

00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:18.339
I'm gonna release it definitely and I told him

00:32:18.339 --> 00:32:21.960
about that time length and he told me You can

00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:25.859
do a radio edit, but it's your thing. So when

00:32:25.859 --> 00:32:28.680
I received it, I received it, I recorded it fully,

00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:34.279
but I also have a radio edit MP3 if you want

00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:38.299
to play it like in a shorter version. Because

00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:43.380
I definitely understand how radios work. But

00:32:43.380 --> 00:32:46.740
I'm really grateful to have sung the song. It's

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:50.880
very beautiful. it is a very very nice song very

00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:54.140
nice song and then you'll understand the fact

00:32:54.140 --> 00:32:56.160
that we were left playing the whole five minutes

00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:59.500
whatever it is it says something about the song

00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:08.279
obviously yeah so there we go uh now um got uh

00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:10.380
other songs that we've been obsession is another

00:33:10.380 --> 00:33:13.920
one i believe that we've uh been playing as well

00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:18.140
tell us a bit about that one Absolutely. So,

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apart from a world music artist, I'm also a multi

00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:24.700
-genre artist, obviously, okay? I love experimenting.

00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:29.140
So, I was like, I was discussing with my Greek

00:33:29.140 --> 00:33:32.640
producer and I was like, okay, I'm into releasing

00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:35.000
that global album later this year, but in the

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:40.799
meantime, I need to not forget my hardcore pop.

00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:44.140
fans that they love pop music coming out from

00:33:44.140 --> 00:33:47.619
me so what should we do i told him and he said

00:33:47.619 --> 00:33:50.140
give me a minute i'm going to find you something

00:33:50.140 --> 00:33:55.740
really good so it will be so good that you will

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:59.339
not have to release another single for the next

00:33:59.339 --> 00:34:04.690
six or seven months and he wrote that epic cinematic

00:34:04.690 --> 00:34:11.630
dark mode underground pop song so when I heard

00:34:11.630 --> 00:34:15.829
it I was like what the hell this is gorgeous

00:34:15.829 --> 00:34:21.130
I was in love and you know even if it's pop it's

00:34:21.130 --> 00:34:24.469
something different again for me it's more underground

00:34:24.469 --> 00:34:29.070
you know it's more it's more sexy in a way but

00:34:29.070 --> 00:34:32.429
in the dark I love it. I love it. So when I went

00:34:32.429 --> 00:34:35.050
into the studio, I was like, OK, I'm going to

00:34:35.050 --> 00:34:38.170
kill it. And I did because I enjoyed it very

00:34:38.170 --> 00:34:43.250
much. And I love obsession. And because the producer

00:34:43.250 --> 00:34:46.650
enjoyed it too. He told me, OK, I'm in the process

00:34:46.650 --> 00:34:50.329
of writing you a whole album based on that type

00:34:50.329 --> 00:34:54.769
of music, that style. So you'll have to be ready.

00:34:55.849 --> 00:35:01.400
I like it. What's the title of the album? These

00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:05.900
are coming from? We have not decided yet about

00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:10.780
the pop album. The only sure thing is that we're

00:35:10.780 --> 00:35:15.320
in the process of, you know, gathering 10 songs

00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:23.440
for the track list. I think next week I'm recording

00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:26.980
another one, which is incredible. You can only

00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:30.610
imagine. I can share with you the title. If you

00:35:30.610 --> 00:35:35.610
want to, I mean, it can be an exclusive for Chatterbox.

00:35:35.769 --> 00:35:38.789
Thank you. Which is something, again, very different.

00:35:38.949 --> 00:35:44.690
It's something like a very Europe pop, oriental,

00:35:45.050 --> 00:35:49.590
very Eurovision song. I think it's going to be

00:35:49.590 --> 00:35:54.150
a smash hit. Oh, please, yes. And it's called

00:35:54.150 --> 00:35:58.909
Flawlessness. Flawless mess. Flawless mess, okay.

00:35:59.050 --> 00:36:00.929
I had to hear you say it twice because I was

00:36:00.929 --> 00:36:03.590
quite sure. That's interesting. That's a talking

00:36:03.590 --> 00:36:06.190
point in its own right. Flawless mess, yeah.

00:36:07.349 --> 00:36:09.769
Yeah. Yeah, it's good. I'm sure you're going

00:36:09.769 --> 00:36:13.190
to be dancing. I'm sure about it. Well, I am,

00:36:13.710 --> 00:36:15.510
although half the UK, like your friends in the

00:36:15.510 --> 00:36:18.349
UK at the time you were here, couldn't understand

00:36:18.349 --> 00:36:20.730
why you're so Eurovision. I do love the Eurovision.

00:36:20.809 --> 00:36:23.670
I love the party. I love the staging. I love

00:36:23.670 --> 00:36:25.909
all this. But again, of course, I love music.

00:36:26.349 --> 00:36:28.690
So I love the international stage. We're here

00:36:28.690 --> 00:36:35.349
talking to you, you know. So, yeah. So I probably

00:36:35.349 --> 00:36:37.130
won't really love it. I will probably play it

00:36:37.130 --> 00:36:40.570
to death, actually, by the sounds of it. What

00:36:40.570 --> 00:36:43.809
was your opinion about the UK's entrance for

00:36:43.809 --> 00:36:48.789
this year's Eurovision? Well, first of all, I'm

00:36:48.789 --> 00:36:52.510
not going to get words out of you. The UK doesn't

00:36:52.510 --> 00:36:55.789
open it to artists. It's a closed shop. Nobody

00:36:55.789 --> 00:36:58.889
can enter. It's what these guys at the BBC think's

00:36:58.889 --> 00:37:02.150
good. I've often wondered if they deliberately

00:37:02.150 --> 00:37:05.030
enter bad entries so they don't have to pay the

00:37:05.030 --> 00:37:08.349
money to stage it the next year. What's Eurovision

00:37:08.349 --> 00:37:11.269
about it, European about it, is nothing apart

00:37:11.269 --> 00:37:14.050
from the fact he insulted German people going,

00:37:14.090 --> 00:37:16.849
oh yeah, he's childish. He couldn't even pronounce

00:37:16.849 --> 00:37:19.710
the words properly. On the night he sang in German,

00:37:19.730 --> 00:37:22.340
why would... you throw the nothing against the

00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:24.699
German language or the German people but why

00:37:24.699 --> 00:37:27.159
would you do that when you're ready to my opinion

00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:29.159
insulting the one country you're trying to sing

00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:33.559
in he was lucky to get one point sorry but I

00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:36.519
believe it and so you can insert I mean Sam Ryder

00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:38.719
they must have made a mistake for Sam Ryder and

00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:41.900
spaceman because it was good it deserved to be

00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:45.119
second or first but the only one in a great many

00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:49.869
years we send rubbish and We talked to many artists.

00:37:49.929 --> 00:37:52.590
They would love to enter for the UK. They can't

00:37:52.590 --> 00:37:59.289
enter. It's such a shame. Yeah, I agree. Nothing

00:37:59.289 --> 00:38:01.269
Eurovision, nothing European about it at all.

00:38:01.650 --> 00:38:06.070
No, nothing. One of my favorite UK entries was

00:38:06.070 --> 00:38:08.530
Children of the Universe. Do you remember that

00:38:08.530 --> 00:38:14.469
entrance? Yes. I think it was in 2014. I loved

00:38:14.469 --> 00:38:17.809
it. I don't know why. It was one of my favorites.

00:38:18.579 --> 00:38:22.059
The UK do like a party and the reason your people

00:38:22.059 --> 00:38:23.980
you knew in London have that attitude is because

00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:26.699
of what we send. There's nothing to be proud

00:38:26.699 --> 00:38:31.199
of in those entries, most of them. We don't think

00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:32.860
it's going to win. We don't think it's going

00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:36.739
to win. I think you should talk to BBC. I don't

00:38:36.739 --> 00:38:40.000
know who's... Yeah, they've only got until 2028,

00:38:40.059 --> 00:38:43.159
thank goodness. ITV also are EBU members, and

00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:45.519
we hope after 2028 contests that we get handed

00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.179
to ITV, because ITV need the advertising. You

00:38:49.179 --> 00:38:52.500
know there'll be songs for the UK. Because they

00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:55.440
want the advertising revenue. They'll be doing

00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:58.780
voting from home for qualifiers. Yeah, like Greece.

00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:01.320
I think it will go like that. So let's hope ITV

00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:04.309
gets it. It's important. Yes, of course. They

00:39:04.309 --> 00:39:08.170
should do a national. Absolutely, absolutely.

00:39:08.530 --> 00:39:10.889
And I'm sure it's going to be really big, because

00:39:10.889 --> 00:39:14.010
the UK is big and the industry in general. The

00:39:14.010 --> 00:39:16.150
UK is big, so there will be like, there will

00:39:16.150 --> 00:39:19.010
be dozens, hundreds of entries. I'm sure about

00:39:19.010 --> 00:39:22.969
it. Most artists across the world, their aim,

00:39:23.289 --> 00:39:24.570
whether it be, you know, whether it be, think

00:39:24.570 --> 00:39:26.730
about Continental people, DJ Sammy's come on,

00:39:27.010 --> 00:39:29.630
his aim was to have a British number one. That's

00:39:29.630 --> 00:39:33.190
his aim. you know that's what a foreign singers

00:39:33.190 --> 00:39:36.550
international singers aim is is to have a UK

00:39:36.550 --> 00:39:39.949
number one in a proper chart you know so yeah

00:39:39.949 --> 00:39:42.409
we do take our music seriously it's just i don't

00:39:42.409 --> 00:39:46.309
know what's bbc aren't very popular here anyway

00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:50.239
but moving on let's do your social media before

00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:52.980
we let you go websites youtube channels whatever

00:39:52.980 --> 00:39:56.920
you've got everybody can find me on all digital

00:39:56.920 --> 00:40:01.860
platforms i have spotify as dimitris nezes instagram

00:40:01.860 --> 00:40:07.139
x youtube tiktok they can find all links in my

00:40:07.139 --> 00:40:11.360
official website which is like www .dimitrisnesis

00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:14.300
.com they can find everything over there it's

00:40:14.300 --> 00:40:17.579
updated I have a wonderful new website I'm really

00:40:17.579 --> 00:40:21.099
proud of and they can find all my updated news

00:40:21.099 --> 00:40:26.039
my whole discography everything about and all

00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:30.119
news about the upcoming tour because I'm trying

00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:35.119
to do a mini tour worldwide so if you subscribe

00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:37.420
on my website you will be the first to know all

00:40:37.420 --> 00:40:40.449
the news brilliant uh less than a minute but

00:40:40.449 --> 00:40:47.050
Dimitris D -I -M -I -T -R -I -S and we got N

00:40:47.050 --> 00:40:51.429
-E -Z -I -S so that is how you need to be spelling

00:40:51.429 --> 00:40:53.050
it but i'm sure it will come up anyway on the

00:40:53.050 --> 00:40:55.949
google i've had no trouble ever finding it so

00:40:55.949 --> 00:40:58.949
Dimitris it's been great meeting you thanks for

00:40:58.949 --> 00:41:00.929
coming on Chatterbox we've got to do it again

00:41:00.929 --> 00:41:03.110
sometime because there's a lot going on yeah

00:41:04.179 --> 00:41:07.179
Thank you so much for having me. It was a pleasure.

00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.440
Thank you. And I hope the whole thing with the

00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:13.739
Heatwave and DEK will stop very soon. I want

00:41:13.739 --> 00:41:17.579
you to feel, to have a wonderful summer and thank

00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:20.659
you for also having me in your show and playing

00:41:20.659 --> 00:41:23.659
my music in chat box. It's an honor for me and

00:41:23.659 --> 00:41:26.039
it's really important to me. Thank you so much.

00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:45.539
Take care, Dimitri. You've been listening to

00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:47.840
the Chatterbox Redux podcast with Sue and Nick

00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:51.039
and today our special guest was Dimitris Nezis.

00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.019
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00:42:56.489 --> 00:42:59.130
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