Ep 16 - Eliz Baya/Singer and Song writer.

In Episode 16, we meet Singer and songwriter Eliz Baya! 

Background: Moving countries, starting a life in the UK, training as an actor, plus writing and performing 5 singles, creating an album with more content on the way.. there really is no stopping Eliz Baya AKA Patricia Bajakova.

Pop - dance singer, song - writer, international : Eliz Baya is an emerging artist using her voice to tell stories while making people dance. A female solo artist influenced by her acting background who expresses herself through her lyrics and music.

Eliz Baya is of a Slovakian descent with many years based in London that influenced her multicultural thinking and shaped her voice while playing live and touring internationally. Her new journey is undoubtedly influenced by modern era pop music with influences from Scandinavian and UK pop artists.

Two exciting singles Walls so High and Don’t lie to me released in December and January are included in her Debut EP - New Life which came out in January 2021.

Exciting news! Her new single Keep it a Secret is out now!

Eliz/Patricia's Socials:

FB:   / bajakova.patricia 
IG:   / elizbaya  and   / patriciaeli1 
Twitter:   / bayaeliz  and   / pbajakova 

Singing Website: https://www.elizbaya.com/epk/ and https://www.elizbaya.com/
Acting Website: https://www.patriciabajakova.com/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Free my mind, I wanna know. You've got the key to your soul. We're growing fast, it makes you scared. I don't wanna end upset, begging you to find your weakness while playing my in a chord with matches. We both know well, but not speak of losing our will at all cost.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Alright, hello everyone. Welcome to today's podcast. I am very excited to have the wonderful. Now, this is a this is gonna blow your mind. She has two names. Uh she's known as Elise Beia in the singing world. She's just released a load of phenomenal singles, uh, and actually an album, an EP called New Life. Uh, and she's known as Elise Bea for that. And she's also known as aka uh Patricia Bajakova. And that is and that is the real name. And I think I got that right, and I am very proud of myself.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Yeah, it's all right. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Yeah, thanks for coming on today. Um, really excited to have you on. I mentioned very briefly there that that you brought out lots of um you is it four singles you've got out currently at the moment? Four. Four. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Okay, very good. And the EP is called New Life. Yeah, and I've had the privilege of listening to these songs and and the EP itself. I love your your songs, by the way.

SPEAKER_07 1:43

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Yeah, they are they are really, really cool.

SPEAKER_04 2:15

You have that power deep within. It makes me jump out of my skin. I believe, Juliet, I did. Your love is broke, it can be fixed. Begging you to find your weakness. We both know well but not speak of Losing our lovely all cards. My mind to gain more strength to find my heart. It takes too fishing me too far to find myself. I know your love is deadly. How do you make me stand right here? Speaker in the corner once again, it's silence once again.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Uh, but with your music, uh, and I had the same thing with Felicity as well. I don't know if you saw her one, she was a singer at Bass in Australia. Um something about the song, it's just you know super catchy and it's storytelling, and you know, I I I was totally uh totally into it, and you've got a really good voice. It's a really nice voice. Uh but before we get into any of that, um where where are you? You said you're bored, uh you're in quarantine. Well hopefully you'll be slightly more excited uh after this.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Um why are you where are you?

SPEAKER_02 5:20

I am in London.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

So I travelled back uh like three days ago on Saturday, yeah. Three, four days ago. Um so right now we are my boyfriend and we are in 10 days of quarantine. So that's why I said I'm a little bit bored. But to be honest, I kind of taught myself for the past year to employ myself and to like always do something and have a to-do list for each day. And I think many people are doing it just to keep occupied, so I always come up with something, but um yeah, currently I'm in London where I am based.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Um and you're from Slovakia, have I got that right?

SPEAKER_02 6:09

Yes, that's right. Not many people do. Yeah, Czechoslovakia. I'm like, no, this would be 20 years ago, thank you.

SPEAKER_07 6:17

More than 20 years ago, Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Um Slovakia. Slovakia it is, yeah, I'm from there.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

But you said but you're based in London.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

London. So I came to England yeah. I came to England eight years ago.

SPEAKER_07 6:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

I uh went to a little town Folkestone first, then Canterbury, and then London. So I've been to London for five years now. No, four, three.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

It's getting less, it's getting less five seconds. Five, four, three. Uh soon it'll be no time at all. Um good, good. And so you've been here for some time. Let's go with that. Uh and um you trained at the same did you train at the same school as Bradley? Bradley's Scott, one of our other guests.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

I did, yes, at Drama Studio London. I'm very proud of that. So two years course in professional acting. But when I came to England, I came here because I was studying at university, so Canterbury Christchurch University. Performing arts and acting and singing. So gradually degree, and then I went to London and I was wandering around thinking I'm gonna get started, it's gonna happen. Like, oh actually, I need I need good training. So everyone does anyway. I was a bit naive, so thankfully I got into drama school and spent a beautiful two years there.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

And was that an enjoyable experience? Bradley spoke very highly uh at the school.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

Yeah, definitely. I think we all can agree. Uh anyone who really went to dramatic in London, I think in general, there's not much negative things to say about that. It is really life-changing, life-changing. It is full-time from morning till evening every day. You are pretty occupied with it. Um, so it's a lot of hard work, very enjoyable. Like very enjoyable. And it kind of changes you as a person a little bit, not only as an as an artist, but no, it does weird things with you in a good way. So it was great.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

Nice, nice, nice. I like it. Uh and I actually said this to you earlier, but I'll say it again for our audience. That the you are super talented. You are super talented, and I'm very honoured to have you on today. You're a brilliant uh singer, and you know, I can see that you have uh you have um training in acting as well, you've been to drama school, um, and when you sing, you're not just singing for the sake of singing. You know, I can I can really feel that you're performing and and performing the words, and it's real and it's authentic, and um uh it's it's awesome. I I strongly recommend everyone to get out there and and uh scream download however you go about doing it, but but do it. Please do it.

SPEAKER_04 9:23

I sense you're bad, but I don't get good you on you. I hide my pain inside, covered through it, and I'll keep you will be mine. Feel me, love me, no blindly, no questions, baby. The money comes and I'll be alone, you want me and only another nine run in my bed. I'm running up in my bed, don't I don't want to three, don't I, two in the morning I'm down, I'll go eat one, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Yes, exactly. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Yeah, it's lovely to have you on. And you're based in the UK at the moment. Let's talk about acting then. Let's let's start with that. So uh so you've been to drama school. Um what inspired you to get into acting in the first place? Why why did you what was the reasoning for that?

SPEAKER_02 12:51

Yeah, um it's kind of a not a boring story, but a bit of a cliche story that as since I was tiny, since I was like six years old, I started to take acting lessons. I was um in the theatre in my town around from Clebacia. Um so I was in action, like doing acting since I was small, and they kind of set it up for me for the rest of my life. Um I never really got bored of it and always wanted to do it in English language. So I am too when I was 19 years old I came to England to I love tobacco language. Um the reason is that it's a critical for millions and millions of more people speaking in English, of course. Um but it is also kind of a challenge educating a second language, and I love challenges the second thing. Um but the acting for me just from the bottom of my heart, I think I always wanted to do it since I was more.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Um and uh it's something that obviously so you you graduated in what year?

SPEAKER_02 14:09

2018.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

2018, okay. So did you have you uh worked on uh on any interesting projects during that time? Like since graduation?

SPEAKER_02 14:19

I did I was in a theatre um in East London, it was a kicket show. Um I did a couple of small bits, but nothing major. But in terms of work that that can get pretty difficult.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

But um it's uh it's a tough, it's a tough industry for sure. Uh but and I'm sure that uh the COVID in 2020 probably uh hasn't helped with with that. Um but uh but you've you've you've done pretty amazingly uh during during that transitional period. And we're gonna we're gonna talk about 2020 and the the impact it's had on you. Um but you have so the the acting thing is something that it's an ongoing quest and it's something that you want to uh you want to continue pursuing alongside singing uh and you know um explore explore those that avenue as well, is that correct?

SPEAKER_02 15:21

Yeah, yeah. So acting has always been kind of the main thing. However, I've been singing since I was small as well. Singing, taking singing classes, etc. Um, but I never really I always thought of acting as a career that I want to pursue and singing or something on a side that I'm very appreciative that I can sing and that I can express myself through something else, not only acting. So I'm very aware of that and very thankful for that. But I never thought about it as a oh, I want to be a singer. Not really. My mum always wanted me to do it. But no, me, I was like always an actor, and then um like a couple of years ago I realized that I should just do my original music and I should start doing something with that along with acting. It doesn't mean that if I'm going to do something else that I'm not going to be.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Yeah, but but also I mean uh the singing industry is it's got a lot to do with with performing and acting anyway, like uh as as you will know, um and writing writing music and then obviously conveying those words that you've put down on paper and music videos that I'm I'm sure you're you know gonna be doing or may may have already filmed. Uh are you filming a music video currently or soon to be?

SPEAKER_02 16:39

I didn't know. Yeah, that's done.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

How did that go?

SPEAKER_02 16:44

It went well. Yeah. I think it went really well. Um I kind of created it myself, made it up myself, made up some different challenges for myself, but I've got it right, hopefully.

SPEAKER_07 16:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

Um, and it's going to be for my new single that uh going to be out the end of April. So it's going to be like a first ever music video for Elise Bear. So that it's very exciting and frightening at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure a little bit, yeah. I'm sure it will be a little bit, but uh I I have uh a lot of belief that it's gonna be it's gonna be really great. So I'm looking forward to that. And uh the the name of the song, do we know the name of the song? Can you give that to us?

SPEAKER_02 17:33

Yeah, keep it a secret.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

Keep it a secret. Okay. I thought you were telling me to keep it a secret for a second now. I was like, that's not gonna work, that's not gonna work. It's all like it is it keep it a secret, I love it.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

I don't rush to see my future with you. I'm not scared when you're mad at me. I won't tell a soul how you're addicted to me. You can carry on pretending you're too. No, I won't tell your maids if all those days you cry. No, I won't tell them how you beg me day and I caused things make me want you more. I know you, I know you like no one else. I trust you, I trust you more than my steps. Don't change that, don't change the way you be. I'll keep it a speaker, I'll give it a speaker.

SPEAKER_06 18:56

I know you, I know you'll trust, I trust you. Don't change that, don't change the way you be. I'll keep it a secret, I'll keep it a secret.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

When you walk out through the doors, I don't run. I tell you, cause you will always come back. I think who'll blaming me for all you die. I adore that you're pretending you're done. No, I don't make it easy, not for you and I. But I know you won't leave me till the day I die. Because all those things make me want you more. Showing yourself, they go going crazy. Don't be fooling me, you better play safely. Beat a man, I know, beat a man who begs me sweetly. I know you, I know you like no one else. I trust you, I trust you more than my steps. Don't change now, don't change the way you behave. I'll keep it a secret, I'll keep it a secret.

SPEAKER_06 20:13

I know you, I know you like no one else. I trust you, I trust you more than my step else. Don't change now, don't change the way you behave. I'll keep it a secret, I'll keep it a secret.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

Good, good, good, good. Alright, so so that's um and that'll be your fifth song. Uh wow, you're flying, aren't you? I mean, this the first one came out in was it December time, something like that?

SPEAKER_02 20:40

11th of December, yeah, the first one. Then the second one was the 15th of January, and then EP was the 23rd of February. I only started to do to come up with my original songs and to write songs and to produce them with the producer that I met in Slovakia during summer. So I only started to do that in summer. So that's why um everything is kind of going like I put out a single one month late, another single, and then I try I wanted to try to do it consistently.

SPEAKER_07 21:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

So hopefully we are on the right track. Uh it's not under me. So I've got a friend, a producer, a musician, a very talented guy who is from Slovakia, and uh both creating Elisabeth.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

I know and he's still based in Slovakia. Okay, cool. Cool.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Nowadays I can you know I can record something here, send it there, whole world.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Yeah. How does that how does that work? Can you can you talk to us about that for anyone else that might be trying to do something similar, like working with people in different countries and producing, making music and things like that? Yeah, it'd be interesting.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

I think I think now It it could be maybe probably weird like a year and a half ago, or it look it would look like a big hustle. But now, as I said, everyone is operating on work and from home.

SPEAKER_07 22:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

So I do have my like little interface and a microphone and little booth that I made for myself at home. And um, you can record it on different, you know, software. You have to kind of make yourself aware with what is going on in that software. But if you're not producing, if you only have to record, you can do that.

SPEAKER_07 22:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Um, it's like a beginner level. So I record it at home. I take a couple of takes, so he can choose from a couple of takes. Yeah. And um then I send it over, and then he just does he just as a production of it. So um skipping it back and forth, which can be a bit irritating, I think. You know, going back and forth. Yeah, it's different when you're in the same room, and he tells you, or whoever tells you that no, sing it differently, but now you have to wait until he gets to the person and he comes back.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Ah, I see, I see.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Or both of us can be, I don't know, on a phone or on a call.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Yeah, I was thinking, yeah, you could be you he could sort of be in the room, but but not like we're planning to try that out, but so far he was going back and forth. No, I did um I did something for not singing, but it was uh a voiceover job, and the um the director was was not in the studio, but he was he was listening in through a particular uh piece of software. I can't remember which one it was now, actually, but um and uh so he could hear what I was doing, and then immediately uh he could give me direction, like there and then. So I wonder if yeah, that that might be something you that you could do, it might might make it easier.

SPEAKER_02 23:43

So far, I was kind of not well fortunate. I got I went home home, Slovakia for two weeks, and I got stuck there during summer for two and a half months, and the same kind of happened during Christmas. So I was there for a long time, so I used it to record as many songs as possible so we got them and we can release them. So we only did it like twice to do that from home recording, but yeah, definitely we can be on a phone or on a call while recording it, yeah, rather than going back and forth.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

Nice, I love it. Um, all right, so can you talk to us about ah, this is one something I'm very always interested in. Your your process for actually writing songs. Like, how does that happen? Because I've tried writing bits of theatre, but I find it's not a painful process, but I don't find it doesn't come naturally to me. And I'm amazed by people that can just pluck these words out of the sky and get them down onto paper and make it look so so amazingly effortless. I mean, is that the case or is it is it quite difficult? Or and and what are your techniques behind that?

SPEAKER_02 24:56

Um, it is not an effortless process for me. We can tell you that. I started to write, I wanted to write like um scripts for theatre or film, etc., something for myself as well, so I don't have to wait for an audition, etc. But I found find that way more difficult than writing songs. And uh always had uh a couple of advice that um I should just get on with it and don't think about it. So whenever someone I went through like an emotional situation or whatever, it would probably be a negative situation. I would the monologue that I would start to I look like a crazy person now, but like the monologue that I would start to talk to myself in head, I would immediately take phone notes and just write it down as a song, as a lyrics, just to make it rhyme a little bit. And I started to do that, and then um I wrote a couple of songs like this when I had different situations, and uh I vocalized those lyrics later on, which is a bit it can be a bit difficult. I think it should be it it can be way easier if I would have the chords first and then started to sing and vocalize the lyrics, but um played a piano but not good, okay. So I don't trust myself with it. So whenever any melody would come out when I would be talking these words, um, and a melody would come with the lyrics, I would just record myself again on a phone. On uh yeah, um so the technique behind it would probably be just writing anything that is bothering you in that moment and make it rhyme a little bit, but at the same time, um there were a couple of songs that I had like uh not a one-day deadline, but I got like a bikram music and I went to a different room and I started to listen to that music, and I had like not I didn't have a deadline of three hours, but it took me about an hour to just constantly listen to it and write down the lyrics and whatever I felt the vibe of that song, whatever I was imagining. Um I wrote it down and I managed to write it like within an hour or two hours. But some other songs, but some of the songs took me sometimes. I was writing songs in a car. I got loaded.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

Not whilst driving a car, right? No, no, no, no. No, okay, good. Just clean that one up.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Yeah, I parked in front of the house. It was in Slovakia during the summer. I parked in front of the house. It was quiet, peaceful and quiet everywhere. You know, it's just dark. And I was like, okay, now I feel it's dark. I can work, I'd I I'd rather work at night, write songs at night than during a day.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Why is that? Do you have a reason for that?

SPEAKER_02 27:47

No, I don't know. It's I I I like to write when it's really peaceful and quiet.

SPEAKER_03 27:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

I can really hear my thoughts and just I don't know, just way easier.

SPEAKER_03 27:59

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_02 28:00

No distractions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is not really good all the time because um, you know, if if you really need to write something or do something, you should be right, you should you should be able to do it with distractions. You you don't always have the luxury of it.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

Yeah, but I mean it makes sense that you need to concentrate and you need to focus on what you're doing. And I know full well, like in my house, I've got two young kids, and it's you know chaos when they're here. And I I simply cannot get anything done when they are in the house. So I I will uh if they're here, I'm like, right, I'm I'm heading out to the coffee shop for a bit. Uh I'll be back in a while. Obviously, there's someone else, there's someone else looking after them. I don't just leave them by themselves. I get social services on the phone to me now. I said that. Um, yeah, but if my wife is here, then I will then say, I'm gonna pop out for a little bit, I've got some work to do. Yeah, um, I just simply can't, I can't do it. It's yeah, but so it totally makes sense that you need that that focus time for sure.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

Yeah, I'm enjoying it now. I wasn't enjoying it at first, but um but it's the same as with everything, just practice, practice, practice.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. So so you don't because that's very interesting. So do you play do you play the guitar?

SPEAKER_02 29:16

No, but I want to start learning.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

Yeah, I mean, because I oh uh naturally, like piano and guitar, from what I've seen, you know, from from a lot of singer-songwriters, is they they they sort of they go quite hand in hand. So it's very interesting that you can actually write and and make this music just by vocalizing and finding finding rhythm through that. That's that is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Or maybe if you hear a song and you really like that melody, and you start to just vocalize it with oohs and ahs, and you change it just a little bit, and it gives a different essence.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Another thing you've got.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

I mean, I've seen because I've watched I've seen a few documentaries with uh other singer-songwriters that you know when they go behind the scenes and you get to see how they're processed and um a lot they do do the vocalizing thing. That is that is interesting, but then they have other people around them that are doing like using musical instruments or they've got beats coming in through a through a studio, or so they sort of have some sort of aid, but that's uh it's impressive that you can do that by uh and you said you kind of played the piano a bit. Is that something that you would be interested in pursuing?

SPEAKER_02 30:28

Yeah, I would definitely so during the first lockdown, I sat behind a piano. I had I have like a keyboard at home and I started to teach myself again.

SPEAKER_07 30:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

When I was like from six, when I was six years old until like 14, 15, I was I have to say, I was really good at piano. I was taking lessons and I was really, really into it. And then the teenage years came along, and I was like, no, I'm gonna go out. I don't need to play the piano. And then it kind of you know slowly went away. But the basics, they are somewhere here, yeah. So it's not like I completely forgot it, but it's slowly coming back when I'm teaching myself, and I really, really want to start to teach it myself way more often and just get on it because it's gonna make my life easier with writing songs or just you know, when I feel like I just want to sing along with the piano, I can yeah, that's nice.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

Yeah, I uh I mean I'm not a singer anywhere near the standard that you are, but if I do sing, it would be uh, or if I sing one day, I would love to be able to do that, just sit down with a piano or or or a guitar. I think I I started learning a guitar um when I was well very late, but um I sadly kind of lost my way with it, but I would like to pick it up again. But the problem with a guitar is when you stop, could you when you play the guitar, your skin becomes very tough, like yeah, yeah, and uh stop, and then if you come back to it in like I don't know, a few months' time, you have to go through that whole pain again of your fingers like splitting in two and blood coming out. It's like, oh, I remember that feeling, it's horrible. But once you've got it, it's uh yeah, it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

It it can be really useful playing a guitar once you have it.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Play a couple of chords, yeah. I need to get on it.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

Get on it, yes. Um, there we go. Your next song's gonna have piano and guitar with you playing.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

Yeah, me one hand with this.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

You're one of those people, you're gonna be like, right, I'm gonna go and learn that now properly, and then boom, you'll be done in a month. Um right, so let's talk about your influences then. Um, like if you know the making of your music, the singing. What what are your influences? Are there do you have some Slovakian influences in the music that you make, would you say? Or uh and also um other singers that you may be inspired by or or may like that may have been influenced your style of singing and performing?

SPEAKER_02 32:56

Uh I think the first artist that always comes to my mind is Amy Weinhouse. Yeah. Um that's just her voice, her words, the feel that she's singing with, the colour of her voice. Oh my god. So she always comes as a first in my mind uh when I talk about influences, and I love to sing her songs as well, kind of thing. Um, for the current current music that I do, it's kind of pop dance music, I would say Zara Larsen or uh Astrid S. Don't know if you know her. They're all kind of Scandinavian. So some of them are from Sweden, some of them are from Norway. It is kind of the vibe that we are going with my friend along uh with the pop dance genre.

SPEAKER_07 33:49

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

Again, nowadays everything is so mixed that sometimes you can't even say exactly what the genre of the song is because everything is just mixed.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

So you were influenced by that Scandinavian pop dance style.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

Okay, interesting. You know, we have we have a fair few Scandinavian followers on this podcast, so with me being in Sweden. So um yeah, I'll be interested to know what they uh what they think of this and then after listening to your after listening to your music. Um cool.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

It's kind of along the way with um how the the electronics of it, like synthesizers, etc., all these kind of features of the song there are influenced by Scandinavian pop dance genre. But in terms of the voice and how I sing, um I haven't mentioned that I have been I have my jazz band and I've been singing jazz um in a in a in a pubs, in a in a bars, in the restaurants for a good three years, consistently since I came to London. So my voice kind of changed according to jazz, I think, and I'm very happy for that because I was always kind of singing soprano, and I always wanted you know, when you have something and you just want something different, and then you have it, you want something different.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

Um so I always think the grass is always greener, I believe the saying is.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Yeah, so when I was always singing soprano and with jazz, my voice kind of went on the lower range into a kind of slightly different color, and I was like, ooh, this is it, that's what I like. And coming back to Amy White House, she was starting with jazz firstly, and then she went to pop. Um, so but there is so there are so many idols, and so many in terms of singing and the range, and what I admire has always been it's gonna be kind of cliche, but Celine Dion. Okay, you know, this like really super high or super low just voice coming out of this thin tiny woman and LB.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

Her voice is just um yeah, I remember her from when I was a kid. We used to go on long drives and uh on holiday with the parents, and I'm a variety of her songs would always be uh played, and my dad would sing them at the top of his voice, and it was not, I mean, Celine the Old was great, but my dad singing it not so much. Um, sorry, dad.

SPEAKER_02 36:17

He's gonna forgive you. I don't know. Do you know the singer Lara Fabian?

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Lara Fabian, Lara Fabian. No, you know you're putting me to shame on my lack of singing knowledge.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

You don't have to, like, she's quite older now. Um, but since I was small, I was listening to her again because her voice range and the performance and how she's performing the songs. It's like uh watching one woman's show while singing.

SPEAKER_07 36:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Um, she's really like I don't know, she's probably in her sixties. I don't know, so she's older now, but um I always was inspired by how she was singing, and I love the surprise element when you look at someone, you're like, Oh, I guess they're gonna be singing like this, and then this voice comes out. Yeah, and I love that, and um this one kind of pursuing, probably.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

Uh let's talk about uh life achievements. So ideally, two things that you're proud of that stand out in your mind that you have achieved since the day you were born. Uh it doesn't have some big ask, isn't it? Um Nobel Prize, I have to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobel Prize, yeah. Uh so it doesn't have to be um doesn't have to be work-related, it can be um just a life experience. You know, you may have eaten a particular food that you've always wanted to try, been to a particular country that you wanted to go to, um, I don't know, climbed a tree and screamed at the top of your voice, whatever it is, like right, yeah. So ideally not work-related on this occasion, but people find this question quite tricky to pick the to pluck it out of the uh out of the sky.

SPEAKER_02 37:51

But uh because you always you always try to achieve something with your career, I guess, right?

SPEAKER_00 37:58

Um, so have you traveled? Have you been to any certain countries?

SPEAKER_02 38:03

Have you yeah, I traveled. Thankfully, my parents um were always into going on holidays each year, each summer into different countries. So I traveled, I don't want to say a lot, but kind of well, I I would say what I'm kind of proud of is that I managed to save up quite a lot of money during my university. Wow. And I paid not quite a lot of money, what am I saying? Some money.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

And um I was gonna say, let us know your secret, because there are many students around the world that are thinking, how has she done that?

SPEAKER_02 38:39

Working hard. I managed to pay for like two weeks um of acting course in LA.

unknown 38:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

So after university, I went to LA and paid for the fly tickets and accommodation and this acting course. And I'm probably proud of that. I didn't just do whatever I did with the money, but I kind of used this for for a great trip and life experience as well.

SPEAKER_00 39:07

What where what was the um what was the course?

SPEAKER_02 39:10

It was two weeks, two weeks in screen acting, uh TVI acting studios, they are called. There's probably plenty of you know acting schools in LA. The TVI acting studios, it was in Sherman Oaks, part of LA. Um so I was there for about 20 days, and then I went to visit my friend in San Francisco. But those 20 days in LA, they were really it was good, it was it was great. And um I I learned a lot as well from teachers there, and I realized how really, really, really difficult it would be if I would want to. I don't I don't want to say I don't want to pursue a career in LA, like who doesn't want to be an actor in LA? But I was very idealistic about it until I went there and I realistically started to ask questions and find out the information of what I would have to do, what would I have to have, and how would I have to be to compete with the amount of people in LA that want to do the same thing, and they kind of opened my eyes, being like, Okay, I saw that with my own eyes, I hear what you're saying. Yeah, I'm not gonna put it completely on a you know, I'm not gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

You never know, you never know.

SPEAKER_02 40:29

Someone might spot you and be like, You never know, yeah, with everything, but it was cool that I saw it and heard it with my own ears.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

The it the attitude of the American industry, the performance industry, it's just a I found it quite different to the UK. It was just a sort of a cut, not cutthroat, but it was just like if you want it, go and get it, and put yourself out there and aggressively, you know, say, I'm here and I can do this, and I am the person for you. And to do that in the UK, I think is would be a ballsy move unless you are a very well-established performer. I just think there's just a different vibe there, it's just a different way of approaching the industry. Um but I came back from there thinking like, okay, wow, like I pre pri previously to that, I didn't want to come across, you know, sort of um arrogant or cocky or this, that, and the other. So I would be very like, okay, yeah, I mean I would like the job if you know, if you don't mind, you know, if it's not too much trouble. Um but the bottom line is you've either got it or you haven't. And if you've got the look and you've got the talent and you've got the attitude to work hard, then that job is as good as yours as anyone else's, and you have to go and and get it. And and that was kind of something that I took away from it and um I took with me when I went out to Hong Kong, and it was very, very beneficial for me. But anyway, um, not about me, it's not about me. Um, what were we talking about? I've completely lost my train of thought.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

Um what I achieved in my life.

SPEAKER_00 42:12

Yes, exactly. Yes, so that so that was yours. So that was uh saving up money at university and then and then getting out to the US in training.

SPEAKER_02 42:21

Yeah, the second thing would probably be again, it's something to do with singing or something artist being an artist. But um, I went to Morocco with the band, with the jazz band. We had opportunity to go um to six or seven different cities, towns, places, and we went to uh schools where they were teaching, where they were learning English, and uh we were doing like a concert for them. Okay, so it was like a little tour around Morocco. Um and uh that was that was another great life experience, and I'm very happy that achiev we achieved to go there. And um that I saw Morocco.

SPEAKER_00 43:12

Yeah, no, Morocco is yeah, it's a lovely place.

SPEAKER_02 43:15

Every single city was just like something completely different, even like a different language. You know, they speak French and Spanish and well the Arabic, etc. So every single city was kind of different to the other, which was great. Yeah and I don't think I would be able to do that myself, to go there for holidays and go to why would I go to seven different cities on holidays? Of course not. Probably two maximum if I would want to. So to be able to do that and to see different cities um in Morocco was great.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

I went to the I went to the um the Atlas Mountains. Have you been to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco? I went there for my 30th birthday. It was a uh very, very enjoyable experience. Although we did get nearly stuck at the top. Of a mountain, we had one day where the weather was very extreme, and it was so much snow that we were driving up to our place and actually got stuck in the snow and um and couldn't really like go anywhere. Like we couldn't go down, we couldn't go up, and we were sort of stuck like halfway up this mountain. Um, and we had you know, people were called in, like the driver was making calls to his local friends who were like trying to like get up the mountain and help us. It was incredibly dramatic. Um, but uh we we made it out, we made it out. I'm still alive, but it was uh other than that, it was a very enjoyable, uh beautiful place. Uh I really enjoyed um I went to Marrakesh as well. That was quite a different experience, but um enjoyable but in a very different way. Uh but I still yeah, it's very nice. Uh collaborations. Are you are you interested in collaborating with other singer songwriters at some point? Do you have people in mind? Is it something you would consider or are you uh playing solo for for for the rest of your days? I like it, I like it. Well, maybe we can maybe we can tag her in this in this episode and see what she's saying.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

I don't have anyone in my mind like specifically, that would definitely be open up for collaborations. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No solo for life, like you can go solo for some time and then you just realize that you need to interact with people and just to collaborate with people to go further. That would definitely be open up for collaborations, but no one in mind. You know, it's just this kind of ideal.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

Apart from Jua Lipa, which I can't make any promises, but I I will try.

SPEAKER_07 45:49

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 45:49

Um she doesn't know me, but uh she will. Uh that sounded really weird. Anyway, let's move on. Um, can you talk to us about your recent about the songs, about the releases themselves, what what they're about?

SPEAKER_02 46:04

Most of those songs, most of all of those songs are about love, I would say. It's kind of easy to start with writing about love. Um and not many times, but sometimes during my life, the stories that I've heard from my friends were uh about the point of that. Um song is when you just really want to hear the truth, even though you know that it's going to be hurt a lot. If you are kind of realistic, you should just really you should hear the truth as soon as possible, so then you can just go about with it as soon as possible. And that song is kind of about that that it really, really hard that you don't lie, you can tell me the truth. And um most of those songs, a couple of them so this song is inspired by some of the situations in my life. Uh plenty of other stories I use from other people that I listen to, and I use those stories, or maybe I can twist them a little bit, etc., with my imagination. But I like to yeah, I like to use real life situations. Many people do, of course.

SPEAKER_01 47:19

Yeah, something would be about that.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

Let's go to our game. I think we should go to our game because we are actually flying on time. We've been chatting for over 45 minutes, Patricia. Good, good old chat, yeah, exactly. Uh right. Would you rather is the game? Have you played it before?

SPEAKER_01 47:44

I probably did.

SPEAKER_00 47:45

Probably not. It was clearly a memorable experience. This is gonna be better. Would you rather never be able to leave your own country or never be able to fly in an aeroplane?

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Never be able to leave my own country.

SPEAKER_00 48:06

Would you rather never have a goodness me, what are these questions? I don't know where I found this one. Uh number three, would you rather never have a toilet clog on you again or never have the power go out again? I.e. the electric. I should have warned you, these are very ridiculous questions. And not in keeping with anything else we've spoken about.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

Second option.

SPEAKER_00 48:36

Second option. Okay. Would you rather earbuds and headphones never sit right on in your ear or have all music either slightly too quiet or slightly too loud? Okay. And last but not least, I will put you out of your misery. Would you rather only wear one colour each day or have to wear seven colours each day?

SPEAKER_01 49:10

Or one colour.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

One colour. There we go. What is your favorite colour? This is not one of the questions, but do you have a favourite colour?

SPEAKER_01 49:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:22

Turquoise. Good choice. I think that might be my favorite as well, actually. I love turquoise. Yeah, yeah. I once saw a uh a turquoise Porsche when I was on holiday, and uh I just fell in love with it. It was amazing. I was too young to drive at the time, but uh otherwise I probably would have driven off with it. I'm in a very strange mood today. I don't know what's going on. Um, I've had too much tea, I think. Anyway, right, we're we are wrapping up very soon, but before we go, um uh Patricia slash Elise, could we please have your final thoughts for today? Something uplifting and inspiring for our listeners on approaches to life and that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

Um everything that happens may it be bad things or good things, but just trust that it happens for a reason. There might not show in a day or two or a week or a year that it will show someday.

SPEAKER_00 50:30

I love it, lovely. Thank you very much for coming on today. I hope you had a good time.

SPEAKER_03 50:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did.

SPEAKER_00 50:36

Alright, take care. Have a nice evening. And I'll be in touch. Bye-bye now. Yeah. See you.

SPEAKER_04 50:48

Finally, I found the love I came here for. I'm glad that you get me, don't worry about nothing at all. I trust you the way I should. You showed me the way you worked. We're storing, we're storing. Try and we don't make a dog. You have that one.