Gigi Perez chats with host Lisa Worden about how she got into songwriting, opening for Coldplay, her biggest influences, her hit "Sailor Song" and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kys are Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
La is New Alternative You're listening to.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
She is the voice the semiale alternative artists that you
need to know.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Here's your host. Police Awarded ALL ninety eight seven. LA's
New Alternative You're listening to. She is the voice. And
I'm really excited to have in studio with me one
of my favorite new artists, Gigi Perez hi.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Gg Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm doing great and yeah, I recently discovered you and
we've been playing Sailor song on She is the voice
probably for the last month. Wow, And just super excited
to have you in here. You you are just We've
had a lot of artists in here that kind of
have been trailblazers for the alternative format for women in music.
(00:50):
But I look at you as just someone super young
and inspired and just bubbling, kind of bubbling on the scene.
And we're going to talk a lot about that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
That's so awesome. I mean, it's such an honor to
be here today. I've been a fan of you, so
this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I get embarrassed and also like so flattered when I
hear that people know about the show. What I'd like
to do is talk to our audience about you and
how you got your start, because, like we just said,
you're you're you're a brand new artist to a lot
of my listeners. So you you write your songs, you
write your music, you produce, and obviously you sing, but
(01:29):
tell us how you got your start?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You know the the answer for a start, because there's
so many different things that lead up to it. I think,
just you know, a little spark notes. I did a
theater growing up, and that was something that was a
really big part of my life. And it was very
influenced by my older sister because that's what she wanted
to do.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
She's a big theater opera girl.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And I realized at a certain point that it wasn't
something where I was seeing myself. And you know, I
grew up struggling in my skin. You know, I was
dealing with body image and you know, my sexuality, a
lot of different things. And you know, one day after practice,
I taught myself a C major chord on the director's piano,
(02:12):
which you weren't allowed to touch it, but he was gone,
so I was like, all right, I'm just gonna do it.
And it sounds like very cheesy, but it was really
like that kind of like Disney like magic moment where
I was like, I felt something so insane, and so
I started teaching myself covers.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I was listening to a lot of.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Like The Killers, the Neighborhood, Marina and the Diamonds, like
very like that, like twenty fifteen, like teenage Tumblr era.
So I was listening to a lot of that stuff,
and you know, it got into writing on you know,
learning guitar, and I was doing ukulelely like I just
became so obsessed with it and it just snowballed into
this thing where I really couldn't see myself doing anything else.
(02:53):
And then, you know, fast forward. I was in music
school and this was during COVID and my older sister
passed away, which was, you know a huge, huge blow
for me and my family, and I started making videos
online as a way to like have something to do.
(03:14):
And at this point, I at this point, I really
just thought like there, I don't know how anything is
going to exist moving forward as far as my life,
just like recollecting myself.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And then I shared a song about her.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And it put me on the map, and that was
you know, the real like induction into the music space,
and you know, since then, I've just been putting out music.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know, I do you put it on TikTok, Yes,
I do.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I had like a very interesting relationship with it for
a while, you know, just because it was like so
close to my grief, and you know, you go from
being somebody like at home who's suffering alone to having
this this community being built. But you know, there's I'm
sure like you guys talk about it too, like how
(04:02):
like the virality of things can really like skew the
perception of like true listenership. So really, for the past
four years, it's just been building a real community, and
I'm really grateful because I feel like it's led up
to this moment with Sailor No.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I agree with you one hundred percent. And you know
it's really cool how right now, artists in your age group,
this is how they're getting their music heard. They are
putting it on TikTok, they're putting it on SoundCloud. And
that's how you're making fans. You're getting discovered. You were
signed by Inner Scope.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now you're on is it Republic Island.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm an island girl.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, now you're on island Records, which incredible label. The
Killers are on there. So that's how a lot of
musicians are getting their start and getting heard. And TikTok
can be a weird thing, you know. It's like sometimes
you know, likes and fans and shares, it can kind
(05:03):
of get in your head a little bit, and you know,
how how do you how do you use TikTok in
a healthy way with your music?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So I think when this is like twenty twenty, because
I made things here and there like twenty nineteen, but
it was really like twenty twenty. Like through that grieving process,
I was like, I don't know what, you know, grief
is so weird, like people do whatever however they need
to cope. And mine was like, all right, I'm gonna
make these videos and they're gonna be covers and some songs.
(05:34):
But I think once everything after you know, the Sealine
song and sometimes backward. I had a very interesting relationship
with the platform because I think I went into the
music industry and you know, being at a label with
like all these like predisposed ideas of like what what
(05:55):
that meant? And that not that I thought I didn't
need to use the platform, but I feel like I
almost created like a certain kind of disdain because it
felt like I was really just doing everything this same
like it didn't really feel that different to me, and
you know, my perspective on being an artist and how
audiences interact with music, because you know, at the end,
(06:17):
at the end of the day, there's only so much
any companies or systems can do in the wake of
something that's just completely being changed. So I was like
very much a part of like this guinea pig experiment
of what does this new music industry look like with
the new streaming and with the new algorithm and all.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
So I think that there were a lot of things
that I needed to go through with everyone else to
get on the other side and be like, you know,
it's not really about any of that stuff too, because
I think following last year, once I was independent, because
I've been an independent almost for a year, there was
a certain kind of thing that I recam where I
(07:01):
knew that I wasn't doing it for anyone else, and
I think that there were a lot of things that
I needed to just heal because I think going from
losing my sister to entering the music industry it just
was like, even if I was going to therapy, even
if I was doing all these things, it just wasn't
the way that I wanted to operate and how I.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Imagined my career.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
And so when I left those things, every single person
that I see, you know, messaging me or on my phone,
like I could, I could literally give all my attention
to that to them and that was enough for me.
So I think, for me, this is amazing, and it's
so awesome to see like a real community being built
(07:43):
on really hard topics that you know, a lot of
us walk alone in our lives with you know, with
grief and God and religion and things that are very personal.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But it's just amazing to me.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Because I feel like this whole year, I've just been
in a space of like really feeling like connected. So
to me, it really doesn't matter, and I mean it
from the bottom of my soul, Like if like numbers
or all that stuff like that's not that doesn't that
doesn't hold the like the value that talking to somebody
(08:18):
and sitting here with you does, you know what I mean.
So I feel really happy about that because you know,
every the artist career is always gonna be up and down,
And I'm not really doing it to be up or down.
I'm just doing it because I that's the only way
I can survive.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So we've been playing Sailor Song on all ninety eight seven.
Absolutely love this song. Why don't you say a few
words about it?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Sailor Song was written in a time my life where
I think I was really struggling with the concept of
floating in terms of worldview, and I had this person
in my life that was just so present that was
(09:01):
really getting me through and so ultimately it's like it
just it's this devout song of you know, thank you
for getting me through everything.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Perfect When I listened to your music, because I went
on a deep dive after I discovered Sailors Song, I
then and went and listened to a bunch of other songs.
All of it is very moody to me, Like there's
a mood and a vibe that you create with your music.
Is that something that was intentional? Is that just what
you love?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Because to me, there is It's not like I hear
a song that goes wow, that's wildly different from all
these others like that, to me, they all fit so
nicely together and it is. It's just a mood.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I think it has to be informed off of the
things that I probably have absorbed all of my life
and what feels right to me, because I feel like
there's just such a wide range of things that I
was listening to. I feel like I've just been very
into dissonance for a while now, the kinds of chords
that are being created, so it like creates the bed,
(10:05):
you know, like Eric Whitaker was like a composer. I
like saying that all the time in high school. And
so I think that the experiences that I've been through
just inform the moody kind of stuff. But it is
interesting too because I think, you know, for a while,
I was writing a lot of songs, like I think
on my first project, what really brought those songs together,
(10:27):
I feel like for me was the production side of it,
and John de Selville and Aiden Hobbs. They did an
amazing job with you know, doing all the you know,
really tying it all in together.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But the song happy of a part? Are you with
producing your music? Do you do you know what you
want and you're in there and you're this is what
I want to create? Or is it kind of more
of a collaboration where they they tell us about.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
How you So it's I mean, it's a really awesome
story to tell because I'm so excited about it. You know,
when I came into music, there were there were a
lot of different things, and you know people and they
place you with these you know, they want to give
you all the resources, and I was so grateful for them,
so I took them. Something always felt like it was
missing and I knew that. And so when I went independent,
(11:14):
it was on the day I was like, all right,
I'm learning how to record and produce. And I went
on YouTube and I talked to my friends that you know,
I love and respect in the in the music space,
and I taught myself how to record and produce.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I use ableton.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I have collaborators, but I think what works for me
right now is making the first pass and you know
that just being alone in my room and recording everything
and then being like, okay, so what are we here
for this, and like kind of.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Like working together because I love collaboration.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I think it's great, but ultimately, yeah, everything is done
by me and whoever is is a part of it,
and I love it so much. Fun I Honestly, it's
so amazing to me how fun it is to just
sit at the computer.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So I'm still here for it now. I love that
so much.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's I have a lot of respect for artists in general,
and everyone kind of has their different way of doing things.
There are artists that you know, have songs written for
them and they sing them beautifully and they and they
become big hits and that's wonderful and I'm here for it.
But I have to admit the artists that right there
in music, you taught yourself how to produce, Like, I
(12:27):
have such admiration for you and artists like that.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, please be Rude was completely self produced and it's
my favorite song.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And I listened to it.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I can't believe I did it, because if you told
me a year ago today, like it was just so
weird that all of that was like sitting at the bottom,
like needing to come out. So yeah, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Amazing you're listening to She is the voice, And I've
got Gigi Pereh's in studio with us tonight and Gigi
sold out show at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles.
Excited are you.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm so excited. I cannot believe it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, no, I I will be there tonight. I am
so excited to see you do these songs live. Speaking
of live, I heard that you're going to be opening
for Girl in Red on some tour dates. I am
a massive fan. We love Marie, We've had her in
here so many times. But I think that is such
a perfect match musically.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I'm so, so so excited.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
When I saw that she were interacting, I was like,
what the hell is going on? I was like, when
I know, it was like, something is going on. She
just did a cover of Sailor song. Actually I saw
it like pop up on my on my page. She
did it on tour.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It was so crazy. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh, I'm super That makes so much sense. And I
recently recently resurrected We Fall in Love in October because
it's October and I'm like, I like to reflect the
seasons and sonically musically, it just kind of sounds like
your vibe. And I just think that you guys together
on a stage is just perfect. And I hope that
comes to LA. I don't know if it is, but
(14:02):
I hope so gig tell us, who some of your
favorite artists are, uh, solo artists, bands, just I want
to get an idea of We talked about the Killers.
She mentioned the neighborhood, like, who are some artists that
you really like?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I think growing up this is like kind of like
a random like curve ball, because I guess people don't
see it coming. But I've always been a huge area
on a Grande fan, so I've loved her music forever
and I think she definitely like has influence and informing
how I hear vocal arrangement. I'm a big Jeff Buckley fan.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I love Radiohead, I love Adele Like I think I'm
very very into like.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Just really beautiful, beautiful singing with beautiful songwriting. And then
Indigo to Susa has been a favorite for a really
long time as well. Indigo to Susa is definitely like
just such an amazing, amazing artists.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You opened for cold Play on their Music of the
Spheares Stadium tour. I don't know if it was your hometown,
but in your home state where you grew up in Florida.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
How was that?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was actually so crazy?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The everyason why I think about it I'm like, that
was such a video game moment. We're like, I literally
felt like I don't know, like if you look like
I felt like I was looking outside of my body.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That is the only way I can explain it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I mean, it was so incredible and it was amazing
that I got to do it with my friends.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We all got together, like back in high school.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Had a band called Wendy Lane, and I had Aiden
from Wendy Lane and our other kind of like cousin
band friends.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Their band came along, so it was just like it
was really nice. It just felt like party.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I know, my god, Yeah, I mean I was definitely
like losing my mind because you first, like granted, we
went from zero to one hundred, going from like I
don't know, like cafe shows to the Coldplay?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But and how does this happen? To they call your mom?
Your mom's in udio with us right now, which I
think is so cute. Did they call you and go, hey,
can Gigi open for us? I mean, how does this
even happen? Her mom?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Get on the mic? Get on the mic?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Mom's mom? How did how did GG open for Coldplay?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Tell them about the date? The date? Remember the date
that it came in my birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh yes, So first of all, the offer came in
on her birthday, and it came in through the label,
and at that time she didn't have a manager.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So yes, they called.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Mom and did you have to think about it or no?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I didn't care. I didn't care.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It was it was just a miracle. Really, it was
just like a light once in a lifetime event for her.
I mean it was just the beginning of her career and.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Just hit it off that way.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It was just amazing. Thanks Mom, Gigi, thank you for
coming in on. She is the voice. I loved talking
with you. I think you are going to have such
a major, massive career ahead of you. You're just getting started.
So excited and can't wait to see you live tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Thank you so much. This is such an honor.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
She is the.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Voice the female musicians that are creating tomorrow sound. She
is the voice. I'm all ninety eight seven, LA's new
alternative
Kys are Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
La is New Alternative You're listening to.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
She is the voice the semiale alternative artists that you
need to know.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Here's your host. Police Awarded ALL ninety eight seven. LA's
New Alternative You're listening to. She is the voice. And
I'm really excited to have in studio with me one
of my favorite new artists, Gigi Perez hi.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Gg Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm doing great and yeah, I recently discovered you and
we've been playing Sailor song on She is the voice
probably for the last month. Wow, And just super excited
to have you in here. You you are just We've
had a lot of artists in here that kind of
have been trailblazers for the alternative format for women in music.
(00:50):
But I look at you as just someone super young
and inspired and just bubbling, kind of bubbling on the scene.
And we're going to talk a lot about that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
That's so awesome. I mean, it's such an honor to
be here today. I've been a fan of you, so
this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I get embarrassed and also like so flattered when I
hear that people know about the show. What I'd like
to do is talk to our audience about you and
how you got your start, because, like we just said,
you're you're you're a brand new artist to a lot
of my listeners. So you you write your songs, you
write your music, you produce, and obviously you sing, but
(01:29):
tell us how you got your start?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You know the the answer for a start, because there's
so many different things that lead up to it. I think,
just you know, a little spark notes. I did a
theater growing up, and that was something that was a
really big part of my life. And it was very
influenced by my older sister because that's what she wanted
to do.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
She's a big theater opera girl.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
And I realized at a certain point that it wasn't
something where I was seeing myself. And you know, I
grew up struggling in my skin. You know, I was
dealing with body image and you know, my sexuality, a
lot of different things. And you know, one day after practice,
I taught myself a C major chord on the director's piano,
(02:12):
which you weren't allowed to touch it, but he was gone,
so I was like, all right, I'm just gonna do it.
And it sounds like very cheesy, but it was really
like that kind of like Disney like magic moment where
I was like, I felt something so insane, and so
I started teaching myself covers.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I was listening to a lot of.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Like The Killers, the Neighborhood, Marina and the Diamonds, like
very like that, like twenty fifteen, like teenage Tumblr era.
So I was listening to a lot of that stuff,
and you know, it got into writing on you know,
learning guitar, and I was doing ukulelely like I just
became so obsessed with it and it just snowballed into
this thing where I really couldn't see myself doing anything else.
(02:53):
And then, you know, fast forward. I was in music
school and this was during COVID and my older sister
passed away, which was, you know a huge, huge blow
for me and my family, and I started making videos
online as a way to like have something to do.
(03:14):
And at this point, I at this point, I really
just thought like there, I don't know how anything is
going to exist moving forward as far as my life,
just like recollecting myself.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And then I shared a song about her.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And it put me on the map, and that was
you know, the real like induction into the music space,
and you know, since then, I've just been putting out music.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know, I do you put it on TikTok, Yes,
I do.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I had like a very interesting relationship with it for
a while, you know, just because it was like so
close to my grief, and you know, you go from
being somebody like at home who's suffering alone to having
this this community being built. But you know, there's I'm
sure like you guys talk about it too, like how
(04:02):
like the virality of things can really like skew the
perception of like true listenership. So really, for the past
four years, it's just been building a real community, and
I'm really grateful because I feel like it's led up
to this moment with Sailor No.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I agree with you one hundred percent. And you know
it's really cool how right now, artists in your age group,
this is how they're getting their music heard. They are
putting it on TikTok, they're putting it on SoundCloud. And
that's how you're making fans. You're getting discovered. You were
signed by Inner Scope.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now you're on is it Republic Island.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm an island girl.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, now you're on island Records, which incredible label. The
Killers are on there. So that's how a lot of
musicians are getting their start and getting heard. And TikTok
can be a weird thing, you know. It's like sometimes
you know, likes and fans and shares, it can kind
(05:03):
of get in your head a little bit, and you know,
how how do you how do you use TikTok in
a healthy way with your music?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So I think when this is like twenty twenty, because
I made things here and there like twenty nineteen, but
it was really like twenty twenty. Like through that grieving process,
I was like, I don't know what, you know, grief
is so weird, like people do whatever however they need
to cope. And mine was like, all right, I'm gonna
make these videos and they're gonna be covers and some songs.
(05:34):
But I think once everything after you know, the Sealine
song and sometimes backward. I had a very interesting relationship
with the platform because I think I went into the
music industry and you know, being at a label with
like all these like predisposed ideas of like what what
(05:55):
that meant? And that not that I thought I didn't
need to use the platform, but I feel like I
almost created like a certain kind of disdain because it
felt like I was really just doing everything this same
like it didn't really feel that different to me, and
you know, my perspective on being an artist and how
audiences interact with music, because you know, at the end,
(06:17):
at the end of the day, there's only so much
any companies or systems can do in the wake of
something that's just completely being changed. So I was like
very much a part of like this guinea pig experiment
of what does this new music industry look like with
the new streaming and with the new algorithm and all.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
So I think that there were a lot of things
that I needed to go through with everyone else to
get on the other side and be like, you know,
it's not really about any of that stuff too, because
I think following last year, once I was independent, because
I've been an independent almost for a year, there was
a certain kind of thing that I recam where I
(07:01):
knew that I wasn't doing it for anyone else, and
I think that there were a lot of things that
I needed to just heal because I think going from
losing my sister to entering the music industry it just
was like, even if I was going to therapy, even
if I was doing all these things, it just wasn't
the way that I wanted to operate and how I.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Imagined my career.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
And so when I left those things, every single person
that I see, you know, messaging me or on my phone,
like I could, I could literally give all my attention
to that to them and that was enough for me.
So I think, for me, this is amazing, and it's
so awesome to see like a real community being built
(07:43):
on really hard topics that you know, a lot of
us walk alone in our lives with you know, with
grief and God and religion and things that are very personal.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But it's just amazing to me.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Because I feel like this whole year, I've just been
in a space of like really feeling like connected. So
to me, it really doesn't matter, and I mean it
from the bottom of my soul, Like if like numbers
or all that stuff like that's not that doesn't that
doesn't hold the like the value that talking to somebody
(08:18):
and sitting here with you does, you know what I mean.
So I feel really happy about that because you know,
every the artist career is always gonna be up and down,
And I'm not really doing it to be up or down.
I'm just doing it because I that's the only way
I can survive.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So we've been playing Sailor Song on all ninety eight seven.
Absolutely love this song. Why don't you say a few
words about it?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Sailor Song was written in a time my life where
I think I was really struggling with the concept of
floating in terms of worldview, and I had this person
in my life that was just so present that was
(09:01):
really getting me through and so ultimately it's like it
just it's this devout song of you know, thank you
for getting me through everything.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Perfect When I listened to your music, because I went
on a deep dive after I discovered Sailors Song, I
then and went and listened to a bunch of other songs.
All of it is very moody to me, Like there's
a mood and a vibe that you create with your music.
Is that something that was intentional? Is that just what
you love?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Because to me, there is It's not like I hear
a song that goes wow, that's wildly different from all
these others like that, to me, they all fit so
nicely together and it is. It's just a mood.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I think it has to be informed off of the
things that I probably have absorbed all of my life
and what feels right to me, because I feel like
there's just such a wide range of things that I
was listening to. I feel like I've just been very
into dissonance for a while now, the kinds of chords
that are being created, so it like creates the bed,
(10:05):
you know, like Eric Whitaker was like a composer. I
like saying that all the time in high school. And
so I think that the experiences that I've been through
just inform the moody kind of stuff. But it is
interesting too because I think, you know, for a while,
I was writing a lot of songs, like I think
on my first project, what really brought those songs together,
(10:27):
I feel like for me was the production side of it,
and John de Selville and Aiden Hobbs. They did an
amazing job with you know, doing all the you know,
really tying it all in together.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
But the song happy of a part? Are you with
producing your music? Do you do you know what you
want and you're in there and you're this is what
I want to create? Or is it kind of more
of a collaboration where they they tell us about.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
How you So it's I mean, it's a really awesome
story to tell because I'm so excited about it. You know,
when I came into music, there were there were a
lot of different things, and you know people and they
place you with these you know, they want to give
you all the resources, and I was so grateful for them,
so I took them. Something always felt like it was
missing and I knew that. And so when I went independent,
(11:14):
it was on the day I was like, all right,
I'm learning how to record and produce. And I went
on YouTube and I talked to my friends that you know,
I love and respect in the in the music space,
and I taught myself how to record and produce.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I use ableton.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I have collaborators, but I think what works for me
right now is making the first pass and you know
that just being alone in my room and recording everything
and then being like, okay, so what are we here
for this, and like kind of.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Like working together because I love collaboration.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I think it's great, but ultimately, yeah, everything is done
by me and whoever is is a part of it,
and I love it so much. Fun I Honestly, it's
so amazing to me how fun it is to just
sit at the computer.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So I'm still here for it now. I love that
so much.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's I have a lot of respect for artists in general,
and everyone kind of has their different way of doing things.
There are artists that you know, have songs written for
them and they sing them beautifully and they and they
become big hits and that's wonderful and I'm here for it.
But I have to admit the artists that right there
in music, you taught yourself how to produce, Like, I
(12:27):
have such admiration for you and artists like that.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, please be Rude was completely self produced and it's
my favorite song.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And I listened to it.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I can't believe I did it, because if you told
me a year ago today, like it was just so
weird that all of that was like sitting at the bottom,
like needing to come out. So yeah, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Amazing you're listening to She is the voice, And I've
got Gigi Pereh's in studio with us tonight and Gigi
sold out show at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles.
Excited are you.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm so excited. I cannot believe it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, no, I I will be there tonight. I am
so excited to see you do these songs live. Speaking
of live, I heard that you're going to be opening
for Girl in Red on some tour dates. I am
a massive fan. We love Marie, We've had her in
here so many times. But I think that is such
a perfect match musically.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, I'm so, so so excited.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
When I saw that she were interacting, I was like,
what the hell is going on? I was like, when
I know, it was like, something is going on. She
just did a cover of Sailor song. Actually I saw
it like pop up on my on my page. She
did it on tour.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It was so crazy. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh, I'm super That makes so much sense. And I
recently recently resurrected We Fall in Love in October because
it's October and I'm like, I like to reflect the
seasons and sonically musically, it just kind of sounds like
your vibe. And I just think that you guys together
on a stage is just perfect. And I hope that
comes to LA. I don't know if it is, but
(14:02):
I hope so gig tell us, who some of your
favorite artists are, uh, solo artists, bands, just I want
to get an idea of We talked about the Killers.
She mentioned the neighborhood, like, who are some artists that
you really like?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I think growing up this is like kind of like
a random like curve ball, because I guess people don't
see it coming. But I've always been a huge area
on a Grande fan, so I've loved her music forever
and I think she definitely like has influence and informing
how I hear vocal arrangement. I'm a big Jeff Buckley fan.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I love Radiohead, I love Adele Like I think I'm
very very into like.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Just really beautiful, beautiful singing with beautiful songwriting. And then
Indigo to Susa has been a favorite for a really
long time as well. Indigo to Susa is definitely like
just such an amazing, amazing artists.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You opened for cold Play on their Music of the
Spheares Stadium tour. I don't know if it was your hometown,
but in your home state where you grew up in Florida.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
How was that?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
That?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Was actually so crazy?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The everyason why I think about it I'm like, that
was such a video game moment. We're like, I literally
felt like I don't know, like if you look like
I felt like I was looking outside of my body.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That is the only way I can explain it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I mean, it was so incredible and it was amazing
that I got to do it with my friends.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
We all got together, like back in high school.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Had a band called Wendy Lane, and I had Aiden
from Wendy Lane and our other kind of like cousin
band friends.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Their band came along, so it was just like it
was really nice. It just felt like party.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I know, my god, Yeah, I mean I was definitely
like losing my mind because you first, like granted, we
went from zero to one hundred, going from like I
don't know, like cafe shows to the Coldplay?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But and how does this happen? To they call your mom?
Your mom's in udio with us right now, which I
think is so cute. Did they call you and go, hey,
can Gigi open for us? I mean, how does this
even happen? Her mom?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Get on the mic? Get on the mic?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Mom's mom? How did how did GG open for Coldplay?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Tell them about the date? The date? Remember the date
that it came in my birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh yes, So first of all, the offer came in
on her birthday, and it came in through the label,
and at that time she didn't have a manager.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So yes, they called.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Mom and did you have to think about it or no?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I didn't care. I didn't care.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It was it was just a miracle. Really, it was
just like a light once in a lifetime event for her.
I mean it was just the beginning of her career and.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Just hit it off that way.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It was just amazing. Thanks Mom, Gigi, thank you for
coming in on. She is the voice. I loved talking
with you. I think you are going to have such
a major, massive career ahead of you. You're just getting started.
So excited and can't wait to see you live tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Thank you so much. This is such an honor.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
She is the.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Voice the female musicians that are creating tomorrow sound. She
is the voice. I'm all ninety eight seven, LA's new
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