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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Pretty much everything down here for you.

SPEAKER_02 0:02

So uh I mean it's it's way better than St. Louis.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Yeah, I ain't never I've never been to St. Louis. So uh I'm gonna have to go and check that out as well, see how how y'all doing things up uh up with the Midwest. So uh we're about to get I'm gonna we're about to get started. So I'm gonna I'm gonna uh intro you real quick and then we're gonna go into the question session. So what's going on, everybody? This is your boy AD. We welcome you to a powerful edition of Indie Spotlight right here on Indie Pusher Radio, where we bring you the voices, stories, the journeys behind today's rising independent artists from around the world. Tonight we will have a special guest in the building. She's an indie pop and soul artist making major waves with emotional storytelling, hyperlinic melodies, and music that speaks directly to the heart. Her latest single, Rainy Day, produced by three-time Grammy nominated producer Joe Capo Kent, achieved something extremely rare, hitting all the three Amazon music, music charts simultaneously, hot new release, bestseller, and movers and shakers. That's a triple number one accomplishment. But beyond the charts and accomplishments is a story of resilience, healing, transformation, and purpose. Please help me welcome the incredible talented Kaya Ella to the show.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me for real.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Hey, no problem. Thank you for uh coming to I'm humble. I'm glad to have you on the show so we can talk about some things you got going on. Just after, you know, reading your intro, pretty much like just to you know sit back and think about like your accomplishments. How does it feel to hit hit all the amazing Amazon music charts and all the all the categories that you're hitting?

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Oh my God, I feel glad. I feel glad. I feel like I'm in the right path, you know, like God really guiding me, and I feel like I'm doing the right thing for me. And it just confirms, you know, that I'm basically doing everything I needed to do. And yeah, when I saw it, I was like, I was in shock because my first song got number one too on Amazon Music. But this song got on three different charts. I was like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Oh yeah. So you're doing you're doing a uh a lot of things that's that's good out here. How do you feel? Like, you know, to just discover your music and pretty much like uh who is Taya Taya L beyond the artist's name.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Yeah, so Taya L is uh uh athletic. I was uh a former athletic. I got 14 medals, and then I did uh back surgery, and unfortunately I couldn't continue with the sport. So that's why I was in uh bed. I was healing for one year, like healing, like starting to, you know, exercise again and start walking again and everything from scratch because basically they did for me a really complicated surgery. They put for me medals in my back. So I couldn't be athletic no more after surgery like that. So I kind of felt like that's it. I lost everything. I don't know who I am without the athletic part. You know, so I was like, what I'm gonna do now, I'm about to finish high school. I'm supposed to know what I want to do in life, and I have no idea. I built everything, you know, toward the athletic part. And and then I figure out I start writing whatever I feel. I start writing at the songs, and and that's it. I figure out that's maybe what they need to do. That's why everything happened.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

So how did that help you or shake you mentally or and spiritually?

SPEAKER_02 3:46

You know, like writing, it's like therapy. I uh every time I write in, I I write whatever I feel, and whoever gets, you know, connected with that, they feel the same way. So I help them to feel that to understand they're not the only person that feels the same way. And I feel music is healing.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Alright. So what what do your fans like? I guess like so when you when they hear your music, have people come out and just been like, wow, that was a very impactful song. Like also like rainy days. So uh want to talk about like where where did the inspiration come from?

SPEAKER_02 4:24

So yeah, same thing. I because I'm writing everything, I'm I'm feeling a lot of my songs that I'm writing it after I this I figure out a moment that I had. So when I'm in that moment, you know, you don't think about that, but it's like a breakup, you know, when you're in a breakup, you don't really think about what you've been through, and then after you're healing, then you understand that it's actually you've been through this and this and this. So this moment I realized that I had a conversation with God. That I realized I grew up in a house that don't show feeling in a way, uh affections, like hugs or say with words, I love you. So that's the way I was very cold. I was a very cold person. I was it was very hard for me to express my feeling. And I never understood why it feels so weird to write to a friend of mine, I like you, or just give a hug for friends. And in that moment I discovered it and I start writing. And I decided, okay, that's the time to release that and get it out so everybody can see it. Everybody that relates to it can hear this song and feel related.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

Yeah, I really like the song when I listen to it, it really touched me as well. Because when I I guess when you reached out to me, I was like, wow, I said, you got amazing talent that's that's touching touching souls that need to hear some, you know, encouraging music. Even what they're going through. We also gonna talk about your other song that you had out, Don't Love Me. Where where the inspiration Don't Love You.

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

So where did the inspiration for that song come from?

SPEAKER_02 6:06

So Don't Love You, it's kind of like the beginning of the story of Frady Days. Don't Love You, it's also me having a hard time to express feeling because I don't love myself still. And I can't give somebody what I can give to myself. So in the song I'm singing, they're like, you say that you need me, you need more for me, but I can't. I can't give you more because I don't know how to give more. And then the second song, right, is explaining why I'm like that. That I go out like that, that I can't show love. That's why it's not because I don't want to love you, it's because I can't love you, because I I don't know how to express that.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

Alright. And I like when people they say that, because in music, when we listen to, you know, the the the pain, the struggle, and everything that you that artists they sing about. And they say, hey, uh, you know, you you from what I listen to, you got a lot of power and strength in what you what you're what you're singing. So I'm uh one of those ones like, you know, always be confident and and know that you you bring in some because you got accolades, so you you you you're doing something right. So don't never think that like, you know, um that you're not. I know that like being an artist, sometimes you you feel like are you putting out something good, you know, it's people gonna understand your life experiences, but just listening to what you're what you're doing. You seem like even though you s or what you're saying, see like in your music, or when you're singing, I I I hear the confidence in it. So just just keep on doing doing your thing out here. And you know, people gonna love gonna love what you what you got to got to bring.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Yeah, like my motive in life, it's like, you know, as a singer, I'm just putting whatever I feel because it's healing me. And whoever likes it and wanna be in my journey, they're gonna be in my journey.

unknown 8:01

Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

You know, I feel gonna kick out somebody, but like if you don't like it, it's okay. You know, you don't have not not everybody can love everything you're doing. And not everybody's gonna be related. That's why we have so much artists, and there is place to everybody because everyone is different. So I'm just soliciting whatever I feel like and whatever I, you know, feel comfortable with sharing and also be on stage and sing it and feel related to it because it's my song, and whoever likes it is just welcome to follow.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

I like that. Because we have a lot of artists that struggle with for deadities after you know life changing. So, like what advice would you give someone rebuilding themselves after losing what they thought they found?

SPEAKER_02 8:46

I just I just feel, because I'm a believer, I would tell them just trust God that He's gonna show you the right way. People that don't believe in God, I don't know how to really give them the advice. I would say maybe exercise, maybe try to figure out the way, because when you exercise and when you heal in your body, you can heal also your soul in that way. And heal also eat LT is very important. So it when you're in a healthy state of mind, it's helping you to accomplish and understand better stuff. But me as a believer, I would say trust God, do it your best. You know, you can't just give up and say, God's gonna save me. You need to do your best, but then God's gonna help you. If you're pushing and you show God that you want to change your life, you want to figure out who you are and what you want to do in life, He's gonna help you.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

I like that. I like that. You let you you deep I like. Um we're gonna talk about, you know, rainy days. I know it feels deeply personal and spiritual. You described it as a conversation with God doing major realizations in your life. Can you explain that realization that you that you found?

SPEAKER_02 9:56

In rainy days, you mean?

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

So in rainy days, uh the realization is that I I can't I can actually not love because of my family, because the way I grew up. So that was the conversation with God that I I was like, I don't know, I don't understand why I can't show love, why I can't, when I'm uh surrounded with that by a lot of people, I feel like weird when I see each other, you know, a lot of people coming and hugged each other and like talking in a way that I couldn't express myself like that. It felt for me weird. It's you know these people that have a hard time to say I'm sorry. Because they feel like they're burning from inside if they say. And I felt like that if I was saying love you or want to hug somebody. It felt weird, it felt like I can't do it. So I never understood why. And when I was like around 19, 20 years old, I started getting a little bit better in that. I uh figure out my way, getting a little bit better. But then only like recently I realized why it was like that. And in that conversation with God, I realized when I went back to when I was a child and thinking about everything and also talking with my sister, because my sister been through the same thing from the same house. She was like, yeah, they never show, you know, love, and that's why I can express myself too. So I realized she is like that too. And I just figured, oh, that's why. And I start writing about that.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

So so would you write in now, and going through the things you went to when you were younger, how does your family perceive or look at what you're doing now? Are they are they proud of what you're doing? Do they listen to your music?

SPEAKER_02 11:42

Yeah, at the at the beginning when I released that, I was really scared because it's like I'm kind of excusing my parents, you know, for the way they grew up grew me up. But I was making sure they're okay with that too. I was like talking to them about that. And they was like, yeah, that's the way we grew up, so that's what we can give. You know, so they a good, they're good parents, but the way they show love, it's like my mom's gonna cook me, gonna make sure I have everything, but she's not gonna say I love you, or gonna hug me, or gonna call me, say everything is okay, how are school? She's not like that. So when I grew up like that, you know, and excuse me, what did what what did you ask?

SPEAKER_00 12:23

I got the outside of the uh so pretty much uh uh support.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

Yeah, so now my dad is a little bit more supportive, but he never really liked this industry. He always said it's very high industry and it's very hard to also, you're supposed to get married one day, you're supposed to have kids. How are you gonna do it when you with all the fame? Every time you see famous people, they're not really married or they married and they the whole life is messy. So he really not likes in this industry. He's important because you see that I still doing it even though he hates it. And he, you know, he can't really not support because it's not gonna do anything. At first he was hated on that, but then he saw that nothing changed. I still continue doing whatever I'm doing because I love it and I'm gonna continue doing it. I'm gonna say it won't stop, you know. You feel it's your call, you can't stop that. So he just like, okay, I rather just enjoy whatever she's doing and support her.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Yeah, I mean, uh usually uh I I started out when I was younger, my mom wanted to be played saxophone.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Played it for about two weeks, and I was beating on pots and paying. So she was like, I don't really like the drums because they loud, but if that's what you want to play, then you know, I'ma I'm gonna support you. She's pretty much my biggest. She's one of my biggest fans and biggest critics. If things going good, she like, yeah. If she like, oh, you're a little bit too loud, you need to turn down a little bit, but like she was like there. Sometimes, you know, I know with you know, being a parent of my daughter, she plays violin. So I always encourage her to just stick with it because, you know, you can do good things with it. Don't give up on because it it just takes work there to build your craft. So like to have your have your people there to support is it that's that's a big thing, and glad that they're supporting uh what you're doing.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

Yeah, that's what should show you that it's you know in the right path. Yeah, definitely when people are following you and giving you c compliments and uh a lot of messages I'm getting on social media. And yeah, I love it. That's that's the reason I'm doing all that, to really help. And I'm very close to my fan. I'm always talking to them. I'm telling them to send me a message on social media so we can make a conversation, see how they're going. That's what I'm here for. That's that's what I feel I'm doing music for.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

So I would like to know like what would be your advice to any artist that's that's coming out, that's trying to make a name for themselves. Might might not feel that like what they're putting out is what they really want to put out, but you know, they want to get the love that everybody else is getting. And I know it's hard to be an indie artist because you have to do everything yourself. So like what advice would you give an indie artist at this point?

SPEAKER_02 15:18

Yeah, so as an indie artist myself, I would say you need to find a really good crew. Like, you know, the producer and somebody that can give you advices and maybe a manager if you can. If it's not a manager, so somebody from your family or friends that can really give you advice and supporting you and separate your business uh from the personal. Because a lot of your friends are not gonna support you. And unfortunately, most of your friends are gonna be the ones that don't know you. Those people that are gonna really like you. And once you're gonna start releasing songs, all your friends are gonna be like, you know, a lot of them is gonna be more jealous, don't wanna support. Um, and I will recommend also to use a lot of uh ChatGPT. That's what I use it a lot to find contract, like getting like uh some indie magazines to get some, you know, uh emails to send them my stuff and just work. Every morning I wake up and I have a schedule. You know, every morning I'm like going to the gym, work out, then doing my single class, and then I'm doing research all the time. Every every hour I have something that I need to do. And it's just routine. You have to do routine. If you don't be a routine, it's just you're just not gonna make it. It's very hard.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

It's very hard. It's not luck. It's really uh artists really working hard to accomplish what they accomplish. And they're still working hard. A lot of people seeing them famous and they're like, wow, they have amazing life. Trust me, they don't really have amazing life. It's super hard. They're working non-stop, they barely have time for themselves. They all the time, if it's not working on some song, it's exercise or uh dancing, or all every time they need to research, they need a lot of things. So, yeah, it's a lot of work. So they're almost 24-7.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

Yeah, yeah. I mean, and I and I and I appreciate that like you guys are working hard to, you know, put out music because it you know, we need you guys need like us to help you guys, like, you know, push your music, you know, so people can get to know who you really are. So because you you guys are doing a lot on your own, you know, trying to find your own music, your your your videos and stuff like that. Uh so I want to talk about, because I know you're you've been known you're an indie pop and soul artist, you're known for blending English and Spanish lyrics into with heartfelt intimate storytelling. So uh let's talk about that.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

So like, you know, how how do you how do you go about blending, you know, uh how you're mixing it? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Um I'm originally from Israel, but I'm uh Spanish as well. Uh I grew up in a house that we uh my family was watching a lot of Spanish shows. So ever since I'm a kid, I was hearing Spanish all the time in the house. So I grew up to that. I was also watching with them as well. When I grew up a little bit, I was able to watch with them all the shows, and that's how I got my Spanish. So Spanish for me it's like my house, my home. When I write in Spanish, I feel like it's from more romantic also and more feeling when you write in Spanish. Also, when you see shows in Spanish, you're gonna see a lot attitude instead of English shows that you're gonna see like more a lot of uh Americans shows, it's mostly action, horror, or some you know, comedy. That's what it's gonna be. So it's more like structure. So when I'm doing the English, it's gonna be more logic, and then the Spanish is more gonna be like passion. So I really like to blend both of them because I feel like English is number, you know, it's the most known language in the world, but then Spanish I feel is like very, very known language in the whole world as well. We have a lot of Spanish people. So I feel like it's gonna talk to more people. You know. So that's why I mean I really like to do both of them.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Right. So I guess what what would your what would your fans be expecting on your your album when it comes out?

SPEAKER_02 19:28

Um I don't have an album yet. I'm working on song by song because I wanna build it, you know, enough that it's gonna be an album, and then I'm gonna do an album. After I have like around seven, eight songs out, then I wanna do an album. But my next song is gonna be really soon as well, and it's actually gonna be more Spanish than English. And it's a totally opposite from what I posted from now. Yeah, uh it's totally opposite, and I'm curious to see how people are gonna react. But it's gonna be more like a dancing song.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Like a song that's gonna fit uh some Spanish show. You can put it in Spanish show. That's what it's gonna, that's what it sounds like. Yeah, so that's exciting.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. So uh I know when you when you get that done, you please shoot that my way so I can, you know, I can push that before you and get that heard. Because I I like what you're doing and we need some, you know, a little bit of different feel and vibes out here, so people can be like, oh yeah, yeah, we really got something we're working with.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

I want to talk about your what was it like working with Joe Capo Kent on your uh, you know, as you as you can see, uh that I told you, he's three-time Grammy nominated. He was working with Nelly, with Drake, with Chris Brown, with really big nine names in the industry. I feel like blessed to work with him. And actually he's husband of he married to my boyfriend's sister. And that's how I got to him. So it's that's that's what I'm saying, that it's so crazy that I I feel got every like he fitting everything on the right. That it's gonna be basically, you know, he learning my my way. Because it never was like that easy. Uh it was really hard in back that time, but I continue, I didn't stop. And and then now I feel like, you know, really getting the way, the right way. So he we he's really professional. He helped me with everything, like set up everything, him and his wife as well, Kalanda K. She's the one that's helping me to do all the, you know, the legal stuff, all the copyright. And they taught me a lot in this industry. And thanks to them, I can I can really release my own songs now, and I really know what I need to do.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

Well, that's that's good. I'm glad that you got some some people that that really. look looking out for you because of And the next song is with him too. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

All right.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Looking forward to that. You know, I'm glad that you got that that a s good situation where you got people that are looking out for you 'cause a lot of people don't do that in the industry and a lot of artists sometimes don't read what they got and then they get in these bad con contracts that they can't get out of. Yeah. So it's good that you have the people around you that you align with that can help you get to where you need to get to because I I believe when you get your songs and and everybody hears hears your voice and everything, people gonna really fall in love with what you're doing.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

Yeah. Yeah and then you know a lot of times you can sign on a contract and it's gonna be a really bad contract for you and you're stuck. So I'm really scared to sign on contract before I made them every time I had I I had options to sign I had another people that want me to sign but I didn't want to sign because I was scared. I was scared um I don't know these people I don't know if they want you know something bad for me or something better for them and I don't know it's scary. Even in my country I had people that wanted to sign me and I didn't want to get signed because I don't know them. And I also didn't know anything about the industry but now I know better. So now I if somebody comes and want to sign me I would be I will know better.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

I like it. And and I just want you to stay stay like that so that like you don't that you you know and I don't feel like like you working with you know all stars and stuff you're not gonna get taken advantage of so just you know doing what you gotta do. Did you think that your songs would impact would make an impact like they had no when I released actually my first one I really didn't know because it was my first song.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

So I really didn't realize I was like okay it's my first song I I'm always trying to put myself on the ground so I'm not gonna you know be dreamy and think it's gonna go you know explode and then I'm gonna be disappointed. So I prefer not to be disappointed and just think it's gonna be okay. It's gonna be like you know nice but then if it's coming and become high then I'm getting surprised and I'm enjoying it. But yeah at first I was I was in shock. I thought it's gonna be you know like few thousand people gonna hear it. And then I saw the interviews I got and press release and all the presses putting you know press out there I was I was in shock. And then the second song I I felt you know a little bit better than the first one because it's my second song and I saw what my first song did but I didn't know it's gonna be three times chart. On three chart I I didn't know I thought I was like I hope it's gonna get one of the fifth ones you know between the fives because I don't know if I can make a number one because you know I just had my last song on number one. So yeah I was I was really surprised I sent message to my team I was like oh my God oh my god he got number one on three different charts yeah I yeah I like I like that I'm glad that like you know um that your your music is trending uh like it is and you know you're you're you you're being heard so pretty much like what what are the goals going you know forward like your like your four-month goal for what you would like to accomplish musically. So I really want to build my fan base. That's what I I want to accomplish right now to find more people that they're gonna find my music and meal and be able to connect with them that's that's my number one goal right now and I'm doing I'm working a lot in social media to find those people that they're gonna find my music and we're gonna build a big community that we're gonna love on each other and just be there for each other.

SPEAKER_00 25:59

That's what I do I want to do I want to do that my community is going to be uh feel like a family if you love if you love to you my brother you my sister we just the film all right and that's a good way to good way to look at how you how you how you moving and you're gonna get the the right people that you need in your corner or working with and people you're gonna be like wow working with so and so and and people gonna like yo working with so and so because you seem like you are you're you're a humble person and you just you just you just you hungry trying to put do what you gotta do.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

There's a lot of hate out there and in this world like everybody hates on on nonsense. So I just want people to really love on each other free love we came from the same place we all basically same you know uh we came from God and I just want people to love on each other and be just family a big family.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Yeah so I I think that what you what you're saying is a good thing more more artists should should take that approach and you know I I sometimes I tell artists it's not about the you know sometimes the money or whatever it's it's about the connections and if you can make the right connections that will you know benefit you in the long run that that's gonna say hey I'm gonna work with them and they they put you on the kind of kill this is a good person to work with then you're gonna always you're always gonna have work because of of where you're at and and what you're trying to do. So um I guess so what is your mission to create a safe space to music where people can feel seen, understood why is that mission personal for you?

SPEAKER_02 27:42

I it's because it I like I said I feel like a lot of there is a lot of hate in this world and I feel I I would like to make this world better. I feel like I've been sent from God here to really help people and just to make it a little bit better than like like in the past in the past we had more innocence in us and it's getting worse with the years and I would like people to be more innocent and you know and in my songs I want him to feel like they they they safe they can really hear my my songs and my lyrics and to feel okay to say what they feel and how they been through stuff. And feel like not feeling ashamed to to say what they've been through and what they feel like and feel like I'm their safe place. Whenever they feel sad whenever they feel something not good with them they can send me a message they can hear my music and I would love to be there for them. That's what I do with my music.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

So uh how does it feel to be I know like even what you're talking about in your music but how does it feel to be to be vulnerable to let people to let people into your your world it's kind of scary I'm not gonna lie because it's uh when I said okay let's release this song then I realized oh my gosh I'm actually getting it out and everybody's gonna see it and I was more shy from the people I know not from people I don't know because I was what they gonna think you know they're gonna read it and my cousins for example they're gonna know stuff about my family that they didn't even know and like what they're gonna think what they're gonna they're gonna go to my parents talk to them about that maybe so I felt like I don't know but it was too late. I already said I'm gonna release that. And it was already the song was ready. Only after the song was ready I realized what I did. And I was like I guess I need to do it and it's gonna be releasing for me. So I'm just gonna let it out and and now I feel slowly more comfortable to write songs. And a fun fact actually I can write stuff like that in my language because I feel more vocal when you speak it in your language it's like more direct like it's more easy to say to somebody in different language I love you because you don't really mean it it doesn't really feel like you know in your language if you're gonna say I love you to somebody some team. It's not feeling the same way. So it was easy for me and yeah that's why I always love to write in English because it was easier for me to express myself.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

So when you when you heard your music uh for the first time like on like on the radio stations or some of these these shows I ha out here how did you feel oh of course it feels amazing every time it surprises me surprises me every single time when I hear it I I just feel I accomplished what I wanted to do and I feel proud I feel proud of everything I've been through because it's not easy. Yeah I agree hard so how has uh faith played played in your healing journey faith yes I would say faith build everything for me because because I believe that I'm gonna succeed that I that's that's what I my mission here that's my uh basically what I need to do and that's why I I get where I get because everything God directed me. Every time I try to get out from this industry somehow I came back. Every time I was like okay maybe my dad is right I could I can do it. He don't want to help me and I can't do it by myself it's very hard and every time I was like okay so maybe just stop and I was just doing videos for myself just posting on social media singing just for fun you know because I love music and somehow every time I get back to that I find some producer some people that want me to sign me sign me in some photographers videographers and somehow I get back to this yeah how do you believe that music can genuinely heal people? Yeah the people that really love music they do. I feel because you know uh sometimes you have stuff you don't even realize that you're in that kind of position and when you hear the music and you hear the words sometimes you feel so related and you and you understand that actually that's what you've been through. Like whatever you hear right now in the lyrics that's what you're going through right now. And you don't even realize that until you hear that kind of music. So I I when I said I love to put said music it's helping me to cry and get everything out.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Right. So after you get all these emotions out and I know that you have uh your two songs that you came out with but how did it feel to just get all those emotions out and you know on on pen, paper and just vocally and and just arranging and put it together and then just just sit back and just listen to it. Did you have moments that like you would like you know you cried you smiled you laughed what were the emotions like for you?

SPEAKER_02 33:14

So actually from my second song when I got the mix after I got the mix the first time I got the mix and master like when the song is basically ready and when I was recording it it was sound totally different. It wasn't sound like that because we we recording on a really bass beat and then they adding all the stuff to it. But they don't really need me there they just want me to record it and you I go home they come into an another day session and just uh the producer coming and adding all the stuff he wanted to add and doing the mixing the mastering. So when he sent me that he was like this is the uh mix and mastering just hear it I was hearing it uh I was waiting I had it in my phone but I was uh busy and so I said I'm gonna wait but when I'm gonna get home and I'm gonna hear it in you know in silence so I can really get into it because it's very personal song for me. So I was really emotional about that and I wanna really hear it you know in a good environment I wanted to be on silence alone. So I put the earbuds and I yeah I start I was I was all my hair was like you know I was shaking I was oh my god that's amazing and I started crying and I think that was the moment yeah that's what was the moment I was like oh my god I can't believe I'm gonna actually release that like because I was really into the lyrics I was hearing every single thing I was saying there and I was like I cannot believe I'm actually gonna release that and everybody's gonna hear it and that was the moment I was getting scared after I cried so who have been your biggest influences in music I will say Saude and I really like Ariana Gwande and Billy I'm following a lot uh uh Tate McRae are already uh now as well. Tate McCray is doing a great job recently in this last year ever since 2021 she has been doing great she releasing amazing music so I'm getting a little bit from everything you know Ariana Gwande I really love her briefings and the way she writing her songs and Biaish of course she's a really great great artist and I love also how she produces her music videos. She's very creative right and I'm a I'm I love acting as well so I'm trying to get more acting in my music videos.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

Okay. Yeah so what collab do you have any like collaborations that you that you are you know that you would love to like do in the future or now yeah I would love with a we're gonna she's amazing I think our voice is gonna be so good together because my voice is more deep and her is very high.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

So together I think it's gonna be amazing amazing uh vocals together I yeah I can I can have a lot of I I have a lot of ideas what we can actually do if we was doing the song together.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Alright so check this out our Ariana Grinder Tara is out here and she's she's she's um she got she got the she got the voice and she humble so if if you look in the sign or work with you know hit her up on on Instagram and and y'all y'all set something up. Yeah I would love that she's also look so sweet person I think she she seemed like she she's a nice person to to work with and you know I I feel like if y'all y'all got together y'all definitely gonna make a classic. Yeah. So as we we get to the towards the end, just want to know where your fans can find you at if you have any shows coming up that people can show that your fans and supporters can show up to and you know show you some love.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

Yeah so you can find me I have a official website which is teaale.com there you have all the links for all my social media but also on social media you can find me as Taya Ale and I don't do shows not yet because right now I'm working on a new music and I don't have enough music to really put for a show to build the show. So we wanna wait that I'm gonna have enough music until we I'm coming and gonna do a show. I don't want to do covers and you know mostly covers and then only two songs of mine. So yeah we're gonna be we practice it for the show definitely I'm uh doing more like dancing and singing and actually today after I'm finished this phone call I'm going to another place to sing uh my song all right all right yeah yeah uh we're looking forward to hearing hearing more from you I'm honored that we stopped through because you could have been anywhere else in the in the area but you decided to stop through and and show love on the show.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

Like I tell any any artists out there that make sure that you support everybody just don't support people because you want to be supported because everybody it's half a voice out here. Everybody wants to be heard. So it's think about how would you feel if people didn't support you or or whatever because it doesn't take nothing but two minutes or less than that to like share a post of s uh somebody performing because you never know where that leads you lead anybody to.

SPEAKER_02 38:40

So any other words that you have before I before I close out I want to say thank you for inviting me, for supporting my music, for liking it and for all the words like whatever you when you say that you love my music, that you enjoy it, that it sounds powerful and I appreciate that I appreciate that a lot yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

I appreciate I appreciate it I thank you for that uh so I just want when you do drop your music you know you you come back here and pretty much I give this offer to any artist um that we come back we drop your your your your album we we play it we let you talk about it you know we push it and all that so that on here that's the goal to get to get you heard to get you seen and and also so people can you know tune in tap in support stream and so this was an incredible conversation tonight. A huge shout out to Tyre Ella for coming through and sharing her story her heart and her journey with us tonight. From overcoming life changes adversity to turn turning pain into powerful art. Her music continues to connect with people in a real and authentic way. Make sure everybody goes out streams Rainy Day and Don't Love Me. Available now on all streaming platforms from Tara Ella or social media support independent music and continue showing love to artists who create from A G One place. This is AD and you're tuned in to Indy Pusha Radio where independent voices matter. Until next time peace love and harm thank you all right so I appreciate it um just looking forward to what you got coming out where where can I see these so what I'm what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna send you the video uh it's gonna be on Apple Podcasts and other podcast streaming so you'll be able to download it your your supporters and be able to download it and uh just just get your numbers up just send you the link and everything and you can send it to everybody and they can download your interview.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Perfect thank you so much. Yeah and I will definitely let you know when I release my last my other song Okay I'm looking forward to it. Yes enjoy your night all right you too thank you bye bye bye bye