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In this episode, Aleksandra Josic and Urosh Veljkovic covered various topics, from Aleksandra's early days with music to the latest singles and info (March 2026) about the band Here and Everywhere's upcoming album.
About Aleksandra Josić
Aleksandra Josić is a Slovenian singer known for her powerful vocals and performances in rock and symphonic music. She served as the lead vocalist for the band KiNG FOO (rebranded to Here and Everywhere in 2025), a multi-award-winning rock group formed in 2013.
She has collaborated extensively with musician Rok Golob on projects such as "Simfonična Ekstaza 2," featuring live symphonic renditions of songs like "Svitanje" and "Samota." Josić also performs with groups like Here and Everywhere as their vocalist alongside guitarist Marko Zorec, bassist Andrej Hocevar, and drummer Rok Golob.
Her live shows include appearances with Big Band RTV Slovenia and the Katrinas on tracks like "Just Come Along" and "Myself in the Music," arranged by Rok Golob. In 2024, she performed "V meni je moč (Stillness)" with KiNG FOO, RTV Symphony Orchestra, and SNG Opera Ljubljana Choir at a Slovenian national event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS33DwHjM7Y
Josić released a solo single, "Never Would Have Made It," in 2025 under KUD Rokulus and featured on Metalsteel's "Križarji" from the album "Spomenik." Her bandmates note her energetic stage presence.
Follow Aleksandra Josic on:
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1157539033
- https://www.instagram.com/aleksandras_empire/
- https://www.youtube.com/@UCaXkkbUWmDzCsNrwsny5j6A
- Here and Everywhere website
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Okay guys, in the in the new episode of
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the animal podcast, we have Alexandra
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Yosich uh from uh here and every
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everywhere. Uh great band that I
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recently found out. I mean like a year
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ago, but uh they changed the name. They
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are like an older band. uh she has a
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history of uh of singing on talent shows
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and uh an extraordinary singer. Uh thank
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you thank you for coming to the show.
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>> Well, thank you for having me. Uh it's
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been a long time since we we had a chat
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about this interview. So I'm so glad
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that you that we made my days to to this
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moment. So thanks for having me.
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>> Yeah. So te tell me uh because you you
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just you just uh taught me that you are
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uh uh Italian, Slovenian and Serbian
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>> kind of.
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>> Yeah. Tell tell me your your your
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history uh behind your your your moveh
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from Serbia to to Italy and how do you
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start singing and all that stuff?
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>> Well, it's it's always beyond every
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nation. I I don't ever like connect
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myself to anything. I'm I'm a human and
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alien and I don't know everything in
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every nation I can find myself. But I I
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was born in Serbia and I was uh I was
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there until my 15th year. Then I moved
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to Italy because my parents were there.
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My brother was born in Italy in Trieste.
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Then um I I came back to Serbia and went
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on the talent show Serbia's Got Talent.
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And then again I moved to Italy.
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Then I met my band in 2015,
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King Fu. And I kind of moved between
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Italy and Slovenia. So I am an Serbian
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Italian citizen, but I I'm here in
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Slovenia with with my band uh and we're
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we changed the name and etc. etc. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. But when you change the name with
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with the band to here and everywhere,
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did you change the style also?
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>> Vision. So we were playing lots of
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covers. We were playing in Slovenia
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language. Our first album, Galaxia, were
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was like half in English and half in
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Slovenia language. So it was like I
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didn't know who I was at that time, but
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I was in the band and I was like I I
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wanted I always wanted to have a band
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and rock as well. Always wanted to have
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a band. I always wanted to be a rock
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band or something big, something
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life-changing. The music that is so deep
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and something that you can say about
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your life, you know, to to speak with
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your soul, you know, and then life
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happens in between and some
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hard experiences are in between. So the
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music was like consequentially changed
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with with the life you know in between
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and I from the very beginning I never
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liked the name King Fu to be honest and
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I was bragging about it to the band. I
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was like it's very
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funny name. It's it's I I wanted
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something special, something big,
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something that you can evolve, you know?
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I didn't want to be just one genre. I
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wanted to evolve inside of that. I
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wanted to be something legendary,
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something so obvious but so deep that
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you can be anything inside of that. So,
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I I couldn't change the name because I
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was the only one wanting it. Um but over
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the time slowly but surely
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I I got to the point and it was
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>> you won.
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>> Yes, I won.
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>> So it was last year um that rock fell at
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two because really our music changed as
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you said our music changed our vision
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changed and it was just the right time
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to to evolve. I can I can sense now in
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this uh your new music. I can sense a
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lot of styles like uh psychedelic things
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like uh like screo and like hardcore
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things like uh metal like rock like
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everything everything combined perfectly
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you know it's
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>> I don't I don't even know because we are
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very different people rock and me he's
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the main composer he composes everything
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but he's not like I always say he's not
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jamming around the songs to find the
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songs. He just puts the blank paper in
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front of him and asks, "Tell me,
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I don't know, where are you the guides
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or something? Tell me what do you have
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to tell me? I'm here to listen." And he
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like channels this music in 5 minutes.
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He has these lyrics and he just knows
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what instruments to play in that right
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moment. and like 5 at 6:00 in the
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morning I received the song and these
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songs were made in this period of time
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like from 2020
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uh like very different and hard
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situations in life and he was alone in
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his studio every single day I really I
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didn't know if he's going to survive
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because he was like very in the pain um
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alone with the music channeling every
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single day this amazing music. So then
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we were we were like listening to this
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together and I was always oh I love this
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and I love this and then we added these
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details of my voice because I could feel
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this pain and singing through this and
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he he grew up with the music of um I
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know classical music proof and Jacoski
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and then when you know rock like Toto
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and maybe some
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I don't know he was like fusion guy and
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played with Gino Vanelli and he loves
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every style of music and I brought the
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other side maybe some blues or some
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gypsy side of me you know and all of
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that combined
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it's cannot be one genre you know it's
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not just rock we have the spices of
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everything yeah
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>> yeah yeah it can be felt through your uh
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your
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performance uh not I'm not saying only
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singing But uh playing but but
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performance because because you're
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you're performative on uh
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>> on the stage maybe not the whole band
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but you are you know like uh
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>> yeah you are charismatic on on on on the
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stage you you have a presence on the
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stage that uh you know it cannot be
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faked.
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>> So uh
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>> thank you.
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>> So so also the the voice is uh something
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else you know it's like on another
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level. Uh
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>> thank you. And uh and and uh I I heard
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your that you did the Led Zepp
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Zeppelining cover and it's amazing that
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you do live, you know.
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>> Oh. Oh, I love Led Zeppelin. We all love
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Led Zeppelin. We all inspired by them
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because 70s were another time when
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people are really open with their minds
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and they were not putting music into one
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box, you know, they were really crazy
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and I really love this and I really want
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to do this with our music. I don't
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really care what people think. I want to
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be the first audience who is going to
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like this. Even though there radio
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stations in the I don't know music
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industry wants this or that. I don't
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care. I don't care. I want to do what I
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want to do. And if I need to find one
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person or I don't know how many people,
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it's going to be okay. And we have like
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a couple of loyal fans that are really
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with us from the very first beginning
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and they really truly feel this music on
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a deep deep level. So that's why we
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create and live. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Uh so uh you you have you
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recently traveled to to UK quite a bit.
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So what what's your deal with uh your
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band and uh UK? You have signed to some
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label there or something. you have uh
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album release soon, right?
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>> Yes. Yes. Uh well, with the UK, it's
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that we always wanted to the source of
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all music we love and appreciate. It's
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it's of course the world, but mostly
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it's UK uh and the UK bands that we were
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really inspired from. So UK it's like
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it's not a target. It's like home. When
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we go to UK and London, we feel like we
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are home. It's unexplainable even when
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we walk on the street. So, um we started
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going there like a couple years ago and
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uh we had some um recordings at Abi Road
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Studios, but um that thing led to
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another when we met uh Andrew Sheps,
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which is now on our album. It's mixing
9:29
our whole album. Um and he's our
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magician, how we we will call him. So
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Andrew Sheps was like I don't know one
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one of the best producers in the world
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and he has this sound that up levels the
9:46
compositions that we have. So I I'm I'm
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really happy with with all of what we're
9:52
doing now. So I I expect like our album
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to be out like in a couple of months. So
9:58
let's see. And UK stays for us with all
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of the gigs. We have beautiful people
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that are supporting us from Radio
10:07
Wigwam, from Rock Radio UK. We have
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amazing people there. So, our connection
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is is is big in the UK. Yeah. And I hope
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we were like moving there soon.
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>> Yeah. So, you probably going to be based
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there and tour Europe and maybe the
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world.
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>> The world. Let's say the world.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Let's be concrete.
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>> Uh so uh tell me tell me about the new
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single you you just released is from the
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upcoming album, right?
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>> Yes. The Embrace one. Yeah.
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>> Well, this song is so um maybe you saw
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our description that was like made in
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2020.
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Yeah, 2020. And we we were trying this
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song for many years, but we were never
11:08
happy with it. And but over the time it
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grew with all of the parts and now that
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we had Andrew Sheps on it with his
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sound, it's like we said this is the
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time even though we're releasing it
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independently. You ask if we have some
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label, we're independent fully. even
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even though I want I have a target label
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that I'm obsessed with, but I don't
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know. I I'm still hopeful. Um, this song
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is about never giving up even though
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you're in a big big big pain left by
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I don't know you can be left by everyone
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by family by friends and just um have
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something deeper that pushes you to move
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on in life and not like
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not give up on yourself and I don't know
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die. It's um it's very deep for me, for
12:11
rock who wrote it, but we found people
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who really found themselves in this song
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um with their stories because it's not
12:20
specific what is it about, but it's the
12:23
pain. So, this song is uh also very
12:26
important for us on the live shows
12:28
because I can really scream this out
12:31
when I sing this song, especially the
12:33
bridge part. So yeah, this is the
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Embrace, the the last single we released
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like one week ago.
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>> How how many
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singles do you have released from the
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new record?
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>> Oh my god, like maybe six singles. I
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think it's six or five. Six or five. But
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it's very hard because we we have rock
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wrote like 200 songs in 2 years
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>> and we have lots of things. So we're
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releasing as we feel.
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>> Yeah.
13:08
>> Yes. I know in this music industry you
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need to be strategic and just like plan
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everything one year ahead or 6 months
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ahead to have everything but we are
13:19
going with the feeling that sometimes
13:23
do not go into this plan we we had. So
13:27
>> um we released many of the singles that
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is going to be on the next album. Oh, we
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have a mix of everything. You can listen
13:36
on Spotify, on YouTube. We put
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everything
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>> online. So, yeah.
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>> Yeah. How how many how many records do
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you have until now released? I mean,
13:46
with the previous band, the previous
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name and now with the new one.
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>> Well, with King Fu, we released just one
13:54
uh Galaxia
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and as I said, it was half in Slovenian
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and half in English. and
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>> a totally different sound. It was like a
14:03
funk rock pop records
14:06
>> and now we haven't released any albums
14:09
because uh last year we changed the name
14:11
and we were going just with the singles.
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We we changed the name one day before we
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were on stage with Brian Adams and that
14:20
was the feeling. I had a feeling we need
14:23
to change the name now and I went with
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it because I I follow my instincts. So,
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>> and you and you and you played with the
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new name with Bren Adams, right?
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>> Yes. Even though all the marketing was
14:38
with a um with a previous name,
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>> I just pushed it to the limit. Okay,
14:45
please let's do this and let's do this
14:47
and and we did it. Yeah.
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>> And you got up on stage and we're now we
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are this
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>> here and everywhere and
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he never knew we were King Fu. He never
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knew. So he he met us with with a new
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name. So it was just poof.
15:04
>> Wow. Incredible. So you played with
15:06
Okay. You played with some legends. You
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played with him. You played with Ellis
15:10
Cooper, right? With Hollywood Vampire.
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>> Yeah. With Hollywood Vampires. Yeah.
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>> Yeah. That's a incredible band. Uh and
15:16
and also I remember that you played last
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year. I wanted to go to Scorpions, but I
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didn't make it.
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>> So uh how was how was that feeling?
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>> Oh, the biggest experience, the best
15:29
experience of my life. Um sometimes, you
15:32
know, in this um music um craziness we
15:38
live as u musicians, you know, you never
15:41
know what to expect because we we left
15:44
our jobs. We we left everything to do
15:47
just this 24/7.
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>> We live for this band. When we wake up,
15:52
we do everything until we go to the bed
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late at night. So it's it's this is this
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band is everything to us. And also
15:59
music. Okay. if we do another project.
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But we live for music. Um, and Rock
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always says, "I don't want to wake up um
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80 year old man and stay." Oh, [ __ ] Can
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you curse on this podcast? Okay.
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>> Oh. Oh, [ __ ] I What have I done with my
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life? I wanted to do music. I want to do
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all of this, but I I [ __ ] up. I want
16:25
to do something just for money. So, he
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doesn't want to do this. I don't want to
16:30
do this, so we're doing this.
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>> And sometimes you you never know because
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it's nothing is um guaranteed. And you
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know, you have ups and downs and days
16:42
that are great and days that are just oh
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my god, where I'm what I'm doing wrong.
16:48
and on a scorpion's concert.
16:52
Oh, there were some troubles because we
16:54
didn't know if we were going to play
16:56
because some electricity went off half
16:59
an hour before we went on stage. And you
17:02
know, life happens in between. You need
17:05
to go with it. And we have our set list
17:07
for 1 hour, but they cut the set list in
17:11
half. And they said, "You have 30
17:12
minutes." And we Oh my god, what to cut
17:15
songs? every song is so important and
17:17
blah blah blah and okay that was the the
17:21
the least um of of all of that but when
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I went to the stage our first 10 seconds
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oh my god all of the people were with me
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you know I had like 10,000 people I
17:36
don't know maybe less more I don't know
17:38
in front of me not knowing our music not
17:42
knowing anything about us and so engaged
17:45
so hyped up and I was singing to them
17:49
our music that we adore. Oh my god. And
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I said, "Okay, this is what I really
17:55
want to do in life. There is no doubt."
17:57
And I said to myself on that concert, in
17:59
that time, maybe in the middle of
18:01
concert, don't you ever doubt yourself.
18:04
This is what you're living for. Don't
18:07
forget this. You came from the small
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place called Cucho in Serbia to this
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stage with your hands working your ass
18:17
off with rock. Don't forget ever
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>> that you can do this. Just keep on
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going. So it was amazing. We played like
18:28
more than half of our songs unreleased
18:31
and the released ones they didn't even
18:33
know that. Why would they? So they were
18:36
with us the whole time. the beginning
18:39
till the end. Amazing audience, fiery
18:43
audience, juicy audience. I loved every
18:46
moment of that. The sound was
18:47
incredible. We had our sound guy with
18:49
us, Luca. We had our um amazing guys and
18:53
Tanya. So, it was incredible. Yeah.
18:57
>> Amazing. Uh good to hear that. I want to
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see some pro footage from you live, you
19:04
know, uh in the in the future, maybe.
19:07
>> Yeah. Yeah, we had I I think we have on
19:11
YouTube something like maybe 10 minutes
19:14
of uh behind the scenes with Scorpions,
19:16
but uh next time I think we were going
19:20
uh full on with a whole group of um
19:23
directors to to film this properly.
19:26
Yeah.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I I know how
19:29
it is. I I I did play with my band for
19:33
almost 25 years now. And we and we did
19:36
have some I'm a drummer and we did have
19:40
>> You're a drummer.
19:41
>> Yeah. And we and we did have some
19:43
highlights like we played with Whit
19:45
Snake and with Judas Priest.
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>> You told me.
19:48
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it was
19:50
like, you know, it was uh incredible
19:53
like just like that, you know. It was
19:55
>> Yeah. So uh uh tell me now something
20:00
about the this project that you are
20:02
doing now. She rocks. What's
20:04
>> what's what's about that? What how how
20:07
is it happening? It's Ljubljana.
20:09
>> Yeah, it's in Ljubljana. Well, it it's a
20:13
very interesting project because it it
20:15
was never made. We were like searching
20:18
for this but it was never made u before
20:21
with 12 female singers on stage, you
20:24
know.
20:25
kind of singing rock music. But it's not
20:27
just it's rock music, but it's mainly
20:30
the rock inside of you that is just
20:34
every every singer is like
20:38
one of a kind authentic uh character
20:40
that is going to bring something on
20:43
stage. So uh we were playing a festival
20:46
in Slovenia called Castle and after the
20:50
show we were in a backstage and um a
20:53
girl called Maya there is organizer of
20:56
this project came and she asked okay uh
21:00
you know I had this idea of bringing
21:02
many many female singers into one big
21:06
project. Are you in? because when I saw
21:09
your performance right now, it was like,
21:11
"Wow, just I I want you I want to have
21:14
you there." So, we were like, "Yeah, of
21:16
course." But we were never like taking
21:20
her hair seriously because, you know,
21:22
people really talk
21:24
a lot. We met many people in life that
21:27
like just talk and nothing goes from
21:30
there, you know, just ideas and ideas
21:33
and you really have to have um like
21:36
courage balls and to put something to
21:39
the finish. So we start talking last
21:42
year maybe November or before that I
21:45
don't remember. So um it was like
21:50
growing slowly. We started with with
21:53
just the band and then Rock who is like
21:55
a music producer of the concert. Uh he
21:59
like told us okay let's do with with an
22:02
symphony orchestra because it's going to
22:04
be even bigger and juicier and better
22:07
and something than really never has done
22:09
before. So we're like 12 singers amazing
22:12
singers. They're more or less like uh
22:16
rock and pop and some of them are like
22:19
soul singers and but it's going to be um
22:24
everyone every singer is going to have a
22:26
spotlight with some songs original or
22:29
cover. We're going to sing together.
22:32
It's going to be amazing because we have
22:33
a badass rock band and symf orchestra.
22:37
So, it's going to be 2 hours or more of
22:40
of a big show. Big show this Saturday.
22:43
>> Also, it's in a few days. Okay. Yeah.
22:46
>> Yeah. And I'm going to sing Whit Snake.
22:48
Uh, it's one of the songs. I'm going to
22:50
sing Still of the Night. So, it's going
22:52
to be
22:53
>> Wow. Oh, you're going to crush those uh
22:57
those high pitch vocals.
23:00
>> Yeah. I love them. I can't wait for that
23:02
part.
23:03
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
23:04
Yeah. I can envision you play singing
23:07
Coverdale or or even maybe Sebastian
23:10
Bach, you know, in Skidro.
23:12
>> Yeah, I never sung that, but maybe.
23:16
>> Oh, they have they have audition, you
23:18
know. You can you can play.
23:19
>> Oh, no, no, no. I'm not saving my band.
23:22
>> Never ever in my life. I love my band. I
23:26
love my name now. Oh,
23:28
>> yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. It's a
23:30
great band name. Uh, by the way, I I I
23:34
recently, not only recently, but some
23:37
time ago,
23:38
>> uh, I I I noticed Dino Dino Yellowich
23:42
shared your your videos, and he's a
23:45
he's a he's a friend. He he uh I met him
23:50
few times, you know, on backstage in
23:52
some uh some shows. I I love that a
23:55
great vocal talent shares another great
23:58
vocal talent, you know.
23:59
>> He's amazing. We met him last year in
24:03
Serbia. We went on Gino Vanelli's
24:07
concert. I don't know if you know Gino
24:08
Vanelli because I am new to him as well.
24:11
Uh Rock worked with him and produced his
24:14
album and they were collaborating on
24:16
Rock's album. He's an amazing fusion
24:18
artist and singer from um I think from
24:22
Canada, but he lives in uh in America
24:27
right now in USA. So, uh, Dino is a big
24:30
fan as well. So, we met him there, but I
24:33
think he I I think we talked before on
24:37
the internet or something. So, yeah,
24:39
he's amazing. He's one of the best male
24:42
vocalists,
24:44
>> vocalist at this time. He's a badass
24:47
vocalist. Yeah. Yeah.
24:48
>> Yeah. I I I thought of Dino because he
24:51
was in Whit Snake, you know, in the last
24:53
lineup. So, we were talking about Whit
24:54
Snake and that's how I
24:56
>> Yeah. Well, he can sing anything. He's
24:59
just like
25:00
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Uh and uh uh
25:06
now that we talked about Philarmonic
25:08
also, uh I I I know that you sent me a
25:11
video where you play Macedonian song.
25:14
>> Oh yeah.
25:15
>> And some other stuff with Phil Harmonic
25:18
orchestra a few times that you sang that
25:21
song. That's amazing. And how how did
25:23
you end up singing those songs in Phil
25:25
harmonic especially yon it's
25:28
>> well yon has started like from the very
25:31
first beginning of our uh king fu bands
25:35
>> we we wanted to do we always wanted to
25:38
do something special even with covers
25:40
you know we were playing mashups and
25:42
strange things um yo yo was like one of
25:47
the best songs we really felt and we
25:49
were playing like a bit like psyched
25:52
Delic rock uh just with the band and
25:55
then over the years I think we had some
25:58
private shows with the symphony
26:00
orchestra in Maribore and I remember the
26:03
set list was set in stone but rock said
26:07
oh my god
26:09
I truly love how you sing this and I I I
26:13
need to do this arrangement I and I
26:15
remember we had rehearsal I think at 9
26:20
in the morning in Maribboard
26:22
And he went
26:24
one day ago writing the whole night the
26:27
arrangement for a whole orchestra for
26:29
Yon crying crying how good it was. And
26:34
he said to me, I did this and I really
26:37
wanted to do this and I I cannot wait
26:40
that we we perform this song because I
26:42
truly feel it. And his arrangement is
26:44
just like it's really emotional.
26:48
This song is emotional and his
26:49
arrangement is emotional. So it's double
26:51
emotional, you know.
26:52
>> Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
26:54
>> And and that's um how it started. Then
26:57
we played a lot with the band again. And
27:00
then last year when we were um uh in the
27:03
competition of San Marino for
27:06
Eurovision, we had this um they asked us
27:10
to prepare for Euro Vision uh before the
27:14
finals, you know, because there was not
27:17
the time in between if we won the finals
27:19
in San Marino, there was not the time in
27:22
between to prepare all of the material
27:25
that Eurovision asked you to prepare,
27:27
you know. And so before that, one month
27:30
before we had to have all of the things
27:33
required. So one of them was like you
27:36
need to show something different from
27:38
your band. And what to show? We are
27:41
always with the symphony orchestra
27:43
because rock is conductors. He studied
27:46
film music in um Los Angeles and he's
27:49
like composer for the orchestra as well
27:52
and everything. So we said, "Okay, let's
27:55
let's get the orchestra for this." and
27:58
record as many songs as possible. And we
28:01
got the academy where he was the
28:03
professor of film music. And we got this
28:05
orchestra for I think 3 hours or 4 hours
28:11
or something maybe 3 hours because they
28:13
had a class or something. And this uh
28:16
professor that was with them said,
28:19
"Okay, I can give you this couple of
28:21
hours that I had with them so you can do
28:25
whatever you want." And we brought four
28:28
songs and we brought our friends with
28:32
phones and one um friend which was like
28:38
are making photography for us but we
28:41
said okay let's just film film this even
28:44
though you don't know just film this.
28:46
So we had one take for each song because
28:50
they had to rehearse before that. So it
28:52
was rehearsal, let's film it, rehearsal,
28:55
film it, rehearsal, film it. It was like
28:57
a striking. Maybe it was even 2 hours. I
29:00
don't remember, but it was like very
29:02
short time for four songs and we did yo
29:05
yo. I was like, "Oh my god." And I
29:08
didn't know how it went because I I
29:10
didn't hear the stuff and anything. It
29:12
was like just do it and fake you can see
29:14
everything.
29:16
So um and every time I watch this, it's
29:19
it's
29:20
>> so it's just life there. It's not uh
29:22
it's not pre-recorded, right?
29:24
>> No, it's one take.
29:26
>> Amazing.
29:27
>> It's one take. And our friend who was
29:29
the sound guy, we we called him a couple
29:32
of days before, you know, we we need all
29:34
the microphones and can you come here
29:36
and and let's just do all of this and
29:39
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
29:40
>> You know, and it was just like one take
29:43
uh with um young people who was who were
29:47
playing in in school.
29:48
>> Yeah.
29:49
>> Amazing. that that's uh that video is uh
29:53
like a will become a cult video, you
29:56
know.
29:58
>> Well, this video it brings me goosebumps
30:00
every time and even more because we had
30:03
the plan to to release the song and the
30:07
video for one date and a day before
30:11
happened the the tragic thing in
30:14
Macedonia in that club where people died
30:17
and it was the same day. Oh my god, it
30:20
was very even even more emotional
30:22
because of that because it was
30:24
everything in the club in the music and
30:26
people died and why? So it was uh I
30:30
don't know life is life is strange?
30:34
>> Yeah. So you you listened later, right?
30:37
>> Yeah. No, the same day.
30:39
>> Oh, the day after. The same day. And I
30:41
wrote the special message for all of the
30:44
families and everything because it was
30:47
like really emotional because it was on
30:50
YouTube already. I I couldn't change
30:52
anything. The the PR was everywhere and
30:54
so
30:56
>> Yeah,
30:56
>> it happened. Yeah.
30:58
>> But that video is that you know the song
31:01
that you are doing is incredible. The
31:05
singing style, the uh the orchestra,
31:07
everything, the arrangements.
31:09
>> Okay. Um uh what's your what's your
31:12
future plans besides the album?
31:15
>> Well, I have um like many notebooks that
31:20
uh I use every day with all of our
31:23
visions that we have. Um well, the main
31:27
goal with all of this what we're doing
31:29
is
31:31
we're doing the music we love. Uh no
31:34
compromises.
31:36
um from the heart every day creating. We
31:40
want to play in every corner of this
31:43
earth as um if it's possible to to bring
31:48
the music everywhere we can. Um of
31:51
course um I want to connect as much with
31:54
the UK and we already have people who
31:58
are really feeling our music on a deeper
32:01
level. I want to release like minimum 10
32:06
or 15 albums in my life with this band.
32:10
Really minimum. I really want to release
32:12
music and create music. Uh rock is for
32:16
me one of the best composers I have ever
32:20
met from the pop rock contemporary
32:24
aspect to the classical orchestral
32:27
aspect. So, I'm fully like um I'm not a
32:32
composer. I truly am not. I can write
32:35
some lyrics or something and I can work
32:38
with him on some details, but he's
32:42
really he he lives for this when every
32:44
day this is his life. He's meant to do
32:47
this and he has this in his hands. I I
32:49
really struggle writing. I'm a performer
32:52
and I can sing his music because I feel
32:54
like it's mine, like I live this. Um,
32:58
and we had like really like life
33:01
experiences that were similar so I can
33:04
feel what he's feeling and vice versa.
33:08
And the plan is to to put this music
33:11
everywhere to find our people who are
33:13
going to feel this to to do these
33:16
concerts to meet people to I know I'm
33:20
idealistic maybe or has super happy
33:22
about this and I know this music
33:24
industry is sometimes even scary
33:27
nowadays you know it's [ __ ] creepy
33:29
now what you see with people what
33:32
they're doing in the USA
33:34
>> but um I want to stay in my in my world
33:38
and find my world because I I I feel
33:41
there are people who can feel this and I
33:44
love music. I love discovering music and
33:46
connect with people, you know, even when
33:49
we open for Scorpions, I want to tour
33:51
with some artists. I want to tour alone
33:55
and with some artists and be on
33:57
festivals and I have many plans that I
34:00
write every day. And you know what I do?
34:03
I prepare for the tour even though we
34:05
don't have any tour. You know, I work
34:07
out for the tour. I warm up my voice
34:10
like for the tour. I jump around the
34:12
house for two hours straight, three
34:14
hours. Like for the concert, I prepare
34:16
set lists and set lists.
34:18
>> It's something that I see it's already
34:21
there, but I need to
34:23
>> Yeah.
34:24
>> connect. It's going to happen. It's
34:25
going to happen.
34:27
>> Yeah. Uh it's going to happen for sure.
34:29
Thank you for for this uh great
34:32
interview and uh and uh for being a
34:36
great guest and we'll do it again with
34:37
uh something uh you know when you have
34:40
something special again you know like
34:42
tour or like uh another album.
34:44
>> Yeah, of course. Well, thank you for
34:46
having me. It was great chatting with
34:48
you. Great interview and um we're going
34:51
to do another time and welcome uh
34:53
anytime you have time you can come to
34:55
our concerts.
34:56
>> Yeah. Yeah, I will. I will visit
34:58
>> when you're around.
34:59
>> Yeah. Yeah, I will. I will catch some
35:01
concerts of yours. Yeah. Thank you.
35:03
Thank you, Alexandra.
35:04
>> Thank you. Thank you, Raj. Bye.
35:06
>> Bye-bye.