(337 PART 2) Zak Abel on performing at the Coronation Concert with 72 hours notice
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome back to Private Parts, the podcast where nothing is off limits.
We are back with another Friday episode for you all to enjoy. This week, Jamie is joined by table tennis champ turned singing sensation, Zak Abel.
Zak shares his story about nearly losing his hearing aged 21, the impact this had on his mental health and how this affected his ability to sing. He also shares his wisdom with Jamie about how he’s learned to accept his ear condition.
As well as this, he tells Jamie about his past life as a table tennis champ when he was a teenager, and how he was only able to connect with himself through music and exactly what happened when he got THAT call up to perform at the King Charles III Coronation Concert.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome back to part two of Private Parts. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, get ready for part two with Zach Able. |
| 0:10.2 | How do you harness nerves, because I imagine going from doing table tennis and doing that |
| 0:17.0 | then to doing music and performing at the coronation and all these things, you must be able |
| 0:22.4 | to harness stuff. |
| 0:23.4 | How do you do it? |
| 0:24.4 | So nerves are not in your control. |
| 0:26.9 | There's my perspective. |
| 0:27.9 | I love this. |
| 0:28.9 | Teach me. |
| 0:29.9 | So same as tennis is completely surrender to them. |
| 0:33.7 | The more you try and fight against it, the more nervous you're going to make yourself |
| 0:37.2 | and the worse it's going to feel. |
| 0:39.4 | There's absolutely nothing you can do in like the few hours before you go on stage. |
| 0:43.7 | You just chill out, do some deep breathing, whatever. |
| 0:47.4 | Just do what makes you happy. |
| 0:48.6 | Go and hug some friends. |
| 0:49.6 | So you just accept it. |
| 0:50.6 | Accept it. |
| 0:51.6 | But the only thing that's in your control and this is the same thing with sport or anything |
| 0:56.0 | is prepare. |
| 0:57.2 | So do the best you can do for going on stage. |
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