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Darryl Craig Harris, and Music Tribes Unite.

Hi everybody, this is Darryl Craig Harris, Music Matters Podcast. I'm here at the London

Jazz Festival at the beautiful Toulouse La Trek Jazz Club, which is a great place,

fun intimate venue, and I have Laura, I.D., I.D., okay. See, I thought I was at the

beginning, I didn't get it. So yeah, I wanted to talk about being at the London Jazz

Festival, your music, which I was checking out today. It's great. It's interesting

because you're more than just only jazz, you're kind of world singer-songwriter.

Yes. And also too, you split your time between Athens and London also. So tell me

about that. Okay, yeah. It's a big, it's a lot to cover. No, no, you go me in a nutshell.

So yeah, it's funny because I, obviously I was influenced by a lot of music as growing

up. So I am predominantly a singer-songwriter, but I love to incorporate elements of jazz,

which is what I studied, and folk, and indeed, so it's older. And yes, to answer a second

question. So I was born in a race in Greece, but my family's very multicultural, my mom's

Canadian, and my dad's, yeah, from Lebanon. So I'm kind of based, yeah, between Athens and

London at the moment. I was living in London until recently, and then COVID hit, and I decided

to relocate back to Athens. Oh, okay. So every opportunity I get, for instance, this

is the first time I play the Jazz Festival. I took it. So I'm here to do that, basically.

So yeah, actually it's interesting too, because I mean, obviously Greece has a huge cultural

movement with art and music, and also Lebanese too, but it's music and the food is amazing.

Yeah, it is, right? It's actually a really interesting mix, and you hear that in your music,

because like I said, it's kind of to me more, it's almost like world, it's kind of an interesting

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