4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2014
⏱️ 86 minutes
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On my first meeting with Ayah Marar I got such a warm embrace of positive, maternal energy it felt like my mother, my sister, and Suzy the shaman all rolled up in one!My expectations of the singer/songwriter who tours with the world famous Calvin Harris were quickly dashed and I felt like I was hanging out with a long-time friend. She is humble, honest and real....all the right ingredients for the best episodes of London Real.
Moving from Jordan to London at age 18 she quickly got involved in the London music scene and met a very young Calvin Harris whom she would later go on to collaborate with. She tours relentlessly and released her first album "The Real" on her own label, Hustle Girl.
Ayah is a woman wise beyond her years and has a maternal energy I rarely see these days. I could quote her for days:
"London is the place where anybody can come to start."
"If something is real, you'll know it, you'll feel it."
"It's the tiniest of things about us that are so important."
"If I could live my life on stage, I would."
"When you get to the top there is nowhere else to go, so why are you in a rush?"
Please join me in welcoming Ayah Marar to the London Real family.
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0:00.0 | This week on London Real, we have the singer, songwriter, and performer Aya Marar. |
0:07.0 | I feel like London is the place where anybody can come to start. I can't even tell you the |
0:17.7 | impact that certain songs have made in my life growing up and you know how music was there for me when people weren't. |
0:23.6 | If something is real you'll know you'll feel it's the tiniest things about us that are so important. |
0:35.0 | And for me it's not really happening, it's fulfillment because who's to say that happiness is right and sadness is wrong? |
0:39.0 | I love being on tour so much. I love being on the road. |
0:42.0 | If I could live my life on stage, I'd do that. |
0:45.3 | The high is the high and the low is lower because you're doing what you love for a living. |
0:51.2 | When you get to the top there's nowhere else to go so why |
0:53.5 | are you in a rush to get to the top? Anything done with love might take a little |
0:56.8 | bit longer to get there but when it does it's there to stay. |
1:00.4 | London Real presents I am Arr, Hustle Girl. |
1:07.0 | I'm constantly paying my dues to music because I work for music it doesn't work for me. |
1:15.0 | Welcome back to London Reel. I'm here in Shortage with my man behind me. |
1:18.0 | Looks like he's called Deja Voodoo. |
1:22.0 | I'm kind of feeling this vibe and I wanted to start off this episode with a little bit of a street flavor. |
1:28.0 | You know, every now and then I have a wonderful experience here on London Rail. |
1:33.7 | That's not fair. |
1:34.5 | It happens every week, but sometimes I get super pleasant surprises. |
1:40.1 | And I got one of those two weeks ago when this lovely woman came over to my studio, |
1:46.8 | her name is Aya Marar, and I got this kind of this instant warm feeling of I don't know what it was you know like |
1:58.4 | maternal positive and just kind of loving energy I got from this lady and I wasn't really |
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