Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. It's week four of our compilation episodes and this week it's all about music.

We've had some incredible guests on the show from the music industry and today's episode features DJ and broadcast legend Trevor Nelson, singer-songwriter, Poppyuda, DJ and Breakfast Radio host, Charlie Hedges, and singer-songwriter Fleur East. Enjoy.

Thank you so much for coming in today. I was so looking forward to having you here in the studio.

Thank you for having you. And know how busy you are right now. So I guess, I don't even know where to start with you, Poppy, but I guess it'd be great if you could take us back. I know that you grew up, as I said, surrounded by music. Is it actually true that you grew up in a nightclub? And can you tell us how you first got started in the music industry?

Everybody latches onto this. See, for me, it felt really normal. But then when I hear other people's

childhood, it's really not that normal. Yeah, in some respect, that's true. I lived between my mum and my dad's

house and my dad owned a nightclub. So when I stayed with my dad, I would, yeah, be upstairs.

And like when I'd go to bed, the bed would like shake from the base.

Yeah, it would like keep me up at night.

And yeah, that was just part of my life.

It didn't ever feel weird.

I'd kind of, I'd come downstairs in the middle of the night and there'd be

like a full rave going on and someone would lift me up and be like, David, your daughters, come downstairs

to go to bed. And so I was really used to as a child, one, hearing lots of different types of music,

but also being around a lot of people and I think that helped with my energy as a person. I'm very like easygoing and I love people

and I love actually I find it quite hard to be alone and I think that's probably because I'm used to

being around people a lot so I think it probably formed who I am quite a lot. Yeah and then how did you

go from that so from sneaking down into the into the discovering, I guess, your voice, your sound and yes, getting started yourself?

I think it was something that I always wanted to do and I probably didn't realize that that surrounding was part of that because I was always singing and I knew the words to almost all the songs that ever

existed at that time. Even now I can sing along to like any lovers rock roots reggae tune and not

even know what it is just because when I was a child. And so I think that had played a big part

in it. But then also I just,

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