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wherever you get your podcast. Oh, Hey everyone welcome to the show this is talk easy. I'm Sam Forgricoso and thank you for being here. Today is

part four in the finale of our Stones throw series and it's with the musician

Sudan Archives. Sudan is a violinist, singer-songwriter, and producer now based out of Los Angeles.

But she got her start playing music at the age of 8 in her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.

It was there that she played alongside various school and church choirs.

In time, after doing all that you can do in music in Cincinnati, everyone around her told her to pursue this

art form, that she had real talent.

She eventually took their advice and moved out to LA only to sign a deal with stones

through pretty soon after moving here I think it was six to eight months the way

she describes it is kind of an incredible origin story.

Two years later after making her EP called Golden City on an iPad in her parents' basement,

she's releasing her first full-length album, a self-Titled Record, Sudan Archives. On it, she sings, plays the violin,

does some producing, does a lot of the songwriting. Before doing this interview, I had the luxury of listening to some of the

demos of it. It really is incredible original music that I cannot wait to come out later this year.

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