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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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At what point do you walk away from your dreams? Kashy gave himself a deadline: if he didn’t become a pop star by the time he turned 25, he’d give up music. But years after he left his music career behind, the universe gave him a second chance, thousands of miles from home.
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0:29.6 | Ever since he was little, |
0:31.1 | Kashi Kekin had just one dream. So the dream was to be heard, you know, for someone to listen and |
0:40.0 | and I wanted to do it as a career, right? I wanted to be a recording artist and that is a big dream obviously. |
0:48.6 | When he was in his early 20s, he put everything into music, all his money, his time. |
0:55.0 | I didn't socialize at all. When I wasn't working, I would be in my parents living room writing songs. |
1:05.0 | He was living with his parents in England and working in a hospital. |
1:09.0 | Some of that money went towards helping them with their bills and mortgage, |
1:12.0 | but everything else went towards making |
1:14.3 | making songs. He'd rent out a recording studio that had discounted rates for a |
1:19.2 | very specific reason. The studio was a converted toilet actually in, yeah, it was called the loop hole. |
1:30.0 | But initially I thought he he the loo-hole. |
1:34.8 | Kashi didn't have a lot of knowledge of the music industry. |
1:37.7 | His dad was a postman and his mom worked in a factory. |
1:40.9 | So his goal was just to get his music in front of as many people as possible. |
1:45.0 | He'd rent out the studio for about $50 an hour, and each song would take at least 12 hours to record. |
1:51.0 | So you can see how quickly it adds up. So wait 12 hours 50 that's like what like |
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