Hello there. I am Eva Walker, your host of Audioasis, and I am here to bring you a podcast for the

sound-off semifinals that's going to be happening. I have 12 finalists on the playlist today

that I want to play for you. The first one is going to be a hip hop artist. Actually,

before I go into this, I'm going to do this in sets of four. So I'm going to talk about the first four

artists, play the songs, another four, play the songs, another four. So you kind of know how the

structure goes. So let's get into it. I'm going to start

with an artist, a hip-hop artist from Port Orchard, Washington. This is Alex Kade. Alex Kade had a love

for music at a very young age. His father helped to expand his musical horizon, introducing him

to the finest from diverse genres, which is awesome.

It's very important to have big influences from all over, right?

These influences made their mark on Cade's craft, and when he graduated from high school,

he started passionately pursuing his musical destiny.

So I'm going to play a song from Alex Kade called Wusha.

That's going to be the first song.

The second song is going to be from a band called Baja Boy.

And they are a synth pop performer out of Tacoma, Washington.

Christian Taylor writes and performs and produces and records his own solo material,

which is under the name Baja Boy.

At 15, Taylor produced his first album.

This collection of songs combined with lyrics on broken relationships, loneliness, and coping

in the modern world, with a soundscape of swirling, bubbling, commanding sense, groovy guitar

tones, cool beats, big bass and dreamy effects.

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