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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Niall Horan

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Willie sat down with Irish singer-songwriter, Niall Horan. You might know him from his start with One Direction, but he's now continuing his solo success with his second album called, "The Show".

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of The Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:10.0

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:13.4

Very excited to bring my conversation with my guest this week.

0:17.2

He is Nile Horan, the platinum-selling superstar of a musician, formerly of One Direction

0:24.2

who has completely broken out on his own to massive success and out with a new album called

0:29.1

The Show.

0:30.1

Now, I am of the age where it was my young children who were One Direction fans and they

0:34.6

got kind of put the guys in the band into that boy band box.

0:38.7

And so when the band broke up seven or eight years ago and everybody kind of spun off

0:42.8

to do their own thing, they were grid with some skepticism.

0:45.9

Can they stand alone?

0:47.2

Are they just boy banders?

0:48.4

How good will they be?

0:50.2

Obviously, Harry Styles has gone on to Super Stardom and Nile Horan, the Irish singer-songwriter,

0:56.3

has just wowed everyone with his talent for writing songs, playing the guitar, the piano.

1:02.0

He's a true musician now standing on his own for the last several years, had a chance

1:05.9

to show that.

1:07.0

Also just happens to be one of, I have to say, the nicest and most charming guys I've ever

1:11.3

had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with.

1:13.4

So even if you weren't a huge One Direction fan or maybe you don't even know Nile's solo

1:18.8

music that well, I think you'll really get some cool insight into song writing into what

1:23.8

it was like to be inside the bubble of that One Direction phenomenon that took off

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