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Hello and welcome to another installment of the Midnight Meets podcast.

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It's quite a healthy collection we're building,

and this particular episode is with Sananda Matrea.

Now if the name doesn't ring a bell, it's because he first sprung the fame across the globe

with the album introducing the hard line according to Terence Trent Derby,

which came out in 1987. It was huge. In my life, I was only 10,

and to this day I still love every track on it. If you let me stay,

sign your name, dance, little sister, and wishing well.

I think it was probably the biggest track on it, actually.

But it's a name that he doesn't like to hear these days let alone talk about.

So it was a really probably quite a unique episode of Midnight Meets

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