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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Sombr Found His Greatest Success by Linking His Past with His Present · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Even though he's been on the scene for a minute,
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  Speaker 2: Somber really arrived last year thanks to Undressed and Back
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  Speaker 2: to Friends, and we can expect more from him in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's definitely an exciting artist to keep an eye on,
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  Speaker 3: but he actually hit.
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  Speaker 4: A rough path between his viral hit Caroline a few
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  Speaker 4: years ago and these more recent hits where nothing he
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  Speaker 4: released seemed to be cutting through until.
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  Speaker 3: He realized that he had to change something about his process.
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  Speaker 2: So he started working in a really fancy studio with
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  Speaker 2: producer Tony Berg. Shout out to Tony, who's a big
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  Speaker 2: time for having made hits with other singer songwriters like
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  Speaker 2: Fiona Apple and Edie Brikel. But it wasn't working, so
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  Speaker 2: he kinda went backwards. He recreated his bedroom studio setup
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  Speaker 2: and works alone to start on a pretty primitive recording setup.
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  Speaker 4: And he tells American Songwriter that's not to say that
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't still work with and respect his producer.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so now he makes a full song alone then
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  Speaker 3: brings it into Berg studio and lets Tony be honest,
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  Speaker 3: this is bad, this is great, This needs a better
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  Speaker 3: bridge his.
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  Speaker 2: Goal is to impress Tony, so he's basically bind really
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  Speaker 2: both those paths, both those worlds, and look at the
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  Speaker 2: success that brought him back to friends.
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  Speaker 1: Love it.
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  Speaker 2: It's out.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.