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You Won’t Believe Where Bebe Rexha Says She Got Her Singing Style · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Phoebe Rex's powerful voice
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Speaker 1: has frequently been compared to jazz singers, and her vocal
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Speaker 1: melodies that she writes herself often float over the music
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Speaker 1: like a jazz trumpet solo. And that's not by coincidence.
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Speaker 1: It was due to a faithful moment in her childhood
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Speaker 1: where she didn't get what she wanted but might have
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Speaker 1: gotten something better in the long run. She tells Interview Magazine.
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Speaker 1: I played trumpet for eight years growing up, and I
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Speaker 1: was in a jazz band and I wanted to play
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Speaker 1: the piano so badly, but my parents couldn't afford it
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Speaker 1: or the lessons. The only instrument left to rent for
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Speaker 1: free New York City was the trumpet. I started thinking
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Speaker 1: about that recently because in some of my songs like
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Speaker 1: Die for a Man. When I seeing my melodies, I
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Speaker 1: really think they came from playing the trumpet. Phoebe's new
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Speaker 1: album Better Mistakes is out now. That's Direct from Hollywood