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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Getting Dropped by Her Record Label Made Gigi Perez the Artist She Is Today · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Gg Perez is riding high this year thanks for her
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  Speaker 2: smash Sailor's Song, which has been to stream more than
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  Speaker 2: a billion times, already three MTV vm A nominations and
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  Speaker 2: more likely to follow at the Grammys.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't that long ago. Only a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years prior, she was in a very different situation.
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  Speaker 2: She'd lost her first record deal, and while it forced
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  Speaker 2: her to move back home first, then she actually credits
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  Speaker 2: that era as crucial to her growth.
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  Speaker 1: And confidence as an artist.
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  Speaker 2: She tells NME that period of time was so important
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  Speaker 2: to me. It was so formative. It allowed me to
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  Speaker 2: experience what otherwise feels like a very deep failure as
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  Speaker 2: an artist, to be in that position of getting.
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  Speaker 1: Dropped by your label. The best part about it is
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  Speaker 1: nothing happened.
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  Speaker 2: I woke up the next day, had air on my lungs,
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  Speaker 2: got to ride my bike and be around my family.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the ultimate blessing.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that truly stands is connection to the
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  Speaker 2: person next to you. My success comes down to that,
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  Speaker 2: the words of gg Perez, and the music started to
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  Speaker 2: pour out as soon as she stopped trying around at
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  Speaker 2: the beach and every life is out now direct from Hollywood,