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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How ‘Sailor Song’ Singer Gigi Perez Turned Tragedy into Universal Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Gigi press is a
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  Speaker 1: scent to stardom is due in part to her undeniable
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  Speaker 1: ability to channel deeply personal experiences and traumas into her music,
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  Speaker 1: and most famously with her potent single Sailor Song. But
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  Speaker 1: Gegee's entire new album, At the Beach in Everyday Life
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  Speaker 1: is a collection of heartfelt, haunting songs and exploration of
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  Speaker 1: the grief she endured, and while it's her own personal journey,
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  Speaker 1: she thinks she knows why it's resonating with so many fans,
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  Speaker 1: telling The New York Times, I feel like I have
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  Speaker 1: a certain badge of experience that has opened a really
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  Speaker 1: deep kind of pain that is possible for anyone to
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  Speaker 1: go through. It was after Gigi lost her first record
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  Speaker 1: deal that she was forced to return to her childhood home,
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  Speaker 1: where she isolated in her bedroom to write and record music,
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  Speaker 1: adding it wasn't until there was nobody, there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: going on that the bigger questions started to come. I realize,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so scared of death. I don't know what I
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  Speaker 1: believe in. I don't have a sense of stability. But
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  Speaker 1: Gigi didn't shy away from those hard emotions and instead
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  Speaker 1: allowed herself to explore them through music, and when she
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  Speaker 1: posted a snippet of Sailor song, the massive reaction made
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  Speaker 1: her realize how many people could relate at the beach
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  Speaker 1: and everyday life is out now that's direct from Hollywood.