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Music Life: Distinguishing what you love from who you are with Mia Gladstone, ROMderful, Maiya Blaney and Emmavie

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Distinguishing what you love from who you are with Mia Gladstone, ROMderful, Maiya Blaney and Emmavie

25/02/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Music Life, Distinguishing what you love from who you are with Mia Gladstone, ROMderful, Maiya Blaney and Emmavie

Mia Gladstone, ROMderful, Maiya Blaney and Emmavie discuss the pain of songwriting, being the vessels for their art and music, defining success and being nerds.

Mia Gladstone is a New York based singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and programmer. Her genre bending style incorporates the cutting up of Jazz, Funk, and R&B, before reassembling it for the social media age. Promoting messages of self-acceptance, compassion, and creative freedom her Loopy project in 2022 explored gender, identity, social media, and the complexities of the human mind.

Rommel Donald, better known as ROMderful, is a British producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer on the rise. Currently based in Seoul, South Korea, his slick, woozy, and experimental production style blends Pharrell Williams with Flying Lotus.

Maiya Blaney is a singer from New York who released her debut album 3 in 2021. She writes about the nuances of human connection and emotion, and how they play big parts in the machinations of everyday society, soundtracked through the influence of jazz and soul. She also collaborated with Mia Gladstone on her Loopy project.

Independent R&B singer Emmavie says she’s "addicted" to music, and that being an independent artist means working every day “with no PR, no label and quite often with no money”. She’s collaborated with the likes of Kojey Radical, Alfa Mist, and fellow guest ROMderful.

Together they discuss the pain of song writing, processing emotions, being the vessels for their art and music, defining success and being nerds.

In part two, ROMDerful shares a playlist of music he’s called Different Parts Of Your Adventure On The Road. It features tunes from Louis Cole, Hello Yello, Children of Zeus and Poom.

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