Emma Nissen
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And it was kind of just my...
Yeah, she's my muse, so.
Yes, yes.
I don't know if I fully digested it.
I, it's like some girls, they wait and they plan and they've got Pinterest boards for their wedding.
And that is just like the peak of their existence.
But this, when Tom, my manager told me about it, I was like, Tom, well, you're being way too nonchalant about this.
This is like the peak of this is, this is the best thing I'm ever going to be asked to do because Ella Fitzgerald's everything to me.
So, um, I'm just so excited.
And she like, well,
To give some background of my ear training, and it's Ella Fitzgerald largely, but before that, it was Gershwin and Debussy and Chopin and all of these classical, not that I played, but I have four older brothers.
And...
The one that's just older than me, he was probably the one that I was listening to practice the most.
And he would get up at 5 a.m.
and practice every single... He was just very, very dedicated.
And he would practice these passages for these very long and difficult, complicated songs over and over and over again.
And it would annoy him so bad, but I knew what came next.
So I could sing these like complicated Rhapsody in Blue note for note, obviously not every note because there's a lot of fingers going on.
But I would sing them and he would hate it because I would sing what was coming next, but he just needed to practice slowly.
And I realized when I was thinking back on this just the other week,