Yara Shahidi

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333 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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10% Happier with Dan Harris · When You Don't Know What You Actually Want: How To Say No, When To Say Yes, and The One Question That Cuts Through It | Yara Shahidi · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Yes, I actually recently used the glockenspiel in an audition tape that I sent in.

It wasn't even requested as a part of the tape.

Rarely requested, but it was so fun.

I'd have to say I'm bad at it.

I'm not good.

And also for anyone listening, it's just a fancy word for a xylophone.

I love using glockenspiel.

It makes it sound so much more official.

But I am such an amateur music hobbyist.

My room is full of things that would indicate that I'm the next musical prodigy that I'm not because I have a ton of things that I don't know how to use.

So a glockenspiel, I have a full set of DJ equipment.

I have a talk box, which is the kind of OG auto-tune that you'd plug into a keyboard, and there's this great video of Stevie Wonder playing.

playing his talk box while on the keyboard.

And so I'm just so tickled by music.

I'm so moved by music.

I think I'm so impressed by any art form of creating where it's like you had nothing in front of you and you created something.

As actors, oftentimes you're at the end of that creation process.

where somebody has written the script already or has kind of thought about the world that you're going to occupy.

So that's why I'm a glockenspiel enthusiast, because it's a nice mix of being able to pursue my love of music while also not taking it too seriously.

Because whenever I find myself about to take it too seriously, I sit here like,

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