Special Guest and exclusive interview with singer-songwriter and award-winning chef, cookbook author Giulia (Julia) Millanta and host Jim Masters on this episode of The Jim Masters Show Live! entertainment, lifestyle, celebrity talk show series. Maestro of both music and cooking, the dynamic multi-talented Giulia (pronounced “Julia”) Millanta, hailing from Florence, Italy, serves up a delectable feast for the ears and the palate! After moving to Austin, TX in 2012, she has performed at popular music venues throughout the US and Europe, and has also become known for her intimate culinary house concerts where she is both the chef and live performer for exclusive audiences. This spring, Millanta brings together both of her passions with the unveiling of her ninth album (and inaugural Italian/English release), Only Luna Knows, along with her Italian cookbook Dinner with Giulia – Flavors, Songs and Stories of a Florentine Troubadour, on April 19, 2024.
Millanta crafted all 10 songs on Only Luna Knows, alongside collaborators like Miles Zuniga, Massimiliano Larocca, Gabriel Rhodes, and a touch of Chavela Vargas whose song she translated into Italian for her track “Chiar di Luna.” With a wide mix of influences from opera to Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, as well as traditional tunes from the UK, Italy, the US, and South America, the new album displays the artist’s penchant for the dark, sensual, mysterious “and even dangerous,” as she puts it.
Constantly jet-setting between Italy and the US, Millanta found music, food, and the ever-reliable moon to be universal connectors, bringing people together across oceans and borders. It was natural for her to combine both her cooking and her music in house concerts with dinner, which she began creating in Austin since 2017. As word spread, demand grew for her culinary live music events, and thus came the idea to release both a new album and cookbook together.
Critics have raved about Millanta’s enchanting vocals, with Mike Greenblatt of The Aquarian calling Millanta “an Austin powerhouse whose every album combines singer-songwriter smarts with absolutely lovely melodies, lyrics that make you think and a voice that feels,” channeling Piaf, Lady Day, Norah Jones, and Madeleine Peroux. Peter Blankstock of Austin 360 praised her “worldly, sometimes otherworldly sound,” making her a standout in Austin’s vibrant singer-songwriter scene. The Austin Chronicle lauded “earnest and baring, her songs glean a tactile intimacy that swell with heart.”
Equally high are the praises about Millanta’s authentic Italian cooking. Her “Dinner with Giulia” events have garnered an outpouring of rave reviews, such as these: “Such exquisite Italian dining (from Florence, Italy) in your own home! BETTER THAN DINING OUT!!!!” (Kathleen Clark)
“Her food is AMAZING!” (Amy Baranauskas)
“The experience was unforgettable and underscored by Giulia being such an interesting, talented and delightful person.” (Bob Rakeb)
“Giulia’s dinner was just fabulous – my guests are still talking about it!” (Paula Albin Reynolds)
Giulia Millanta delivers a unique musical and culinary experience with her new album Only Luna Knows and cookbook Dinner with Giulia promising a symphony of flavors and sounds.
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there you are everybody behind that big
logo the gim master show is on the air
good to have you with us Jim Masters
here reporting for Duty in the host
chair in the New York area in the United
States thanks for joining us everybody
hope you guys are doing well wherever
you’re watching all around the world we
love having you here thanks for stopping
by our entertainment lifestyle celebrity
talk show series we’ve got an
extraordinary guest uh we’re going to
make you hungry because she’s a
professional chef she’s a cookbook
author and she’s a singer and songwriter
yes it’s going to be music and song and
food and you’ll also learn how you can
actually have dinner with our guests
there’s a way that you can have that
with something special she does which
I’m very excited about I know we sort of
teased that uh the last couple of days
as we were playing planning this episode
of the gym master show so cool stuff uh
she was born in Florence Italy her name
is Julia milant she’s an extraordinary
singer songwriter she’s doing this for a
good number of years she’s very
passionate about music but also about
food and sort of marries those two
worlds together you imagine food and
music and wine and uh I think I’ll take
some right now can I have some of that
right and uh yeah it’s It’s a Wonderful
marriage of the Arts with the culinary
arts and uh we’re to tell you about the
opportunities to uh you know hear her
music and also at the same time maybe
have some of her incredible food as well
she is a brilliant artist and it’s
really exciting to have her here she’s
coming to us again she’s originally from
Italy she’s coming to us from the great
City this is a terrific place if you’ve
never been I was at a PBS conference
there a couple years ago Austin Texas a
great music vibe there and uh a great
place to go for just all kinds of music
you know Austin’s just a great growing
city uh in Texas with uh
Multicultural Vibe that’s really
influential in the Musical part of
things really just cool place and that’s
who she is but she was born in Florence
in Italy in the beautiful Tuscany region
of Italy and Julia is an award-winning
Americana singer songwriter professional
chef and author based in Austin she
plays guitar upright bass as well as
ukulele she sings in four languages
English Italian Spanish and French Isn’t
that cool that’s really really fantastic
sings in all those different languages
and maybe we’ll even hear a couple of
those languages well we know we’re going
to hear English but maybe a little
Italian Spanish and French may we
sprinkled in she’s going to P perform
live for us as well gang we’re coming at
you live on scripted free flowing
conversational style as an artist she
has released eight solo albums to date
and has collaborated With Many Music
luminaries such as guitar player
Gabrielle rhods who’s worked with Willie
Nelson and Billy Joe Shaver and so many
others we’re going to talk about that
she’s uh performed and toured
extensively in the US and UK and Europe
sharing stages with 10,000 Maniacs and
Squirrel Nut Zippers and and many many
others we’re going to also talk about
the fact that um she was uh selected for
an official showcase at folk Alliance
International 2022 in Kansas City here
in the USA and she is charted on top 50
albums on the folk Alliance
International folk chart as well as at
top of The Roots Music reports top 50
contemporary folk airplan chart say that
five times fast and the Texas airplan
chart she’s an author as well she’s
published two books uh between the
strings and uh rapure and also the April
2024 book releasing of course a really
cool book The Italian cookbook dinner
with Julia flavors songs and stories of
Florent Florentine trador which is what
she is and that is uh in conjunction
with the music and the new album her
ninth solo album her sixth in United
States only Luna knows so the cookbook
and the album uh which is something
really really special and we’re very
excited about telling you about that as
I mentioned in addition we’re going to
show you the cookbook and the album and
all but in addition to being a fantastic
singer and
songwriter going to make you hungry she
is a brilliant chef and there is an
opportunity to find out how you can have
dinner with Julia she actually has
something quite special in addition to
of course the cookbook and there it is
on the screen she uh she does these
wonderful dinners with music weaved in
which is something really really special
uh as a professional chef this isn’t
something she just does on the side she
is a professional chef and the cookbook
everybody’s been raving about this uh
opportunity to get that cookbook and of
course only Luna knows and there is the
album uh cover the this is great music
coming your way and there’s a lot more
music as I mentioned uh singles that she
has put out as well uh over the years
that have really really kicked it with
everybody everybody’s loved her music
it’s Unique sound it’s a very special
sound and again it’s Americana in a
really fantastic way she puts an
incredible spin on it so she is again a
very accomplished singer songwriter Chef
cookbook author musician extraordinaire
as I mentioned she plays
multiple instruments she’s a real
multi-instrumentalist and um she when
she’s on stage she knocks it out of the
park she truly does if you get a chance
to see her perform on stage you’re going
to love it folks she’s on fire uh her
songs are moving her songs are poignant
her songs have a fabulous message but
they also uh get you to kick up your
heels and just get moving and get the
blood flowing at the same time and I
think that’s so awesome she’s loving
life and uh we are so honored to have
her here she’s poised again to play some
music for us as well which I think is so
really really cool so without further
Ado as we talk about the food and we
talk about the music and we talk about
the new cookbook and the album and all
the cool things that are happening in
Julia’s life let’s welcome her together
put your hands together everybody
virtually and let’s welcome our very
special guest Lov Hall the gym master
show Julia Banta is here Julia welcome
to the gym master show it’s a pleasure
to have
you how are things in Austin a little
toasty well a little toasty and a little
wet we just had yeah we just had a
thunderstorm that kind of shakes things
up right yeah we’ve been having a lot of
rain lately which is very unusual for
Texas but we need it so that’s good the
weather lately has been crazy all over
the map so you just got to go with it
and make the most of it and you know you
have been doing that uh really all your
life tell us about growing up in the
beautiful Tuscany region in Florence and
some of those Italian influences that
not only influenced obviously your
culinary prowess but also the music
growing up uh in
Italy did you come from a musical family
was there always music on in the house
what were some of those early influences
for you
well there was music in the house in the
sense that uh my father used to play the
guitar and sing he had a beautiful voice
my mom would play piano not necessarily
together but she she was a she used to
play
piano my sister as well would play the
guitar so I grew up singing a little bit
with my dad and my sister but nobody
nobody in the family is a professional
musician I’m the only I’m I’m the black
sheep
um they were
um yeah there was so there was music in
the house and there were lots of really
cool vinyl records that I started
listening to at at a very young early
age and so and and they were all over
the place from you know traditional
South American music to classical music
to Pink Floyd to Simon and Gar funcle so
I grew up just listening to all of that
and um did you listen to um some of the
you know like pavati and some belli and
any of that or you went more towards
Popp and rocking folk and some of that
that those sounds huh well
belli belli is a later thing I I can’t
remember when he became famous but um no
not not Pavarotti not b um I used to
listen to Opera I actually at some point
was even um was was also taking uh class
classes as an opera singer as a
soprano then I decided it wasn’t for me
but um I love classical music I I used
to listen to mozzer and betoven my I
used to go to the symphonic orchestra
and the Opera with my grandparents so I
was exposed to a lot of different stuff
not just folk or Blues well not not not
Blues really but bluesy or you know but
mostly singer songwriters a lot um not
very many jazz artists I would say
mostly it was music from all over the
world in different languages and
classical music so what came first for
you was it uh the musician or the
singer I guess the singer there’s a
creepy recording of me somewhere still
in the family at age five singing
scarber fair oh really my dad my dad
would accompany me on the guitar and I
and I was sing at age five it sounds
like a creepy horror movie honestly
where you about to get stabbed by a doll
or
something that would actually go viral
today you better dig that out and upload
it right maybe that would be a hit today
the way the world is absolutely so uh so
then the of course the singing first
what was the first instrument for you as
I said you are you’re a
multi-instrumentalist and you play I
mean I started out with the violin like
a age13 and then went with guitar and
we’ve done some some piano how about you
because you you play several what came
first for you well um in school we do we
we we we were kind of forced to play the
flute which I never liked um then my my
dad taught me a few chords on the guitar
on a nylon string guitar that’s still in
the house at my mom’s place um but my
first real my first love my first real
passion was uh playing
drums and I I I I took a year of drums
and I was I was kind of good I was 13 I
guess at the time there was this boy
that I really really liked and he was a
drummer so I started I started learning
but but I I fell in love with it yeah
and I was pretty good but then my
parents you know in in Florence in Italy
we were also we were like in New York
City we’re so packed in apartments and
my parents were like there’s no way
we’re going to buy a drum set forget it
about it we have 11 guitars one piano
five flutes pick another instrument it’s
not going to you’re not going to be a
drummer I was like okay so I went back
to the guitar and um piano yeah I just I
can put my hands on it but I’m I’m not a
Pianist in any shape or form but um but
you know that that year of um drum
lessons was uh was very um was was
significant ific for me and I think that
I kind of started Translating that into
the way I play guitar a little bit
because I have a pretty rical way um
with my right hand and so maybe maybe I
still am a little bit of a drummer boy
girl and when I play guitar when did the
ukulele come into the
mix oh I was gifted one I was playing
this Festival uh in Sana Italy back when
it doesn’t exist anymore unfortunately
it was such a great Festival I I met so
many amazing artists there including
Jackson Brown and we were backstage
together he he came to my
showcase um that was really great but um
name dropper
sorry but um someone good name good name
to drop yeah I’m not a name dropper but
that’s really like that was so special
to to meet him I felt so so privileged
anyway at this Festival there were so
many great artists and
um and uh uh different guitar Boo and
and uh different brands and and a friend
of mine gifted me this tiny little well
ukulili are tiny this but it’s a
resonator ukulele so it’s like a
national guitar but ukulele and so um I
don’t have it in this room with me I I
forgot it downstairs because otherwise I
would have shown you um it’s a tiny
little little thing and and has a really
great sound and so I started messing
around with it I don’t play it very
often because when I play solo I play
guitar but I’ve been playing it um with
other people or you know every now and
then I’ve been writing a few songs on
it yeah it’s fun yeah what I think is
cool too is you you sort of Mel the
worlds of music and culinary arts
together in many different ways when did
this interest in culinary in food and
and wanting to immerse yourself in food
and becoming a professional chef too
along the way sort of enter your life
Julia oh well I have a little bit of a
problem with with calling myself a
professional chef because that sounds so
important and I am I mean yes I do it
and and people pay me to do that so I
guess I am professional yes you are but
I don’t we’ll say it for you
yeah you do that uh I I don’t even call
myself a shiff I call myself someone who
loves food and loves to I love to cook
it’s a way for me to take care of myself
and the people I love and it just
something that I rediscovered once I
moved to the States because you know I
kind of felt the need to get closer I
guess to to who I am and um and you know
sometimes you get homesick or sometimes
you have a not so great day and what do
you do POS is the answer right I mean or
anything so and and
also cooking is is a is a such a is such
a creative form of
Art and something that I can touch with
my hands I create something that I can
eat and put inside my body because most
of the times 90% of my life I create
things that don’t even exist you don’t
you can’t touch them they’re just
vibrations so it’s good sometimes to
just do something so physical like okay
I’m G to make bread it feels good to you
know to put my hands in the dough and
and then to eat
it what do you think of the American
diet coming from you know Italy in the
Mediterranean which is the diet that
everybody’s saying we should be eating I
can only imagine what you think about
you know poptarts and
Twinkies I mean it’s okay every now and
then I think unhealthy obviously and I
think that we all know better and also
sometimes
Americans tend to be a little to go from
one extreme to the other and they all
like no carbs like carbs are okay you
know carbs are we need carbs our brain
needs carbs you know it depends on what
you do with them and how much you eat of
them so it’s you know the med I don’t
want to just be one of those hyper
patriotic person that’s like oh the
Mediterranean diet is the best you know
the Japanese diet is probably really
good too I’m just saying that it’s good
to the way we eat is is we eat
moderately and we eat everything
everything in moderation I think that’s
kind of My Philosophy about everything
everything in moderation exactly don’t
don’t sacrifice but enjoy it in
moderation and like with everything in
life that’s the way to really do it
right also because when you start
depriving yourself and you take
something away then then you want it
even more yes and and then it becomes a
problem and you start craving things
that are just normal just just eat some
chocolate it’s okay don’t eat like a
massive amount of chocolate every day
but the more you you starve yourself the
more you you’re gonna just go for the
junkiest food ever and that’s going to
be really hard on your body sorry I’m
going to get off my soap box now no but
I just wanted to reiterate that our very
special guest Julia said uh everybody
eat some chocolate I know the viewers
are like yay and pasta I eat pasta
several times a
week yeah you know the I’ve talked about
it on the show too one of the weaknesses
for me is uh it’s the Irish part of me I
love mashed potatoes h a potato just
sort
of they’re comfort food it oh comfort
food so of my favorite on the planet
right food music humor art all very very
healing right music is and food are
very yes absolutely you have found a way
to blend those two as well because in
addition to the music career which is
fantastic you have you know dinner with
Julia and a wonderful way for people to
experience your amazing food but also
you know like a a performance and music
sort of intertwined and weaved in it
tell us about what you’ve created and of
course congratulations too because
obviously you have a ball you can see in
the kitchen uh well you can actually
people can take advantage of the
opportunity to have your food sort of
dinner with Julia and
also a like a concert mini concert music
tell us about that that’s a very cool
combination it all started really by
accident and every time I say that
people kind of laugh about it but it
truly is because I was that was I guess
2014 and I was running a fundraiser for
my record you know just getting some
funds to because putting together a
record and producing everything costs
money and so I needed some support and I
so one of those online fundraisers
fundraisers where you have different
rewards so they call it for the people
who donate and the highest tier for you
know however much money that was I can
remember was well thank you so much for
all this money you’re giv me I will
thank you by coming directly to your
place and I will play music for you and
I will cook some food and so that thing
just bam without even advertising about
it it just became a thing that people
you know Word of Mouth people are like
oh can you do that at my place for my
friends oh can and so I started getting
requests for this thing and eventually I
was like wa okay let’s call it something
and let’s call it dinner with
Julia and uh and and you know slowly but
surely I elab I put together a menu and
uh and it’s something that I don’t do
too often because I don’t want to get
burnt out I just I want to keep enjoying
what I do but um it it happens fairly
often and and I just go that that’s one
of my uh friends places one of my super
fans um k& D um I don’t want to say
their name yeah maybe I don’t know but
K&D and uh and I was just making some
food for them and and they’re friends
and what were you making it looks really
good food the red one is a a putanesca
sauuce oh yeah for pasta and the other
two it’s the same thing but divided into
two pots because I wanted it to cook
more evenly and it’s a it’s a it’s a
beef stew that um marinates for like 6
hours in Cy wine oh my God and it’s slow
cooked it takes a long you won me over
right there with the beef stew oh boy
talk about that comfort food is so good
tell us about we’ll talk about the album
too but tell us about the cookbook and
congratulations you decided to put some
of these recipes together are these
Family Recipes have these been passed on
are these your Creations is it all of
the above tell us about it and
congratulations on it thank you thank
you it’s all of the above um lot a lot
of them are just recipes that I learned
from my mom my aunts my
grandmothers um there are some pictures
in the book uh I have it right here um I
figured I might as well have it close to
me and and product placement is very
important I I didn’t so I obviously put
pictures of the recipes but I also there
are some stories behind the scenes and
this is one of my grandmother’s they are
lyrics so it’s called dinner with Julia
just like the event because it has the
recipes but also lyrics of my songs and
if they are in Italian there’s an
English translation and there are you
know
on this is my all the women or some of
them women in my family and and the
behind the scenes of my guitars or why
and how I wrote a song and you know
that’s the other grandma and so on and
so forth so it so these recipes are a
part of me they’re a part of my history
and story and um and you know so many
times I’m like you know I I might call
my aunt going like hey how would you do
that do do you remember that thing that
you made that day what was it and how
you know and then I start trying new
things out and obviously there are
there’s a bunch of other recipes that I
just created or reinvented on my own
just because I like to cook I work when
I’m home I’m work I work during the day
and then you know in the evening I just
go to my kitchen and put something
together anything I just like to cook
for
myself exactly yeah did you do a lot of
cooking during the
pandemic we everybody was baking bread
then a lot of sourdough bread well
actually during the
pandemic that boom lightning bolts
Thunder during those days yeah that we
all enjoyed some quiet time at home I
started doing um a cooking with Julia
thing uh it was on Zoom people would
would just pay a a they would just give
a donation and um and we would cook
together so I had two I had set set it
up to where I had two cameras one on me
one on my stove and um and I would send
the recipe and the ingredients before an
before the before the our appointment
our lesson and so people could cook
along with me and you know as as I would
go they could stop and say hey wait a
second I I haven’t done this yet how do
you slice this how and so we would cook
together and then at the end while
people were eating I would play a song
or two so it was like a virtual version
of dinner with Julie and people really
like that and in fact that’s when it
when they started asking me to share my
recipes and I was like I don’t know if I
want to share my recipes um but I guess
I will and so so the book dinner with
Julia came to life but I didn’t share
all of my recipes some of them you’re
going to have to book me to come to you
exactly right I can’t all my secrets so
I say how would you like to have an
opportunity to have dinner with Julia
and uh it’s really a great idea it
always makes me think because of my
years on public television uh you would
have loved to have met the other Julia
Julia Child with her dinner with Julia
and cooking with Julia and so much more
it sort of brings that together um and
and the French flare and flavor that
would have been quite a meeting as well
huh yeah who are some of the chefs that
um you have admired over the years my
grandmothers seriously like nothing like
home cooking right yeah I I I really so
I haven’t owned a TV for I I don’t know
20 years um so I I’m now one of those
who watches what ever comes on TV and
cooking shows I I don’t obviously I’ve
seen some some documentaries and some
shows obviously I know of different ones
like Anthony bouran and how do you not
know of him um but I don’t really I
don’t really follow anyone I again I
learned a few tricks from my
grandmothers mostly and my aunts just by
hanging out in the kitchen with them and
now what I do is just it just me
do you like to bake too baking is a is
it’s a real art form isn’t it it’s it’s
complicated I’m getting you know I won’t
lie I I I won’t say that I can do it
there’s a couple of things that I do
well like you know the fuka with
tomatoes uh the the PESA style the other
day I made a a glutenfree bread because
I wanted to try that for a friend of
mine so I I make bread how’d that come
out pretty good you know the gluten-free
flow has a slightly different taste and
the the texture of it is different but
it’s pretty good I’ve I’ve eaten the
past couple of days and and I like it um
so I do bake um I make you know there’s
a breakfast bread that I make for myself
because I’m lactose intolerant and egg
intolerant so I make this breakfast
bread with chocolate chips or
cranberries depend or or or everything
and it’s why are we not doing the show
at her house
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well actually eating and having some
wine as we’re doing this well one next
time next time at this point because
I’ve I’ve I’ve done some TV lately you
know ad you know talking about the
record and the book and I’m like I
really like this I would like to have my
own TV show and do some you know cooking
and music and interviewing people and
have other guests but you don’t watch TV
well I don’t have to watch it I can be
in
it I can be in it but I don’t know what
time it’s on don’t ask me what time it’s
on or I’ll just be in
it yes I like that tell us let’s get
into the music part too because
obviously you have a real passion for
The Culinary um when did you come to the
states to America and that was probably
a really did you come alone did you come
with other family that’s quite a move
you know to come to uh America the land
of opportunity and to you know sort of
make your way uh here in the
state well that was
um officially when I moved here was 2012
but I’ve been I’d been visiting before
then um the first couple of times I I
came to the States was with my father
because he was a professor at the
University and so uh he would go he
would attend symposiums and conferences
and so I a couple of times I went with
him that was when I was like a teenager
um but when I came so I I just I just
came to visit Austin because I had met
people from here and I just wanted to
check it out because I had heard so much
about it and so I came to visit uh once
and then I I and then again then again
and I stayed a little longer and then
finally was like maybe I I just want to
spend a little time there and see what
happens cuz I I
was it’s very different obviously from
Florence where I was raised but um it’s
different from the East Coast it’s
different from anything I’ve ever seen
different from California yeah but I
felt really welcomed and and at home
there’s a really which is weird again
it’s just
like it’s so different but there was
something like energetically that made
me feel drawn to Austin and and and
veryable Vibe yeah
yeah lied exactly do You Keep Austin
Weird oh I do my very best for anybody
that doesn’t know that’s sort of like a
slogan in Austin Texas and you’ll see it
on shirts and mugs and bumper stickers
Keep Austin Weird uh it really I was
there at a PBS conference and we got a
chance to go to some of those forget the
names of the streets but there’s a
couple of streets there where they have
all of these um uh venues clubs bars and
all and the doors are all open and if
you walk down the street past every
single one of them they’re all busy and
they’re all packed but you’ll hear all
different kinds of music and there’ll be
people that are performing inside them
some are local some come from other
parts of the country and you’ll you just
walk down the street and you hear all
these different Vibes all these
different styles and genres of music
which is really really interesting it’s
um it’s definitely a growing city for
sure Aus yeah yeah and it’s not that
weird anymore I must say no the rest of
the the the entire well that’s because
it’s normalized the entire world’s weird
now yeah I know everything is weird
lately so so it just normalized um
congratulations too Julia on the music
we talk about the cook book but uh you
got 10 songs on only Luna knows tell us
about this as we have just experienced a
solar eclipse
recently and we have a love of the Moon
tell us about
this well what can I say I mostly am a
night
owl and I’m just I’m I’m fascinated by
the moon her color her face the man on
the moon the and how the moon affects
everything and and also you know if you
think about
it the time of
day in which people
feel the most comfortable sharing their
secrets or having meaningful
conversations or sharing stories it’s at
night because that’s when we feel more I
don’t know protect Ed maybe there’s an
intimacy yeah is that when you’re most
creative is that when you start to
really get inspired to write music and
was it in the evening when the the house
is quiet the computer’s off the phone’s
not ringing you don’t have emails and
texts to respond to you can really sort
of quietly
Focus yeah there’s not really a time of
day um sometimes it can be evening or
night middle of the night sometimes
which is like really now oh gosh now I
have to get up and write this down um
but it can be any any time of day but I
love storytelling otherwise why would I
be a songwriter if I wouldn’t love just
I I have a a passion for stories both
you know telling stories and hearing
stories they just so magical and and and
those that there’s something so magical
that happens at night and it doesn’t
happen any other hour of the day
and why why only Luna knows because
because the Moon is is the witness of
this she knows everything she hears
everything you know I I’m a big dreamer
not not Daydreamer like I dream a lot
whenever I manage to sleep because I’m
not a I’m not very good at that how many
hours do you get a night you think oh I
don’t know it just it’s so disrupted I
fall asleep I sleep 2 hours then I I
wake up I’m in bed tossing and tur then
I fall asleep again then I wake up it
just it’s hard to
tell I have an overactive mind obviously
and um yeah yeah how do you try to Comal
it what what you know with all that
you’re doing what are some of the things
that you do to sort of calm temper to uh
sort of reboot unplug what are some of
the things that you do to sort of bring
things into a more balanced peaceful
mindset well I started just simply by
banging my head against the wall and it
wasn’t working and it it was hurting me
I’m kidding um
mostly just you know with a prime pin um
no I mostly I I have a a pretty strict
routine of meditation and
journaling and and uh mostly those two
things meditation and journaling and I I
Journal morning at night um just to you
know I I to get into a practice of of
gratitude and uh acknowledging the good
that’s in my life and also getting
things out you know just emptying my
brain and and it’s important to put it
on paper because it really feels like a
relief but then meditation is when you
learn when you really get to detach from
your thoughts
and and just let them go and so that
that’s mostly what I do but sometimes I
just have to get up and do some laundry
or or vacuum the carpet you know
sometimes it just comes to that the
basics of life right the things just
because I’m like I can’t sleep I might
as well clean the carpet you know so
then my question to you then Julia is
how do you meditate if you’re so
overactive and overthinking and you got
to be busy and you got to be how how do
you how have you trained yourself
because that’s something I’ve been
working on too because I’m always like
when I’ve been with groups of people and
experts who are really you know
specialists in
meditation when I first started doing it
and it’s a beautiful thing it’s a very
important thing to do but when I first
started doing it I was sitting there and
they’re like you know close your eyes
and envision you’re in a canoe going
down the river with a golden retriever
with you or something you know when you
were 12 or whatever and I would just
hear the person saying that to me versus
visualizing anything and and really
allowing myself
to relinquish
control to
meditate how have you been able to learn
to to meditate being such a creative uh
and forward moving
person
well uh like they it’s a practice they
call it they they say practice medit
meditation because it is a practice and
like most things it just needs time um I
started just by doing some guided
meditations which I found helpful
because you follow a voice and it’s
easier to you know to shift uh from
listening to your voices to listening to
a different voice and then
um you know and then I I I I try
different different um methods if you
will but um but right now I just I just
sit
quietly and I I just I either listen to
my breath or I just sit there and and um
you know thoughts
happen because that’s what the brain
does the problem is when you start
following your thoughts and and you you
start chasing them down the street and
you end up at the end of the street you
know so when you practice meditation you
just you you see the thought and and you
just let it go I’m not a meditation
teacher so I don’t really know how to
properly uh share this but I guess it’s
just for me at this point is just just
being quiet and still and allowing for
whatever needs to happen to happen and
and practice non-attachment like okay I
have this thought um it’s scary you know
I’m I’m gonna be honest last night I
started thinking about
death I think everybody does at some
point you know not at some point because
I’m I’m about to die I don’t know maybe
but thinking of your own or the fact
that that we all do or yeah this comes
to an end and yes I’ve had those
thoughts too I had those thoughts even
when I was a kid the realization and
understanding that wait a minute
everybody you know in these rooms in our
house at one time or another all these
loving people that one by one were all
going to just disappear what what what
what what’s all this why doesn’t
everything you know Lollipops and Roses
then why do we go through all this if we
just right you know and it’s kind of
like uh so when you think that it could
even Inspire your music too when you
think that does it scare
you well it’s not the most comfortable
thought to have obviously um and I don’t
think it it surprised me last
night because it had been such a long
time since the last time I I as a kid I
came relate to that gym because I as a
kid I used to think about death pretty
often and but in later years it it had
been sort of subsided yeah yeah I don’t
even remember last time I thought about
death and um or or better yet I think
about death in the sense that I’m fine
with it I’m going to die people will die
and I think about my death as a as part
of my life and as a way to be the best
human being I can possibly be and live
every day as if it was the last one and
honor that but I I’m usually not anxious
about it but last night for whatever
reason you know that’s why I’m saying
thoughts just happen and especially in
the middle of the night you know it can
be just an anxious thought it can be
about doesn’t have to be about death it
can be about anything else or sometimes
there are creative thoughts like oh what
if I did this oh be so fond to do that
and what about a TV show and what about
the next book but also you wanted to do
but remember that book what about you
know and
so at some point I just go like okay I
see you thank you I’m going to take a
note of that and if I feel like I really
need to take a note of that thought I
turn on the light and I write it down
otherwise I’m like and and I let it go
otherwise last like last night I was
like okay I’m thinking about death yes
uh I’m going to die yes okay do I need
to be worried about it now not really do
I need to be scared I don’t think so so
are you worried about uh the loss of
those closest to you does that bother
you more than even your own the fact
that people that love and support you
absolutely yes it doesn’t worry me it it
just it’s obviously something that I
know it will happen because it’s life
and it’s going to be sad and painful but
I
in I used to be much more anxious and
concerned about these kind of topics and
now I’m fairly okay you know what do you
think was uh the transformative moment
what got you to is it just living life
is it the music what got you to be
calmer about it more understanding of it
and and appreciating
it I guess because I’ve done a lot of
work around um all my you know healing
my wounds um going through my childhood
all the traumas that we all have I you
know I’ve been lucky enough to always
have a roof and clothes and toys and
education and food and everything you
know and and parents and everything so
it’s not like but we all have traumas of
what you know that’s life and so I did a
lot of work around that to be okay and
to understand myself better to be honest
moving to a different country will put
in motion a whole set
of Dynamics did you come by yourself I
did yeah I did was yeah right and and
and at first I was feeling very insecure
and missing everybody back home in Italy
too yeah that but also like a lot of
self-worth issues i’ I’m I’m not an
insecure person but I was kind of a
bigger fish in a small pond and then you
come here thinking oh I’m gonna play
music and you’re
like holy moly this is a big sort of
right yeah and and and you start
questioning yourself and things that
normally will come really easy to you
they’re not even just merely
understanding like how do I do this
thing uh getting my driver’s license or
going to the office blah blah blah how
does this work you know so you have to
reinvent yourself and it can be really
challenging and and so at first my my
self-esteem was a little challenged by
that and and um and I started getting
worried about things like okay what if I
can’t do this what if I’m not good
enough what if I’m not good enough the
good enough good enough good enough the
self-doubt right yeah and I was raised
to be an overachiever by you know a
father that wasn’t overachiever and you
know may he rest in peace I love him and
he’s been such a great influence on me
and part of what I am today I owe it to
him but he was really really tough and
so I grew up with this I have to be A+ I
have to be good I have to be good enough
I’m not good enough I’ll never be good
enough but I have to but I’m not you
know and now I’m like
oh I just just want to swear now but I
can’t I was told I can’t but you know
what I just do what you’re doing with
your eyes where they open
up she you know what I want to say she
speaks with her
eyes bleep all that bleep does the does
the get the sensor button ready 15
second delay 7c delay um there’s the
music help you is the music cathartic
and therapeutic like you said you work
things out sometimes through the music
and a lot of people do comedians do
through comedy you know other people do
through things that they do that they
love is the music sort of like a uh a
go-to place I say that because I I said
this last night to one of the guests
that was with us I said I don’t smoke
but music for me is so intense all
different kinds of music even
instrumental music and when things are
crazy upside down and and you are
thinking about different things about
life and maybe the day just didn’t go
the way you had hoped and planned and
all the rest
um music when I surround myself and fill
the house or fill the car or whatever
with music it is like my
cigarette um it just comes and envelops
and heals and just sort of does what it
needs to do do not that a cigarette is
good but just in terms of uh something
that people go to that they feel sort of
calms them down music for me is always
been even as a child as a kid music
because we always had it on the house
every holiday Everything music filled
the house so I think I was exposed to
all these sounds and all of these
different Vibes and rhythms and beats
and strings and all of it to where I
picked it up deeply as a kid and uh it
becomes sort of like a um almost like a
blanket in a way of comfort through a
crazy world do you find music the same
for
you
absolutely uh I think part of the reason
maybe the main reason that I got into
this it’s because of that guy Neil
Young he was my he was my companion
through many years when I was you know I
was a
Restless um teenager my my college Years
um I found his records in my um parents
collection again and uh and I started to
listen to him and at first I hated him I
couldn’t stand his voice I was like this
is just horrible it’s
torturous and then after a while and our
next guest is new Young you know it’s
interesting because in my life most of
the things that I have hated the most at
first up sort of fennel watermelon Neil
Young Tom weights these are the main
four things bananas Tomatoes but now we
love him exactly and and Neil Young and
Tom weights who are now Bob
Dylan I’m still stuck at the I don’t
like Bob Dylan very much face I
recognize
I recognize how great he is and
obviously his songwriting I mean yes
obviously genius whatever call him
whatever you want I just don’t it’s it’s
an energy thing also like I don’t I
don’t know thank you no no
no so but anyway Neil Young I don’t
think there’s gonna be any Duets anytime
soon no no no no he wouldn’t do that but
if if if D waights wants to uh a duet
with me I would love that um actually
you know I I even have um Mark REO on
one of my records Mark Rebo for those
who don’t know is um he’s the songwriter
sorry the guitar player in 1984 rain
dogs that’s the first one I guess if I’m
not wrong that he played with Tom
weights he’s an amazing guitar one of my
favorites um anyway so surrounded
yourself with lots of incredibly
talented people even in the making of uh
only Luna knows you you and even on
stage performances and in the studio
you’ve had people other musicians and
others
who have you know they’re Heavy Hitters
they’ve been in the industry they’ve
made their Mark and that’s a it’s a
beautiful thing because it really takes
a village right oh absolutely absolutely
you know
art is between you and your Muse the
creative part of it the the the the
first the when you plant the seed you
know it’s between you and your Muse and
you know writing a song although you can
coite obviously but there’s a part of it
that’s just so intimate and it’s just me
in my room with one of my guitars who
are all women by the way and they all
have names and um or with my some of
their names um you have some behind you
there right yeah there is Martina
obviously because she’s Martin and uh
this one in the middle she’s
1967 um Gibson and uh her name is
Veronica and I named her after Veronica
Franco who was one of the most famous
cortis in Venice of the 1500s um that’s
uh greeny um I have Penelope down here
with me uh downstairs I have Erica who’s
a Les Paul um Lorenzo is my upright base
um Anthony is my piano Filippo is my
ukulele do you give them all Christmas
gifts I’m not there yet they’re all
finicky eaters aren’t
[Laughter]
they speaking of which you wanted to
Grace us with some live music my friend
huh which I think we did a little bit of
a sound check before we went live to
make sure everything sounded great and
it sounds really good folks you’re going
to love this and you know I’ve heard a
lot of her music she’s very very
talented and all the different styles
that she weaves in are really unique um
yeah I’m excited about this and our
viewers are too they’ve been asking it
is she gonna do something for us yeah
she sure is um tell us about what you
are gonna do now yes before I I do that
I’m I my computer is overheating I want
to make sure that’s every is everything
okay can you hear everything okay can
you hear the fan cuz the fan is going no
we don’t hear the fan no yeah well you
are in Texas so it’s a little warm last
night our guest she had an
assistant with a fan on the other side
and she was waving the fan on her to
cool her off and she’s in Austin Texas
wow who’s she the incredible songwriter
Brenda Russell
who wrote piano in the dark and get here
for Alita Adams and so many other
artists she’s worked with Luther vandros
Tina Turner Roberta Flack oh wow and she
was our guest from Austin uh lives in
Austin and it was very hot in you know
she’s surrounded by gold and platinum
records she took us on a tour of her
house if anybody missed that episode you
can see it archived um but she’s been
doing it for over 40 years and uh is a
prolific songwriter and singer and has
been responsible for music that Shaka
Khan has sung and just everybody you can
think of and but it was hot in her room
so they her her assistant had this
little like a hand fan not not a fan
that’s oscillating but just the thing
where you blow on somebody because it
gets a little toasty there where you are
so tell us about the guitar is that
Penelope so this is Penelope
this is my uh kind of my go-to this is
my companion she comes with me
everywhere um and uh it’s a Gibson l o
for if there’s any guitar nerd who’s
watching this l o not7 but l o l o yeah
and uh yeah she has this um the the
oldfashioned logo this was uh reissued
so this guitar uh 2012 so but and this
is the oldfashioned Gibson logo that for
some reason during those years they
reissued a few they issues a few guitars
with with the oldfashioned logo I don’t
know why they did that but sort of retro
yeah little retro and uh what are you
gonna play for us my
friend I don’t know I um I guess maybe I
can play fatal that has a little bit of
English and a most of it in English but
a little bit of Italian too I think that
cool because IID mentioned that uh you
are quite studied in several languages
which I think is so cool as well English
Italian Spanish and French very nice yes
do you have a
favorite language Italian yeah I don’t
have a favorite actually I really like
Spanish probably my even though it’s not
my first language my first language is
obviously Italian
um which is a beautiful language but but
I don’t really no cuz it’s mine it’s
hard to tell it’s what you up with right
did you learn English in Italy or when
you came here I well we we take English
in school so that’s when I learned the
the grammar I guess and at least the
structure and the forms and all of that
but most of it I learned from just
listening to music and back when we
didn’t have Google I would just
transcribe the lyrics and uh whenever I
would find a word that I didn’t quite
know what that was I would transcribe
the sound of it and then go to an
oldfashioned dictionary and find a word
that was close enough to it and so that
really helped me learn the language and
get deeper into the meaning of words and
whatnot and then obviously when that
there’s TV that helps you know or movies
because I don’t have a TV but movies and
then when I came here well that’s when
you really just um learn all the slang
and and um and right now my brain is
half and half basically and sometimes
it’s more in English than in Italian if
I spend the several days just 247 in
English then sometimes I speak Italian
to my mom and I’m like oh wait a second
how do you say
that can you speak with a Texas draw a
little bit too now no I can no just no
bless her heart y’all bless her heart
y’all
right
that’s all right here is Julia with
Penelope M Penelope master
[Music]
[Applause]
show I was blowing smoke in your face
when you grab my arm and try to steal a
kiss your hand me to choke the last
words I said turn my will into a Twisted
Bliss
[Music]
no I was flying like Jesus to the Mo
calling out your name and hiding behind
my pride you were
hypnotized by my bleeding eyes drop by
drop until my love d
[Music]
[Music]
no
[Music]
[Applause]
I love that I love that for the audience
um can you translate some of that for
them so they get a good feel for it
that’s beautiful thank you so fatal
means fatal and uh you know as you
probably got from the English part is uh
it’s about a a kind of a love story or
some push and pull between two people
and uh and and that’s what she says in
the Italian part like um let me go you
know just just go away don’t turn around
you’re hurting me and then she says you
know just just cut that cord and leave
me alone that’s what she says the first
time but then at the end she says but
come back and and just Brom me back at
you type thing you know when you’re like
yes I don’t want you but I want you but
you know exactly right are not black and
white love like I I really dislike you I
really hate you but I love you but I
don’t want to be with you anymore but
maybe but maybe right exactly right Call
Me
Maybe um how much of your material you
know obviously you’re a fabulous
songwriter as well how much of your
material is inspired by your own life
telling your own story you weave that
in I I guess I do um I don’t I like to
use images I don’t and it’s not because
I have secrets or because I don’t want
to tell my story because I’m pretty open
when you know during interviews or on
stage I I have zero filters that’s
something that I learned from my mother
like no
filter but um but I don’t like songs are
too just too blunt too just they over
describe they they give you everything
already and that doesn’t leave any room
for for your personal relationship to
bloom inside of a song as a listener you
know whereas if you just if you hint of
of a situation or if you if you use
images then you you
can you can tell a story but it The
Listener has a chance to make it his own
their own story if that makes
sense it does make sense right exactly
you make it your own a lot of times
that’s what happens with music and with
art is they hear it and they see it and
then you sort of that relatability comes
your way and you sort of make it your
own right right that’s that’s the key
and then sometimes the magic of it is
you’ll hear people say different things
that they have attached to it that you
didn’t even think about when you created
it too right and that’s kind of cool yes
well that’s the that’s the most magical
things about songs and art in general
but especially about songs because songs
have so many layers they’re they stories
laid one on top of the other because
there’s the story that’s told in the
song There’s a story of me when I was
writing that song then there’s the story
of the day I recorded it then there is
so many other stories on top of that
story and then there is the story that
you experience when you listen to my
song or any other song you know like I
have my own stories with someone else’s
songs because of what that song song was
telling or Conjuring in me and so that’s
just so beautiful and
and songs don’t belong to the person who
wrote them songs are you know every time
I release a record obviously there’s
always a little bit of like oh my gosh I
hope people will like this but then I’m
like you know these songs are not even
mine anymore they’re for the world they
people will decide however they want to
feel about them and that’s okay and they
will attach whatever meaning they want
to my songs and that’s okay I want
people to have their own
experience exactly right absolutely it’s
a beautiful way to to sort of approach
it all did you want to uh play something
else for us while you got Penelope in
your arms oh up to you yeah absolutely
they’ve been saying Penelope sounds very
beautiful I think Moren and Arizon USA
Penelope has a beautiful sound to her go
Penelope go
Penelope well um what shall I are we
really nice thank you Kathleen it’s nice
to see comments oh yeah yeah we have
comments during the show as well and
from all around the world too awesome
well in this case would you people like
to hear something completely in Italian
or uh in English or I don’t know an Up
Tempo or a slow tempo do we have what
what are you
feeling
um I am thinking maybe since we already
talked about
death well I was actually gonna play one
of the most uptempo ones kind of more
uplifting it’s called I dance my way
yeah that sounds good
but you
know it is about death everything is
about death not in necessarily in a bad
way but right you know the the song is
just um there’s a lot of me in this song
as you will probably be able to tell
from the lyrics like the not being able
to sleep at night and then going like
you know what I’m going to dance my way
I don’t care what the rest of the world
has to say about it I’m just going to
dance my way
[Music]
I woke up alone in the middle of the
night full moon through my window
flipped to the cold side of my pillow I
tossed and I turned I wasn’t feeling
right stubborn rhythm in the back of my
[Music]
mind chasing my dreams like a dog chases
a bone stumbl down the dark hole bang my
head against the brick wall stars and
birds spun around my head my feet began
to
slide I want to dance my way I dance my
way no one can take that away it’s my
time to play that’s why I dance
I dance I dance my
[Music]
way H out of course the r
b the py strings and all the joy they
bring it moves through my body from my
toes to my lips and back out into the
Universe I Want To Dance my way I dance
my way no one can take that away it’s my
time to play that’s why I dance I dance
I dance my
[Laughter]
[Music]
way told to many times I should dance
and sing and rhy this is my chance to do
my own dance I don’t care if it’s right
it may as well be wrong but it’s mine
and mine
alone I W to dance my way I dance my way
no one can take that away it’s my time
to play that’s why I dance I dance I
dance my way I want to dance my way I
dance my way no one can take that away
it’s my time to play that’s why I dance
I dance I dance my
[Music]
way Bravo that’s really a cool song when
did you pen
that uh a year or so ago yeah I can’t
remember and what were you thinking when
you what was it what was happening in
your world that got you to create that
you know what they actually asked for
another one in Italian as you were
singing that they’re like Italian please
Italian please Italian please I’m like
really do we really want that that’s I
really like the song like the Rhythm and
really you do have you captured the
essence of that Americana sound really
fresh yeah it’s really really good and
rhythmic and um it makes you move it
makes you think I love
it
thanks um all
right well this is another song off of
the new record I can guarantee folks
it’s not going to be oh solo
okay no it is not sorry you heard that
one a few times oh yeah oh
so I have never ever ever be
no I I sang that once B but o never ever
have and never will sorry sorry to dis
have you ever uh did you ever sing the
Italian national anthem too I have not
and I’m really okay with
that or the American one they say the
American one’s very hard yeah I haven’t
I haven’t done that either I was
contracted once by someone here at the
circus of the American
the Formula One they wanted me to sing
both anthems and they were like oh c
could you please make a recording of
yourself and you know they kind of
wanted me to audition for this I was
like no I’m not GNA do it sorry if you
want me to sing it I’ll sing it I’m not
gonna send you a recording of me for you
to figure out if you want me or not no
that sounds like too much work exactly
plus I’m not an Anthem type of girl type
of person right yeah
anyway this is a it’s a it’s called
mikim mulu he used to call me Lulu it’s
a story story of a girl who made some
questionable choices and one night in
this hotel with this man the story is
not about me at all seriously I co-wrote
it with a friend of mine from Italy
check that
out um anyway stories of you know but we
all made B bad choices sometimes not me
I’ve made all the greatest ones always
but uh this girl she you’re singing for
a friend I’m yeah yeah yeah it’s totally
for a friend uh anyway Lulu um she ends
up changing her life
around and so she leaves that hotel
room he never saw me again mulu he
called me Lulu or used to call me Lulu
mulu
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that’s really nice my friend Bravo that
is really really nice you know um the
Italian language even in song is such a
beautiful language isn’t
it I guess so I think so it’s hard for
me to tell because I’m just so used to
it it’s my language I think when they at
least here in the states when they talk
about you know
languages um they always talk about
Italian and French being so melodic as
well and Spanish um German’s a little
tough you know it’s a lot of that a lot
of that in there but um when you’re
performing whether it’s in the studio in
this case gracing us with your presence
here on the gym master show or you’re on
stage in front of you know the adoring
fans what happens to you are you
transported to another time and place
you know there it’s a perfect photo
right uh she’s transported she’s the
moon that’s the the light of the moon on
her are you transported to another time
and place what happens you know some
people say that when they’re
performing they
just they’re all in but something
happens
inside what happens for you when you’re
performing you know we were talking
about meditation right um that’s exactly
what it is to me it’s a form of
meditation because when I play music I
don’t I become empty and full at the
same time like my thoughts stop and and
I’m kind of an empty vessel that’s
filled with with music and just uh so it
is a form of meditation that and
swimming and and walking those are the
ways that I like to you know there’s the
meditation just sitting down and being
quiet and still but also I like to
meditate moving my body and definitely
playing music you know I’ve had so many
conversations about this with other
musicians and singer songwriter and we
all agree that after a show if it’s a
good show obviously not if it’s bad one
that happens you know it happens to
everybody but sometimes even during bad
shows you know just just playing
music um I always feel healthier
afterwards I feel better I feel better
physically emotionally I you know it’s
it’s just so it’s purifying it’s
cathartic it’s it’s h it’s it’s
healing um so yeah it’s beautiful and I
I hope that I hope that you know if if
one person in my audience feel the same
way then I succeeded if at least one
person I don’t you know if there’s only
even only one person that feels that
same way I
succeeded absolutely right that’s the
way to really think about it you know
they they train us they trained me and
everybody that does what I do you know
to when you’re looking at the
camera especially in in video and
television things of that nature a lot
of people don’t smile they think they’re
smiling but they’re not smiling they’re
thinking about what they’re saying and
all the people that are watching and
listening and they get hung up on that
so uh I I remember when I first started
out i’ would be in the TV studio and
they would have these signs for
everybody and they would hold them
underneath the camera lens smile don’t
forget to smile because everybody you
think you’re smiling but on in video and
in television you have to smile actually
a little bit more just just the way the
cameras are and so you know when you
think about some of the things that
we’re talking about and how you are
doing what you love as your smiling as
you’re inspiring as you’re sharing all
of this and you’re sort of transported
to another time in place and you’re
deeply into it um like you said you feel
healthier you feel like you
are like there’s a reboot that’s
happened right you’re you’ve plugged in
and out through doing it and um so I can
connect with that I I get what you’re
saying because uh you know with the work
that do it’s a similar kind of thing and
when you are away from it and then you
go back to it um you come back
reinvigorated and that allows you to be
even more
creative yes
absolutely do you ever have times when
you you know it’s kind of like everybody
thinks when you eat when you work at a
pizza place that everybody there get
eats Pizza all day long or at an ice
cream shop and they get to eat all the
free ice cream that they want and then
you talk to the folks that work in these
places and they’re like oh my God we’re
sick of ice cream we have ice cream
around us all day we have pizza around
do you ever have moments where you pause
from the music like I forget who I asked
there was somebody that I asked it’s a
it’s a major person that was in
conversation or maybe I heard it
somewhere and they were asked and this’s
a prolific songwriter writer singer
Legend and they were asked do you listen
to
your own music and do you listen to
music a lot and the person said no and
that shocked everybody they don’t listen
they no because they’re so immersed in
it all day long that they need a break
from it they need to pull away how about
you
well first of all I never listen to
myself why would I do that like I think
it’s torturous you know unless you know
you’re very good no but why would I do
that you know unless obviously I’m
making a record and I have
toing and or listen back to the mixes
and go like okay let’s do this let’s do
the you know tweaking things but
otherwise why would I do that you know
listen to my records or my no I if I do
it’s just because I have to make make
sure something is good and or whatever
but as far as listen to other music uh I
go in faces but I’m one of those you
know if I take a road trip I can be like
for five hours solid in complete silence
and you know I’ve I’ve traveled with
other people like you know and and they
would be like uh can we listen to some
music and I’m like oh really it wasn’t
playing because it’s been playing in my
head the whole time like sometimes I
don’t even need music because it’s
already playing and um and sometimes I
really need to be quiet I love silence
so I don’t I used to Growing Up listen
to music
247 now I’m very um intentional with the
way I listen to music I listen to music
when I want to listen to something it’s
not
background that is very distracting to
me and it clogs my brain even more than
it is already when it’s in background
yeah like you know there are people that
have music or TV or something always on
I can’t do that it confus when you go
into like a store or Place restaurant or
store where there is music playing in
that background does it does it grab
your attention oh yeah absolutely it
does yeah yeah and if it’s too loud it
makes me
uncomfortable yeah right exactly so so
you like it more in the foreground
you’re really if it’s going to be on
you’re FOC
yes yeah I I listen to music and
sometimes I sit down in my backyard you
know have a glass of wine at the end of
the day and I listen to some music if I
want to listen to music it also depends
on the day that I’ve had obviously if
I’m all day in the studio at night I’m
just staring at the fireflies and I
don’t want to hear a single noise a
single note if it’s day that I spent
most of the day in front of my computer
doing office work obviously like at
night I might be okay I’m going to sit
down and listen to just a few songs or
maybe a record which is really great
Nobody Does that anymore like listen to
a whole record from A to Z all the songs
in the same in the order that were
intended to be you know that’s something
that I suggest we all do every now and
then because with with Spotify and apple
music and whatever we don’t even know
what the record was intended to be like
there is an order there is a there is a
story there’s a you know like
a like a what’s the name of I’m trying
to I don’t know you know what I’m what I
mean yes sort of like a rhythm to it all
yeah yeah right it’s kind of like the
pieces of the puzzle or the Train on the
track there’s a purpose to it all
there’s a forward momentum and so yeah
so sometimes there’s actually a friend
of mine it’s funny because every now and
then we he lives in Austin um and he’s
married and and he you know like we we I
don’t even remember the last time we saw
each other in person but every now and
then we text he texts me it’s like ready
to jam it’s like all right I have some
time and we put on a record at the same
time and we listened to that record from
beginning to end and and in the meantime
we text one another like did you just
hear that Bas lick or did you and it’s
really cool like remote record listening
remote record listening it’s it’s a
whole new world do you uh you know the
music industry has changed a lot too in
terms of How It’s distributed and now
you know used to go into the record
stores you spend hours with the
headphones listening sampling purchasing
uh and there’s just a different way the
merchandising and everything that was
involved now it’s streaming it’s Spotify
it’s got to have a lot of downloads and
all of this how do you feel about some
of the ways that it is now um in terms
of just the industry the distribution
all
that’s how I feel
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like like what are we supposed to do
seriously like seriously like 314
streams on Spotify will make me a dollar
how am I supposed to survive you tell me
you know and I’m doing okay and I’m
doing good I have a house I have cats I
have clothes I have everything I have
you know rings as long as I have
and Anthony and as long as I can buy
instruments jewelry shoes and wine I’m
all set so I’m doing really good pots
and pans and things maybe you know I
consider myself a really fortunate and
successful person not in the general
meaning of success I don’t have you know
fans uh waiting for me outside I don’t
have I don’t play front of thousands of
or millions of people but I do what I do
I do what I love I do it every day and I
made a living out of what I
love so I think that’s highly
successful but the industry the way it
is now it’s just
ridiculous and so we went back I had
this conversation earlier
today for a podcast um about the fact
that you know they the the guy asked me
if if I um if I’m on patreon for those
who don’t know what patreon is can I
talk about it you absolutely yes because
I don’t know the rules maybe there’s
something yeah Patron is just a platform
where artists get to put out some
exclusive content in my case because I
put out demos or unreleased song or
video uh cooking videos of me preparing
a dish or a and and people get access to
all that contact that they wouldn’t find
anywhere else and they pay a a a a small
minimum amount right yeah I’ve had a lot
of people tell me I should do that as
well yeah yes we actually have it sort
of set up we just haven’t gone through
it do you do you like it well it was it
was working a lot better during the
pandemic because I think people and and
our audience and our fans were they were
home and they were they were home and
also they were they were very supportive
of us artists now it kind of faded or
you know where were all those people go
that were with you during the pandemic
that loved everything and they expressed
all the love and the joy and now they’re
like but see I I really enjoy the
patreon thing because it’s a win-win
situation like people get to if they
like what I do the cooking and the songs
and the storytelling they get access to
things that they wouldn’t find anywhere
else on the internet and for that they
pay a little fee that allows me to keep
creating and keep being what I am and so
it is a win-win situation and
um why am I saying this oh because
that’s the way things are changing we’re
going backwards you know the medii yeah
you know the they were the first patrons
of the Arts that the medi allowed
artists like Bruni to do the Magnificent
DW that we all appreciate and it’s one
of the most amazing things that you know
the what they call it the seven M um
there’s something wonders the seven wond
of the world yeah wonders of the world
and that’s because the Michi gave Bruni
the money to do that phenomenal piece of
art so all I’m saying is
that and and and and my fans I’m really
grateful to to them because I have
amazing friends that support me people
that understand that you know I may not
have a record player but I’m gonna buy a
CD anyway because that’s something that
I can do to support an artist or I can
subscribe to her to her patreon because
nobody is nobody’s gonna make us re Rich
by listening to Spotify or apple music
you know unless it’s like gajillions of
them and you know
otherwise Taylor Swift or you know yeah
exactly or Drake you know like otherwise
it’s just not happening it’s just it’s
laughable the amount of money that you
could make on those platforms so it’s
important for people to and I support
other artists I am a patron of other
artists because I like what they do and
I want them to keep doing what I do
obviously I can’t afford to support them
at a really high level but this is what
we are presented to with the these days
like music has changed so much we don’t
make any more money from records we
don’t make any more any more money from
streamings so what we are left with is
our fans the merchandise that we get to
sell and our live shows so right those
are the important things to keep the
wheels turning I I know what you mean
because I come from television and radio
broadcast film in that whole
industry and was you know studied it in
school and brought up in it and worked
in all these TV stations and networks
and production companies and and still
I’m very involved and immersed in the
world like you are in the music but here
we are streaming on the
internet you know what I mean so even if
somebody like myself who was
traditionally trained as a broadcast
professional in television and radio and
film and all the rest here we are
streaming on the internet you know not
in the same city and with people
watching around the world and um it’s
it’s it’s something that takes time to
build it’s a heck of a lot of work
that’s where we tell people subscribe to
the YouTube channel give us a like leave
a comment all those kinds of things are
are similar in that way because that
helps this kind of show if people love
what we’re doing here which is not ined
we call these free flowing conversations
as you can see it’s a free flowing
conversation not a scripted question and
answer interview those kinds of things
and I’m not used
to saying those things and asking that
subscribe to our YouTube channel give us
a like leave a comment share because I’m
used to going into the TV studio or at
the radio station or on the film set or
whatever and just doing the work and
then all the rest follows but it’s a
different world now you know you you
have to ask people to subscribe to your
YouTube channel you have to ask them to
do you like what we just did and and at
first when I started having to do that
because it does help the channel and the
episodes and the show grow I was
uncomfortable with it I was like I’ve
been doing this I’ve been TV and radio
all these years why am I having to ask
people to yeah if you if you if you like
this support it I mean you know it
should be automatic if you enjoy it you
know there’s a lot of work behind the
scenes freely support it but to ask was
an unusual thing now that’s coming from
somebody who’s done a lot of tons and
pledge drives for PBS where we’re asking
people to support I’ve done so much
charity work we we’ve asked people to
support things they believe in but when
it came to
myself if you like what I’m
doing but it’s all needed thank God to
everybody that does subscribe and like
and share and leave comments that really
really helps us and it’s duly noted and
very appreciated just in the beginning
it was a little did you find it a little
strange with the patreon and everything
to be asking people 100% support what
you love doing anyway yeah it it felt
like public bagging you know like it
felt so weird and awkward and just and
who am I to believe in myself so much
that I ask people to give me something
for what I do it’s just like no no no
this is not me but then after a while
just keep the lights
on if they if they don’t I have to feed
my cats I have to that’s right new I
gotta get new strings for
Penelope but you know after a while one
of these light bulbs is 15 bucks back
here it’s LED that burns out we got to
have a on but you know after a while you
know I my mentality shifted and I was
like wait a second here’s what it is and
also you know being from Florence I was
like the medich of course and I’m not
comparing myself to a genius like Brun
lki no but I’m saying to the people who
like me if you like me it doesn’t cost
much to put a like or to follow me or
you know there are different levels in
which someone can support an artist some
of them do
not do not require money or spending
money you can just follow me on
Instagram follow me on Facebook follow
me join my email list all doing right
and then if you want to get more
involved you can obviously send me a
subscription you know every month or you
can come to my shows you can purchase a
c bottle of wine you know you know
there’s so many different ways way but
now I don’t feel uncomfortable anymore
because I’m like you know what this is
what I
do it has worth and it has value and not
everybody will like it and a lot of
people will and that’s how it is with
all of these things that we do uh and
and then some people come and go you
have people sort of in the beginning are
like they’re all about it and they’re
like I love this I love this I I I can’t
believe it and then they disappear and
you’re like I don’t understand 10
minutes ago you just said you were what
happened nothing’s changed it’s an
interesting thing it’s very fickle isn’t
it yes and you just have to keep going
forward you just have to keep doing
doing you yes Julia doing Julia and I
think when when you’re doing the
authentic you people are attracted to
that because they know it’s real you’re
compassionate funny wise empathetic
creative talented and you’re doing what
you love that comes from the heart and
soul and people can plug into
authenticity and they can also plug into
fake BS you know when somebody’s faking
and hey I love you and you’re the best
and rock on and you know people that
come out of the gate like oh like you
can see that it’s not real and they’re
begging and it’s just not when you’re
just doing you and you’re you’re open
and you open up your heart and your soul
which you do through your food and
through your your
music people will be drawn to that and
that’s what I try to do with everything
I’ve done in TV radio and film and what
I do with the show is to be like if you
saw me in the supermarket the version
you’re seeing right now um is what
you’re going to see in the supermarket
and I know that if we bumped into you
and the supermarket in Austin it’s GNA
be the same Julia that we’re seeing on
the screen right now and I think people
find that refreshing in these industries
where there’s a lot of you know buildup
and plastic and facade and phoniness and
everything superficiality I think
they’re drawn to uh much more of an
authenticity the real thing and that’s
what you I know I’ve always tried to be
and that’s what you are as well
J well thank you I just am what I am and
I couldn’t be in any other way um I’m
not a good liar I’m not a good I can be
a pretty good actress but I don’t want
to and I don’t like to lie because it’s
too much work when you lie you have to
keep track of the things what story you
told that person has to match the other
person’s
story it just it’s it’s all about Energy
Efficiency here like I I’m myself and
this is what you get the good and the
bad and the swear words which I was
really really good at you she was good
tonight she had asked me if there were a
few words that she can’t say I did so
good I didn’t say it or not they’re not
they’re not the words that we used
tonight they were other
words yeah and so different countries
and things of that nature you know in
the news stuff but this is what you get
this is me and I I hope I hope people
will like me for who I am and if not
then I’m not for them and they’re not
for me and that’s okay right that’s it
you’re doing you and you have uniqueness
to you we we all have a reason for being
here and when we realize that we’re all
pieces of this puzzle and know it sounds
Pana and idealistic but you know the
world is so crazy radical and upside
down that there’s nothing wrong with
some idealism and Pana thinking a little
bit just to bring us all together
through music through food through humor
through you know shows like this your
music everything that we’re doing to uh
connect with and Inspire and uplift the
world and get them to uh you know
through the stuff that we do it takes
them away from their drama when they
listen to your music when they watch
what I do on TV and radio and whatever
and this show it for a brief period
we’re able to take people away from
maybe a bad day or some rough things
that are going on in their world uh and
it takes us away from it too as we’re
creating and doing and it’s uh we are uh
blessed aren’t
we 100% I feel extremely blessed you
know um my my story is quite unique
because um I took a degree in medicine
and then I decided that I wasn’t it
wasn’t for me and I never practiced and
I got into music and um you are
practicing through the music because
it’s medicine it’s healing yes that’s
there is a connection there yes that’s
what I’ve been told so many times and um
you know I’m I’m I’m extremely fortunate
I get to work with the people with
people that I love with friends um I get
to just be me I don’t have a boss I
don’t have anyone that’s bossing me
around you just have to please yourself
yeah if I decide to stay in bed all day
which I never do because I’m a super
active
person but if I decided tomorrow to stay
in bed all day in my pajamas I’ll do it
you know yeah and that’s a luxury that’s
luxur that’s a luxury and and it’s make
sure you do do it because um those are
some of my favorite moments when it’s a
day when I don’t have to be anywhere and
I don’t have to be on and I don’t have
to you know be as responsive because I’m
very responsive and making sure
everybody has what they need and taking
care of everything and making sure the
Train’s on the track and when there’s
days when I don’t have to necessarily do
that
and just relax and just whatever the day
is those are some of my favorite days
they’re they are the antithesis of the
go go go go and make it all happen days
so those are really those are really
really important days do you before we
head out do you because you’ve been very
gracious with your time and really
appreciate this not interview but
conversation here um do you have a
preference over being in the studio and
and the
creating and production process and the
rehearsal and all or do you love being
out on stage amongst
every
um I love
everything well um
rehearsing not necessarily I mean I do
it because it’s important and um and it
can be fun to rehearse but for me the
the two sides of the coin and my
favorite sides are being in
studio just the magic of of playing live
because I like to record my records
tracking live in the studio where
everybody plays at the same time because
I like that freshness and and and those
moments are just magical when you get to
create something from just nothing just
something out of nothing it’s just it’s
pure magic and I feel so fortunate that
I get to be a part of that like somehow
some God or goddess of Music decided to
deliver this message and this music
through me I’m just I’m so fortunate so
I love that
magical process of being in the studio
and I love being on stage I I I I always
have a ball every time I’m on stage
whether I’m by myself or with the band I
just love it it’s so much
fun you are one of many who do what you
do including Brenda Russell last night
the legend who said exactly what you
just said they are a conduit they are a
facilitator of this energy from above
that is whether it’s a Divine coupled
with the moon all of it and it’s flowing
like for example when she said when she
writes songs it’s not even her it’s this
Source it’s this energy that’s coming
through her and out uh it’s it’s it’s
amazing that you say that because a lot
of these folks that’s how they feel that
you feel this energy and that you’re a
conduit of this this energy and you are
taking it and harnessing it and working
with it and allowing it to flow through
you through the music through the art
and that’s the best place to be because
when you start thinking oh that’s me
then it’s all an ego BS thing going on
like I’m good I wrote this did you see
did you here and it’s you know I don’t
feel that way I feel oh my God I was
lucky enough for this thing wherever
that was to flow through me and be
translated through me and I don’t want
to sound woo woo you know but I’m like I
get to contribute to this magical thing
which is one of the most beautiful
things in life which is music I get to
contribute to that and I’m not even
responsible you know like I it’s not me
because I’m I’m so good no it just it’s
energy that somehow has chosen to
translate and and to exist through me
and it’s not mine it’s not for me I’m
not oh my gosh look at me I’m so good no
I it’s not it’s it’s not that no you
know it’s just being part of something
much bigger than exactly what we are and
something so magical that we all should
call ourselves so effing lucky just I
did it I edited
freaking freaking fabulously
fantastically so lucky to just be a part
of it there’s no ego here you know the
artists that are rapping that ego thing
yeah it’s like no dude you’re getting
this all wrong there’s n we all one and
and and now I sound like you know like
that’s all smoke a joint Bob Marley
we’re all
one but it is true
like what where where are we going where
are we racing we’re just all existing on
this planet we are little boogers in the
nostril of the universe we’re nobody why
are you never heard put it that way well
I like that you know it’s an image that
I like like why do you feel so
self-important you’re nobody you’re
gonna die we’re all G you know yes you
might do something special but you’re
not you know we all are special and just
everybody
just come on dude relax I I hate
ego you know people that are too well I
don’t hate them sorry that’s a bit no
but the you know they walk in the room
and it’s the party hasn’t started until
they arrive you know I I I steer clear
that too and there’s a lot of that
around there oh yeah uh no names
mentioned but there’s a lot of it out
there and it doesn’t you know that’s not
somebody I’m going to hang with or uh
you know do things with because it gets
annoying it gets boring you know that
look at me and I’m the bottom line is
that art us us we yeah yes and art and
music existed way before I was born and
will exist way after I die it’s not me I
get to do it because I’m lucky yeah and
that’s all it’s not me and I’m not going
to take credit for any of that and I’m
glad if people like what I do but you
know I got lucky that enough people
liked it
to the point where I can make a living
out of it are you inspired by Nature
absolutely 100% well the Moon being one
of my biggest mine is the ocean because
growing up here on the east coast and
we’re just a couple blocks from it here
and I grew up not far from it uh out
east on Long Island and we’re here along
the coast as well so and you talk about
things that were here before us things
that are going to be here after us the
ocean with the tide and the Rhythm and
I’ve talked about it multiple times on
this show but um walking barefoot in the
sand swimming surfing sailing it
floating in it Boogie boarding in it
Whatever It Is surfing in it we’ve done
all that yeah I love having access to
the ocean the ocean like music is a
go-to for me when I go I don’t have to
even go in it though I love being in it
being near it and watching because it’s
bigger than me it’s more powerful than
me uh it’s beautiful it it Fosters life
uh the
sun uh rises from it the sun sets oh
yeah in it you know and I told everybody
when they were sort of uh losing it a
little bit during the pandemic go to the
ocean go to Nature look up at the moon
the things that are always going to be
there and that are greater than us it
sort of settles things for you it lets
you know that even though the world
seems like it’s coming apart and you
don’t recognize anything anymore there
are a lot of things around us us that
are rhythmic that are part of the cycle
of life
that can really calm people and balance
them when the pandemic was happening the
squirrels and the forests didn’t know
that was going on you know what I mean
the dogs and the cats Penelope didn’t
know that was going on Penelope was just
like play me you know what I mean yeah
so it’s a great conversation because
there’s so much more to what you do and
why you do what you do and I think
people have an understanding of that
even more deeply now so when they go and
they get the music and they get you know
all of it and congratulations on that uh
the cover of that which I think is
fantastic how did you come up with the
cover of this I mean the covers of all
of these songs are terrific I love them
all how did you come up with this was it
a photographer that just came up with
the idea or no it what I had a bunch of
pictures that I took in Italy uh a
friend of mine she’s an amazing
photographer her name isaria
costanso and um we did only you can say
it that
way well she can too all those our else
and ours um we we did a couple of photo
shoots together and she’s really amazing
and so I had all these pictures and then
I started working with with the designer
who designed the uh the record cover the
book cover all the singles her name is
AIA Bardo that’s a lot of ours there in
the last Roll Along right Asia Asia um
and she’s super cool young lady and uh
super talented and she she took these
pictures and she kind of redesigned we
we worked on it together but um but she
redesigned and she
reinvented you know
the concepts and everything this is the
one we heard earlier I danced my way
yeah yeah really fantastic and I love
that with the moon behind
you thank you if you had an
opportunity say you had $200,000 laying
around and you knew it was going to be
safe would you
consider going to the Moon if it was one
of those you just want to look at it you
have no desire
to touch it or do a live performance on
location from it whoa that would be cool
maybe I would do that fly me to the
moon yeah Dion steps are what you get
what you take on the moon that’s it um
well actually okay this is I I don’t
know how much time we have like we we we
talk for two hours but woman on the moon
is my 2022 record because I have this
thing with the moon and actually I
performed at Lou Lou AR Neil Armstrong
not Louis Armstrong Neil
Armstrong Neil Armstrong’s House in
tellerite Colorado did you
really yeah I
wonder obviously he he wasn’t there he
he died I don’t know but did the people
did the family did they know your
appreciation for it all and the moon the
whole thing yeah yeah yeah uh and I you
know I wonder how that must have been
like to step on the moon but but
maybe maybe I don’t want to you know I
have a relationship with the moon and
and um oh thank you guys everybody’s
Thanking us thank you for they yeah
they’re all watching from around the
world and sprinkling a few comments in
here this was a a blast a hoot a holler
and fantastic and I really hope uh you
enjoyed your yourself and the show met
whatever expectations you had and you
enjoyed the time with me Julia as much I
have with you it was a blast yes
absolutely thank you so much for having
me and thank you guys for watching and
you know being here with us and uh
follow me and you know feel free to
support me in any shape or form come see
me I I have some tours coming up do you
tell us about it here’s the website for
everybody to check out too to keep a
breast of everything yeah just the
easiest thing would be just sign up to
my email list that way you know I’ll be
in touch once or twice probably usually
twice a month you know I’m very discreet
I don’t invade I don’t
spam but um that would be the best way
to stay up to dat with my future
releases with my cooking things with my
new recipes with my new shows and
whatever and and I hope to you know and
Jim I hopefully one day we’ll meet in
person would be that would be fantastic
absolutely if you’re up around the
northeast or I’m down there on a TV
shoot or project down in the auson area
because I’ve been I’ve been to Austin
Dallas Houston Conroe
spring The
Woodlands the one place I haven’t been
to yet is San
Antonio have you been to San Antonio yet
yeah kind of a cool place too huh it’s
it’s cute it’s cute sort of like a
historic like downtown area yeah yeah
but haven’t been there but uh absolutely
we’ll do that we will put that together
and again uh as you can see it’s
conversation free flowing real fun as a
it’s like a talk show not just question
and answer interview and uh again I
really hope you uh you had a good time
with us and enjoyed yourself as much as
I have with you and and you’ll come back
to see us again Julia I will thank you
so much you’re very welcome spread the
word about our show and thanks for the
music too it was an awesome treat my
friend thank you thank you new friend
made congratulations on the music The
cookbook and and everything else and we
want to hear more from you okay let’s
stay in touch absolutely I would love
that all right you be well you want to
say a little uh farewell in
Italian I love
that see
you be well you take care you too Cheers
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a delight and a super talent and again
there’s her website check out the book
check out the music and everything else
uh continue her star continues to rise
and we so happy to share it with you
here on the gym master show series there
is the
cookbook right there and of course the
music only Luna knows and now you know
the story behind it all right uh the
chef The cookbook author the singer
songwriter and somebody who’s very in
tune with Humanity our conversation
really ran the gamut of Life didn’t it
we we talked about everything you can
think of and I thought it was cool hope
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well we really appreciate that and we do
want to note uh maren wapal or as I say
wah
hoitz a little running joke there that
goes back to Halloween a couple years
ago um Julia you’re a beautifully
talented young lady thank you for
sharing your gift in music mayor star
continue to rise uh and thank you Moren
uh she’s one of the most supportive
uh of our lovy fan base and she just did
a super uh chat which you can do when
the show is live in the chat room or you
can do a super thanks when the show is
not live a little hard icon on all the
episodes and you did it in my Irish
green I love it very very nice I
appreciate that very very much you guys
are fantastic and um Linda Johnson says
thank you Jim for all you do for your
viewers pleasure is all mine I really
appreciate and Sher Larson thank you Jim
what a wonderful talented lady she sure
is Kathleen um awesome sh and guest
thank you Jim the pleasure is M Pierre
saying she’s very talented yes she is
and thanks uh from all of you from me
and from our very special guest uh Julia
joining us as well all right come see us
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and we love that all right so for now
we’re gonna say sayara Aid Zay ariva
dery ciao cheers uh all the rest a Vista
H we don’t say goodbye necessarily we
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4 Comments
Well, it was the PERFECT Thursday night in Loveity Hall. I'm so impressed with Giulia's talent! And she is so very humble and down to earth. Truly beautiful inside and out. I love that she lives with an attitude of gratitude. That's what makes her so awesome! I hope she comes back soon and shares her gift with us again! Thanks to you, Jim, again and again for always giving us the very best. That's why you are the MASTERs!
She was the most awesome guest and feeling free to talk about her life!!! Thank you for singing for us!!!❤
Thanks, Jim ❤
Awsome show tonight. What a tallented woman. Have her back Jim.
Thanks Jim.💚💖💚
Awesome show with Giulia. What a talented lady..such a beautiful voice. And a kind person. A great conversation! Thanks Jim! And thanks to Giulia for being here to sing for us and tell her story! Loved it!!