True Patriot Love - From Rural Nepal to Canada's Music Scene： Against the Odds ft. Cd Lamrin

00:00:00.000 Sun, sun and under

00:00:29.980 four days looking so beautiful on the hill

00:00:42.140 so today on tpl media i'm lucky enough to be visited by cd lamry um along with shara so i

00:00:50.380 wanted to welcome you how you doing thank you thank you so much welcome to the show yeah no

00:00:56.700 no no having me yeah we're excited to have you you know we've we've known you for years and quite

00:01:01.580 frankly we saw you as an emerging star and now we see you as a breakout artist on the international

00:01:06.860 scene and i appreciate that i thank you very much well you know we've been watching your numbers your

00:01:11.820 numbers have been skyrocketing you got yeah 150 000 on youtube on sunshine on daffodils it's all

00:01:19.260 your blessings yeah no no well we give you our blessings but it's your your talent that's actually

00:01:26.140 you know causing the results which we congratulate you for and you know it's interesting because

00:01:32.060 when we met uh you were you were really making your way through uh your musical journey yeah

00:01:40.380 and i want to talk a little bit about that because i think that's important for the listeners to

00:01:43.980 understand yeah you know the sacrifice and and you know me watching and char watching you um

00:01:51.260 you know work all day and then come do gigs at night and you know moving around and and constantly

00:01:58.220 and now tell us a little bit about that because for those people who don't know it you know the

00:02:02.860 amount of effort it takes to actually get your music out play in front of people see their

00:02:07.500 reaction uh you know tell us a little bit about what you went through together this is like um

00:02:13.180 let me put it out like this

00:02:16.400 first

00:02:17.580 before I start where I started

00:02:19.960 I believe that

00:02:21.580 anybody can do anything

00:02:23.820 if they want it

00:02:26.060 and you have to be hungry enough

00:02:29.960 to do something

00:02:31.320 like if you're hungry then only you can eat

00:02:34.160 right

00:02:34.460 if you're not hungry how can you eat

00:02:37.120 there's lots of food on the table

00:02:39.940 but you're not hungry

00:02:40.860 true

00:02:43.180 There are so many opportunities, but you have to be hungry.

00:02:46.420 You have to push yourself.

00:02:47.960 If you set some boundaries for yourself, then you're limited.

00:02:52.800 You should be unlimited all the time.

00:02:55.400 And you should be available 24-7, 365 days for yourself.

00:03:01.900 Yeah.

00:03:02.840 And anything is possible.

00:03:04.480 I feel like that.

00:03:06.020 So, talking about my music, I was unknown about music until COVID.

00:03:13.180 okay so you started the music from canada yeah actively from canada originally you were from

00:03:20.780 nepal i'm from nepal like which part of nepal you're from so i was born in bagel yeah it's

00:03:27.900 a western nepal so i was born there but um there is a very interesting story about me

00:03:33.980 when i was a kid like my mom told me a very quick favor before we continue a large percentage of you

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00:04:09.460 like chalky stones and go with my mother while she was cutting grasses whatever then i used to

00:04:19.280 write on the stones i was a little kid write on the stones when i don't have the stones

00:04:26.060 i scratch the mud and i break the branch of the trees and i write on that mud

00:04:31.360 and she was surprised like why this kid is doing like that and after sometime my school

00:04:40.440 one of the teacher but because we were like very rural that time it was very very rural area

00:04:46.640 but one of my teacher said send a letter to my to my parents we don't know what is it but

00:04:56.740 your kid has something that is very extra if you guys can afford him

00:05:02.440 take him somewhere on the city and give him a good education he's gonna go very far

00:05:07.960 i was like five four five and hearing that my mom wrote a letter to my dad

00:05:14.980 he was in i think he was in saudi arabia because that time he was on the internet

00:05:20.920 no cell phones no video calls nothing like that so she wrote a letter

00:05:24.460 is people are saying like this like this like this about our son what do you think can we afford

00:05:30.280 should we do it and that one decision of my father is all that i'm here he said i don't

00:05:38.820 care about my money properties until i die i will make everything work out for my kids

00:05:46.900 oh nice do whatever needed send him there and then i they took me to kusma purvet and i stayed

00:05:55.240 in a hostel when i was like seven eight for a few years i used to get uh see my parents like

00:06:01.680 once a year i was seven eight years old and since then my journey started i was really sharp on my

00:06:10.100 studies like i was i'm all time school topper my high school and i studied all exclusive

00:06:19.540 because i was really good and then that time i had no idea about my musical career

00:06:27.220 i was just good at studies i was doing good good good good and then when covid came

00:06:35.220 um we all have this stay in the house like a quarantine and there was a my brother his name

00:06:44.580 is richie kiss he used to write songs and come to me oh hey can you check this like he he's actually

00:06:53.640 wrote music he's learning playing guitar okay he's writing music oh so he learned he taught

00:06:59.220 himself to actually write music too yeah oh good and i'm here i live on this apartment he lives

00:07:04.820 on the other apartment so we're attached okay so he knows i'm good on my stories academic wise like

00:07:10.900 i'm good at writing i'm i'm good at it so he came all the time he writes songs and he shows to me

00:07:17.940 and my eyes my brain is react so quick oh this is this maybe try this try this try this three to

00:07:25.060 three five minutes he was like how how can you do that it's so fast you were writing the lyrics

00:07:33.300 lyrics he was writing the lyrics he's writing the music you're writing the lyrics right yeah no no

00:07:38.980 he tried his song oh right lyrics and music but he came to me to verify it to check it out all

00:07:44.900 right and then i was like oh maybe try this this and he was like surprised okay and this

00:07:51.460 keep on going and one day it made me ask myself yo nirmal if you can do for him for someone else

00:07:59.940 why don't you try for yourself maybe you can do it and that thought pushed me up and i write a song

00:08:07.220 five minutes i finish a song i saw it to him yo check out this song i write yeah

00:08:12.660 he was blown away there's no way you write this and i don't know skills i don't know guitar i

00:08:18.100 don't know nothing about me right and since then i started writing i started writing i started

00:08:25.380 writing but i don't know how to play guitar i cannot the melody is in my head okay the whole

00:08:31.380 song is in my head and like but i cannot play i cannot uh composite myself right um it was

00:08:39.700 starting well but uh my vocals were bad like really really bad because i had no idea about it

00:08:48.820 and then gradually it became like uh i'm obsessed with it like that becomes my

00:08:56.420 burning obsession but in in the nepal that time it was a scene like

00:09:01.060 ah music what do you want to do with music you need to do something that makes money to you

00:09:05.220 yeah and i used to tell them don't worry i'll make money from music

00:09:11.540 i need to make money right okay i'll make money but from music yeah oh there's no way you cannot

00:09:18.100 oh you know what and now i'm making money for music too okay so this way and then after plus

00:09:24.820 two i came to canada yep the thing was in my in my blood i think and then i just showed up

00:09:33.140 that's what i did i was hungry yeah i was working all day i was on every single events

00:09:39.620 my friend friends was like yo do you do you work yeah we see you everywhere because i want to

00:09:47.140 yeah i want people to notice me i want people to see me i want people to say oh this guy sings yeah

00:09:57.860 once someone know i sing they will not that becomes my identity and that's what i want

00:10:05.060 yeah i don't want them to know as oh oh this guy used to work here this guy used to work here oh

00:10:10.020 this is this guy no oh a singer oh the rock star cd lamrin oh i know him want people to react like

00:10:18.100 that yeah yeah well that's how i met you very frankly yeah you were you were made as a as a

00:10:23.780 yeah that's how you found me i think actually so i'm i'm really grateful for that but it's that

00:10:28.820 effort it's that effort that pushed you into that exactly you left and this is interesting because

00:10:34.340 a lot of canadians when they're listening to this won't get it and i i would shara kind of explained

00:10:39.220 it to me years ago and i i really want to come back so you know you had to leave your your

00:10:45.620 village your home yeah at a very young age you had to go into the city into katmandu or wherever it

00:10:52.420 was near not kathmandu but in the city yes where it was there was like good education good facilities

00:10:59.860 right and you live in a hostel hostel so with a bunch of other students other students in a group

00:11:06.260 yeah up until you end up leaving nepal no no no no up until you graduate oh no no no i was on the

00:11:13.460 hostel for like two three years okay i think two or three years yeah and then my mom couldn't stand

00:11:19.140 my mom said no yeah i cannot do this without my son oh okay i'd i'll go with him i have to go with

00:11:26.260 him oh so she she moved with you yeah so then whole family moved to the city okay and then so

00:11:32.180 it was me who brought up in the city now okay so honestly yeah which is very you know it's a similar

00:11:40.660 you know uh my family immigrating to canada yeah it's very similar we actually moved it came here

00:11:46.340 we all went north into the northern cities worked there and then over time when the cities were

00:11:52.100 being built we all moved into toronto that's how we we all came but we all kind of followed each

00:11:56.660 other it was like it was like a pack following each other like a line so exactly yeah oh i love

00:12:01.300 it okay yeah and then yeah i was on the scene so everybody was noticing someone was approaching

00:12:07.620 someone was not right yeah so in the meantime i think she found oh this guy thinks i watched

00:12:14.020 your video somewhere yeah and i said okay i need to get him right the song is so good

00:12:19.620 that's where i contacted you and then we're here today yeah so as you're going through the journey

00:12:25.940 so i'll tell you this is the interesting part you know a lot of you work you know when i met you you

00:12:30.420 had the day job you were working the day job you were singing at nights you were trying to get a

00:12:35.220 band together you know the the struggles of actually just pulling people together and getting

00:12:40.420 musicians who can actually play with you who can harmonize yeah like explain that a little

00:12:45.300 because that's a big challenge that's that's an interesting story as well so the thing was

00:12:50.660 when i came here i was on the scene and one of my brother contacted me like for the band

00:12:56.500 they were there was a band and he was he was watching me and he was like

00:13:01.220 there's a guy he got full vocal maybe we should try to get him he contacted me and i went to the

00:13:07.780 the rehearsal we did a first show it's going great that was the first live concert in canada

00:13:13.220 okay by the band all right in our neplicon yeah but i was hungry right i want to do more i want

00:13:22.180 to keep doing it but there was some certain obstacles something like that so the band couldn't

00:13:28.900 continue but you know they're just saying nothing can stop a willing heart right it's true and then

00:13:37.620 i was like okay not a problem not this band but i can mix new one yes because i want to do it

00:13:45.460 yeah so i formed a new band the obzer band i did it and it worked right and this band also discontinued

00:13:52.180 because my friends uh they were students so they have to move to different provinces something like

00:13:57.620 that and it's still that it's okay what next another band so i formed another band called

00:14:04.980 nd score and i started doing gigs right i started playing i started playing music and then

00:14:10.900 started making money from me so in my head i see everything clean it's so transparent in my head

00:14:20.900 whatever i'm doing it's so clean here that's why i'm that's what i'm able to do yeah for example

00:14:26.980 if i say i want to do this i say this because i see it here but let's say for example you don't

00:14:37.780 see the way i see and i don't see the way you see no for yourself you are true for myself i'm true

00:14:46.900 if i can execute what i see in my head the rest is history no i agree and the music the music

00:14:54.420 you're saying if you got going so i've seen you uh with different instruments and i've seen you

00:15:00.900 so over the years you've yeah i learned to play guitar yeah there's interesting story about guitar

00:15:06.020 too there's one of my friends i want to take his name his name is sohan lama so this guy is like a

00:15:16.340 cornerstone of my musical journey nobody believed in me but this guy said

00:15:25.000 i don't know what you have but you are completely different

00:15:30.400 because if we see it here like i make a song in five minutes a complete song from start to finish

00:15:39.780 right this guy played guitar so well he was like there's no way on earth you can do this

00:15:46.820 you don't know music you write the whole song in minutes you compose the whole melody in minutes

00:15:53.540 how can you do that normal there is something in you you should do music

00:16:00.100 this guy started pushing me and then i don't know how to write i don't know how to play guitar

00:16:05.460 and it was copied we cannot see each other i had a small phone and i was like hey son

00:16:12.740 i wrote a new song here's the melody june pass by

00:16:18.500 he used to like escape from the house from the quarantine and pass to me just to play guitar for

00:16:25.860 me okay so i i'm telling him it's like and he was like on the guitar okay this is the chord this is

00:16:35.380 not yeah and that was not for once i used to write five six songs in a day and he was like

00:16:43.060 hey what's wrong with you i'm like calling him calling

00:16:51.060 this guy has so much impact on me because he knew i had bad vocals but he wants to push me

00:16:59.700 as he used to say that remember vocals you can fix it but the thing that you have none of the

00:17:05.940 singers even had some people are good at singing but they don't write they cannot sing they cannot

00:17:10.980 compose melodies you do everything singing is nothing for you you can do it too i believe in

00:17:16.180 you you should do it yes and this guy pushed me so much and i'm here today now i have my own songs

00:17:22.500 yeah and then people know me as a singer songwriter as a composer and people praise the way i write

00:17:31.700 so it feels like oh that was a good choice oh yeah and everything is a choice in life yeah no

00:17:37.940 definitely a choice in life and you can it's interesting because i feel it when when i talk

00:17:42.740 to you every time there is only one path yeah you know because the the path to success can only if

00:17:49.220 you think you have options or if you think you have a fallback it's like when you start a company

00:17:54.580 you don't start a company thinking you have a fallback position you start a company because

00:17:59.380 you want to make it succeed and there is no fallback you just have to go forward and make

00:18:03.540 it successful regardless of what anything you got to go through those walls and i feel that from you

00:18:09.380 when we talk about music and yeah i meet you and you're going forward talk about what you know the

00:18:14.900 songs that you recently published because quite frankly you know both in english uh you know

00:18:22.420 the latest one was like i got so much songs but you know that was like since i don't do the

00:18:28.820 production time right so it takes time here and there sorry so the recent one was like sunshine

00:18:36.420 on daffodils yes it's just a love song yeah the whole theme of the song is like in relationships

00:18:45.860 every single small small efforts count it's an effort you don't have to

00:18:54.900 uh give so many gifts you have you don't have to spend a lot of money you don't have to take

00:19:01.620 expensive dates nothing like that you just have to be there and present not just the body

00:19:08.180 your mind your heart everything if you're with someone it's okay five minutes but be there for

00:19:15.440 five minutes right don't just sit there for five minutes that's good for five minutes yeah and then

00:19:22.540 that song is a small story like there's a hill and there are lots of flowers called daffodils

00:19:28.760 and my lovers love that so why not i go and just bring in home for her if that makes her happy

00:19:39.000 right let's just bring in flowers to home yeah and that's interesting oh nice no no i loved it

00:19:46.100 i love it where did you shoot it because i i noticed that we were watching yeah yeah it was

00:19:51.660 in milton area some of them in milton some of them in missaga area oh wow that was the first

00:19:57.580 a music video and the song before that was a nepali song it's called maya kakura that means

00:20:04.060 it's simply about love yeah but this one is completely different from the sunshine and death

00:20:09.100 so this one says don't talk about something that you don't know don't talk about love to me if you

00:20:17.740 don't know what really love is but expect too much from me but don't fall in delusions you never know

00:20:26.300 tomorrow anything can happen love is a feeling it can fade away anytime and your dream is your

00:20:33.660 imagination you dream thousands of things at a time so don't expect too much don't talk about

00:20:41.580 love when you don't know what love is and when you're when you're developing them you know it's

00:20:47.900 interesting because um you know uh are they from personal experiences are they from thoughts are

00:20:55.020 they from what you see in the world you know how do you as you're going through because you're

00:21:00.460 creating them in your mind as you're writing yeah yeah so this is some of them i feel it

00:21:07.100 so for example you're so close to me right if there's something wrong or something good on you

00:21:13.820 and i'm so close because you share me everything right so you said oh lambrin i gotta break up

00:21:20.220 i'm feeling this i'm broken right now if you said something that to me then i become you right i

00:21:30.540 think the way you think so i feel you i grab all your thoughts and emotions and just write so it's

00:21:38.300 not me speaking it's your soul speaking and when you hear it that's what i'm feeling right now thank

00:21:44.940 you so an artist can be anything they have to just it's just a feeling right it's a feeling

00:21:54.940 you have to feel it right yeah no no i agree the video the video in the last so um sunshine

00:22:03.260 on death uh did you help create like when you came up with the the script and everything no no no no

00:22:12.060 who is the videographer on that he was uh i think you might know him it's uh susan oh okay yeah yeah

00:22:19.580 yeah i've worked with him before yeah yeah there was a amazing guy we didn't we didn't write the

00:22:25.660 scripts but there was something in his mind on my mind like whatever we do yeah we'll do but

00:22:32.940 there should be a story for flowing yeah it should be straight that at the end of the video

00:22:37.180 that people should say oh okay so this guy is trying to grab some flowers and bring it to your

00:22:43.820 story flows that way too first scene is like i'm climbing up the hill yeah and then it's going here

00:22:49.580 and then i'm plucking the flowers going running dreaming about the goal everything and then at

00:22:54.620 the end i'm packing up my guitar and i'm crossing the breeze and then i met the girl yeah so it's

00:23:00.700 it's a simple story about that one and uh so there are more songs coming on the way oh good

00:23:07.620 and uh i have written another beautiful song it's called let's be human first before anything

00:23:15.160 and there's english nepali there's a lot coming well i was gonna ask you so talk to me what's

00:23:24.780 next so you know i've seen you i've seen you over the years and i've seen you like you said you

00:23:29.280 develop and now you know you're getting this mass audience people are commenting you know online

00:23:36.720 your videos are up you know where do you see what's next and and where do you want to take

00:23:42.640 this because you know from where we started i think it's amazing the story yeah so now in my

00:23:49.520 head it's just like it won't happen in the way i want but it will happen in the way it should

00:23:59.280 so i'm just i have no expectation nothing but i know i'm doing music i want to do music i have

00:24:06.020 to do music i'm born for this i feel like this so i'm just creating and creating creating

00:24:10.940 god knows the way yeah and i'll never stop until i stop myself yeah that's true no i don't i don't

00:24:21.680 there is a there is a limit and then yeah i i i want to talk to saradi as well so

00:24:29.120 since she is like doing amazing jobs on our communities it's like everywhere

00:24:34.800 like she inspires me so much yeah really you you really inspire me so much because it's not

00:24:43.200 only about being true to yourself if you can carry someone else if you can carry people with you

00:24:50.160 then you have so much inside of you and that takes a lots of guts you have to hear someone

00:24:58.320 bad advice you have to hear compliments you have to face challenges you have to deal everything at

00:25:05.120 once it's not easy but it's still you do it you make it out that's when you sign it's not just

00:25:11.760 me we we both do it together you know we're the team yeah you guys are two bodies one soul

00:25:23.280 there's a song there yeah and then and i i saw her on like on socials as well like she's like

00:25:31.600 doing events for women's empowering women's here and there's that's really great and i was like

00:25:37.920 when i get to know her i was like so proud of her i even thought wow i'm so proud of you thank you

00:25:44.720 you're doing so good and that was like i'm happy that i got to meet her through her i got to meet

00:25:51.840 you yes we did so many events together as well yeah and then yeah and so many more to come so

00:26:00.000 many more to come yeah you know it's interesting so the the music business so this is the you know

00:26:05.120 and um the music business has changed over the years of course you know my age quite frankly i

00:26:10.400 saw the music business when it was pretty much um you know it was albums then it was cds and

00:26:17.840 quite frankly then it went to online and it's just changing so rapidly and so differently

00:26:24.880 um live venues so this is the interesting part and that's what we try to what we try to celebrate in

00:26:31.520 our businesses is we try to get live artists to come out and play right and i think that's

00:26:37.360 important we every year we dedicate so much of our year to the stages we have at our businesses to

00:26:43.360 just say people take the stage go right because if you don't if you if artists don't get to go in

00:26:49.360 front of live audiences and they don't get to see the reaction to their music and the reaction and

00:26:54.240 they don't learn that performance art it becomes really hard because then you're just playing

00:26:58.960 you're playing behind the scenes you're just you know you're turning on a backdrop or you're

00:27:04.800 turning on a band and quite frankly then you're just playing and there's no there's nothing to

00:27:10.560 watch yeah and i think you know that's part of and and you did an event with us i just want to talk

00:27:17.280 about it and it was um the scene yeah and it was a few years ago you came out i don't know if you

00:27:22.960 even remember this and i'm not yeah and it was such a great event it was actually you did also

00:27:28.720 there was that and i think a friend of ours got married and you came out and did something with

00:27:32.480 this too but and you you you actually transitioned from english to nepalese and the cool part was

00:27:41.360 at the end of the day it was a mixed crowd of people the nepalese music was better than the

00:27:46.320 english music and you were you were playing some hits some old old rock and roll hits but you're

00:27:50.480 were playing some Netflix. And I, um, I, I'd only seen that once before that someone did that

00:27:56.640 on an international stage, but at the end of it, everyone was jumping up and down and dancing and

00:28:01.640 you got, you know, that crowd, that experience is so cool. And so interesting that, you know,

00:28:07.200 you did it, you did it not only in English, but you transitioned it. Hey, before we go any further,

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00:28:29.060 yeah so english is not our first language so i'm used to nepali but i love music so english

00:28:37.140 nepali i try my best but what i think is uh most of the artists

00:28:43.140 they do music

00:28:46.760 to sew up i think that's where they lag behind if you do music for yourself

00:28:56.620 if you enjoy yourself on the stage when you sing for example you have seen me oh yeah you can see

00:29:03.520 people was dancing with me because i was dancing so when someone is watching you they watch every

00:29:11.540 actions of you you have to engage with audience that's the biggest power every artist has yeah

00:29:19.940 you have to carry them with you when you say move left they should move left when you say move right

00:29:26.980 they should move right vertically that's when you capture them yes so that's where most of

00:29:34.100 because this is uh i'm saying this because of my live experiences as well it's not what you

00:29:40.100 if you're playing for the people you should play for the people people are there to watch you

00:29:46.180 right so make them happy give them all you can yeah dance if needed do whatever but

00:29:56.100 make it entertaining give them keep their eyes rolling on you

00:30:01.780 not just using the you just go there and sing the best song best lyrics with the best voice

00:30:10.180 move engage with them that's what i say now did you see that the interesting thing is the artist

00:30:16.980 which i i had i'd seen an artist with shara remember we were down at roy thompson hall yeah

00:30:22.180 and yeah and i'd never seen that before and it was very interesting because it's something

00:30:28.100 and for for people who haven't uh listened to it actually seen the experience and seen the live

00:30:34.260 entertainment the live event um it's it's very interesting because you know he and his band got

00:30:39.620 up and quite frankly uh didn't understand a lot of the lyrics some of it i got some i didn't but

00:30:45.540 quite frankly just connecting and the emotion and the movement and kind of and did you pick some of

00:30:51.380 that up back home and bring it here that that's this guy has inspired me so much yeah so he is

00:30:57.700 very simple he his life is very simple yes it's mr amrit guru from the very famous band called

00:31:05.780 nepate nepal it's very simple and when he's into music he's like completely into me yeah like

00:31:13.940 he he lost himself in the music like he's at peace there whatever he does is from his soul

00:31:20.580 because he enjoyed it and watching him gives us so much joy it's like oh oh my god oh look at him

00:31:28.940 he's dancing what he gonna do next he make people think what he will be doing

00:31:34.580 so that's where capture all the people yeah no it's if he opens his ear and give a round dance

00:31:43.700 then that will be a

00:31:45.040 wow he did that

00:31:46.520 what are you gonna do next

00:31:48.000 you know

00:31:49.600 that's how you

00:31:50.740 yeah

00:31:51.480 the people

00:31:51.920 yeah

00:31:52.560 I tell to all the musicians as well

00:31:54.340 like

00:31:55.340 like you said

00:31:57.100 the music business has been changed so much

00:31:59.160 before

00:32:00.700 just to put one record out

00:32:02.740 you have to go to the record levels

00:32:05.020 do that

00:32:05.860 it was a lot of work to do

00:32:07.900 now it's easy

00:32:09.640 you have a song

00:32:10.820 just write it down

00:32:12.320 put it

00:32:12.840 record it

00:32:13.700 do it online and it's everywhere all around the corner right but i want to tell emerging artists

00:32:21.560 you know if you are very serious about music learn the business of music as well

00:32:28.820 how you make money out of your music it's not you just put a record and leave it outside

00:32:35.180 you just start there the rest you have to know how your song can generate money from where how

00:32:47.720 if you don't know find it out and do whatever needs to be done you need to register it register

00:32:54.540 it who is stopping you from doing that you don't do that and then you complain oh i don't make

00:33:01.560 money from music like figure out if you really want something if you want to cook rice find out

00:33:07.520 how can you cook rice you need rice you need water you need the rice cooker you know the electricity

00:33:13.180 you know the plug all these things and to cook plug it in put the rice on the rice cooker let

00:33:21.080 it warm you cannot just get the rice after a minute you put it leave it to be cooked for like

00:33:29.060 10 15 20 minutes and then you can have the rice nothing is overnight there is a process for

00:33:35.700 everything process yeah i always tell this to everybody but this might this sound quite weird

00:33:42.020 because but it's too direct i told all my other friends yo don't expect the baby after the first

00:33:50.900 night it takes time nine months ten months if you want a baby you gotta wait that month

00:33:58.100 if you want your song to be gone do good make music just keep doing it and wait for it

00:34:06.020 right yeah no it's a process and then i also want to add something else like that's where most of

00:34:13.060 the artists not only the artists like everybody mostly humans fall behind because they are not

00:34:23.060 clear about it for example now we're here i want to go somewhere where my home okay that's

00:34:35.140 the way to my home right i know where i'm going so i'll just drive my home but if i like oh okay

00:34:43.140 after this forecast i want to go somewhere where you're gonna go up north you're gonna go to the

00:34:50.180 sea lake you're not sure about it then you will just roam around you will not get nowhere but if

00:34:58.980 you're specific about something then figure out everything that need for that thing and then you

00:35:07.540 will make it faster easier and better don't be just like uh i want to do music i want to be musician

00:35:15.620 okay that's good great work on it write your songs record it publish it

00:35:22.900 promote it do whatever needs to be done go perform go perform yeah yeah go for fun

00:35:29.060 it's it's okay one people like it that's great one people like what you do

00:35:37.140 that's your achievement you cannot have thousands of fans in the first day with the first song

00:35:43.300 you see all the bands today like lear japlin metallica pink floyd used to play in regular

00:35:53.240 pops nobody know them but if they stop saying ah nobody knows nobody listen our music

00:36:01.020 then we won't know them today no well that's the joy you know i tell you when i grew up it was the

00:36:09.700 nice part about it the the bars and restaurants all had live artists you know and then you know

00:36:15.900 cd that's why i spend so much time and i mentioned to sharon sharon i do uh we we keep the stage

00:36:23.340 alive at our venues because quite frankly those live artists still need places to play yeah and

00:36:29.160 so we got to keep those live because losing that art and having people not having a place to do it

00:36:34.680 having that place restricted because it's so hard to get in you won't have people up on stages and

00:36:39.720 then you'll lose that that skill that gift and you don't want it to go with people my age you

00:36:44.360 want it to live on with younger people and and you know international stars like yourself and

00:36:50.600 and uh you know people who are you know like uh our youngest son he's playing now and i'm i'm happy

00:36:57.640 you know he's he's got a guitar he's got a couple guitars he's learning to write music you know and

00:37:03.160 that that's that's awesome and then we encourage it and exactly yeah you were and that's that's

00:37:07.960 what the parents need to do i think because most of the time most of the parents limit their child

00:37:19.080 like restrict their child let the child fly you never know he will become someone you never ever

00:37:28.200 think and will think in seventh generation yeah you never know no no well the interesting thing

00:37:35.160 is you know when you with kids we always said just put a lot of things in front of them put

00:37:40.680 footballs basketballs guitars drums put a bunch of stuff they'll they'll just gravitate to where

00:37:47.080 they want to go so you don't have to force them and that's what they'll end up in the place that

00:37:51.240 they need to be and you won't know why and i don't know why quite frankly you know i wouldn't have

00:37:56.040 been there i know i didn't get there but yeah that's what i tell all the time all the time to

00:38:03.160 all the parents you never know what your kid was i'm a singer my son won't be a singer i don't know

00:38:10.040 maybe he will maybe he won't but i don't know but i cannot make him hey gotta be a singer no no i

00:38:17.160 should let him be who he wants to be yeah for example my parents or my everybody who knew me

00:38:22.920 before they wanted me to me a doctor but i don't want to be a doctor so i'm here now and i'm happy

00:38:35.800 everything works out just just let your child fly i would say that because he might enjoy football

00:38:45.800 don't restrict him saying oh there's no career in football you have to be extra to be to be extra

00:38:51.560 he need to start today so let him go there and i give this example to everybody when it comes to

00:38:59.160 football they say messi they say ronaldo they are 40 almost 40 years old today but they started it

00:39:07.320 when they were like two three four five years of age nobody knew them until they mastered that skill

00:39:15.240 they were not born with it right they developed it it takes time it takes your dedication if you

00:39:22.840 really want to do something just and it's not about the talent it's the before dedication time

00:39:30.280 practice that you put into something right i said like if you go to a cafe like let's say starbucks

00:39:39.000 someone makes the coffee right they were not born with it they came they

00:39:44.880 learned they make it yeah they're a great barista because they practice yeah

00:39:48.360 and it's in them and they're interested exactly yeah they love to do it they

00:39:52.260 love to do it I cannot do the same art no I couldn't they did yes I haven't

00:39:57.600 practiced it I haven't I'm not there and that's not me no right so when I write

00:40:04.200 song in five minutes people say oh your passion is different than the boys and okay let me tell

00:40:15.320 you one more thing to not just the musicians to everybody out there to all the young kids

00:40:24.200 whoever watching this podcast or watching falling all of us over anything

00:40:30.200 never ever compare yourself to nobody you can sing someone can write someone can sing someone can sing

00:40:42.780 better than you so never ever compare yourself with others on anything is because that will

00:40:52.920 kill you that will kill everything inside of you i cannot compare myself to leonel messi 0.55

00:41:00.540 oh he plays so good football man i need to play football like that did i start when i was born 0.99

00:41:06.680 no did i had practiced that much as he do no no and am i passionate that much on football as him

00:41:14.780 no

00:41:15.220 so you can't just compare

00:41:17.680 and this is what I tell

00:41:19.560 to all my

00:41:20.780 Nepali fellow singers or musicians

00:41:23.580 I'm out there 0.99

00:41:25.580 not because I sing better

00:41:27.160 not because I sing the best

00:41:29.140 I'm out there because

00:41:31.460 I want to be out there

00:41:32.720 and people like it, that's good

00:41:35.340 there are so many people

00:41:37.520 who sing better than me

00:41:38.520 who sing worse than me

00:41:40.620 but at the end of the day, who is there?

00:41:43.820 me

00:41:44.040 yeah well you you've you've done the work you put in the time yeah you know and i appreciate you

00:41:51.160 like even today coming in and and doing this podcast with us so i appreciate i want to see

00:41:56.980 you somewhere next so before you leave today we got to figure out the dates that you're going to

00:42:01.580 be playing and quite frankly uh you know we have a lot coming up a lot of holidays coming up quite

00:42:06.960 frankly so uh you know let's make sure we get that on our calendar because uh you know you know i

00:42:13.400 love what you do oh thank you i appreciate that and then yeah besides that uh so i have a band

00:42:20.580 with uh now it's a geek band geeks and we are producing records as well so i we just finished

00:42:27.600 one song uh doing the vocal text yesterday oh nice that's the same band that i'm playing we're

00:42:33.680 playing every week on restaurants and we do private events and like we're busy and like

00:42:42.280 were booked until november good for you and then a few months after next year too

00:42:49.240 okay so it's getting better so i'm doing music and yeah i'm producing my one songs i'm playing

00:42:56.360 every week too it's possible i'm doing it anybody can do it but you should be willing to do yeah

00:43:05.080 and uh how do people get a hold of you the they can find me on socials okay good like

00:43:12.760 you can search me at cd labyrinth and then with my band andy square

00:43:21.640 yeah well i know we're getting a whole because we want to get out again soon and we want you to come

00:43:26.200 do so at our couple places uh we want you to get some events up so let's show after we're done

00:43:31.800 let's talk today we'll be in touch with another problem yeah but it was always been a pleasure

00:43:37.480 like even when i saw you first time when when i talked to you i was like the way you talk

00:43:45.720 is the way i'm starting to talk so i was like oh the place where i want to go this man has

00:43:53.560 worked already so oh thank you i need to spend more time with you that time no but none of my

00:44:00.200 friend came to you and talked but i was there talking to you so how did you come up with this

00:44:05.240 right we even talked about it did he asked me right away about business yeah yeah and because

00:44:10.200 i was interested in business yeah so i came here i have my own business too it's okay you you guys

00:44:18.120 will know it after but anything is possible i'm a musician but apart from that i'm doing something

00:44:24.520 else too oh good so i knew you would be yeah when i met you yeah always always always don't limit

00:44:32.760 yourself like spread your wings fly as high as you can sky is the limit sky is the limit and i know

00:44:40.360 you are so thanks brother for taking the time today and uh thank you we'll be in touch thank

00:44:46.840 you thank you so much and then yeah that's it last last thing is no matter where you go

00:44:55.800 how high you fly remember that you started from the ground and you stay humble all the time

00:45:02.960 like it won't cost you anything be kind to everybody it's okay let people say bad about you

00:45:09.540 you say good about it awesome right good advice yeah thank you

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True Patriot Love - October 14, 2026

From Rural Nepal to Canada's Music Scene： Against the Odds ft. Cd Lamrin

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