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Bob Azzam

Egyptian singer

Jul 11, 2026

16:11
How did that sort of shape itself for you?
16:14
Yeah, it's interesting.
16:15
So coming out of school, and this is where if we go back to the whole culture thing as well, I was the oldest grandkid on both sides of the family.
16:24
And there was this expectation, Middle Eastern culture, if you're not a lawyer or a doctor or an engineer, you're pretty much failed at life.
16:31
And so there was just this expectation that I'd finish school and go to university.
16:36
And studying for me was so hard.
16:38
Like I really struggled to sit down and retain all that information.

14 MINS LATER

30:20
Because if I had kept going the way I was going, probably the previous 20 years of that, that was a cycle that had to be broken and I did whatever I could to stop it.

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