Jul 30, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
Welcome to *You Had to Be There*, the podcast where we deep dive into the world of the music industry. I'm your host, Julia Gomberg. This week, I'm wrapping up the season with the final episode (#4…
Emily JamesGuest
Julia GombergHost
And your debut album is? summer's nostalgia came out may 29th i got to attend the album release show which was so cool so special i'm sure it was more even more than that for you and i'm excited to hear about it but congratulations
no i was just like a couple days ago being like one month uh not anniversary but one month aversary of it being out and I was like I I simultaneously can't believe it's been a month but it also does feel like you know time has passed so it's weird like that but July is crazy the fact that we're more than halfway through 2026 I'm just like what have I what did I do this year well
you released an album so that's better than most definitely give yourself credit for that but
to start like way in the beginning I always like to ask like what was your relationship with music like
music was always very important to me and a very big part of my personality I um I'm the youngest of five kids and so I think my introduction to it was mostly through my parents playing music a lot in the house, but also I was just constantly in the car, you know, shuttling my other siblings around to their various activities.
So my mom would play full albums to entertain me and I would was a huge fan of Billy Joel.
So yeah, I, I got introduced through that and Again, being the youngest of five kids, all of my siblings were taking piano lessons.
And your debut album is? summer's nostalgia came out may 29th i got to attend the album release show which was so cool so special i'm sure it was more even more than that for you and i'm excited to hear about it but congratulations
no i was just like a couple days ago being like one month uh not anniversary but one month aversary of it being out and I was like I I simultaneously can't believe it's been a month but it also does feel like you know time has passed so it's weird like that but July is crazy the fact that we're more than halfway through 2026 I'm just like what have I what did I do this year well
you released an album so that's better than most definitely give yourself credit for that but
to start like way in the beginning I always like to ask like what was your relationship with music like
music was always very important to me and a very big part of my personality I um I'm the youngest of five kids and so I think my introduction to it was mostly through my parents playing music a lot in the house, but also I was just constantly in the car, you know, shuttling my other siblings around to their various activities.
So my mom would play full albums to entertain me and I would was a huge fan of Billy Joel.
So yeah, I, I got introduced through that and Again, being the youngest of five kids, all of my siblings were taking piano lessons.
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