Celeb Savant

Alessia Labate - an Italian dance singer, songwriter, and rising star - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Alessia explains how she grew up in a musical family, why she says that it is important to detach one's self from their art, and why she says that the dance music world is more open and welcoming than the pop music world.

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Apple Gule - a South African singer and songwriter - joins us live in studio on this episode of Celeb Savant. Apple tells us the story behind his stage name, how he started out singing the national anthem at sports events, and how he has remained positive through the challenging times of his career.

This episode was recorded live in studio at Solid Gold Podcasts, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Shannon Esra, a South African Award-winning and SAFTA-nominated actress, joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. As we share the stage and screen, Shannon tells us about how she hates waiting when it comes to being on set, and what seasoned actors taught her when she first started. We also discuss her show-hopping character Sandra Stein, and the character’s latest iteration on Law, Love & Betrayal S2.

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Dennis Matkosky - an American producer and songwriter with over 70 million record sales - joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. We hear about his multi-decade and multi-award-nominated career, which includes writing the smash hit song 'Maniac' for the movie Flashdance, producing and writing for Sarah Brightman, Chicago, LeAnn Rimes, Smokey Robinson and many more… and we find out what it means to produce for an artist.

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Jon Secada, a Cuban-born and American-based singer and songwriter, joins us on this episode of Celeb Savant. Jon takes us through his Grammy Award-winning career, which includes what motivates him to keep creating music and performing live after being in the industry for over three decades, the challenges in the current music industry landscape, and more about his latest project, Fascination - a tribute to Nat King Cole with Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

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