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SkiP HappEns Podcast
Eden Delia: A Young Prodigy's Journey Through Music, Golf, and Dreams
Buddy, we're live. Hi, welcome. Hold on Eden, because I'm going to introduce you in just a moment. Welcome to Skip Happens Podcast. My name is Skip Clark. Of course, I am the host of Skip Happens. Joining me is a rising star. Once you hear this young lady, you're going to know exactly what I'm talking about. Her energy and her passion is contagious. Her name is Eden Delia. Eden is here to talk about her debut single. It's called Perfect Day. It's a feel-good track, all about celebrating the joy of spending quality time with friends and family, and the song was born from a creative collaboration with James Lugo, who we're going to talk about here in a minute too. That's quite the name. One simple question how was your day? What sparked the idea? And, before long, perfect day came to life. Eden delia, there you are, hello, how are you?
Speaker 2:hi, I'm good. How about you?
Speaker 1:I'm doing wonderful. Thank you for asking. Even though we're in the northeast um, we're in upstate new york and you're like southern florida, right oh yeah well, it's like yeah yeah, okay, so let me just before we get into yeah. Well, it's like yeah, yeah, okay. So let me just before we get into you a little bit, because it's 28 degrees here in the Northeast right now. Today it'd be in the what is the 11th of February? What's the temperature there?
Speaker 2:This morning it was like 71 degrees.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's enough, all right. So, anyways, welcome to the Skip Happens podcast. So I was very excited to well, I've been talking to your dad a little bit. I just met your mom, but let's talk about the song first of all. All right, and it's called Perfect Day. It's such a feel good track. What was the best memory you've had that inspired the lyrics to that song?
Speaker 2:memory you've had that inspired the lyrics to that song. So for Perfect Day, it's, you know, a day that's perfect. It's where you're just with your friends, your family, and nothing could be better than this moment. And there's been ups and downs in life, with my life, but those perfect days that you have, they're so memorable. So one memory could be when I went to this oh, so, I went to this roller coaster place.
Speaker 2:So you know, like a fair with my parents and it was just so perfect and I was with my family, I was with my friends and it just it was this amazing moment. I don't know how to say it, but oh, and I was actually scared to go on one of the rides, but my parents were like you know, everything will be okay and when we went, it was like just so amazing. I loved it so much, and being with my family in that moment was just surreal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's one of those moments. What about? You're in Florida, but all right, so the dog was just barking. What kind of dog do you have?
Speaker 2:So our dog is a Shih Tzu poodle. I have two of those dogs.
Speaker 1:So it's a little little dog.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:It's a little little dog with a big, big bark.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he has a bigger bark than himself.
Speaker 1:No, I love it. I love it so adorable. But you know you collaborated with James Lugo on this song, perfect Day. Tell us a little bit about how you two actually worked together. How did that come about in the creative process? How did that go when you were in the studio with him?
Speaker 2:So how it was actually created was we were thinking of ideas for songs and my parents and I were collaborating together at first and we were like, okay, what if we wrote a song about a perfect day? And we went to the idea with James Lugo and he said, hey, that sounds like a really good idea. And and we went to the idea with james lugo and he said, hey, that sounds like a really good idea. And the collaboration went great. He was so great to work with and writing lyrics was just amazing with him. And then we went over and said, oh, is there anything you know maybe we could fix, but it was just amazing. And then in the studio it was actually kind of hard, because not because of james lugo, but because we had been there for a week writing songs with another producer and by the end of the whole thing I was burnt out. But we pushed through and it was amazing and James was super encouraging, which really helped me get through it.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Now, where did you go to do this? You say you went somewhere, but where did you record the song?
Speaker 2:so we recorded all five songs in nashville actually all ten songs, but the five songs with james. We recorded it in nashville and it was great and where did you go?
Speaker 1:in nashville, I love nashville. I'm going to be there in a few days again. But um, where did you go to record that? What studio do you remember?
Speaker 2:It was actually in the little backyard of his room, but it was really nice.
Speaker 1:And you know a lot of those studios in Nashville. They look like homes. You wouldn't even know it's a recording studio until you actually walk into the building itself, which is kind of cool, and I think you're going to be seeing a lot of those studios. I already know that. And tell me a little bit about you. Know your friends and all that. I mean you doing what you're doing and you're on your way, you're already, you're getting there, but what do your friends think about all that?
Speaker 2:So I have a lot of friends, mainly because I've been in two schools.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I have one best friend, her name's Mia, and she is so proud of me and she loves the idea that I'm doing this for myself. And then my friends at my new school. They're so supportive. They're asking me every single day when's your album coming out? When's this perfect day music video coming out? I can't wait to watch it. They were watching in my video on my youtube channel in class called introducing edelia, and I was like I wasn't even there. So when they told me I was like what it was?
Speaker 1:so that's, they're really supportive so I mean you being only 13, and how did you actually get started in music?
Speaker 2:So I've been singing ever since I was three.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:In 2022 fall. I was on my phone on Instagram and I saw this ad and it was like, oh, your kid could be the next child star. And I saw some of my favorite actors on there and I was already set. I said, yeah, this is yeah, I'm doing it. And I went some of my favorite actors on there and I was already set. I said, yeah, this is yeah, I'm doing it. And I went to my parents and they said, yeah, we can enter it. And so we did this trial and error, so you would go and perform online in front of these people, kind of like a zoom how we're doing right now. And I made it through all the stages how we're doing right now. And I made it through all the stages. And then in December I had my final interview where I sang for them and I acted, and then I was accepted to go to iPop in summer of 2023.
Speaker 1:Wow, so tell us a little bit about iPop. What is that?
Speaker 2:So we went to California and it is so amazing it's. I really loved it because I love performing in front of people, okay, and it was where you would perform in front of talent agents, producers, all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1:I'd be so nervous, eden, I don't know if I'd be able to do that. You're much braver than I am, or I would ever be. That had to be a little nerve wracking, though.
Speaker 2:Well, before I went on stage, the nerves cause I mean it's excited nerves, but it's like what if I mess up? What if something happens? But when you're actually performing for me, it's where I feel most comfortable and, like you know, I can do this. I know what to do.
Speaker 1:I love that. So I mean, there you are, you're putting out music. I tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna just kind of tell me if you recognize this. Okay, here it comes. Is it anything you've heard before?
Speaker 2:I don't think I've heard this song.
Speaker 1:No, no, you don't mind if I play just a little bit of it, do you? No, all right.
Speaker 2:Sunshine on a Friday. Oh my gosh, my boots in the sand, me and my best friend Walking to the ice cream stand, laughing at all the silly things that both of us say. That's my idea of a perfect day Trying to look glass, making TikTok videos, staying up past midnight Wondering where time goes, headed to the beach, playing in the waves. That's my idea of a perfect time. And there.
Speaker 1:It is A good idea. A good idea what that song is about. It's that young lady that we're talking to tonight, eden Delia, and right there, I would never say you were 13. I'm just saying you sound really, really good. You know I talk to a. You were 13. I'm just saying you sound really really good. You know, I talk to a lot of people. I've been in the business for a long time and just to hear a fresh voice like that, so welcoming, so welcoming, and something is telling me that young lady, you're going to do really well. I mean, you're going to do really well. Have you ever thought about American Idol or the Voice, or any of those shows at all?
Speaker 2:Well, I have been thinking about it because I've been watching it for so long. I mean, I've probably watched almost every season of the Voice with my mom and my grandma, sure but I think it'd be super cool to enter that and to do it in front of people, because because I know how it is, but I also don't know how it is- right right really cool.
Speaker 1:You know what I would say? I think you're too good for that. No, seriously, because sometimes I I think they look for young artists that really aren't that good so they can develop them into somebody, so they, they can do that. I think you're already past that, although I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, I mean you know what I mean, but it's yeah, you definitely if you did do it, you would do really well. What about life outside music? Your dad said you're an avid golfer.
Speaker 2:Yes, so as long as I've been singing, I've been golfing.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I love to golf. If I could be on the golf course every day, I would be. It's one of my favorite things to do besides singing, because I also love to sing, but I always golf with my dad. So I have two things I sing with my mom and I golf with my dad.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I remember we'd be on the putting green and he'd be helping me putt and just learn how to putt when I was four years old, and I've actually been on my varsity team for two years. I started when I was in sixth grade and it was so.
Speaker 1:Varsity too. I mean, yeah, you're, you know. So being at the eight now it's been a little bit for me. So pardon me here, but being 13 is you're at what grade level? I'm in seventh grade, right now and you're on the varsity golf team yes, well, that says something as well you are. Who's better, you or your dad? Do you beat your dad? You can tell he's not listening. I know he's not. Do you guys have like a little bit of a competition going when you're out on the course together?
Speaker 2:sometimes we do, we practice a lot, but there's these few times where we'll be doing a putting contest or we'll be on one hole and we'll play it and we'll see who wins.
Speaker 1:What's? You're out on the golf course, but what else is like your favorite part of, or what where you live? What is what's so good about where you live, which is, first of all, tell everybody approximately where you are. You don't have to give me your address, of course. I'm just saying what town do you live in?
Speaker 2:So I live in Palm City, florida, and I actually just moved here in August. I used to live in Lighthouse Point, but I really like it here. It's definitely different because all of the trees here used to be replaced with buildings, but it's really nice and, oh my gosh, the beaches.
Speaker 1:I was going to go there, you got to tell me about the beach the beach in lighthouse point where I used to live.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's my home, so I loved it. But the beach here was clean and beautiful and I'm not saying the beach in lighthouse point wasn't, but there was right it was, you know, more dirty and there was uh, seaweed, a lot of seaweed uh, seaweed, a lot of seaweed here.
Speaker 1:It's clean and fresh and I just love it so much. That's cool. And is it more or less like a private beach area? I mean, it's not a lot of tourists. I know a lot of people head to florida, uh, from my neck of the woods this time of the year and everybody loves to go to the beach to get to spring break. But is that part kind of pretty much laid back and not so crowded?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's very quiet there. I mean there's people there, but there's not as many people and it's just so nice and there's solitude, so it's you know, comfortable it's peaceful.
Speaker 1:You ever get out on the beach and sing. You pick up a guitar. Do you go down there? Do you maybe play some tracks and sing along, or maybe just with the sound of the ocean behind you?
Speaker 2:Well, I love the beach, but I also I mean, singing on the beach is so much fun not in front of a bunch of people, cause I mean I gather them up but I, yeah, play some songs and just start singing and jamming out and go in the water Not with my AirPods in, but you know and just start singing and jamming out and go in the water, not with my AirPods in, but you know, no, no, I get you, I get you.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you this, eden If you could collaborate with anybody right now or let me back up a little bit who would be your dream artist to open for, and why?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a good question. Fill the beans. So for the countryside of me I would love to open for laney, wilson or hardy.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh yeah, we, we're doing a show with hardy here, uh, later this summer. But and I'm kind of, you know, I'm going to be honest with you I think hardy is awesome. He's awesome. I've been doing country music for a long time. I talked to a lot of the stars. I've talked to Hardy Great guy, by the way but he can get pretty hard, he can get pretty wild. You know, if you go to that concert, don't tell your mom and dad you're going to that show. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but absolutely.
Speaker 1:And you said Lainey. Now Lainey is well, you know she went to Nashville. You'll have to go back and view the podcast I did with Lainey. You did. It might have been last year, yes, and Lainey told me the whole story, how she went to Nashville in a camper and she lived in this camper and you know she didn't have any money, nothing, it was just. But that was her dream, that was her passion and she was going to do it and she was going to make it work. And I guess you know, take that as a lesson. Now you're already on your way. But laney was trying to get on her way and finally, when she, when it broke you, you know what happened. I mean, she's just now, she's a superstar and, uh, just phenomenal. Do you know, laney gardner?
Speaker 1:I have not heard of her actually well, keep your ears open, because I think that's somebody that you need to watch too. Who do you, is there a particular artist that you do watch and see how they perform on stage and listen to the tone and how they interact with their audience? Is there somebody that you watch?
Speaker 2:Not like I don't really watch people, but if I were to, I love the way Billie Eilish interacts with her fans and people like Harry Styles interacts with her fans.
Speaker 1:Oh yes.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, he interacts. And then there's some people that really don't interact with their fans and they just sing, which mean I respect, but it's so cool when someone's singing to you yeah, they sing back to you.
Speaker 1:yes, yes, yeah, and you've had that happen, and I know for a fact that you're on that stage at the hard rock, in front of maybe a few thousand people. Yes, and how was that?
Speaker 2:That was such a cool experience because I'm used to singing in front of people in my church, because at my old school there was a church and I'd sing there. My music teacher would ask me to sing there and I'd love to because there's a bunch of people I knew, but being at the Hard Rock, I knew no one there except for my family, obviously and it was like I was trying to connect with these people that I've never met before through my song and I was trying my best to do that and it was such a beautiful experience. I really loved it how do you um?
Speaker 1:or when you're on stage, what do you find is the most challenging?
Speaker 2:for you being who you are when I'm on stage, I'd say when I'm singing the first word or the first, you know, just beat, or anything like that. It's the hardest part for me, because if I get that first note down then I feel fine the rest of the song. But if because if I get that first note down, then I feel fine the rest of the song. But if I don't get that first note down, I'm like, but you know, I just pick myself back up and keep doing my best.
Speaker 2:But when you just first know, it's just yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1:You know it's the same thing doing what I do, and I do a lot of shows and I'm on the stage a lot and I do a lot of what we call presents, introducing the artist and all. And it doesn't matter how often I do this or do that, I still get the jitters before I go on stage. I still get that. I get nervous. Okay, what am I going to say? How am I going to walk? How am I going to act? What am I going to look at? I think all that goes through my mind. But you know what, once you get up on that stage, I know for me, when I have that microphone in my hand and I I'm about to say hello to everybody, it's just like you as a singer or as an artist, and that first note comes out, when my first word comes out, then I'm fine. But up to that point it's like, oh, my god, I can't do this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can just it's like, no, it happens, and it doesn't matter how long you've been doing it. You know, even if I, you know, I've talked to artists today that have, you know, been there and back again, and to this very day, they get that same feeling. But once they just exactly what you said. Once, once you start, then it's like you come down and you're ready to go. Yeah, so tell me what, what's it like if I, if I, came to see you perform what, what would I expect? What, what would I see?
Speaker 2:well for me. I love to be interactive with the audience, sing to people, like I'll pick a person in the audience, not because like, oh, this person's better than this person, but I'll just pick someone and I'll look at them and I'll sing one line to them. And then I'll look at another person and I'll walk on the stage and I'll be like throwing my hands in the air, because I talk with my hands, I sing with my hands, probably use my hands the whole time.
Speaker 1:Are you Italian? I might be, maybe a little bit, I don't know alien I might be maybe a little bit, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, being interactive with the audience. I feel like that creates a bond between the singer and the person or the audience.
Speaker 1:Just you know you know, eden, you're living the dream of so many others at your age, these young ladies that want to be on stage, that want to be another, not another Lainey Wilson, I think everybody has to be their own person, but ladies your age that want to do what you're doing, or anybody your age that wants to do what you're doing, what advice would you give them?
Speaker 2:give them I'd say to just never look back at the mistakes you made in any songs or anything you've ever done and just keep moving forward because if you keep improving and you keep doing your best, you will make it eventually and with the help you can get along the way from people you meet.
Speaker 1:Now, do you remember the first song you ever wrote that you wrote?
Speaker 2:First song oh.
Speaker 1:You know, there's a reason I'm asking, because I'll tell you what I'm thinking it was the worst song ever, Correct? You know, everybody says that they'll laugh and they'll go. Oh my God, yeah, and I'll ask well, what was the title? And they go. I don't want to tell you, it's like, but you remember, I do remember, I remember this song. Tell me about it.
Speaker 2:I can probably sing the chorus. So it's actually a very sad song because it was a hard time. It was around the time when my dad he was in a really bad accident.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And he was hospitalized and it was just a very sad dark time and that summer it wasn't the best Right. So I wrote this song to kind of just express my feelings in a way. It was called Dark Clouds Surrounding Me.
Speaker 1:I like that title, though Listen, I didn't expect that. Wow, god bless you. And how long ago was that?
Speaker 2:I've got to say 2019.
Speaker 1:Yeah, holy cow, and that was the first song you ever wrote. Now, how have you improved from that point when it comes to your songwriting?
Speaker 2:So something I'd say is that when I was writing that song, I remember how the words were kind of just mumbo jumbo. They didn't make a lot of sense, except for when I'd sing the dark clouds surrounding me and I added just so many random themes to the song, like some parts were Christianity and some parts were really happy and some parts were really sad, and I mean that's not a bad thing, but it was kind of just pieced together in a weird way, I'd say. Now I try to make it flow together more and try to introduce a next section that I'm going to talk about or sing before I actually start singing it.
Speaker 1:Do you sing that on occasion now, just when you're around your dad and you got such a loving family and I know you're very deep in faith and God bless you because that is so awesome. More people need to think like that, more people need to believe in what you believe in, and your relationship with your parents seems really close, and you just told me about your dad. Um, have you sang that song just because because, or have you had the opportunity, or you just kind of leave it where it is?
Speaker 2:so I remember. Well, I do sing that song. Sometimes if it's just stuck in my head, like if I start thinking about all the cringiest stuff I've done and that song comes to my head, I can't stop singing it, even though I hate it. I mean, I don't hate the song, but I hate, like I know I totally get it yeah exactly yeah yeah, if you, um, if you could perform anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1:I got a lot of crazy questions here, stuff I just make known If you could perform anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
Speaker 2:That's a really hard question.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:I'd have to say somewhere in Europe like maybe Italy, or like Rome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what's the farthest you've been from home? Have you been able to take any trips major trips and have you ever been to Italy or Rome or anywhere like that?
Speaker 2:Sadly, I have not been there. I really want to go. I want to travel the world pretty much, but the farthest I've probably ever been is I've been on two cruises. Well, I've been on more cruises than that, but with one of my really close friends, tori, and we. It was the type of cruise where you get to go on excursions, and it was. One was in Mexico, and then there was another one, puerto Rico, I'm pretty sure. And then there was another one, puerto Rico, I'm pretty sure, and it was really cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 1:I'm going to ask you what's your favorite song to listen to right now. Do you have a favorite? I mean, it can be any genre, it can be anything. I'm just kind of curious.
Speaker 2:So there's a few favorite songs that I really love to listen to. Okay, but I've been on a Gracie Abrams kick.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow so much.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, her music speaks to me, but I'd have to say one of my favorite songs by her that I sing a lot is Close to you, and it was actually a really surprising song because the lyrics kind of sound like it's about a boy that she really likes, but the music video was her and her best friend.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So it was just like wow, and I really liked that.
Speaker 1:Now I realize you're only 13. But there's no boys in your life yet, right, no Good? Did you hear that Dad Just saying Take it from the father of three? I know, but you know when you're not making music, of course you might be out playing golf, but what other hobbies do you have?
Speaker 2:So I really focus on singing golf, but if I'm bored one day and I really have nothing to do, I'll probably start drawing, because it's just a really fun thing for me to do. It's kind of a way to express myself in other ways that I have, and I mean it could be singing or just, like you know, drawing a picture of someone standing or drawing a butterfly, and it might not look the best but, it's just very nice.
Speaker 1:Very cool, Very cool. Where do you see yourself in five years, which would mean you know you'd be 18.
Speaker 2:Yes, so when I'm 18, I hope that I've been able to really make it far and I mean, I'm so blessed to be where I am right now. There's so many people that wish they could be in this position and I'm so thankful I am, because it's so amazing and yes, it really is and in five years, I probably like to be more well known because there are very few people that know about me. But that's okay. That's okay. I'm not ready for, like, everyone to know my name. When I'm 18, I think I will be ready and I want people to listen to my music and maybe help them through a hard time, or maybe just listen to my music just because it sounds good or they really just enjoy it have you thought about, um, maybe like, well, you, you've been modeling did I read that right?
Speaker 1:you've done a little bit of that acting, yes, so I mean you got disney, you know, out in la, they've got all this stuff going on. Have have you thought about maybe just reaching out to them and saying are you looking for somebody for one of the Disney shows, or something like that? Because look how many artists have actually gotten their start from appearing with Disney different shows throughout the years. I could see you doing something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I've actually auditioned for a few Disney shows, I think three or two okay and it was. Yeah, I didn't get the role, but it was cool auditioning for it, because there have been a lot of Disney stars that have made it big, like Ariana Grande, sabrina Carpenter and so many more.
Speaker 1:Yeah no, exactly, exactly right. I. I could definitely see you doing something like that. Are you into like sports at all? Do you do it? I mean, we're like, for example, we're a big baseball family here, as you can see by my little New York Mets bobblehead Used to be, until I had to move it because we don't know what this guy is, but he's the mascot for our local baseball team. But anyways, do you enjoy sports? Do you get? Because you're in Florida and right now pitchers and catchers are reporting.
Speaker 2:Yes. So for me, I'd say, something I enjoy watching with my family is football, specifically the Lions.
Speaker 1:We are huge supporters yeah, because your dad's from Michigan. I get it, I get it, I get it. But where did they end up this year? I'm just saying oh no, I know, I know, I know that. And the Super Bowl, did you watch it?
Speaker 2:I did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2:I mean, I didn't really watch it, watch it, but it was. I watched a a few parts, but it was really cool yep, yep.
Speaker 1:What do you think of taylor swift?
Speaker 2:so I've been listening to taylor swift since I was little. Love it. I remember I'd be singing shake it off and just so many songs by her I love. And I'm not the biggest fan, for that's for sure, but but I do really like her music and I actually went to one of her concerts. It was the one in Miami, nice. Yes, I went with my family.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'll tell you a little bit of a story. I mean, this is supposed to be about you and your music, but doing what I do, not only with the podcast, but doing the radio show and all that that. When Taylor Swift first came out the radio station I was at her and her mom stopped by and I gave her one of her first radio interviews and she had this song. It was called Tim McGraw and she sang that in the studio and I still have that recording and I still have the card she sent. It's a thank you card, but that was a lot of years ago.
Speaker 1:I think she might have only been 17 or 18, you know. So that just shows you that, yeah, that's happening and they that's what they call a radio tour, and I don't know if anybody's talked to you about a radio tour at all as of yet. But I know you've got a great team, you've got grassroots and they'll definitely get you hooked up with a radio tour. But that's why I was asking about Taylor Swift. I love that woman, I love her. I think she's so talented. She does the marketing very well Now that she's got people that does everything for her, but still she gets it done and she gets it done right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's amazing. I mean, she's definitely someone to look up to how far she's come and how big she is now. Like she was the first female to get one billion dollars in the music industry industry, I'm pretty sure that's what I heard, and it was that's like crazy crazy stuff, crazy stuff.
Speaker 1:Do you know any of these guys? How about, leonard? This must be your uncle it is my uncle yeah, go lions hi uncle len yeah, oh, wait a minute. Who's this? Let's see, uh, chris, hi, jerby, jerby. Okay, wait a minute. Wait, we got another one here, hang on, hang on. How about this one, michael? Oh? Hey hey, hang on a minute, we we got another one, hang on.
Speaker 2:Oh sorry.
Speaker 1:You know you. You know this is what I'm showing you right here. I mean, obviously you know a lot of these people, either the relatives or good friends, but what you know what this is, this is the supportive family. I mean, you've got, you've got a great, you've got. You know you have a team that's a professional team, but you've got a team that's there with you right now. I know, if you look right across the room, you'll see your mom and dad. Nobody loves you more than your mom and dad, and you know it's just the team and the support that you have from your family is just phenomenal. That's part of it right there. You know, having those people behind you. Now I can't get them to go away, hang on. But now, now I lost your name on the bottom. Oh no, oh no, oh no, hang on a minute, we'll find it. We'll find it. I just you know we'll find it, so I'll just go like this Click. You can't see what I'm doing, but I'm clicking a whole lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1:There you go. It's all about you, it's not about me, and I really appreciate everything that you're doing and you know you're off and running. You're on this journey. That's going to be a lot of hard work. Let me ask you this, Eden.
Speaker 2:How well do you take? Well, I would say that if it's criticism like you suck, I'm not gonna take it very well. I'm probably gonna start crying. I'm gonna be like how dare they say that. But if it's constructive criticisms, where criticism? Where it's like you know, I really like this, but maybe you could change this about your song? Or I didn't like how you sang this as a vibrato, but maybe you could sing it this way that I can work with, because it's like you know, these people are actually giving me ideas on what I can work and do better.
Speaker 1:Sure, you know the reason I asked you, that is, you hit Nashville. There's so many people that are doing or wanting to do what you're doing. There's going to be a lot of no's, there's going to be some yeses, there's going to be some you sucks, you know, but you don't. You don't. And I think for every bit of criticism good, bad or indifferent you will learn from that and if, if you know, don't get, don't take anything really hard or serious and I'm sure your mom and dad have told you that, but you know, it's just but it's hard. I know even me at my age doing what I'm doing and I have somebody come up and say you know, dude, you sucked, and it's like, okay, you don't like me, oh well, then go away, I don't care.
Speaker 2:Don't listen. You know I'm doing something right, and I've been doing this a long time, so you know what I mean. So are you? Is your mom a musician? So my mom has been singing her whole life too, and she's actually the one who has inspired me, and I mean, I've always wanted to sing in front of people, but my mom is so inspiring and she is definitely the number one person I look up to, I mean above Taylor Swift, above lady, anyone, really anyone. That, I think, is amazing.
Speaker 2:She's the first because she's the person that I've been singing with in the car to any song within the car, to any song shallow, every single song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can just imagine sitting at a light waiting for it to turn green on a nice hot Florida day and maybe the windows cracked a little bit and you guys are just belting it out.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You know. But you're right. I mean that goes back to what I was saying, the support of family and having your mom that sings as well. I mean that's pretty good. Now, your mom singing is it just as a hobby, or is she an artist, so to speak?
Speaker 2:The thing is she always wanted it to be more than just a hobby, because it was so amazing to her and it's so amazing to me. And she loved it so much and she auditioned for American Idol and so many things because she really wanted to make it. But I'd say I have more, I have the ability more to do it than she did. But I mean, oh my gosh, you should listen to her. Her voice is beautiful.
Speaker 1:So I need to do a podcast with your mom too.
Speaker 2:You do.
Speaker 1:You know that's pretty awesome. It's in the family and that it's all part of the team. It's all part of you. Know who you are as well. So now, are you an only child? Do you have siblings or no? I you an only child. Do you have siblings or no?
Speaker 2:I am an only child.
Speaker 1:I only have four siblings ah, yeah, yeah, so you have one dog or two?
Speaker 2:well, I have one dog, but I used to have another dog, sadly passed away when I was six years old oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:It's okay. I'm sorry. We have yellow labs. We have pretty big dogs here. We don't have the little ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know, if I brought a little one into the house, how Rossi, my big yellow lab, would handle it, or I'd toss him around, or something he likes to play. He's got all his toys all over the place.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are you looking forward to? I mean, do you think you're going to be spending time in nashville anytime soon? Do you think you're going to go back into the studio? Are you going to be? Uh, maybe taking in some what they call writers nights or writers rounds? Uh, maybe you, dad and mom, make the trip, or?
Speaker 2:yeah, we might be going back. We are going back to nashville actually to write more music and to maybe just like do a few things to my songs currently. But I mean for so many other reasons too, because nashville number one, it's beautiful, I loved it so much and it is so cool to just see all of these people and a bar or just on the street singing because they're trying so hard?
Speaker 1:Well, you're only 13. What do you mean? Bar? No, but I know what you're talking about. You walk down Broadway and all these bars, as you would say, establishments. There's music coming out of every door. Yes, that's so cool and actually, yes, it's a bar, but you can get into a lot of those and I'm surprised. Have you ever had the opportunity to go into one of these places and sing or get up on the stage? Has anybody invited you to join them?
Speaker 2:No one has invited me because we didn't go into that many.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But it would be so cool to do that, because it's just a bunch of people that are there to see you, really, and to see anyone, and I think that'd be so cool.
Speaker 1:It would be so cool, and Jelly Roll is going to be opening up his bar here on the 20th.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, see, here I go. I said the word bar. I'm sorry, mom. There's so many bars on Broadway now. Every artist, every major artist, has a bar or a bar named after them. I'm sure somebody else is running it, but still they bought into it so it gets a little crazy. Plus, I don't know, it gets really crowded in the evening on Broadway. We're going to be there next week. I don't know if you ever heard, or if your mom and dad have ever heard, about the Country Radio Seminar, but that starts next Wednesday, so I fly in on Tuesday. We stay until Saturday. Anybody that's anybody is there, from the record producers to the writers to you know, just anybody, anybody. Labels, they're all there. So we have a lot of meetings, but we meet a lot of the artists, and what I enjoy about that is I would meet people like you, I meet the new artist, and it's great to shake hands and have a conversation face to face, although we're doing that now, I mean thank you to today's technology.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I don't know where we'd be without it.
Speaker 1:No, exactly Exactly. Do you remember? So you want to? To go back to you said you wrote the first song at 2019, was it that? Okay, so then kovat rolled in at 2020 mm-hmm and I know you're still really young. You still are, but how did you handle all that with doing what you do?
Speaker 2:so for kovat it didn't really affect me with singing, but it definitely affected every single day life things I did. I couldn't go to school, I couldn't see my friends, I couldn't socialize unless I was going to talk to my parents. And it was definitely a hard time. It was very scary too, because you never knew you could possibly get it. But I would say because I also wrote another song during that, and this one wasn't such an original name, but it was called like masks and wars because it was about okay fighting battles with gloves and uh masks instead of spears and something else.
Speaker 2:It was something like that that is creative.
Speaker 1:There you go. That's being creative, and that's that. That's you know. Thinking of a songwriter, I love that. I love that. How love that. Where do you get your creativity for songwriting, whatever's going on around you? For example, you just talked about COVID and then the mask and all that. Tell me about your creativity a little bit.
Speaker 2:I'd say I get creativity from just everyday things. Maybe not even everyday things, but definitely things from my life, Like one song I have on my album is called why, and it's about getting bullied by someone. And then it's also going into why are they getting? Why are they bullying me? Maybe there's something going on with them.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And it's just some things to just relate to people, because I mean not everyone's bullied, but maybe this person has been a bully and not by choice, maybe they've just done to be cool or to do something like that. Then they can relate to the song too.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2:So it's just really a lot of inspiration comes from just life.
Speaker 1:Are you excited about getting a driver's license in a couple of years?
Speaker 2:I'm very excited.
Speaker 1:I don't hear your mom and dad now. That's not happening. But no, that's cool. Now I get it. What is it in Florida? Can you? Is it 15?
Speaker 2:15 for a permit, 16 for an actual license oh wow, you got that down oh yeah you're like counting down the days, aren't you?
Speaker 1:yes, well you got priorities. You have priorities. You've got school, which you're doing very well. You got faith. You have, uh, you know, your songwriting and you're putting out a song perfect day and uh, you just got it all going. If somebody wanted to find out more about you, eden, where would they go?
Speaker 2:So I actually have a website. You can search it up on Safari it's edendeliacom. Or you can go to YouTube, because sometimes people don't have Safari. And you can search up introducing Eden Delia or just Eden Delia, and then my YouTube account will pop up.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love that. And do you do all that yourself, or does your dad help you, or?
Speaker 2:So I for my YouTube account. It's my mom and I and my dad of course, but we post videos on there, but my dad was the one who set up the actual website.
Speaker 1:Yes, I got you.
Speaker 2:And he was the one that talked to the people and asked for us to get a website.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and, tiktok, are you all over that? You've been doing a lot of that.
Speaker 2:So not a lot actually. I've been trying to get more into tiktok because the way to be found nowadays is social media a lot of it. Yes yeah, there's so many people out there that you scroll on your for you page and you see someone like oh, this is my voice and you know it's like kane brown, you want to take it back a little bit.
Speaker 1:I mean, he was all over doing covers of songs on youtube and all that back in the day. And now look at him. Uh, just one of the many. Get your bailey zimmerman. You got your zach top, you got to. I can go on and on with artists that are just you know, they're all over the place now and they're all good and they're all very good. You know, before we say goodbye, I I want to know about the video you shot you just for perfect day, right?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Tell us about that in the making of the video. How much fun was it?
Speaker 2:First of all, it was so much fun. I love making that video. I was with all of my friends. I was with my family. Everyone was so supportive. I had my uncles, my parents, my grandma. I had my friends, my friend's parents. It was really nice.
Speaker 1:And where did you shoot it?
Speaker 2:We shot it on Jensen beach, which beautiful, oh my gosh. Definitely go there if you go to Florida. But it was just so nice and it really was a perfect day, I mean there you go, kind of one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think your dad told me before he went on tonight that, um, you shot that in one day. That is very cool. Now, when are we going to be able to see the finished product?
Speaker 2:So my dad said that in two weeks they should have the video, but I'd say to really see the product would be three weeks, maybe a month yeah, it takes a little bit of time, but that's cool.
Speaker 1:It's cool that you're doing doing it. That's awesome. Uh, eden delia there she is and you're gonna hear a lot more from her and I'm gonna think back someday. I talked to her back in 2025, when she was 13. And now look at her. Who knows right, who knows, maybe I'll be emceeing some big show and you're going to be on that bill, which is pretty cool. You know you're on the road. You're heading in the right direction. You're doing it. Don't get discouraged. Love what you do. You have a passion. You have a passion. You have a dedication.
Speaker 1:As I said before, you've got a team behind you right there at home and you've got grassroots in Nashville and Nancy and the whole crew is phenomenal. They are phenomenal. There are a lot of radio people and they're musicians. So, out of anybody in Nashville, you went with the right people. I'm just saying Very, very, very cool. Uh, eden, thank you for joining us tonight. And uh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, I'm just looking at all the comments here. Uh, oh, wait a minute. Do we see this one before? Oh, no, okay. Uh, okay, let's see here, let me. Uh, no, there's not a lot of them on here that I already brought up, so let's see here. Let me no, there's not a lot of them on here that I already brought up, so let's see. Is that Bella?
Speaker 2:Well, my bigger cousin is a Bella A little.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it. Well, thank you all for watching too. We do appreciate that, and thank you for supporting this young lady right here, Eden Delia. She is phenomenal. You already know that. I mean, I just got to know her now, but I can see it already. And if you would, if you don't mind, please subscribe to Skip Happens, because I'd love to have Eden back on again down the road. Plus, we have a lot of the other artists. If you love country, you're going to love what we have for you on Skip Happens. It's always a lot of fun. It's always a lot of fun. It's always a lot of fun. So, eden, thank you to you, thank you to your mom and dad. We're going to say goodbye. Thank you to everybody for watching. Make sure you subscribe, as I just said, and, eden, stay right there. Good night, everybody. Do you want to say goodbye to your family?
Speaker 2:Yes, Bye everyone. Love you so much.
Speaker 1:There you go, and don't forget coming um. All right, a few months, right, I mean? No, I'm just kidding, and when's your birthday?
Speaker 1:September 14th okay, yep, okay. Maybe next time you'll be 14 when we talk, which would be pretty cool. You know we got to make that a plan because I want to watch your career and, uh, hopefully sometime in Nashville I can meet up and say hello to you, you know, you and your mom and dad and all that good stuff. So, all right, all right everybody. Thank you for watching Eden. You stay right there and it's Skip Happens. My name is Skip Clark, your host. Thank you for having us on tonight. Good job, girl.
