Khalid Interview ACMS 2019

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00:00Khalid, how are you? Oh my gosh, voice of an angel. We have him right here.

00:06You're welcome to country music. I know, it's crazy, right?

00:09What do you think? It's so awesome. It's so much different than I would have expected it to be.

00:15It's so, everybody's so nice, everybody's so warm, everybody's welcoming me.

00:19I really felt like, you know, like I would kind of feel like a little like left out,

00:23but I feel like everybody's accepting me with open arms and everybody's asking me about like

00:28potential collaborations and things like that. And I would love to come to the ACMs more than once.

00:33Well, listen, look at Lil Nas X and his Old Town Road. There is a space for you in country music.

00:39Thank you so much. Who would you like to collab with next?

00:41Oh, so many different people. For me, I literally, the person I just met, Thomas Rhett.

00:48So awesome. And that would be so amazing. I would like to do another song with Kane Brown,

00:53not just the remix. I would love to work on some more music with him because he's a really good friend of mine.

00:57And I love that song so much.

00:58A hundred percent. What's inspiring your music right now?

01:01Oh, definitely. I love folk music a lot. I am a big fan of country music as well.

01:06I love pop. For me, I feel like I'm a very big fan of music and the fact that I get to dabble in different worlds

01:13and people love me in like every format. I'm going to like all these different genres

01:17and I'm having so much fun collaborating with all these amazing artists.

01:20You are totally killing it. You have had such a great year. How are you going to make 2019 even bigger?

01:24Oh my God. We're starting off with Free Spirit, the album. I am so excited for it. It's doing so well

01:30and I just, I can't wait to see everything else that it does.

01:33Amazing. Well, I'm so happy for you, Khalid. Thank you so much.

01:36Good to see you.

01:37Good to see you.