00:00I had just been on tour with an artist named Canaan from Canada, and he had a song called Waving
00:05Flag that I used to listen to every night that would blow me away.
00:08When I get older, I will be stronger. They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag.
00:15That's how it goes. It ended up being used in the World Cup the same year that my song one
00:20day got used in the Olympics.
00:22That's wild.
00:22So basically, I said to this lady, a man, I said, like, who helped him write this song? I want
00:27to work with those people.
00:28She said, it just so happens that your new A&R that I just brought in manages this group that
00:34wrote that song with Canaan.
00:36So I said, cool, send me to them.
00:38The next day, I was on a plane to L.A., and I was working on One Day with three
00:44dudes.
00:44One of the kids was an engineer from Teaneck, New Jersey, who grew up, like, across the street from my
00:49cousins, and he was, like, 19 years old.
00:52And the other two guys were these kind of charismatic dudes, and one of them was complaining the whole time
00:57that he couldn't get a record deal, and he literally left the session to go perform for some label guys,
01:03and they turned him away.
01:04They didn't understand him. He's too short, and this, that, and the other thing, whatever. They didn't get it.
01:09Anyway, he's super talented, super talented guy, and, you know, we're in there. We're writing the song two days. We
01:15write one day, you know, and they changed a lot of what I had written because, because to make it
01:20a little more accessible, like, the whole concept of one day to me is, like, I would never, I would
01:25never write that.
01:26To me, it's all about, like, the present moment, you know, this whole concept of in the future, but, you
01:31know, they know that people, this is a big idea in Christianity, I guess, I don't know, you know, or
01:37Judaism, too.
01:38I mean, we're still waiting for Mashiach, so, you know, I mean, this is a big idea that people love
01:43this idea that in the future it will happen, right?
01:47So, and it's hope. It is hope. It is hope.
01:49So, anyway, I go along with it. I do it, and we turn in the song, and, you know, it
01:54gets picked up by the Olympics.
01:56You know, I ended up going to radio stations for a year, you know, trying to promote the song.
02:02It didn't do well at radio, but it became a big song, a huge song for me, and the person
02:07who helped me write it is Bruno Mars before he had a record.
02:10Wow.
02:11Wow.
02:11Amazing.
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