Steven: The musical artists always try to sound universal...

David Shannon: I think they do but I don't think they are on purpose. I think it happens just because there is some kind of certain sound some people have, but, if you want to be different or better roles, you want to progress your career, the best thing is actually to sound different from anybody else. If you different from other people, you are interesting.

Robert Vicencio: you mean universal in terms of accent, right?
Steven: Yes, accent.

Robert: I think it's natural, you don't say I am going to practice natural speaking. Sometimes some people do for films, but for musicals, I think it's you looking at two people that have extensively travel, and more important is the ability to listen and as I said to take in and you try to imitate. I walked on the street I hear someone saying something, I will imitate like Shanghaiese, I trying sound like them, just for myself. It's the tone, because that's how we take in sound. So I think it naturally become global, universal this kind of words.

Steven: It is a born gift for you guys?

Robert:It's kind of skill set. I tell you if you travel all over the world and you live in America or London, you accent is going to change.

David: It's weird like you said we talked by today you going to walk down Dublin, a street in Dublin, a Chinese person with an Irish accent, it is the strangest thing but it happened. As most, we kind of picking up and gradually start chewing in.
Robert: and to related back to music, when I was growing up, I listened to Elvis, this is when my voice is still developing, I listened to Elvis, BJ and Elton John, I listened to it over and over and over again, suddenly when I would sing, it's like...it sounded like Elvis, there is a secret behind that and that secret is, I told this to people who want to learn singing, who is your favorite singer, listen to them, every single day. Because you mind create a blue print of sound. How do you think we get accents, it's because you surround completely by the same sound. When you say a note or a word like hi, you said that over and over again. So I think it's a way of learning, it's good to be aware, sometimes most people just don't aware.

Steven: I think it's natural for musical artists?

Robert: Correct.

David: I think so. They say you have a musical ear, so you pick up.
Robert: We were teaching David Mandarin...

Steven:  How's the progress?
David: It's ok, because I had one demo lesson with Benny, so he's great, he's a really good character, he's really funny, but he's a very good teacher, amazing. He just teaching me tones and worries I have to ask for things, simple things like Ni Hao, Ni Hao Ma, and putting Ma at the end to put it into a question. Something likes that.

Robert: What's your Chinese name, David?
David: Oh, I have a Chinese name now, it's Shang Da Wei. We were coming up with ideas because I wanted to do my business card, everyone here got their business card, so I think I have to get business card when I am here. If I have a Chinese name on it to make it interesting as well. When I have my business card tomorrow, they have my Chinese name and English name as well. We are talking about working here next year to do...

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