so vara and e tourist 20 are the band, spent the years of the, quote, 19 pandemic, partially apart from each other, to grow individually. and that includes following your own art and embracing, who you are. at the end of last year, singer shimano had his coming out as gate a step that inspired him to his solo album. heavy. it's the crowd. it's always been an open secret. it's just, i guess like people waiting for you to say like, okay, i'm gay. gay, you know, as i, i, i said again, you know, like it's, it's 2022. i shouldn't be this center topic really. but then for me it's um being being able to say that tend to and to fully live my, my, my life and my end to fully be myself enables me to be creative now to flee in, in my, in my own self and actually finding out who it is that i actually am as an individual artist. and while the band keeps nurturing the next generation of artist through their own record label, sulky salt has also embark on a new journey to educate children through their new book collaboration called sol kits for polycarp, it's a hard project. what which you to do is to