"Our core business is commercials, but we've always tried to have a studio philosophy that we'd have a project of our own that we can move forward during downtime, " she says.

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Ohlsson came into our studio right after we'd spent some time talking about a very different sort of musical contest: the recent history of Super Bowl halftime shows.

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And, of course, we'd like to thank accompanist Nate Skiles who was also there in the studio in New York.

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