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After years of interviewing musicians and writing profiles, there gets to be a rhythm to it. The subjects may be different, but the process and structure are uniform. But Ryan Santiago, known professionally as Royal & the Serpent, made it clear before the first question that this one was going to go off the rails in the best way possible.
“Let’s start things off at the beginning…” I say while I shuffle my papers.
“Of me being born or of all time?” Santiago replies coyly. “I think it was pretty painful for my mother, or