WEBVTT 1 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:47.359 Good evening everyone, and welcome. Welcome to s O S 2 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:51.520 Radio Dot Live. I am your host, doctor Marlen Mack. 3 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:56.280 I am here. I am back for one more power hour. 4 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:59.719 I am in the studio and I am with another 5 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.079 power woman, another powerhouse that is going to take over 6 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:08.640 the airways. As you guys already know. For November, I'm 7 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:13.120 celebrating twenty nine years we've had Bernard on from the 8 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.319 paint to the canvas. Then we had the Group Fire, 9 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.159 two time Stell Award. 10 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:18.760 But guess what. 11 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.760 Guess who's here right now? Guess who's here right now? 12 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:23.959 We have Tear. 13 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:28.120 Hope in the building going live here at the One 14 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:29.439 Step Ahead Radio Show. 15 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:31.920 And welcome everybody. This is another power hour. 16 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:35.000 Buckle up, because boy do we have a show for 17 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:36.560 you this evening. 18 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.760 Let's give Tea a round up, Applaus. 19 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:42.319 I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be here. 20 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.599 Girl, It's just I can't you know. I'm smiling. 21 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.959 I'm seriously, I'm so happy because because of who you 22 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:55.480 are to me and how you been there for me, 23 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.719 you know, with all the performances, and it was never 24 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:03.239 nothing negative, never on time, always professional, always on point, 25 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:07.599 your team, always dressed to kill best to impress your band. 26 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:12.840 Everything about you have been just immaculate and I just 27 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:15.360 want to welcome you to the One Step Aheady radio show. 28 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:17.759 For those of you for the first time. 29 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.400 If you are here and you are listening to Tia, 30 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.319 I want Tia to describe to you who. 31 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.080 She is and what type of artists she. 32 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.360 Is, so you know. 33 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:31.599 You ready, get ready? 34 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:35.400 So no, I'm growing every day, so I'm learning who 35 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:39.800 I am every day. But far like as a performer, 36 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:44.439 who I am. I am just like a firecracker, right. 37 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:49.159 I enjoy what I do. I just I love being 38 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:49.719 who I am. 39 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:51.919 It took me a long time to get to this 40 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.800 entertainer performer right for me, like, oh I see now, 41 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.960 I was like mom and entertainer performer and I just 42 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:03.439 love that I can be free and be who I. 43 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:07.000 Am on the stage just tear you know. 44 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.599 So as an artist, you are you, You found who 45 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.599 you are. It took some time, okay, and I you 46 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.439 know what, I can agree with you because doing this. 47 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:25.360 I've been doing this right here since August. It does 48 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.520 take time to get used to this being in your face. 49 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:30.520 It does. 50 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.199 This is now November, so I can relate to you 51 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:36.680 where you say you and you have to grow. You 52 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:40.319 have to grow until it's not an overnight thing. And 53 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.080 I know your voice carries so much when I'm talking 54 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.319 about from what I hear so much healing. There's so 55 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:54.000 much emotion there. When did you first realize music? 56 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:56.120 Was you're calling? 57 00:03:58.240 --> 00:03:59.879 So I am I first? 58 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:03.879 When did you first realize that you can sing? Or 59 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.159 or let's say, let's go back. When did you first 60 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.199 realize you can sing? Not everybody telling you, but do 61 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.000 you know when did you know I can sing? 62 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.080 I think the first time I realized I can sing, 63 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:19.160 I had to be about twenty four years old, really twenty. 64 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:21.639 Four, and I'm not going to see miney. I don't 65 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.160 tell everybody I'm forty one. 66 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:26.240 So a right, well girl, you look good? 67 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.480 Know what I think I was searing? 68 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:34.360 Yeah, I'll be forty two in May. Yes, it's fine. Wow, 69 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.240 I'm in my business. Drink my water and that's why 70 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:39.399 as we stay moisturized. Yes, that's the drink that But 71 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:43.279 I was I will say twenty four, and I you know, 72 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:47.040 when I went to Italy to perform, and some of 73 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.839 the people there don't some of them didn't speak English, right, 74 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.240 and I did ninety minute shows there and after finished singing, 75 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:57.839 it was like they don't know me, Like I'm over 76 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:59.319 here in their country and they. 77 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.519 Were like, oh my, I really. 78 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:05.439 That's when I knew people are crying. 79 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.399 People are like they want to meet me, they want 80 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:09.240 to want me to sign autographs. 81 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:09.959 And I was like, what is that, Like, I don't 82 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:13.120 want to do I'm just seeing. But yeah, twenty four, 83 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.360 that's when I knew all I can sing. 84 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:18.439 That had to be amazing. That had to be an 85 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:23.160 amazing feeling. You know, So you in another country because I, 86 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:25.439 like I said, I follow you and I've seen you 87 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.399 do it. You travel, you know you you was traveling 88 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:32.399 these last few years. I mean like with luggage equipment. 89 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:39.199 I've seen all, y'all. I've seen the tiktoks and the airport. 90 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.240 I've seen it. So but we're okay. 91 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.600 So you're twenty four and you realize that you can 92 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:48.839 sing by this the reception they gave you, by the screaming, 93 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.920 and you're like, oh wow, this is this is really something. 94 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:55.519 They are doing this for mean people. But when did 95 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:58.759 you first realize the music what you're calling? Because some 96 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.120 people can sing, but it's not their calling. 97 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:06.279 I think I think I was already when I when 98 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:08.560 I was three years old, I already knew. My grandmother 99 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:10.439 just put that in me that you know, you have 100 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:11.959 a gift right from God. 101 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.439 But I don't think it actually hit me at that 102 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:15.399 young age. 103 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.920 But once I got into my thirties, that's when I 104 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.240 was like, I got rid of the people who was 105 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:23.519 not so good, you know, in my life, and that 106 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.800 was just using and pulling and was going to build 107 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:30.519 them up. Once I got on my own and realize 108 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.759 you can do this and the stuff that I went through, 109 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.120 God kept pulling me out of some stuff, and it 110 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:40.680 was just like this gift that you know, I have 111 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:42.680 sisters they can't sing, none of them, cause you know 112 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:43.519 I have one that can sing. 113 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:45.519 But I'm saying, like far as how where I'm at, 114 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.680 God just didn't give this gift to me just because 115 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:51.000 it was like and. 116 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.399 Then I'm seeing people saying, you touch my heart like 117 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.600 my soul and you pulled me out. 118 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:57.720 Of this and I'm like me, but it's but I 119 00:06:57.800 --> 00:06:59.160 realized that was a gift. 120 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.120 And that was in my thirties, like really doing it 121 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.480 on my own and not because someone. 122 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:06.120 Told me to do it. It was just a feeling and. 123 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:10.439 Just and that a gift from God, and you use 124 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.959 and you are using that gift from God. You know, 125 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.839 you are really using it, and you are really blessing 126 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:20.079 people that are in your miss you know, in the audience, 127 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.240 in the crowd in the stadium. You know, I've been 128 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.639 to I've been where, and I've been to some of 129 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.000 your performances. 130 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:34.199 And you're natural. You're natural. Now. I was told to you, Oh. 131 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:39.839 God, I gotta share this by someone that's very dead 132 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:46.839 to my heart, who thank God you don't sing, you know, 133 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.040 because I can't sing now. 134 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.040 You know, I work with kids, but they think I 135 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:52.560 can sing. 136 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.800 They pumped me up, but he kept saying, you know, 137 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:57.560 you would be something else that you can sing. 138 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:59.680 So I was like, you know, I wasn't blessed. 139 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:05.079 With that voice. But I love music. I love all 140 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:10.560 types of music. It could be heavy metal, it could 141 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.279 be classical. It could be opera, it could be country, 142 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:16.839 it could be R and B, it could be jazz. 143 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.959 I am versatile when it comes to music because you 144 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.480 can come over to here and one day I'm all 145 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:24.759 down with the Temptations. 146 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.199 If you know me, mold you know David Ruff and 147 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:29.800 my favorite sing of all time. 148 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.080 But then you might come back and I'm down there 149 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.200 with I'm playing Eminem and Snoop. 150 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:35.080 Dogg and all you know. 151 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.080 So it's just a variety. So what what's your flavor 152 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:40.279 of music? 153 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:41.519 What? What? What do you? 154 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.879 What do you do when it comes to your favorite pastime? 155 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:45.399 Who inspired you? 156 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:48.039 Okay, so I'm gonna answer the first question. So if 157 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.480 people don't know this, my favorite genre is country music. 158 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:54.240 Get out of Here. 159 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:57.639 It's still the one I love to. 160 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:03.120 That is one of my favorite songs. Leamne Rhymes Dolly Partner. 161 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.200 Dolly Parton is like one of my favorite of all time. 162 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.399 So yeah, I love country music. And then it's just 163 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.000 you know who I listen to. Back then, what was 164 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:13.120 the other question you asked me? 165 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:16.240 You said, what what's what's your flavor? What? What what's 166 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.720 your What's what's you can you see like country music? 167 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:20.879 But me? But you yeah, right now? 168 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.759 Who is your soul music? Just like R and B? 169 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.399 Some people call me A few people called me this 170 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:30.200 the female version James Brown. I really didn't get it 171 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.320 until it was like I started watching his videos and 172 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.000 I'm like, oh, you're a little crazy, Like wow, yeah, 173 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.480 and I'm starting to see that like I love soul music, 174 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.000 R and B music, Gospels always going to be. 175 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:44.679 I grew up in church, grew up in church. 176 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:48.159 But R and B just does something to me that 177 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.799 is like I can't explain I really can't explain it. 178 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.240 Who Okay, So you got a lot you see, and 179 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.600 so do you still today listen to country music. 180 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.120 I listened to like sugar Lane and I love you know, 181 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:02.279 some of their songs. 182 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:04.840 I love one of one of the one of my 183 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:10.559 favorite songs, Oh No, you'a gotta get up. We're not 184 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:11.200 ready for that. 185 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.159 But Sugarland, I still listen to that, Lady Antabella, Like, 186 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:16.320 I listened to a lot of those. 187 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:19.360 Yeah, so in my downtime. 188 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.759 You know, but if you I'm always playing old school music. 189 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.799 That's never gonna change exactly. And I love old school. 190 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:30.399 You know, I'm straight a sixty baby, and I'm sorry. 191 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.559 You know, you come in my house, you're gonna hear 192 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:35.639 a lot of motown, You're gonna hear a lot. 193 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.600 Of and that. 194 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.200 That's that's when the studios weren't built the way they 195 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:40.480 have now. 196 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.200 Now now they're pressing buttons. People do they got ai singers? 197 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:46.519 Now it's a whole bunch of stuff that I'm just like, 198 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:47.960 come on, yes, come on. 199 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.399 I like real music and real and that's why I 200 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.000 love you so much, because we when we hear you, 201 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:01.000 we hear you. There's no reverb, there's no echo, there's 202 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:04.879 nothing put on your voice. It's not it's not fixed up. 203 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:08.159 It's just it's when you see Tea, what you hear is, 204 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.279 that's who she is. That's what you get. And that's 205 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:12.080 what I love about you when I see you performing, 206 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:14.840 when I when I hear you perform. 207 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.720 Who who? Who were your early. 208 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.879 Musical influencers or who growing up in New Jersey? Because 209 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:25.519 you are from New Jersey, tell us a little bit 210 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:25.879 about you. 211 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:30.840 First born and raised in nor Okay, my my mom 212 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:34.320 and dad they they're from Nork as well. Grew up 213 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:38.440 I'm the oldest of four. I have sisters, three sisters. No, 214 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:42.919 no boys, can they sing one of my sisters and 215 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.399 now they will kill me sake? Now, why would you 216 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.080 ask me that? 217 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.279 Because the other two, like we were singing with you 218 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:48.879 on the block. 219 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:51.480 You're backing you up right. 220 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:56.039 My sister right under me, she sings as well. But yeah, 221 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.960 like I grew up in the house of music, like 222 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.000 my my grandma. That was like one of my biggest inspirations. 223 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:05.679 Like she was. She couldn't sing, but she knew music. 224 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.960 And thank you for saying that, because I can't sing sing, 225 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:10.440 but I know music. 226 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:14.200 I know music and she will play you know, Whitney Houston, 227 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.519 Patty LaBelle Luther Vandrels. 228 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:18.759 So I grew up on all of that. It was 229 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:19.200 a song. 230 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:22.559 I think the group was called Emotions and they had 231 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:23.200 a song. 232 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:28.960 I Love You for so many. 233 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.080 My grandmother played that song over and over. She said, 234 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:34.360 you gotta learn the song and then she gave us 235 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:34.919 dance moves. 236 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:37.679 She wasn't a dancer, but was like Grandma was. 237 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:39.080 Grandma wasn't playing. 238 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:41.720 Was playing with me. It was like, no, this is that. 239 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:43.879 But then I had my great great grandmother was like, Okay, 240 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:45.720 all that R and B you doing now I'm going 241 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:50.200 to church church, going to sing thistle. So yeah, so 242 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.919 I had a balance of bolt right. 243 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.799 So yeah, but just growing up and then the hood 244 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.919 actually played a part from me. 245 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.399 You mean, so drug dealers on the block, right, drunk 246 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:03.919 on the block. 247 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.159 They knew I can sing and what they actually pushed 248 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.120 me and I think they played a part of who 249 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:10.440 I am. 250 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.159 As a singer and as a performer and learning songs. 251 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:15.519 Right, So they will see me after school and I'm 252 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:18.000 walking home on twentieth Street in North. 253 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:19.639 And they were like, hey, Net, that's what they called 254 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:20.279 me back in the day. 255 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:20.679 Net. 256 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:22.600 And they will say, Net, you have to the end 257 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.240 of this week to learn this song. And I never 258 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:28.080 forget the song was with who was it? Faith Evans 259 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:28.600 and Mary J. 260 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:32.080 Blige? Did this song you abandoned me? No, I don't 261 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:33.279 live here anymore. 262 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.559 And I learned that song and they said, if you 263 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:39.080 learn that song. And I learned this song, I got 264 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:39.879 a whole bunch of money. 265 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:44.080 Listen, I need stuff for school. So it was like 266 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:44.919 I learned this song. 267 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:47.559 So yeah, but they pushed me and it was like 268 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:48.519 it was a community. 269 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:54.039 So I'm ten years old. You look inside me and 270 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:55.399 they're like, what is going on? 271 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.320 And you these thugs outside and they so soft with 272 00:13:58.360 --> 00:13:58.799 this song. 273 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:02.559 So you know, they played a part. And just who 274 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:03.480 I am as. 275 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:06.399 An artist and how I learn music and how I 276 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.639 actually like really pick because I pick certain songs. I 277 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.279 have a reason why I pick certain songs. And my shows, 278 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:13.679 I don't do a lot of that cussing and all 279 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:14.840 of that I just don't do that. 280 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:15.559 That's not my thing. 281 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:18.720 I like a little Cardi b though I am going. 282 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:21.679 On, but a little cardial every now and then. 283 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:23.279 Every now and then, you gotta have your moment. 284 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:27.519 But but I picked, you know, my songs that kids 285 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.080 can even you know, not young young kids, but can 286 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:32.879 even come to the shows. 287 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:36.720 I like real music and I love just telling the story. 288 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:38.320 I always tell people you got to tell a story 289 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.639 when you're singing, because I want people to walk away 290 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.200 with like, oh my god, she just told my whole 291 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:45.919 life story. And I don't know you from a campaign, 292 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.600 but because the way I sing and I take people 293 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.360 through an emotional journey, it's like okay, I get it. 294 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.480 So yeah, like so you so it seems like you 295 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.639 got You're you're an awesome person, not not just singing, 296 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.159 but you're an awesome woman as well. But growing up, 297 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:08.919 you had great grandma, you had grandma and great great grandma. Wow, 298 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:13.360 all those generations okay, and then you had one Okay, 299 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.279 we're gonna do this, and then you had that one 300 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:16.879 and say, okay, you're gonna stop doing that, and we 301 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.120 all getting ready to go to church, praise God. But 302 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.600 then you went to school, and then you would come 303 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:23.480 home and then there the drug dealers on the corner, 304 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.159 so they plan a part and pushing tea and telling 305 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.159 her to learn this song and do this song, you know, 306 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.000 and you was getting sentatives. 307 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:31.600 So I would go home and sing too. I was 308 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:33.159 singing and song. They gave me. 309 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.840 Every song, and it was like songs that I probably 310 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.399 wouldn't even listen to, you know, And I just I 311 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.799 knew that I really wanted to do this and made 312 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.799 people happy, you know, you. 313 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.799 Know, and you know it. Music, I'm sorry. 314 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:52.519 Music can put you through a lot of emotions. And 315 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:54.600 even at you know, at the school, we have the 316 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.840 musical performing arts program, and I have children from different 317 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:04.919 background on different levels of behavioral issues. Some are talented, 318 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.159 some some that you can look and say, hey, twenty 319 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.080 years from now, I love to see where this child's 320 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.799 going to be. But what I've noticed about music, and 321 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:16.039 maybe you could relate, is that with reading a book, 322 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:20.039 if you read a book about Italy, you can read 323 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.120 that book and sometimes see yourself in that story. As 324 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.639 you reading the book, you're actually visualizing you can go 325 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:29.720 through what that book and that story is talking about. 326 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:32.799 What I find with music, it takes you to places 327 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:34.600 that you can't go other places. 328 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.799 And I see that with children. It gives them an. 329 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:40.480 Outlet to be who they want to be, to scream, 330 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:43.240 to sing, to dance how they want to dance. It 331 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:46.200 gets them from point B from point Do you ever 332 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:50.799 be in a situation where you're not feeling your best 333 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.840 but you're singing to yourself to pull you out of that? 334 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:56.559 And if so, what song would that be? 335 00:16:57.879 --> 00:16:58.879 There are a lot of songs. 336 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:01.240 It depends on what I'm astaing actually going through, right 337 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:03.600 because I have moments where I'm just like, I want 338 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:05.599 to be by myself and I just want to be in. 339 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:06.440 A quiet area. 340 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.000 But this song it pulls me out of a lot 341 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.839 of like, you know, moments of just me whatever it 342 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.640 could be life or just hey, I may not have 343 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:20.279 this many gigs in this month, or you know, somebody 344 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.279 at work made me upset, or I feel like I'm 345 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:25.799 not giving my awe or just in my friendships. 346 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.000 Am I being a great person? 347 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:29.400 Or you know, all of those different things play in 348 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.079 my head and then I hear the song I love. 349 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:39.200 This song is guy Me Old gratil. 350 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:51.599 Oh, feed Me, I Want No. 351 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:58.079 That song holds me like gods who make me got. 352 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:03.359 Don't And I know that song. 353 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:05.960 Listen, that's wow, It's. 354 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:08.640 It just does something for me, and it pulls me 355 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.119 out a lot of a lot of things, because you know, 356 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:15.519 as you get older, and even in this industry, you 357 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.079 sometimes go back like, am I doing enough? Am I 358 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.480 am I where I'm supposed to be? You know, because 359 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:22.960 a lot of people be like, I'm surprised you don't 360 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.079 have a record. I'm surprised, but well, why you don't 361 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:31.319 put no music out yet? It's not that I don't 362 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.759 want to put music out. I believe, and it has 363 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.559 to be real. I can't put anything fake out like 364 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:39.960 some people say, Oh, I want you to do a 365 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:40.880 gospel album. 366 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:41.799 I can't do that. 367 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:43.920 Not that I can't, because I can do it, but 368 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.440 it has to be real, like it has to I 369 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:48.119 really have to what I'm singing about. 370 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:49.839 It has to make sense for me. 371 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.200 But I am you know, I'm I'm ready to put 372 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:56.680 something out, and I put other songs out. People just 373 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:58.599 don't know that I put house tracks out that was 374 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.960 doing very well and overseas and all that I did, 375 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.720 all of that, did a jazz a few jazz songs 376 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:10.079 with a jazz guitar player and that that's on iTunes. 377 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:12.519 Like you know, so I said iTunes, I'm really telling 378 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:19.119 Apple Music and yeah, like all of them. 379 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:22.200 I want to put stuff out, but it has to 380 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:25.400 be good music for me. I have to feel it. 381 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.839 I don't want to just play, and it has to 382 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:29.359 be consistency, not just for me. 383 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:32.039 You know, I have people that send me, producers and 384 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.640 writers that send me stuff all the time. I'm not 385 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:36.880 going to sing it because oh, you think it's hot. No, 386 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.519 I have to actually feel that thing. And if I 387 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.240 don't feel it or the words don't touch my soul. 388 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:44.319 I'm not going to do it right. 389 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.480 And that's funny you say that, because my next question 390 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:51.640 for you is your sound. Okay, your sound is powerful 391 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:59.559 and soulful. Okay, where does that fire comes from? 392 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:04.480 I think the fire comes from the sound. My sound 393 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:12.160 is always wanted to be heard, right, So I feel 394 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:14.359 like on the stage I'm people hear what I'm saying 395 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:17.960 and it's like, now I got your attention. Growing up, 396 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.279 it was just it was a lot going on growing up. 397 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:22.359 You know what I dealt with as a child, So 398 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:26.519 it was oh yeah, my parents they were young parents. 399 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.480 My mother had me at eighteen, eighteen years old. My 400 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:35.079 mom and dad were together, they were thirteen, and there 401 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:39.519