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Speaker 2: And welcome everybody. This is another power hour.
Speaker 1: Buckle up, because boy do we have a show for
Speaker 1: you this evening.
Speaker 2: Let's give Tea a round up, Applaus.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 2: Girl, It's just I can't you know. I'm smiling.
Speaker 1: I'm seriously, I'm so happy because because of who you
Speaker 1: are to me and how you been there for me,
Speaker 1: you know, with all the performances, and it was never
Speaker 1: nothing negative, never on time, always professional, always on point,
Speaker 1: your team, always dressed to kill best to impress your band.
Speaker 1: Everything about you have been just immaculate and I just
Speaker 1: want to welcome you to the One Step Aheady radio show.
Speaker 2: For those of you for the first time.
Speaker 1: If you are here and you are listening to Tia,
Speaker 1: I want Tia to describe to you who.
Speaker 2: She is and what type of artists she.
Speaker 3: Is, so you know.
Speaker 2: You ready, get ready?
Speaker 4: So no, I'm growing every day, so I'm learning who
Speaker 4: I am every day. But far like as a performer,
Speaker 4: who I am. I am just like a firecracker, right.
Speaker 3: I enjoy what I do. I just I love being
Speaker 3: who I am.
Speaker 4: It took me a long time to get to this
Speaker 4: entertainer performer right for me, like, oh I see now,
Speaker 4: I was like mom and entertainer performer and I just
Speaker 4: love that I can be free and be who I.
Speaker 3: Am on the stage just tear you know.
Speaker 1: So as an artist, you are you, You found who
Speaker 1: you are. It took some time, okay, and I you
Speaker 1: know what, I can agree with you because doing this.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this right here since August. It does
Speaker 1: take time to get used to this being in your face.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 1: This is now November, so I can relate to you
Speaker 1: where you say you and you have to grow. You
Speaker 1: have to grow until it's not an overnight thing. And
Speaker 1: I know your voice carries so much when I'm talking
Speaker 1: about from what I hear so much healing. There's so
Speaker 1: much emotion there. When did you first realize music?
Speaker 2: Was you're calling?
Speaker 3: So I am I first?
Speaker 1: When did you first realize that you can sing? Or
Speaker 1: or let's say, let's go back. When did you first
Speaker 1: realize you can sing? Not everybody telling you, but do
Speaker 1: you know when did you know I can sing?
Speaker 4: I think the first time I realized I can sing,
Speaker 4: I had to be about twenty four years old, really twenty.
Speaker 3: Four, and I'm not going to see miney. I don't
Speaker 3: tell everybody I'm forty one.
Speaker 1: So a right, well girl, you look good?
Speaker 3: Know what I think I was searing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be forty two in May. Yes, it's fine. Wow,
Speaker 4: I'm in my business. Drink my water and that's why
Speaker 4: as we stay moisturized. Yes, that's the drink that But
Speaker 4: I was I will say twenty four, and I you know,
Speaker 4: when I went to Italy to perform, and some of
Speaker 4: the people there don't some of them didn't speak English, right,
Speaker 4: and I did ninety minute shows there and after finished singing,
Speaker 4: it was like they don't know me, Like I'm over
Speaker 4: here in their country and they.
Speaker 2: Were like, oh my, I really.
Speaker 3: That's when I knew people are crying.
Speaker 4: People are like they want to meet me, they want
Speaker 4: to want me to sign autographs.
Speaker 3: And I was like, what is that, Like, I don't
Speaker 3: want to do I'm just seeing. But yeah, twenty four,
Speaker 3: that's when I knew all I can sing.
Speaker 1: That had to be amazing. That had to be an
Speaker 1: amazing feeling. You know, So you in another country because I,
Speaker 1: like I said, I follow you and I've seen you
Speaker 1: do it. You travel, you know you you was traveling
Speaker 1: these last few years. I mean like with luggage equipment.
Speaker 1: I've seen all, y'all. I've seen the tiktoks and the airport.
Speaker 2: I've seen it. So but we're okay.
Speaker 1: So you're twenty four and you realize that you can
Speaker 1: sing by this the reception they gave you, by the screaming,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh wow, this is this is really something.
Speaker 1: They are doing this for mean people. But when did
Speaker 1: you first realize the music what you're calling? Because some
Speaker 1: people can sing, but it's not their calling.
Speaker 4: I think I think I was already when I when
Speaker 4: I was three years old, I already knew. My grandmother
Speaker 4: just put that in me that you know, you have
Speaker 4: a gift right from God.
Speaker 3: But I don't think it actually hit me at that
Speaker 3: young age.
Speaker 4: But once I got into my thirties, that's when I
Speaker 4: was like, I got rid of the people who was
Speaker 4: not so good, you know, in my life, and that
Speaker 4: was just using and pulling and was going to build
Speaker 4: them up. Once I got on my own and realize
Speaker 4: you can do this and the stuff that I went through,
Speaker 4: God kept pulling me out of some stuff, and it
Speaker 4: was just like this gift that you know, I have
Speaker 4: sisters they can't sing, none of them, cause you know
Speaker 4: I have one that can sing.
Speaker 3: But I'm saying, like far as how where I'm at,
Speaker 3: God just didn't give this gift to me just because
Speaker 3: it was like and.
Speaker 4: Then I'm seeing people saying, you touch my heart like
Speaker 4: my soul and you pulled me out.
Speaker 3: Of this and I'm like me, but it's but I
Speaker 3: realized that was a gift.
Speaker 4: And that was in my thirties, like really doing it
Speaker 4: on my own and not because someone.
Speaker 3: Told me to do it. It was just a feeling and.
Speaker 1: Just and that a gift from God, and you use
Speaker 1: and you are using that gift from God. You know,
Speaker 1: you are really using it, and you are really blessing
Speaker 1: people that are in your miss you know, in the audience,
Speaker 1: in the crowd in the stadium. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: to I've been where, and I've been to some of
Speaker 1: your performances.
Speaker 2: And you're natural. You're natural. Now. I was told to you, Oh.
Speaker 1: God, I gotta share this by someone that's very dead
Speaker 1: to my heart, who thank God you don't sing, you know,
Speaker 1: because I can't sing now.
Speaker 2: You know, I work with kids, but they think I
Speaker 2: can sing.
Speaker 1: They pumped me up, but he kept saying, you know,
Speaker 1: you would be something else that you can sing.
Speaker 2: So I was like, you know, I wasn't blessed.
Speaker 1: With that voice. But I love music. I love all
Speaker 1: types of music. It could be heavy metal, it could
Speaker 1: be classical. It could be opera, it could be country,
Speaker 1: it could be R and B, it could be jazz.
Speaker 1: I am versatile when it comes to music because you
Speaker 1: can come over to here and one day I'm all
Speaker 1: down with the Temptations.
Speaker 2: If you know me, mold you know David Ruff and
Speaker 2: my favorite sing of all time.
Speaker 1: But then you might come back and I'm down there
Speaker 1: with I'm playing Eminem and Snoop.
Speaker 2: Dogg and all you know.
Speaker 1: So it's just a variety. So what what's your flavor
Speaker 1: of music?
Speaker 2: What? What? What do you?
Speaker 1: What do you do when it comes to your favorite pastime?
Speaker 1: Who inspired you?
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm gonna answer the first question. So if
Speaker 4: people don't know this, my favorite genre is country music.
Speaker 2: Get out of Here.
Speaker 3: It's still the one I love to.
Speaker 4: That is one of my favorite songs. Leamne Rhymes Dolly Partner.
Speaker 3: Dolly Parton is like one of my favorite of all time.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I love country music. And then it's just
Speaker 4: you know who I listen to. Back then, what was
Speaker 4: the other question you asked me?
Speaker 2: You said, what what's what's your flavor? What? What what's
Speaker 2: your What's what's you can you see like country music?
Speaker 2: But me? But you yeah, right now?
Speaker 3: Who is your soul music? Just like R and B?
Speaker 4: Some people call me A few people called me this
Speaker 4: the female version James Brown. I really didn't get it
Speaker 4: until it was like I started watching his videos and
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, you're a little crazy, Like wow, yeah,
Speaker 4: and I'm starting to see that like I love soul music,
Speaker 4: R and B music, Gospels always going to be.
Speaker 3: I grew up in church, grew up in church.
Speaker 4: But R and B just does something to me that
Speaker 4: is like I can't explain I really can't explain it.
Speaker 1: Who Okay, So you got a lot you see, and
Speaker 1: so do you still today listen to country music.
Speaker 4: I listened to like sugar Lane and I love you know,
Speaker 4: some of their songs.
Speaker 3: I love one of one of the one of my
Speaker 3: favorite songs, Oh No, you'a gotta get up. We're not
Speaker 3: ready for that.
Speaker 4: But Sugarland, I still listen to that, Lady Antabella, Like,
Speaker 4: I listened to a lot of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so in my downtime.
Speaker 4: You know, but if you I'm always playing old school music.
Speaker 4: That's never gonna change exactly. And I love old school.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm straight a sixty baby, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You know, you come in my house, you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: a lot of motown, You're gonna hear a lot.
Speaker 2: Of and that.
Speaker 1: That's that's when the studios weren't built the way they
Speaker 1: have now.
Speaker 4: Now now they're pressing buttons. People do they got ai singers?
Speaker 4: Now it's a whole bunch of stuff that I'm just like,
Speaker 4: come on, yes, come on.
Speaker 1: I like real music and real and that's why I
Speaker 1: love you so much, because we when we hear you,
Speaker 1: we hear you. There's no reverb, there's no echo, there's
Speaker 1: nothing put on your voice. It's not it's not fixed up.
Speaker 1: It's just it's when you see Tea, what you hear is,
Speaker 1: that's who she is. That's what you get. And that's
Speaker 1: what I love about you when I see you performing,
Speaker 1: when I when I hear you perform.
Speaker 2: Who who? Who were your early.
Speaker 1: Musical influencers or who growing up in New Jersey? Because
Speaker 1: you are from New Jersey, tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about you.
Speaker 4: First born and raised in nor Okay, my my mom
Speaker 4: and dad they they're from Nork as well. Grew up
Speaker 4: I'm the oldest of four. I have sisters, three sisters. No,
Speaker 4: no boys, can they sing one of my sisters and
Speaker 4: now they will kill me sake? Now, why would you
Speaker 4: ask me that?
Speaker 3: Because the other two, like we were singing with you
Speaker 3: on the block.
Speaker 2: You're backing you up right.
Speaker 4: My sister right under me, she sings as well. But yeah,
Speaker 4: like I grew up in the house of music, like
Speaker 4: my my grandma. That was like one of my biggest inspirations.
Speaker 2: Like she was. She couldn't sing, but she knew music.
Speaker 1: And thank you for saying that, because I can't sing sing,
Speaker 1: but I know music.
Speaker 4: I know music and she will play you know, Whitney Houston,
Speaker 4: Patty LaBelle Luther Vandrels.
Speaker 3: So I grew up on all of that. It was
Speaker 3: a song.
Speaker 4: I think the group was called Emotions and they had
Speaker 4: a song.
Speaker 3: I Love You for so many.
Speaker 4: My grandmother played that song over and over. She said,
Speaker 4: you gotta learn the song and then she gave us
Speaker 4: dance moves.
Speaker 3: She wasn't a dancer, but was like Grandma was.
Speaker 2: Grandma wasn't playing.
Speaker 3: Was playing with me. It was like, no, this is that.
Speaker 3: But then I had my great great grandmother was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: all that R and B you doing now I'm going
Speaker 3: to church church, going to sing thistle. So yeah, so
Speaker 3: I had a balance of bolt right.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but just growing up and then the hood
Speaker 4: actually played a part from me.
Speaker 3: You mean, so drug dealers on the block, right, drunk
Speaker 3: on the block.
Speaker 4: They knew I can sing and what they actually pushed
Speaker 4: me and I think they played a part of who
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 3: As a singer and as a performer and learning songs.
Speaker 4: Right, So they will see me after school and I'm
Speaker 4: walking home on twentieth Street in North.
Speaker 3: And they were like, hey, Net, that's what they called
Speaker 3: me back in the day.
Speaker 2: Net.
Speaker 4: And they will say, Net, you have to the end
Speaker 4: of this week to learn this song. And I never
Speaker 4: forget the song was with who was it? Faith Evans
Speaker 4: and Mary J.
Speaker 3: Blige? Did this song you abandoned me? No, I don't
Speaker 3: live here anymore.
Speaker 4: And I learned that song and they said, if you
Speaker 4: learn that song. And I learned this song, I got
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of money.
Speaker 3: Listen, I need stuff for school. So it was like
Speaker 3: I learned this song.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but they pushed me and it was like
Speaker 4: it was a community.
Speaker 3: So I'm ten years old. You look inside me and
Speaker 3: they're like, what is going on?
Speaker 4: And you these thugs outside and they so soft with
Speaker 4: this song.
Speaker 3: So you know, they played a part. And just who
Speaker 3: I am as.
Speaker 4: An artist and how I learn music and how I
Speaker 4: actually like really pick because I pick certain songs. I
Speaker 4: have a reason why I pick certain songs. And my shows,
Speaker 4: I don't do a lot of that cussing and all
Speaker 4: of that I just don't do that.
Speaker 2: That's not my thing.
Speaker 3: I like a little Cardi b though I am going.
Speaker 2: On, but a little cardial every now and then.
Speaker 3: Every now and then, you gotta have your moment.
Speaker 4: But but I picked, you know, my songs that kids
Speaker 4: can even you know, not young young kids, but can
Speaker 4: even come to the shows.
Speaker 3: I like real music and I love just telling the story.
Speaker 4: I always tell people you got to tell a story
Speaker 4: when you're singing, because I want people to walk away
Speaker 4: with like, oh my god, she just told my whole
Speaker 4: life story. And I don't know you from a campaign,
Speaker 4: but because the way I sing and I take people
Speaker 4: through an emotional journey, it's like okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like so you so it seems like you
Speaker 1: got You're you're an awesome person, not not just singing,
Speaker 1: but you're an awesome woman as well. But growing up,
Speaker 1: you had great grandma, you had grandma and great great grandma. Wow,
Speaker 1: all those generations okay, and then you had one Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this, and then you had that one
Speaker 1: and say, okay, you're gonna stop doing that, and we
Speaker 1: all getting ready to go to church, praise God. But
Speaker 1: then you went to school, and then you would come
Speaker 1: home and then there the drug dealers on the corner,
Speaker 1: so they plan a part and pushing tea and telling
Speaker 1: her to learn this song and do this song, you know,
Speaker 1: and you was getting sentatives.
Speaker 2: So I would go home and sing too. I was
Speaker 2: singing and song. They gave me.
Speaker 4: Every song, and it was like songs that I probably
Speaker 4: wouldn't even listen to, you know, And I just I
Speaker 4: knew that I really wanted to do this and made
Speaker 4: people happy, you know, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and you know it. Music, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Music can put you through a lot of emotions. And
Speaker 1: even at you know, at the school, we have the
Speaker 1: musical performing arts program, and I have children from different
Speaker 1: background on different levels of behavioral issues. Some are talented,
Speaker 1: some some that you can look and say, hey, twenty
Speaker 1: years from now, I love to see where this child's
Speaker 1: going to be. But what I've noticed about music, and
Speaker 1: maybe you could relate, is that with reading a book,
Speaker 1: if you read a book about Italy, you can read
Speaker 1: that book and sometimes see yourself in that story. As
Speaker 1: you reading the book, you're actually visualizing you can go
Speaker 1: through what that book and that story is talking about.
Speaker 1: What I find with music, it takes you to places
Speaker 1: that you can't go other places.
Speaker 2: And I see that with children. It gives them an.
Speaker 1: Outlet to be who they want to be, to scream,
Speaker 1: to sing, to dance how they want to dance. It
Speaker 1: gets them from point B from point Do you ever
Speaker 1: be in a situation where you're not feeling your best
Speaker 1: but you're singing to yourself to pull you out of that?
Speaker 2: And if so, what song would that be?
Speaker 3: There are a lot of songs.
Speaker 4: It depends on what I'm astaing actually going through, right
Speaker 4: because I have moments where I'm just like, I want
Speaker 4: to be by myself and I just want to be in.
Speaker 3: A quiet area.
Speaker 4: But this song it pulls me out of a lot
Speaker 4: of like, you know, moments of just me whatever it
Speaker 4: could be life or just hey, I may not have
Speaker 4: this many gigs in this month, or you know, somebody
Speaker 4: at work made me upset, or I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: not giving my awe or just in my friendships.
Speaker 3: Am I being a great person?
Speaker 4: Or you know, all of those different things play in
Speaker 4: my head and then I hear the song I love.
Speaker 3: This song is guy Me Old gratil.
Speaker 5: Oh, feed Me, I Want No.
Speaker 4: That song holds me like gods who make me got.
Speaker 2: Don't And I know that song.
Speaker 3: Listen, that's wow, It's.
Speaker 4: It just does something for me, and it pulls me
Speaker 4: out a lot of a lot of things, because you know,
Speaker 4: as you get older, and even in this industry, you
Speaker 4: sometimes go back like, am I doing enough? Am I
Speaker 4: am I where I'm supposed to be? You know, because
Speaker 4: a lot of people be like, I'm surprised you don't
Speaker 4: have a record. I'm surprised, but well, why you don't
Speaker 4: put no music out yet? It's not that I don't
Speaker 4: want to put music out. I believe, and it has
Speaker 4: to be real. I can't put anything fake out like
Speaker 4: some people say, Oh, I want you to do a
Speaker 4: gospel album.
Speaker 3: I can't do that.
Speaker 4: Not that I can't, because I can do it, but
Speaker 4: it has to be real, like it has to I
Speaker 4: really have to what I'm singing about.
Speaker 3: It has to make sense for me.
Speaker 4: But I am you know, I'm I'm ready to put
Speaker 4: something out, and I put other songs out. People just
Speaker 4: don't know that I put house tracks out that was
Speaker 4: doing very well and overseas and all that I did,
Speaker 4: all of that, did a jazz a few jazz songs
Speaker 4: with a jazz guitar player and that that's on iTunes.
Speaker 3: Like you know, so I said iTunes, I'm really telling
Speaker 3: Apple Music and yeah, like all of them.
Speaker 4: I want to put stuff out, but it has to
Speaker 4: be good music for me. I have to feel it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to just play, and it has to
Speaker 3: be consistency, not just for me.
Speaker 4: You know, I have people that send me, producers and
Speaker 4: writers that send me stuff all the time. I'm not
Speaker 4: going to sing it because oh, you think it's hot. No,
Speaker 4: I have to actually feel that thing. And if I
Speaker 4: don't feel it or the words don't touch my soul.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it right.
Speaker 1: And that's funny you say that, because my next question
Speaker 1: for you is your sound. Okay, your sound is powerful
Speaker 1: and soulful. Okay, where does that fire comes from?
Speaker 4: I think the fire comes from the sound. My sound
Speaker 4: is always wanted to be heard, right, So I feel
Speaker 4: like on the stage I'm people hear what I'm saying
Speaker 4: and it's like, now I got your attention. Growing up,
Speaker 4: it was just it was a lot going on growing up.
Speaker 4: You know what I dealt with as a child, So
Speaker 4: it was oh yeah, my parents they were young parents.
Speaker 4: My mother had me at eighteen, eighteen years old. My
Speaker 4: mom and dad were together, they were thirteen, and there
Speaker 4: was a lot of abuse, not towards me, but my
Speaker 4: mom and dad, and it was, you know, growing up,
Speaker 4: it was I'm always trying to get that attention of like,
Speaker 4: hey me, like I'm here, like somebody look at me,
Speaker 4: somebody say something to me. And I think now being
Speaker 4: on the stage that brought that out of me, that
Speaker 4: fire of like no one can take it away from me,
Speaker 4: no one can make me feel so less than whatever.
Speaker 3: It's just I have that power and it's it's it's
Speaker 3: my power.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The other question is for me, is there a moment
Speaker 1: in your life that truly shows you what artists you
Speaker 1: are today? Or do you Who is your favorite artist?
Speaker 3: So, my favorite artist is Whitney Houston.
Speaker 4: Everybody, I think everybody knows that Whitney is my favorite
Speaker 4: female artist. My favorite male artist is Luther Vandros And
Speaker 4: I love John Legend.
Speaker 3: Listen, John Legend, we have to do a song together.
Speaker 3: I just want him to pick me, like, because I
Speaker 3: love John Legend.
Speaker 4: I love the way he sings, I love the way
Speaker 4: he writes, I love the way he write.
Speaker 3: So John Legend is like my favorite male singer.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I like John Legend too, So you like
Speaker 1: John Legend as far as your male.
Speaker 4: But Whitney Houston all the like, that's who I grew
Speaker 4: up listening to. And people say it all the time.
Speaker 4: You sound like Whitney certain things.
Speaker 3: I'm like out here. But then I'm like, oh, but.
Speaker 4: I studied her, Like I can remember Soul Trained Awards
Speaker 4: back in the day when she was on Soul Training Wars.
Speaker 4: I can remember that ninety two, ninety three. I can
Speaker 4: remember those things because I studied. And my friends laugh
Speaker 4: at me all the time because I can say, Okay,
Speaker 4: watch this part. She's about to do this before she
Speaker 4: even do it, because that's who I studied her. And
Speaker 4: I just love the way she stood on the stage
Speaker 4: so gracefully, and it was just like I want to
Speaker 4: do that really.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, So did you have you Have you ever
Speaker 2: met Whitney?
Speaker 3: No, never met Whitney. I talked to her on the phone,
Speaker 3: but to me one time.
Speaker 2: But I see you with her mom, though I've seen you.
Speaker 3: Let let me tell you something. God does some things
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm like, Okay, God, I never met Whitney.
Speaker 4: Never got a chance to tell her how I really feel,
Speaker 4: because when I first start on the phone, I was like.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. But it was just like God
Speaker 3: just put her mom in my life. And I will
Speaker 3: walk to her house and you know she's from York.
Speaker 4: I went over to her house and have tune of
Speaker 4: fish sandwiches on Tuesday, and she will tell me all
Speaker 4: the stories from back in the day when she was
Speaker 4: in this girl group, from raising with me, from writing
Speaker 4: and arranging vocals background vocals for Elvis Presley, and then
Speaker 4: singing in her house, stacks and stacks of notebooks of
Speaker 4: songs she wrote.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, wait a minute, so why are these out?
Speaker 3: And then she.
Speaker 4: And she she told me, she said, listen, you can
Speaker 4: sing all day. She said, but if you're not telling
Speaker 4: the story. And that's where I got that from. It
Speaker 4: was like, you have to tell a story. And I'm like,
Speaker 4: but I think I'm telling the story what this song mean?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I don't know, yeah, because you're not
Speaker 4: telling the story. So yeah, So I've learned.
Speaker 2: A lot of things from that's deep. That's deep. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I was going to say to you, you speak through
Speaker 1: your music with truth and you when you're singing, you
Speaker 1: speak through your music with truth and with honesty. What
Speaker 1: message do you want people that's in the audience to
Speaker 1: walk away when they hear you sing? You know, you're
Speaker 1: putting on a show. You're in a stadium, you and arena.
Speaker 1: You know when you when I go to a concert,
Speaker 1: walk away with something from that artist? What do you
Speaker 1: see your fans walking away with when from watching you perform?
Speaker 4: I want them to walk away first knowing my story
Speaker 4: right and and not just getting so deep into details
Speaker 4: about the story.
Speaker 3: But they can do music.
Speaker 4: They can see how I'm feeling or what this song
Speaker 4: actually makes me feel?
Speaker 3: Right, how makes me feel?
Speaker 4: So I want people to walk away with just thinking,
Speaker 4: they just knowing that they can be and do whatever
Speaker 4: they want to do, whatever they want to be ahead,
Speaker 4: go home and save that marriage, you know, seriously, go
Speaker 4: home because I love love right, and it's like go
Speaker 4: home and and and be nicer to each other, and
Speaker 4: just walk away with just knowing that if you have
Speaker 4: a business, knowing, know that you can really do the
Speaker 4: things that you're supposed to do and put in God first,
Speaker 4: because you regardless if I don't sing gospel at all,
Speaker 4: and I see R and B.
Speaker 3: You're gonna feel the annointed because that's just something that
Speaker 3: God has given me. I can't take that away.
Speaker 4: But I want people to walk away feeling uplifted and
Speaker 4: no like music just does that to you.
Speaker 2: So we did a show. Well remember hot topics.
Speaker 4: Okay, so wait, there's a story behind that. I walked
Speaker 4: into I don't know what I walked into, and I said, wow,
Speaker 4: this is this is good. I said, this is really
Speaker 4: up here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was some.
Speaker 1: Something else right, Shout out to vow and Lounds fifty
Speaker 1: two fifty two Spring Dely East shout out to Louds
Speaker 1: fifty two. But we had hot topics there and the
Speaker 1: thing like I said about, but we made it work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And this is why I was gonna get to when
Speaker 1: you performed there when I had actually coming you did.
Speaker 1: It was so small and so tight and you had
Speaker 1: this huge band, but they made it work. The audience
Speaker 1: went away wanting more from you, to the point you
Speaker 1: were actually come back and do it again. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, you know. And then you were so
Speaker 1: humble and so down to earth. You know, you didn't
Speaker 1: have this big, fancy dressing room. The band didn't have
Speaker 1: all this, but you came there and you turned that place.
Speaker 2: Out to They just went crazy because.
Speaker 4: I just feel like you don't you never know who's
Speaker 4: in the room. And I never want to ever come
Speaker 4: across as cocky or anything. No, because my thing is
Speaker 4: I believe that God gives you a gift, he can
Speaker 4: take it away, right And I don't care if it's
Speaker 4: two people in the room, I'm gonna show out regardless
Speaker 4: if it's two twenty five, two thousand people's that's just
Speaker 4: what it is. And I love that, like I love
Speaker 4: just being making people happy and just having a good time.
Speaker 4: You have to be humble, Yes, you believe humble is
Speaker 4: the key people are watching.
Speaker 1: Yes, And it's very important what you just said because
Speaker 1: you don't know who who's in that what is you
Speaker 1: never know?
Speaker 2: You never know? And like and one thing, I like
Speaker 2: what you just said.
Speaker 1: Two people, two hundred, two thousand and two million, you're
Speaker 1: still going to perform And as a as a vocalist
Speaker 1: tier you sing with a lot of and I can
Speaker 1: witness this a lot of emotional death.
Speaker 2: You sing with that. How do you prepare before you perform?
Speaker 2: What do you do or there anythings do you be
Speaker 2: in a corner going me, me.
Speaker 4: Me, me, me, me me, What do you do?
Speaker 2: You don't warm up, not at all. I have.
Speaker 3: My best seam.
Speaker 4: She'd be like, so you're gonna do bubbles today because
Speaker 4: it's that's an extra of reefing exercise that singers do.
Speaker 4: I don't want to that, Like I just I never
Speaker 4: warm up and that is so bad. And I've never
Speaker 4: took vocal lessons ever, ever, ever, and I want to.
Speaker 4: And I've been asking, and people who are vocal vocal trainers,
Speaker 4: my friends, they tell me no all the time.
Speaker 3: But but what I do listen.
Speaker 4: To certain songs before the show, or I'll go in
Speaker 4: the corner and everyone's just trying to figure out what's
Speaker 4: going on with to you why she's so quiet, And
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm really just tapped in of you know,
Speaker 4: making sure that I'm okay, making sure my spirit is okay,
Speaker 4: make sure everybody's good.
Speaker 3: And I'm just tapped in and I'm looking around and
Speaker 3: watching and just you.
Speaker 2: Know, you know what I witness that at the previous
Speaker 2: Grand Matron ball.
Speaker 3: You asked, you are okay? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: You ask what's wrong with you? Said nothing?
Speaker 2: I was worried.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get very quiet. Honestly, people don't know this.
Speaker 4: I'm very quiet, and especially at home, and I'm very
Speaker 4: I don't like Jesus world.
Speaker 3: I'm very goofy, like I like to have.
Speaker 2: A good time.
Speaker 3: When I'm at home.
Speaker 4: I'll be making up songs that don't make sense at all,
Speaker 4: but it makes me happy.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: For the Grand Matron ball that was at the Robert
Speaker 1: treat last April, I witness that. I'm looking at you
Speaker 1: get ready to go, and I'm like, she don't look
Speaker 1: like she's in a good move at wiet I was,
Speaker 1: but when you got on that stage, it was a
Speaker 1: different person on that Yeah.
Speaker 3: Get I tried to relax my face sometimes because they're.
Speaker 4: Like, Okay, I'm like, I'm gonna ask you that over
Speaker 4: and over you did.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm fine, I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 3: You're like, are you sure? Do you need anything? I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 4: It's just one of those things with me where I
Speaker 4: just tap in and I just quiet the room and
Speaker 4: i don't see anybody else. Just I focus to see
Speaker 4: what I'm gonna do. And sometimes I can go and
Speaker 4: rehearsal and have all of these things I'm gonna do
Speaker 4: at the show, and my band and friends will tell
Speaker 4: you it's.
Speaker 3: Sometimes don't work out that way. Not in a bad way.
Speaker 4: It's just that I hear other things when I'm singing.
Speaker 4: I hear other notes or other ways I want to
Speaker 4: sing it.
Speaker 3: So it's changes.
Speaker 4: So when you see when I tell the band break
Speaker 4: it down, because now I hear something, I gotta get
Speaker 4: it out. So it's just one of those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now when you do the band it's called the tear
Speaker 1: Hole Experience. What did that name come from?
Speaker 4: Well, my real name is Tierra, so everybody thinks my
Speaker 4: name is Oh.
Speaker 3: I love that that's my name.
Speaker 4: Before I went to Italy, I was meeting with these
Speaker 4: record executives and they were like, well, we're gonna change
Speaker 4: your name to we can't name her. We can't keep
Speaker 4: Tierra because we have Sierra the artist that's out, and
Speaker 4: then we have us.
Speaker 3: It was another artist named Tierra Tierra Marie.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, but I'm Tierra, that's my real name,
Speaker 4: and they came up with Tia so and it stuck
Speaker 4: with me, and then it was like Tia Hole.
Speaker 3: And then I'm like experience.
Speaker 4: I'm really an experience, and that's just not just on stage,
Speaker 4: just in general. Like I'm an experience and I want
Speaker 4: people to walk away with an experience.
Speaker 3: So it was like the Tiahole experience that kind of
Speaker 3: rings soul. And we've been doing this for ten years.
Speaker 1: So for anyone that has has not seen this band
Speaker 1: in the Tia Hole experience, you have and you can't
Speaker 1: even sit down. No, that's the thing I love about
Speaker 1: your band. You cannot sit on Tia There's just no way.
Speaker 3: You've been trying.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I had some haters and a crowd like I'm not
Speaker 4: going to dance all because I don't and they don't
Speaker 4: even know me. But it's just like I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: and then I see their foottap and I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 3: I got you. Yeah, it's an experienceable.
Speaker 2: How and how do you guys?
Speaker 1: Do you have like one day a week y'all rehearse
Speaker 1: or y'all just wait till you get the bad thing.
Speaker 4: Okay, So what I want to start doing is having
Speaker 4: rehearsal all the time. I think you should always rehearse
Speaker 4: because you know, one you never know what can happen
Speaker 4: or what won't come up.
Speaker 3: But usually when we get booked.
Speaker 4: For an event, I'm having rehearsal, I'm sending the songs
Speaker 4: out already telling me this is what I want to do.
Speaker 4: I talk to the client first, like, hey, so what
Speaker 4: do you want? What's your idea of what's how you
Speaker 4: want the show to be. Some clients may say do
Speaker 4: what you do.
Speaker 3: I love clients like that what you do? And then yeah,
Speaker 3: some clients like, well, you know, we like motil, we
Speaker 3: like this and we'll make it work. And then we had,
Speaker 3: like I said, we have.
Speaker 4: The rehearsal, and then you know, uh, my best defence
Speaker 4: she's she's very much.
Speaker 3: Of what are you wearing? That's it. It's like what
Speaker 3: are you wearing?
Speaker 2: I don't know?
Speaker 3: You figure that part.
Speaker 2: Out, that's you know.
Speaker 4: But me, I'm just like, m this is what this
Speaker 4: is the music, this is what we're gonna do. I
Speaker 4: have some clients who say I want what you did
Speaker 4: at this person's part, and I'm like, but what did
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: So that's that's when we have. That's when we have,
Speaker 3: like I said, we have.
Speaker 4: Rehearsals every time we get a gig, you know, and
Speaker 4: the gigs I need to start promoting, like I really
Speaker 4: should promote. Yeah, but I really don't like social media.
Speaker 3: You really don't. That's why I don't post as much.
Speaker 2: And you really don't. You don't believe it or not.
Speaker 3: A lot of my gigs that I get is word
Speaker 3: of mouth. And that's a blessing. But it's like, if
Speaker 3: I took the time to really push it.
Speaker 4: And really promote the way I should, because I got
Speaker 4: videos that I can keep posting on Instagram, don't do.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny you say that here because
Speaker 1: when I look at your stuff on Facebook and Instagram,
Speaker 1: I know there's more from what I see because I'll
Speaker 1: go look and I'll still see the same show she
Speaker 1: did two months ago, and I'm like, I know she's
Speaker 1: doing stuff.
Speaker 2: Where is it?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: So you were active about that.
Speaker 1: One of our followers is saying she toy down, couldn't
Speaker 1: get folks off the floor, and that's doctor Terrence Love.
Speaker 1: That was at one of the other grand MAT's ball
Speaker 1: and we have adren that says, I love the tea
Speaker 1: experience because she was probably back with us at Hot.
Speaker 2: Topics at fifty two. Yes, yes, that's good. That was
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. That was a lot of and
Speaker 2: that was genuinely where it's.
Speaker 3: Like we're having a good time.
Speaker 4: Nobody's expecting anything, We're just having a good time.
Speaker 1: Yes, So going forward, pressing the fast forward. But where
Speaker 1: do you see your voice in your career taking you?
Speaker 2: And then next few years?
Speaker 3: And I see myself in the next ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you that going on?
Speaker 4: I want to have music out in the next year. Well,
Speaker 4: that's like in a few months.
Speaker 3: That's you know. So I'm secretly gonna start working on
Speaker 3: that good good I.
Speaker 4: Have something special that I'm working on in February. And
Speaker 4: I see myself traveling more, traveling more, not just with
Speaker 4: just music, but also just exploring the world for Tia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just.
Speaker 4: Singing all over the place, like I want to go
Speaker 4: if they call me back to Italy, let me tell you,
Speaker 4: I would jumps getting hot over there in a minute. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: Like I believe that. And it's so crazy. I see it.
Speaker 4: I actually see. God shows it to me all the
Speaker 4: time that I see myself singing in front.
Speaker 3: Of thousands and thousands of people around the world.
Speaker 4: I see myself in the next a few years of
Speaker 4: putting together something for kids, I love kids, and it's
Speaker 4: so funny.
Speaker 3: A lot of the kids that I see, they're like, so,
Speaker 3: when you gonna have a kids show? And I'm like it,
Speaker 3: But I have to.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've been doing working with kids for years,
Speaker 4: all my since I was sixteen years old, I've been
Speaker 4: working with kids.
Speaker 3: I love kids. Don't want kids, but I love them.
Speaker 3: You got to give them back. So no, but I
Speaker 3: see myself doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I see myself doing a lot of stuff for kids.
Speaker 4: I see myself writing a children's book with dealing with me,
Speaker 4: you know, songs and teaching them.
Speaker 3: Just it's okay, it's not just being behind the mic, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I see myself doing a whole bunch of different things,
Speaker 3: and that's amazing.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something about that. You have to
Speaker 2: have a plan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to have.
Speaker 1: Something that you're aiming to achieve. You have to have
Speaker 1: some goals you want to conquer. I always have this thing,
Speaker 1: and I like what you said. I see myself. I
Speaker 1: see myself. I see myself doing this. I see myself
Speaker 1: doing that. I want to do this. I'm going to
Speaker 1: do this.
Speaker 2: I see this. I'm going to write a book. I'm
Speaker 2: going to work with kids. Right. My thing is this here.
Speaker 1: See it in your mind, you see it in time,
Speaker 1: And that is so true. I stand on that. See
Speaker 1: it in your mind, you see it in time. Visualize
Speaker 1: yourself being a millionaire, yeah, okay, visualize yourself in Tom
Speaker 1: Square signing that book. Okay, visualize yourself working with those kids.
Speaker 1: And I always say this every show our dreams. When
Speaker 1: we dream, we're on our pillar.
Speaker 2: That's where they are.
Speaker 3: But don't leave them there.
Speaker 2: Don't leave them there. Take your dreams with you.
Speaker 1: Wake up and execute them, implement them, go after them,
Speaker 1: you know. And this is me because if you ask,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of people that says, well, I
Speaker 1: want to start a daycare, and I'll say start start one.
Speaker 1: You have to roll the dice. You can't sit back
Speaker 1: there and say I want to.
Speaker 4: And that's the problem a lot of us. And I
Speaker 4: know for me for years, fear is something else. It
Speaker 4: is like it used to be right at my front door.
Speaker 4: There's certain things that I'm just like, someone just recently
Speaker 4: asked me a question, Tya, why are you still working
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 3: I'm like money, health insurance, that crazy, you know.
Speaker 4: But it's like when I'm off, like when we have
Speaker 4: a break from school from work.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting at brunch and I'm like, this is what I.
Speaker 2: Want to be doing.
Speaker 3: Oh, we have a show coming up. Let's get pack
Speaker 3: our stuff, but let's go.
Speaker 4: But it's a fear of not knowing where the money
Speaker 4: is coming from it, and that's that's something that I
Speaker 4: honestly keep working on it. He said to me, how
Speaker 4: many clients do you need a month to be okay?
Speaker 3: And I said the number. I couldn't believe it. I said,
Speaker 3: that's it. Two clients a month and I will be okay.
Speaker 3: So what am I doing right? When I love kids?
Speaker 4: So it's like, if you love kids, let's do something
Speaker 4: with kids, you know. So there's so many different things.
Speaker 4: But that fear, woll, that's something that I struggle with.
Speaker 3: A lot when it comes to that. I'm not scared
Speaker 3: of anything.
Speaker 1: We fear the unknown, Yes, we fear the unknown, and
Speaker 1: fear is one of the biggest things A lot of
Speaker 1: us suffer from you and it sets up back and
Speaker 1: it keeps us from going forward. But if you can
Speaker 1: conquer fear, you know, if you could just step out there.
Speaker 1: I had a lady she was like, I follow you
Speaker 1: on Facebook with your daycare centers. You're not scared to
Speaker 1: post all of that stuff that you do. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: because that's.
Speaker 2: What I do.
Speaker 1: I don't have anything to hide. I'm not in fear
Speaker 1: for anything. And I know daycare centers are under scrutiny
Speaker 1: all the time, always on news.
Speaker 2: But we see when you're living right and you're doing
Speaker 2: right by God.
Speaker 3: That's what I love. I love who I am. I
Speaker 3: really really do again now who I am.
Speaker 2: That's so important.
Speaker 4: Because before it'd be like, oh, I'm not dressed right,
Speaker 4: I got it, it's too tight. It's this No, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be tia. I. I feel that I am a
Speaker 4: nice person. I feel that I really live the way
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to live. I feel like I know that
Speaker 4: I'm put on this earth for a reason. I know
Speaker 4: that I am a good daughter. I'm a good sister,
Speaker 4: I know I know all of those things.
Speaker 3: I'm a good friend. So it's like I'm I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna keep living. I'm just keeping that is my thing.
Speaker 3: I have to keep living.
Speaker 4: So many people are dying right and even like on
Speaker 4: my on my uh with my mom and my dad,
Speaker 4: like my dad died two years ago and it's about
Speaker 4: to be two years.
Speaker 3: Things about to be two years.
Speaker 4: And it's like you gotta live and my dad was young.
Speaker 4: You gotta live like I.
Speaker 3: That's I take care of myself. Like you know, I've
Speaker 3: lost a lot of week. You look good, but I
Speaker 3: feel good. It all tied in.
Speaker 4: I feel good as Tia, I feel good as Tiera.
Speaker 4: I feel good as a performer. As an artist. It's
Speaker 4: a different because I always light on my feet as
Speaker 4: a performer, but now it's a different feeling.
Speaker 1: And you could dance and you could spend I see
Speaker 1: why they got that James Brown because you could do
Speaker 1: James Brown.
Speaker 2: You would do James Brown.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it. I go back and I look at
Speaker 4: videos like what.
Speaker 3: Was I think I'm crazy? But yeah, but we had
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed just being I'm gonna shout out to my daughter, Brittany.
Speaker 2: I see your heart. We love you too. Bring I
Speaker 2: love you too.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, this is you might want
Speaker 1: to think about this, but I know who you said.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately Whitney's not with us.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that might have been your biggest collaboration. But
Speaker 1: for now, going into twenty twenty six, what is a
Speaker 1: dream collaboration for you.
Speaker 2: Me give me a couple.
Speaker 3: I see my Listen John Legend, y'a don't understand that. Listen,
Speaker 3: you don't understand.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, just an amazing songwriter, like he really
Speaker 4: really is. And around this time, I'm playing his Christmas
Speaker 4: album Babe, my friends don't like it. Played that one
Speaker 4: song again, but it's just something that makes me happy.
Speaker 4: But yeah, like John Legend and if I had to choose, oh,
Speaker 4: let us see, Oh my god, yes, like two years
Speaker 4: ago and I was like, see, I didn't know, but
Speaker 4: I knew her story and I actually really like I
Speaker 4: relate to let us see.
Speaker 3: You know, uh, when.
Speaker 4: I wanted to do this music thing, I never forget.
Speaker 4: I came back from Italy and they were like, did
Speaker 4: you gain weight? It was just a whole bunch of nonsense, right,
Speaker 4: And it was like I sat in front of all
Speaker 4: these executives and they were like, oh.
Speaker 3: In front of me, this is this is where it is.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, well, you know her butt comes out
Speaker 4: this much, and oh well, you know she's so dark,
Speaker 4: or you know her gums is this or this is
Speaker 4: the stuff that.
Speaker 3: I was hearing.
Speaker 4: So at twenty four and I'm just getting into who
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 3: It's like, and it slowed. It slowed the career and
Speaker 3: everything that.
Speaker 4: Wow, because I was like, well, I guess I'm not.
Speaker 4: I went into depression.
Speaker 2: It was bad.
Speaker 3: I started gaining weight.
Speaker 4: It was just really bad because I'm like, okay, I
Speaker 4: can sing.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: God didn't just give this talent for me just sitting
Speaker 3: around with me. It's like you guys saying I'm too dark,
Speaker 3: Like what's happening?
Speaker 4: So I went through that for years and in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 4: I want to say it was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: The twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, I did my own show.
Speaker 4: I created my own show and it was at the
Speaker 4: saving on Glover's spot that he has in York, and
Speaker 4: I put that together how I wanted to look, had
Speaker 4: an opener, how much I wanted the tickets to sell.
Speaker 3: It was the first time I've ever did anything like that.
Speaker 3: One year was that, I want to say it was
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. It was in December. I do remember the
Speaker 3: December sixth.
Speaker 2: I'm not your own shell ye, my own first time.
Speaker 4: She opened up for me because I was like, she's dope.
Speaker 4: I want to And it was like I did it.
Speaker 4: I went and it scared, but it was sold out.
Speaker 4: People were sitting on the steps. I was like, I
Speaker 4: can't believe I did this, and I was on cloud
Speaker 4: nah wow.
Speaker 3: And that's when I knew, yeah, I can do this.
Speaker 4: Forget about all the people in my life who was
Speaker 4: stealing from me, who was talking behind my back. But
Speaker 4: we're in a club together and where you're promoting me
Speaker 4: and it's like you're getting money under the table and
Speaker 4: I'm singing I'm doing all the work and I'm not
Speaker 4: getting anything. I was like, oh no, Like I had
Speaker 4: to really like step into who I am. And I
Speaker 4: think now when I turned forty.
Speaker 3: You can't tell me nothing.
Speaker 4: Like I tried not to come off cocky at all
Speaker 4: with her at forty and this way you went through it,
Speaker 4: I had to go. You went through it, and I
Speaker 4: help other people build their kingdom.
Speaker 3: I had to help other people do Jesus. I mean,
Speaker 3: I was doing stuff for people for nothing.
Speaker 4: It was like, ta, I want you to say, it
Speaker 4: took so so many people took advantage, and it was like,
Speaker 4: I don't hate them for it at all.
Speaker 3: I love you for it because you pushed me to
Speaker 3: be who I am at.
Speaker 2: And now they don't get that.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, t can you come and do this?
Speaker 2: No, they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't get that all that tests that they put
Speaker 1: you through was just leading you up to build up
Speaker 1: to a great testimony.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why I love you honestly. And I
Speaker 3: know this is.
Speaker 4: You know we're doing and you're doing an interview with me.
Speaker 4: But I have to say, Marlene, you have been we
Speaker 4: haven't known each other that long, but what I can
Speaker 4: say is like you've had You've been consistent with me,
Speaker 4: consistent and show so much love and even it's so crazy,
Speaker 4: even with other clients where I'm like, this is my
Speaker 4: this is my fee, this is what I'm charging, and
Speaker 4: they're like, oh, what my budget is six hundred dollars?
Speaker 4: You can't have me for two hours and a full
Speaker 4: band and background saying you've never ever came to me
Speaker 4: if you said, Tia, how much this is going to be?
Speaker 4: I told you what it's gonna be, and you was like,
Speaker 4: not a problem. It was never and you couldn't easy
Speaker 4: to be like a girl, no, but I believe that
Speaker 4: you saw something in me, and it's like, no, this
Speaker 4: is your worth and you go for that, and you've
Speaker 4: just been there for me, even if it's just hey,
Speaker 4: hey daughter, seeing how you feeling and you know what
Speaker 4: hit me so hard? And you probably not. You probably
Speaker 4: don't remember this, but you probably do. Knowing you, you
Speaker 4: probably remember it. You text me one day and you said,
Speaker 4: I want to be your godmother. I said what I said,
Speaker 4: what I had to sit back to and that The
Speaker 4: crazy thing is, I've had so many people women in
Speaker 4: my life who said, oh, you're you know, you're my daughter,
Speaker 4: you're my daughter, But it was.
Speaker 3: Always for something. I know, it's nothing for you.
Speaker 4: It's like, no, you really want to be there that
Speaker 4: person for me?
Speaker 2: And it was I'm absolutely.
Speaker 4: Ever Like That's why I said, as tired as I
Speaker 4: I've been running all week, I said, oh, no, anything
Speaker 4: for Marlyn, anything from Marlin.
Speaker 3: Are you crazy? She could call me in the middle
Speaker 3: of the nights.
Speaker 1: I'm up and you're about to make me cry, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's good when when I do things Tia I.
Speaker 2: Do, I don't look for it to be returned. You know.
Speaker 1: I've had parents who walk up to me and say,
Speaker 1: you remember when I had my job and you took
Speaker 1: my kid in for two months for free. I did,
Speaker 1: but there's something special about you. And at the end
Speaker 1: of the show, I was gonna tell everybody I'm the
Speaker 1: godmother of you, the god mother better know it.
Speaker 2: This is my daughter.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to say something to Bria, which is
Speaker 1: your sister, because I have three girls.
Speaker 2: Brin now all.
Speaker 1: Is ms Paula Tia one of the best singers. And
Speaker 1: I will never forget how you the house at fifty two.
Speaker 3: That was the time.
Speaker 4: We had.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that was such a good time. That
Speaker 1: was such a good time.
Speaker 2: But I.
Speaker 1: When I do things and I get it from you
Speaker 1: see real, recognize really you're saying real because real people, yes,
Speaker 1: And it took us. It took us a minute to
Speaker 1: because we were all taking advantage of it, you know,
Speaker 1: because of the kind and you.
Speaker 4: Just don't trust like you try. We have this big
Speaker 4: heart and I love giving doing things for people. But
Speaker 4: also it stopped me though, like I still want to
Speaker 4: help people, but then I'm very cautious.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: I'm very cat because I'm like, and my friends be like,
Speaker 4: you don't have to look so like when we first
Speaker 4: meet people, you're like, because I don't know what, why
Speaker 4: why do you want to be my friend, Like what
Speaker 4: is it? Like, what is it that you want from me?
Speaker 4: Because I know where I'm at right, But what I
Speaker 4: had so many keep people, so many, so many things
Speaker 4: to so many and even to this day, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I can get to you.
Speaker 3: All I gotta do is just call her.
Speaker 2: No. See, I never had that attitude with you. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's like I have old friends who were friends
Speaker 4: and close to me, and it's like, oh yeah, Tia,
Speaker 4: they you know, they talk behind you back and some
Speaker 4: people I never even met or talk to you, they
Speaker 4: don't like.
Speaker 3: Me, and I'm like, I never even met you, never
Speaker 3: even had a conversation.
Speaker 1: It's because they see in you what they don't see
Speaker 1: in themselves. And once they learn to see what they
Speaker 1: see in you in themselves, they can move on. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: if people stop looking at what you're doing and worry
Speaker 1: about what.
Speaker 2: They're doing and focus on their lane, because one thing
Speaker 2: about me, I'm focused.
Speaker 1: Yes, I see that the enemy, I see the tricks
Speaker 1: of the devil, and they don't disturb me. You know,
Speaker 1: the scripture put on the whole arm of God every.
Speaker 4: Day, every day, every day, every day, because actually you
Speaker 4: just never know what's gonna come at you, and I'm prepared.
Speaker 3: I'm prepared, and I.
Speaker 4: Forgot it saved me through so many different things. So
Speaker 4: I refuse to let anybody or anyone come in my
Speaker 4: way with what I have or what God has given me.
Speaker 2: What? What is?
Speaker 1: What is something about you that your supporters might be
Speaker 1: surprised to learn about you?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: You shock me already with one because honey, I didn't
Speaker 1: know you was quiet, but I could stand in you.
Speaker 2: Now because you're ain't quiet on that stage.
Speaker 4: Stage, I'm like, hello, everybody, it's your girl to your
Speaker 4: whole Yeah. But when yeah, I'm funny, Like my sisters
Speaker 4: don't think I'm funny, but I am funny at home.
Speaker 4: I just I don't turn the TV on. I'm at
Speaker 4: home with my puppies.
Speaker 2: I'm puppies.
Speaker 3: I just got a second. I don't know what I
Speaker 3: was saying, what is it? So the first one I
Speaker 3: got is a Morkie. She's four.
Speaker 4: That's a Maltese mixed with Yorkie. And then I just
Speaker 4: got a Bjon snow. I don't know what this little
Speaker 4: thing is like, I mean.
Speaker 2: You dog, I.
Speaker 3: Know you do. I love dogs.
Speaker 4: And I kept saying, oh, I'm gonna get rid of her.
Speaker 4: I'll give it to somebody because this is too much.
Speaker 4: She's still there.
Speaker 2: Give it got out to Sassy.
Speaker 3: Just listen. I got my Marlow at home and Portie.
Speaker 2: That's the that's their name.
Speaker 3: I love housewives Marlow and they're living up to their names.
Speaker 3: But it's a feeling. It's something people like why you
Speaker 3: got dogs?
Speaker 4: When you walk in that house and the dogs they
Speaker 4: don't care about what you They love is consistent, yes, and.
Speaker 3: It's so and so yeah.
Speaker 4: I just you know, I'll be at home, laughing and
Speaker 4: joking and making up song. I'm always making up songs.
Speaker 4: That's just like, okay, girl. If people saw how I
Speaker 4: am at home, they probably be like, oh, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: even believe that.
Speaker 3: I'm just really quiet and laid back.
Speaker 1: That that's something we didn't know about you. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you something about the dog.
Speaker 2: You can live by.
Speaker 1: Yourself and have a pet. Look, guess what, you're not
Speaker 1: by yourself because they are the best company. You know,
Speaker 1: you in the house with somebody that you can play
Speaker 1: with and talk with.
Speaker 4: Company, and when you don't feel like playing, they're still
Speaker 4: gonna pull it out of here.
Speaker 3: You're gonna end up playing with them. But I just
Speaker 3: I love My home is my sanctuary.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I don't let a lot of people in my house either.
Speaker 4: Too many spirits in your house.
Speaker 2: You can do that.
Speaker 4: Everybody is not for you, you know.
Speaker 2: And you know always say it's always the strangers.
Speaker 1: They're your biggest supporter, absolutely, But the people that are
Speaker 1: your friends or within your circle or nearby are the
Speaker 1: ones that refuse to clap for you. You should clap,
Speaker 1: you know. I believe in what you make happen for others,
Speaker 1: God would make happen for you.
Speaker 2: I believe that. I believe the more you give, the
Speaker 2: more you will receive.
Speaker 1: But everybody, and I had told you earlier, we were
Speaker 1: getting ready to go on that my pastor was saying,
Speaker 1: how the phone don't ring no more?
Speaker 2: And then I thought about that a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, my phone don't ring that much.
Speaker 2: But that's the best thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, you know, for you? And who's not?
Speaker 4: Because my friends tell the Tia you face time us
Speaker 4: all the time because I have to see your face.
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear your voice over the phone.
Speaker 4: I need to see your face to make sure you're okay.
Speaker 4: And now all my friends and everybody face time. They
Speaker 4: don't even call no more. They just be like, hey,
Speaker 4: what you're doing? But the phone wasn't ringing, you know.
Speaker 4: And family is tricky to see people be saying.
Speaker 3: Friends family are very tricky.
Speaker 4: Okay because I could get into that, but come back
Speaker 4: part because it's it's really weird. I never forget I
Speaker 4: had an aunt. God, I had an aunt who every
Speaker 4: time I did an event and I put a flyer up,
Speaker 4: she puts on dot.
Speaker 3: To get family. It's so weird. That was weird to me.
Speaker 4: And I used to always go with, oh, remember you
Speaker 4: borrow this money, And I'm like, I never borrow money
Speaker 4: from you, but.
Speaker 3: Are you asking for it?
Speaker 4: Like so it's like stuff like that. Or they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 4: I know Tya never met me at all. But people
Speaker 4: some people just are opportunists. They just want to be
Speaker 4: you know, kept trying to be on your blessing exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Some people just want to deal with you because they
Speaker 1: might need something from you later.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: And it's like what it's going When I have people
Speaker 4: lie and said they're my manager.
Speaker 3: I haven't had a manager in fifteen years I do
Speaker 3: everything for myself. I do everything myself, and it's kind
Speaker 3: of hard to manage me.
Speaker 2: I probably can see that, see it.
Speaker 4: I know and I and I have to learn and listen,
Speaker 4: that's what it's cause it's like I don't know everything,
Speaker 4: but it's when but you were always learning and.
Speaker 3: Fancy always says me, you you got to listen. That's
Speaker 3: the problem.
Speaker 2: You're not listening.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, but y'all don't get what I'm trying.
Speaker 3: Non listen. And it's like.
Speaker 4: I'm honestly going through that now of really listening and
Speaker 4: trying to get better because when you listen, we don't
Speaker 4: know everything.
Speaker 2: So it's like I'm.
Speaker 3: Really really trying.
Speaker 4: I'm rebuilding because a lot of people are like, oh,
Speaker 4: we don't see you. We don't see a lot of
Speaker 4: gigs and all that. No, it's honestly, I've learned also
Speaker 4: not to take so many gigs because every gig is
Speaker 4: not a good gig.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, well, can you.
Speaker 3: Do a baby shower?
Speaker 4: Baby shower almost fucking a bad for baby shower. But
Speaker 4: these baby showers are like big weddings now.
Speaker 3: But there's certain things that I.
Speaker 4: Won't take anymore, you know, and I even this summer,
Speaker 4: I said I wouldn't. I wouldn't ever, I said, this summer,
Speaker 4: I don't want to gig.
Speaker 3: This is what I said.
Speaker 4: I don't want to give good summer. I want to relax.
Speaker 4: I want to put things in order for the new year.
Speaker 4: God said yeah, okay. And then it was like all
Speaker 4: of the month of August, I was gigging NonStop, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, what's happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were doing a lot and I didn't want to.
Speaker 4: I was like, God was like, oh, you think I
Speaker 4: gave you this gift for you to just like I'm
Speaker 4: not doing anything.
Speaker 3: And guess what. That's what I did.
Speaker 4: I performed and and you know, and like I said,
Speaker 4: certain things, I don't promote. Everything is really word of mouth.
Speaker 4: And I'm really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want you to promote a little bit.
Speaker 3: Y'all pray for me. Okay, I hope y'all pray for me.
Speaker 2: I need you to.
Speaker 1: Sing something whatever, whatever's on your heart. But you know,
Speaker 1: I would love love to hear something from Whitney.
Speaker 3: Oh that's that's okay. Let's see.
Speaker 2: I would love for you do something from Whitney.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's see, let's se let's see, it's so many
Speaker 3: Whitney songs.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, so many Whitney songs. So I was
Speaker 4: driving in the car the other day coming home, and
Speaker 4: there's so there's so many.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do the.
Speaker 2: Whole song, but we got we got like three minutes.
Speaker 3: I believe in you.
Speaker 4: I believe that we should be and love eternally, that
Speaker 4: as far as I can see, you will always be
Speaker 4: for me.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes you will.
Speaker 4: And I believe in dreams again. I believe that lo
Speaker 4: will never ends. And like the river's fine to see.
Speaker 2: Was lost.
Speaker 3: Now I'm freeze.
Speaker 4: Because I believe and you and me ho ho See.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm a fool to feel the way I do.
Speaker 4: See, I will play a fool forever, jeous to be
Speaker 4: with you forever.
Speaker 3: I believe in America and America and yet maybe all
Speaker 3: my dream come true. See Whitney takes me out.
Speaker 4: Thin about the miracles, and so yeah, that's one of
Speaker 4: my come on.
Speaker 1: Now, because you know I love Whitney too. I was
Speaker 1: over here trying to fight back though tears. I was
Speaker 1: trying to fight back though tears.
Speaker 4: Whitney says, there's so many songs Whitney had, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I love Whitney.
Speaker 3: Yeah she has some good music.
Speaker 2: Okay, close it out a little bit, but you want
Speaker 2: to want to fight. Let me don't know the words.
Speaker 4: You know what's so funny? People, y'all didn't hear what
Speaker 4: she said. So let me tell y'all something someone said,
Speaker 4: gospel song? Is that I said gospel? That's not a
Speaker 4: gospel song.
Speaker 3: But I sing.
Speaker 4: I talk a little fast as I sing fast to
Speaker 4: a certain song. So she just said to me, so
Speaker 4: y'all know this song. So I'm about to catch another flight.
Speaker 4: I have about to make up on a bike. I
Speaker 4: just want to have a good night. I just want
Speaker 4: to have a good night. Hold up, if you don't
Speaker 4: know not you know, if you broken your hot and
Speaker 4: let them go, you can have anybody any money more.
Speaker 3: You could be gossick.
Speaker 4: Lie.
Speaker 2: See, they.
Speaker 3: Don't do that club music live with a band.
Speaker 2: You gotta do it right, do it right at one point.
Speaker 4: And I can honestly say and that people may say
Speaker 4: this is cocky, but I'm gonna say this. Me and
Speaker 4: my friend Steve Leavel, we started this house music would
Speaker 4: live band.
Speaker 3: Nobody was doing that years ago, and it was.
Speaker 4: Just at an open mic and everybody was like, what
Speaker 4: so and we just been doing it and wow.
Speaker 2: You know I can see here all.
Speaker 1: Night and I know they probably give me some more
Speaker 1: and give me some boy, give me some give me
Speaker 1: some boy.
Speaker 2: She gave us a lot, gave us a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, when how could people follow you, support you
Speaker 1: and stay in contact or connected with your music?
Speaker 4: Okay, so we have, of course Instagram because that's what
Speaker 4: you'll catch me all the time. So Instagram, the te
Speaker 4: Your Whole Experience. Facebook is just tear hold. If you
Speaker 4: want to book.
Speaker 3: Now book make sure you got Okay, you got.
Speaker 4: Your coin, so no, if you want to book, my
Speaker 4: website is a www.
Speaker 3: The TA Whole Experience dot live. Yeah, and I.
Speaker 4: Mean send me messages. I talk to everybody on in
Speaker 4: the in the DM, I talked to them. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I promise you. I'm I'm putting the calendar
Speaker 4: together because we're getting ready for the new year. And
Speaker 4: like I said, I got some stuff happening in February,
Speaker 4: something happening. We're actually doing a whitney. You said, I
Speaker 4: don't think I should say that yet, but January. Just
Speaker 4: make sure y'all look out for the Jebruary.
Speaker 1: Rapid fire questions, Tia. One word that describes your voice, powerful,
Speaker 1: favous song, the scene right now?
Speaker 3: Oh, Cardi B, Cardi B.
Speaker 2: Gospel R and B. What pulls you more? Now now
Speaker 2: Gospel R and B.
Speaker 3: Gospel. We have me in a choke hold please do
Speaker 3: if it depends on the song.
Speaker 2: But it hasn't be a singing you admire. Oh a singer.
Speaker 4: We already said Whitney, but if I had to pick
Speaker 4: another one, it will be Jazmine.
Speaker 2: Sullivan morning person or night.
Speaker 3: I am a morning person.
Speaker 2: One thing you can live without that you can't live without.
Speaker 3: Singing?
Speaker 2: What makes you smile instantly? Love?
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