Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: It's Later if Poe Kelly, We're live everywhere on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. And that's what you heard of the music
Speaker 2: of Corey Henry, who is a multi time Grammy nominated artist,
Speaker 2: this year in the Roots Gospel Album category for his
Speaker 2: album Church, although he's also been nominated in Best Alternative Jazz,
Speaker 2: Best Progressive R and B, and even Album of the
Speaker 2: Year categories for his work. He has been a musical
Speaker 2: prodigy his old life, starting piano and Hammond B three organ,
Speaker 2: we'll tell you about that. From the age of two
Speaker 2: years old, played the famed Apollo Theater at six years old.
Speaker 2: You've heard his work with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to
Speaker 2: Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, Michael McDonald and everyone in between.
Speaker 2: But Saturday Night on Grammy's Eve at the Sun Room
Speaker 2: in West Hollywood at eight thirty pm will be Corey
Speaker 2: Henry and Friends Grammy Jam an evening of healing and
Speaker 2: celebration through music. In fact, we have a pair of
Speaker 2: tickets we're gonna give away before the night is through.
Speaker 2: But it's my honor, my pleasure, to Welcome to Later
Speaker 2: with Mo Kelly none other than the Corey Henry, my
Speaker 2: brother and new friend.
Speaker 3: How are you this evening. I'm doing wonderful. Thanks for
Speaker 3: having me on the show. Brooklyn Native. And as the
Speaker 3: story goes, you were playing since two years old. In fact,
Speaker 3: there are pictures of you playing as basically an infant.
Speaker 3: Is it fair to say that music chose you?
Speaker 4: You didn't choose music.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, as long as I can remember, since my since
Speaker 3: coming out of my mama's womb, I was just interested
Speaker 3: in music in ways that seemed to annoy my family.
Speaker 4: They said.
Speaker 3: When I was a kid, I would sit on my
Speaker 3: Auntie's lap and bang to the rhythm, you know, with spoons,
Speaker 3: and you know, I sat in schools and used the pencils,
Speaker 3: and you know, played the drums on the desk. And
Speaker 3: all I know is music since I can remember, as
Speaker 3: long as I can remember for sure.
Speaker 2: Did you know or did someone point out to you
Speaker 2: that you had a gift, something that was bestowed upon
Speaker 2: you in the church we say you were anointed.
Speaker 3: No, I knew and then and then I knew I
Speaker 3: was annoying, okay, but but I knew it just it
Speaker 3: was just always in me. I just I can't remember
Speaker 3: a time where I wasn't thinking about music.
Speaker 2: You know, Was there a particular piece for you which
Speaker 2: transformed you or always touches you? Like, for example, whenever
Speaker 2: I should be in church or in the church setting,
Speaker 2: if someone's gonna come out and start singing, I won't complain.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna lose it. I'm just gonna lose it. You're
Speaker 4: gonna go crazy, that's right. Is there a song like
Speaker 4: that for you? Oh?
Speaker 3: Man? And a song it's a that's actually probably a
Speaker 3: list of songs like that for me. Every time I
Speaker 3: play Amazing Grace, it takes me under, you know, it's
Speaker 3: like we heard coming in, like we heard coming in?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That that that version of it Me and Grace is
Speaker 3: different from any other version I've ever played because that's
Speaker 3: the version my mama taught me at the age of
Speaker 3: four or five years old. I often credit, you know,
Speaker 3: my jazz people like Herbie Hancock and Chickarea for my
Speaker 3: jazz influence. But when I started making this record, the
Speaker 3: Church album, I was thinking about my mama's chords, and
Speaker 3: she showed me these chords that's had fourths and diminished and.
Speaker 4: Out of time.
Speaker 3: Signatures and just like cool melodies that she took amazing
Speaker 3: Grace and made in her own calypso kind of version
Speaker 3: for me to play.
Speaker 2: I understand when you say diminished chords, but we'll call
Speaker 2: it like passing chords and what have you. But you're
Speaker 2: four years old presumably at the time. Did it register
Speaker 2: on that level or you just mimicking what she's showing you.
Speaker 3: On a keyboard? Yeah, I'm just mimicking. I'm just mimicking.
Speaker 3: I had no clue that I was doing cool chords
Speaker 3: until fifteen year later. I was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: my mama showed me these chords, and like she's my
Speaker 3: she's my interest to jazz, you know, like she's how
Speaker 3: I got into it, as well as gospel, but it's
Speaker 3: specifically jazzed by taking a song like Amazing Grace and
Speaker 3: jazzing it up and making it sound the way I
Speaker 3: recorded it. Those are all her chords. Like I didn't
Speaker 3: even like arrange more than her chords.
Speaker 2: I know, playing in church because I played in church
Speaker 2: I sung in church can be very intimidating because there's
Speaker 2: a very educated and discriminating crowd. If you will, they
Speaker 2: want you to play old time religion music as I
Speaker 2: call it, the way they want to hear it, and
Speaker 2: they can be very unforgiving.
Speaker 4: Was that your experience coming up in the church kind
Speaker 4: of Yeah.
Speaker 3: I grew up in a church that was age older,
Speaker 3: average age older, and they already knew what they wanted
Speaker 3: to hear, and they didn't want no kids coming in there. Yes,
Speaker 3: the worship service, So if I wanted to play, if
Speaker 3: I wanted to be a part of it, I had
Speaker 3: to learn the hymns and the devotional songs and the
Speaker 3: songs that make the mothers move. And once I did that,
Speaker 3: I was able to play more frequently, and church became
Speaker 3: a full time job. But I'm so happy that I
Speaker 3: learned what I learned through church because it literally set
Speaker 3: up the musician and the man I am today.
Speaker 2: I grew up in the church and I listened to
Speaker 2: what they call church music and you know, sanctified music.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't until I went to my mother's my
Speaker 2: father's mother's house in Lynchburg, Virginia, down south, and most
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been there. I've
Speaker 4: been there, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And if you listen to the stations, a lot of
Speaker 2: more just gospel stations. And I heard this one song
Speaker 2: and I'm this is nineteen eighty nine, so you're maybe
Speaker 2: two years old or so. And it was precious memories
Speaker 2: James Cleveland and Aretha Franklin. That completely changed me because
Speaker 2: it was the first time music touched me.
Speaker 4: When did it start touching you?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: I should say the meanings and the words? Oh man,
Speaker 4: how old were you? How old were you when you
Speaker 4: said that happened?
Speaker 2: I was about seventeen or eighteen when I started taking
Speaker 2: it for myself. It started me. You know, my Christianity
Speaker 2: meant something in my life. It wasn't like my parents' religion.
Speaker 2: It was mine.
Speaker 4: At that point, I.
Speaker 3: Would probably say the same age maybe, if not before.
Speaker 3: I know when I first started singing in church. When
Speaker 3: I first started singing in church, I was really young.
Speaker 3: I was probably like seven, eight, nine, ten somewhere around there.
Speaker 3: And the first few times it was just like I
Speaker 3: was just trying to get through a song. But I
Speaker 3: never forgive, forget. After bout a year or two into that,
Speaker 3: about I was about maybe eleven twelve, I sung a
Speaker 3: song called thank You Lord and and uh, and I
Speaker 3: was like, man, this is touching me.
Speaker 4: You that one tag. That's the tag at the end.
Speaker 3: But shout out to my godfather, Bishop Jeffrey White Brooklyn,
Speaker 3: New York, who had wrote a song that had some
Speaker 3: changes in the beginning of it and then concluded with
Speaker 3: that refrain.
Speaker 4: At the time, I just wanted to thank you. He
Speaker 4: put a verse on it.
Speaker 3: Well, when I think of the goodness and all He
Speaker 3: done for me, every song across Hallelujah, I think God
Speaker 3: was saving me and it goes through these changes. It's
Speaker 3: really nice and just one to say thing, but do
Speaker 3: do do don't boom boom bootoop. It was like all
Speaker 3: like a big deal and the church has been pridey
Speaker 3: eyes out does that movie. I know when I performed,
Speaker 3: and I'm not a performer like you. I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to quit myself too, but I know that there are
Speaker 3: moments in service where you may think you're not reaching someone,
Speaker 3: you're not touching someone. You know, the spirit's not moving,
Speaker 3: you think, and then someone comes up afterwards and just said,
Speaker 3: you touch me, you talk to me.
Speaker 4: You know, you were ministering directly to me. Does that
Speaker 4: happen often for you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, very often to this day happens And I'm very
Speaker 3: touched by that because you just never know, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's when you know it's not about you, and
Speaker 3: you know it's not about you know, your feelings. It's
Speaker 3: really about being in the presence and like just trying
Speaker 3: to fulfill the task, which is to play music in
Speaker 3: high spirit and the touch people. And as long as
Speaker 3: I'm doing that, it's like it's cool. I could think I'm,
Speaker 3: you know, spar terrible, but I may and my friends
Speaker 3: say as long as we blessed people, as long as
Speaker 3: blessed people, we did our job.
Speaker 2: So joining me in studio right now is Corey Henry,
Speaker 2: multi time Grammy nominated artists. In fact, he's nominated this
Speaker 2: year the show. The broadcast telecasts will be this Sunday.
Speaker 2: He's nominated in the Roots Gospel Album category. I just
Speaker 2: call it traditional gospel, old time religion, you know, my
Speaker 2: favorite type of gospel music. So Corey Henry's gonna be
Speaker 2: hanging out with us in studio for a moment. Also
Speaker 2: on Grammy's Eve Saturday at the Sun Room in West
Speaker 2: Hollywood at eight thirty Pmry Henry and Friends, the Grammy
Speaker 2: Jam and Evening of Healing and Celebration through Music will
Speaker 2: be taking place. In fact, we will have a pair
Speaker 2: of tickets to give away later on this evening, but
Speaker 2: keep it right here. It's Later with Mo Kelly CAFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty. We are live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: And joining me in the studio is Corey Henry. He's
Speaker 2: up for a Grammy Award in the Roots Gospel Album category.
Speaker 2: That is going to be on Sunday, But Saturday ninth
Speaker 2: to night before on Grammy's Eve at the sun Rose
Speaker 2: in West Hollywood at eight thirty pm will be Corey
Speaker 2: Henry and friends, Grammy Jam and evening of healing and
Speaker 2: celebration through music. We'll be talking about that in just
Speaker 2: a moment. But Corey, let me come back to Brooklyn Native.
Speaker 2: Where did your professional career begin? Just playing in the church,
Speaker 2: and then there's the business of music where you go
Speaker 2: out and start creating your own musical history and legacy.
Speaker 4: I started, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, I guess you said the business of it maybe
Speaker 3: around sixteen seventeen. I started getting calls for gigs outside
Speaker 3: of church, and then I started going to a club
Speaker 3: called the Village Underground on West Third every Sunday night.
Speaker 4: I used to sneak in actually as a teenager.
Speaker 3: As a teenager, excuse me, they used to have a
Speaker 3: soul open mics or you know, actually used to even
Speaker 3: be called like a gospel open mics back in the
Speaker 3: day before it switched to like, you know, everything else whatever.
Speaker 3: It was one of the first places I saw an
Speaker 3: Oregon outside of the church, and it really interests me into,
Speaker 3: you know, wanting to be down there. And I got
Speaker 3: one of my first main gigs with Kenny Garrett, and
Speaker 3: I tour with Kenny Garrett for two three years. He
Speaker 3: came down there and saw me playing down there one
Speaker 3: day and just actually go with him. I tour with
Speaker 3: Kimbarell and so many people from that club. So around
Speaker 3: age is sixteen seventeen eight, teens started getting real and
Speaker 3: then I started taking gigs around the city and it
Speaker 3: was just.
Speaker 2: You know, any pushback from family because sometimes and I know, okay,
Speaker 2: you know where I was going with this, because there
Speaker 2: is a very closed environment about the church. You should
Speaker 2: only use your talents for the to uplift God, and
Speaker 2: out in the secular world is the devil that's the
Speaker 2: Devil's work, and we know the history of like a
Speaker 2: Ray Charles or Retha Franklin and how there was that
Speaker 2: push pull.
Speaker 4: So you're saying you had the same push pull.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it's amazing that you mentioned Ray Charles or
Speaker 3: Aretha Franklin. I think about them often, especially over the
Speaker 3: last fifteen years in terms of career and the road map,
Speaker 3: because there was two people that and Billy Preston and
Speaker 3: I include into this that like took their talents from
Speaker 3: the church and didn't really change much and like you know,
Speaker 3: went all the way with what they had and that
Speaker 3: inspired me and it still does inspire me. And yes,
Speaker 3: I got so much pushback from people in church pastors
Speaker 3: who I've played for my entire life. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: people who I've known since I was a kid. You know,
Speaker 3: people said to me to some of the craziest things,
Speaker 3: and I was just like, wow, that's wild, that's wild.
Speaker 3: But now it's you know, it's thirty years later, twenty
Speaker 3: years later, what it is, and uh, thank god. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm okay and I'm standing on my own two feet
Speaker 3: despite what some people have told me, which was really wild,
Speaker 3: you know to think about, you know, somebody's one thing.
Speaker 3: Somebody said, So I said, you ain't gonna be annoying
Speaker 3: it no more like God, think of the hand off you.
Speaker 4: I was like, what, Yeah, wild church folk can be
Speaker 4: very territorial.
Speaker 2: It's interesting you mentioned Billy Preston, who used to be
Speaker 2: the organist at my church when I was at Brooklyns.
Speaker 4: What be serious?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: Yes? What the why?
Speaker 2: Preston brookings A and me? This was early two thousands
Speaker 2: or so. Yes, wow, yes, to be to see him
Speaker 2: play on Matt Hammond B three up close where it
Speaker 2: was at Brooklyn's and me. I don't know if Amy
Speaker 2: was on loss In like fifty eighth Street, Yes, you were,
Speaker 2: you were still a child, but I can say.
Speaker 4: It was It was a it was a learning session,
Speaker 4: let me tell you.
Speaker 2: But I'm quite sure my list of luminaries that I've
Speaker 2: been around probably pales to yours very quickly. Who else
Speaker 2: have you had the privilege or pleasure to play with
Speaker 2: over the years? I just gave a short list, like
Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen, So are you posted recently with.
Speaker 4: Stevie Wonder and other people?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 4: Who else comes to mind of that list? Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, Well, Stevie Wonders like at the top of it.
Speaker 3: So that's one of the.
Speaker 4: Most people's Yeah, after that.
Speaker 3: It's like it's crazy, But uh, who else comes to
Speaker 3: the list off top? I'm still kind of hyped about Kanye.
Speaker 3: I worked on Donda's record. I'm still hyped about uh Rosalia.
Speaker 3: I won a Latin Grammy with Rosalia last year or
Speaker 3: the year before.
Speaker 2: Rather, did you see how I just slid that I
Speaker 2: want to Latin gress last year?
Speaker 4: Just what I caught it.
Speaker 3: It just love itIt just just love it. I'm excited
Speaker 3: about that. Let me think there's probably like two other
Speaker 3: people that I've imagined Dragons I made a record with them,
Speaker 3: and excited about that.
Speaker 4: Uh man.
Speaker 3: I've been making a lot of music over the last
Speaker 3: you know, five to seven years, ten years.
Speaker 4: Across a lot of genres.
Speaker 2: And I was talking about how you had these different
Speaker 2: nominations and traditionally musically different categories from progressive R and
Speaker 2: B and jazz and hip hop, and is it all
Speaker 2: just music in your head or do you actually have
Speaker 2: a partition in between.
Speaker 3: No, it's just music, you know. I just want to
Speaker 3: serve the music. And I'm so glad that I get
Speaker 3: calls from people in different you know, genres, different categories,
Speaker 3: different you know, types of music, and they just called
Speaker 3: me to do my thing, you know, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 3: how can I, you know, do my thing in this
Speaker 3: style of music and make it feel however they wanted
Speaker 3: to do or whatever I think it should. And they
Speaker 3: trust me to do that, And I think that's a
Speaker 3: huge blessing to be just.
Speaker 4: To just do that.
Speaker 2: Is there a day which goes by in which you
Speaker 2: do not touch the keys? Or is that a part
Speaker 2: of your daily regimen where I get up, I'm going
Speaker 2: to stretch, you know, I'm going to fix my breakfast,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to record some things for radio. In
Speaker 2: other words, there's not a day that goes by in
Speaker 2: which I'm not doing something as part of my craft.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Do you have days where like I just can't
Speaker 4: look at a keyboard today? Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Like Like as you said that, I was like, did
Speaker 3: I touch a keyboard today? I don't know, But I
Speaker 3: did touch two K today. So you know, that's kind
Speaker 3: of fight. That's kind of my day job.
Speaker 4: How many hours.
Speaker 3: As many as I listen, I'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 3: If I would have known that the game and industry
Speaker 3: would be like it, is I probably would have never
Speaker 3: been on tour. I would have never been on tour.
Speaker 3: But uh, but but no, there's definitely days where I
Speaker 3: go by uh and maybe play just you know, ten minutes,
Speaker 3: you know, instead of three hours.
Speaker 4: You know, do you.
Speaker 3: Practice or you just play? At this point mainly playing. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of practice. Like recently, I was
Speaker 3: trying to work on just independence, left hand independence and
Speaker 3: counter melodies, you know, and I was like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is fun. I got a piano in my house. I
Speaker 3: didn't really grow up with a piano. I grew up
Speaker 3: with an organ. I'm an organ by nature, by heart especial.
Speaker 2: People don't know if they haven't seen a ham in
Speaker 2: B three there are multi level keyboards.
Speaker 4: There's there's a pedal you play with your feet explaining
Speaker 4: that please Yeah.
Speaker 3: The ham and organ is what I would I would
Speaker 3: call the first synth and it works as like flying
Speaker 3: an airplane or something.
Speaker 4: There's about nine drawbars for a preset.
Speaker 3: That means there's a nine different sound uh sound pieces
Speaker 3: that can help you create a sound per preset, which
Speaker 3: in the presets on the left side of the organ,
Speaker 3: it has foot pedals, it has a volume pedal, it
Speaker 3: has a tremolo switch and the sound is controlled by
Speaker 3: something that's called the Leslie speaker. And let me think, yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's I want to say, it's probably the most
Speaker 3: soulful you know, instrument, you know, I've ever heard of,
Speaker 3: I ever heard.
Speaker 4: So Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had an organ, and I grew with an organ
Speaker 3: in my house and that was home base, especially playing
Speaker 3: in church because church had organs in it. But I
Speaker 3: didn't grow with a piano. And I got a piano
Speaker 3: about a year or so ago from somebody who gifted
Speaker 3: to me. It was a crazy thing, crazy story, but
Speaker 3: they gifted me this piano. And I've learned so much
Speaker 3: more music and about myself. Rather because I think that
Speaker 3: a piano makes you like honest, I feel like it's
Speaker 3: an honest instrument, and because I have to be honest
Speaker 3: on it, I've been like challenging myself in ways that
Speaker 3: I haven't done on the organ. It's still yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's fun. It's like, oh wow, let me see
Speaker 3: if my left hand can compete with my right hand,
Speaker 3: and do you know, you know, different rhythms and you know,
Speaker 3: support it differently, or solo with my left hand instead
Speaker 3: of solo with my right hand or you know, just
Speaker 3: trying different stuff on the piano soars.
Speaker 4: Later with mot Kelly.
Speaker 2: My guessing studio is Corey Henry as we talk about
Speaker 2: his Grammy nominated album Church. We'll have more with Corey
Speaker 2: Henry and your chance to get tickets to the sun
Speaker 2: Rose in West Hollywood on Saturday Night. It's Corey Henry
Speaker 2: and Friends, Grammy Jam and evening of healing and celebration
Speaker 2: through music.
Speaker 1: You're listening to. Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Kelly, We're live every Monday I Heart Radio app. I'm
Speaker 2: joining the studio by Corey Henry. Corey, did you recognize
Speaker 2: where that was that I pulled that from that music
Speaker 2: of yours?
Speaker 4: Yes? I did.
Speaker 3: It's when you say it was trum Well, I said,
Speaker 3: you can say you were playing.
Speaker 2: It was an informal jam at nom in twenty sixteen sixteen,
Speaker 2: and you and it said Nick Nixon just sat down
Speaker 2: at the keyboards.
Speaker 4: He was playing I'll say the piano keyboard. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: And you were playing what exactly, why would you describe
Speaker 2: the instrument? You were on an electric organ and you
Speaker 2: all just started jamming the beauty of the spontaneous creation
Speaker 2: of true musicians. And if there's a video, you can
Speaker 2: find it on YouTube. And all these music merchants as
Speaker 2: it were, were coming around and they started filming and
Speaker 2: looking at doing and on and to see that happen
Speaker 2: and tell me the story about how it organically took place. Oh,
Speaker 2: it sounds like there's a story behind the story.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, at that time, I was going now
Speaker 3: every year, and I was spending on some time looking
Speaker 3: at some new instruments, and we was on tour. Me
Speaker 3: and the Funk Apostles were on tour, so we were
Speaker 3: all together filming and making a new album around that time.
Speaker 3: The Art of Love album, I believe, was the record
Speaker 3: we was working on. And you know, me and sim Rat.
Speaker 3: Sim Rad is like my right hand man that as
Speaker 3: it comes down to keyboards, he's one of my favorite,
Speaker 3: if not my favorite keyboard player to play with. He
Speaker 3: plays on my band, the Funk Apostles, And one of
Speaker 3: the reasons why he's my favorite is because, like in
Speaker 3: the band on Churchy Charles, you know when you get down,
Speaker 3: he get down, and when you see him you want
Speaker 3: to know that he can get down and he get
Speaker 3: down but don't let the smooth taste for you, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So he'd be pulling out hymns
Speaker 3: and just going crazy. So we we we did that
Speaker 3: maybe once or twice that day. He pull out of
Speaker 3: him or I pull out of him and he'll play,
Speaker 3: I'll play. Uh. But we stopped at a booth and
Speaker 3: I remember us. I remember he was kind of like
Speaker 3: me and him be preaching back and forth to each other.
Speaker 3: So uh so I think he had said so I
Speaker 3: don't feel nowhere it started started playing, and I just
Speaker 3: remember cracking up, laughing, and you know, and and uh.
Speaker 3: And we do that in soundtrack pretty often, actually, you know,
Speaker 3: almost every day.
Speaker 4: So we were just doing something that is, you know,
Speaker 4: that was regular.
Speaker 3: To us and didn't realize that they would, you know,
Speaker 3: bless so many people, and for it to go as
Speaker 3: crazy as it did is.
Speaker 4: Uh years ago. Yeah, it is. It's a long time
Speaker 4: time is fly is winding up?
Speaker 2: Speaking of time coming up on Saturday, just two days
Speaker 2: from now, it's going to be Corey, Henry and friends.
Speaker 4: We're not going to tell you who the friends are.
Speaker 4: You just gonna have to show up.
Speaker 2: But well, actually you're gonna have to get these tickets
Speaker 2: because the show is sold out. Talking about the Grammy
Speaker 2: Jam and evening of healing and celebration through music. In fact,
Speaker 2: they'll be taking donations at the door for an Altadena
Speaker 2: family who was impacted by the fire. Tell me more
Speaker 2: about this event.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt like, you know, we are celebrating the
Speaker 3: Grammys and my nomination for my album, The Church Album,
Speaker 3: but it felt like just celebrating at this time is
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 4: It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just kind of crazy to just be celebrated
Speaker 3: and outside gallivant and just being outside while people are
Speaker 3: being affected and still affected by what's going on here
Speaker 3: in California. Yeah, so I wanted to bring some attention
Speaker 3: to it in a way that I felt is safe
Speaker 3: and okay and approved and really want to, you know,
Speaker 3: help as much as I can, and we felt like
Speaker 3: this was one way. We've also donated to a few charities,
Speaker 3: and you know, just want to continue to do what
Speaker 3: I just I just want to continue to do what
Speaker 3: I can to help whoever I can that's going through
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Give me a number between one and ten, please nine,
Speaker 2: All right, we're going to open up the phones. Call
Speaker 2: her number nine if you would like to go see
Speaker 2: Corey Henry and Friends at the sun Rose on Saturday
Speaker 2: at eight thirty pm. You and a guest give us
Speaker 2: a call call her number nine to see Corey Henry
Speaker 2: and Friends. Can I get you stay over one more
Speaker 2: seven and close out this hour on the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're here, man, all right, let's do this. Let's
Speaker 4: do it.
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Speaker 2: Kelly six, We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Did
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Speaker 4: Is that? No? Who is it? Mark Kipple?
Speaker 3: I was gonna say that take six, Yes it is.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it to be common, but yeah, yes, totally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, freend of the show. Known Mark for a long time.
Speaker 2: Interview takes six And when I started the show back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, he reached out and did those
Speaker 2: just because Wow, Yeah, that's so cool. I got some
Speaker 2: history in this bitness, man, that is so cool. Corey
Speaker 2: Henry joins me in studio. Grammy nominated and I know
Speaker 2: from the years I worked at the Grammys many many
Speaker 2: years ago. It can be a very long day, and
Speaker 2: it can be an un glamorous day, especially if you
Speaker 2: go to the non televised portion, which may start at
Speaker 2: four four thirty, and you can be sitting there. If
Speaker 2: you go to the televised version, which I expect you
Speaker 2: to go to as well, until after eight.
Speaker 4: Then you go to the parties. You gotta go to
Speaker 4: the parties.
Speaker 2: It's official Grammy party and every record label has their
Speaker 2: own individual parties.
Speaker 4: Do you still go to them? I have went to them, right,
Speaker 4: That's why I said, do you still?
Speaker 3: I don't know. We're gonna see. This year is gonna
Speaker 3: be different. My Grandmama's coming down. Oh h And I
Speaker 3: mean the party is wherever Doctor J goes. She is
Speaker 3: Grammy nominated as well, so you know, as much as
Speaker 3: she want to party, then our gool parties. We're gonna
Speaker 3: go to all the parties. But if she don't want
Speaker 3: a party, we're just gonna go get some food and
Speaker 3: hang out and do something chill. That is all right,
Speaker 3: It is all right, yeah yeah. Do you still get
Speaker 3: nervous at all?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, I do, yeah, yeah, whenever I am not prepared
Speaker 3: or don't know what the road map is going to
Speaker 3: be to a particular thing.
Speaker 4: It can be a little nerve wrecking, but.
Speaker 3: I try to overcome it with good thoughts and.
Speaker 2: Working out what's it like being in that Grammy environment
Speaker 2: coming up on Sunday. I know what it is, just
Speaker 2: in a professional capacity, but I was never sitting out
Speaker 2: there going to hear my name is one of the
Speaker 2: nominees in the various categories.
Speaker 4: What is that experience?
Speaker 3: Like? Oh, no, that's nerve wrecking. Uh, yeah, that part
Speaker 3: is nerve wrecking. Every year I've been nominated for the
Speaker 3: last four to five years, every time it gets to
Speaker 3: my category, I started getting almost an anxiety attack or something.
Speaker 3: It's like really weird and so much expectations on or
Speaker 3: wanting to win. My expectations be so high. Okay, so
Speaker 3: yeah it's out there. You're not one of those oh
Speaker 3: just happy to be nominated. You you want the statute?
Speaker 3: You have to grammar phone.
Speaker 4: Yes, I want to win. I didn't come. I didn't
Speaker 4: come this fall not to win. I want to win.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a little bit competitive side of me. But
Speaker 3: I'm actually really excited to be totally honest, no jokes,
Speaker 3: desire to just be in a number.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I am very happy to just be and honored to
Speaker 3: be considered amongst my peers and have my music recognized
Speaker 3: the way it has been. So that's you know, from
Speaker 3: the from my heart where it stands when I'm in
Speaker 3: these rooms and especially when it's coming up, but personally
Speaker 3: at the same time, at the core, I get really
Speaker 3: anxious and nervous and and and when I haven't won
Speaker 3: the last few years, it's like, oh man, I always
Speaker 3: have to bring myself back to reality because the people
Speaker 3: that I am quote unquote you know, losing to are
Speaker 3: my friends. And I've been on so many records, like
Speaker 3: like I lost a Lucky Day. I was like, I
Speaker 3: want his record, though it is I kind of won,
Speaker 3: Like it's okay, likes it's not the same, Yeah, it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's not a big deal, you know, Like it's okay.
Speaker 3: Michelle and Degello, that's my homie, Like, like I love
Speaker 3: these people, you know, I make music with these people.
Speaker 3: So it's really like, oh my lord, she's one of
Speaker 3: the greatest. So you know, it's like a blessing to
Speaker 3: be in this position to be able, you know, like
Speaker 3: I said, to be recognized and just to be in
Speaker 3: the number, to be recognized from my music.
Speaker 4: It means the world to me for.
Speaker 2: An off the wall question, but you may have a
Speaker 2: feeling about it recently or semi recently. Quincy Jones past,
Speaker 2: and I know that he had an impact and imprint
Speaker 2: on you.
Speaker 4: Who was he to you?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: I don't like Quincy Jones is because he was like
Speaker 3: like I can just say that he was like my
Speaker 3: uncle from far away, like like my big homie. You know,
Speaker 3: every time we was together there was you know, information
Speaker 3: that he passed down to dances to me, something he says,
Speaker 3: a joke or a he could get raw, very very
Speaker 3: very and but it's all like he's so much wisdom
Speaker 3: and it's so much you know, heart and passion and
Speaker 3: soul behind almost everything he does. And I've seen and
Speaker 3: witness and it's been a blessing to be connected to him,
Speaker 3: Uh it was. It's been a blessing to play in
Speaker 3: front of him numerous the times he's and work with him.
Speaker 3: You know, It's just I'm still really you know, sad
Speaker 3: about his passing and his legacy will live, you know,
Speaker 3: forever to all of us.
Speaker 2: He is Corey Henry. The new album the Grammy nominated
Speaker 2: album is Church. I'm just gonna let you know I'm
Speaker 2: pulling for him to win on Sunday for the Roots
Speaker 2: Gospel Album category. Also on Saturday, Corey, Henry and Friends
Speaker 2: and Evening of Healing and Celebration through Music his Grammy
Speaker 2: Jam Saturday, eight thirty pm at the sun Rose. And
Speaker 2: you know, I think I might be able to get
Speaker 2: a ticket so I can get there. If so, I
Speaker 2: will see you there on Saturday. Corey, you are welcome
Speaker 2: in the studio on this show at any time. It's
Speaker 2: been an honor and pleasure, and I'm pulling for you, brother.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. We thanks for having me on
Speaker 3: the show Man.
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