WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.280 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:05.879 KFI AM six forty. 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.320 It's Later if Poe Kelly, We're live everywhere on the 4 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:10.800 iHeartRadio app. And that's what you heard of the music 5 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:14.359 of Corey Henry, who is a multi time Grammy nominated artist, 6 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:17.559 this year in the Roots Gospel Album category for his 7 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:22.239 album Church, although he's also been nominated in Best Alternative Jazz, 8 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.600 Best Progressive R and B, and even Album of the 9 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:27.640 Year categories for his work. He has been a musical 10 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:31.120 prodigy his old life, starting piano and Hammond B three organ, 11 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.159 we'll tell you about that. From the age of two 12 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:37.119 years old, played the famed Apollo Theater at six years old. 13 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:39.799 You've heard his work with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to 14 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:43.560 Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, Michael McDonald and everyone in between. 15 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.520 But Saturday Night on Grammy's Eve at the Sun Room 16 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.439 in West Hollywood at eight thirty pm will be Corey 17 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.880 Henry and Friends Grammy Jam an evening of healing and 18 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.359 celebration through music. In fact, we have a pair of 19 00:00:57.399 --> 00:00:59.320 tickets we're gonna give away before the night is through. 20 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:04.159 But it's my honor, my pleasure, to Welcome to Later 21 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.319 with Mo Kelly none other than the Corey Henry, my 22 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:09.599 brother and new friend. 23 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.480 How are you this evening. I'm doing wonderful. Thanks for 24 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:16.120 having me on the show. Brooklyn Native. And as the 25 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:19.480 story goes, you were playing since two years old. In fact, 26 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.000 there are pictures of you playing as basically an infant. 27 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.799 Is it fair to say that music chose you? 28 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.000 You didn't choose music. 29 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:32.239 Absolutely, as long as I can remember, since my since 30 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:35.879 coming out of my mama's womb, I was just interested 31 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:39.879 in music in ways that seemed to annoy my family. 32 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:40.439 They said. 33 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:45.120 When I was a kid, I would sit on my 34 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:49.799 Auntie's lap and bang to the rhythm, you know, with spoons, 35 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.480 and you know, I sat in schools and used the pencils, 36 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:56.799 and you know, played the drums on the desk. And 37 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.079 all I know is music since I can remember, as 38 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.680 long as I can remember for sure. 39 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.519 Did you know or did someone point out to you 40 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:09.120 that you had a gift, something that was bestowed upon 41 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:11.199 you in the church we say you were anointed. 42 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.280 No, I knew and then and then I knew I 43 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.599 was annoying, okay, but but I knew it just it 44 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.159 was just always in me. I just I can't remember 45 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.759 a time where I wasn't thinking about music. 46 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:26.199 You know, Was there a particular piece for you which 47 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.840 transformed you or always touches you? Like, for example, whenever 48 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:31.680 I should be in church or in the church setting, 49 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.960 if someone's gonna come out and start singing, I won't complain. 50 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.719 I'm gonna lose it. I'm just gonna lose it. You're 51 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:41.280 gonna go crazy, that's right. Is there a song like 52 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:42.599 that for you? Oh? 53 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:47.000 Man? And a song it's a that's actually probably a 54 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:52.039 list of songs like that for me. Every time I 55 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.800 play Amazing Grace, it takes me under, you know, it's 56 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.120 like we heard coming in, like we heard coming in? 57 00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:58.520 Yeah? 58 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:00.680 That that that version of it Me and Grace is 59 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.439 different from any other version I've ever played because that's 60 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.599 the version my mama taught me at the age of 61 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:13.039 four or five years old. I often credit, you know, 62 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:17.560 my jazz people like Herbie Hancock and Chickarea for my 63 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:21.560 jazz influence. But when I started making this record, the 64 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:24.120 Church album, I was thinking about my mama's chords, and 65 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:28.080 she showed me these chords that's had fourths and diminished and. 66 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:30.319 Out of time. 67 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.680 Signatures and just like cool melodies that she took amazing 68 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.360 Grace and made in her own calypso kind of version 69 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:39.240 for me to play. 70 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.159 I understand when you say diminished chords, but we'll call 71 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.560 it like passing chords and what have you. But you're 72 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:49.319 four years old presumably at the time. Did it register 73 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:52.520 on that level or you just mimicking what she's showing you. 74 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.199 On a keyboard? Yeah, I'm just mimicking. I'm just mimicking. 75 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.120 I had no clue that I was doing cool chords 76 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:03.159 until fifteen year later. I was like, wait a minute, 77 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:06.080 my mama showed me these chords, and like she's my 78 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:14.120 she's my interest to jazz, you know, like she's how 79 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:16.319 I got into it, as well as gospel, but it's 80 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.000 specifically jazzed by taking a song like Amazing Grace and 81 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.959 jazzing it up and making it sound the way I 82 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.160 recorded it. Those are all her chords. Like I didn't 83 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:27.920 even like arrange more than her chords. 84 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.240 I know, playing in church because I played in church 85 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.160 I sung in church can be very intimidating because there's 86 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:39.120 a very educated and discriminating crowd. If you will, they 87 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:41.759 want you to play old time religion music as I 88 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:43.839 call it, the way they want to hear it, and 89 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:45.319 they can be very unforgiving. 90 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:49.000 Was that your experience coming up in the church kind 91 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:49.680 of Yeah. 92 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.879 I grew up in a church that was age older, 93 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:57.040 average age older, and they already knew what they wanted 94 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:59.839 to hear, and they didn't want no kids coming in there. Yes, 95 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.759 the worship service, So if I wanted to play, if 96 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.920 I wanted to be a part of it, I had 97 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.639 to learn the hymns and the devotional songs and the 98 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:13.519 songs that make the mothers move. And once I did that, 99 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:18.120 I was able to play more frequently, and church became 100 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:21.959 a full time job. But I'm so happy that I 101 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.879 learned what I learned through church because it literally set 102 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:26.560 up the musician and the man I am today. 103 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.560 I grew up in the church and I listened to 104 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.319 what they call church music and you know, sanctified music. 105 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.519 But it wasn't until I went to my mother's my 106 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.120 father's mother's house in Lynchburg, Virginia, down south, and most 107 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:39.720 of us. 108 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:41.839 Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been there. I've 109 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:43.399 been there, yeah yeah. 110 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.000 And if you listen to the stations, a lot of 111 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.560 more just gospel stations. And I heard this one song 112 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.319 and I'm this is nineteen eighty nine, so you're maybe 113 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.519 two years old or so. And it was precious memories 114 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:58.879 James Cleveland and Aretha Franklin. That completely changed me because 115 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.160 it was the first time music touched me. 116 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:03.399 When did it start touching you? 117 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:04.920 Man? 118 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.519 I should say the meanings and the words? Oh man, 119 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:11.800 how old were you? How old were you when you 120 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:12.360 said that happened? 121 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:14.519 I was about seventeen or eighteen when I started taking 122 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:19.079 it for myself. It started me. You know, my Christianity 123 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.040 meant something in my life. It wasn't like my parents' religion. 124 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:22.639 It was mine. 125 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:24.279 At that point, I. 126 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:28.240 Would probably say the same age maybe, if not before. 127 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.079 I know when I first started singing in church. When 128 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.279 I first started singing in church, I was really young. 129 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:37.079 I was probably like seven, eight, nine, ten somewhere around there. 130 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.240 And the first few times it was just like I 131 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:42.199 was just trying to get through a song. But I 132 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.839 never forgive, forget. After bout a year or two into that, 133 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.120 about I was about maybe eleven twelve, I sung a 134 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.120 song called thank You Lord and and uh, and I 135 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:52.639 was like, man, this is touching me. 136 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:59.800 You that one tag. That's the tag at the end. 137 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.439 But shout out to my godfather, Bishop Jeffrey White Brooklyn, 138 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.000 New York, who had wrote a song that had some 139 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.000 changes in the beginning of it and then concluded with 140 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:11.560 that refrain. 141 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.199 At the time, I just wanted to thank you. He 142 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:16.120 put a verse on it. 143 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:18.360 Well, when I think of the goodness and all He 144 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:22.319 done for me, every song across Hallelujah, I think God 145 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.040 was saving me and it goes through these changes. It's 146 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:29.399 really nice and just one to say thing, but do 147 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:31.920 do do don't boom boom bootoop. It was like all 148 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.399 like a big deal and the church has been pridey 149 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:39.199 eyes out does that movie. I know when I performed, 150 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:40.600 and I'm not a performer like you. I'm not trying 151 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:42.199 to quit myself too, but I know that there are 152 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:46.120 moments in service where you may think you're not reaching someone, 153 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.959 you're not touching someone. You know, the spirit's not moving, 154 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.319 you think, and then someone comes up afterwards and just said, 155 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:55.319 you touch me, you talk to me. 156 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.639 You know, you were ministering directly to me. Does that 157 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.399 happen often for you? Yeah? 158 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.759 Yeah, very often to this day happens And I'm very 159 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:10.240 touched by that because you just never know, you know, 160 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:12.160 and that's when you know it's not about you, and 161 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.759 you know it's not about you know, your feelings. It's 162 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.319 really about being in the presence and like just trying 163 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:21.240 to fulfill the task, which is to play music in 164 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:24.240 high spirit and the touch people. And as long as 165 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.480 I'm doing that, it's like it's cool. I could think I'm, 166 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:29.600 you know, spar terrible, but I may and my friends 167 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:31.680 say as long as we blessed people, as long as 168 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.039 blessed people, we did our job. 169 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.080 So joining me in studio right now is Corey Henry, 170 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:39.519 multi time Grammy nominated artists. In fact, he's nominated this 171 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.120 year the show. The broadcast telecasts will be this Sunday. 172 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.519 He's nominated in the Roots Gospel Album category. I just 173 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:49.240 call it traditional gospel, old time religion, you know, my 174 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:52.679 favorite type of gospel music. So Corey Henry's gonna be 175 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.279 hanging out with us in studio for a moment. Also 176 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.039 on Grammy's Eve Saturday at the Sun Room in West 177 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.919 Hollywood at eight thirty Pmry Henry and Friends, the Grammy 178 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.799 Jam and Evening of Healing and Celebration through Music will 179 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:06.600 be taking place. In fact, we will have a pair 180 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:08.840 of tickets to give away later on this evening, but 181 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.360 keep it right here. It's Later with Mo Kelly CAFI 182 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.000 AM six forty. We are live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 183 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:18.080 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 184 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:19.759 KFI AM six forty. 185 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.399 And joining me in the studio is Corey Henry. He's 186 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:26.360 up for a Grammy Award in the Roots Gospel Album category. 187 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:28.679 That is going to be on Sunday, But Saturday ninth 188 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.240 to night before on Grammy's Eve at the sun Rose 189 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:34.720 in West Hollywood at eight thirty pm will be Corey 190 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:38.480 Henry and friends, Grammy Jam and evening of healing and 191 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.320 celebration through music. We'll be talking about that in just 192 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:45.159 a moment. But Corey, let me come back to Brooklyn Native. 193 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.320 Where did your professional career begin? Just playing in the church, 194 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.559 and then there's the business of music where you go 195 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:59.720 out and start creating your own musical history and legacy. 196 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.200 I started, I. 197 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:04.039 Mean, I guess you said the business of it maybe 198 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.720 around sixteen seventeen. I started getting calls for gigs outside 199 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.679 of church, and then I started going to a club 200 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:15.159 called the Village Underground on West Third every Sunday night. 201 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.559 I used to sneak in actually as a teenager. 202 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:22.159 As a teenager, excuse me, they used to have a 203 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:27.080 soul open mics or you know, actually used to even 204 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:29.399 be called like a gospel open mics back in the 205 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.720 day before it switched to like, you know, everything else whatever. 206 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:35.279 It was one of the first places I saw an 207 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:37.919 Oregon outside of the church, and it really interests me into, 208 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.279 you know, wanting to be down there. And I got 209 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:44.919 one of my first main gigs with Kenny Garrett, and 210 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.960 I tour with Kenny Garrett for two three years. He 211 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:50.639 came down there and saw me playing down there one 212 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.200 day and just actually go with him. I tour with 213 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:58.440 Kimbarell and so many people from that club. So around 214 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.879 age is sixteen seventeen eight, teens started getting real and 215 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.960 then I started taking gigs around the city and it 216 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:04.360 was just. 217 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:09.360 You know, any pushback from family because sometimes and I know, okay, 218 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.759 you know where I was going with this, because there 219 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:14.720 is a very closed environment about the church. You should 220 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:18.879 only use your talents for the to uplift God, and 221 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:22.320 out in the secular world is the devil that's the 222 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.120 Devil's work, and we know the history of like a 223 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.879 Ray Charles or Retha Franklin and how there was that 224 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:27.559 push pull. 225 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.120 So you're saying you had the same push pull. 226 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:32.120 Absolutely, and it's amazing that you mentioned Ray Charles or 227 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:36.200 Aretha Franklin. I think about them often, especially over the 228 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:41.120 last fifteen years in terms of career and the road map, 229 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.759 because there was two people that and Billy Preston and 230 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:47.919 I include into this that like took their talents from 231 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.799 the church and didn't really change much and like you know, 232 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:54.639 went all the way with what they had and that 233 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.519 inspired me and it still does inspire me. And yes, 234 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:02.120 I got so much pushback from people in church pastors 235 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.720 who I've played for my entire life. Uh, you know, 236 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:07.799 people who I've known since I was a kid. You know, 237 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.200 people said to me to some of the craziest things, 238 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.639 and I was just like, wow, that's wild, that's wild. 239 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:17.159 But now it's you know, it's thirty years later, twenty 240 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.960 years later, what it is, and uh, thank god. You know, 241 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:22.759 I'm okay and I'm standing on my own two feet 242 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:27.320 despite what some people have told me, which was really wild, 243 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.320 you know to think about, you know, somebody's one thing. 244 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.120 Somebody said, So I said, you ain't gonna be annoying 245 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.759 it no more like God, think of the hand off you. 246 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.600 I was like, what, Yeah, wild church folk can be 247 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:39.360 very territorial. 248 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.480 It's interesting you mentioned Billy Preston, who used to be 249 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:44.600 the organist at my church when I was at Brooklyns. 250 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:45.519 What be serious? 251 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:45.799 What? 252 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:47.600 Yes? What the why? 253 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:51.960 Preston brookings A and me? This was early two thousands 254 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:55.240 or so. Yes, wow, yes, to be to see him 255 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:59.200 play on Matt Hammond B three up close where it 256 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:03.480 was at Brooklyn's and me. I don't know if Amy 257 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:07.399 was on loss In like fifty eighth Street, Yes, you were, 258 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.759 you were still a child, but I can say. 259 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.240 It was It was a it was a learning session, 260 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:13.840 let me tell you. 261 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:16.960 But I'm quite sure my list of luminaries that I've 262 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.120 been around probably pales to yours very quickly. Who else 263 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.039 have you had the privilege or pleasure to play with 264 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:25.639 over the years? I just gave a short list, like 265 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.000 Bruce Springsteen, So are you posted recently with. 266 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:29.240 Stevie Wonder and other people? 267 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:29.679 Who? 268 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:33.320 Who else comes to mind of that list? Oh? 269 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.200 Man, Well, Stevie Wonders like at the top of it. 270 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:35.919 So that's one of the. 271 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:39.559 Most people's Yeah, after that. 272 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:43.480 It's like it's crazy, But uh, who else comes to 273 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.720 the list off top? I'm still kind of hyped about Kanye. 274 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:55.600 I worked on Donda's record. I'm still hyped about uh Rosalia. 275 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.639 I won a Latin Grammy with Rosalia last year or 276 00:13:58.639 --> 00:13:59.120 the year before. 277 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:04.559 Rather, did you see how I just slid that I 278 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.159 want to Latin gress last year? 279 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.480 Just what I caught it. 280 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.799 It just love itIt just just love it. I'm excited 281 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:15.639 about that. Let me think there's probably like two other 282 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.679 people that I've imagined Dragons I made a record with them, 283 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:20.080 and excited about that. 284 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.000 Uh man. 285 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:24.759 I've been making a lot of music over the last 286 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.600 you know, five to seven years, ten years. 287 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:27.480 Across a lot of genres. 288 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:29.320 And I was talking about how you had these different 289 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:33.960 nominations and traditionally musically different categories from progressive R and 290 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:37.639 B and jazz and hip hop, and is it all 291 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:39.399 just music in your head or do you actually have 292 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:40.879 a partition in between. 293 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.080 No, it's just music, you know. I just want to 294 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:45.279 serve the music. And I'm so glad that I get 295 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:50.720 calls from people in different you know, genres, different categories, 296 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:53.600 different you know, types of music, and they just called 297 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:56.399 me to do my thing, you know, and I'm like, wow, 298 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.159 how can I, you know, do my thing in this 299 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.759 style of music and make it feel however they wanted 300 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.440 to do or whatever I think it should. And they 301 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.799 trust me to do that, And I think that's a 302 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.440 huge blessing to be just. 303 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:10.480 To just do that. 304 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:14.320 Is there a day which goes by in which you 305 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:18.480 do not touch the keys? Or is that a part 306 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:22.200 of your daily regimen where I get up, I'm going 307 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.720 to stretch, you know, I'm going to fix my breakfast, 308 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.919 and I'm going to record some things for radio. In 309 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:29.360 other words, there's not a day that goes by in 310 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.600 which I'm not doing something as part of my craft. 311 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.519 Yeah. Do you have days where like I just can't 312 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:36.759 look at a keyboard today? Yeah, it's crazy. 313 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:40.039 Like Like as you said that, I was like, did 314 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.919 I touch a keyboard today? I don't know, But I 315 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.279 did touch two K today. So you know, that's kind 316 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:51.480 of fight. That's kind of my day job. 317 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:52.639 How many hours. 318 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:59.519 As many as I listen, I'll tell you the truth. 319 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.440 If I would have known that the game and industry 320 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:04.039 would be like it, is I probably would have never 321 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.360 been on tour. I would have never been on tour. 322 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.240 But uh, but but no, there's definitely days where I 323 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.840 go by uh and maybe play just you know, ten minutes, 324 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.480 you know, instead of three hours. 325 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:19.200 You know, do you. 326 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:24.519 Practice or you just play? At this point mainly playing. Uh, 327 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.360 there's a little bit of practice. Like recently, I was 328 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:31.600 trying to work on just independence, left hand independence and 329 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:34.279 counter melodies, you know, and I was like, oh, this 330 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:36.440 is fun. I got a piano in my house. I 331 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.120 didn't really grow up with a piano. I grew up 332 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.360 with an organ. I'm an organ by nature, by heart especial. 333 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:43.720 People don't know if they haven't seen a ham in 334 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.799 B three there are multi level keyboards. 335 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.320 There's there's a pedal you play with your feet explaining 336 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:50.000 that please Yeah. 337 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.039 The ham and organ is what I would I would 338 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:58.480 call the first synth and it works as like flying 339 00:16:58.480 --> 00:16:59.320 an airplane or something. 340 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.679 There's about nine drawbars for a preset. 341 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:10.240 That means there's a nine different sound uh sound pieces 342 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:14.480 that can help you create a sound per preset, which 343 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.480 in the presets on the left side of the organ, 344 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:19.920 it has foot pedals, it has a volume pedal, it 345 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:23.680 has a tremolo switch and the sound is controlled by 346 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:32.759 something that's called the Leslie speaker. And let me think, yeah, 347 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:35.480 and it's I want to say, it's probably the most 348 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:39.000 soulful you know, instrument, you know, I've ever heard of, 349 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:40.559 I ever heard. 350 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:42.680 So Yeah. 351 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.240 I had an organ, and I grew with an organ 352 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.440 in my house and that was home base, especially playing 353 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.920 in church because church had organs in it. But I 354 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.519 didn't grow with a piano. And I got a piano 355 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:59.640 about a year or so ago from somebody who gifted 356 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.200 to me. It was a crazy thing, crazy story, but 357 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.279 they gifted me this piano. And I've learned so much 358 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.319 more music and about myself. Rather because I think that 359 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.799 a piano makes you like honest, I feel like it's 360 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:18.480 an honest instrument, and because I have to be honest 361 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:21.000 on it, I've been like challenging myself in ways that 362 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.079 I haven't done on the organ. It's still yeah, yeah, 363 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:27.079 and it's fun. It's like, oh wow, let me see 364 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.000 if my left hand can compete with my right hand, 365 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:33.119 and do you know, you know, different rhythms and you know, 366 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.160 support it differently, or solo with my left hand instead 367 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:38.720 of solo with my right hand or you know, just 368 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:42.720 trying different stuff on the piano soars. 369 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:43.640 Later with mot Kelly. 370 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:45.960 My guessing studio is Corey Henry as we talk about 371 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.680 his Grammy nominated album Church. We'll have more with Corey 372 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.640 Henry and your chance to get tickets to the sun 373 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.880 Rose in West Hollywood on Saturday Night. It's Corey Henry 374 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.119 and Friends, Grammy Jam and evening of healing and celebration 375 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:00.200 through music. 376 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:04.160 You're listening to. Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 377 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:10.839 KFI AM six forty. 378 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:12.079 Kelly, We're live every Monday I Heart Radio app. I'm 379 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:15.519 joining the studio by Corey Henry. Corey, did you recognize 380 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.079 where that was that I pulled that from that music 381 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:18.559 of yours? 382 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:20.279 Yes? I did. 383 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:23.640 It's when you say it was trum Well, I said, 384 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:24.960 you can say you were playing. 385 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:31.319 It was an informal jam at nom in twenty sixteen sixteen, 386 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:35.519 and you and it said Nick Nixon just sat down 387 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:36.440 at the keyboards. 388 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.480 He was playing I'll say the piano keyboard. Yeah, that's good. 389 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:43.160 And you were playing what exactly, why would you describe 390 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.839 the instrument? You were on an electric organ and you 391 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:51.839 all just started jamming the beauty of the spontaneous creation 392 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.480 of true musicians. And if there's a video, you can 393 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:58.880 find it on YouTube. And all these music merchants as 394 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.480 it were, were coming around and they started filming and 395 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:05.440 looking at doing and on and to see that happen 396 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:11.480 and tell me the story about how it organically took place. Oh, 397 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:13.960 it sounds like there's a story behind the story. 398 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:17.519 Well, you know, at that time, I was going now 399 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:22.359 every year, and I was spending on some time looking 400 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:28.319 at some new instruments, and we was on tour. Me 401 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:32.200