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Speaker 2: that virtuosity. When we last spoke to Corey Henry, he
Speaker 2: was a Grammy nominee in the category of Best Roots
Speaker 2: Gospel Album, and as we speak to him right now tonight,
Speaker 2: he is the Grammy Award winning artist thanks to his
Speaker 2: win back on February second for his album Church or
Speaker 2: as We Say Chuch. He also has a new single,
Speaker 2: we'll let you know about that, just in time for
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day, Let's Go Fall in Love. We'll listen to
Speaker 2: that just a moment, but it is available right now
Speaker 2: on Spotify. My brother, and I'll call you my friend now.
Speaker 2: I think we have talked enough in person. Corey Henry, congratulations,
Speaker 2: thanks for coming back in the studio.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Moll, thanks for having me Sam. I'm
Speaker 3: so glad to be back.
Speaker 2: I look when I saw when it finally hit the web,
Speaker 2: when you actually won your Grammy and you ran, I
Speaker 2: mean literally ran up.
Speaker 4: To the stage.
Speaker 5: Thank you to the Quarter Academy Recording Academy.
Speaker 3: Thank you God, Thank you God, Thank you God. That's
Speaker 3: all I can say. I was just rushing in here.
Speaker 3: I'm just so happy to be here. Thank you to
Speaker 3: all my peers.
Speaker 5: Thank you to everybody who helped me make the Church album,
Speaker 5: Raphael Sadik, Vischal Carton, Pearson r and p Key. The
Speaker 5: list goes on in so many songs, and it's been
Speaker 5: a blessing to me because it's my literally my life
Speaker 5: history on record. So and this is a testimony, testimony
Speaker 5: for me to tell everybody who knows me to follow
Speaker 5: God and to follow your dreams. Follow God, you direct
Speaker 5: your path. Thank you guys h for this award.
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 2: All you said on social media to God be the
Speaker 2: Grammy as a play on words, to God be the Glory.
Speaker 2: I understood that. I felt that. And there's another saya.
Speaker 2: They say, you may know my glory to tie together,
Speaker 2: but you may not know my story. And part of
Speaker 2: your story was you were going to retire, weren't you. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is That's been a lot. That's been a big
Speaker 2: talking point for me as of recent as of the
Speaker 2: recent years, and and the career has brought me much.
Speaker 5: Joy and much pain at that time and still you know,
Speaker 5: but winning brings a lot of joy now, it brings
Speaker 5: it brings it kind of full circle, makes it feels
Speaker 5: like all the hard work wasn't in vain.
Speaker 2: You know, you made it clear and not that you're
Speaker 2: not humble, but you were honest and you were transparent,
Speaker 2: saying basically, and I'm paraphrasing you, yes I want to win.
Speaker 2: Yes it's nice to be nominated, but yes I want
Speaker 2: to win. How nervous were you in the moments leading
Speaker 2: up to them saying your name? Honestly, I wasn't nervous
Speaker 2: at all this time around. Actually every other year that
Speaker 2: I've been nominated as a solo artist, when they are
Speaker 2: doing a name call, I get anxious and my heart
Speaker 2: start pounding, and I'm just like I start breathing, and
Speaker 2: you know, I hear them say my name, and then
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for them to call my name for the winner,
Speaker 2: and I just get like so like pressure. But this
Speaker 2: time was much different. My grandmama was with me, Big Mama,
Speaker 2: say said doctor J. Yeah, you know Grammy Award winning
Speaker 2: Doctor J. She was with me, My little sister, my
Speaker 2: little cousin was with me, My uncle was with me,
Speaker 2: which is a total difference than any other time that
Speaker 2: I spend in California.
Speaker 3: To have my family.
Speaker 5: So I felt like the stress or the pressure or
Speaker 5: the whatever it was that was happening that would normally
Speaker 5: lead up to this moment in which, you know, I've
Speaker 5: waited so long to you know, to live and get
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 3: Felt like it was just chill. It felt like we
Speaker 3: was getting ready for church.
Speaker 4: And put another way, maybe you let go and let God.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let go let God, you know, and just enjoy
Speaker 5: the time and enjoy to enjoy what's happening. Matter of fact,
Speaker 5: to be honest to the reason why I was running
Speaker 5: is because I just got in the room.
Speaker 4: That's what I heard.
Speaker 2: It's like you were literally running as they were announcing
Speaker 2: your category.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a traffic jam. Imagine that, you know
Speaker 5: in La Geez. There was somebody like some car crash
Speaker 5: and then we ran into another jam somewhere else. So
Speaker 5: it was just not normal, you know, just getting there.
Speaker 5: It was very unusual. I felt like the devil was
Speaker 5: trying to block men, but I made it anyway.
Speaker 2: I have followed your career for quite some time, but
Speaker 2: I know your career transcends genre. I know you as
Speaker 2: a gospel artist, you're a funk artist, you're a jazz artist.
Speaker 2: You already had a Latin Grammy. You had appeared on
Speaker 2: all music from hip hop to pop, as far as
Speaker 2: guest artists. In fact, your new single when I play
Speaker 2: that in a moment, available on Spotify right now, Let's
Speaker 2: Go Fall in Love. I would say it's probably one
Speaker 2: of the broadest musical selections I've heard you do in
Speaker 2: a musical genre sense. You can wear all the hats.
Speaker 2: But here's the question. How would you describe your music?
Speaker 5: Oh man, I described my music as soul music or
Speaker 5: better yet, future soul. I've been liking to call it
Speaker 5: future soul, know, but music that just touches the heart.
Speaker 5: I want all my music to touch the heart, to
Speaker 5: touch the emotions, to make you feel something. So soul
Speaker 5: music is what I would call it.
Speaker 2: When I was playing your bumper coming In, I didn't
Speaker 2: play the whole song, but it's from you were performing
Speaker 2: on BBC BBBC and it was your performing Billy gen
Speaker 2: a rendition of Billy Jean. And it's amazing to me
Speaker 2: how you seemingly are very comfortable in any musical environment.
Speaker 2: You're playing with a full orchestra, and also there were
Speaker 2: electronic instruments at someone obviously playing the guitar risks from
Speaker 2: Billy Jean. Is there anything that you haven't done in
Speaker 2: a musical sense that you would like to do or
Speaker 2: performance venue?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man, that's my job to ask those questions, which makes
Speaker 4: you pause and.
Speaker 3: Thinks yeah, I'm like, oh, I thought about that. I
Speaker 3: will say this.
Speaker 5: I over about two three weeks ago at NAM Convention,
Speaker 5: I started a new duo. You know, maybe I want
Speaker 5: to call it Yeah, And it's interesting because it happened
Speaker 5: from a jam session with my brother shout out to
Speaker 5: Shawan Andrews, and we've been playing music that sounds like
Speaker 5: something I wasn't even really trying to target before. And
Speaker 5: it sounds like and I never called it this. My
Speaker 5: other homie called it this. He said, it's like it
Speaker 5: sounds like you're doing adium jazz soul music medium, you know,
Speaker 5: DJ and I was like, Oh, that's interesting, you know
Speaker 5: that that's happening and that people were like that. We
Speaker 5: played it a few three about two or three times
Speaker 5: around now, and then it got me closer to what
Speaker 5: I wanted to do coming into this year I've been
Speaker 5: wanting to DJ.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't see you as a DJ, but I didn't
Speaker 4: know that.
Speaker 5: I got these ideas in which, you know, I'm a
Speaker 5: DJ and play some drums on the side or take
Speaker 5: a solo, you know, or the mogue or something like that.
Speaker 5: But I want to spend records and for a lot
Speaker 5: of reasons. But doing how I was doing it in
Speaker 5: a new duo, I was like, Oh, we could be
Speaker 5: in the DJ space, and I'm looking forward to making
Speaker 5: music that is like dancy, but I don't want to
Speaker 5: call it idiom, but like in that space.
Speaker 2: So you took one of my questions because I was
Speaker 2: going to ask you. When I encounter people who are driven,
Speaker 2: they're usually less concerned about what they've already done and
Speaker 2: more concerned about the next thing. Yes, you wanted to
Speaker 2: win a Grammy, but your mind is already probably beyond
Speaker 2: the Grammy. So is the DJing the next thing or
Speaker 2: just one of a bunch of next things.
Speaker 5: It is one of a bunch of things I think
Speaker 5: already coming into it.
Speaker 3: I was several projects.
Speaker 5: Of things I recorded, worked on and got to the
Speaker 5: finish line, and I want to get those things out,
Speaker 5: you know, much like this song, Like like this song,
Speaker 5: I worked on this song and nobody, you know, knew
Speaker 5: I was working on it. But I just have these songs,
Speaker 5: you know, just like ready and like ready to push
Speaker 5: play on and.
Speaker 4: Let me jump in there.
Speaker 2: I wonder and tell me if I'm wrong, but I
Speaker 2: think I'm right. Do you sometimes wake up in the
Speaker 2: middle of the night with a melody in your head?
Speaker 2: You just have to get it down before you forget
Speaker 2: about it? Absolutely absolutely, you know. As soon as it
Speaker 2: hits I'm like, oh man, I feel a tingle in
Speaker 2: my fingers, you know, And I'm like, oh man, let
Speaker 2: me go sit down and grab my phone. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of let me grab my phone. I'd be like,
Speaker 2: do you sing the melody or do you do you
Speaker 2: have like an app where you can like just play
Speaker 2: a melody?
Speaker 3: No, just singing it.
Speaker 5: Singing it is normally enough, and it's normally uh like
Speaker 5: really jumbled, you know, like I could be singing. I
Speaker 5: was like, I start saying chords like he flat through
Speaker 5: the Oh, you will.
Speaker 4: Go back to it, so it's not even a melody.
Speaker 2: It's a chord progression and you hear the parts already
Speaker 2: in your head.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, especially if I'm not around a piano,
Speaker 5: you know. And sometimes that's those are the best songs
Speaker 5: when I'm not around a piano, you know, And I'll
Speaker 5: just like just be in the car and then it
Speaker 5: hits me. I'm like, and I'll just start singing and thing,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh, this is a.
Speaker 4: Song, okay.
Speaker 2: But you hear the melody, the harmony, do you hear
Speaker 2: the backing vocals? Do you hear the full instrumentation or
Speaker 2: the just a melody in that moment?
Speaker 5: It depends, But normally I hear the whole song. It's
Speaker 5: like if I get an idea, or let's like and
Speaker 5: I say the whole song, but I hear all the
Speaker 5: parts in the song, Like if I get a chorus right, Normally,
Speaker 5: if I hear a melody in my head, I can
Speaker 5: hear the bass part to the melody, the chords to
Speaker 5: the melody, the drum part, you know, like all that's
Speaker 5: kind of playing along with it, you know. So the
Speaker 5: idea comes packaged normally, you know, if it's one part
Speaker 5: of a song or the entire song, it's normally packaged.
Speaker 5: And if it's not, then I'm like, all right, let
Speaker 5: me call and the homie the make some drums up
Speaker 5: to this or something like that.
Speaker 2: But the song is pretty much complete. You just haven't
Speaker 2: put it down as a full recording. Yes, that's what
Speaker 2: they call brilliance and genius. My goodness. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to get into his new song, Let's Go
Speaker 2: Fall in Love. I would call it a national debut,
Speaker 2: you know, world premiere if you like. Here on Later
Speaker 2: with Mo Kelly, Corey Henry in studio. Excuse me wait,
Speaker 2: let me be back up. Grammy Award winning Cory Henry,
Speaker 2: Wow sixty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2: Can't I mister Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: Happened I'm continue to be joined in the studio by
Speaker 2: Grammy Award winning artists Corey Henry and Corey let me
Speaker 2: pick up right there. It's one thing to win a Grammy.
Speaker 2: It's another thing to say I have a Latin Grammy
Speaker 2: and a Grammy.
Speaker 4: What is I would say.
Speaker 2: More impactful or more not more important, but touched you
Speaker 2: more emotionally.
Speaker 5: In terms of the Grammys, I guess this one does
Speaker 5: more emotionally, this one. It seems like my whole life
Speaker 5: is now made some type of sense personally, and there's
Speaker 5: so many reasons I can go forever talking about it.
Speaker 5: I think I was thinking often about how long I
Speaker 5: spent in church and how you know, many years and
Speaker 5: hours and like times and services and concerts and traveling
Speaker 5: and practicing and just it's just so much that win
Speaker 5: into that experience, and I used it for and I
Speaker 5: use it rather for all my music, no matter you know,
Speaker 5: like the genre yep. But to actually specifically go back
Speaker 5: and go go to the studio and remember and record
Speaker 5: the music that I grew up playing, and to win
Speaker 5: a Grammy for that is like it's kind of mind blowing,
Speaker 5: you know, like to get it from the thing that,
Speaker 5: like I started from.
Speaker 2: What I appreciate most about that album Church. It took
Speaker 2: me back to my early days in the church, the
Speaker 2: old time religion, the hymns, the things that we would
Speaker 2: sing in the church all the time. And I always
Speaker 2: go ballistic in a good way when I hear a
Speaker 2: Hammond B three, and I usually it's not necessarily promptly featured,
Speaker 2: but I can hear it in what you do. And
Speaker 2: before we get to your single, it reminded me you
Speaker 2: did this piece for doctor Henry Lewis Gates where you
Speaker 2: were playing on the Hammond B three and it almost
Speaker 2: brought tears to my eyes.
Speaker 3: I look at the gospel.
Speaker 4: That takes me back.
Speaker 2: When you sit down at the hand in these days,
Speaker 2: does it also take you back?
Speaker 4: Does it take you somewhere else sometime else?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, And especially when I'm playing songs like Amazing Grace.
Speaker 5: My mama taught me how to play that song. That's
Speaker 5: the first song I ever lost, I ever learned. And
Speaker 5: when I play any song that's like that, or songs
Speaker 5: that are from my childhood, you know, it makes me
Speaker 5: think about when I was a kid learning them and
Speaker 5: playing them in church, and it does bring me to
Speaker 5: tears very often. You know, it's right, very emotional. I'm
Speaker 5: very connected to these songs in a very deep way.
Speaker 5: And yeah, and it brings me back every time. You know,
Speaker 5: that was the beginning. But where you are now, you're
Speaker 5: the different point in your career. You're you're playing different music.
Speaker 5: I think it's now time.
Speaker 2: That we play a little bit of Let's Go Fall
Speaker 2: in Love, and it's perfect. It's in time for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: But before I play it, tell me about it. What
Speaker 2: inspired you?
Speaker 5: What is it about? This song is for the lovers.
Speaker 5: This song is for all the lovers out there. I think,
Speaker 5: I just I'm not even think. I just like love songs,
Speaker 5: you know, and I play love songs all the time.
Speaker 5: Some of my favorite songs are love songs from Al Green,
Speaker 5: Marvin Gaye.
Speaker 2: I was getting ready to ask you who's that feel
Speaker 2: for you, Bill Wethers and you know, Stevie Wonder and
Speaker 2: you know the list, go earth Win and Fire.
Speaker 3: Love songs are some of the greatest songs ever written.
Speaker 5: And and no matter what you know people feel about
Speaker 5: Valentine's Day, you know, this song is for the lovers,
Speaker 5: you know, so it's always a good time for the lovers.
Speaker 5: And I got with my boy. Shout out to my
Speaker 5: boy Charlie Burrell and Cheris Burrell for helping me put
Speaker 5: this one together. And I'm just excited that this song is,
Speaker 5: you know, beyond just being for the lovers, is a dance,
Speaker 5: feel good track, and you know, something that's.
Speaker 4: Very different from what I've heard from you.
Speaker 5: Very sure, for sure, there's definitely a left turn from
Speaker 5: all my other music.
Speaker 3: But I'm really happy about it, excited that it's out,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: And world premiere of Let's Go Fall in Love from
Speaker 2: Grammy Award winning artist Cory Henry available right now on Spotify.
Speaker 2: Let's Go Fall in Love from Grammy Award winning artist
Speaker 2: Corey Henry and Corey let me in our conversation with
Speaker 2: this question, and it kind of connects back to Let's Go.
Speaker 4: Fall in Love.
Speaker 2: I was not amazed or surprised that you won, because
Speaker 2: I know about your keyboard virtuosity, but you Jean Batist,
Speaker 2: who just performed the national anthem for the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and Alicia Keys were among the nominees in the annual
Speaker 2: Pianote Awards, honoring the top pianists and virtuosos in the world.
Speaker 2: What the Live Peanotes Awards will be broadcast next Thursday.
Speaker 4: What does it mean to be seen in that company
Speaker 4: or heard more?
Speaker 3: Actually?
Speaker 5: Oh, this is incredible, man, that's incredible to be just
Speaker 5: in the company's amazing players and amazing musicians, amazing people.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't even know that was happening. Yes,
Speaker 3: you got.
Speaker 2: So many awards and accolades. You're You're among the number
Speaker 2: you're you're in the member now. I'm just glad to
Speaker 2: be in the number one right one more time? God,
Speaker 2: And your cup is running over, running over. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: that's it's just it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I put out a piano album right like last year
Speaker 5: or something like that, and uh, and I've been devoting
Speaker 5: more time to the instrument. When I listened to John
Speaker 5: Baptiste play, you know, since you mentioned them specifically, and
Speaker 5: and all the time that I've spent with him, you know,
Speaker 5: working on music and things. When I hear him play,
Speaker 5: I'm inspired by the way he is trying to always
Speaker 5: like use the instrument like as a resource or a
Speaker 5: source of energy of like freshness, and like he's never
Speaker 5: being fake about, you know, playing the instrument. And I
Speaker 5: was like, I just always love that. And I got
Speaker 5: a piano in my house now, so I like practice
Speaker 5: every day and and I really put time. I grew
Speaker 5: up as an organ player, if I said that before,
Speaker 5: but I grew up as an organ player, so you know,
Speaker 5: the piano is a different world.
Speaker 4: It's a completely different instrument. I mean, it's their night
Speaker 4: and day.
Speaker 3: Night and day, night and day.
Speaker 5: And to be recognized, uh, for a piano is like,
Speaker 5: oh man, most of my favorite music is coming from
Speaker 5: the piano, you know, And almost every time I mentioned
Speaker 5: a favorite musician of mine is normally a piano player.
Speaker 5: So to be recognized in this honor is humbled and
Speaker 5: grateful and thank you.
Speaker 2: Very quickly before we close out, what's coming up next?
Speaker 2: Anything that you want to share? And of course how
Speaker 2: can people find you on social media if they haven't already?
Speaker 3: What's coming up next?
Speaker 5: I am gearing up to start the church fellowship.
Speaker 4: Church doors are now the church.
Speaker 3: The church.
Speaker 4: That's very specific.
Speaker 3: One is there one?
Speaker 4: We will be.
Speaker 5: Going up, oh man, once a month in LA and
Speaker 5: once a month in New York. Uh, there'll be more details.
Speaker 5: You could catch me on my Instagram or which is
Speaker 5: Corey Henry c O R Y Henry or X is
Speaker 5: the same thing Corey Underscore Henry. But yeah, you see
Speaker 5: some things that I'll be posting. And I got a
Speaker 5: lot more music happening. I've got a lot more releases happening, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. That's about it right now.
Speaker 2: I means you got a lot more appearances and times
Speaker 2: you got to stop by here, because anytime you got something,
Speaker 2: you got to stop by here Later, Mo Kelly, we
Speaker 2: would love to have you.
Speaker 3: I would so glad.
Speaker 5: I would be so glad to come back and and
Speaker 5: share all this new stuff that's going on.
Speaker 3: For sure, I.
Speaker 2: Will tell you, as I tell other friends of the show.
Speaker 2: Your success is our success, and we celebrate you and
Speaker 2: salute you. Congratulations Corey Henry on your Grammy Award for
Speaker 2: Best Roots Gospel Album.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, thank thank it over.
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