Indie Artist Music Hustle
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Indie Artist Music Hustle
The Misfit's Journey: How Lady Michelle Found Her Gospel Voice
Welcome to Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blonde Intelligence. I am your host, Ms. Roni, and I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire. What happens when you finally stop trying to fit in and embrace your true calling? Gospel artist Miss Lady Michelle's powerful testimony on this week's Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blonde Intelligence reveals the freedom that comes with authentic expression.
Michelle's debut album "Misfit" chronicles her journey from outsider to empowered artist who found her voice after surrendering to her true purpose. "The music that comes through me is God-breathed," she explains, describing how years of trying to conform to industry expectations gave way to divine inspiration once she embraced her authentic calling. The seven-track album, which serves as a soundtrack to her book "Nobody's Daughter," offers listeners an intimate glimpse into her transformation through struggles with rejection and belonging.
Throughout our conversation, Michelle shares profound wisdom about creative integrity, explaining her willingness to walk away from studio sessions when recordings don't match her vision. "Though I paid for studio time and I put money into making the song, if it ain't right I ain't putting it out," she insists. Her approach to social media emphasizes genuine connection over promotion, creating space for followers to understand the experiences behind her music. Perhaps most inspiring is Michelle's perspective on uniqueness: "Can't nobody beat you being you... They can try to emulate your style, but they'll never be you." Her journey reminds us that our greatest strength comes not from fitting in, but from embracing what makes us different.
Whether you're an independent artist seeking your authentic voice or someone struggling to find where you belong, this episode offers the spiritual rope of hope you've been searching for. Listen now on all streaming platforms and follow @BlondeIntelligence for more inspiring conversations with creators who are carving their own path.
Hello everyone, welcome to this week's Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blonde Intelligence. I'm your host, Ms Ronnie, where I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire. This week we have a very special guest. We have Ms Lady Michelle Say hello to everyone.
Speaker 2:Hello, how is everyone?
Speaker 1:I hope everyone is doing fine, but what we're going to do is we're going to let you take over and tell everyone a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:Well, I am Miss Lady Michelle. The album is Misfit and I hope you guys have had a chance to listen to it. I hope it has enriched and empowered someone to just connect with their inner selves and move forward.
Speaker 1:Okay, how long?
Speaker 2:And also, I hope I also have a book Nobody's Daughter that is out. It's a nobody's daughter defeating dysfunction, and the album Misfit is actually the soundtrack to the book. Okay, it just speaks. It's about my life's journey and everything that I've been through and everything that I made it through, and I just had to write a song about it and a book. Okay, because life has been like that with me.
Speaker 1:Okay so tell me how long have you been in the music industry?
Speaker 2:Well, I am a new contemporary gospel artist and I am entering in. This is my first year. This is my first debut release. I am currently working on another album right now as we speak, so I'm in it to win it.
Speaker 1:I'm here to stay is as long as I can, okay so tell me what made you decide to be a contemporary gospel artist rather than an r&b artist well, because you know I I really sing from my heart and everything you know I sing through my as God channels it to me.
Speaker 2:R&b is more. You know I do have love ballads in me, but it's just. I have to do the gospel because everything that I've been through I know God has brought me through it and I want everybody to feel that energy and feel that passion, because he is the one that instilled it in me, my God, and you know I made it through what I made it through because of him. So I got to sing about that. I got to sing about what matters to me, because you're not going to feel me if I'm doing somebody else. So I got to do me, okay.
Speaker 1:So who are some of your more I would say, inspirational influences that made you develop your style of gospel?
Speaker 2:well, I love um, I love Lecrae um. You know, you know a lot of the great artists out there, but, like Ty, Tribbett, tell me a little bit about your album well, um, it's got seven songs on there.
Speaker 2:That is really I'm very passionate about. Um. It speaks of, like the prayers of my heart. You know, my life experiences. It's like I just channeled everything that I've been through and put it in my album. And the title Misfit is basically who I used to be and how I came to be who I am now. It's because I didn't fit in with everybody, but I appreciate it and I'm glad I didn't fit, because if I would have fit in with everybody then I wouldn't have found who I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 1:Okay, I know we were talking earlier and I don't know if we got it or not, but I want you to tell everybody again what made you choose gospel over R&B.
Speaker 2:Because the music that comes through me is God-breathed. The music that comes through me is God breathed. I didn't have anybody to collab with me. Uh, help me write songs. I would just sit and things will pour out of me and I know the one that created me, put them in me and, like I used to rap back in the day during, uh, salt and pepper days.
Speaker 1:And but.
Speaker 2:But he never would let me come out in that format. But when I was willing to give him my talent and tell him to have his way, that's when I found my sound, because back then I was trying to sound like other people or what I thought the world wanted me to sound like. But now I sound like me.
Speaker 1:Like me or love me or leave me alone me, like me or love me or leave me alone. Well, I like that answer and I remember you know from us talking earlier that you were saying that you had always been musically inclined and that the music was always in you, but you never let it out. And I was asking you was it because of COVID or no during that time, or whatever? But do you think that it might just being what you had said? God had another calling for you and that was just not the way that he wanted you to go. I mean, how do you feel about it?
Speaker 2:I really feel like how the industry is and me really not having nobody to mentor me and really have my back and help me. He didn't want me in certain circles. He wanted to cultivate me, teach me and say learn of me, learn who I am, discover who I am, get some maturity. You know, it's the reason the industry likes to get people when they still got milk on their breath, because they can. They're vulnerable and easily take an advantage of, and I didn't want to be that person, you know. I just want to learn and know what I'm doing and what I'm getting into.
Speaker 1:Now tell me again. I know you told me on your album it's called Misfit and that you have seven tracks on there what track do you have the strongest emotional tie to and tell me why.
Speaker 2:Strongest emotional tie to and tell me why souls plea, souls, plea one and two is like a prayer from within me, is the crying out of my soul that I need to discover what it is. Lord, show me what it is I need to see. Be who you created me to be and give me the tools and courage to be me, whether people love me or support me or choose to have my back or not. He said what would you do if nobody loved you? And my music is that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that leads me into this next question question, because I know we talked about that too. Um, I feel, kind of feel like it's tied into what you just said about that song, but do you feel like your biggest supporters are people that you know or strangers? And if it's people you know or strangers, how do you feel or what do you feel is the biggest way to show your support?
Speaker 2:well, I definitely feel I got more support from strangers outside of my immediate, immediate and when I say immediate, my household, family or my spiritual family. But that's why I thank God for the technology, because he's taken me to a broader audience and I feel like I have reached more people. But definitely out of my uh, over a thousand followers and stuff on Spotify is basically most of those people I don't know from a can of paint, but they follow. So yes.
Speaker 1:So tell me this what is the most enjoyable thing, besides giving praises to God that you enjoy about singing gospel music?
Speaker 2:It's freeing. It's freeing. It allows you to get in contact with the core of who you are, your very essence, your being, you know, created by the one that created you, created by the one reason why you got breath in your body, you know. So it's just something special about that, because I can write some words on a piece of paper and they can be meaningless, but when he speaks through me, it's for a purpose and a reason and for certain people, and it's to help somebody going through something that they're in and they don't understand, and it's that rope of hope. Just come on.
Speaker 1:So if a person was going through something I would say tragic right now, of the seven songs that you have on there, what song would you recommend to somebody to get them through that hard time?
Speaker 2:One is misfit, because misfit is more like a ballot. Misfit speaks to that person's feeling abandoned, rejected, not supported, not loved. That's like the core of who Misfit is. You know, I go over here and I don't fit. And it could be with your family. I go over here and I don't fit. It could be with your friends. I go over here and I don't fit. It could be on your job. Everywhere I went I didn't fit. But then Misfit found her belonging. So it lets you know that it is hope, because you may go all these places and not find where you fit, but when you discover who you are and decide to walk in that in your truth you find where you belong.
Speaker 1:And that is what's so freeing and that's what can really help pull somebody out like, oh, there is a place for misfits, I do fit, it's okay to be me so tell me this how do you deal with having a vision in your mind of how you want a certain piece of work to come out and you're working with a producer and it's not coming out the way it is in your head. What strategies do you use to get that perfect piece of composition out the way that you envisioned it up here?
Speaker 2:Step away from it. Step away from it because I it's a song I just recorded right now and either I or my daughter don't hear what we know like she had made the statement that's not how God gave it to you. And it's funny she said it because when I heard it I said that's not how God gave it to me. And though I paid for studio time and I put money into making the song, if it ain't right I ain't putting it out. So if I got to go spend some more money to go back in and do it again, then that's what I'm going to do in and do it again. Then that's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1:So when it gets to that point, I'm going to do it and it doesn't matter what it costs. I'm not putting it out until it's right. Well, I thank you for coming and I want you to tell everybody. Um, but before we do that, I want to talk a little bit about social media. So tell me, how have you been utilizing social media since COVID?
Speaker 2:well, I make reels, I make videos, I speak my truth, how I feel. When I feel it, I put my music on there. It's not like I don't put the whole song, like I might upload a reel with me singing like 30 seconds of one of my songs. When I record it and I'm hype and I'm with it and I be in my car, I be at the park and I'm just going in and I'm with it and I'll be in my car, I'll be at the park and I'm just going in and I'm singing it with the passion and how it was given to me. And you know I get a lot of views and you know a lot of people inboxing me like oh, whoa, whoa, and a lot of them ask some of the same questions you're asking me right now and I interact some of the same questions you're asking me right now and I interact. I interact with the one, my followers, and you know if they put something in the comments and they ask something, I'll make a video and tell, I might speak on it. Like I pick things out of my inbox and like someone has a question like what inspired that song? What was you going through when you wrote that? I'll make a little short video of just what I was going through when I wrote that.
Speaker 2:What was coming against me at that moment when I wrote that, like there's a song called Egregious and a lot of people don't really know what that song means, and a lot of people don't really know what that song means, but the definition of the song, it's a word that I was called why?
Speaker 2:Because I'm not, I'm unorthodox, and they called me that because I wasn't conforming to what they thought I should be or how I should be, and so and the song speaks, it's not about what they call you. You're like, no, I can't be that name you call me, but I am going to be me in spite of that name you call me, am going to be me in spite of that name you call me. You did not stop me from my truth. You cannot stop my truth, you know, and that how many people in the world have been called something that they're? Not? Everybody, everybody, including the one that you know. They talked about Jesus. So, hey, you know, it's just letting the world know you don't have to be what they call. You Be who you are in spite of what they call you.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I have another question for you.
Speaker 1:This is kind of off the subject, kind of on the subject kind of like, because you know, everything affects one thing in a chain reaction. With the way things are with inflation right now, how do you think inflation is going to affect the music business?
Speaker 2:The music business Mm-hmm. Well, what I have learned is that people are gonna die spending money and they're gonna always buy what they want. And music is how a lot of people deal with not only the problems of inflation and the financial burdens that it caused, but music is an escape from the mundanity of life. Whether it's R&B, whether it's gospel, whether it's rock, all music speaks to an issue and a problem, and it speaks to a specific group of people and what they may be dealing with at that time. So music ain't going nowhere. Music gonna go to the ends of the earth, baby, and it don't matter how much it costs. People gonna listen because no matter what they're going through, they gonna hear something. You could be driving in your car and going through something, and that song come on the radio. That just put you in a whole different mode. So music ain't going nowhere. I think it's one of the sure things, because when people going through hell, or whether they hurting, or whether they happy, they want to hear a song that collaborate with that.
Speaker 1:Well, I thank you for coming and I want you to give any last words, last advice, experience that you would like to share with anybody. Give us any last words for Miss, lady, michelle.
Speaker 2:Well, I want people to feel me, listen to me. If you ever want to get to know me, it's to listen to me. Hear me, hear the passion in me and I promise you you'll be one step closer to knowing me. And just pace yourself and at the end of the day, I don't care what's going on up, down or through in your life. Be who you were created to be, not who people want to make you to be. You got to be true to you and what I have learned can't nobody beat you being you baby Right when you decide to be you. You ain't got no competition. Ain't nobody got them same fingerprints you got. They don't have that voice pattern, they don't have that style. They can try to emulate your style, but they'll never be you. It will never be another. You, you it. So there is no competition. So walk in that Period, that's it.
Speaker 1:I want you to tell everybody again the name of your album where they can find it at in your social media handle.
Speaker 2:The name of the album is Misfit. You can find me on all streaming platforms amazon, spotify. My spotify opera artist page is ms lady michelle, that's spelled mz lady michelle. I also have a book entitled nobody's daughter, which is basically have a book entitled Nobody's Daughter, which is basically. Misfit is like the soundtrack to that book. So when you read it or you listen to my musical, you want to do both at the same time. Know that I might know what you're going through, and if I don't, god does, and that's it and that's all.
Speaker 1:Well, like she said, are you welcome? Like she said, you can find her music. It's called Misfit. You can find it on all streaming platforms and you can follow her on Facebook at Miss Lady Michelle. You can find us on all streaming platforms for the podcast, the seven social media platforms for the live stream. Remember to like, share and subscribe and see you next week. Bye, bye.