LMS: RGV Got Talent: Episode 9 - Khris

WE ARE BACK!!!!!! Los Mariachi Sagas is coming back with a brand new format new city and new people. We are finishing the RGV for talent series this week and season 4 officially launches next week. 

This is Khris one of the most talented singers a I have ever met in my life. Khris was a top 5 finalists in season 1 of RGT and local RGV signing legend. Please listen to the songs sung in this episode. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Chris. Just Chris, right with a K.

SPEAKER_03 0:02

Yeah. Chris Abrion.

SPEAKER_00 0:04

Chris Abrion. That your that's your musical name?

SPEAKER_03 0:07

That's my mag yeah, that's my musical name.

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Uh Chris. Chris is a very, very talented singer.

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Um I remember your your audition.

SPEAKER_03 0:19

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

You sang the Sam Smith.

SPEAKER_03 0:22

Yeah, I'm not the only one by Sam Smith.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Yeah. And you were just doing riffs on riffs and riffs and I always do that to my safety net, I guess. But um when I heard when I heard that, I was like, that sounds better than the recording.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

I was like, how how would you how did you do that? What what is but you know what we'll get into that later, but how did you hear about the show? Uh RGB Gottel.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

My friend Jay Sow, he told me about it. And he encouraged me to do it, and then he didn't any he even end up doing it himself. I don't know, but um I yeah, he's the one who told me about it, and uh I went in and auditioned. I didn't know anybody there, obviously, but um yeah, just I just found out from a friend from my bestie over here.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

Oh, and then they ended up not even doing uh doing the show.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Yeah, he didn't sing, he does sing really well, really well. And dances too. What just some stage fight or what? No, he just he just didn't do it because he got he got held up. He got held up.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

We know what that means. So you like just amazing judges, right? You're just you're in. They're like um just surprised by um so you go up on stage, right, and then no one expects to hear that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 1:51

Yeah, that's that's that's my thing, that's my um favorite thing is to go up on stage and people don't think that you're able to sing or you're able to do anything and then just go up there and then show them wrong. I remember when I walked in there, I didn't obviously like I said, I didn't know anybody. And then I saw the judges that were sitting there, uh didn't know them, obviously, and then thinking that like, oh my god, like one, I remember who was it? I think it was Mirka, Mirka, one of the judges on the panel. She always she always has this uh intense, intense aura about her. She's just very intense and she's beautiful, and she has that face of just like I'm a boss, you know, I'm a I'm a g I'm a boss. So when I saw her, I was a little intimidated. She intimidated me, intimidated me like a lot, a lot. So I remember walking in there and just feeling really nervous about like the judges and everything. Um I mean, obviously, I go in there with a little with a little bit of confidence as well that I'm able to do it, but there's always just that like what if like nobody vibes with my sound or how my voice is.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Yeah. Uh if Mirka, I I knew Mirka before the show. She was actually on the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 3:05

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Um just coincidentally, I kind of came across her because she she was on Tengo Talento.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

And um just she was uh I don't know how I honestly I came across her just somebody that I knew, I guess followed her or something, and and I just invited her on the show one day. It was very random. This is like fall of 20 uh 2021. And then I I see flyers and she's sharing stuff about the show, and then she's a judge.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

So I I went and yeah, so I I kind of just went to her. I was like, hey, could I still audition and stuff? She's like, Yeah, just sign this paper.

SPEAKER_03 3:42

Well, yeah, well, I mean, when I saw her and I heard about her, and I um I looked her up too because she's one of the judges, and I wanted to see who was this beautiful girl. She has a phenomenal voice, like powerhouse voice. Like, in my personal opinion, she could be the Latina Adele. Like, she has that power to her voice and that presence. I I I love her, she's amazing, and she's an amazing person too.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

So, no, yeah, she um okay, that sounds better. Right.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

No, it did sound a lot better.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

So, yeah, I still learning how to use this. I just realized the mistake that I had. Um, let's start over. No, I'm just kidding. Uh so uh so you you you make you do go the audience, right? You make it through. Then the first week was supposed to be um kind of an elimination uh thing.

SPEAKER_03 4:34

Yeah, supposed to be.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

But people dropped out.

SPEAKER_03 4:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

And I was one of the first four out, right?

SPEAKER_03 4:38

So then we just kind of all But you didn't you didn't get eliminated the first the first actual round though.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

No, but uh what I mean is I wasn't originally in the the cast. I was one of the four that had to like fight for the last two spots or something. But we um so I made it through, and so it became kind of just a showcase was the first week.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

Yeah. Do you remember what you did? I don't actually. I honestly the first couple of challenges, it was a it was such a blur. Like, I don't even know what the what the challenge was.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

Like the first the first one was just um seeing anything, right? Well, something that represents you or something about yourself, like uh this is who I am.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

I think so, yeah. I can I'm blinking about what song I did. I didn't no, I don't because I remember Eli won that week. He did, he did, but I don't remember what I did. You don't remember no, I think I do remember what I did. Didn't I do creep?

SPEAKER_00 5:37

No, that was rock week. That was gonna talk about that.

SPEAKER_03 5:40

Not me jumping all over the place. No, yeah, I don't know what I did. You don't remember. I I remember I did okay. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Well, we're gonna go through it. Okay, but uh so anyways, uh nobody got eliminated that week. It was just kind of people got to know each other. It was uh I know what I did.

SPEAKER_03 5:56

Oh, you're right killing me softly.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Oh, you did killing me.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

I did killing me softly. I didn't no, yes, I did. Yes, I did, yes I did.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

Yes, you did. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

Killing me softly.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

I tried to look for the video on Facebook, but it pinbelt there.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

There was a yeah, I think it was Killing Me Softly. There was a challenge because I know I did uh something for the ballad and it was not killing me softly, and I remember I did an acoustic version of Killing Me Softly. It was it was a shorter version because that song when the Fuji's do it, it's a lot longer and it's a lot more elongated, and it was more than the time that the slot they have us do. So I remember I did like a smaller, uh, a shorter version, a version version, wow, version of it. Um, I think that was the that was the one I did.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Yeah. I don't honestly so I left early that that day, and that's where Jen's got all mad because a lot of people left early. Um, but anyway, I don't know. I was with my nieces, and so the next week you did creep. It was rock, that was the first actual challenge, yeah. And so that that's where I did chasing cars, uh snow patrol. Oh, I love that song. Uh and so I remember you went up there, right? You're doing creep, you karaoke comes, and then comes the most iconic part of the whole song. I already know you're gonna say, and then you did, and then nothing.

SPEAKER_03 7:14

Because you want to know why. What happened? I was sick. I was sick. I um I literally I had been very anxious about that performance because of my my throat wasn't when I started this competition. I was already feeling like the um the bipolarness of like my immune system happening. Like there was one week where I would be good, and then be an another by the end of the week, I'd start feeling like my my voice scratchy, that I would, that I strained too much. So I remember I I had gotten sick and I was like recovering. Um, and then I I did good the first part, I remember, but once it came to that last note, I sang, I literally pushed it out, and no sound came out. Like that's how gone my voice was. And uh yeah, and then I remember the judges talking about it, yeah, and I would they were just like, I wish you just would have done more and this and that. And I was like, I literally couldn't, there was no sound produced coming out of like I could there was nothing, like no matter how hard I pushed, no matter what I did, no sound came up, my voice got so dry. And um yeah, I I I could have done done so great without that song, but yeah, with that one part, like I remember it was art through that song, like my voice was already getting dry and I could feel it. And then just that one note, that one note took me out. Well, it's kind of the main note, yes, yes, but it was like the hardest note in the whole song.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

I mean, it it's just uh it's an A. You can hit an A. But I was sick, like was regardless uh just based uh solely that you're sick? Were you nervous?

SPEAKER_03 9:00

No, I wasn't nervous. Here's the thing about it like I'm I I get nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm on stage, I'm good.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

And you you couldn't even get a falsetto out or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 9:10

Because I went I went for the full belt. I went for the full belt and nothing came out. Yeah, it was not nerves because you the nerves that happen with me are before I go and perform. Because before I go on, I'm just like, okay, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. Um, I hope I hit that note, or I hope I do that. It's it's just that, you know. But once I'm singing, I'm singing and I don't get nervous anymore. Like it just goes away. So okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Well, you I mean, you still, I mean, you did the the rest of the song is great, right? You you weren't in the bottom, um, you moved on.

SPEAKER_03 9:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

To to the next week. And the next week was um if I remember correctly something you're proud to be. Uh yeah. Shanti and I did Viva Mexico. Oh, we had that.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Oh, you had that was the battle, right?

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Yeah, between us and you.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

Oh, I know what I did, right? I think I know what I did.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

Sure. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

You don't know what I did. I should have I should have researched on that.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

So that one it wasn't on the face Facebook videos. It wasn't. Yeah, they didn't go live on that one. I tried to look it up.

SPEAKER_03 10:26

Who you are? I think I did Who You Are by Jesse J. Or that was maybe a different week. Um I did I did a song, Who You Are by Jesse J.

unknown 10:34

No, what did I do?

SPEAKER_03 10:36

Oh my god. Anybody gonna help me out here? Nobody knows? I don't even know. I'm just joking.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

Uh uh when we did Who You Proud uh Proud to Be.

SPEAKER_03 10:45

Proud to be. It had to have been Who You Are but it's TJ, because it's that song talks about don't lose who you are and the blur of the stars. Like it just talks about I it has to be that one. If not, then I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Well that that week, um I mean again, you you did fine, right? Moved on.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

There was a week I I made it in the top. Because they would have they would pick nights where one person would be the top in the challenges.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:14

But I don't think it I think it was that night.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

You well you didn't win that night because so I remember you won Unplugged.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

Unplugged was who you were, I think.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

Unplugged is who you are because you had immunity during uh battle round.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Yeah. And I and I performed with Linda, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Yeah. Yeah. So then Unplugged is when you did the Who You Are Who You Are Okay. Because that's the one.

SPEAKER_03 11:44

It was literally last year. I can't I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

I know, that's why I tried to get you six months ago.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

Uh well, I'm sorry, my schedule wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

Starbucks is busy.

SPEAKER_03 11:53

I live in Heart Engine, dude.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

I told you I'll go to Heart Engine. You're like, no, it's okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

Well, I don't have a place.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Let's do it on the street. Right, that's true. Well, anyways, uh, you won Unplugged, and then the next week you had um uh immunity.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

So you just did that that do it with Belinda you're just which was which oh my god, it was like given to us, and me and Belinda didn't practice, like we couldn't practice. We did uh Like I'm gonna lose you by Megan Chainer and John Legend. I remember that one very well. Um and we as soon as the day came, I drove all the way to McCallan and uh she got there. We got we tried to get there a little early, and we were in my car practicing because we had not practiced with each other. It was just chaotic, really chaotic. Because I don't know. I was just it was just really bad. Love Belinda, love her. We just we didn't have enough, we didn't have time, we didn't like we were we practiced our own parts by ourselves and that was it.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Well, um you're just kind of just chilling that night where you you did the performance and then just enjoyed the rest of the show. Uh then came it was um people that have passed. Oh yeah. Um there had to be some artists that had passed away. Remember what it was?

SPEAKER_03 13:25

I think I did Aretha. Yeah, I didn't know I did I I did I do I didn't do natural woman, did I? No. I think I didn't I think I did Aretha, I don't know. Aretha? I think it was Aretha. It had to have been Aretha. Yeah, it was Aretha. I remember because I was stressing so hard about that one.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Yeah, um no, because that one they that that's when they went for like two weeks without going live because they wanted people to go like in person, and then eventually they started doing lives again. So yeah, I couldn't find that one either. But um, country week, country night. You did uh battle.

SPEAKER_03 14:23

Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

So you did Tennessee whiskey.

SPEAKER_03 14:28

We both did.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Yeah. How'd that go?

SPEAKER_03 14:32

That's my song. That's my song.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

I like how anybody says you had it, it's too easy.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

Um, and uh that was a thing, though, too. Like, we had to do battle week, okay. And then I don't I don't listen to country on on like the regular. I don't, I really don't. There are some songs that I listen to, but like like I really just don't listen to country. It's not my genre, uh, like I choose to listen to on the daily or practice singing, like it's just not. So I remember it was like a no-brainer. I was gonna I was gonna do Tennessee Whiskey. That's my s I literally love that song. I do that song all the time at karaoke nights everywhere I go because it's just I love it. And um I remember when we did the the challenge and I did it and everything was done, like me and Idom both performed, and I remember they're giving me the feedback and they're like, I feel like you just played it safe. I was like, first of all, Tennessee whiskey is not like an easy song to do. Like when you're trying to, when you're trying to portray that soulfulness, like it's just and the emotion behind it too, it's it's not an easy song, you know? And like I was when they told me like I feel like you just played it safe, that you could have done something different, and yada yada yada. You did something that you knew, and I was like, Well, I'm not about to do a song I don't know. Like, that's I'm I'm I'm not about to screw myself over like that. Like, that's that's I know that song, I love that song. Um, I yeah, I just remember the feedback of that one. I was like, what what else do I have to give? Like, I'm trying.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

Yeah, that those were um interesting um comments that the judges would give when when they would come when they would say things like that. Um not challenging yourself, but then then sometimes when you do and it doesn't come out well, and they're like, you know, that maybe you shouldn't have done that. Yeah, um, that wasn't for you.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

It's just it's hard trying to find that balance of like and then plus we were doing songs every week, every week, and it was like trying to find a new song that goes with a challenge, and then you only have a week to practice it with you know, you work and you do all these other things, and it was just it was a lot, it was a lot, but I I did love it, I did enjoy it, even though even though like it it took a toll on my voice, it really did. I I it took a couple of months after the the show to like recover, and I'm it's yeah, it just had a lot on my voice. I learned a lot though, I did, but it was crazy.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Well, so after that was the um well that country night is when they did the judge's pick. Right. Do you remember what you got?

SPEAKER_03 17:14

Do you remember what I got for judges pick? Oh, uh, yeah. I did Adam, no, yeah, it was Adam Lambert. What do you want from me? They gave me that one. And that week I got sick again. I did, oh my god. And I texted, I texted Jonas, one of the judges, and I was like, hey, I don't even know if I'm gonna be able to sing it because like I have no voice. He's like, well, do the best you can, yada yada yada. And I was like, okay, because not performing is like withdrawing from the competition. And I was like, fudge, like I so I remember like trying I even lowered down the like he to because Adam Lambert's crazy. His voice is not where my voice is at. Like he can hit octaves that women, women's voices can hit, and I I can't. So I had to lower down the octave, and that was just it was painful, it was still painful.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

Uh but you you still got through um for for that round. Were you ever in the bottom three number for no right? You're just always taught because you're like, I'm the best. Shut up, no. No, uh yeah, I don't think you're in the bottom. Um so after uh judges pick, it went to semifinals, right?

SPEAKER_03 18:34

Did it?

SPEAKER_00 18:35

Was that where it was like top ten? I think so. Um and it was supposed to be like musical theater or something but the movies or night at the movies.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

Oh yeah, night at the movies. What did I do?

SPEAKER_00 18:50

I'm not sure what I did. What did you do? That one we can f Yeah, I think it's on uh search up November. Oh, I know what it was.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

It was Make It Rain. Yeah, I remember. Make it rain. What movie? That one, it's not even from a movie, it's from a show. It's from uh Sons of Anarchy. And Edge it's Edge and Make It Rain. And I had I had eyes because I was like, can I even do a show like song? And he was like, Yeah, I mean, whatever. So then I did it and I loved it. It was the only thing I like I hate about that song, and I love it so much, it's so soulful, but it's it's because it's such like a slow song. It's like just slow. And I I maybe it kind of dragged a little bit, maybe, but I did cut it short. I remember I cut it short because it was like I think it was like seven minutes long. That song. It was a long song.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Yeah, uh, remember. So z that there was 10 people that night, right? And half were were just gone. Yeah, they cut a lot of people that day. I remember I remember. How did how did they go with you when they did the like announcements of because I know they were doing kind of like suspenseful thing. Um were you ever nervous? Were you scared?

SPEAKER_03 20:14

Oh, I was I was a little nervous because even though I think it because I only I only ever gotten the top once, and I just felt like my vocal ability wasn't where I wanted it to be, or where like it I just I just feel like um I was just getting sick all the time. I was kind of like getting a little tired that like I wasn't giving my best, but I was trying. Um, I did get scared though. I did because not not that like nobody else, like what's the word? Um it was like anybody's game because people were getting better every week. Like there was a few people in there that I know of who were just improving, and I was like, okay, dang, I need to and and I when I sing, I just stand there. I just stand there. I'm not a dancer, I'm not I'm not a big theatrical person, like I don't do these big performances, like jumping off a stage or like going into the crowd or anything. Like I don't do any of that, so I just felt like maybe they were getting bored.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

Oh, you're just calling me out. That's fine. Um what do you mean? Because I did both those things.

SPEAKER_03 21:24

No, but like I didn't do that, so like I felt like they were getting bored with me.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Like fine, no, yeah, you know, that's something I was gonna bring up. Um, do you do you think that that is something that hurt you in and basically in the end?

SPEAKER_03 21:40

I mean, yes, but yes, it did. It did. Because at the very end of it all, like, I mean, the other contestants like brought props and they brought, you know, theatrical things, and they did all these big performances, and I just uh stood there and I sang. I mean, I gave a very Emotional performance because it was a song that really meant a lot to me. But um, I'm just not the person, I'm not the person to just like go up there and just start dancing or anything. Like I I don't do that, and I would love to do it, but it's just not not what I do. And I mean, in a competition, you kind of have to do things you don't want to do or you're not used to doing, but um, yeah, I think it did hurt me a little like I it did hurt me ultimately. I could have been top more than I would have more than I was, you know, but I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

You know, when so you you get to the top five, right? You make it through um and it's something I I've brought up in a couple episodes back, like from the first week, first two weeks, people started talking and be like, hey, who who who do you think's gonna be uh in the finals and and all this stuff? And my list stayed pretty consistent. I was like Aldo, Shanti, Chris. Oh my god, Shanti.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Yeah, Shanti was oh RIP, no, dude, that was crazy, yeah. That she got eliminated. That was crazy because Shanti is such a brilliant performer. I do, like for her age, just crazy, crazy, and that day, like I think she just accepted defeat because I was talking to her and I was like, girl, why did you stop? Like, she's like, I just I just didn't, I don't know. I just blinked, and I was like, okay, okay. She's like, I'm going home. And I'm like, girl, like you have, she has an amazing voice. She's like what 19, 18? Uh 18. She had just graduated high school. Oh, I wish I had a voice like that in high school.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

Yeah, she was great. She also had done like uh Lovos Kids in Mexico and Tango Talento and shit. Yeah. I think she got like second in Levels.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

Yeah, I mean, I don't doubt it. I don't.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

So she was but it was a song that was I don't I don't know what song it was that she I think it was during uh Judge's pick because she didn't or she was in the bottom and then she didn't learn the sing-off song.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Yeah, and it was wasn't an English song too.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

So I mean I I understand, but I don't know. I would have just without knowing the words, I would have been like, ah, I would have just like done something. Like she just stopped and I was like, what the heck?

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Like Yeah, that was and then so she had to um yeah, she she just basically she was like, uh I'm gonna lose. And then that was one thing with both Shanti and I this competition was you know, I guess, in a sense, not really for us. Um because one thing the judges said that they ended up not doing was I don't know if you remember this, they told you this in your audition. They're like, um, can you sing ranchera music? Did they ask you that?

SPEAKER_03 25:14

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

So they would basically ask that in during the auditions and also like the first few weeks or something, because like we're gonna have a ranchera night.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh I think. I think I heard, yeah, I don't think they told me, but overheard, I think I overheard them.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Like, yeah, they would tell random people or whatever, like because they would come in with like a rock or a pop type of style, and then like, can you do ranchera?

SPEAKER_03 25:42

Because that's gonna be a but here's the thing where I like I understand what they were trying to do, and yeah, they didn't do that, and I feel like if they would have done that with mine, I I would have been out because I don't know any Spanish whatsoever. So I give kudos to like you guys who would I mean who only know not only know Spanish songs, but like that's your genre, you know what I mean? That's what you guys, you know, know. And then having to just like switch to like something else, like I give props to that. But I I yeah, it's just that's it also that's also another thing too that was hurting me too. I have a I don't have a rock voice, I don't have a country voice, you know. So when these other challenges, I don't know if it was not that it wasn't fair, because you have it's a competition, you have to do these all certain things you're not you're not used to, but you know, you're singing a song the way you would sing it, whether what genre it is or not, you know? So when they're judging the song, like, oh, it was country, I didn't get any country from you. Like it's kind of like, well, I'm not country, so I don't know how that's a fair judge.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Yeah, I mean, I guess it's supposed to, you know, see who's more all-around. Yeah. Um which I don't know. It I guess because that's why they they named it RGB got talent, right? Not just uh singing competition. But well, back to what the hell was I saying? No, so yeah, so my top five, everybody pretty much had a consensus. Uh most people I talked to that it was gonna be Aldo U and Andre were like that's the top. And yeah, and I had my my top five was was um Aldo, you, Shanti, Andre, and Eli. Eli was just a great performer, right? He he really was. He had that. He can just connect with the crowd, he can get people involved, you know. His voice wasn't like the strongest or best or anything, it's just he had that performance.

SPEAKER_03 27:49

Yeah, he had that charisma too that just was so infectious. Like, I don't know why I'm talking talking about him like he's dead or something. But no, he's when he performs, like he he knows how to. I guess what it is too, is his charm. He has a charm about himself when he performs. Like when we did Country Night and he did what was that song? Um He did um If I gave you the one and then it made me the happiest man in the world.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Oh, he did the thing?

SPEAKER_03 28:20

Oh, yeah, yeah, he did that song. But when he did that one, I felt a certain type of way. That was just something I was feeling when he sang, and he looked at me and he twirled me too. Like when he did that, I was like, Okay, I'm in love, I'm in love. But he like he just from the start, he had that infectious charisma about him that he pulled you in when he performed. No matter what song he was doing, if he did it good or if he did it bad, he still like knew how to grab your attention, and it was really cool. I admired that a lot about him that I couldn't I couldn't do that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

He did. Um, and so then then with with you every single week, um you you don't do the same things that like Eli does, but even without that, um, when you sing, and I saw this at Flying Walrus or just really anywhere, you go up there and you start singing. Like as soon as you start singing, everybody just stops what they're doing and just Wait, you're talking about me? Yeah, you oh they just stop and then they stare and they just cause they hear this and they're like, Oh, that sounds like so clean, so clear, professional, very in tune, all this stuff. Great. Um and then I mean your voice is just great, right? You can just captivate an audience, audience with just your voice. But then there's no performance with that.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

Yeah, and that literally like I said, it just what is the word in inhibits me a lot. I mean, recently I feel like I'm getting a little better. I just had a performance a week ago or two weeks ago at the island, and the energy was a lot different than what I'm normally doing when I'm on stage. And I wasn't dancing or anything, but I was engaging more into the audience than I never done before. Um, but yeah, in the past, yeah, no, I I just stand there. Um, well, one breath support. I don't want to be out of breath when I'm singing. So when it comes to doing songs that are powerful and I have to belt or this and that, like me, I get out of breath. So when I do a song that it requires a lot of breath control, I'm not gonna be moving around a lot or like jumping up and down, going down the like because I want to have that breath control, you know? So me, like I'm I'm as a bigger person, it I get out of breath pretty easily. So yeah, that's also a reason why I just stand there too, because I'm not about to be silent like exhausted on stage.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

So well, you know, honestly you don't quite need to with just how how um well trained and tuned your voice is already. Um do you do you envision yourself when you're like performing or when you sing, or just envision like say in the future, the type of artist that just can get right a big stage, you have thousands of people around, but you just kind of there, maybe sitting on a stool or piano or something, and just for the whole hour, heck yeah, you just sit there.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

Adele can do it, why can't I?

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Ed Sheeran just stands there with his guitar, like he does.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

I saw him in concert. Um it was wild. He he told a story um when he was uh his concert. This is back in um 2015 when I saw him, it was back in Dallas, and he said uh, because all his songs, or at least when he performs live, it's he loops a lot, like right, he'll make the beats and then and the chord progression and then the melody, and he'll loop everything on stage live and then sing to it. And he said that after the show, there was this one older couple that were very upset with the show and were like demanding to talk to whoever was in charge or something, and basically they felt that they were being uh cheated or something because they thought he was just playing like a backtrack or something, some pre-recorded audio and singing along to it. Yeah, and so then after that, he basically made it a point to have his pedals right up front and showing everybody he's like making it as it happens, and he just he was there, I think it was like two hours, just him and then guitar and loops, and the crowd was so even if it was a back-and-tracker.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

I mean, with that chair and I would listen, I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Like, I don't know, but I get it, I get it.

SPEAKER_03 33:01

I get feeling like you're half-assing a it feels like you're half half half-assing a performance, but like I don't know, with something as a level of a chair and I wouldn't be like, oh my god, I'm listening to him sing like live.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

Yeah. Well, so then the finals came. Um God. How how was that?

SPEAKER_03 33:23

What was leading up to it was nerve-wracking because I really wanted that money. I really wanted that money. Um, I didn't have a doubt that I was not gonna get there, but I I mean, I was telling my friend Jay throughout throughout every every challenge, I would have run through my songs with him. Like, well, is it good enough? People are gonna like it. Um, is it boring? Um, but when it got to finals, like finals, finals, not not pre-finale, like finals, finals. I was like, you know what? Like, I'm gonna do a song that I connect with, and people will not may or may not connect with it, or you know, like I wanted to do a song that like meant something to me. So I did a song. Um, what was it? It was by Lauren Daigle. Um who you say I am, I think. Uh but that song just meant so much to me when I performed it. I just stood there, and I and I know that may that did play a big role in me being third. Um, but I gave my soul out, I guess, on that song because I connected with it so much. And I remember how I felt like I was literally almost in tears because I didn't, I like blocked out the audience when I sang that song. Like I wasn't even thinking about anybody else, I was just singing. Um, but a lot of the other are um a lot of the other contestants, they did theatrical music and they acted out and they also brought their own band with them. And you know, I do feel like that did hinder me, but I was really proud with my performance.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Andre went on out all out, right? He built that whole box. He he spent $500? Yeah, and a lot of time uh building it. Uh he was he was set, determined. Um Aldo hired uh Mariachi, right? Uh I know all those guys, they all go to UTRGB. And just grave gave a great performance. Um and then who were the other two? It was Alice and Alyssa, right? That were also in top five. So when when you were when you were there, right? You were and I think you were the last one. I was. Yeah, you're the last one to perform. So you had seen everybody already go, right? Alyssa, Alice, Aldo, Andre, I think Aldo's right before you. Yeah. You get on the stage where you're thinking, I can still win this. I got this, or you're like that.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

At that point, I really I didn't have a mentality. Not that I didn't have a mentality of winning, because I really did want to win, but I was kind of like, I'm gonna whatever happens, happens. I'm just gonna sing. That's it. Like, I don't know what it was because prior to that I was like, I hope I win, I really do. Like, I was really, I really wanted to win. But prior to that, I I mean, literally me before before me going on stage, I was kind of I kind of got into this headspace of headspace of whatever happens, happens. Like, I'm gonna sing, that's it, you know. Like, I I went into it feeling like even if I don't win, that like people are gonna listen to me still. And I just want people to listen to me. I want to catch people's attention. Like, that's I don't know what it is. I just want to catch their attention. And like, but I ended up getting third, so I was still happy. I was really still still happy. I mean, it still sucks you don't get first. Like you can ask anybody, and it still sucks, but I was still happy. I mean, top three out of how many that auditioned, do you know? That audition, there was something like 60, I think. And then 18 made uh I was proud of myself, regardless of what the outcome was. But I mean, I did want to win, but I had just gotten into that headspace of like whatever happens, happens. People heard me, that's it, you know.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

So wait, did you win some money though? Was there anything?

SPEAKER_03 37:38

I did. I think it went like $300, maybe. Uh oh $200. Because I know it was like what $500 for the first was $1,500.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Uh-uh. It was not $1,500. Yeah, it's $1,500.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Although, although okay, yeah, it was $1,500. No, it was not. I'm gonna email them because there was no way the game won $1,500. No, because I got like uh-uh. I know because I remember how how I remember what um wait, wait. Aldo got first, right? Uh Andre got second. Yeah, I got third. Right. I know the Aldo got like $500. Yeah, it was a big jump from there was no way. There's no maybe a thousand, maybe, but there's no way at that okay. I don't know, maybe. Yeah, that's $500. Okay, you know what? I remember, I remember, I remember. But yeah, I think I got like $300 or something or $200. I don't remember. I spent it. It's gone, it's long gone.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

It was gone before you left Rockwell.

SPEAKER_03 38:43

Yeah, I mean, it was gone by the time. Oh, but I remember at the very end too. They gave me a gift basket. Like someone had chosen me to get a gift basket, and it had wine, it had like a bunch of bath bombs, not bath bombs, it had like like really like not luxurious, but they had a bunch of like beauty products and like shampoos and brushes and um it just it just had a lot of stuff in it. I remember when um who was it that gave it to me? Uh somebody had given it to me and they they just dropped it, and all the wine just broke and like spilled everywhere. And I was like, what? I that was it was a it was one of my favorites too. It was Stella Rose. No, it was Roscado. It was a really good wine. My favorite, because it's like a little sweet, but it was real good. But I didn't even get to have it. And then she said she was gonna buy me a bottle and she never did. Who was it that said it? It was America. I mean Nana or I think it may have been Nana. It was not Ganela, it was Nana, it was Nana, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

Well, do you feel like you accomplished what you wanted to do?

SPEAKER_03 39:58

Yeah, I do, I do. I was just drained by the end of it all though. I think everybody was every week, yeah. Coming up with a new song, I was drained, I really was, and then not to mention driving to McCallan every weekend from Harningen, like I mean I had five minutes away. You live like right there, dude. Yeah, yeah. It was just a lot, and I had and I had to get a whole nother like a whole new availability at my work. Like I had to, I didn't I couldn't work Sundays anymore. Or if I worked Sundays, I had to work like in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 40:42

Well, it's a good thing they let you.

SPEAKER_03 40:45

Yeah, it was. And I met a lot of good people. I'm in a I mean I'm still friends with them to this very day. Yeah, but it's crazy, and it's already it's already um, it's already July, and I'm still talking to these people. Yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

It's about to be a year, and so yeah. Is there a new one, a new RJV's guy talent happening already or not? So uh apparently you heard a rumor that there's gonna be a season two starting.

SPEAKER_03 41:11

They better put me as a judge. I'm gonna judge these people, read them for filled. Heck yeah. You don't want to compete again? No. Uh-uh. That's too stressful.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:23

Because I just felt like all of the judges that were sitting there, they had a power. They were like, they were just like, uh, you weren't good. Mm-mm. You didn't bring your A game, come back next week. Like, I want to do that.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

You wanna be mean?

SPEAKER_03 41:39

A little bit.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

A little mean. Well, um, one of the weeks, um actually the week that you won first, that you won the night, you were given what I was saying is that night you won, you got a a special surprise, a gift on top of when you should. You got free studio time.

SPEAKER_03 42:02

But that wasn't the night that I won. Huh? That wasn't the night that I won.

SPEAKER_00 42:07

Where where you got first one night? Or because you got five times.

SPEAKER_03 42:11

Oh, yeah, first, and I never I never went. You never went to I'm still waiting on Jillian to freaking call me in the studio. You never did the thing. He never, he never hit me up. And I I have him on Facebook. If he's listening to this, I'm gonna get him on studio time. I want to get him on here. I haven't talked about it. Get him, and I'll find me as a special guest that comes out and pops out of nowhere. Like, hey.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

That sounds exactly like what fresh and fit dude. I'll be the guest. Bringing out random people like just waiting for the battery.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

I'll be waiting in the bathroom and I'll jump him because I've been and I saw him. Me and Mitka would we hang out. We we uh I went to McCallan and uh what happened? We went to the gremlin, and I remember he was there, and I saw him, and I looked at him and I said, Hey, uh the studio? Like, what does that happen? Oh yeah, we just need to we have just got a stuff to do, and uh I'm we're gonna I'm trying to fit. I think he's fixing it up or something. I was like, liar, but yeah, he goes, just just just hit just hit me up, just hit me up, and I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:19

I thought uh you had done more. I thought you had recorded one of your originals or something. Um well we can uh get into that, right? So you released uh some new music recently, right?

SPEAKER_03 43:31

I released a song, yes. It was uh losing lose control. What? Lose it tonight. What's the your song? Uh lose it tonight. Um I did that one, I think in the beginning of the year I did. I did I released it. I there, but I had already had it ready when we were doing the competition. So I had I had shown some people, I had shown Jakey, I had shown Jonas, I had shown Mirka. I've shown Eli. I've shown them the song before it was released. But yeah, I released it at the beginning of the year.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

And uh where'd you record it?

SPEAKER_03 44:11

I have a uh there's a sound engineer here in McCallan. His name is G Ritmo, but we call him G. It's for with Gem Cutter Studios. Um, he's really, really good. Really, really good. Um, and then I have another one that I recorded and it's not out yet, but now I'm like excited for because it's like a different vibe, like really different vibe, changed up from what I I normally do. I mean, I only have four songs out, but still.

SPEAKER_00 44:43

Did um you get um a lot of feedback after you release?

SPEAKER_03 44:49

Not really, but my fault, I didn't do a lot of promotion. I didn't do any promotion, to be honest, for it. I released it, I did a video on TikTok, I shared it, but other than that, like paid promotion, I didn't, I didn't I didn't push it at all, really.

SPEAKER_00 45:06

Did you write it? I did. Do you write all your originals?

SPEAKER_03 45:11

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

When did you start writing?

SPEAKER_03 45:15

To be honest, maybe like two years ago with my bestie over here, Jay Soul. We have a song out, Stuck With You. And um that wasn't my first song out, but I remember talking to him and I was like, I really want to be like better at write writing songs, and he helped me a lot, honestly, with like being confident enough to portray what I want on paper and put it in a song. Like, I've learned a lot from Jay, so much. Like he he's taught me so much, and um it honestly be made made me really comfortable with like writing. It's still really hard. I ch I I'm really challenged at it, but like I don't want nobody writing my my stuff, I want to write it all myself.

SPEAKER_00 46:05

When did you realize that you could sing?

SPEAKER_03 46:11

Um that's just because I've always loved singing, but in the beginning of my journey of singing, I wasn't good. Like I at least I didn't think I mean I thought I could sing, but looking back, I was not a good singer at the very beginning. Um I remember in ninth grade, they had these open mic nights that would happen every Tuesday in the library. The first opening night of that open mic night, like it was the first one they had at my school. Um, I did I signed up and I did oh, what was that song? Who are you on anyone? Let her go by Passengers. I did that one, and I had so much like great feedback with that one. I mean, my voice was still maturing. I was hitting, I couldn't hit like a falsetto, I couldn't hit any higher notes, like my voice was still growing and it it was very plain and bland. Um, but I got a lot of good feedback with that one, and I think that really sparked my joy with singing, because I've always loved singing, but there was something that happened when I performed and the audience just like gave me really good feedback. It lied, it lit something more in me. I was like, maybe I can actually be a singer if people like it, like maybe I can actually sing. But I think that was the start of it. Then, huh?

SPEAKER_00 47:48

Were you in choir before anything like that? Um so you would just kind of sing on your own, or you just like kind of enjoyed it?

SPEAKER_03 47:56

I I started singing by myself. I didn't I wasn't in choir or took any lessons or anything. I just sang. And I remember before the ninth ninth grade uh happened, I there was this girl, okay. I'm gonna tell y'all. I started trying to get better with like singing because I was jealous of this girl who had a better voice than me. Oh, okay. It started with jealousy and envy. That's I think that's what sparked. Oh all great relationships and and stories start. Well, yeah, she's she could sing Alicia Keys for her age, it was really good. And I would and we would have like these battles per se, where in our friend group we would stand on tables and we would me and her would go at it singing, and she would sing a song, and then I would sing another song after her, and they would pick who was the better singer, and they would always pick her. That girl. I remember who, yeah. They picked her. Say her name, say her name. I'm not gonna say her name. I love her. I love her now. I love her now. But then, like, I was like, I was so envious. I was so envious of her because I wanted to be that I wanted to have a good voice, and it wasn't good at that time. And I remember I just practiced and practiced and practiced, and I was starting to like go into like RB and like pop music and all that. The first song I ever learned a run from was that Beyonce Halo with the Hit Me Like Loreus. Like, she does a uh a de-escalating run, and it was the first one I ever learned. And then that was what sparked doing runs and rifts and all that. That that sparked it, and yeah, the birth of my wanting to be a singer happened through jealousy and envy, and uh that means that's how it's gonna end too. No, I better know. I'm I'm good now.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

I mean, somebody else is gonna be jealous and envious. I'm sure there are people aren't.

SPEAKER_03 49:58

I mean, it sparked something in me. I I turned it around. I'm not jealous and envy of envious of anybody's voice anymore. Like, I think I've come into my own. I still have a lot of stuff I can learn with my singing, and I wanna I wanna become better, controlled. Um but yeah, it's it's sparked that I'm gonna be better. Did you take uh voice lessons ever with um the only time I ever took voice lessons when I took it with Mirka, and it was that one time. Like people in the competition.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

But other than that, no. So where does that um the I mean the sustain, the the control um come from?

SPEAKER_03 50:40

If I'm gonna be really honest with you, I went to church, okay, and we they weren't like teaching you like it wasn't like that. It was one of those churches where like they had a band playing and it was very um trying to be like new school, where you know people would try to dress a certain way, like hip, like teenagers. Um, but there I learned a lot. I remember I went to church and I and I I learned how to harmonize. That was something that was very hard for me because I would go to church all the time and I would see people like I would hear harmony. I didn't know how to do it. And I was like, what the heck is that? And I remember they taught me, they were teaching me, and I had to have an ear for it. Um I had to had an ear for it, and I just started practicing. I started singing along with other songs and trying to do harmony with it. And then from there, like I think I just I just automatically adjusted to that sound that they were producing, and we started belting a lot more. I was trying to I was starting to develop my voice, but I wasn't taught taught.

SPEAKER_00 52:01

Did you ever watch YouTube videos or something?

SPEAKER_03 52:03

Oh, I mean, obviously. I I'm I'm a very, I'm gonna be really honest with you. I'm I'm a very visu uh a visual learner, I guess you could say. Like, I have this or uh uh auditory where I I hear it, I'm a very I'm that person, and I kind of like learn it off of that by hearing it and then seeing it too and how they do it. I'm that person, um, but I just adapted, I guess, to how they were singing, and then once I left church, I started doing my own thing. Um, but I learned a lot, but you don't have perfect pitch, do you? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 52:43

You never tested it?

SPEAKER_03 52:46

No.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

I don't know. I mean, you probably always have pretty good relative pitch by now.

SPEAKER_03 52:51

I think I have pr pretty good relative pitch. I do, but I mean there are times where I'm off pitch, like unintentionally, like you couldn't be off pitch if you tried. No, I can. Trust me. It happened a lot.

SPEAKER_00 53:07

Uh so when did you start performing?

SPEAKER_03 53:12

When I was 21. I had my first uh performance when I turned 21. That's when the pandemic hit. Oh I remember the first gig I ever had was in March of 2020, 2020, and I had just turned 21. It was my first gig. I remember what I sang Summer Walkers Girls Need Love. Great feedback, great feedback. But I sang in church before, and I guess you would call that performing, but I call it church. I really do. I don't I don't think it's my performing.

SPEAKER_00 53:44

Yeah, no, I mean performing by myself, by myself, for myself.

SPEAKER_03 53:48

Yeah, it would be that time. I performed at this place in Harlingen uh caught the spot. It's like this outside patio place, and that was my first gig that I had. Um, and I had great, great like feedback with that, and then I just yeah, but other than I mean, I've I've done other things as well. I haven't done a lot of performances, like gig-wise, but I've done a few.

SPEAKER_00 54:18

Was the first one paid?

SPEAKER_03 54:20

It was not, it really wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 54:23

Yeah, well, that sucks.

SPEAKER_03 54:26

I don't give I don't get much paid gigs.

SPEAKER_00 54:31

I fired it. I play in a in a mariachi. Uh-huh. Um now not not as much, especially now if it's my job. I used to be part of a group, but now I just freelance. Uh-huh. Um but honestly, I just when I first started, I was 18, well, doing outside of school. Yeah. And I was getting paid. It it's different. Happy for you. And and that's that's one thing why people were like, um this whole thing about music and uh maybe not not being able to make uh a living out of it or struggling. I I lived in Austin for like six years, right? And expensive big city. I didn't really struggle. But that's because Mariachi is a very unique thing. There's a lot of musicians in that area that playing on the street corner. Uh-huh. Some just enjoy it, but some they're there every day trying to make money, trying to pick up gigs, meet somebody, a lot of networking, and and these bands will be playing these nightclubs at like one, two in the morning for very little pay, and it's just always it's just so much. Uh with mariachi we do have you know a lot of gigs and and travel, but um it's it's more consistent.

SPEAKER_03 55:47

We will with mariachi, yeah. People people in the valley and in Texas have uh events that like you can play because we're predominantly like Hispanic and Mexican, like with anything else, like if me singing R B, it's not very like common. Yeah, to get paid for it, it's exactly me as an RB pop, like you know, mainstream I guess singer, like more like just pop, I guess. It's harder because there are predominantly a lot of rappers in the valley. Um a lot of rappers. There's predominantly a lot of country singers. There's there's even rock bands too, you see, and then mariachi singers and the Hano singers, but RB and pop, it's like not it's not popping down here.

SPEAKER_00 56:44

No, but so then uh I guess the the the point the question is do you see yourself as wanting to make this uh your profession? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:54

I want to get paid for my music, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:56

Be traveling, touring artists, heck yeah, to see the world. And how's that going?

SPEAKER_03 57:03

It's not going great right now.

SPEAKER_00 57:06

It's not. I mean I mean, so do you plan on leaving?

SPEAKER_03 57:10

I do. I do honestly you kind of have to. I mean, yeah, I really I do. I want to leave. I wanna see what else is out there. I mean I don't know when that's gonna happen financially. I just don't have it in the books. But I mean it's a goal, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 57:32

So then what's kind of keeping you? I mean, you know, the money, but besides money, is it just if you had the money, you would just leave. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:40

If I had the money, I'd be out of here by now. I don't I think I I don't think I have anything really holding me back except for that. Because and and that's what sucks, is that money just over it must it runs the music industry. Like you I mean, I guess you can make music without money, but it's a lot harder. Like, cause I releasing music takes money. Um, recording music takes money, promoting yourself takes money. Um you know, like it's just everything takes money, like even buying your outfits, like you can thrift, yes, but like buying your outfits too, like it takes money. I just I think it's so ruled with money, and it and and that's the sad thing. You can still make good music with very little money, it's possible, it's a lot harder.

SPEAKER_00 58:43

Yeah, it is. Um you know I I'd say I did well when I was over there, but it wasn't it didn't start that way. Yeah, I mean I s I struggled quite a bit at the beginning to the point where there there was a point where I had like seven dollars in my bank account. Right. I was living on my own South Austin, and I I knew I wasn't gonna have any money getting a gig until Thursday. And it was like Tuesday. And I'm like, what do I do? Do I either put gas in my car or get food?

SPEAKER_03 59:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:23

I got gas in my car.

SPEAKER_03 59:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:26

And I but the the thing was I after that I kind of realized I was like, there I shouldn't have been in that situation uh because I just wasn't managing my money wisely. I wasn't doing things responsibly.

SPEAKER_03 59:40

See, yeah, like I mean, with me that happens all the time.

unknown 59:44

All the time.

SPEAKER_03 59:45

Managing my money is really hard. I think I've gotten a lot better now. I pay for things that are more important. I'm not spending my money on like stupid stuff, but I ended up still draining my bank account. It's just I guess I got myself in this predicament predicament, like you said, with not managing my money. Um, I got myself into it, and now that I'm in it and I'm trying to do better, it's a lot harder to get out. It's just like it's hard. It's sticking me in the ground. It's hard to get out.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:18

Have you met any um producers, artists, or something like that that have wanted to you know work with you, collaborate, and things like that here in the valley?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:31

Just like want to work with me? Like more.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:36

Yeah, that's their life heard you sing and they're like, oh, you really, really good.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:39

And I've had I've had a few. I've had a few, but the thing with them, they're not, I just don't think they're serious about it because it's like because you know, okay, you know when people come up to you like, hey, I have this, I have that, and I have that, whatever. Love for you to do this. It just it just sounds like they're hyping themselves up. It doesn't sound like good. And then whenever I and I guess my intuition's always right, because every single time someone has come up to me and said, Hey, I want you to, I want to, I wanna do a song for you, that will not charge you, I'll do this and that. And then I I'm like, okay. And then I cut to like maybe a month or two later, they're like, it's it's just them, and I mean, nothing wrong with them doing because I've done, I've recorded songs in a closet. Nothing wrong with it. But the way they hype themselves up, the way they say I have a studio, I be going on planes, I have a gig up in San Antonio, like it's just it's just like okay. And it doesn't sound serious to me. It just sounds like I don't know, it just doesn't sound serious to me, and I've usually been right about it. But no major, not major, but no like people who are serious about it. I've really been like, I want to work with you. Other than G, Ritmo, my produ my producer that I have now. But I mean, I got him because of my friend Jay. He works with him, you know, and he introduced me. Um, it wasn't like I was sought out by them.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:13

Well you wanna sing something? Oh, we're gonna do it already? Um so what I'd like to do is just kind of put it somewhere in the middle, which I think is a good point. Because we've been talking about how amazing and wonderful of a vocalist you are, and nobody's heard you sing yet.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:32

So I said, I've been getting sick of my voice is very what do you want to do first?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:04

No time to regret, kept his the way with his emotion me and my head high, and my teeth dry get on without my guide, and you went back to what you knew, so far removed from all that we went through and I trade a troubled tri as I go back to black We only save you by work I died a hundred times You go back to her back to I go back to us I love you much, it's not enough Hello enough, Wow, I love It's like a pain Holy Love it's hot Me on this I got a hundred times You come back to Hill Peace single by a hundred times You come back to high north go back to blasting it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:10

I go back to We only sick.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:23

You go to the Hundred Times.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:39

You will have a lot of crazy. Abraham Lincoln.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:33

I these pads aren't set up, but um I think I used them when when we did it. Um afterwards there's like a little applause thing that was just makes it sound like the whole room is so I don't I added in post, but I hear that later. So uh well I mean we can we can do another one. Um what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:55

Like a song? Yeah. Uh it's gonna be used to spend my nights out in the bottom The go is the only love I know But you rescued me from me too far the bottom and brought me back from here too far Your sweet escape Your is sweet Yo is one it's a glass of penny and honey as taste on your love all the time See I've looked for love in all the same old places Found the bottom of the bottles always dry But when you put on your heart and it always stayed Cause there's another thing like you love to give me highest core is sweet Shoping Wise Your is white glass Band and honey as taste down your love all the time Your issue Your is white Clenty on your land all time Oh your smooth Tennessee Wisconsin is Kennedy Wisca And your Smooth Tennessee Wiscay Tennis USK Tennis USK. You and me we made a vow for better or for worse. I can't believe it let me die with the bruise in the way it had my doubts and denying everything. I wish this would be over now, but I know it has to need you here. You say I'm crazy 'cause you don't think I know what you've done but well you can be baby and nobody, only one saddle and a why your heart is unobtainable, even though Lord knows you can you say I'm crazy I know what you'll die and by me I know but nothing on big one I am for you for many years, I am just an enough You make me feel like my deepest feet crazy Cause you don't think I know it, you done you call it baby I know what they only do one You stay na no I crazy none knows you don't think I think I know what you done you can't be baby I'm no one not the only one I no one not the only one I'm no one not the only one I'm no one not the only one I no one not the only one So that was a crazy with a couple of some cover perfect They're never perfect I don't have to deal with the fact that I'm just not a perfect wrong unreliable and so after um you know the show ended and and then you release some new music is is there something else is there something you're working on? Um I'm I'm currently trying to write another song right now, but I have this one that's coming out. Um it's gonna come out. But I'm really excited about it. It's a different it's a different vibe and a different tone than I'm used to doing. Um and I want to make my music.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:56

I don't want to stop writing and keep recording and performing and performing no, none right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:06

If anybody wants to look me, I'm here just message me on Instagram underscore Abril Chris Kris underscore Abril Music on Instagram.