Prepare to be enthralled by an engaging conversation with the multi-talented Tiffany Bynoe, who’s left her mark in the music industry as a musician, artist, singer, songwriter, author, and entrepreneur. Straight out of Akron, Ohio, she speaks candidly about her fascinating journey from Tene Williams to Tiffany Bynoe, and the intricate realities of the music world. Her resilience and faith have steered her through the industry's ups and downs, and her story of redemption after a personal setback is truly inspiring.
In the second half of our dialogue, Tiffany uncovers the creative process of her song "Give Me Love" and the collaborations with Joe Drew Hill and Gerald Albright. She also gives us a sneak peek into her latest single "The One You Love", and shares her strategies for juggling her varied roles with the help of her assistant Debbie Ullah. We discuss her innovative promo videos and their role in shaping her career. By the end of the episode, Tiffany leaves us with powerful insights on overcoming challenges and the magic of positive self-talk. She urges young artists to understand themselves before entering the industry. An episode full of wisdom, motivation, and music awaits you!
If your in the music industry- singer, songwriter, composer, indie, neo singer, rapper, country artist, promoter, manager, music lawyer or blues please email me to be a guest on my show at myguest@spit2dabeat.com I would love to hear your Spit about the Music Industry.
Prepare to be enthralled by an engaging conversation with the multi-talented Tiffany Bynoe, who’s left her mark in the music industry as a musician, artist, singer, songwriter, author, and entrepreneur. Straight out of Akron, Ohio, she speaks candidly about her fascinating journey from Tene Williams to Tiffany Bynoe, and the intricate realities of the music world. Her resilience and faith have steered her through the industry's ups and downs, and her story of redemption after a personal setback is truly inspiring.
In the second half of our dialogue, Tiffany uncovers the creative process of her song "Give Me Love" and the collaborations with Joe Drew Hill and Gerald Albright. She also gives us a sneak peek into her latest single "The One You Love", and shares her strategies for juggling her varied roles with the help of her assistant Debbie Ullah. We discuss her innovative promo videos and their role in shaping her career. By the end of the episode, Tiffany leaves us with powerful insights on overcoming challenges and the magic of positive self-talk. She urges young artists to understand themselves before entering the industry. An episode full of wisdom, motivation, and music awaits you!
If your in the music industry- singer, songwriter, composer, indie, neo singer, rapper, country artist, promoter, manager, music lawyer or blues please email me to be a guest on my show at myguest@spit2dabeat.com I would love to hear your Spit about the Music Industry.
And welcome to the Big Podcast. I'm your host, stacy AKA Beat Unstoppable Prairie, and we are back in the virtual studio again. I got another great show lined up for you. My guest all the way from Akron, ohio, is in the building with me virtually, but before I bring her home you know how I do I keep my show off.
Speaker 1:And don't forget you can catch my video clips on Facebook at Stacy Beat Unstoppable Prairie or Stacy Spit to the Beat Prairie. Don't forget to go on my YouTube channel, where you would catch this full video interview of my guest on Spit to the Beat. Don't forget to subscribe, like and hit that notification bell. I really would appreciate it. Now we are back with our further do my guest all the way again, like I said, from Akron, Ohio, formerly known as T'Nay Williams, now Miss Tiffany Bino. I'm going to let her do her thing as she come on the show and join me. Let's bring her on right now. Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 3:You doing.
Speaker 1:Doing wonderful. Doing wonderful, now that you're on the show with me.
Speaker 4:Awesome, that's really true.
Speaker 1:How was your day?
Speaker 4:Pretty good, pretty good. We had a beautiful day. You know, out here in Akron Ohio we usually have snow around this time, but we had like 61 degrees and then tomorrow 65 and sunny. So yeah, complain.
Speaker 1:Well, way down south we have been a little bit of cold weather. Okay, I'll just say no snow.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we get it all.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about, let's talk about you today. Let's talk about you, know, formerly known as T'Nay Williams, Now Tiffany Bino. How was that transition? Tell us, tell my audience, a little bit about that.
Speaker 4:Yes, absolutely. Well, you know, I come from that era where you know things happen to us artists. You know that we weren't quite knowledgeable about, you know, like my I know when I got my first deal, I was like 18 years old, so yeah. So there's a lot of things I didn't know. So when my manager came to me and he said okay, well, we need to change your name to Tiffany, I mean from Tiffany to T'Nay, because there was another girl named Tiffany coming out, the pop artist at that time, which I was doing hip hop, so I didn't understand, you know, but they needed me to change my name.
Speaker 4:Well, I changed my name to T'Nay, which I I I agree to it. You know, because once we did the study on it, it really you know, it fit, who I was as a person, you know. So I said oh, that's not too far off, at Tiffany, let me go ahead and do it. So we went ahead and did that and come to find out, throughout all the years I have put music out under T'Nay Williams and that's how I ended up finding out that my manager owned the rights to that name. So, with that being said, in order for me to come back out and give you the music that I so love, you know and so passionate about. I had to come out as Tiffany.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, so they found you a little bit back back in the day, yeah just a little bit. So you say to escape today, williams and come back now to Tiffany by now. So tell us about who is she?
Speaker 4:Listen, I tell you what she is a mature, grown and sexy woman who, you know, has a lot to offer other than music. You know I've done. I like to speak to the young generation, to the younger women, you know, to the younger girls. Let me say that I like to speak to the younger girls and the younger boys the things that I've learned throughout the industry. You know, a lot of times we don't want to pass the baton or pass the nudge that we have, you know, and it's very important for us to do that. So I, when I was out as T'Nay Williams, it was interesting because I was doing hip hop music. I was with the wonderful Steve so Curly who produced my Give Him a Love Song. It was number three on the Billboard charts, so it went number one, but it went number three and went really well. Interesting thing is is that I ended up. There were some hiccups along the way that ended up happening with me and throughout my journey I ended up getting pregnant with my daughter.
Speaker 4:When I got pregnant with my daughter. My daughter was born with dextracardia, which is a heart condition, and dextracardia is where your heart is reversed. So if there was anything that they had to do to repair it or do anything for it, they would have to actually put a mirror in front of our heart to actually see it. You know the proper way that you know, in order to fix it. Well, when she was born and went through that, it wasn't time for mommy's music. You know.
Speaker 4:It was time for me to step back and really, you know, make sure her world was nothing missing, nothing broken there. You know, and I knew that in the process of doing that, because I am a strong faith woman, you know, I knew that in the process of doing that, that God would redeem things. You know. So had I continued to go out as Tene Williams, I probably wouldn't have, you know, the character, the integrity, the, the person not only want to say personality, because that comes and goes but you know the, the, the stamina of a strong black woman that can stay in this industry and go through the things that we go through, but yet still faith, still stay faithful, still be hopeful, still stay loving. You know, and those are the things that I would love to pass on to the next generation of music.
Speaker 1:So it sounded like you came back better and stronger.
Speaker 4:I did I believe. So, yeah, yeah. I think, it's more than young than we're young. What do you have to give?
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 4:Really, you know, when you're 17, you know what do you have to give. I knew I didn't have anything to give, you know. I mean except for my gift, you know. But now I have more than just my gift. You know, I have experience that comes along with that gift. That is helpful.
Speaker 1:Especially you so young. In the music industry you didn't have much to offer but your voice.
Speaker 4:But my voice, that's it. And it's so important because we look at things in the industry and you know the industry wants to get them young and put them out there.
Speaker 4:You know, so that we can do whatever we want to do, you know. But then I believe that it's the season ones that need to come out and really guide and lead, because we'll have young people that guide and lead. Something ends up happening, you know, and I always say this I always say that, no matter what generation comes, that as long as we have our moral conduct threaded through that generation, we're all right, you know. But the important thing is listening and hearing what that next generation, what that generation before you went through, and honoring those things and respecting those things.
Speaker 1:So do you feel like this is like a rebirth of Tiffany now?
Speaker 4:I really do, and you want to know. Something interesting Is that Steve, steve, so Curly and myself we're in the process of redoing give them a love. So I really do feel like it is. You know, and not only you know I think that's just the beginning of my journey, you know, but there's. I just love so much music, you know, whether it be country, pop, gospel, r&b, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was reading it in your bio. You all over the genre of music jazz, contemporary R&B so you think it off?
Speaker 4:Who said that we had to stay in one spectrum of music? You know?
Speaker 3:It's just, you know what.
Speaker 4:I realized when I was a little girl.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry to have a little cold, but I realized when I was a little girl that I fell in love with vibrations and sounds before I fell in love with vocals, you know. So like tones and things like that is what really pierces my ear, you know, and that's kind of you know what really. I remember I would get on the floor. My mom would play her music on Saturdays. You know, every black mom, their mom would get up and clean up, and so my mom would clean up on Saturdays and I was only three years old and I heard this like it. You know perfectly, and I remember we had a wood floor and I would get on the floor and I would just fight with the music and then the minute that she would turn, the music would go off and she would, you know, transition to another album Before the music back on. I would be screaming for the music to come back.
Speaker 4:So, I fell in love with vibration, you know before I fell in love with you know singing ability If you could hey, hold tight, I'm going to take a quick break.
Speaker 1:I'm going to come back and talk about some of your music.
Speaker 4:Okay, Sounds good.
Speaker 1:Hey, this is Stacey aka Beat Unstoppable Per Year with Spit to the Beat Podcast. Would you like to be my guest? If you're a singer, songwriter, musician, producer or promoter, email, call at 901-341-6777 or email me at myguestsatspit2thebeatcom. And welcome back to Spit to the Beat Podcast. I'm your host. Stacey aka Beat Unstoppable Per Year, and joining me virtually in the studio is my guest, again from Akron, ohio. Miss Tiffany Byron, we get ready to talk about your music, so let's get into it. The song you sent me give him a love that he can feel. Tell me a little bit about that when we play it.
Speaker 4:Well, the interesting thing is that was my song back when I was 19. That's the song that. Yeah, that's the song that Steve and I are redoing right now. Steve's a Carly and I gave you that song because I just wanted the journey of today for you to see today and Tiffany, you know so that's why I gave you the before and after music.
Speaker 1:Are we redoing this song?
Speaker 4:Yes, we're redoing it.
Speaker 1:Yes, Let me play it. I'm going to get him.
Speaker 2:I want to show him. I want to show him.
Speaker 1:That was nice, real nice. I was Bobbitton, but I brought you on the show. I guess it's that hip hop feel. Huh, I said I get the hip hop feel from it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, steve did his thing. You know, he had kind of like a dance hip hop type of thing going on, and so what's?
Speaker 1:going to be the twist to it, bringing it back.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow, the twist to it is, you know, it's interesting because when I did it, like I said before, I was such a little girl, you know. So the twist to it is now really given it, with everything that I am now, and you know, it's just such a different vibe, such a different, even, thought process you know, so, yeah, I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1:OK, let's jump into the next song, the One you Love.
Speaker 4:Yes, the One you Love.
Speaker 1:All right, all right. Is this the One? Yes, now I'm definitely telling the difference in the voice. Yes, this is a recorded song of that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and actually this is one of my songs that I do on my set. I've been doing a lot of shows like opening up for, like Joe Drew Hill, we had who else? Oh, I have Gerald Albright coming up. So, and the interesting thing is, because I say I have such, you know, I'm such a lover of music that no matter what John Rae comes in, I'm like I'm your girl, I got it.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. That's amazing. We got one more to go to the radio version.
Speaker 2:It's amazing, With the ring in his ear by magic potion of love. Yes, I'm so sick and at least it's nothing you could hold back. I'm so sick Remake.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, oh, my goodness, you know I come from that. You know when I say my mom played up Saturday music.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So I come from that era of Natalie Cole.
Speaker 1:You always want to sing.
Speaker 4:Yes, and you know, the funny thing is I always sung like I was seven years old, 11 years old, singing these songs and didn't know a thing about what I was feeling. I just knew that I loved it, you know. And so now, to be able to really sing these songs with you know, with the passion and the love that I have, you know, it's amazing because I also redid. I sleep brothers make me say it again.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I also redid shame by Evelyn Champagne King, but I kind of slowed it down and flipped it out a little bit.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's how your voice sounds good.
Speaker 4:I'm definitely thinking that song Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about your life career as far as being a musician, artist, singer, songwriter, author, entrepreneur. How do you balance all that?
Speaker 4:Well, you know what, with help. With help you know and true delegation. I'm telling you, I have an assistant, debbie Reynolds-Uller, who is yes, amazing, I mean, she doesn't miss anything, so she really takes good care of me. But you know that's the important thing in this industry is to really get somebody behind you, not only that knows the business but is passionate about you and what you have to do, you know.
Speaker 4:Because there's so many times that you can get people on your team and really everybody's trying to do their own thing to where it's just so chaotic that it just doesn't gel, you know. But when you finally get that team, that you know everybody knows the place, everybody knows their position and everybody is safe and content in that place. Man, I tell you and it took me to get to this place to really have that team, to be honest with you, that is great.
Speaker 1:It's good to have a team of people that believe in your vision. Yes, yes, and see where you are trying to go and help you get there.
Speaker 4:That's awesome, Absolutely, absolutely. Look, I'll tell you one more time I'm gonna take a break.
Speaker 1:We're gonna come back and talk about the promo video that you got me and some more things on Speed to the Beat podcast.
Speaker 4:Okay, Sounds good.
Speaker 1:Hey, this is Stacey aka Beat Unstoppable Per Year with Speed to the Beat podcast. Would you like to be my guest? If you're a singer, songwriter, musician, producer or promoter, give me a call at 901-341-6777 or email me at myguestsatspeed2thebeatcom and we're back to Speed to the Beat podcast. I'm your host, stacey aka Beat Unstoppable Per Year, and joining me again in the studio is Ms Tiffany. By now. We are talking to her live from Ohio. She says not to cold up there, so I guess I'm a Southern boy and you wouldn't like to. The time of year I did not go up north.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:All right, all right. Let's talk about the promo videos you sent me. What's going on with that and how's that helped develop your career? Absolutely.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I have a wonderful app that is called New Media Podcast. That is giving my fans the opportunity to go places with me. Remember, I was saying that we're going to do the Steve Silk, Hurley and myself we're going to do the Tanay Williams song and Give Me Love. We're also recording another song. So, all those journeys and the beginning of the year, I have some wonderful things happening with Kevin Dorsey. So I just want to, you know, want the fans to be able to come with me along the way, and what better way than to have your own app? You know that people can watch, yes, that they can lock into and really, you know, not search and go through the rigmaroo, but actually come straight to you and actually talk to you and get response. And you know, and I love that, you know, to me it's like, if you're not touchable or reachable, what good are you?
Speaker 1:That's right. You know, sometimes these styles get that head and like I like one thing that Fantasia has said. She said in one of our concerts she said look, I'm reachable, you touch me, I feel where you are, and stuff like that, and you sound to be same type of artist. So that is wonderful, absolutely. I tell you why she says that.
Speaker 4:She says that because, in order, because of who we are as women of God and as women that you know, who know who we are, we're not threatened by anything.
Speaker 4:You know we're not threatened by anything. I'm not threatened by another beautiful woman that can sing. I'm not threatened by you know any of that. You know that's why I can work close with other women and really, you know, benefit out of that. You know, because it's when you know who you are in Christ, you don't have to put a facade up. You can actually allow him and the love that he has flow through you and actually be the thing that people see and they're like it's just something different. What that difference is is that he's not afraid of anything that he wants to do.
Speaker 3:That's true when she says that it's reasonable.
Speaker 4:Yeah, when she says that I'm reachable and I'm touchable, you know why she says that? She says because in him, because of him, you can reach. Through her, you can reach him. That's why she's so beautiful, cool.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 3:What's up everybody. This is Howard Hewitt and I want you all to look out for my niece, Tiffany Binal, and her new single. Make Me Say it Again, this hides it all. I'm so proud of Tiffany. I'm proud of the artist she's become. I'm proud of her consistency and the dedication she's shown in her years, through the years. Check it out, Debbie Reynolds-Yulah. I have the one and the only wonderful Tiffany Binal. We have some amazing things that are planned.
Speaker 4:I am doing the Jazz Festival which we're going to have here in Akron, Ohio, in June. It's just not with one genre of music with me, you know, because I'm such a lover of music that I'm all over the place.
Speaker 3:All over the place and you're doing an amazing job and it is time for you to get back out there and share your amazing talent with everyone. I'm just so excited. Yeah, we're going to explain later on how this all works and talk about the virtual backstage pass and all of that. Hey guys, it's your girl, tiffany.
Speaker 4:I want you to come backstage with me.
Speaker 2:Tiffany's exclusive fans. That's right, get exclusive virtual backstage pass. Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 4:I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2:I've been hearing a lot about you and you're a very lovely lady and great voice. Yeah, great voice indeed. Find out how to get the virtual backstage pass right here in the app. Yes, I'm going to show you Tiffany, wherever she goes, her personal backstage pass, front row seat to what she's got going on. Watch the full interview on the app right here. Just click on the second tab at the bottom, also known as the search page. It'll open up. Click on the scrolling banner and watch the full interview with Debbie Reynolds, yula and Tiffany. Find out how to get your virtual pass when she goes live, right here in the vertical menu. Click on the go live icon and you can see Tiffany live. Also, make sure your notifications are on so you don't miss anything, and below that is the more tab.
Speaker 2:Click that and share it to all your friends.
Speaker 1:And we are back to be podcasting with my host. My guest is Tiffany Bino. That's a great promo video, so this is one of the ways that people will be able to get in touch with you through your app. Now what are the other ways that people can reach out and find you?
Speaker 4:You can also find me on Facebook, which is I'm Tiffany Bino. You can find me on Instagram I'm Tiffany Bino. Snapchat, tiktok, all that great stuff. But you can also find my music on YouTube and on all digital platforms. What Apple music? So the music that I do have out. You can find it on those platforms, all digital platforms. Okay, great.
Speaker 1:One question I had and I almost forgot to ask you You've been on in kind of like the eastern part of the world. Why not never lived in the West, where all the music, all that was going on back in the day?
Speaker 4:You know what interesting thing is that when I I did the Apollo theater when I was 14, I won three times at the Apollo theater when I was 14. And so they offered me a record deal. But my mom was like no, you're coming home, You're at least going to finish high school.
Speaker 4:So I went back home, finished high school, and I knew that New York was the crowd for me. Now, my uncle, howard Hewitt. He went to the Midwest, he went to California and he was very successful in that, but for some reason for me it was New York. Yeah, the doors that were opened, like I said, I won the Apollo theater and I ended up meeting the producer that ended up writing my music and helping me get the deal. So, yeah, so all of my musical connections happened to be in New York at that time. But I also have, like, throughout my journey, I've ventured off a little bit. I've I have I've gone out to LA and worked with Howard a lot. You know we've done a couple of well, actually about three songs together.
Speaker 1:Okay. Let's jump right into this, being an author, your empowerment book.
Speaker 4:Me, yes, tell us about that.
Speaker 4:Yes, it's called Me, it's self. I mean, it's a abbreviation for made extraordinary and the whole. The reason why I wrote the book is because there were some things that I had went through as a little girl and I didn't realize until I had become a woman that they were still there, you know, and I didn't like it, and so it was like just that mirror where you have to be honest with yourself and say, okay, now it's just time for you to do the research within and deal with some things. You know, if you desire change, and so you know, I just begin to look at my journey and the things that, like, I remember when I was a little girl.
Speaker 4:There were three things that I confessed as a little girl and I didn't realize until I was an adult how powerful you know, we know these things, that life and death is in the power of the tongue. We understand that, but you don't realize that I, when I was a little girl, I said I was going to win the Apollo Theater, I was going to do Soul Train and I was going to win Grammys. Those were the three things that I wanted from the time I was five years old until the time I left to go to New York, you know, and so I accomplished two out of the three, you know.
Speaker 4:But the thing that I realized, once I really sat back and started looking at my life, I realized that it was things that I began to speak to myself that began to manifest you know, and so that's where it came in, where the book came in, it's like, okay now, where you're lacking at is really that confidence in who you are, you know, and who God sets you aside to be.
Speaker 4:So I had to really dig in there and understand that and once I got that understanding, it's like I said, I'm reachable. It's very important for me to give that knowledge on you know to the next generation so that you know, have to go into your adult life with that. You know, you can look at it at 15, 16, however old you are, and look at that and say, okay, I'm not going to take this into my adult life, I'm going to look at it right now and process it and put it where it needs to be put so that I can, you know, not have to cross over something that you'll have to cross over when you become an adult, you know.
Speaker 1:Only if we had books like this back when we was all growing up. Hello, right, we had mommy and daddy though. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4:A lot of things I believe that our generation learned. We learned hitting the wall right it's like you weren't hitting that wall and so, and then one of the cliches that people say is oh, experience is a good teacher, yeah, but your experience could be a good teacher. I don't have to experience that you know, so why not listen to you, respect your journey and say okay, well, okay, you're telling me not to make that left. I'm not going to make that left, you know Right, and so that's If someone is speaking to your ear yeah, yeah, and we have to be you know.
Speaker 4:it's like, you know, when you see someone get into the industry and then they malfunction because they don't have the proper tools. You know one of the things that Howard kept saying to me he said Tiff. He said, you know, he says Tiff, you, there's a book that I want you to read, and it was understanding the music industry. He said, before you do anything, read this book, you know, and so, and I didn't read it. It was a big book too.
Speaker 1:It was a big-. Yeah, I read that book.
Speaker 3:Right, it was a big book.
Speaker 4:I didn't read it, yeah, so I had to I was not reading anything. You know. So I had to learn the hard way and so, but there was probably some things in that book that I probably would have. You know what I mean, yeah probably what. I'm having.
Speaker 1:You kind of say it right into my next question what would you tell artists now that you know? What would you tell up-and-coming artists how to avoid the pitfalls?
Speaker 4:You know, I would always say know who you are first, because if you don't know who you are first when you get out there, there are other things that will define you. You know, and so when you know who you are, then you're not wavering from left to right. You know, you're steadfast and unmovable on that thing that you know best for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you never miss-. If anybody wants to speak to the beat power can take you in joining me on the show.
Speaker 4:Thank you for having me. I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you. Now hold tight for a little bit as I wrap it up, okay.
Speaker 2:Thanks very much and I'll see you guys next week. Bye.