As the spotlight brightens, we're joined by the inimitable Andre Pitre, whose journey from Beaumont, Texas, to the limelight traces a tapestry of gospel roots, theatrical triumphs, and cinematic ventures. Imagine a boy, cradled by the rhythms of gospel music, who blossoms into a performer sharing the stage with the likes of Morris Chestnut and blossoms even further under the mentorship of Tyler Perry. Andre's narrative is a symphony of passion and perseverance, weaving through his college days at Prairie View A&M University to his poignant transformation into a figure of inspiration, both on and off the stage.
Explore the harmonics of Andre's life as we uncover the melody behind his upcoming album and his entrepreneurial ventures, all while championing the heart of community service. The resonance of his grandmother's advice carries through his songs, reminiscent of Sam Cooke's depth, and pulsates within the walls of Tri-Wen Productions and the Charnele Brown Acting Academy in Houston. With a voice that carries the wisdom of experience and the tenderness of a ballad, Andre's dedication to nurturing young talent and his belief in the power of giving back harmonize to create a narrative that's as motivational as it is melodious.
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.
As the spotlight brightens, we're joined by the inimitable Andre Pitre, whose journey from Beaumont, Texas, to the limelight traces a tapestry of gospel roots, theatrical triumphs, and cinematic ventures. Imagine a boy, cradled by the rhythms of gospel music, who blossoms into a performer sharing the stage with the likes of Morris Chestnut and blossoms even further under the mentorship of Tyler Perry. Andre's narrative is a symphony of passion and perseverance, weaving through his college days at Prairie View A&M University to his poignant transformation into a figure of inspiration, both on and off the stage.
Explore the harmonics of Andre's life as we uncover the melody behind his upcoming album and his entrepreneurial ventures, all while championing the heart of community service. The resonance of his grandmother's advice carries through his songs, reminiscent of Sam Cooke's depth, and pulsates within the walls of Tri-Wen Productions and the Charnele Brown Acting Academy in Houston. With a voice that carries the wisdom of experience and the tenderness of a ballad, Andre's dedication to nurturing young talent and his belief in the power of giving back harmonize to create a narrative that's as motivational as it is melodious.
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.
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Speaker 3:There we go. Hey, hey, how you doing, man, it's great to be here Listeners.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, glad to have you, man. I was the weather out there.
Speaker 3:Oh man, it's beautiful until we got some rain coming all next week, which is crazy. Like the song said, it never rains in Southern California, yeah, okay. Hey there's the climate change. Oh man, it's ridiculous. Man, it's raining like Houston.
Speaker 2:Would you say something early before we came on live and I learned about we do a mobile detailing the rain is a blessing oh hey they love it.
Speaker 3:But you know, out here they, they get their cars washed while it's raining. They don't care, so Wow.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's good, that's good. Look, I'm telling my audience a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3:All right, my name is Andre Petrie, born and raised in Beaumont, texas Shout out to everybody and BMT graduate of Prairie View and in University, hbcu Representing started singing at the age of four, on the oldest of three boys. Mom and dad were married 40 years before my dad passed in 2015. So music has always been in my blood. He started me with music at four. I started playing baseball at four and I just enjoyed it. You know my middle brother, with five years apart, so I can remember times when I would perform.
Speaker 3:It started off with my dad playing music. You know, on Sundays he would play gospel music before church and then R&B and all kind of stuff after church. So I would listen to it and back then, you know, he had his albums and it's 45, so I was sneak and you know, and he goes to work and play them and you know back then the old school Albums, they had the lyrics on the inside, so I would Learn it and then when he would come home, I would perform it. Then, you know, we had a big family. So on Sundays my mom always cooked. Everybody came to eat at the church and I would put on the show and that went from there it's a singing in the church, I and, like they say, the rest is history.
Speaker 2:So Well, those that may not know you, you have done some remarkable things in the theater, on stage and as well as in the movies the love in the nick of time. Oh yeah, David E Tybur, and you have worked alongside some great artists I mean actors and stuff like Mars Chessnut, yeah, and so, minata, how was your experience working with them?
Speaker 3:It's amazing, man, especially that tour. That was one of my first major tours Working with Morris and Avon and David E Tybur. I mean the whole crew was amazing. Six months, two months of rehearsal before we went out, you know, just on the road. And what I loved about it is we started our own little basketball team.
Speaker 3:So in each major city, you know we would be hooping Because it was a lot of guys in the cast. So we had our own starting five and I came I think we were in DC and we was on the other side of the partition and these guys was like y'all just gonna hog the court and me, being a competitor that I am, I'm like, hey, you got five, I got five. If y'all beat us then we'll get off. Needless to say, we we went undefeated until we got to Atlanta. Them boys was balling out there, man. So we went like 15 and one, like I mean it was a great time, man, cause we were in these major cities Back then. We did eight shows a week. So we fly on on a Sunday, and then we set up Monday, we do shows Tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday to Saturday to Sunday, right, right, it was amazing. Great times, great cast and all of us are still cool to this day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you work with Miss. That is English. Yeah, that is.
Speaker 3:English. Oh man, she was amazing. She was amazing. Shout out to her.
Speaker 2:Did you learn a lot from her? Oh?
Speaker 3:yes, yes, yes. One thing about me I'm always learning and absorbing from any situation that I work in, and I share this with a lot of people that want to get in this business when you're on stage and you're acting or performing, if you don't come out different than how you started, then you didn't put it in the work the right way. You should never be the same way. You should never. You should learn something from each project that you do, cause with acting, you're not like, for instance, when you get on stage, unless you're playing Stacey, you're that other character, so you embody that. So I learned a lot from them and she was amazing, you know, from Broadway to TV, to films, and you know I would always have her do that. Oh, cheer, I don't know if you remember the movie Wildcats, when she was wanting to cheer you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:That was a classic man, so we would laugh and have a good time with that you put it on the spot with that one. Oh man, y'all worked with a lot of greats, man, that's cool.
Speaker 2:That's cool. Hey, let's talk about the other play that you did with Tyler Perry. How was working with Tyler? So you went from David then you got on tour with Tyler. How did that come about? The audition and everything.
Speaker 3:Well, the first let me back up. Before I did the David E Talbot, I did one with Charnelle Brown, AKA Kimberly Reese, which is my business partner, and that's when we started TriWing Productions. So, working with Tyler, it was amazing because I had auditioned for a previous show but the timing didn't work out and so they called me back to do this one, which was perfect timing because this one was, you know, we shot, it went to DVD. You know I worked with Palmer Williams, Patrice Lovely, the rest of the cast was amazing and those two are hilarious, Patrice and Palmer. And shout out to the rest of the cast man, we have some incredible singers.
Speaker 3:Tyler was no nonsense. You know, we get there If you got to be on your stuff. You know we had a great cast. So we did what we supposed to do and the experience was great. You know, and as I worked, you know, with Tyler and Dave Talbot and some of these other great directors, I was always creating and writing my own stuff. So that's what led me to, you know, step out on faith and do changes, which is a play that I did, and I turned it into a movie which is on 2B. So I'm excited about that as well.
Speaker 2:So, I checked it out. The other day I was at Rage of Bio. I checked it out, man. It's a good movie, good, creative, good story line and everything that you put together. So that was awesome, man, thank you. You directed it and then.
Speaker 3:What's the name?
Speaker 2:So I know she wrote it.
Speaker 3:Tyler, yeah, she wrote it. And it was amazing man. That's how we worked together 20 years and a half Y'all collaboration.
Speaker 2:Starting that production come called Try Win. Tell me a little bit about that.
Speaker 3:So Try, win means try until you win. That dash in the middle is the grind. Okay, and so we have a full fledged acting academy in Houston called the Shawnee O'Brien Acting Academy. So if anybody's interested, hollett, shawty, that's what we call each other. We got classes every six weeks and then there's a presentation where you can invite family and friends. All of our students are working. Matter of fact, the young man that played my brother in the movie, he edited the movie as well. So shout out to Kedrin, shout out to Marcus Freeman, my AD. So everybody in my, in our production company, not only do they go through and learn the craft, but everybody's working. You know, everybody's working. So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2:Hey, look here, hold tight for me for a second. I'm going to take a quick break and then we'll come back. We'll get into talking to you about the music, okay.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir.
Speaker 2:You're listening to Spit to the Beat Podcast with your host V1, the only Stacey B Unstoppable Per Year.
Speaker 2:Hey, this is Stacey, aka the 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 we're back to Spit to the Beat Podcast. I'm your host. Stacey, aka the Unstoppable Per Year, Joining me all the way from LA, is my very special guest. Like I said, we talked earlier about the plays that he did. Now I'm going to get into this movie and his music, my brother, Andre Petri. How you doing, man?
Speaker 3:I'm good boss, Good to be here.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about the music. Man, you've been singing for a while, have you been? You were singing before you started acting, or vice versa.
Speaker 3:Well, I did them at the same time. I started singing at four.
Speaker 2:So when I performed on, was that the triple threat.
Speaker 3:I'm very theatrical when I perform Everything is. You know my grandmother, when I was singing church she would say, boy, you got to loosen up.
Speaker 3:You know, because I was just standing, I'm singing one day at a time all the church songs, and she was like we got to feel what you're saying, and so she would play a lot of old school music and one of my favorites that she would play was Sam Cook. And so she said I need you to learn these type of songs because you can't help but feel like change going to come is one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Donnie had the way. This was the one I just went blank. A song for you, For all we know. You know all those great songs, man. I love songs that challenge me. So I just always love to sing, I love to entertain. You know, in school the teachers were like, since you want to be a star because I would be practicing my autograph, they say, finish your work and we'll allow you to sing. So that was the trade off. I finished my work, be quiet, and on Fridays they would allow me to sing for the students. So I was honing my craft in. So destiny was upon your library.
Speaker 3:At four man, God showed me this man. You know, it's been a journey and I tell people, man, Everybody has their own journey. You have your own lane. Our steps are ordered. So if you focus on what your calling is, God will have people in place for you and it's not gonna be easy, Because he wants us to always lean on him. So I encourage people just to follow your dreams. Life is short. You know we don't have time for the nonsense man, because we're not here alone.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 3:We're not alone, man.
Speaker 2:Look, okay, we're gonna go ahead and get into your song. I need you, then we'll come back and talk about it a little bit. Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:Hey, sweetie, you got a minute.
Speaker 3:I just want to talk to you about something.
Speaker 1:I know it won't take long Times. When I knew you were gonna leave, you end up coming right back. Just listen. I Know what. I did some foolish things, but you got me on the right track. You care for me, you were there for me. You love me unconditionally. You change me, believe in me. There's no doubt how I'm feeling, girl, cuz I need you, I need you, I need you.
Speaker 2:There it is, there it is.
Speaker 3:That's right talk about it baby talk about oh man, that song was written and produced by Terrence Rowe, aka traction out in Miami Boys. He's a he's amazing man. Um, I got Five more that he's doing that we already finished for the album. The album will be dropping in March. You know, you get a sneak. How can I say sneak peek? Are you the first to know? Really? Because we just decided we was gonna drop it a couple of days ago. So sometime in March I'm gonna do my first Album release party here in LA, then I'm gonna go to Houston, atlanta, so forth and so on. So I'm excited, man. What about Memphis? How come the Memphis too? Man, I'm definitely. I love it. I need some of that barbecue anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Well, when you come to Memphis, you hook. Look me up, I take to the right spot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I won't, because I know the right spot is. You know, you know it's off the beaten path. Everybody think it is, so that's some of the best food at somebody house in the backyard.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right. So this is not your first album. Have you done other songs prior to this?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've done a lot of stuff, man. Um, it's all been independent. I had a deal years ago when I first came to LA and I just learned a lot about the business. You know, anybody can dump money into a project, but you have to get out there and work it and I've always been creative and I don't like sitting back waiting. So I create, I invest into myself. You know that's where the mobile detailing comes in, even more now, cause the more coins I wash, the more I can invest into what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I got some nice cars out there.
Speaker 3:Oh, man, I love it. Man, I love it, I love what I do, I enjoy it because it's therapy for me so.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, let's talk about the community service. You talking about helping out the kids and stuff like that. How did that develop and become a passion for you? To you know?
Speaker 3:fulfill that dream. Well, I created all that to my dad. My dad coached in the community. He coached baseball for over 20 some years. So, like I told you in beginning, baseball was the first thing that I knew baseball and music cause he was already coaching and I just have a knock for it. When I moved to LA, I was coaching, working after school programs, I was running summer camps.
Speaker 3:I just love helping the youth. Somebody looked out for us. So it's our job as men, especially black men. You know these young boys need that proper leadership and it doesn't matter where you come from would walk a life. Every young man, every young person needs someone, cause they look up to us. Man, I don't care what we do, they look up to what you know. So it's our job, is our job to do that? So I enjoy it. And that's how Buddy's mobile got started. I was working at a homeless shelter and you know I would have to cook for the young men every night and then we would sit and break bread at the table and I would ask them, like what do y'all want to do? And I was like what can I create? And I'll enjoy washing cars. And again, like I shared, my dad had just passed, in 2015. So I wanted to honor him. So that was one way of getting started and just taking off from there.
Speaker 2:So so what ages you work with in a particular age?
Speaker 3:Oh man it was from elementary all the way up to young adults.
Speaker 2:The high school.
Speaker 3:Yeah, even beyond college as well. I created a show last year called the Black man that I'm doing and we started. We debuted in Houston in March and then we I just brought it here in October and I play seven different characters. Well, I sit down with a therapist and I do a Q&A afterwards and it's been going on the will.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a one man show, and from that I created a podcast called the Black man Podcast. Okay, it's on YouTube that you can subscribe to as well. So I will do that and I just want to do my part, man, as a black man, and I created something as a safe place for us to talk without being judged, you know, because we're being portrayed so many negative ways in the media. But it's a lot of us doing some positive stuff, a lot of stuff, but they only show the negative. But it's our job and you doing a great job as well, highlighting positive black stuff.
Speaker 2:You know, it's just like just like gossip man, you know it'll get more positive information. So you know, that's just the way we are as a society feed off the negative of social media more so it get more likes, more views, than some positive being done, and you forget all about. Is there some good people in this world or not, because you're looking at so much negative.
Speaker 3:But like they say, man, we the good always rise to the top, man always it's like the cause on the yeah, we coming. We have to just keep doing what we doing and not focus on that. You know, that's what I say about everybody standing in a lane. When you stand your lane and if you know anything about track, you get disqualified when you step out of the line, but if you're in your lane, you don't see all of that. So I try to stay in my lane and do me.
Speaker 3:I got enough on my hands doing me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I read to bio. You got a lot going on, brother. I mean like they call you the triple threat, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, man, I added quadruple now so I'm seeing act direct. You know, now I'm getting ready to. You know somebody asked me to come and speak. You know doing public speaking, cause I love, I love to encourage and you know, especially with coaching man, I just love, you know, coaching the youth and just motivating somebody and telling my story, Cause, again, we are blessed to be a blessing to others, correct? That's our job, that's our job.
Speaker 2:Hold tight one more time. I'm going to take another quick break. I'm going to come right back, yes, sir. Hey, this is Stacy aka be, unstoppable per year. Thank you for listening to our show, spit to the beat podcast. If you would like to be a sponsor, visit our website at wwwspittothebeatcom and click the support tab and leave a donation. We really will appreciate it. Thank you again for listening. Also, catch every episode Thursday morning at eight and we're back to spit to the beat podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm your host, stacy aka be unstoppable prayer and joining me virtually in the studio all the way from LA. It's brother, andre Petrie. Thank you again, man, for coming on the show and I really do appreciate the information that you have shared with me but with my audience and teaching them a little bit behind the scene to have things work in the theater business as well as to complete entertainment and along with your music as well. So, man, you definitely have a lot going on. One thing else before we go, could you give me a little more advice to my up and coming artists, singers, actors, actors that want to get into the industry, but try to voice some of those pitfalls. You talked a little bit about it earlier. You touched on about working hard, so what else could you share that may be valuable for them?
Speaker 3:So stay true to who you are. Stay true. Everybody has their season, but you have to put in the work. You got to really sacrifice, because no one is going to give you anything and if they do, that means they're going to control how you do it. But the more work and the more you bring to the table, the less control they're going to have. So work, work in the dark, like when you're hurting and something is going like for me. I take losses and downfalls and I use it as a positive.
Speaker 3:Stay creative. Stay true to who you are and tell your story. Can't no one tell your story but you? That's the great thing about entertainment. Everybody has a story and everybody has something in them that can bless someone else. So just stay true.
Speaker 3:Work hard. Don't settle. Don't allow anyone to take advantage of you and tell you who you are. God created us all in his likeness, so we went in. We went in from the jump. We're all kings and queens, so that's how you have to look at yourself. Don't worry about if somebody likes or dislikes, or don't comment on your page or we got to get off of that man, Because it's a lot of people get discouraged from if nobody likes this or whatever, but all it takes is one one yes. And if you're doing it for the money, you're going to stay frustrated. You have to do it for the love. I love what I do. You do it for the love is gonna take care of yourself because your talent will speak for itself. So I just say that just be a blessing man, you know, Dear blessing, make every second count, because once God calls us home, that's it.
Speaker 3:That's it life goes on, man.
Speaker 2:So yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we all have an assignment, so do your job to the best of your ability.
Speaker 2:Oh, Awesome, awesome. I want to thank you again for being on spirit to the beat podcast. Look how can people find you on the social media platforms.
Speaker 3:So Andre Petrie 13 and that's PIT re, the number 13 on social media. Well, what is that? Ig on YouTube, andre Petrie one subscribe. I have a Podcast, a black man podcast. I have a black man Podcast IG. I have tried with music IG, but the main thing is Andre Petrie 13. So I want to thank everyone for the support that you've been giving me and Look forward to you know more great things coming, especially with the album. It's titled the evolution. I'm excited, stacey. Again, I appreciate you, man, and congrats to everything you doing. Keep being a light, keep being a positive black man in this world. You know, I pray that God covers you and your family and whatever you doing, man, keep it up.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I'll be there for that barbecue.
Speaker 2:I like hold tight as I close out the show. Yes, sir. Thank you for watching spit to the beat podcast. Join again next week for another live episode.