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SPEAKER_02 0:00

It's like a delay when you hear control for me.

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Okay. But that's fine. All right. So let me let me get back um to where with that. How you doing today?

SPEAKER_02 0:14

I'm doing good. Been busy.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

But I'm doing glad to hear that. Uh I know that you uh been you got a lot of stuff you're working on, so uh we just gonna uh talk about a little stuff tonight, you know, so that everybody can get to know who you are. Okay, okay. Who don't know who you are, they they get to know you a little better. You know, I get to as well learn you as well.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

And then uh have a good good show.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Can you see the afro K Yeah? All right, yes, yes, Coletta. Sometimes my song says to Coletta. I've been singing since seventh grade.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

And I started writing my music maybe in my twenties.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

And I still have a song, Psalm 9, that have been with copyright and since 90s years. Later on, later on doing now is taking too long from being my kind of touching up and I'm kind of like going with a step.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Okay. So how's that been working out for you?

SPEAKER_02 1:44

So far I did my first song. It's been hard back in the day when I when I did the copyright, I did a group, I did on songs. Right. And then if you take little songs as well, I'm using the same ID ID.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

I'm like, what the heck? What the what's putting the group? Put you in the group.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Yeah, I agree. I agree. Because I have some music out there as well. So um I know it's it's a it's a better app uh to control like what you can do and and stuff like that. So uh you know, I also use Distro Kid as well. Uh but you know, they they told me uh if you want to, you know, do movies, soundtracks, uh pretty much you can uh I guess if you do any shows, you can you can account for that as well. So uh even I had to learn that, so I pretty much had to uh use my VM now. I mean my a my ass tap now for you know anything like if I even go out to talk to somebody and stuff like that, I know I I can uh charge or get get the price for that as well. So so I'm learning learning something new every day.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

I'm totally learning something. I was trying to beat my looking down when I put that song down. Right. I really didn't even know I was just kicking and playing around. And um that boss goes pretty simple, pretty vague. But I didn't know people.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

I mean, I listened to the song. I was like, hey, uh uh you got you got like uh little Southern Bell vibes. So I said, you know, uh we gotta get get a little Southern Soul on on the show as well. So everybody can hear what you do what you're doing out there. So uh it's been a been a good reception. So uh like I said, keep doing what you what you're doing. Um we're gonna uh pretty much ask you about, you know, uh what got you to to be a singer? Like uh was there any family influences, friends, or anything like that that got you involved.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

Yeah, I would say back on the day it was my mom, she walked, she sang in church first. I grew up in the church and I was in gospel for a while and things like that. But I I I didn't really get it. And um my first solo original with a friend of mine piano piano, and we did it off because it's seventh grade for um uh uh schools still have this day because they we had competitions and so that's where I was then my teacher. I was in chorus, I played um clarinet. I mean you didn't have any point but piano, piano. So my dad purchased teachers for me and 11th grade and from there and I just started creating sounds, you know. Read music and all that at one point one you don't lose it, lose it. Um I was in a lot of company uh for the school and I began to study at the study. I don't want to use going off. The next reason sometimes you would try and do with a little of a broad.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

Sometimes I try to hold it down. Try to sing straight, straight. Because now everybody's great, great. They may run a few reviews, but um try to keep that in the bay.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Yeah, so um by you doing that, um do you feel like uh changing up your sound is is helping, or do you think that that like being who you are originally is is is a better or better verse?

SPEAKER_02 6:00

Uh you know, I'm just trying to be white. I don't want to be uh well she's just a so or oh she just I hate to say it, but I did but I didn't buy the southern soul. So um I like I love the learning if the sound comes out real quick, it just could come out not if it comes out jack if it comes out a little country comes out a little rock and rock rock and roll. I don't I stay in with an area area.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Right. So you so you versatile?

SPEAKER_02 6:38

I'm very versatile. I don't know. Southern sound and I'm not even I'm not even as you see that little yeah, yeah. It's sound it's a little soul that it's pretty bass. Um, basic soul sound it's all all southern souls to say at the at the or blue, too, it ounces I I I create I create that.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Right. So um what um pretty much where where did you realize that singing was just was it just a hobby? It was a call.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Well at the time it really wasn't a hobby school because when I got it, when I got a lot of events, um I was with an I was with a a manager at the manager at the really good right hand joint. So so the money that I made the problem I had again married and had kids. So so I missed opportunity to Europe because I had kids. Okay and I had to sit home and be a mom at work or then trying to be fine, but still go and go and gigs that dig step right ten o'clock and ten o'clock at night and be back. Uh it wasn't working out. So as so as my as my kids get older because I did because I'd money money. And that's the reason why I know I got now from from place from Harley Park, I've been bought or as I didn't do a bit. I used to do my doing um uh events like the mayor of May Cor. And I make wonderful, wonderful people. I mean like I mean like Hawkins, Carl Lewis, John, Blue Punch, I didn't know who they were. They wanted face to face I bet Jimmy Dad, tell me, yeah, tell me. But my thing was I didn't them. Most people, most followers, they know y'all think about. But I were in places right here because they it's hard right now to have a bank that form and the and I made it is the money that some get now. Everybody?

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Yeah, absolutely. That that that's a lot uh we we deal with that up here too.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

Yeah, yeah. So I don't I don't like it. So right now, absolutely production. Um I love doing productions. I love doing I love doing show. I love Tower Stones, you know, all of that. I make I make you know we make props and all of us and all seasons and TV same late, same late. I think it's um um we may be small, small, but we like big, big.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

I like it.

SPEAKER_02 10:03

And what do uh uh I have had I haven't said, oh we'll help help, but they don't but they what we're doing, we're doing what they back they back off. Like nobody wants nobody wants to work. So how do you feel about that when you when you you're trying to put out work and and you know sometimes people might be like they're on board but then they like they check out we just count it as kind of open up yes it's not it's gonna be a time it's gotta be gotta be uh over it, whatever we use it for the money, for the money for it. Right because you take a risk, a risk doing a show, it's not any show down a lot of people are out of work out of work. Uh a lot of people have lost jobs, jobs, and people and people if you're all uh like like I know that's sure but but they come out don't want to feel to my feel to what you're out if they come out if they come out. Um if they I still have a taking out if they have a loss, I take a loss. I still if I don't put one but for two particularly mass that's the last right. So that's how I look at it. That's how I look at it. Management, all of it, all of them everything is everything is so we got streaming.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Yeah, and and pretty much, you know, uh I think that's the thing that's been killing uh uh indie artists that don't that do shows because now you can stream yard, you can TikTok live, Facebook Live, and now people not they don't want to pay that$35,$40 to come out when they can just say, hey, I can just sit at home and look at you for free, which is not fair to the artist because you guys are putting out the work. Um if if you could change that, what would what would be your um what would be some type of way that you would like say, hey, let's do something different than um people just thinking that they can go on live to just look at you for free? Uh what would you like do differently, change up or switch that makes people want to come back out to see live performance?

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Well, well, the well like you said, free if if if it was made that it was mad that he had the streaming course. That would help many, many, many.

SPEAKER_01 12:57

Right.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

I heard Snoop Dogg talking about it, he was talking about it. He was so everybody's watching something. You go on YouTube, you can watch it. If you don't want the commercial, you don't want the commercial thing you can that's not going to the artist. That's the artist, that's platform. Platform. Well, people had to think well what builds they have to come out, come out. And it's hard because you got the big money to make these platforms. It wasn't our idea. And now that it's really out there and AI is fed into all of everything of what we're doing, um, even some of the editing programs that I use, AI is sticking up in there like it's my best friend. But I'm like, golly, they're really shoving, they're shoving it down our throats. But you know, the pro the thing is what's gonna make you still be the artist that you are, still work hard versus somebody that's getting paid off of AI that's just really quick, and they came up with something, came up with the video, they didn't have to put in the work for the video, they didn't have to go back and edit it, they can just tell AI what they want, and people listen to it. And you they're they're they're getting the the views or whatever, or of people subscribing to their channels. Now they can set up for monetization and they get paid.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Yeah, and they're getting awards too.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

And they're getting awards. I mean, YouTube is give giving awards, uh, TikTok is giving awards. Um, I don't know about Facebook. Facebook is kind of, I can't tell you, Facebook is really boring. You know, it is what it is, but it is a platform for us to still be in contact with one another. Um, TikTok has changed a lot since it's, you know, over to America, whatever. It has changed a lot. And uh, but I'm on that most more than anything, and I'm working on my YouTube, Instagram, give or take, Twitter, uh, Snap, Snapchat, you snapping and you're chatting. But other than that, the the the biggest the biggest one to me would be uh YouTube and TikTok. I've met a lot of people. I've met so many people uh on both. I don't get a chance to come out live all the time, but I try to make it where I do and just be a part of and I join I go into other um, what should I say, other rooms or other people channels, those who are singing. I found a show where I'm I'm thinking this for real, right? It sounds so good. Somebody's doing Whitney. I'm like, yes, yes, that's great. But I didn't I didn't read the title. The titles, it's like you lip syncing, but you look like the artist and you doing word verbatim, and I'm like, I saw like a thousand people on that. So I'm like, that's pretty cool not to be really doing it, but looking and um, you know, making them the motions or whatever. I'm like, is that what we come to now?

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Yep. Uh easier.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

It is easier, and then those who are out, and I watch certain artists, and I I've I watched some of them grow, just come out a few years ago that are younger, and I look at it and I'm like, okay, I'm watching them. But everybody's lip syncing. Yeah. I like saying we we could not get away with anything like that. Oh, that's not true. And I still wouldn't do it. Yeah, I wouldn't even do it with my own song because it it just wouldn't it would feel weird for me to sing with like to myself, with myself, you know. I I can take the tracks and then do it, but I cannot do it with myself. Now I can if I put I did my background or whatever, I don't mind that, but not actually on my word, you know. Um but I noticed a lot of artists are doing that, and I'm like, oh my god, and they talked about Millie and Vanilli back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

Now everybody Yeah, I remember when I was younger and um they came on Soul Train, and my dad was like, hey, they can't speak English. He was like, he said it they ain't really sing it. I I was hurt. But I was a Millie Vanilli fan, and you know, couldn't tell me they couldn't think until they got me on Soul Train, and and pretty much Soul Train was the thing that it'll expose you, it'll expose you real quick. If you if you ain't if you ain't on top of it, and you we there was no love back then. Now it's like, hey, you I can pretty much not even be in a room and and people like man, you can't really decipher now what who's really singing what? It all's like, yo, that's not good. And then you like, hey, you know, uh, it was an artist that was the AI that somebody was like, hey, they made up and now they getting orders and all that, and and it and it makes it harder on the artist that's that's out here. Yes. So it's like my question would be like, what would you give like indie artists as a tool or just guidance to help them like not to get the scourge of AI creeping into everything and just be original with what they're doing?

SPEAKER_02 18:22

So the only the only thing I could say, because I do know a lot of people, I and it and I've even seen it, younger people, they get angry, they get mad, nobody will watch this, nobody, but I just say keep keep continu that depends on your view of where you are. Are you doing it just to be noticed, or are you gonna be uh doing it for overnight sensation? Because nowadays look it looks like your your tenure how long you're gonna last as the artist maybe for the younger artists, you might get 10 years. Then you you're almost in the league of fighters and and players, basketball players now. The the lifespan is very much different than what it used to be. So while you're younger, take time out and see. I mean, their style is what their style is, you know, they know what they're saying with one another. In our days, we knew what we were singing. I got some stuff. I'm learning to come back and say, I'm like, dang, I didn't know that. But everybody, every so many 10 years or so has their own and history repeats itself. So I do see some of the younger generation come out pulling and and and pulling back some of the older songs uh from the artists is maybe I hear, and they sound good on it. They do really well. So I would say to like for one, be yourself. Don't try to be some if you're doing a tribute, do the tribute, but don't be the artist itself unless you were like if you're doing a wick in Houston, I used to sing him in Houston a lot, you know, to cover songs and parties and stuff. Well, that's just what you want to be enjoying it. That was not true. Now, some I'm not gonna take it away from some people because some but you kind of put yourself it, if that's all you want to do, that's fine. But you gotta I say to people, you gotta talk to find out what is it about you that you want to do. Besides please in the world, besides pleasing your next door, you have to please you first. And if you can't please you first, then you're always gonna be crying or you know, and and and that's what about social media it could be good, it could be excellent, and it can be bad in a certain situation because it can cause uh some people to go into depression because they feel like oh I'm I'm and I have not I should not this baby. I'm like, keep pushing. I mean, I'm like, keep doing this, keep doing stuff. Don't give up, don't let AI this condition that's society. This is the world we live in. And it's not everybody changing, even after this. We gotta know how to grow with the punches and and and learn as we go. Only thing you have to say is don't give up. Because I mean you noticed years ago, remember we used to give do thumbs down when people don't like something. They stopped all of that.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Right.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

They stopped it because an artist can be let's just say a million, a million and the comments, they need to stop. We need to really watch the comments because some some of those comments do be dragging people out.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

Yeah, they do.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

And you know, and I and I hate to see that sometimes that the thumbs down they stopped because it was too many people just really picking themselves out, just because they Maybe 300 people that demon like it's your point is nothing. People don't like everything I do. I really can't from the age we don't care about and we just like I'm like, well, I had my tool when I was younger. If I blew it, having having my butts can't stick. And as time went on, everybody can't say that they can get a residual on the top of uh baby. I I get a lot of people telling me, bro, you know, I used to give you the person I put. I said, here's the bottom line. You're right here looking at me. So it is neither here or there, but it's good to go in your football. That's nice. But I don't work in a lot of things that I used to do or who I used to play with. I just the now, what I'm doing now. You know, so that's how I feel about it. The young people really need to wake it up to not a rapper. Uh I I used to love to be a rapper. He said, I don't see how I can get in the I said depends on how you look. It also depends on your wording, because uh you know society, they it it's it's kind of touchy situation now. Everybody's in the word, everybody after so long, now it's beginning I guess tiresome. I guess people get tired of it. Yeah, but nevertheless, hopefully they'll change if they if they change if if it can change if something stops something to each other or about each other, maybe it can give a whole different light. That's fine for somebody could be a little bit positive in the rap. That's again. I got it.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Yeah, because uh even with having a show, um, maybe when we do reviews, uh we we always listen to the edited and the um the other person, and we used to be like, hey, uh you never know who's on the who's listening to the station. So uh sometimes people don't want to hear all that on the radio. So uh so we pretty much we tell them, hey, send send us the clean version because like you don't know if it's gonna be kids. It might be somebody that might not want to hear all that. And they like, okay. Then you just throw it, you throw it in somewhere down the road, you know, where people are like, all right, okay, I want, you know, I heard that version, but usually, like you said, a lot of people just they they want to listen to music differently now because with everything going on, you want to you you don't want to hit hear all about killing and then all this stuff. You want something like positive and and uplifting. So uh I agree with that and and you know, um, like I tell even artists I work with, you know, if you can't um pretty much do it and be happy with it, I tell my mom I say don't put it up. Like, don't rush it because, you know, you're like, oh, I got I need to put this out. Uh because sometimes artists put stuff out there, it's like, oh I don't like it. But you don't wasted all this time to put stuff out there. But just, you know, worked on, tweaked, and and then put it out when you felt like, okay, that's that's a hit.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Exactly. And I don't ever know what's gonna be hitting football. I'm like, whatever, whatever. And then I don't have to worry about it, because since I record everything on the video, one thing I like about History Kit, I can't like Go Daddy, go to the kid. But I can say that even though I master and and um but they remastered remaster. I like I did like that.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

I'm like, oh my ooh, how what is your business fan base? Is it more in the in overseas or the more in the state?

SPEAKER_02 26:03

So forget the screen. The state man, you can get out. I cannot get one DJ on on a local station to play you. They want you to pay them, you know, whatever the case, uh, astronaut chemical price. But I love it. I love the days. They got old kind, they completely one was waiting for me. He just asked, he said, are you gonna are you not gonna be done by the end of the month? I said, good question. But I'm not gonna make it first. I do plan to put out another from bringing stuff forward and and and a little bit slow, but you know, I'm I'm playing and one thing I like about my keyboard, I can say this persona style, professional haven't even got haven't even said for the script description. Once I buy it's mine, I don't mind, I don't but um one thing I I I I like to see core cross keyboards I have because like an accomplishment of all on all on one hand, and I'm like, and I'm like, hey, this is pretty cool. I don't need a man, yeah. I need cool when I need you. But right now, y'all right because it's like I said, um they learn things. I mean, I love why I love doing recorded, recorded a lot of times. I just I can say, okay, let's go around, let's take around and take it. Right. Uh I can run I can go whatever. I'll be sorted next day. But a sus will be word.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

That's what needs to be done.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

Exactly. So I'm really I don't really I know what's on the but I I really I really and if let's just say I'm doing a talk to a certain artist, like a race butter, we got a certain song. So but but I don't sing like a readback, I sing like four letters because I I I'll get down to my deep throat on the center, right? But I'll get down to my deep throat. So I do it my way. Um so and again, I do if I do it to the best of my ability to uh uh uh remember those beautiful songs from their RNA R and and give uh give uh now the people that are the most sometimes um people in their fifties and fifties and uh and they're happy them not to be able to do that. They don't know how to use cube it's hard. It's like you know, but what I'm learning is the way the way uh platforms, you know, but but getting out I would give them a flaw and they're saying what's it what's this about is it this ladies was ladies with this show I said does it feel I know you're looking at you, but it is not hair show it's a show of old school, old school music you're gonna get a dinner and a show and then I run Oh that's a little bit hot well if I said if it was people people don't think nothing and what they don't realize is that most communities say that this is this is event that you can send with the public the public what they don't understand it's not free, it's our it's our they just allowed you to climb in the club and that tax money paid for uh other artists, other artists come in or any or any that goes there. That's the I don't think they understand it. So when I'm unloading things here, um yeah, we'll give it out there there in um um coolers and dishes and dishwash, dishwash, wash, dishwash, dish around the place, around the place. It is what it is. But the my the um right now I'm beginning to go in a route. I almost say it the wrong way. I want I I like one in the screen because I have people that they don't need but they need a sandwich depending on the time. You know, you know they don't need they don't need coleslaw and a hot and a hot dog. They just they want a little drink, want a little drink with a shuck, the shuck so I've been talking, okay. Okay, North Georgia, Georgia, South East, East. And I can say that I can say I got I got family down and uh making a run of Robins.

SPEAKER_01 32:15

So uh so my my aunt she always wants to shows and she'll call me, hey, I'm going to so-and-so show. Uh she might ask me, hey, you know, uh this thing and third. So I'm gonna ask her, I'm like, hey, you maybe you ever been to uh Carletta show and see what she see what she tells me when when when I when I talk to her Lamar, see what she tells me. So she might tell her, hey, you might want to pull up on her. You know, my cousin and her and my cousin, they're there. Now the one thing is they love good music, so they'll pull up.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

So they'll pull up, yeah. Yes. I couldn't I couldn't have they had they had a musician come down to you know my card, fun. But we will add in a cover song. Um uh Noah. Noah, you know, people and people in and I I look at a people think. I was just in uh awful, awful. They let the play and they let it let And you can see people on my people like that's why you think I'm shocking, you think I'm shocking. But um wait, wait, Brad Smart, Bragg Smart. All over the store the store. But it's like those things. Do I feel like going out going out to the bar and just for the date for the date?

SPEAKER_01 33:48

I don't, I don't. So how do you feel when you out in the street and people say, hey, uh, you know, do you go past me, drive past me, like, is that you? And you're like, yeah, and they're like, yo, I love the song. And I want to like, like, how does that make you feel? Like if you really touch the people with your easy.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

It makes me feel it makes me feel basically it makes me at the HIM. At the H IM it's similar to the touch. I'm like, I'm like, that lets me let me know not completely not completely. And and it is up to you, it's up to you to still out there and talk there and talk to people, show them. I I give them everything, and I'm not there, come out, information about information about it. Hey, you're my listeners, you want to listen to that. Because I don't have I don't have a team. Like it's only two of us, two of us who exist the same, the same. And um and um it's hard. It's hard. Yeah, and it's hard to coach. You know, we'll be back in the day, give out stuff about shows and stuff about shows, and people show up. None of that, none of that you can't put it on, you can't put it on the cards. Yeah, can't do that anymore. Can't do that anymore. And hopefully, and the whole camera out the corner when there's nobody come out, it's nobody come out and stop the camera. But we're doing anyway. What we're doing anyway, but yeah, it makes it true, it makes it feel good when people send it to the city, right? Um, one of the DJs about I got it in my body, I got it in my people. And I reach out to some people, Jason kind of test them out. Testing them out. Where are they? Where are they? What are you looking for? What do you want for? Or are you or are you gonna get back?

SPEAKER_00 35:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

I have given I have given test people like I decide I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna stop. Because if you if you can't give back that, yeah, I can't get myself. But and and play other songs. You're living on TikTok, TikTok, yeah, yeah. You know, and you gotta be a dude. I was just trying to get people uh really for us and voices. But if I say if I say if and a private D private DM, would you mind playing my song? Let's try to see what other actually did really well, really well. And that's on my on my on my Facebook page.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

Yeah, because I I saw that one in um that that uh I think it was a couple weeks ago where uh uh played your song. Um and I was I was like, that that's that's the basic because I know like even out here, I'm I'm one of those people, I know people gotta make their money, but like to pretty much play a song ain't really ain't really costing you nothing just to be like, hey, can you push this? You know, just to see what the reaction is. Uh and so that that's how we I kind of do like I do, like it's it's sometimes it's just to see what the feel is and see how people uh act or respond to what you're doing. Uh then after that then you can move how you want to move at that point.

SPEAKER_02 37:09

Exactly. And that's and that's really awful. I'm funny, I'm funny. Music, if you like it, if you like it, it might you know, you know, it is what it is because prerogative prerogative people look at it. If I really love really love. So it's not prerogative prerogative. Um the thing is comment, comment, um that's when that's when say some say some things so far, so far. But but I do see that, but the more people get to know you a little bit more and the more I see people hating behind things. For no reason, for no reason at all.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

Yeah. Yes, because I I know that you you won a lot of competitions, um, and all, and and you know, really proudly for that. Um, and I know you've got opera, pop, jazz. Uh, this one is Italian. Uh let's talk about that one. How how was it to do uh as uh as a genre uh Italian music?

SPEAKER_02 38:19

Italian is almost like Spanish, but you gotta, you know, again, it's one of those things you use it or lose it. So, but at the time, my my teacher wanted me to be in competitions and wanted me to learn this Latin. And I was like, How am I gonna know that? I only I was taking a Spanish class, but and I think that's something that with America, they need to push other languages in in the schools, and they don't. They really are from from the time they start, they should always be pushing it. But nevertheless, I learned it and it was it was wild, and I still do that song to this day, but I do it as a warm-up. I do it when I'm in certain uh uh areas like certain theaters or certain art centers, and if they have a good uh sound acoustic or whatever, and I don't need a microphone, I test it out with that. Not awesome this fero. And then I just take it on and on and on. And I was like, I still remember it, but uh, and then at one point, black, Negro spirituals, I didn't like those, but if that's what it calls for, and sometimes when I'm doing on a stage play, is one got to be in there. I'm like, ugh, but um because it reminds me of uh I guess that was a category or something at one point, uh-huh. But it just reminds me, it just reminds me of slavery, and I and I don't know that I wasn't in in it in it like my like my my father was back in that in those times. But I'm like, I surely don't want to sing it. Yeah, not that, but I had to just to show the versatility of uh going from this, going from gospel, doing this, doing that, doing jazz, and I don't like folk songs. I don't country, yeah. Country tells a story, but I I I don't I don't know. You can tell me I don't think I have a twing enough to wing wing it, wing it on a on a country song.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

I think I think you could.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

You think I could? You think I have well, I guess I'll have to be like Dolly Parkment, but whatever. But I'm just saying, but you know, I just never really tested anything out country, so to speak.

SPEAKER_01 40:47

So what uh John your natural uh coffee?

SPEAKER_02 40:53

RB and soul, but when they say B with the blues, I don't really do the blues. I do have a blues song that I'll probably be putting out uh that I did some time ago. But uh I don't I don't I'm I don't consider myself as a bluesy singer, more of a soulful singer uh in love or whatever the case. It's just that society has made all these little categories, and you can't seem to be free unless you're stuck in a category. Like, for instance, I love uh Afrobeats. Yeah, like I'm trying to incorporate some of that in my music. I love the I I love that, you know, it's got this certain mmm, you know, and it vibes with your body and stuff like that. I like uh one of the artists, uh uh Tim's I like, I like um uh Tyler, and uh she brought out the I'm a piano. I love that sound, and it's just really um I don't hear it a lot played over here, but I know she's over here living now in New York, but um, I just don't hear enough of her songs on some of the radio stations, like I, you know, over there. So, but I follow certain ones I want to hear. And then and and what the heck, I can go and pull it up if I want to hear it.

SPEAKER_01 42:09

Yeah, so uh I'm gonna I'm gonna do a quick shout-out because this this might be what you think. She she's hearing the DMV. Her name is uh Hannah G Smith. He's on Facebook, uh Real Business Music Astro B, uh RB Gospel. So um just make sure you follow her, tap in with her. Okay, and yeah, I I feel like y'all can y'all can y'all can work on something something real master and nice. So yeah. I I like that.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

Yeah, she's putting out a yes.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

Yeah, so she's real good, real amazing. You know, we she has a couple of songs to sell. Um, her and her husband, they're they're they're usually putting out like songs, a lot of songs, and she's working on a a project as well. So yes, she's somebody that you probably w want to tap into if you want that that this that that type of uh sign.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

Awesome. Yes, I definitely want to do that.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

All right, all right. So, hey, so hey, I do shout-offs and all that too. Yeah, you know, I get people together to collaborate, you know, make a magic.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

Make magic.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

So we was um it's it's funny how that interview, because we didn't got to none of the stuff that I have. Uh so that so that's a good thing. So uh me and my um my uh lady, we were talking uh, because we have a show uh as as well, and we was talking about uh music. And pretty much uh what we talked about yesterday. It's kind of funny that me and you talk about this same thing today, uh, where these artists need to understand that it's it's it's just not a it's gonna happen overnight. Like it's what it's what you make it. Um if you wanna push your music, if you want to do energies if you wanna get yourself out there you're gonna have to do the work and sometimes we feel like yes I don't want to do the work. You know, I feel like if I if so if I know you and you know a couple other people let me let me brush up against sheep so I can see how I can get to where you have but I'm not you know I don't want to put it in work like you know people not um people not posting my music why they not they're not doing this and the third um so like I I tell them all like you gotta you also gotta do your part as well like even people who have management I it's cool that your management is doing their part but you still gotta also post and let people know hey uh I got music out out here that I'm trying to push as well.

SPEAKER_02 44:47

Yeah it's right that's right and yeah because I'm talking on a simple platter who played off and so you're just not a singer you're a trained uh vocalist and you know that's that's a different level right there because a lot of people uh don't have that so let's um let's talk about that well when when when you're a trained vocalist it's not like that you just woke up Jay over in the bathroom washing under your arms and decided hey I think or some of a friend something said you can sing no I was trained at a younger age by an actual um uh professional musician that taught music in the school schools and a lot of people here's another thing a lot of people don't know they may go down I don't they haven't school nowadays we had four we had band from four good so when you're taught by these people and and that's who they've gone on to school for music then they pick out your students that they see that potential that they can work with them that they can work with then you're spending time it goes back to what you were saying um you gotta put it in the work you gotta put I have to put in the work after school I had to go over songs over and over and over I had to like okay I sing now my my child can say probable no because we sing from our diaphragm we don't sing hard from our we should be able to sing without that's how strong you anyone can become if they're trained now some people say oh no I'm a singer but I test them out nothing about test people out if you can harmonize with me if you I don't care what notes turn out and you can harmonize then I say okay well let's take another and I see you can work those scale because some people don't know how to work the scale and um holding their books with holding with exercise a big part and all trying to hold holding notes out really long or whatever the case is and work with it. And every day you gotta do it it's like you gotta work with your vocals um it's it's it's like getting up going you got it was out of day today I have some tea right I'm talking a lot but still I gotta keep this moist you know I gotta keep it protected because that's my instrument when you smoke you're cocaine when you're around smoke that that's the reason I don't smoke I don't I think God I don't smoke but if I'm in an environment where there smoke bothers me I'm like y'all I can't do this anymore or you know and it's someone someone opened the door so I can bring because secondhand smoke is just but so people and and everybody got their own lives with rap is one thing because they'll talk to a point they're talking you know a lot a lot with singers and notewise you can this is your beautiful instrument and and sometimes if you if you take care of that it'll take care of you if you it's like exercise and you if you want to try to train your body look a certain way well that work you're not just not like shot you're gonna go out there and do the work. I have to oh I'm already medication and I don't want to have to stick something in my arm just to lose the weight so I have to go out there and go play and go either it it is what it is. So that's the way we got people um I and I would watch some of them but they some by themselves and they can't swing with other people. And the reason why they can't swing with other people they don't think and and and and they're not the only ones adults to get the tool oh girl yes I'm gonna I don't know what you're doing that's okay okay give me a hump start out on the note what you mean why why start out on a start on B flat start on wherever you want to start where you want to start and when I see that they don't know that then that tells me I will that you could ask me just start out somewhere call it and then the next person this part is working okay okay and once you do that and once you come in and coming down that's I'm like hey hey I love it when I can hit out the back with people like that you know that chemistry it's like you're right it's like but it's not like that with everybody I I try it with some people and I really want to really want to do the shows with those that I want to put I'm like well we're having such a hard time like you hit harmony if we if something open here say for this let's dedicate something to I would just say let's just say it's dedicated not doing on on in unison so when somebody when I'm here I do soprano that can be out tone so so if you can only soprano and you know how to sound on your heat I'm like this is gonna be a battle right I've saw some kids online today they were singing no instruments no I don't know if there was sisters they were singing their little tales and harmonizing you know for tech with something like that when you can sing a cappella with no you are a singer you don't you don't need to have nobody like I was putting up I used to put in the um I asked me to sing yet the other day yes I'm like they put me on a split line I don't have it real quick real quick did the flat as night they got the that got the assignment they could thank you guys uh I thank God for still allowing able to keep that and not uh and another thing I never tell you let me tell you what I see people doing now with that and musicians too unless unless you even wander rape whatever you whatever you you really know what those are you know I meet a lot of musicians that can control well why because they're they're they're musicians but they're not trained musicians I love a trained musician because if you have the question hey hey hey hey half a key half a key home just see how see how because when you thought a trip trip to a certain let's let's call it I said well you thought it was saying really how they said I don't want to go continuously because as we get older my son some people when they they might want to get the shots the shots to try to keep their voices in that same stage or whatever you even see some of the some of the songs but down the summer's voice some of the drop these you got some some of our I can I say it's it is what it is what it is. So you have so when you tell a you tell a musician hey can you say look if you like if they're like well that's what I'm gonna do they don't cratch it and do something. Like don't come back on these yeah and if you can't read everybody can't read music music they don't know those everybody's community it's okay it's okay but it's important how to transpose and know your other I make the only both white the white I mean what do you think the black keys up here's up here for on the on the piano on the piano.

SPEAKER_01 54:27

Your your flats, your shards your mind as you're making that you're making it I wish I didn't learn that because uh I'm a drummer so I I pretty much just play by ear but I wish I'd have learned how to how to play uh by by notes because but you know I I know I can go back and do it but it's just it's just you know just a situation people like hey can you play like ear like all right you you just hear the song I'm like yeah so let's let's let's work with it.

SPEAKER_02 55:01

Yeah okay yeah yeah I play by ear but I don't play the ear play I I I can but I don't play but I don't I got it I got it. Um I used to do it a lot again if you don't you it's like your it's like your if you don't you don't um it it it it it'll go down just deteriorate just deteriorate so um what I'm doing what I'm creating I'm like okay okay I had someone said one to what is she too what if she took them hang out so long as singing concentrated to liquidity but it's called it's called the putting in the parts right wrong with putting yeah true I agree.

SPEAKER_01 55:54

If you if you can do one another then you know you you're good to go.

SPEAKER_02 56:00

Uh I I I that's why I like uh when you have a band that you you have chemistry with um but sometimes everybody can't play with everybody and you know uh especially when you're doing tribute or even shows and you gotta be called a lot of notes or you're like oh that's not the right right lick or you don't miss the lick and all that you're sitting there for another two hours and you're looking like well this could be a long life yes and uh have you ever been in those type of situations where you've had those type of rehearsals got yes all the time I'm like I'm like what one day I date it I was doing I was doing show show on vegan speech and I I'm very detailed I'm very detailed I give you the date the show the show the place the place what we're gonna do what we're gonna date um um everything is lined up everything out what you want what's where the lot a lot or whatever case or whatever if if I if I I want it alone I love if we don't when they don't pay any attention they haven't read it they haven't read it out and you get to the first with somebody first with somebody you didn't get the mess you didn't get the mess you know you know I know everybody's in the group and then most people say people got four months out well we got but we need to be working on it working for true and and by the time everybody feels like they got it like we got the first one or still asking what hell somebody is somebody got to gotta ask yeah my thing is one guy broke down and I cried and I cried I see it I see it money may not be coming out of pocket but a sister don't feel no good when we spend money to decide to do what they didn't want it they didn't want it goodness with show show um um so yeah you find it you think if you think you have having a close card system really really quick and I'm glad I have a forward forward musician musician kick in yeah right I like I'm late no I need I need I need to delete this I'm not saying that this is our area sometimes we all get a little bit we get a little and everybody knows you doing anything with me looking like you are heart he ha the clamp the clamp no we're not having that so we we go to go to the the dress dress like I'm I'm they have black and black and blue blue black black we'll see even with one of the with one of the groups I may buy some I may buy some dresses buy some buy some it's I'm going along with her stuff I tried to I'm not gonna y'all make y'all making me I can't sleep at night at night I can't sleep at the night and I'll make it home make it all no worries no worries so uh as we as we get towards the end uh let's talk about your new news and your upcoming releases uh my new new mount now now that you have another station this Saturday this Saturday okay yeah yeah this yeah becoming keep coming and I'm thinking my post for your quotation that gives people the year for the game who she is gonna come what she's gonna come to um um as for as you I am I am working on the talk hush hush it's gonna be interesting what what what was what what was the uh idea about her the idea about Hush is the fact that I I was in I was I was at that moment because sometimes things moment I'm feeling if you're feeling happy like come out if you feel in a certain kind of way but hush came about and I share that with a lot of people because a lot of people out there out there like myself we look to see what's in the market size me but uh um uh I have met a lot of people other uh channels the channels I don't want but um um it's not easy to to go through as a woman I said woman I can't say but as a woman it's a woman certain things like anxiety women and I mean and I have a different category and it's been difficult over the last 10 years 10 years to find myself on a DLC to get out there again um um I have the message sometimes I'm out sometimes I'm out here listen y'all my eyelash is hot my wig hot everything is hot I feel like I'm just like I think but but I'm real I'm real but hush hush about the word the the bird the I started crying while I was like dang but it's a very the very song so I really don't know I really don't know but it but it's hush because because it's any point when you're going when you're going through it's kind of line kind of music sounds with sounds with the we'll see what happens we'll see what happens uh do you have any uh shout outs or uh how can we find them on on social media or uh multi uh music platform yeah I want to shout out the shout out to John Carey um John Kerry was the one we went to um um wanted me to do something we could do so music writer music writer awesome professional uh musicians guitar he's doing his thing with um um and as again I said so like yourself like yourself yeah the radio station that too that's not confined to local local stations here like in Georgia it's everybody got something else so I'm glad I'm really really glad about that so shout out to John Kerry y'all can go to his page on he's all over the place too he's on YouTube Spotify TikTok all his music is out there but John Kerry he puts out some great music and I think right now um he's writing for a couple of artists over in the UK not bad I just need it need tapping to him at the world is that and see that's another thing people don't realize you can get paid for as being a writer you know I look at some artists back then and when if they were not writing or a part of of um what I should composing or whatever can you imagine getting back out because you don't have no residual of anything you you you're just out there and um it's very important for people to realize that don't just be the artist be a part of what you're doing as an art be a part of the writing portion of it be a part of the composing because you're gonna look up one day those who wrote it going to be getting this and that and you're just gonna be sitting back like dang what happened to my part you would just to carry the vision on and then as you get older you you might be out there now I see some of them out there and I love it to see J Lo and all of them Janet I love to see them out there. I see people saying stuff like oh you they should sit down no no no they should keep going keeping going because nobody says that about the some of our older um male artists then did they say nothing uh he should no they say that only about the women no keep it going keep moving and um for the younger people get more involved in being a part of what don't just be the artist and let someone else everybody else just do the writing for you get involved with your writing get get get get um get cop copy you know be part of the copyrights that you were a writer to and some of that can come to you in the long run because we at this point with technology the way we don't know how things gonna hit it could be a one hit wonder but it might be a good one hit wonder and then you get paid for pushing some stuff money back for a rainy day.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:57

Yep

SPEAKER_02 1:06:00

that that that that that's we getting some real good tools that that that everybody needs to hear and and listen listen to so I hope when this this uh interview comes out I hope a lot of the artists take feed and uh to figure out ways to better their career uh put your music out um because there's a lot of avenues now that aren't avenues uh and another thing I would I would like to say if I can that if you are an artist please invest in your yourself if you can I don't care if it's your own mic don't depend on everybody else's mic so many germs going around in the first place but invest in your wonderful mic invest in your in-air monitor system invest in your stand um and sometimes take time out just invest in your own speakers learn a board just don't look for everybody else to do everything for you you know learn how to to to do sound I mean you don't I don't I you don't have to go to school for every little thing not when you can go to YouTube but there's you know but I since I've been on it for so long I used to have those old PV uh board mixing board you remember those old PV board that was so heavy you drop them on your toe you definitely don't break a toe so I was so heavy and then those those passive those um non-passive speakers those PV I had two I declare I had two out there now still have to run my amplifier those suckers are so heavy if they fall they would knock you straight out but and people are getting getting away from all of that heavy heavy equipment but if you do nothing else but invest in um because you you can all I I guess they still trading I'm not really sure but I don't know guitar center American musical you got reverb something and but get out there and get your own stuff now don't get it so old that it ain't gonna work with your laptops and stuff today but you want to be able to have a board like Mackie or something like that it and it's so many get you something easy to start out with if you don't know and learn it and become become the independent artist that you can't be and and and and when someone comes a manager or or produce to somebody else that want to pick you up they're not they're not just out they're just waiting on somebody doing everything for them because what they don't realize is that if if if you have to do everything for you they're gonna deduct the from every time you perform they're deducting we got you this we there we flew you here we flew we deduct and it that's been going on for years though and even back in the days people sang songs or whatever the case may be but what I did when I look into certain artists even back when I look into see were they a part of writing a writing in their own song and a lot of them not now you had you Michael Jackson you got your friends you had Rita uh I'm trying to think that's who wrote you know Barry Ged it all some of the some of their artists they weren't involved in writing like my man smokey he was good writing for everybody but you know it's just about uh then they wrote things until like later on in like yes yes so that those residuals would kick back and those that music starts back up or somebody want to carry it on and guess what somebody else still had the rights to it you know and not get not a particular artist that you thought that's what I looked at too to see that these artists are actually they're sounding good they're they're in good ages to get out there and perform but as you get older not out there perform again you depend on get getting a residual for being a part of what you're saying because it's easy now for those writers whoever it you know went down to to get somebody else to do that so but it it's the nature of peace and that that doesn't matter whether you were a uh a rapper or a gospel it's it's all over the industry you know it's even in the music industry i mean in the in the in in the movies period and that's part of it so as a matter of fact I mean this movie called Cooper's waiting for the guy that did it I'm like by now trying to get it on Tubi is the um I put it to the this way everything cost cost yeah definitely and if you don't have the money to take and get your stuff on Tuesday but he has stuff out there never going to third party company third person but you gotta bite the dust to get get your stuff out there um and um and that goes for any creators whether you're doing music or not now my thing is we do movies or so hey I put my put my my we put my music here if you're watching and listening to we can't you're getting paid for that and I thought CDs was a thing ass and people still like I was at a a show uh an event in in uh uh um december so one of you guys has been me uh trying to put some things he's like forget to have CDs I said I forgot about the things okay so what's going on who has anything but people do have things and you know and so I was sawing TikTok they got the nice little CD uh player thing to get the book in I'm like really bought this CDs I'm like out of here so you know oh do you see who you can uh I thought of this memorable things of history but uh some people are playing them and so now I'm I'm just t shirts I think you saw one of the t-shirts that I did that and um the Doc on things been selling and I don't like I've I'll put it on and you know I look cute when I go out and I caught it well somewhere just like where'd you get that from I went to a group yes a couple of people put purchase right on the screen I'm like and that's just sweet and hell I said I know whether the the soccer sell shirts on other day yeah is is there a way that they can uh that any of your uh supporters can buy the shirts or do they just or if it's or just that they just see you or not act they can just send me an inbox inbox shirt or just tell me their size and um I'll pack it up mail it to them yeah and I uh no I'll just I'll where they can send me you know the paint whatever but I do it on right now I'm just still creating liquid five I've been selling it out on 25s now I'm like this is pretty cool so now I'm gonna go and I didn't think I'd go a lot what I was trying to do not only my song they I gave out information to commit yesterday that was in this big group and um they started pulling it out I'm like I'm like oh my Kira called around here and those that that and those are some good senior people you don't all this know but I'm like we're gonna learn anything everybody hold up the camera folks now let's just turn into this Kira place pops up pops up now you touch it it's gonna take you where you need to be and see me and I appreciate a good comment and they did it there's always people that want to support you know if they see you doing it then they like all that and I almost did not go yesterday because I'm they got tired they get on sleep I was like well but I was but I have I have I'll have a and uh we're gonna sell them at the show and I own it there everywhere I go shirts with now with wine music with you know with the name of the song and then whatever I apply to it especially uh it's a lot of hard work I do the you know I get the shirt I put all the all the everything on there um and if anybody out there knows how to use a cricket silhouette machine or whatever um we get out art or art maybe send it the cutter cutter from the printer the printer to line in there peel peel and we and it's it's some it's some it's work it's work all right so all that's in house in the house all right I ain't gotta go out that's what I like gotta keep all the money in house and you gotta go out we keep everything we keep everything in house because if I had to go out to go those t-shirts I wouldn't make anything off of yeah but um I'm I'm I'm thankful but again when I was it was back in 2018 I took my time and I learned that watched then I went and got my machine then I then I ran away to get my supplies and you know it's like you you gotta start on I don't know I don't know if it's in broader hey I'm thankful I can I can do the art do the art you may not have got it from that I like I like it I I I like uh y'all y'all y'all over there y'all over there uh hustling doing y'all thing I like people keep on people on doing it you know so you can see them them shirts and I can like I know who them shirts to belong to so I'm thankful I'm thankful the reason why is I'm thankful my mom was a seamstress he was a singer my dad my dad build you build it was in world war school and um I stayed around here a whole lot building now that didn't we we could keep with the thing we do props for spots for ages that wanted to look just nice you see things behind me now and you might see something white back there. All of these I never have a hot one house no more my house is like this house is like a studio so we put things in different places different places we have lights on white because we may not be able to work it all the time but we are but we do our BS well I don't overload overload and because people just don't know how to say I say I want to particular light on this selection while I'm performing or I may want a spotlight with spotlight you know you know spotlight spotlight while the band is playing on you know but hey that's that's the thing that we do we do uh I appreciate I really appreciate this this interview that we that we've done um I appreciate you that you uh took your time to uh sit down with me today um and I'm really uh thankful for that uh so what I want you guys to do is make sure that you support uh follow uh Miss uh Carletta herself out in GA make sure that you you know tap in to see what she's doing what she's working on because she's doing a lot of big things um you know where you can find her music uh do so um and and just comment and and tell her what you think uh you want a shirt as she said uh send to the sizes and everything like that so that she can get that to you in a in a timely fashion. So yeah yeah everything everything even on Facebook even on Facebook.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:54

Alright so y'all heard it here. So this is your boy AD uh I'm tuning out uh follow support uh all these interviews that are that uh are being done um it's a lot of knowledge and and something to help you put in your toolbox uh don't just overlook it or or or don't think you need it because you need all of it uh even I'm learning a little bit uh as I'm doing these interviews so uh this is your boy AD from pusher independent radio and indie heart uh I'm signing off uh my love be positive and be blessed by y'all thank you so much for the wonderful day you too bye bye okay