Felece Tillman

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

But uh I appreciate you coming through, giving me this this second this take two. So all that first one to blue. But so check this out, y'all. Tonight uh we have a uh phenomenal guest uh with true vocal powerhouse, whose sounds beautiful blends the soul art of RB with elegance of jazz. She's graced notable stages like Blue Alley, Tin Pen, and the Carlisle Room cast availing audiences with a stunning full lyric, Soprano, and Incredible for Octave Range. For her debut single, Brighter Love Making Waves International to chart success with I Can't Forget and the powerful release of her EP Soul for Tales. She continues to show the world that her artistry is both heartfelt and unforgettable. I want to want to welcome you all to Miss Felice Tilden.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

Thank you, Adrian. Thank you for that gracious welcome. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Of course, no problem. That's what we we do here. We you know, we want people to know uh who who we're talking to so they can appreciate your talent and what you're doing out here more by just hearing a little bit of your bio and also gets the artist as yourself, you know, more comfortable to like, hey, he actually did his homework.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

So he actually did his homework.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

So uh we're gonna ask you how you feeling out there in uh in the world today.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

I'm good today. I'm good today. I um you know I'm still in this beautiful country of Panama, Panama, Panama City. So it's a wonderful 89 degrees, kind of like cooling down a little bit towards the evening. But uh yeah, I'm in I'm in having uh enjoyable time.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Yeah, but 80, we almost hit 90 today, so glad to be in.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

So yeah, because we're doing DMV, right? You know, you know our our springs, we we just kind of go from winter, just a little bit of spring, it's like heat summer, just so is this the rainy month for y'all or no? Not not yet. Panama's rain season, I think, technically starts May, June, July, August. So it's closed. But the rain is not like all day, all night, torrential. It's just you know, yeah, those rain showers that just kind of you know, it's it's more, but it's not like all day long.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Okay, yeah, I know what uh winter Jamaica was like that. It rained for a minute and it just stopped, and then the sun came out.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

And oh, we got some guests coming. Wonderful.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

So uh they've been a big big support to me as well. So uh I appreciate them joining on. And so yeah, so we got we got supporters all over.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

So you know, so I'll I do, I do, and I didn't get some I didn't post this link up on my on my profile. So I know you've been tagging for this comment. You can tag for Link Answer, and that's my other page. I guess we're not gonna just I got you. Thank you, John Nell, Johnny El for joining.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

We got some we got some good things going on. I'm glad to to get this opportunity. And I, you know, like I tell you all the time, I appreciate you for supporting me and just just being a part of what I'm what I'm trying to do.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Like relations firms that you could tap into, you know, to push your music out to different borders outside of your you know local state. So you don't you don't need it. You don't. The only thing that I think sometimes what happens with indie label, indie artists is that if they get approached and it makes sense and they have a good deal, and now we are more conscious as okay, just don't sign a contract, you know, have an attorney look at it, like you know, so you can be protected, so you can own your own masters, you know, for publishing rights. And there's so many tragic stories in the music business history for years and years that we and as this as this stage and age of our lives that we should be able to learn from what they did wrong and say, okay, let me not do that. Right. Let me not do that.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

Yeah. Because with my music company, we got is we got a legal guy that he does all the company. He always tells me, don't do anything unless you got a contract for it. Because sometimes, you know, when it comes down to the it's like, oh, I I know what I was supposed to be paying. So uh to make sure everything you do, you have a contract, because sometimes people get amnesia and then you know the numbers absolutely be like, oh well, we we ain't got the money.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

We ain't got money, right? But it's like if it's not written, it's not real. So make sure it's written. Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

So would you give uh artist, uh any artist that's starting out? That also what would you give them as advice? And doing that the doing that advice, even if they're like starting out and they like feel like it's not happening fast enough, what encouragement also would you give the any artists for that arena as well?

SPEAKER_01 5:49

That I mean, there's so much. I mean, I would start with know that it's not easy anyway. Any if it was easy, everybody would be doing it. Right? So, so the mindset of what I am setting out to do is something that I have been gifted to do, right? For from God, whatever your faith base is, you know, whatever you're tapping into spiritually. And if you want to step out to do that, to create it, to be an independent artist, meaning independent, not signed to a record label, but I still want to create. I want to make music, I want to make my original music. Know that it is a process. It is a process. Know that coming into it, that you know, there's going to be hurdles, you're going to get notes, you're going to have haters, you're going to have supporters, you're going to have your dial art fans, you're you're going to be surprised at who would absolutely love your music and your sound. So know that, you know, just like in anything, you you want something that's going to create longevity. And so tell yourself that you know I for those days where you wanted it to be like I'm tired. Give yourself that. It's it's okay to feel that. Don't not feel that. Feel that, you know, get your support, make sure that you have a tight support system, whoever they are, if it's two people, one person, you know, your prayer team, your accountability partner, that um can understand, you know, those those ebbs and flows and those mountains and valley moments that we have as artists. I think that, I mean, even even the the scene, even the quote unquote successful independent artists that have, you know, successful in their own right and whatever they define that, they still have those days where I feel like I'm still not doing enough. So if they have it, then so it comes with that. I would also have them to get into a place where you see this as a sacred thing that our artists we we uh speak messages that people need to hear. You know, reassurance about love again, reassurance about, you know, heartbreaking, you know, know that that's a part of life and all of the things that's happening in the world today, you know, we can we we have that responsibility to speak and to sing about these things. So it's it's a sacred thing. It's a sacred thing. The the gift itself coming from that perspective, you kind of know that you know the the the punches are gonna come. Right. So, you know, having those that's why I like you know, um, what you're doing, Adrian, and some others, those tapping into those independent artist summits and seminars, webinars, so that you can garner, you know, that support that you need, the support system that you need, and what however you need it, whether it's a business side or independent, I need engineers or who knows a good studio, or you know, how how how are you working through your taxes? I mean, if you get to that level of, you know, what do I do here, you know, so that you won't feel so isolated. Um it's a it's a it's a it's a blessing and it's a challenge also, but the rewards are so beautiful because your music is going to touch people that you'll never meet. You'll never meet somebody, you'll never meet all these people that your music is gonna go out. Somebody's playing my song right over in Argentina somewhere. I don't know if they are now, but it's but it's helping them at this moment, in however way it is, you know. That's the that's the point that's like wow, or even if it's in your city, you know, when you get those wins, celebrate the hell out of those wins, man. Just I mean, take yourself to dinner and just be like, I did it, we did it, I got through to something. So yeah, that's that's that's the advice I would give other indies out here. And to just do it, man, just just do it. Do it, do it. So I'll do that.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

You said that because uh just by just looking at what you've been doing, you have music over UK, Japan, Spain, Panama, Germany, and you have you know received you know over 20,000 Spotify streams, and you got singles that's doing good out here. You got I can't forget, reach number three. And you're you're doing it the right way. How do you keep the focus of just you know making music without I guess I would say get the big head and just act like you know, you you have arrived.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

I think uh just the way I was raised, you know, my mom and you know how she raised me, number one. Uh and I also don't know number two is it's okay to have confidence in what you're doing. So I don't I don't I don't play into false humility. I think there's a balance there. We want to be confident in what we're doing and that and all of the efforts, all of the seed time that we're doing when the harvest comes, it's good to it's okay to be like, okay, we're giving thanks to our creator who provided it, and we're giving thanks to what we've done in the process. And I think not getting the big head is over the fact that you still you're still in the you're still in the production of it. You still gotta do the work and life, life be still lengthy, you know. Say I got all these wonderful things that have happened, but I still have you know pain, joy and pain, like like the late Frankie Belly said. So I think you know, life about the uh the recognition.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

Uh how does that feel, even though I know that you're a strong-welded person, but how does it feel when you you put music out and you share it on social media platform and you know, it's like with the people you know and like one share, you know, does that get you discouraged or does it just be like I'm just gonna keep pushing?

SPEAKER_01 12:30

I'm gonna just keep pushing. Yeah. Not that I don't have mo it it's it's it's one of those, it's it's very interesting because I've I'm finding that I do have my rider dives. I think I put up a post about my music. I call it my true blues. Like my true blues are gonna be my true blues. And for the people that I've known Felice for a very long time, for years, like double digit years. They know I've been doing, they've known me from you know from high school with Ellington days. And so they're just like, oh yeah, I'm sharing, or you know, I'm or if even sometimes they may not share on Facebook, but they're taking my music copy and like sending it to their text people, you know, on text. And then they all let, girl, I doubt they don't like it. So those are my people that just have really been with me for many, many years. And I think for for other artists, I understand that that some of them will never do it, right? Because of whatever their hangups are or whatever you know lies within them from a personality perspective. But then you do have those artists that are like celebratory, that they are like, oh, I'm gonna share this, or I'm gonna, oh, I'm gonna come to your show, or I'm gonna buy your CD, you know, or pay $5.99 for the, you know, the download, you know. So yeah. But what we what I what I have seen is that I think we talked about this, is that sometimes somebody says somebody, sometimes you only get a lot of traction when you started getting more traction. Then people start coming on board, you know, and it's like now, you know, and you kind of know that that's what it is. Just something about we see a lot of likes and shares, and then we automatically, you know, the brain says, jump ahead, you know, jump on this bandwagon. But the people that have been there for real, for real, I'll never forget that. And I know who they are.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

I know who they are, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

They they they have a special place with me.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

I'm gonna shout out uh Shalom because uh because that's how uh even her, uh even with the summer, yeah, and then even able, I mean, we're sisters, we're we're friends, call, and then in the in the business. I mean, she, you know, I'd be like, okay, you're doing background, can you back me do background? Like, yeah, I can of course I'm gonna do a background, but I'll always ask her. I'm always, you know, I don't I don't want to blur those lines because we're still professionals, you know what I'm saying? But yeah, absolutely. That's how we met. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Goodbye, time is what time is went.

SPEAKER_01 15:29

Time has just went by fast, right? Because I don't even think you had all that gray, man. I think you had that gray.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Yeah, I was coming up from that situation, so I'm actually able to work freely in that piece. So uh, you know, I see that uh uh because I don't like to give false information, but uh I see that you did you sell out your show? Is is this for recent show or is this for past show?

SPEAKER_01 15:55

This was uh yeah, this was at Panama, yeah. The show that was about three few weeks back. That was a sold-out show, yeah. So awesome show.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

Was you the only one on the lineup, or was it like oh other people doing trivia?

SPEAKER_01 16:09

Did she me headline? Look, me like remember that scene where where Angela Manson played to your tournament? Yeah, I was a headline on that, man. And it felt amazing to sell out in Panama, in a foreign country, my my my new founded community of African American people that are here, expats, you know, that are like, oh yeah, oh, she doing that? Oh, we're there. So yeah, and you don't have the it's it's different in different countries, and that's why I want to continue to perform in different places, in different countries. Uh some sometimes when he says you gotta you gotta get out of your hometown, you know, to continue to expand, to continue to uh be you know celebrated in a different way than you would be at home. Yeah. So that's just what it is. And and if you think about it, artists have been doing this for many years. Tina Turner got it right, she left. I mean, we can go in all the way, we do a history lesson on this, we're talking about Jazz Both, but birthday uh all the way back as Josephine Baker. I mean the the understanding of sometimes you have to leave, not just your local, the UN the US coming out of the American thing to go to different countries. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

So like and I and I are you being over.