Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up this boy?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Doctor b J, the DJ Holiday and today on the show,
have a young lady that's been singing. I don't know.
She probably gonna say. I've been singing all my life.
I've been singing since I was five, four years years old.
I've been singing in the church. I remember going to
(00:22):
the church and having my Easter speech. Instead of saying
the speech, I sing it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I mean, that's what he's gonna say. I promise y'all
she gonna say she sang Easter speech. See see, there
we go, there we go. Alright, ladies and gentlemen in
the studio. Today I got my girl. Uh she has
(00:52):
become uh a social media phenomenon.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, you know t OC crashed her party. You know
what I'm seeing saying, and you a lot of y'all
have heard about it. So we're gonna get an opportunity
to talk to my girl. Period is it?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Period? Period? Is it? Period? A period?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Period?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Period? The D with the D with the deed Okay,
I just want to make sure period. Okay, I got you?
So how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I am well? All is well. I cannot complain. God
is good.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
God is good all the time, all the time. He is, Yes,
he is. Now she's gonna come here like a church lady.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Now just.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now he's gonna get church.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But see I'm about to grief. But see, you know,
I tell everybody tis I'm saved. But it's still a
ratch me too, That's what I'm saying. So we're gonna
get the ratchet side out today.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
God knows our heart.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
There you go. He's still working.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
He's still working on I'm telling you, he working hard,
work in progress, honey.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'm major construction over here.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
They got the construction size off detours around me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Anyway, you had the opportunity to represent Saint Louis on
the voice, Yes, and you did very well. Thank you,
you did very well. But let's talk about before the voice,
before the TLC.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You know all that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Let's go back and let's talk about period period. So
that was then, okay, So born and raised in.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Saint Louis, University City, Missouri, University City.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
US, University City, USA.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
University City, USA. So you know I'm about to get
all of your business right now. Please do So what
high school?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You city?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
University City, seventy four Old one Boston Avenue six three
and three zero, the very illustrious University City Senior High
School class of nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I got some good folks in my class.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all, y'all, y'all just shut
up because I went to Beaumont. Yes see, you see
how we do. We we freeze everybody. You see.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
She was all right, let me watch what I say.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's what I'm talking about. That went and you didn't
know that, now I do. Yeah. I went to the
b e A U okay, m O N t okay.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
My mama was okay, yeah, well whatever I just said,
U City High School, Sir? After U City? What happened
after U City?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh lord, I've just been singing.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I started off kind of doing the corporate saying, I
work with a different corporate I don't want to say
wedding bands, but.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I needed to.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I've worked with a couple of different corporate bands. So
we were doing a lot of winery gigs, a lot
of corporate gigs. The majority of the time we're doing weddings.
And then my mom passed away in two thousand and six.
My daddy died eighteen months later two thousand and eight.
So I depended on started really kind of singing for myself,
and I got called by a prominent person in the
(04:29):
city and they was like, I can give you. I
can have you come and sing this song, and I
give you this amount of money, and I'm like, for
one song. So it went from there and then I
developed a band and we started working at this place
called the Well I think it was the Junkyard back
at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It isn't Ferguson.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And we were there every Sunday, packed wall to wall
and it was just such a good time and we started,
you know, doing a whole bunch of R and B.
I've never, you know, never never stopped taking the church.
Church has always been my background, my foundation, my complete
who I am. And so you know, I went from
singing from different groups and different bands in the city
(05:08):
to finding my own way and then getting a you know,
getting my music family together and a couple of different folks.
And I don't have the same band all the time.
I use the same people usually, but sometimes if they're working,
you know, I sub them out or whatever. So we've
been working as me and and Tish period and the
group since, say it's two thousand and six. So yeah,
(05:32):
I've always just kind of been around, yes, sir, oh yeah,
twenty twenty six is about to be living and living color.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I have so many things to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It'll be twenty years my mom passed, twenty years of
me singing, and I'm gonna definitely do a big I'm
planning to do like a one woman show, because if
you've ever been to any of my shows, you know
you're gonna you're gonna get gospel, You're gonna get R
and B, you're gonna get comedy as well, because.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I love having fun. I love laughing making people.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
So so I have that twenty twenty six is about
to be live. But from twenty two thousand and six,
I've been doing it, you know, just kind of doing
my own thing. And recently I've been doing more gigs
with just me and my band.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
We've been doing a couple of weddings.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I've been blessed to do that, a couple of corporate events,
and then you know.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
The whole Broadway Oyster bar.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, now, so let's let's talk about that. Yes, So
two thousand and six you started really singing right, and
then you ended up on the Voice.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yes, sir, so that was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Twenty eighteen, Yes, twenty six, twenty eighteen. So what are
some of the struggles that you found yourself with in
that time period before you.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Hit the Voice? You know what I mean? Because it
sounded like you were grinding.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I was grinding, but I wasn't. Yeah, but I wasn't
grinding enough.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I learned when I got onto the Voice that I
did not have enough I need. I needed my own
music because when you go on the Voice, immediately you
get a following like your snap your followers go from
three hundred people to about eight thousand, like in days.
So I was not prepared and because I honestly, in
my God's god honest truth, I was just doing it.
(07:24):
I wasn't really thinking that it was gonna go anywhere.
I was just like, oh, okay, you know, I'll sing.
I never thought that I would even make it on
the show, pasted one hundred and forty four people that
they could, and then and then getting to top twenty
four and represent my city. So I was not prepared,
and I learned that lesson of making sure that I
(07:44):
need to have music and getting myself together and having
more presence on social media, and the struggle of that
was just learning that to be prepared to get yourself read.
So then after the Voice, the show was going on
all of pretty much twenty eighteen, I traveled a lot
with twenty nineteen. In twenty nineteen, I did a lot
(08:06):
of United Ways because that's where I work, and so
I did a couple different big events for United Way.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And then twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
COVID hit shut everything now, so we was all sitting
in the house twilding our thoughs and making shrimp and
grits and eating right right right.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I'm glad you said what you said because you know,
a lot of times, you know, there's an expectation. It
is when you go to a place like the Voice.
Yes you represent your city, Oh yes, sir. The expectation is, yeah,
you're supposed to come back, and you you know, you
you like, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. But
(08:47):
I'm glad you admitted that you were not prepared. So
if there's one thing that you can think of where
you were not prepared that some young artists is listening to. Now,
what is the one thing you would have changed that
(09:08):
would have made you prepared for when you went to
the voice.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Which one thing you would have.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Changed literally just getting prepared and having music and having
the social media presence and being more diligent in my
craft and my art and saying that this is like
I'm just not a singer. I need to actually hone
into it, like this is really what I do. I
was just thinking I got a job. I got a
full time job. I still get benefits, you know what
I'm saying. But I do this on the side. It
(09:33):
wasn't taken seriously for me. And that would be my
one thing to tell any artists, if this is what
you really want to do, put your put one hundred
and ten percent into it now. I've never not I've
never slacked on singing. I was always just not prepared.
I just didn't have everything together. I didn't have the music,
like I said, the social media presence. But then when
(09:53):
it came down to singing, you I'm giving two hundred percent.
But I will tell you always to be prepared, to
have to be ready that this is if this is
really what you want to do, be ready to you know,
meet different people in network and do what you got
to do for to get your name out there.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
All right, So twenty twenty, everything shut down, come out
of COVID, you start back singing and divorced.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh? She said, she said that proudly did.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No, but I mean we still cool shots out to
my eggs.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
But I'm just saying though, you know, but no, it
was a hard time that you know, I was going
through a hard time.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I had was traveling and.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Trying to find my way, and then I was also
in the midst of a separation and eventually got divorced,
you know, but you know it was it was still
all a learning list and I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Glad I went through everything that I did.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So you found your way, yes, sir? So I guess
you stopped being Tis Hayed did and now you're TIS
period because period, nothing more, nothing less, babe.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
That means for me, that means that you found you.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yes, definitely and definitely who you Yes, sir, are what
you want to do?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, sir the whole niney Is that correct sor I
gotta ask this question. Go ahead, you know, I gotta
ask go ahead. Okay, I got it, Okay, So who
it's Tis period?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Tish Period is a free woman. Tish Period is person
that's give me a person. I'm a free I'm free.
I'm free in my mind, I'm free in my spirit.
I'm free. And how I sing, I'm free. I'm honest.
I don't have to sugar coat anything. I don't have
to put on a persona I am who I am.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Take it or leave it.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Tish Period is a person that's going to give you
one hundred and two and still if it's two people
in a room, or if it's a fifteen million people
in the room. U Tish Period is a person that
you can talk to and get advice from. Tish Period
is a person that is a mother raising my two
beautiful children, thirty one and nineteen. My son shouts out
(12:08):
to Ashton just got his official h back certification certification
and you know, just try, yeah listen, I said, I said,
let him get his speedway first and then I'm gonna
send him to it. I got a list, a whole
bunch of folks ready for my baby.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But you know, Perierd's a sister.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Tish Pair is an aunt that I'm you know, I'm
just so you know, I'm that big sister not my
tea to a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, all right, so uh we found herself, yes, sir,
so on a certain day she was singing at the
Oyster Bar, Broadway, Oyster Bar, Broadway, Oyster.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah. And from the looks at it, how many people
do you think we're in there?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
It was about thirty people in that month, That's what
I'm saying it was.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And I'm going, yeah, thirty people.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah it was, and I want to say thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It may have not even been that, I know, because
like literally when they came out, people from the back
and that was cooking came out. So it was like
you saw those folks, but it wasn't a lot of people.
Like even in the background, a lot of people made
their way to the stage once they realized what was
going on, but it still wasn't that many people. And
what was the ironic part about that is I had
(13:21):
been promoting that show, promoting it like please y'all come
help me, so show these people I can. I got
a following, I can put you know, put some people
in here because I love the Broadway Oyster Broadboy Boy.
It's a stickler in the city, stapler in the city,
and you know, for live music and you get you know,
you like anything could happen just like that night, you know.
(13:42):
And so that's and I was, you know, just honored
they we got that date, and they gave me a
couple of dates and then I picked that one and it.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Was just it was the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
We're to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah. See, you know, I'm letting people know you may
have had only thirty people or whatever in the place.
And then tooc riding down Broadway and they're in their van.
They was not outside, right, and I heard, yeah, your
(14:17):
music right right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
In the van. You're singing their song.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
The inside the van, yes, sir. Windows was up. Yeah,
and I think some wait they had to stop. Yeah,
and then they was.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Like Olivia and the driver she ran a light, so
she said she had to come to a complete stop.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And she heard it first.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Ye, So she rolled down the windows and she's like,
they're playing your they're playing your song. And she yelled
back to the back and she was like I hadn't
even said any a word to them. I was only
their driver. And she's like, I yelled to the back, Hey,
they're playing your song. So Chris G shouts out to him.
He's one of the makeup artists for t BOS. He
was in the car. I talked to him earlier this
(15:00):
week and he was talking just we were talking about
going over how it happened again, and he was like, yeah,
Chili had her shoes off.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And he was like, wait a minute. They playing yd song,
so he.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Was like, they was throwing shoes in the corner to
try to get you know, them to get the shoes on,
and then they pulled over and then you know, running
in and people keep asking me.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Like, was it stage? Was it real? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Do you think I would have been dressed like that
looking like that? Had I know on TLC was gonna
walk in the building.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Do you hear me? Listen?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I had on flip I had on slides, like I
was comfortable. We was chilling and you know, I was singing.
I was just giving good music and shout out to
the band once again. Or Carris the second Shine tailor,
Freddie Spencer, CJ.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Davison. Because they was locked in.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
We didn't have a rehearsal, were just locked and loaded,
just ready to go.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I mean it just happened.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, because you know, they showed the video them running
in and then they got to the stage, you singing,
you turned, you recognize who they are, and you from yeah,
stop singing, and then everybody need place going Oh my god,
that's told.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And then you had the whole thing with the stage.
Yes okay.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I then they go ahead and they leave, and then
after that all these things start happening.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
When I tell you, I've just literally been overwhelmed by
all of the things that and I have to go
back to church that God is doing because these are
things that I have been praying about for so long.
And sometimes you feel that you know your prayers are
just unanswered, and then it just takes that one simple
moment to God for God to come knock on your
door and say, girl, I ain't forgot about you. And
(16:39):
that's exactly what that moment in time meant for me.
When that happened, I was like, get yourself together, because
I already had in my heart. I felt in my
heart I said this is about to go viral, but
I didn't expect it to go as viral as it did.
Like I woke up that next morning and they had
already had over one hundred and something thousand views, and
then the next it just kept getting bigger and bigger
(17:02):
and bigger than it was the People dot Com, then
Essence dot Com, then us say.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Then I wake up Wednesday morning It's on Good Morning America,
and I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And then lo and behold.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
About two weeks into scept October, I get a call
from the Tammeron Hall show there and I'm looking and
I'm working, doing my work for my full time job.
And the sight the subject of the email said Tameran
Hall slash ABC slash appearance. And I looked, and I'm like,
I know I'm not tripping. I had another like, I
(17:38):
know that's not Cheerley, I know that's not Tea boys.
I know I'm not trifling. One of those moments, and
I opened the email and I just I sat there
and I just looked. I immediately went into a worship,
just like, thank you God, because you are just so good.
And when I think that, when I think that you're
not working, you're working, You're gonna make me emotional.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, this is good. No, it's it's such a wonderful story.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Good.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You know what I'm saying, And I understand where you
are because I tell people all the time that I've
been in this business for forty years and just this year,
I'm getting everything. And I know how you feel because
it's overwhelming. Yeah if you think you know, you think
you're not being seen, but then he turned around and
(18:25):
he does something, and you're just seen all over the place.
And I've noticed that now your shows are more than
thirty people. Oh yeah, you got a new show coming up.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I got a new show coming up on December twentieth
at the National Blues Museum, and I'm so excited about it.
A lot of people have this open. It opened up
so many doors for people to know about me. Even
if they don't know who I am, they know that
I can sing and they're like, well, maybe let's check
her out. So it's giving me a lot of great
publicity and exposure. And shouts out to my pr Donielle Elizabeth.
(19:00):
She has been owned from from the moment everything happened,
so and getting my name out here and just so
many things that she's been helping me with, so I
thank her too as well. And you guys have just
been everybody has been so supportive. So I'm super excited
for this show. On the twentieth, you know, to be
able to just show you this is what I've been
missing for the last.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
There you go the show. When is the show again?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
December twenty seven p m. At the National Blues Museum. Lord,
don't call me. I want to say six fifteen Washington
Avenue is six.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
We know where it is.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
We'll find right across the street from the cinema.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Y'all know where it is. Yes, just show They just
type being Blues Museum.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, we'll be there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
So it's going to be, uh that show. Where can
we get tickets?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
The tickets are online and if you go online to
National Blues Museum, you should just put in tich period
it'll come up and the tickets her I think with
the feast thirty two or twenty eight forty two, something
like that. All right, So when the food and the
drinks are from Sugar Fire.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So okay, So what what time is the show again?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Seven o'clock? All right, seven to nine o'clock. I'll be done.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
And December the twentieth, next December, next Saturday, next Sat.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yes, sir, Well you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I might stop by, come on, you know, and you know,
you know, Yes, I'm gonna be like myself. Right if
you need somebody to bring you out on stage.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You know what, I probably you know what. Let's talk
about this when we finished this. We're gonna talk about that.
We sure are, Yes, we are. It's something. The tickets
are only vent Bright Okay, Yeah, twenty eight fifty two
is the total. Yeah, event Bright and just put in
tish period. You don't have to put in rhythm and roots. Yes,
put in my name, it'll come up.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, tickets on event Bright didn't get their tickets today. Yes, sir,
show is going to be Saturday, December twentieth. Yes, as
the Blues Museum fround town and watch this. We're gonna
be she gonna be in the building. She's gonna be
doing a thing. Yes, thank you so much for coming,
Thank you studio and talking to.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
About d BJ.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I appreciate you well.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You know, I hate to brag. I hate to tell
you this. It's actually doctor.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Doctor, doctor, doctor. Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I got two of them.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I got you, I got you say it twice, baby, honey,
I overstand say less doctor doctor, the DJ say less.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Thank you, thank you for having success to you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And I'm just appreciating everything you're doing.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Thank you, and congratulations on your Deluxe Magazine Award.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
On tomorrow and everything that you've been getting.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Shout out to you because you've been a great staple
in our city as well.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
We love you, bjay I love you too. Thank you.
Hey, what's up this boy?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Doctor b J, the DJ Holiday and today on the show,
have a young lady that's been singing. I don't know.
She probably gonna say. I've been singing all my life.
I've been singing since I was five, four years years old.
I've been singing in the church. I remember going to
(00:22):
the church and having my Easter speech. Instead of saying
the speech, I sing it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I mean, that's what he's gonna say. I promise y'all
she gonna say she sang Easter speech. See see, there
we go, there we go. Alright, ladies and gentlemen in
the studio. Today I got my girl. Uh she has
(00:52):
become uh a social media phenomenon.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, you know t OC crashed her party. You know
what I'm seeing saying, and you a lot of y'all
have heard about it. So we're gonna get an opportunity
to talk to my girl. Period is it?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Period? Period? Is it? Period? A period?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Period?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Period? The D with the D with the deed Okay,
I just want to make sure period. Okay, I got you?
So how you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I am well? All is well. I cannot complain. God
is good.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
God is good all the time, all the time. He is, Yes,
he is. Now she's gonna come here like a church lady.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Now just.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now he's gonna get church.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But see I'm about to grief. But see, you know,
I tell everybody tis I'm saved. But it's still a
ratch me too, That's what I'm saying. So we're gonna
get the ratchet side out today.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
God knows our heart.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
There you go. He's still working.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
He's still working on I'm telling you, he working hard,
work in progress, honey.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'm major construction over here.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
They got the construction size off detours around me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Anyway, you had the opportunity to represent Saint Louis on
the voice, Yes, and you did very well. Thank you,
you did very well. But let's talk about before the voice,
before the TLC.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You know all that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Let's go back and let's talk about period period. So
that was then, okay, So born and raised in.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Saint Louis, University City, Missouri, University City.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
US, University City, USA.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
University City, USA. So you know I'm about to get
all of your business right now. Please do So what
high school?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You city?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
University City, seventy four Old one Boston Avenue six three
and three zero, the very illustrious University City Senior High
School class of nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I got some good folks in my class.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all, y'all, y'all just shut
up because I went to Beaumont. Yes see, you see
how we do. We we freeze everybody. You see.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
She was all right, let me watch what I say.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's what I'm talking about. That went and you didn't
know that, now I do. Yeah. I went to the
b e A U okay, m O N t okay.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
My mama was okay, yeah, well whatever I just said,
U City High School, Sir? After U City? What happened
after U City?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh lord, I've just been singing.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I started off kind of doing the corporate saying, I
work with a different corporate I don't want to say
wedding bands, but.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I needed to.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I've worked with a couple of different corporate bands. So
we were doing a lot of winery gigs, a lot
of corporate gigs. The majority of the time we're doing weddings.
And then my mom passed away in two thousand and six.
My daddy died eighteen months later two thousand and eight.
So I depended on started really kind of singing for myself,
and I got called by a prominent person in the
(04:29):
city and they was like, I can give you. I
can have you come and sing this song, and I
give you this amount of money, and I'm like, for
one song. So it went from there and then I
developed a band and we started working at this place
called the Well I think it was the Junkyard back
at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It isn't Ferguson.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And we were there every Sunday, packed wall to wall
and it was just such a good time and we started,
you know, doing a whole bunch of R and B.
I've never, you know, never never stopped taking the church.
Church has always been my background, my foundation, my complete
who I am. And so you know, I went from
singing from different groups and different bands in the city
(05:08):
to finding my own way and then getting a you know,
getting my music family together and a couple of different folks.
And I don't have the same band all the time.
I use the same people usually, but sometimes if they're working,
you know, I sub them out or whatever. So we've
been working as me and and Tish period and the
group since, say it's two thousand and six. So yeah,
(05:32):
I've always just kind of been around, yes, sir, oh yeah,
twenty twenty six is about to be living and living color.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I have so many things to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It'll be twenty years my mom passed, twenty years of
me singing, and I'm gonna definitely do a big I'm
planning to do like a one woman show, because if
you've ever been to any of my shows, you know
you're gonna you're gonna get gospel, You're gonna get R
and B, you're gonna get comedy as well, because.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I love having fun. I love laughing making people.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
So so I have that twenty twenty six is about
to be live. But from twenty two thousand and six,
I've been doing it, you know, just kind of doing
my own thing. And recently I've been doing more gigs
with just me and my band.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
We've been doing a couple of weddings.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I've been blessed to do that, a couple of corporate events,
and then you know.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
The whole Broadway Oyster bar.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, now, so let's let's talk about that. Yes, So
two thousand and six you started really singing right, and
then you ended up on the Voice.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yes, sir, so that was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Twenty eighteen, Yes, twenty six, twenty eighteen. So what are
some of the struggles that you found yourself with in
that time period before you.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Hit the Voice? You know what I mean? Because it
sounded like you were grinding.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I was grinding, but I wasn't. Yeah, but I wasn't
grinding enough.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I learned when I got onto the Voice that I
did not have enough I need. I needed my own
music because when you go on the Voice, immediately you
get a following like your snap your followers go from
three hundred people to about eight thousand, like in days.
So I was not prepared and because I honestly, in
my God's god honest truth, I was just doing it.
(07:24):
I wasn't really thinking that it was gonna go anywhere.
I was just like, oh, okay, you know, I'll sing.
I never thought that I would even make it on
the show, pasted one hundred and forty four people that
they could, and then and then getting to top twenty
four and represent my city. So I was not prepared,
and I learned that lesson of making sure that I
(07:44):
need to have music and getting myself together and having
more presence on social media, and the struggle of that
was just learning that to be prepared to get yourself read.
So then after the Voice, the show was going on
all of pretty much twenty eighteen, I traveled a lot
with twenty nineteen. In twenty nineteen, I did a lot
(08:06):
of United Ways because that's where I work, and so
I did a couple different big events for United Way.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And then twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
COVID hit shut everything now, so we was all sitting
in the house twilding our thoughs and making shrimp and
grits and eating right right right.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I'm glad you said what you said because you know,
a lot of times, you know, there's an expectation. It
is when you go to a place like the Voice.
Yes you represent your city, Oh yes, sir. The expectation is, yeah,
you're supposed to come back, and you you know, you
you like, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. But
(08:47):
I'm glad you admitted that you were not prepared. So
if there's one thing that you can think of where
you were not prepared that some young artists is listening to. Now,
what is the one thing you would have changed that
(09:08):
would have made you prepared for when you went to
the voice.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Which one thing you would have.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Changed literally just getting prepared and having music and having
the social media presence and being more diligent in my
craft and my art and saying that this is like
I'm just not a singer. I need to actually hone
into it, like this is really what I do. I
was just thinking I got a job. I got a
full time job. I still get benefits, you know what
I'm saying. But I do this on the side. It
(09:33):
wasn't taken seriously for me. And that would be my
one thing to tell any artists, if this is what
you really want to do, put your put one hundred
and ten percent into it now. I've never not I've
never slacked on singing. I was always just not prepared.
I just didn't have everything together. I didn't have the music,
like I said, the social media presence. But then when
(09:53):
it came down to singing, you I'm giving two hundred percent.
But I will tell you always to be prepared, to
have to be ready that this is if this is
really what you want to do, be ready to you know,
meet different people in network and do what you got
to do for to get your name out there.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
All right, So twenty twenty, everything shut down, come out
of COVID, you start back singing and divorced.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh? She said, she said that proudly did.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No, but I mean we still cool shots out to
my eggs.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
But I'm just saying though, you know, but no, it
was a hard time that you know, I was going
through a hard time.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I had was traveling and.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Trying to find my way, and then I was also
in the midst of a separation and eventually got divorced,
you know, but you know it was it was still
all a learning list and I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Glad I went through everything that I did.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So you found your way, yes, sir? So I guess
you stopped being Tis Hayed did and now you're TIS
period because period, nothing more, nothing less, babe.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
That means for me, that means that you found you.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yes, definitely and definitely who you Yes, sir, are what
you want to do?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, sir the whole niney Is that correct sor I
gotta ask this question. Go ahead, you know, I gotta
ask go ahead. Okay, I got it, Okay, So who
it's Tis period?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Tish Period is a free woman. Tish Period is person
that's give me a person. I'm a free I'm free.
I'm free in my mind, I'm free in my spirit.
I'm free. And how I sing, I'm free. I'm honest.
I don't have to sugar coat anything. I don't have
to put on a persona I am who I am.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Take it or leave it.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Tish Period is a person that's going to give you
one hundred and two and still if it's two people
in a room, or if it's a fifteen million people
in the room. U Tish Period is a person that
you can talk to and get advice from. Tish Period
is a person that is a mother raising my two
beautiful children, thirty one and nineteen. My son shouts out
(12:08):
to Ashton just got his official h back certification certification
and you know, just try, yeah listen, I said, I said,
let him get his speedway first and then I'm gonna
send him to it. I got a list, a whole
bunch of folks ready for my baby.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But you know, Perierd's a sister.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Tish Pair is an aunt that I'm you know, I'm
just so you know, I'm that big sister not my
tea to a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, all right, so uh we found herself, yes, sir,
so on a certain day she was singing at the
Oyster Bar, Broadway, Oyster Bar, Broadway, Oyster.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah. And from the looks at it, how many people
do you think we're in there?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
It was about thirty people in that month, That's what
I'm saying it was.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And I'm going, yeah, thirty people.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah it was, and I want to say thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It may have not even been that, I know, because
like literally when they came out, people from the back
and that was cooking came out. So it was like
you saw those folks, but it wasn't a lot of people.
Like even in the background, a lot of people made
their way to the stage once they realized what was
going on, but it still wasn't that many people. And
what was the ironic part about that is I had
(13:21):
been promoting that show, promoting it like please y'all come
help me, so show these people I can. I got
a following, I can put you know, put some people
in here because I love the Broadway Oyster Broadboy Boy.
It's a stickler in the city, stapler in the city,
and you know, for live music and you get you know,
you like anything could happen just like that night, you know.
(13:42):
And so that's and I was, you know, just honored
they we got that date, and they gave me a
couple of dates and then I picked that one and it.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Was just it was the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
We're to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah. See, you know, I'm letting people know you may
have had only thirty people or whatever in the place.
And then tooc riding down Broadway and they're in their van.
They was not outside, right, and I heard, yeah, your
(14:17):
music right right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
In the van. You're singing their song.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
The inside the van, yes, sir. Windows was up. Yeah,
and I think some wait they had to stop. Yeah,
and then they was.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Like Olivia and the driver she ran a light, so
she said she had to come to a complete stop.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And she heard it first.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Ye, So she rolled down the windows and she's like,
they're playing your they're playing your song. And she yelled
back to the back and she was like I hadn't
even said any a word to them. I was only
their driver. And she's like, I yelled to the back, Hey,
they're playing your song. So Chris G shouts out to him.
He's one of the makeup artists for t BOS. He
was in the car. I talked to him earlier this
(15:00):
week and he was talking just we were talking about
going over how it happened again, and he was like, yeah,
Chili had her shoes off.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And he was like, wait a minute. They playing yd song,
so he.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Was like, they was throwing shoes in the corner to
try to get you know, them to get the shoes on,
and then they pulled over and then you know, running
in and people keep asking me.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Like, was it stage? Was it real? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Do you think I would have been dressed like that
looking like that? Had I know on TLC was gonna
walk in the building.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Do you hear me? Listen?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I had on flip I had on slides, like I
was comfortable. We was chilling and you know, I was singing.
I was just giving good music and shout out to
the band once again. Or Carris the second Shine tailor,
Freddie Spencer, CJ.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Davison. Because they was locked in.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
We didn't have a rehearsal, were just locked and loaded,
just ready to go.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
And I mean it just happened.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, because you know, they showed the video them running
in and then they got to the stage, you singing,
you turned, you recognize who they are, and you from yeah,
stop singing, and then everybody need place going Oh my god,
that's told.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And then you had the whole thing with the stage.
Yes okay.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I then they go ahead and they leave, and then
after that all these things start happening.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
When I tell you, I've just literally been overwhelmed by
all of the things that and I have to go
back to church that God is doing because these are
things that I have been praying about for so long.
And sometimes you feel that you know your prayers are
just unanswered, and then it just takes that one simple
moment to God for God to come knock on your
door and say, girl, I ain't forgot about you. And
(16:39):
that's exactly what that moment in time meant for me.
When that happened, I was like, get yourself together, because
I already had in my heart. I felt in my
heart I said this is about to go viral, but
I didn't expect it to go as viral as it did.
Like I woke up that next morning and they had
already had over one hundred and something thousand views, and
then the next it just kept getting bigger and bigger
(17:02):
and bigger than it was the People dot Com, then
Essence dot Com, then us say.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Then I wake up Wednesday morning It's on Good Morning America,
and I'm like, oh my God.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And then lo and behold.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
About two weeks into scept October, I get a call
from the Tammeron Hall show there and I'm looking and
I'm working, doing my work for my full time job.
And the sight the subject of the email said Tameran
Hall slash ABC slash appearance. And I looked, and I'm like,
I know I'm not tripping. I had another like, I
(17:38):
know that's not Cheerley, I know that's not Tea boys.
I know I'm not trifling. One of those moments, and
I opened the email and I just I sat there
and I just looked. I immediately went into a worship,
just like, thank you God, because you are just so good.
And when I think that, when I think that you're
not working, you're working, You're gonna make me emotional.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, this is good. No, it's it's such a wonderful story.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Good.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You know what I'm saying, And I understand where you
are because I tell people all the time that I've
been in this business for forty years and just this year,
I'm getting everything. And I know how you feel because
it's overwhelming. Yeah if you think you know, you think
you're not being seen, but then he turned around and
(18:25):
he does something, and you're just seen all over the place.
And I've noticed that now your shows are more than
thirty people. Oh yeah, you got a new show coming up.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I got a new show coming up on December twentieth
at the National Blues Museum, and I'm so excited about it.
A lot of people have this open. It opened up
so many doors for people to know about me. Even
if they don't know who I am, they know that
I can sing and they're like, well, maybe let's check
her out. So it's giving me a lot of great
publicity and exposure. And shouts out to my pr Donielle Elizabeth.
(19:00):
She has been owned from from the moment everything happened,
so and getting my name out here and just so
many things that she's been helping me with, so I
thank her too as well. And you guys have just
been everybody has been so supportive. So I'm super excited
for this show. On the twentieth, you know, to be
able to just show you this is what I've been
missing for the last.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
There you go the show. When is the show again?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
December twenty seven p m. At the National Blues Museum. Lord,
don't call me. I want to say six fifteen Washington
Avenue is six.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
We know where it is.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
We'll find right across the street from the cinema.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Y'all know where it is. Yes, just show They just
type being Blues Museum.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, we'll be there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
So it's going to be, uh that show. Where can
we get tickets?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
The tickets are online and if you go online to
National Blues Museum, you should just put in tich period
it'll come up and the tickets her I think with
the feast thirty two or twenty eight forty two, something
like that. All right, So when the food and the
drinks are from Sugar Fire.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So okay, So what what time is the show again?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Seven o'clock? All right, seven to nine o'clock. I'll be done.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
And December the twentieth, next December, next Saturday, next Sat.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yes, sir, Well you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I might stop by, come on, you know, and you know,
you know, Yes, I'm gonna be like myself. Right if
you need somebody to bring you out on stage.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You know what, I probably you know what. Let's talk
about this when we finished this. We're gonna talk about that.
We sure are, Yes, we are. It's something. The tickets
are only vent Bright Okay, Yeah, twenty eight fifty two
is the total. Yeah, event Bright and just put in
tish period. You don't have to put in rhythm and roots. Yes,
put in my name, it'll come up.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, tickets on event Bright didn't get their tickets today. Yes, sir,
show is going to be Saturday, December twentieth. Yes, as
the Blues Museum fround town and watch this. We're gonna
be she gonna be in the building. She's gonna be
doing a thing. Yes, thank you so much for coming,
Thank you studio and talking to.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
About d BJ.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I appreciate you well.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You know, I hate to brag. I hate to tell
you this. It's actually doctor.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Doctor, doctor, doctor. Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I got two of them.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I got you, I got you say it twice, baby, honey,
I overstand say less doctor doctor, the DJ say less.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Thank you, thank you for having success to you.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And I'm just appreciating everything you're doing.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Thank you, and congratulations on your Deluxe Magazine Award.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
On tomorrow and everything that you've been getting.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Shout out to you because you've been a great staple
in our city as well.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
We love you, bjay I love you too. Thank you.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Betrayal: Weekly
Betrayal Weekly is back for a brand new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack. And make sure to check out Seasons 1-4 of Betrayal, along with Betrayal Weekly Season 1.