April 14, 2024 • 40 mins
From the hallowed pews of her childhood church to the spotlight as Brevard's jazz sensation, Kristen Warren's voice has been a beacon for the soulful and the sincere. Our latest episode is a melody of memories and milestones, with Kristen recounting the evolution of her harmonious journey. She takes us through her formative years, her ascent into the realm of jazz, her poignant portrayal of Billie Holiday, and her recent opportunity to take part in the prestigious TED talk. It's an inspiring narrative that underscores her dedication to her craft and to elevating the voices of her fellow artists.
As we navigate the syncopated rhythms of Kristen's experiences, we wander the vibrant jazz clubs of London, feel the pulsing heartbeat of New York City's music scene, and take a roadtrip with her on the big stage in Nashville. These cities, each a canvas for the artist's soul, have left their indelible marks on Kristen's life and work. We also tackle the realities of gigging and the nuances of today's music production, revealing the sheer joy found in the live connection between an artist and their audience. Kristen's stories echo the sentiments of musicians worldwide, painting a vivid picture of life on and off stage.
In a heartfelt note, we address the profound personal impact of autism and the vital role of creativity as a sanctuary during challenging times. The release of the song "Yellow," inspired by the joy observed in a child with autism, becomes a beacon for awareness and compassion. This episode is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, the unspoken language of music, and the supportive embrace of community. Join us as we celebrate the harmony of shared stories and hint at the melodic dialogues that await in future episodes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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What do you give us?
A little something, something,a little song.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, it's a little early.
I bet people ask you that allthe time, you know do you have
like a practice where you likelubricate?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
your what is?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
that.
What is that?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
with whiskey.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're like a true nighttime singer, unless you're
drinking whiskey during the dayjazz all the way.
No, I could never.
I yeah whiskey.
No, not during the day.
That's.
That's a little rough.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, that's a little rough all right, we are here
with kristen warren.
You are like brevard's leadinglady when it comes to jazz and
everything music.
I've heard so much about youand I'm so happy that you're
here with us today.
Thank you for having me.
Yes, absolutely so.
I want to know everything sowell how did it start for you?
(01:16):
Yeah, it all started.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, let's see what is.
What is the short way that Ican sum that up.
Well, did you grow up here?
I did, I did my father's.
See what is the short way that?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I can sum that up for you.
Well, did you grow?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
up here I did.
I did my father's military.
As you know, we have a lot ofmilitary families in the area,
yes, and so my dad retired atPatrick Air Force Base, so I was
actually born in Texas.
Okay, we moved here.
We moved to Utah, which waswhoa whoa culture shock okay,
(01:46):
and then?
It was cool, it was really cool, it was different.
Um, and then we came back andso, um, I've been back since I
was 11 years old, okay, and Igrew up in a very musical family
.
Even though nobody else sings,my father is a huge enthusiast,
massive record collection thathe won't let me touch to this
day yes, my mother uh used toteach dance, um beautiful dancer
(02:11):
and um, and so I grew uphearing all kinds of music, um
being exposed to all types ofdifferent artists and eras, and
so, um, I began singing foraudiences when I was seven years
old in church, wow yes.
In church they gave me my ownsong.
I was seven years old and theyjust kind of threw me up there
by myself and no stage fright.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh, terrible stage fright Really.
Oh yeah, I thought at that agemaybe it was like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It was exciting, I wanted to do it.
I knew I wanted to do it, but Iwanted it to be good.
So I was very nervous and itmeant a lot to me, right, and so
that was kind of to me the signbecause, as nervous as it made
me, I wanted to do it and Iwanted to do it again.
Yes, yes, and so that's where itstarted was church Fast forward
(03:01):
?
You know, when we came back toFlorida, um, it was about uh
2008, and I met a local pianistwho had just lost his singer and
he asked me if I say I met himat a coffee shop and he said do
you sing?
And I said, yeah, a little bit,you were a teenager Um
somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And, um, he said, I just lost my singer, I you know,
and uh, and we startedrehearsing and I started doing
open mics around town and itjust kind of built from there.
So I've been really blessedsince 2008 to have been able to
build basically a music journeycareer if you want to call it
(03:42):
that in the area.
And now, as I continue to dothat and travel and grow, now
I'm really passionate aboutgiving the platform to other
people oh, you know, yes, sothat's what a true master does,
though, right, thank you.
Yeah, I'm trying.
I don't know if I'm a masteryet, but I'm working, working on
(04:03):
it.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Word on the street says otherwise, so did you go to
school?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
in the area.
I did, I did.
I went to Holland, elementarySatellite Beach Delora and
Satellite High.
Cool, I'm a Scorp.
Yeah, I'm a Satellite Scorp.
Go Scorp, are you?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
a Scorp no.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm a bulldog, jesse's, jesse's, not a scorpion
, all right.
I hear the football games likepatio.
Nice, yeah, yeah, okay, that'sacceptable, I'll accept totally
and you're I'm a bulldog.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So that's mel high, mel high right class of 2000.
Rock on, yeah, okay, yeah, melhigh is awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I did a lot of uh theater competitions there.
Oh, that was my thing in highschool theater yeah, cool.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Have you ever done anything like, uh, locally, like
henninger, center?
Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah do youstill?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
oh well, now I kind of curate my own, but back in
the day, the most recentcommunity theater production
that I did was actually aone-person show about Billie
Holiday called Lady Day atEmerson's Bar and Grill.
When was that?
That was 2017, directed by PamHarbaugh.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Do it again, do it again.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Oh, we plan to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh good, I will be there To Heidi's Jazz.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Club.
So we want to do it again.
Do it again.
Oh, we plan to bring it back.
Oh good, I will be there toHeidi's Jazz Club.
So we want to do it at Heidi'syeah what's really cool about
that play is I think a lot ofpeople came thinking it was just
a musical review.
Yeah, and it is not that at allof course there's music in it,
but you're getting like kind ofan up close and personal
encounter with Billie Holiday atthe end of her life oh it's
(05:47):
based on like her last, like herlast string of shows before her
unfortunate passing.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
How did she pass?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, unfortunately, she had a an addiction to heroin
.
Oh, wow, and it caused her, Ithink, some kind of cirrhosis,
some kind of organ failure.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And she was actually under arrest when she died, so
they had her handcuffed to thebed.
Oh no, it's really crazy howshe passed.
But that was basically.
She was hunted by the law atthat time because she refused to
stop singing Strange Fruit, ifyou're familiar with that song
yes, yes, so she, they hadbanned that song.
(06:29):
It was, you know, controversial,it's going to get these people
in an uprise and she was like,no, this is something that I
have to sing, this is a message,I have to continue.
And so, against the law, shecontinued to perform that song
and so, um, ultimately, you knowthat that's what kind of caused
her demise.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh my gosh, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, amazing woman, powerful woman, brilliant
songwriter.
So it was really an honor forme to portray her Absolutely,
and so I'm dying to touch thatrole again.
So we're hoping to bring itback in the next year.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
In the next year.
Mm-hmm At Heidi's, at Heidi's.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Woo-hoo in the next year, in the next year, at
heidi's, at heidi's?
Yeah, all right, lookingforward to that.
Yeah, that's, that'll be cool.
It's really powerful.
So just bring a box of tissues,okay.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Thanks for the warning um, I saw you did a ted
talk.
I I did tell us about that.
Was that in london?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
um, it was in new york city and in london.
Oh wow, really wild how thatcame about.
Yeah, so there, uh is a friendof mine, uh, named samir, who
does uh, he's basically like a.
He advocates for theenvironment and global warming
and his whole thing is he wantsto make that conversation
(07:44):
mainstream.
How do you make thatconversation mainstream?
You use music.
Um, music, you know, issomething where you can reach
younger people, because that'swho needs to be, you know,
involved and and aware, yeah,and in the efforts to.
You know reverse, you knowglobal warming.
However, we can't right.
And so he reached out to afriend of mine named my verse,
(08:04):
who is a female emcee, and shehad started to write a song and
she realized she needed someoneto write and sing a hook on it.
And her fiancé's brother usedto produce for me and he was
like, why don't you call Kristen?
It was just like boop boop,boop, boop, boop.
So she calls me literally Idon't know where.
(08:26):
She's like hey, you want to doa TED?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
talk.
Are they from NYC?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They're from Orlando.
Oh, okay, she goes.
You want to do a TED talk?
Yes, and I was like, let methink about yes, of course.
And so next thing, I knew, youknow, you know, we're in the
studio.
And then you know, probably amonth later we were in new york
at ted, at ted studiosperforming it, and then it went
over so well, they were likewould you like to go to london
(08:50):
and do it at ted countdown?
And I said absolutely yeah whenwas that?
that was 2022.
It was the end of 2022, oh wowit's not too long ago, nope, not
long.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And then you got a spot on cnn because of it,
because of the song, yeah, butbut the underlying is the
climate change movement.
So was there like a talk?
Was there a speaker or was itall just a message spoke and
then he would bring us up toclose out his his talk.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So it was just, it was just really really surreal.
Being there, I couldn't believeit I really couldn't.
I was like I can.
Is this is this real?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
no, well, because they have those like I don't
want to say generic ones, butthe ones were like it's just
lectures or like they're not.
I don't know if they'reaffiliated, I don't know like a
friend of mine was standing nextto the TED, but I don't think
it was a real one, it was justsomething sure so, like all all
Ted's, official Ted's areconnected okay um.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
So there's um, basically ted.
I think what you're talkingabout is ted x yes, ted x, yeah,
so ted x you, can you knowthat's anywhere you know you can
have but ted yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No, that's like the real deal.
Okay, and is ted x affiliatedabsolutely?
Okay, it is, but it's just alocal chapter branch about it.
Exactly that's exactly right,but you went to the real deal.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's all the real.
It's all real.
But like this was like the likeif it's a tree like this is the
.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, it's the bark.
Yeah Cool.
Have you ever been to?
Had you ever been to?
Had you ever?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
been to london, never been out of the country, ever.
Really, what did you thinkabout london?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I loved it, yes how long did you get to be there?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
we were there for five days.
That's a good amount of time.
Um, it was supposed to be four,but I missed my flight, so I
ended up that's the way to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's the way to add an extra day, yeah one of the
coolest things that happenedthere.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I have to tell this story, one of the coolest things
that happened.
We had some down time and I waslike I wanna, I wanna find a
jazz club.
Like, yeah, let's find a jazzclub, let's go and and my verse
and her fiance, they were like,yeah, let's just so.
We just hit the hit thepavement, let's find a jazz club
.
And and we saw three, is thatmy phone?
(11:06):
I'm sorry, let me turn thisthing off.
So no, that wasn't.
Yes, that's my phone vibrating.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I hope it doesn't pick up on the microphone Anyway
.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
so we hit the town First.
Jazz club was really swanky,beautiful.
And they were cool until Iasked to sing.
So you know, I was like, hey,this is my first night ever out
of America, do you mind, if youknow?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
and they're like, you have to ask the manager.
You can't just get up.
That's so bold of you though.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, like, yeah, yeah but they said no, so we
just left, okay.
The next jazz club was sopacked we couldn't even get in.
It was like a line around thebuilding, right.
What was cool about that wasyoung people.
It was all like people like ourage that are like lined up to
see, like you know, music.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, so that was cool.
Did you get in?
No, couldn't get in.
Couldn't get in.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
All right Next.
So we come across this littlehole in the wall called Jazz
After Dark and the doorman says20 pounds, 20 pounds to get like
20 dollars, a little hefty forthis right shoe box and uh, so
we're sitting there like do we?
these locals walk by and they'relike 20 pounds, I wouldn't pay
(12:18):
20 pounds to go.
And I don't do it.
Doorman gets mad at them well,you can't fall right.
And we're just like whoa, whatdo we do?
And it was like wow, this isreally authentic.
We were like you know what,let's just go, let's just do it.
We're here, when are we gonnabe back here?
So we paid 20 pounds ahead toget inside and immediately you
(12:41):
notice portraits of am Winehouseall over.
My friend, my verse is verybold, so she walks right up to
the band.
Yo, my girl's amazing.
You got a letter, okay, so theylet me get.
They did.
And then they kept calling meback up and calling me back up.
So I sang like three times.
It went really great and I keptnoticing like I was like man,
(13:02):
there's a lot of a lot of Amy inhere.
I went to the owner and I saiddid you know Amy Winehouse?
Yeah, what's up with that.
And he goes.
This was her spot.
Oh, this was her hangout.
He goes.
The VIP room is where she wroteback to black holy cow me that
was massive because I'm a hugelike that's a huge idol of mine.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And to know that I pretty much accidentally
stumbled upon.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes, and were willing to pay the 20 bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, yeah, almost didn't, but like I sang in a
place where one of my idols sang, do you remember what you sang.
I sang, you Go to my Head, Isang like three jazz standards.
Okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Because that's stuff that you.
That is really cool.
It was awesome.
Did you get to go to thebackstage or the VIP section?
Yeah, it was right there.
Yeah, you were in the Littlered room Cool.
Yeah, yeah, that's a wonderfulstory.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was so cool.
It was just such a blessing tohave that experience.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And so I do want to return to london with my band
next time.
And yeah, cool, did you haveanything?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
like that going on in new york?
Uh, yes, we played.
Uh, actually, yes, my band uhmet, met up with me, and so
after ted, we played a placecalled queen's brewery, yeah,
and you know, just just jammedout, got to meet some cool
people.
Yeah, new york is amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yes, yes yeah, I was there for a long time, so yeah,
you lived there yeah, I livedthere for almost two decades
whoa yeah, it was.
Uh, I just came back here twoor three years ago, so do you
miss it?
I do, and then you know we goand visit and then I don't.
(14:45):
It's a little grimy right now.
Yeah, you know, like when wewere there it was, I feel like
it was like the Disneyland era,where everything was clean and
where did you live?
in New York.
I've lived on the Upper WestSide the whole time.
Okay, yeah, I didn't I.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah.
So yeah, you, you lived in itand then nicer in a nice, nicer
private town.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, I would have loved to live in like Chelsea,
though or somewhere further down, West Village, of course but, I
, Think you get the most foryour buck on the Upper West Side
.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well, you're gonna spend a lot of bucks regardless.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yes, you are, oh my god, looking back, I'm like why?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's, it's not it is not cheap, but I
mean the energy, the vibe isthere's and the experience
there's.
Nothing like it, nothing likeyeah, I couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I couldn't have gotten to where I am without
packing my bags after thehurricanes hit.
And what was it like?
2002 or three?
He says four.
I couldn't have been four, butyeah, I was like I got nothing
left to lose.
Let me just pack up and gothat's awesome.
Yeah, it was an adventure andit kind of feels like a
(16:01):
different lifetime now it'sweird.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, I mean look at how much has changed in the
world since 2003 2020.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Like can you?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
like go going back, like if I were to go back in
time and tell my 2003 self okay,in about uh, 17 years it's
gonna be like this thing calledcovet and it's gonna come and
like change everybody's livesand it's gonna be creepy and
people are gonna have masks andthey're gonna create their own
masks out of like stuff aroundthe house and nobody's going to
(16:30):
really know, like, how to handlethis nobody knew and now like
coughing or sneezing in publicis like totally bad.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I feel like now it's okay, but there was there was a
point where you're just like Ihave to run out of the store to
cough my god, because it waslike a sin, right, yeah, right
or like better.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Now, though, people would like pull their masks down
to cough oh my god, I know why.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
No, that's not the point.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I know it was crazy nobody could have ever fathomed
what we would experience.
We had no idea what we weredoing.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Well, there was nobody left that actually went
through the last plague, so wehad no, no idea what to ask
those folks yeah wow, that'sfunny we need to write stuff
down so that you know fourgenerations from now do we
though?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
because we didn't really.
I don't know how.
What can we really say?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I know I kind of wish I did record.
We don't know, but it wasterrifying.
You were here during that time,which I don't think florida was
as terrified as no, we were.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That was the problem.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We were very relaxed yeah, I came here like a year or
two into it and that's why welike we finally were able to
relax.
We were going to the beach andwe're like, well, maybe we
should just be here.
Everything became remote, so itwas easy to get up and go.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yes, in New York, everything was locked down no, I
.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I spent months, months in my home.
Wow, it was that would dry.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I mean, granted it's for public safety of yeah, at
least you know no but it thatwould drive someone crazy, yeah,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I remember the first time we like ventured out.
It was we were freaked out bypeople so weird, especially new
york like yeah, we were injersey by then, but oh, wow just
right on the outskirts of newyork, but it was still freaky
and you know I have a daughterwho was in like preschool or
(18:39):
kindergarten aged and she waslike I remember the first time
we went on public and she andsomebody got really close to her
and she you have kids.
Yes, I do.
How many do I have?
One?
One?
One is good, one is good, oneis good yes, um.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So, speaking of that, um, he, my son, is on the
autism spectrum.
Okay, and this month is autismawareness month, right, and
today I, with a friend of minenamed Brandon V, actually
released a song for autismawareness month.
Yes, I will send it to you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Hopefully we can, yes , place it in.
Where can we listen to that?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
um, it is on all platforms.
It's called yellow.
Brandon V, who you would love,an incredible artist.
He has a daughter who wasdiagnosed recently and she
unfortunately, like a lot ofkids on the spectrum.
I was dealing with bullying atschool to the point where he had
to remove her.
Um, it's happened with my sonas well.
(19:41):
It's just a thing, you know,with kids that are different.
You know, it's just a part oflife, unfortunately.
Yeah, and I'm just talking toher and he goes well, what is
your joy Like?
What is you know?
And she said yellow and he said, well, don't let anybody take
your yellow.
So that's the name of the song.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, that he wrote for her and then he asked me to
be on it.
So I'm on it and my, my son, ison it.
Really, um, yeah, is he asinger too?
He, yes, yes, he has abeautiful voice and he is an
all-around ham.
Um, how old is?
No idea where he got the pro.
Uh, he's 10.
he's 10 okay years old, um, andwhen I told him I said, all
(20:20):
right, I said today you haveyour first recording session.
He was so excited.
He's okay, you know.
And he got to the studio and hegoes what time do I record?
Like 10 minutes, goes 10minutes, okay, you know.
And we're like wow, this kid isis very serious.
And he got in there and heknocked it out.
Um, it was like he'd beenwaiting his whole life I was
(20:41):
really proud of him, like I wasreally proud of him, and I think
that that's um, that's soimportant, you know, for
children, whether you're on thespectrum or not, honestly to
have that outlet, to havesomething to express yourself.
I feel like all children arevery creative.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And to give them.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
that is important for them Because life can be tough
dealing with peers and learninghow to socialize and just
learning how to navigate theworld?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is that the biggest sort of challenge that you guys
are facing is the socialization.
Okay, oh yes, without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I'm learning more and more about autism because it
wasn't when we were at school.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, it wasn't diagnosed or recognized, yeah,
they were just weird kids.
And then you look back andyou're like, hmm, right, exactly
.
You know, so what are sort ofthe things that that encompass
that, or what are the challenges, or?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
well, um, like you said, um, so with kids on the
spectrum yeah their biggestchallenge really is relating to
people socially and and you know, navigating uh things, that I
think, uh, if you're notautistic, because, uh I believe,
because it's called a spectrumfor a reason right, because it
could be mild or it could bevery pronounced exactly and so,
(21:55):
um, you know, I've become kindof a social coach for my sons.
I was like, okay, when you, whenyou go to the playground, you
introduce yourself and you sayhello, you know things like that
, yeah, um, and just because hedoes want to make friends, he
actually really valuesinteraction.
It's just he goes about itdifferently.
And so for a neurotypical child, you know, they would kind of
see his behavior and think, hmm,you know, and that's normal you
(22:18):
know.
But I think it's important toeducate kids and say you know,
just because someone isdifferent doesn't mean that you
can't be their friend or thatthey don't want to be your
friend right just learning, justkind of to, how to recognize
that and and maybe how to learnhow to communicate with them.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So yeah, that they can, you know, have friends
vice-versa.
I mean, you said you'recoaching your son.
Yeah, is he picking up on it?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
yes, he is with a lot of, with a lot of help, like we
have you know we have therapyyeah things I I go through
parent training with histherapist yeah, um, to help him
better so amazing yeah, itreally is.
It's.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's really beautiful but maybe there should be
training on the other end too,there there should be.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
There should be a lot of things right right right,
right.
And so, um, you know you knowwhat better way to kind of
introduce that conversation thanthan with you know song and you
know, maybe you know takingthat song and kind of going
further and like helping kidsunderstand how to relate to
other kids that are, that aredifferent.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Right, so you're using music through climate
conservation, through autism,climate conservation through
autism.
Are there any other sort ofcauses?
Causes that you see you canlike.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
use your power for good so the shirt that I'm
wearing right now it says blackon the front box on the back,
yeah, so.
I am the founder of black boxblackout, yeah, which is an
organization that I started in2022 and it's all about
uplifting artists of color inthe area.
I feel like representation isreally important.
I think everybody's voice is,you know, deserving.
(23:59):
So I kind of saw a need,because it was funny, like when
I started playing out, I waslike man, you know, I'm kind of
a rare bird, special specialbird, right, and so you know, I
was like I really would love togive more platform and voice,
you know, more diversity andinclusion, and it includes
theatrical productions, live art, sunday dinner, all kinds of
(24:20):
All around town All around.
Cool, primarily in EGAD, butlike we've definitely expanded
and now we're expanding intokind of a year round thing, so
we're going to have a monthlyshow at Funky Dog Improv a first
Friday show called.
Rhythm and Rhyme.
It's a it's poetry music, kindof an open mic deal with, like
(24:45):
headliners at the end.
Um, I'm running that with, uh,my friend, eric diaz uh, also
known as class, who is a localum and an incredible artist um
and the founder of blindmanproduction.
So we're collaborating onbringing kind of this cool uh,
hip-hop, jazz, poetry kind ofnight every month to the area so
it's just you know, we justwant to kind of, you know, uh,
(25:08):
have more, have more inclusionis it scheduled yet?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
oh yes, the first one is uh, may 3rd oh, first friday
of next month, first friday,yep, okay, and it will.
It be on first friday everymonth.
It will be every month.
Nice, I love that.
That.
Uh, funky dog improv is there.
Oh, they are great, I know theyare great.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Shout out to aaron and holly, the owners um,
they're so open to differentideas and um, when I first came
to them with the idea of blackbox, um in 2021, the end of 2021
, um, aaron, immediately he hadnever met me, he did not know me
at all, and it was a phoneconversation.
(25:49):
I called, I said hey, I reallywant to use your space for this
and he said sure, right away ohmy gosh.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And I said really that's great okay that was easy,
he's.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
They are just wonderful people and they're all
about the community and, uh,yes, definitely support funky
dog.
They have an improv show thatis killer every Saturday night.
Every Saturday night Cool.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I went there for a comedy show Not the improv, but
yeah, I love that it's there.
We didn't have anything likethat growing up.
I think Makoto's might haveused to have like a comedy
Makoto's.
Yeah, isn't that weird.
If you wanted comedy, I thinkyou had to go to Makoto's.
Wait, the restaurant, therestaurant, that lounge.
They had like a lounge that isnow just like seating.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
We have come a long way.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Going to.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Makoto's.
Check out some comedy.
What yes?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No.
Yeah, I know it was crazy, butnow we have Funky.
Dog Yep, and I know you'vepartnered up with Derek Gores.
Oh yeah, yeah, Plenty he'sactually the first person that
brought you to my attention.
Really, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Derek Gores Love Derek Gores Tremendous,
tremendous, incredible artist.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, and also a type of artist that is all inclusive
.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Absolutely All about the community of artist.
That is all inclusive,absolutely all about the
community.
Um, he's always bringing youknow different painters and
artists and featuring them inhis gallery.
Yeah, you can come to him withideas and he he'll sit down,
he'll take a meeting with youand listen to your ideas yeah um
, and like you said, you knowand not saying this about myself
, but like you said, with peoplewho are masters of their craft,
(27:28):
you know the the next steptends to be that they want to to
bring other people on board,and I think that's the right
thing to do.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I think so don't be a gatekeeper.
Right share the knowledge.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Share the knowledge spotlight?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
absolutely yes, and I love that, and it brings so
much success you know it doesbecause it Because you're just
including everybody.
And yeah, you're not hoardingthe light.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Absolutely.
Don't hoard the light.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What are your upcoming gigs?
Let me see.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
What do I have going on?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well, I saw that you go to Nashville.
Yes, are you catching thatreally cheap flight from
Melbourne out there.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Is there a cheap flight?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I heard there is like a $34 flight.
You're lying $40?
.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, okay, because we have been driving and when.
I tell you I'm really bondednow with my team.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
We have been driving I didn't know there was a cheap
flight out of Melbourne.
It's like one of two cities,right, one of them being
Nashville and the other one islike Pittsburgh, right, when I'm
like it's something that you'llprobably be uncomfortable, I'm
sure Allegion is great flightokay you can sit in a lawn chair
with no leg room right for twohours with no door, it will fly
(28:54):
off.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I didn't know that.
No, thank you for that, becausethe drive is is intense, yeah,
but uh, yeah, we've been driving, we've been up there twice.
Shout out to Rudy's Jazz Roomin Nashville.
They adopted us Basically.
It's an incredible venue.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
How did you hook up with them?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Well, that's very funny.
So a girl I went to high schoolwith her mother is friends with
the owner of.
Rudy's A satellite beacher.
Yes Wow, friends with the ownerof Rudy's satellite Beecher.
Yes, wow, her name is MissValentina and she's incredible.
She's a healer, she's a massagetherapist, and she came to one
(29:37):
of my concerts and was a loyalsupporter ever since, and so she
reached out to her friend Lindy, who owns Rudy's Jazz Room in
Nashville, and she got me bookedcool and she goes yeah, yeah,
come sing.
And when I tell you that's thecoolest audience, is the coolest
room, um, so we're going backin august and uh hopefully.
(29:59):
You know it's going to be aregular thing yeah, well, now
with the flight.
That you know, girl.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thank you so much you can get a gig in pittsburgh too
absolutely.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I've never been to pittsburgh.
Let's go either.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I want to know what to do.
Is it cool?
Oh, I didn't know he said hipwow, okay, well, we should both
take advantage of those flights.
Let's go cool, all right.
Yeah, what are your upcominggigs?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
well, um can we see you next, uh, so on the 25th I
have a show in orlando.
That is actually a um, it's alive recording type of show.
Oh, wow, yeah, in downtown.
Um, if you give me a second,see, that's the thing I also, I
(30:54):
should have looked it up, Ishould hold on, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You could also tell us afterwards um and we'll.
We'll put it on the comments orwhatever.
All right um.
I saw you were on pbs too.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Pbs, that's so cool it was cool, I just fast forward
through the intro because itwas so mellow it's.
It's called uh the melrosecenter and they do um like live
uh concerts and it was so cooland they record them that's in
(31:25):
the, it's in the public librarywhat that must be a big public
life it's massive and they havea whole floor dedicated to music
production and, uh, so they dolive concerts there and I had
always wanted to play that andfinally I got the call and yeah,
(31:46):
any other big dreams yes, oh,oh, yes, so many, so many.
I'm hoping uh well, not hoping Iwill have you have some singles
released this year, which is abig one.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I was going to ask you about that.
Have you recorded?
Do you have albums?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Oh, yes, I record all the time it's releasing.
That seems to be the problem.
Really, I'm the kind of artistI go in the studio and I, I
start, I always start projects,but then when I go back I want
to start something new yeah, Igo back and start something new,
and then I you know.
So that's the.
Would you have a producer that?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
you work.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I do, professor West.
Don't they finish it for you?
Um well, if I, if it's, if it'snot finished being written oh,
finish it for me.
Right so, but yes, the person Iwork with the most is Professor
Wes in.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Orlando Okay, he's in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And his production is incredible.
He knows my voice and so, andhe creates an environment where
I feel very comfortable, kind ofplaying.
You know you have to play tofind, you know to find the song,
and you have to feel kind of ajudgment free zone, like you,
you know, yeah, and he is amaster at creating that.
(33:10):
So I would say most of mycatalog is with him and most of
my best work is with him.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
But a lot of it's unfinished.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A lot of it is unfinished we have.
That's so embarrassing, butyeah, no it's so artistic.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Very much.
You should see how many canvasI have.
Very much an artist I am.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, unfinished things.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You have to have unfinished things to be an
artist yeah, and then whathappens is you go back and you
say what do I want?
To finish like yeah, yes what,what deserves you know what time
effort and to be revisited, andso that's that's what we are
dedicating our time to now isfinishing things.
So we have we have two that areready for release, and so
(33:51):
that's that is coming this yearand then do you release them
just as, as they're finished,like there's no.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I feel like the album is dead.
Is that I've?
I've?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
gotten that a lot.
I have a lot of friends who dothis, that do not release albums
anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
They just drop singles and videos.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, and videos um I .
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I'm old school, I want to have an album yeah,
there's something to it,especially if you're if the
songs sort of, yeah, have an artstory, yeah and so I forget who
it was.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
It was an older person that told me this.
You know about kind of the 60sand 70s and going to the record
store, yeah, buying the, thealbum and, you know, picking the
perfect time to yourself toreally put the record on and
listen to it and he said to mewhoever this person was, he said
(34:42):
to me people used to listen toalbums, the way people read
books, absolutely, and thatalways stuck with me and I was
like I want to make an albumlike that.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I want to make an album that you receive like a
message you receive like a likeyou're reading a book, you sit
and you meditate with it.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, I you know.
So, while I you have toappreciate where music is now
and and the nature of music, asfar as you know how people are
getting seen and you know this,it is a singles world.
It is, yeah, but uh, you know,um, as an artist, I a singles
world.
It is.
But, uh, you know, um, as anartist I want to make something
I'm proud of first, and if it'swell received, cool.
(35:21):
So I, I want, I want the album.
That's that's a goal of mine.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Okay, I think you'll get there.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I thank you yes.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I have faith in you.
I really appreciate it.
So cool.
Well, where?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
can we listen to the things now?
Um, well, and where can we findyou online?
Well, I uh I do have asoundcloud account um
soundcloudcom slash kristenwarren.
I do have um some things up onspotify, but right now they're
mostly features um today, um,again, I have the song that was
just released today calledyellow with brandon v, and
(36:00):
that's on all platforms.
Um, I have a youtube channelwith um some live performance,
uh footage and things like thatum instagramcom slash chris and
warren music.
I do have a lot of uh songs andperformance videos on there as
well, um, but the releases theofficial releases that are just
solo releases are later thisyear, cool.
(36:21):
We're looking forward to thatStay tuned.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Awesome, we will stay tuned.
Do you have any music videosthat you've?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
produced yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You have, yeah, and are those on YouTube?
Yeah, they're performancevideos Okay, but nothing
artistic, yet no.
How do?
Yeah, they're perform.
They're performance videos okay, but nothing artistic, yet no.
How do you feel?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
about that.
Um, well, yeah, I mean that's,that's kind of the natural next
step.
Um, with, I was kind of like,should I release the singles, um
, without videos, or should Iwait until there's a video to
release them?
Right?
So I'm thinking it's, it'sgoing to be song first, then
video, cool.
But yes, we do have some videosset up to be released after the
(37:03):
release of the song it isexciting Cool.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
So, excited.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I think people will like it.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
What's not to like.
I mean the voice of an angelreally.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh, thank you so much .
Speaker 1 (37:18):
voice of an angel, really thank you so much.
Thank you, I'm excited foreverything to look forward to,
yeah, the billy holiday thing,your albums, everything else.
Thank you so much for beinghere today.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It was really nice to get to know you.
Great meeting you.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
You're welcome anytime oh, thank you back and
uh, if you have anything torelease or say, or okay, we
would be happy to have you back.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, get to know you more.
Absolutely, thank you.
It's been a pleasure, and greatcoffee as well.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Thank you, apocalypse oh, do you want to nominate
someone to be the next guest onour local celebrity podcast?
Um, you were technicallynominated I was by steve keller.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Thank you, steve.
Shout out, ste shout out, steveKeller.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I love you, man.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
He's just such a sweet spirit.
Okay, so it's a tie for me,okay.
So I guess it just depends on,I mean, bring them both on at
different times.
So actually, I'm sorry, it's athree way tie so the first the
more the merrier.
First nomination, of course, isCreek.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
That's your band.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yes, Creek is my backing band, but they also have
a lot of material of their own.
Cool.
These are my brothers and Iadmire their artistry so much.
They've all really dedicatedtheir lives to just being
masters of their instruments andI'm amazed every time I hear
(38:45):
them play.
So definitely bring Creek on.
Jamala and I have been friendsfor years.
She's a beautiful soul gospelartist.
She does have, I think, herfirst single released and just a
(39:06):
tremendous voice and spirit andI definitely think more people
need to hear her.
She is homegrown, she is fromthe area and just a phenomenal
singer.
Jamala scott shout out to mygirl.
And then, lastly, is the speedspirits.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I know that steve keller oh yeah, talked about the
speed spirits.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I first saw them at memento music festival in 2021,
was it, and it was like I had.
I felt like, because I justwalked onto the grass and I just
see these guys.
I see, like melbourne's mickjagger like killing it in the
front, and it was like Iliterally felt like I was back
in time watching them.
(39:48):
Um, they are.
They are so talented like theenergy and the electricity that
they bring is just ridiculousand I'm so proud of them.
They've made a lot of strides,they're traveling too, but um, I
, I love them and I I'm a hugefan and I think it would be
(40:08):
great to have them yes, so thoseare my nominees.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Sorry, I couldn't pick one.
No, no, we like more than one.
We like as many as we can get.
Yeah, all right, awesome.
Well, thank you again forcoming and I hope you have a
wonderful day.
Thank you so much, thank youwe'll be hearing more from you
soon.
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(40:35):
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What do you give us?
A little something, something,a little song.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, it's a little early.
I bet people ask you that allthe time, you know do you have
like a practice where you likelubricate?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
your what is?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
that.
What is that?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
with whiskey.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're like a true nighttime singer, unless you're
drinking whiskey during the dayjazz all the way.
No, I could never.
I yeah whiskey.
No, not during the day.
That's.
That's a little rough.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, that's a little rough all right, we are here
with kristen warren.
You are like brevard's leadinglady when it comes to jazz and
everything music.
I've heard so much about youand I'm so happy that you're
here with us today.
Thank you for having me.
Yes, absolutely so.
I want to know everything sowell how did it start for you?
(01:16):
Yeah, it all started.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, let's see what is.
What is the short way that Ican sum that up.
Well, did you grow up here?
I did, I did my father's.
See what is the short way that?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I can sum that up for you.
Well, did you grow?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
up here I did.
I did my father's military.
As you know, we have a lot ofmilitary families in the area,
yes, and so my dad retired atPatrick Air Force Base, so I was
actually born in Texas.
Okay, we moved here.
We moved to Utah, which waswhoa whoa culture shock okay,
(01:46):
and then?
It was cool, it was really cool, it was different.
Um, and then we came back andso, um, I've been back since I
was 11 years old, okay, and Igrew up in a very musical family
.
Even though nobody else sings,my father is a huge enthusiast,
massive record collection thathe won't let me touch to this
day yes, my mother uh used toteach dance, um beautiful dancer
(02:11):
and um, and so I grew uphearing all kinds of music, um
being exposed to all types ofdifferent artists and eras, and
so, um, I began singing foraudiences when I was seven years
old in church, wow yes.
In church they gave me my ownsong.
I was seven years old and theyjust kind of threw me up there
by myself and no stage fright.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh, terrible stage fright Really.
Oh yeah, I thought at that agemaybe it was like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It was exciting, I wanted to do it.
I knew I wanted to do it, but Iwanted it to be good.
So I was very nervous and itmeant a lot to me, right, and so
that was kind of to me the signbecause, as nervous as it made
me, I wanted to do it and Iwanted to do it again.
Yes, yes, and so that's where itstarted was church Fast forward
(03:01):
?
You know, when we came back toFlorida, um, it was about uh
2008, and I met a local pianistwho had just lost his singer and
he asked me if I say I met himat a coffee shop and he said do
you sing?
And I said, yeah, a little bit,you were a teenager Um
somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And, um, he said, I just lost my singer, I you know,
and uh, and we startedrehearsing and I started doing
open mics around town and itjust kind of built from there.
So I've been really blessedsince 2008 to have been able to
build basically a music journeycareer if you want to call it
(03:42):
that in the area.
And now, as I continue to dothat and travel and grow, now
I'm really passionate aboutgiving the platform to other
people oh, you know, yes, sothat's what a true master does,
though, right, thank you.
Yeah, I'm trying.
I don't know if I'm a masteryet, but I'm working, working on
(04:03):
it.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Word on the street says otherwise, so did you go to
school?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
in the area.
I did, I did.
I went to Holland, elementarySatellite Beach Delora and
Satellite High.
Cool, I'm a Scorp.
Yeah, I'm a Satellite Scorp.
Go Scorp, are you?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
a Scorp no.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm a bulldog, jesse's, jesse's, not a scorpion
, all right.
I hear the football games likepatio.
Nice, yeah, yeah, okay, that'sacceptable, I'll accept totally
and you're I'm a bulldog.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So that's mel high, mel high right class of 2000.
Rock on, yeah, okay, yeah, melhigh is awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I did a lot of uh theater competitions there.
Oh, that was my thing in highschool theater yeah, cool.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Have you ever done anything like, uh, locally, like
henninger, center?
Oh, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah do youstill?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
oh well, now I kind of curate my own, but back in
the day, the most recentcommunity theater production
that I did was actually aone-person show about Billie
Holiday called Lady Day atEmerson's Bar and Grill.
When was that?
That was 2017, directed by PamHarbaugh.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Do it again, do it again.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Oh, we plan to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh good, I will be there To Heidi's Jazz.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Club.
So we want to do it again.
Do it again.
Oh, we plan to bring it back.
Oh good, I will be there toHeidi's Jazz Club.
So we want to do it at Heidi'syeah what's really cool about
that play is I think a lot ofpeople came thinking it was just
a musical review.
Yeah, and it is not that at allof course there's music in it,
but you're getting like kind ofan up close and personal
encounter with Billie Holiday atthe end of her life oh it's
(05:47):
based on like her last, like herlast string of shows before her
unfortunate passing.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
How did she pass?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, unfortunately, she had a an addiction to heroin
.
Oh, wow, and it caused her, Ithink, some kind of cirrhosis,
some kind of organ failure.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And she was actually under arrest when she died, so
they had her handcuffed to thebed.
Oh no, it's really crazy howshe passed.
But that was basically.
She was hunted by the law atthat time because she refused to
stop singing Strange Fruit, ifyou're familiar with that song
yes, yes, so she, they hadbanned that song.
(06:29):
It was, you know, controversial,it's going to get these people
in an uprise and she was like,no, this is something that I
have to sing, this is a message,I have to continue.
And so, against the law, shecontinued to perform that song
and so, um, ultimately, you knowthat that's what kind of caused
her demise.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Oh my gosh, I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, amazing woman, powerful woman, brilliant
songwriter.
So it was really an honor forme to portray her Absolutely,
and so I'm dying to touch thatrole again.
So we're hoping to bring itback in the next year.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
In the next year.
Mm-hmm At Heidi's, at Heidi's.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Woo-hoo in the next year, in the next year, at
heidi's, at heidi's?
Yeah, all right, lookingforward to that.
Yeah, that's, that'll be cool.
It's really powerful.
So just bring a box of tissues,okay.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Thanks for the warning um, I saw you did a ted
talk.
I I did tell us about that.
Was that in london?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
um, it was in new york city and in london.
Oh wow, really wild how thatcame about.
Yeah, so there, uh is a friendof mine, uh, named samir, who
does uh, he's basically like a.
He advocates for theenvironment and global warming
and his whole thing is he wantsto make that conversation
(07:44):
mainstream.
How do you make thatconversation mainstream?
You use music.
Um, music, you know, issomething where you can reach
younger people, because that'swho needs to be, you know,
involved and and aware, yeah,and in the efforts to.
You know reverse, you knowglobal warming.
However, we can't right.
And so he reached out to afriend of mine named my verse,
(08:04):
who is a female emcee, and shehad started to write a song and
she realized she needed someoneto write and sing a hook on it.
And her fiancé's brother usedto produce for me and he was
like, why don't you call Kristen?
It was just like boop boop,boop, boop, boop.
So she calls me literally Idon't know where.
(08:26):
She's like hey, you want to doa TED?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
talk.
Are they from NYC?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
They're from Orlando.
Oh, okay, she goes.
You want to do a TED talk?
Yes, and I was like, let methink about yes, of course.
And so next thing, I knew, youknow, you know, we're in the
studio.
And then you know, probably amonth later we were in new york
at ted, at ted studiosperforming it, and then it went
over so well, they were likewould you like to go to london
(08:50):
and do it at ted countdown?
And I said absolutely yeah whenwas that?
that was 2022.
It was the end of 2022, oh wowit's not too long ago, nope, not
long.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And then you got a spot on cnn because of it,
because of the song, yeah, butbut the underlying is the
climate change movement.
So was there like a talk?
Was there a speaker or was itall just a message spoke and
then he would bring us up toclose out his his talk.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So it was just, it was just really really surreal.
Being there, I couldn't believeit I really couldn't.
I was like I can.
Is this is this real?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
no, well, because they have those like I don't
want to say generic ones, butthe ones were like it's just
lectures or like they're not.
I don't know if they'reaffiliated, I don't know like a
friend of mine was standing nextto the TED, but I don't think
it was a real one, it was justsomething sure so, like all all
Ted's, official Ted's areconnected okay um.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
So there's um, basically ted.
I think what you're talkingabout is ted x yes, ted x, yeah,
so ted x you, can you knowthat's anywhere you know you can
have but ted yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No, that's like the real deal.
Okay, and is ted x affiliatedabsolutely?
Okay, it is, but it's just alocal chapter branch about it.
Exactly that's exactly right,but you went to the real deal.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It's all the real.
It's all real.
But like this was like the likeif it's a tree like this is the
.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, it's the bark.
Yeah Cool.
Have you ever been to?
Had you ever been to?
Had you ever?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
been to london, never been out of the country, ever.
Really, what did you thinkabout london?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I loved it, yes how long did you get to be there?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
we were there for five days.
That's a good amount of time.
Um, it was supposed to be four,but I missed my flight, so I
ended up that's the way to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's the way to add an extra day, yeah one of the
coolest things that happenedthere.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I have to tell this story, one of the coolest things
that happened.
We had some down time and I waslike I wanna, I wanna find a
jazz club.
Like, yeah, let's find a jazzclub, let's go and and my verse
and her fiance, they were like,yeah, let's just so.
We just hit the hit thepavement, let's find a jazz club
.
And and we saw three, is thatmy phone?
(11:06):
I'm sorry, let me turn thisthing off.
So no, that wasn't.
Yes, that's my phone vibrating.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I hope it doesn't pick up on the microphone Anyway
.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
so we hit the town First.
Jazz club was really swanky,beautiful.
And they were cool until Iasked to sing.
So you know, I was like, hey,this is my first night ever out
of America, do you mind, if youknow?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
and they're like, you have to ask the manager.
You can't just get up.
That's so bold of you though.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, like, yeah, yeah but they said no, so we
just left, okay.
The next jazz club was sopacked we couldn't even get in.
It was like a line around thebuilding, right.
What was cool about that wasyoung people.
It was all like people like ourage that are like lined up to
see, like you know, music.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, so that was cool.
Did you get in?
No, couldn't get in.
Couldn't get in.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
All right Next.
So we come across this littlehole in the wall called Jazz
After Dark and the doorman says20 pounds, 20 pounds to get like
20 dollars, a little hefty forthis right shoe box and uh, so
we're sitting there like do we?
these locals walk by and they'relike 20 pounds, I wouldn't pay
(12:18):
20 pounds to go.
And I don't do it.
Doorman gets mad at them well,you can't fall right.
And we're just like whoa, whatdo we do?
And it was like wow, this isreally authentic.
We were like you know what,let's just go, let's just do it.
We're here, when are we gonnabe back here?
So we paid 20 pounds ahead toget inside and immediately you
(12:41):
notice portraits of am Winehouseall over.
My friend, my verse is verybold, so she walks right up to
the band.
Yo, my girl's amazing.
You got a letter, okay, so theylet me get.
They did.
And then they kept calling meback up and calling me back up.
So I sang like three times.
It went really great and I keptnoticing like I was like man,
(13:02):
there's a lot of a lot of Amy inhere.
I went to the owner and I saiddid you know Amy Winehouse?
Yeah, what's up with that.
And he goes.
This was her spot.
Oh, this was her hangout.
He goes.
The VIP room is where she wroteback to black holy cow me that
was massive because I'm a hugelike that's a huge idol of mine.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And to know that I pretty much accidentally
stumbled upon.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yes, and were willing to pay the 20 bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, yeah, almost didn't, but like I sang in a
place where one of my idols sang, do you remember what you sang.
I sang, you Go to my Head, Isang like three jazz standards.
Okay, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Because that's stuff that you.
That is really cool.
It was awesome.
Did you get to go to thebackstage or the VIP section?
Yeah, it was right there.
Yeah, you were in the Littlered room Cool.
Yeah, yeah, that's a wonderfulstory.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was so cool.
It was just such a blessing tohave that experience.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And so I do want to return to london with my band
next time.
And yeah, cool, did you haveanything?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
like that going on in new york?
Uh, yes, we played.
Uh, actually, yes, my band uhmet, met up with me, and so
after ted, we played a placecalled queen's brewery, yeah,
and you know, just just jammedout, got to meet some cool
people.
Yeah, new york is amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yes, yes yeah, I was there for a long time, so yeah,
you lived there yeah, I livedthere for almost two decades
whoa yeah, it was.
Uh, I just came back here twoor three years ago, so do you
miss it?
I do, and then you know we goand visit and then I don't.
(14:45):
It's a little grimy right now.
Yeah, you know, like when wewere there it was, I feel like
it was like the Disneyland era,where everything was clean and
where did you live?
in New York.
I've lived on the Upper WestSide the whole time.
Okay, yeah, I didn't I.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah.
So yeah, you, you lived in itand then nicer in a nice, nicer
private town.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, I would have loved to live in like Chelsea,
though or somewhere further down, West Village, of course but, I
, Think you get the most foryour buck on the Upper West Side
.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Well, you're gonna spend a lot of bucks regardless.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yes, you are, oh my god, looking back, I'm like why?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's, it's not it is not cheap, but I
mean the energy, the vibe isthere's and the experience
there's.
Nothing like it, nothing likeyeah, I couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I couldn't have gotten to where I am without
packing my bags after thehurricanes hit.
And what was it like?
2002 or three?
He says four.
I couldn't have been four, butyeah, I was like I got nothing
left to lose.
Let me just pack up and gothat's awesome.
Yeah, it was an adventure andit kind of feels like a
(16:01):
different lifetime now it'sweird.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, I mean look at how much has changed in the
world since 2003 2020.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Like can you?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
like go going back, like if I were to go back in
time and tell my 2003 self okay,in about uh, 17 years it's
gonna be like this thing calledcovet and it's gonna come and
like change everybody's livesand it's gonna be creepy and
people are gonna have masks andthey're gonna create their own
masks out of like stuff aroundthe house and nobody's going to
(16:30):
really know, like, how to handlethis nobody knew and now like
coughing or sneezing in publicis like totally bad.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I feel like now it's okay, but there was there was a
point where you're just like Ihave to run out of the store to
cough my god, because it waslike a sin, right, yeah, right
or like better.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Now, though, people would like pull their masks down
to cough oh my god, I know why.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
No, that's not the point.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
I know it was crazy nobody could have ever fathomed
what we would experience.
We had no idea what we weredoing.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Well, there was nobody left that actually went
through the last plague, so wehad no, no idea what to ask
those folks yeah wow, that'sfunny we need to write stuff
down so that you know fourgenerations from now do we
though?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
because we didn't really.
I don't know how.
What can we really say?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I know I kind of wish I did record.
We don't know, but it wasterrifying.
You were here during that time,which I don't think florida was
as terrified as no, we were.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That was the problem.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We were very relaxed yeah, I came here like a year or
two into it and that's why welike we finally were able to
relax.
We were going to the beach andwe're like, well, maybe we
should just be here.
Everything became remote, so itwas easy to get up and go.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yes, in New York, everything was locked down no, I
.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I spent months, months in my home.
Wow, it was that would dry.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I mean, granted it's for public safety of yeah, at
least you know no but it thatwould drive someone crazy, yeah,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I remember the first time we like ventured out.
It was we were freaked out bypeople so weird, especially new
york like yeah, we were injersey by then, but oh, wow just
right on the outskirts of newyork, but it was still freaky
and you know I have a daughterwho was in like preschool or
(18:39):
kindergarten aged and she waslike I remember the first time
we went on public and she andsomebody got really close to her
and she you have kids.
Yes, I do.
How many do I have?
One?
One?
One is good, one is good, oneis good yes, um.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So, speaking of that, um, he, my son, is on the
autism spectrum.
Okay, and this month is autismawareness month, right, and
today I, with a friend of minenamed Brandon V, actually
released a song for autismawareness month.
Yes, I will send it to you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Hopefully we can, yes , place it in.
Where can we listen to that?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
um, it is on all platforms.
It's called yellow.
Brandon V, who you would love,an incredible artist.
He has a daughter who wasdiagnosed recently and she
unfortunately, like a lot ofkids on the spectrum.
I was dealing with bullying atschool to the point where he had
to remove her.
Um, it's happened with my sonas well.
(19:41):
It's just a thing, you know,with kids that are different.
You know, it's just a part oflife, unfortunately.
Yeah, and I'm just talking toher and he goes well, what is
your joy Like?
What is you know?
And she said yellow and he said, well, don't let anybody take
your yellow.
So that's the name of the song.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, that he wrote for her and then he asked me to
be on it.
So I'm on it and my, my son, ison it.
Really, um, yeah, is he asinger too?
He, yes, yes, he has abeautiful voice and he is an
all-around ham.
Um, how old is?
No idea where he got the pro.
Uh, he's 10.
he's 10 okay years old, um, andwhen I told him I said, all
(20:20):
right, I said today you haveyour first recording session.
He was so excited.
He's okay, you know.
And he got to the studio and hegoes what time do I record?
Like 10 minutes, goes 10minutes, okay, you know.
And we're like wow, this kid isis very serious.
And he got in there and heknocked it out.
Um, it was like he'd beenwaiting his whole life I was
(20:41):
really proud of him, like I wasreally proud of him, and I think
that that's um, that's soimportant, you know, for
children, whether you're on thespectrum or not, honestly to
have that outlet, to havesomething to express yourself.
I feel like all children arevery creative.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
And to give them.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
that is important for them Because life can be tough
dealing with peers and learninghow to socialize and just
learning how to navigate theworld?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Is that the biggest sort of challenge that you guys
are facing is the socialization.
Okay, oh yes, without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I'm learning more and more about autism because it
wasn't when we were at school.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, it wasn't diagnosed or recognized, yeah,
they were just weird kids.
And then you look back andyou're like, hmm, right, exactly
.
You know, so what are sort ofthe things that that encompass
that, or what are the challenges, or?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
well, um, like you said, um, so with kids on the
spectrum yeah their biggestchallenge really is relating to
people socially and and you know, navigating uh things, that I
think, uh, if you're notautistic, because, uh I believe,
because it's called a spectrumfor a reason right, because it
could be mild or it could bevery pronounced exactly and so,
(21:55):
um, you know, I've become kindof a social coach for my sons.
I was like, okay, when you, whenyou go to the playground, you
introduce yourself and you sayhello, you know things like that
, yeah, um, and just because hedoes want to make friends, he
actually really valuesinteraction.
It's just he goes about itdifferently.
And so for a neurotypical child, you know, they would kind of
see his behavior and think, hmm,you know, and that's normal you
(22:18):
know.
But I think it's important toeducate kids and say you know,
just because someone isdifferent doesn't mean that you
can't be their friend or thatthey don't want to be your
friend right just learning, justkind of to, how to recognize
that and and maybe how to learnhow to communicate with them.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So yeah, that they can, you know, have friends
vice-versa.
I mean, you said you'recoaching your son.
Yeah, is he picking up on it?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
yes, he is with a lot of, with a lot of help, like we
have you know we have therapyyeah things I I go through
parent training with histherapist yeah, um, to help him
better so amazing yeah, itreally is.
It's.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It's really beautiful but maybe there should be
training on the other end too,there there should be.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
There should be a lot of things right right right,
right.
And so, um, you know you knowwhat better way to kind of
introduce that conversation thanthan with you know song and you
know, maybe you know takingthat song and kind of going
further and like helping kidsunderstand how to relate to
other kids that are, that aredifferent.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Right, so you're using music through climate
conservation, through autism,climate conservation through
autism.
Are there any other sort ofcauses?
Causes that you see you canlike.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
use your power for good so the shirt that I'm
wearing right now it says blackon the front box on the back,
yeah, so.
I am the founder of black boxblackout, yeah, which is an
organization that I started in2022 and it's all about
uplifting artists of color inthe area.
I feel like representation isreally important.
I think everybody's voice is,you know, deserving.
(23:59):
So I kind of saw a need,because it was funny, like when
I started playing out, I waslike man, you know, I'm kind of
a rare bird, special specialbird, right, and so you know, I
was like I really would love togive more platform and voice,
you know, more diversity andinclusion, and it includes
theatrical productions, live art, sunday dinner, all kinds of
(24:20):
All around town All around.
Cool, primarily in EGAD, butlike we've definitely expanded
and now we're expanding intokind of a year round thing, so
we're going to have a monthlyshow at Funky Dog Improv a first
Friday show called.
Rhythm and Rhyme.
It's a it's poetry music, kindof an open mic deal with, like
(24:45):
headliners at the end.
Um, I'm running that with, uh,my friend, eric diaz uh, also
known as class, who is a localum and an incredible artist um
and the founder of blindmanproduction.
So we're collaborating onbringing kind of this cool uh,
hip-hop, jazz, poetry kind ofnight every month to the area so
it's just you know, we justwant to kind of, you know, uh,
(25:08):
have more, have more inclusionis it scheduled yet?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
oh yes, the first one is uh, may 3rd oh, first friday
of next month, first friday,yep, okay, and it will.
It be on first friday everymonth.
It will be every month.
Nice, I love that.
That.
Uh, funky dog improv is there.
Oh, they are great, I know theyare great.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Shout out to aaron and holly, the owners um,
they're so open to differentideas and um, when I first came
to them with the idea of blackbox, um in 2021, the end of 2021
, um, aaron, immediately he hadnever met me, he did not know me
at all, and it was a phoneconversation.
(25:49):
I called, I said hey, I reallywant to use your space for this
and he said sure, right away ohmy gosh.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And I said really that's great okay that was easy,
he's.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
They are just wonderful people and they're all
about the community and, uh,yes, definitely support funky
dog.
They have an improv show thatis killer every Saturday night.
Every Saturday night Cool.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I went there for a comedy show Not the improv, but
yeah, I love that it's there.
We didn't have anything likethat growing up.
I think Makoto's might haveused to have like a comedy
Makoto's.
Yeah, isn't that weird.
If you wanted comedy, I thinkyou had to go to Makoto's.
Wait, the restaurant, therestaurant, that lounge.
They had like a lounge that isnow just like seating.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
We have come a long way.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Going to.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Makoto's.
Check out some comedy.
What yes?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No.
Yeah, I know it was crazy, butnow we have Funky.
Dog Yep, and I know you'vepartnered up with Derek Gores.
Oh yeah, yeah, Plenty he'sactually the first person that
brought you to my attention.
Really, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Derek Gores Love Derek Gores Tremendous,
tremendous, incredible artist.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, and also a type of artist that is all inclusive
.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Absolutely All about the community of artist.
That is all inclusive,absolutely all about the
community.
Um, he's always bringing youknow different painters and
artists and featuring them inhis gallery.
Yeah, you can come to him withideas and he he'll sit down,
he'll take a meeting with youand listen to your ideas yeah um
, and like you said, you knowand not saying this about myself
, but like you said, with peoplewho are masters of their craft,
(27:28):
you know the the next steptends to be that they want to to
bring other people on board,and I think that's the right
thing to do.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I think so don't be a gatekeeper.
Right share the knowledge.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Share the knowledge spotlight?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
absolutely yes, and I love that, and it brings so
much success you know it doesbecause it Because you're just
including everybody.
And yeah, you're not hoardingthe light.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Absolutely.
Don't hoard the light.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What are your upcoming gigs?
Let me see.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
What do I have going on?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Well, I saw that you go to Nashville.
Yes, are you catching thatreally cheap flight from
Melbourne out there.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Is there a cheap flight?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I heard there is like a $34 flight.
You're lying $40?
.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, okay, because we have been driving and when.
I tell you I'm really bondednow with my team.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
We have been driving I didn't know there was a cheap
flight out of Melbourne.
It's like one of two cities,right, one of them being
Nashville and the other one islike Pittsburgh, right, when I'm
like it's something that you'llprobably be uncomfortable, I'm
sure Allegion is great flightokay you can sit in a lawn chair
with no leg room right for twohours with no door, it will fly
(28:54):
off.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I didn't know that.
No, thank you for that, becausethe drive is is intense, yeah,
but uh, yeah, we've been driving, we've been up there twice.
Shout out to Rudy's Jazz Roomin Nashville.
They adopted us Basically.
It's an incredible venue.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
How did you hook up with them?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Well, that's very funny.
So a girl I went to high schoolwith her mother is friends with
the owner of.
Rudy's A satellite beacher.
Yes Wow, friends with the ownerof Rudy's satellite Beecher.
Yes, wow, her name is MissValentina and she's incredible.
She's a healer, she's a massagetherapist, and she came to one
(29:37):
of my concerts and was a loyalsupporter ever since, and so she
reached out to her friend Lindy, who owns Rudy's Jazz Room in
Nashville, and she got me bookedcool and she goes yeah, yeah,
come sing.
And when I tell you that's thecoolest audience, is the coolest
room, um, so we're going backin august and uh hopefully.
(29:59):
You know it's going to be aregular thing yeah, well, now
with the flight.
That you know, girl.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thank you so much you can get a gig in pittsburgh too
absolutely.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I've never been to pittsburgh.
Let's go either.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I want to know what to do.
Is it cool?
Oh, I didn't know he said hipwow, okay, well, we should both
take advantage of those flights.
Let's go cool, all right.
Yeah, what are your upcominggigs?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
well, um can we see you next, uh, so on the 25th I
have a show in orlando.
That is actually a um, it's alive recording type of show.
Oh, wow, yeah, in downtown.
Um, if you give me a second,see, that's the thing I also, I
(30:54):
should have looked it up, Ishould hold on, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
You could also tell us afterwards um and we'll.
We'll put it on the comments orwhatever.
All right um.
I saw you were on pbs too.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Pbs, that's so cool it was cool, I just fast forward
through the intro because itwas so mellow it's.
It's called uh the melrosecenter and they do um like live
uh concerts and it was so cooland they record them that's in
(31:25):
the, it's in the public librarywhat that must be a big public
life it's massive and they havea whole floor dedicated to music
production and, uh, so they dolive concerts there and I had
always wanted to play that andfinally I got the call and yeah,
(31:46):
any other big dreams yes, oh,oh, yes, so many, so many.
I'm hoping uh well, not hoping Iwill have you have some singles
released this year, which is abig one.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I was going to ask you about that.
Have you recorded?
Do you have albums?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Oh, yes, I record all the time it's releasing.
That seems to be the problem.
Really, I'm the kind of artistI go in the studio and I, I
start, I always start projects,but then when I go back I want
to start something new yeah, Igo back and start something new,
and then I you know.
So that's the.
Would you have a producer that?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
you work.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I do, professor West.
Don't they finish it for you?
Um well, if I, if it's, if it'snot finished being written oh,
finish it for me.
Right so, but yes, the person Iwork with the most is Professor
Wes in.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Orlando Okay, he's in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And his production is incredible.
He knows my voice and so, andhe creates an environment where
I feel very comfortable, kind ofplaying.
You know you have to play tofind, you know to find the song,
and you have to feel kind of ajudgment free zone, like you,
you know, yeah, and he is amaster at creating that.
(33:10):
So I would say most of mycatalog is with him and most of
my best work is with him.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
But a lot of it's unfinished.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A lot of it is unfinished we have.
That's so embarrassing, butyeah, no it's so artistic.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, you know yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Very much.
You should see how many canvasI have.
Very much an artist I am.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, unfinished things.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You have to have unfinished things to be an
artist yeah, and then whathappens is you go back and you
say what do I want?
To finish like yeah, yes what,what deserves you know what time
effort and to be revisited, andso that's that's what we are
dedicating our time to now isfinishing things.
So we have we have two that areready for release, and so
(33:51):
that's that is coming this yearand then do you release them
just as, as they're finished,like there's no.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I feel like the album is dead.
Is that I've?
I've?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
gotten that a lot.
I have a lot of friends who dothis, that do not release albums
anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
They just drop singles and videos.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah, and videos um I .
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I'm old school, I want to have an album yeah,
there's something to it,especially if you're if the
songs sort of, yeah, have an artstory, yeah and so I forget who
it was.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
It was an older person that told me this.
You know about kind of the 60sand 70s and going to the record
store, yeah, buying the, thealbum and, you know, picking the
perfect time to yourself toreally put the record on and
listen to it and he said to mewhoever this person was, he said
(34:42):
to me people used to listen toalbums, the way people read
books, absolutely, and thatalways stuck with me and I was
like I want to make an albumlike that.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I want to make an album that you receive like a
message you receive like a likeyou're reading a book, you sit
and you meditate with it.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, I you know.
So, while I you have toappreciate where music is now
and and the nature of music, asfar as you know how people are
getting seen and you know this,it is a singles world.
It is, yeah, but uh, you know,um, as an artist, I a singles
world.
It is.
But, uh, you know, um, as anartist I want to make something
I'm proud of first, and if it'swell received, cool.
(35:21):
So I, I want, I want the album.
That's that's a goal of mine.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Okay, I think you'll get there.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I thank you yes.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I have faith in you.
I really appreciate it.
So cool.
Well, where?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
can we listen to the things now?
Um, well, and where can we findyou online?
Well, I uh I do have asoundcloud account um
soundcloudcom slash kristenwarren.
I do have um some things up onspotify, but right now they're
mostly features um today, um,again, I have the song that was
just released today calledyellow with brandon v, and
(36:00):
that's on all platforms.
Um, I have a youtube channelwith um some live performance,
uh footage and things like thatum instagramcom slash chris and
warren music.
I do have a lot of uh songs andperformance videos on there as
well, um, but the releases theofficial releases that are just
solo releases are later thisyear, cool.
(36:21):
We're looking forward to thatStay tuned.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Awesome, we will stay tuned.
Do you have any music videosthat you've?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
produced yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You have, yeah, and are those on YouTube?
Yeah, they're performancevideos Okay, but nothing
artistic, yet no.
How do?
Yeah, they're perform.
They're performance videos okay, but nothing artistic, yet no.
How do you feel?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
about that.
Um, well, yeah, I mean that's,that's kind of the natural next
step.
Um, with, I was kind of like,should I release the singles, um
, without videos, or should Iwait until there's a video to
release them?
Right?
So I'm thinking it's, it'sgoing to be song first, then
video, cool.
But yes, we do have some videosset up to be released after the
(37:03):
release of the song it isexciting Cool.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
So, excited.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I think people will like it.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
What's not to like.
I mean the voice of an angelreally.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh, thank you so much .
Speaker 1 (37:18):
voice of an angel, really thank you so much.
Thank you, I'm excited foreverything to look forward to,
yeah, the billy holiday thing,your albums, everything else.
Thank you so much for beinghere today.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It was really nice to get to know you.
Great meeting you.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
You're welcome anytime oh, thank you back and
uh, if you have anything torelease or say, or okay, we
would be happy to have you back.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yeah, get to know you more.
Absolutely, thank you.
It's been a pleasure, and greatcoffee as well.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Thank you, apocalypse oh, do you want to nominate
someone to be the next guest onour local celebrity podcast?
Um, you were technicallynominated I was by steve keller.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Thank you, steve.
Shout out, ste shout out, steveKeller.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I love you, man.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
He's just such a sweet spirit.
Okay, so it's a tie for me,okay.
So I guess it just depends on,I mean, bring them both on at
different times.
So actually, I'm sorry, it's athree way tie so the first the
more the merrier.
First nomination, of course, isCreek.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
That's your band.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yes, Creek is my backing band, but they also have
a lot of material of their own.
Cool.
These are my brothers and Iadmire their artistry so much.
They've all really dedicatedtheir lives to just being
masters of their instruments andI'm amazed every time I hear
(38:45):
them play.
So definitely bring Creek on.
Jamala and I have been friendsfor years.
She's a beautiful soul gospelartist.
She does have, I think, herfirst single released and just a
(39:06):
tremendous voice and spirit andI definitely think more people
need to hear her.
She is homegrown, she is fromthe area and just a phenomenal
singer.
Jamala scott shout out to mygirl.
And then, lastly, is the speedspirits.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I know that steve keller oh yeah, talked about the
speed spirits.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I first saw them at memento music festival in 2021,
was it, and it was like I had.
I felt like, because I justwalked onto the grass and I just
see these guys.
I see, like melbourne's mickjagger like killing it in the
front, and it was like Iliterally felt like I was back
in time watching them.
(39:48):
Um, they are.
They are so talented like theenergy and the electricity that
they bring is just ridiculousand I'm so proud of them.
They've made a lot of strides,they're traveling too, but um, I
, I love them and I I'm a hugefan and I think it would be
(40:08):
great to have them yes, so thoseare my nominees.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Sorry, I couldn't pick one.
No, no, we like more than one.
We like as many as we can get.
Yeah, all right, awesome.
Well, thank you again forcoming and I hope you have a
wonderful day.
Thank you so much, thank youwe'll be hearing more from you
soon.
Three, two, one to be a sponsoror nominate a guest.
Hit us up on instagram at localunderscore celebrity underscore
(40:35):
brevard.
Until next time, goodbye.
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