May 18, 2026 • 22 mins
Recorded LIVE at Passantino's Concert Cafe in Medina TN. Special guest: Tonya Mitchell
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Br br bright bright bright bright bright bright.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Around the world on the World Wide Web.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Ladies and children, and here it is the most The
other stations are.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
All Yeah broadcasting live in the Joseph Network Studios in
downtown Madonna, Tennessee. It's that time of week again. It's
time for the Josie Shoe, bringing you the most exciting music,
(00:46):
news and guests from around the world.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Right here on the Josie Show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Please make walking beautiful in talented Hello by America's Riddy
Elselina Business Josie Assentin no Bood.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the very first Josie Show
live here at Pasentino's in Medinah, Tennessee. And I am
so thrilled because my guest has toured within sync, had
a Billboard Top forty, and is back with new music
and using her voice for some good I'm really looking
forward to this ton Yeah, Mitchell, thank you so much
(01:36):
for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I think we're doing a duet right now.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We really are. This is exactly what we're doing. I
love it. I have been looking forward to this because
she matches my energy, so I've been really looking forward
to this. But I want to start off with your
new single, which is doing so well. I've heard so
many great things about it, and I feel like it's
a great continuation from Nobody Loves Me Like You. So
can you tell me a little bit about Go and
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your inspiration behind it?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Absolutely? So. I just released a single after twenty five years, wow,
Nobody Loves Me Like You in December of twenty twenty five,
and it's about domestic violence. It's very It's hard to
watch because, like bruises come onto the screen and things,
(02:25):
and so when you're going through domestic violence, bruises aren't
always on the outside. So I feel like the video
is kind of representing bruises on the inside as well.
Like you know, however, you can describe it or put
it out there to either a therapist or anybody that's
there to listen to you. There are so many different
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domestic violence issues, financial abuse, mental, sexual, physical, Like there's
so much stuff. Even pets and children get involved in this.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So Go is kind of a continuation of Nobody Loves Me,
but it's instead of somebody else holding you back from
what you're doing, you're holding you back from what you're doing.
So once you start healing from domestic violence, you start
doubting yourself. You're like, am I supposed to go with
somebody new? Am I supposed to live my life? And
(03:28):
you know, and most of the time your abuser will
be like absolutely not, of course, I'm the love of
your life. Yeah, like you know, I'm gonna suck you
back in and stuff. So that's why a lot of
people have a lot of hard time leaving. And for women,
I'm not sure about men, but for women it takes
like an average of seven times before they leave a
(03:48):
domestic violence situation. So go is basically go just go
do what you want to do. You know, screw what
everybody else yes, that you should do, or what you
should look like, or what you should be doing at
this time in your life. If that's what makes you happy,
go and do it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yes, Amen, take that power back.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Amen. That's that's the whole story. So the continuation is
going from somebody else holding you back, it's kind of
you holding you back, and it's like not anymore. Yes,
I'm just gonna go for it, like I don't care
if I fail, I don't care if I look stupid.
At least yeah, amen, try at least you tried.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I love that and this this song, like I said,
is doing very well and it's available on all the
platforms today that you listen to music. So I hope
everyone checks it out right now. Share it with your family, Grandma, mama, uncle, everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Amen, so good, siblings, daughters, pets.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Play it to your dog. Listen. My dog loves the
time to tune. I'm just saying I love it.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Listen, yes, so please make sure you check that out.
I also want to talk about the music video because
your prior music video for no Nobody Loves Me Like
You was so powerful and so beautiful, hauntingly beautiful, and
it was you in front of a camera. You know,
the bruises appear. It's just such an incredible concept that
you had with that music video. So I'm sure that
(05:11):
this next music video will follow suits. So can you
tell us a little bit about Go the music video?
Have you filmed it yet? Are you currently starting to
film that?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Absolutely? So, Go the music video is supposed to be
coming out in summer of twenty twenty six. It's kind
of what we're shooting for. But with Nobody Loves Me
Like You said there, I'm very vulnerable in the music video,
so it's just me and like these bruises appear and
then they disappear, you know. But with Go, it's like
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just literally letting go of all that, you know what
I mean, Like let go of all that. Whenever you're
feeling inside of yourself that's holding yourself back, let go
of that. Yes, and we do have a concept for
the video, but it has not been shot yet, so
hopefully by some twenty twenty six we'll have that out there.
Like there's a whole budget and a whole Oh it's
(06:05):
so much, get so much.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
My birthday is August twenty first, and I know y'all
are having the Josie Wards in September, almost a month
for my birthday. Yes, and like this video, we're pushing
like to be out there in the next couple of months.
So we haven't even filmed it yet.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Here I am already here for it. You just literally
told me that, and I am counting down the day
as my friend.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
It's a birthday present to myself as you should.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We need, we need, we need more presents for ourselves
because it's just so empowering and I'm really looking forward
to seeing this music video because I know it's gonna
be wonderful. Nobody loves me like you? That was your
first song that you've written.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Is that true? So I was signed with Motown Universal
back in two thousand and one and I was about
I think I was sixteen when I ended up signing
the deal, eighteen when my album ended up coming out
from Universal. And so my song Broken Promises hit the
(07:05):
top forty Billboard charts without a music video, without any
promotion whatsoever. So that was just straight radio play. That
was Rick D's you know Casey Casem countdown. I mean,
if anybody's old enough to know what I'm talking about
right now, but you know, Casey, this is a big thing.
Back then, it was, and so after that it just
(07:28):
kind of fell off. I never had a music video,
no promotion, anything, And now Nobody Loves Me is the
absolute first song that I have gotten a chance to write,
record and do a music video for. Like, this is
a such a big deal for me, oh.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So big, and it's so beautifully done. I just love
the direction that you went, the concepts for of course
the video, but also your songwriting. It's just I can't
believe that was your first one Amaze, and you know,
of course I have to bring up that it huge
milestone this year, twenty five years since your debut album.
(08:10):
I represent and you're still representing to this day, my friend, twenty.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Five years of represt facebook page is at least, and
it is, it is, And I want to talk a
little bit about that time.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know, looking back, what can you remember from that time?
Some highlights maybe?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh man, let me just tell you so. I think
my number one memory on tour with in Sync was
in June of two thousand and two thousand and one,
I was at Soldier Stadium performing. It was the Stadium Tour.
It was the pop Odyssey Stadium Tour for ensynct like
(08:48):
it was the biggest tour since like Aerosmith in.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, it was like sixty plus yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No, it was sixty seventy thousand at least. And so
I was able to get up there. And my dad
came on tour with me on Father's Day and he
stood up in brunt of seventy thousand people and I
said Happy Father's Day to my dad, Cowboy Louie, and
everybody just.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Went wild.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I mean you hear it, right, wild?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I hear it.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It literally is, and so I feel like he lived
and I'm going to cry right now, I'm just thinking
about this, but he lived his full life's potential moment
at that time. Yeah, and a month later he died
in my arms.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I was eighteen and just eighteen years old having to
deal with so much because at that time, I mean,
people were pushing you all over the place, you were
having to go on tour in front of so many people,
and then dealing with heartbreak like that. I just I
can't even imagine how you did it at the time,
but you did it with such grace. And looking back
at it now, I know that you know you're you're
in tears, but looking back now, you should really be
(09:59):
proud of yourself that you did it and you you
got out, You came out the under other end of
you know, during during a time that you know, you
just never know, you know what I mean. So I
just think that's wonderful. You should be very proud of yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Thank you, Like I did come out of it with grace.
Justin's stepfather and mom had come over to our house
after he passed away, and Justin actually paid for his
funeral and sent flowers. So everybody was like, oh my god,
Justin Timberly sent you flowers like it was my dad's funeral,
I know, Like what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
With why are you making this sense?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
So it was in Justin Timberlake's name, like it was
that big of a deal in little Lexington where I
was living, you know. And but my dad, like him,
he hiself, like he made a whole legacy of himself,
Like he was a cowboy magician. He went around to
two hundred and fifty schools a year promoting drug free
(10:55):
magic shows. He was a magician. That's amazing. So everybody
looked forward to Cowboy Louis and he went all the
way from oh gosh, Mississippi to Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee. Like
a lot of people, even people in the audience know
right now who my dad was and remember him for
what he was. And uh so he was a legacy
(11:17):
in hisself. So when he passed away, it was hard
for me to process, but I ended up doing it
successfully because of his legacy. And I was able to
be like, oh, yeah, you know what it's not it's
not really all about the fame, and you know, it's
about how you're remembered exactly. There's a big difference.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, there's a huge difference. And that's what I always say,
you know, if I could be remembered, you know for
just positive light, bringing men some love.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
To some manage one life, it was all worth it exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm meant. I love that and I wanted to because
you spoke briefly about it just now. Can you really
share that story about being discovered because you were performing
at an event and then just in timber Lakes family
got involved. Please can you share this with me if
you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This is probably the wildest story I've ever told in
my life. Like people are like you had a magician,
cowboy magician father. Oh no, it gets better. Hold on,
there's more, it gets infomercial. I'm like, hold on, there's more.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And it just proves that you don't know who it might.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Be in the audience. And that's the whole point. That
is the whole point of everything. I have to say.
For anybody that's up and coming, you never know where
you might be discovered, Like you never know who's out
there watching you ever like, and that can be for
entertainment industry that can be under just your management at
your job, like it's so important. So I was fifteen
(12:44):
years old. It was April tenth, nineteen ninety eight. I
had a cold, like I was so sick, and I
was like, I don't feel like going. I was ever,
you know, I was at every talent show opportunity available,
and I was like, Dad, I don't feel like going.
He was like, you're going. So my mom gave me
(13:05):
a hot Toddy and I was like, whiskey, whiskey, lemon.
What else is in there? Like lozenges? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Your Mom's like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
This is not what was a ninety eight hot toddy?
I need to google this.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
This is a Google moment. After the show, we'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
But so I took I took the drink and I
got through it. I was singing Jody Messina and Tanya Tucker,
Shania Twain, Mariah Carey with Houston like I was doing
all like pop country. I was just there right mix yeah,
And I had these little cassette tapes for sale, these
little I had three of them. One was a country
(13:49):
pop mix, one was in an original mix, and then
one was like country. And so that night I was
singing an array of pop and country and stuff, but
he Justin. Timberlake's grandfather, Bill Baumer, approached my dad that
night and he was like, I love your daughter's voice.
He bought every cassette I had for sale, and he said,
(14:12):
I'm going to take this to my daughter. She's starting
a management company. And my grandson is like really big
over in Germany right now. And I was like, oh okay.
I was like, I know where everythn he goes. Justin Timberlake.
With In Saint, we were like, nah, never heard him.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
At that time. He didn't make it an America.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They were big over in Germany, so they didn't come
over until ninety nine or two thousand. They did like
a whole Disney introduction, you know. So by the time
they hit Disney, I was very well aware of who
they were, and I was looking through the magazines and
I was like, oh, yeah, absolutely, like I know. And
so this is so funny. The first time I ever
(14:57):
saw a picture of Insaint, I'd pointed out Justin, and
that was before I ever met them. I said, that's Justin,
That's who that guy's talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's amazing, wow. And then the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So honestly, in Sync open for Janet Jackson and I
saw Britney Spears open for n Sync.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's incredible. Oh man, jealousy over here, the jealous vibes here. No,
that's amazing to have, you know, such a great experience
within there, getting to meet so many great people. I
know you've met Brittany as well, and you just had
so many great experiences over the years. And that's what
I count, you know, that's what I count, you know
in this business, just you know, great experiences, opportunities, and
(15:44):
you've had so so many. And uh, you're of course
back and kicking made or behind. Like I said, make
sure you go and check out go available everywhere now.
But I want to also talk about on an important
note here, you are partnering up with the National Alliance
of Domestic Violence Survivors and you just had a private
(16:08):
meeting with Senator Blackburn. Can you tell us a little
bit about about that.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I am so happy to tell you more about this.
So I partnered with the National Alliance of Domestic Violence
Survivors back late last year, twenty twenty five, and that
has gone wonderfully. Like I've had women meetings and promoting
empowerment and you know how I can support other people
(16:36):
that are going through domestic violence. Yeah, but meeting with
Senator Blackburn was such a big deal for me because
Tennessee is the first state to ever pass the Savannah's Law.
And Savannah's Law is if you get convicted more than
one time, you're on a registry kind of like a
(16:56):
sex offender's registry or you know, something like that. But
I'm I'm honestly trying to push that law a little further.
I think two convictions is too much. Oh yeah, because
it's hard enough to get somebody convicted once and then
you might not be alive to tell the rest of
your story. And I'm not okay with that at all.
(17:16):
So I have met with Sandra Botburn to introduce this
law into the other states.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, Savannah's Law, Savannah Pucket. Yes, and you know her story.
If you don't know you know about Savanna's Law, please
make sure you research that you know after the show.
So before we go, I do want to talk about
this because I've heard a lil Bertie told me that
you have a memoir coming out. Is this something that
you were that you've always wanted to do? Was this
(17:44):
in the bucket? List tell me about this.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
So no, not necessarily no, but so I ended up
getting with my manager late in twenty twenty four and
I told him the whole story about how everything came
to be and however everything is, and he was like, girl,
you got to write a book. You do, you got
to write a book. So that's what I'm doing. I
(18:07):
am literally writing a memoir about the rise to fame,
the issues during that. Oh yeah, dibacle, I'll put that
as a dice, absolutely yeah, and then after yeah, because
I'm a mom of three girls, Like this was not
written in my book when I was eighteen, but it's
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a huge part of my story.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Oh I love that. And what I love is people
are gonna be able to know you as Tanya the person,
not the artist.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
And that's what I want.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, that's what anybody wants.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Like anybody can, you know, look like Brittany or look
like Christina or sing like you know, especially with AI,
like everybody can sound like whatever. I'm just me. Yeah,
and I have a whole story to tell from before AI. Yeah,
and before you know the internets. Yes, the Internet, I'll say,
(19:04):
the Internet's exactly. I'm old, but like I have stories
way beyond like, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It's interesting, but yeah, no, you know, being so young
in this industry, you know people could always do you know,
the little comparisons and all that kind of sort of thing.
But I love how you kept it just you know,
I'm me. I'm not gonna be anybody else. I'm me
and that's perfect. And that's what I love about you.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
So a lot of people, like on the Rick D's
and Casey case some countdowns, they'd be like, so, what
makes you different from Brittany, right, And I was like, well,
I don't know. I'm eighteen, I'm blonde, I sing, I'm
with the record coming, I mean. And I was just like,
you know, it's me, Yeah, it's me, Like when you
get to know me in the end, in the end,
it's that's all that matters, right, and Lincoln parks.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yes, and you know, it's just it's it's it's I mean, and.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Then it doesn't even I mean, we can have a
whole concert, whole concert right now, I'm sure for people
who want to keep up to date with you and
find out when the new music video go comes out,
and find out when the memoir drops, please give out
your social networking site stress.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Absolutely, So I am available on all of this social
media networks as Tanya Mitchell Official, so TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X,
all the things I don't even know, like I've just
run my own personal Facebook. I got nothing else to
do with the rest of that. That's my manager.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
But yes, you're in all the fun.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yes, yes, any platform you're on, Tanya will be there.
So please make sure you keep in touch and see
what is next in her world. So please make sure
you go and check out Tanya Mitchell everywhere. And I
want to thank you so so much for joining me.
It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Thank you. It has literally been my pleasure. Like I've
had so much fun tonight, like you know, behind the
scenes girl, like we've had the.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Behind the scenes is a whole other party. I'm sorry
you guys missed it, but it was.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
It was so such an angel.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I love you such an angel. But before we do go,
I did promise surprise.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yes, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes, what so this is I feel like this is
like like this is gonna feel like a marriage proposal.
So stay with me. But I was wondering, you know,
I wanted to ask you if you would be a
presenter this year at the twelfth Annual jose Music Awards
a special guest presenter and present with me. Will you
be part of the event this year at the Grand
(21:28):
Lapprey House. Is this a yes, girl?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Oh my god, I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh you're very welcome. You heard it here first. I
am so excited. Oh, we're gonna have so much fun.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
We're got too much, like, we're going so much fun,
we can't get on the stage.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Just wait, just wait, everyone, It's gonna be so much fun.
And of course, tickets are available now at Josie Music
Awards dot com or opry dot com their website, and
so get your tickets now because you're gonna get to
see this beautiful lady.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm a leader Weirder.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
September twentieth presenting with Moa. I'm so excited and thank
you all so much for tuning in in our live audience.
Thank you all so much, Tanya, thank you, We appreciate.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You honestly, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yes, bye, guys.
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Around the world on the World Wide Web.
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Ladies and children, and here it is the most The
other stations are.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
All Yeah broadcasting live in the Joseph Network Studios in
downtown Madonna, Tennessee. It's that time of week again. It's
time for the Josie Shoe, bringing you the most exciting music,
(00:46):
news and guests from around the world.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Right here on the Josie Show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Please make walking beautiful in talented Hello by America's Riddy
Elselina Business Josie Assentin no Bood.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the very first Josie Show
live here at Pasentino's in Medinah, Tennessee. And I am
so thrilled because my guest has toured within sync, had
a Billboard Top forty, and is back with new music
and using her voice for some good I'm really looking
forward to this ton Yeah, Mitchell, thank you so much
(01:36):
for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I think we're doing a duet right now.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We really are. This is exactly what we're doing. I
love it. I have been looking forward to this because
she matches my energy, so I've been really looking forward
to this. But I want to start off with your
new single, which is doing so well. I've heard so
many great things about it, and I feel like it's
a great continuation from Nobody Loves Me Like You. So
can you tell me a little bit about Go and
(02:00):
your inspiration behind it?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Absolutely? So. I just released a single after twenty five years, wow,
Nobody Loves Me Like You in December of twenty twenty five,
and it's about domestic violence. It's very It's hard to
watch because, like bruises come onto the screen and things,
(02:25):
and so when you're going through domestic violence, bruises aren't
always on the outside. So I feel like the video
is kind of representing bruises on the inside as well.
Like you know, however, you can describe it or put
it out there to either a therapist or anybody that's
there to listen to you. There are so many different
(02:48):
domestic violence issues, financial abuse, mental, sexual, physical, Like there's
so much stuff. Even pets and children get involved in this.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So Go is kind of a continuation of Nobody Loves Me,
but it's instead of somebody else holding you back from
what you're doing, you're holding you back from what you're doing.
So once you start healing from domestic violence, you start
doubting yourself. You're like, am I supposed to go with
somebody new? Am I supposed to live my life? And
(03:28):
you know, and most of the time your abuser will
be like absolutely not, of course, I'm the love of
your life. Yeah, like you know, I'm gonna suck you
back in and stuff. So that's why a lot of
people have a lot of hard time leaving. And for women,
I'm not sure about men, but for women it takes
like an average of seven times before they leave a
(03:48):
domestic violence situation. So go is basically go just go
do what you want to do. You know, screw what
everybody else yes, that you should do, or what you
should look like, or what you should be doing at
this time in your life. If that's what makes you happy,
go and do it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yes, Amen, take that power back.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Amen. That's that's the whole story. So the continuation is
going from somebody else holding you back, it's kind of
you holding you back, and it's like not anymore. Yes,
I'm just gonna go for it, like I don't care
if I fail, I don't care if I look stupid.
At least yeah, amen, try at least you tried.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I love that and this this song, like I said,
is doing very well and it's available on all the
platforms today that you listen to music. So I hope
everyone checks it out right now. Share it with your family, Grandma, mama, uncle, everybody.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Amen, so good, siblings, daughters, pets.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Play it to your dog. Listen. My dog loves the
time to tune. I'm just saying I love it.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Listen, yes, so please make sure you check that out.
I also want to talk about the music video because
your prior music video for no Nobody Loves Me Like
You was so powerful and so beautiful, hauntingly beautiful, and
it was you in front of a camera. You know,
the bruises appear. It's just such an incredible concept that
you had with that music video. So I'm sure that
(05:11):
this next music video will follow suits. So can you
tell us a little bit about Go the music video?
Have you filmed it yet? Are you currently starting to
film that?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Absolutely? So, Go the music video is supposed to be
coming out in summer of twenty twenty six. It's kind
of what we're shooting for. But with Nobody Loves Me
Like You said there, I'm very vulnerable in the music video,
so it's just me and like these bruises appear and
then they disappear, you know. But with Go, it's like
(05:42):
just literally letting go of all that, you know what
I mean, Like let go of all that. Whenever you're
feeling inside of yourself that's holding yourself back, let go
of that. Yes, and we do have a concept for
the video, but it has not been shot yet, so
hopefully by some twenty twenty six we'll have that out there.
Like there's a whole budget and a whole Oh it's
(06:05):
so much, get so much.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
My birthday is August twenty first, and I know y'all
are having the Josie Wards in September, almost a month
for my birthday. Yes, and like this video, we're pushing
like to be out there in the next couple of months.
So we haven't even filmed it yet.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Here I am already here for it. You just literally
told me that, and I am counting down the day
as my friend.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
It's a birthday present to myself as you should.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We need, we need, we need more presents for ourselves
because it's just so empowering and I'm really looking forward
to seeing this music video because I know it's gonna
be wonderful. Nobody loves me like you? That was your
first song that you've written.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Is that true? So I was signed with Motown Universal
back in two thousand and one and I was about
I think I was sixteen when I ended up signing
the deal, eighteen when my album ended up coming out
from Universal. And so my song Broken Promises hit the
(07:05):
top forty Billboard charts without a music video, without any
promotion whatsoever. So that was just straight radio play. That
was Rick D's you know Casey Casem countdown. I mean,
if anybody's old enough to know what I'm talking about
right now, but you know, Casey, this is a big thing.
Back then, it was, and so after that it just
(07:28):
kind of fell off. I never had a music video,
no promotion, anything, And now Nobody Loves Me is the
absolute first song that I have gotten a chance to write,
record and do a music video for. Like, this is
a such a big deal for me, oh.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So big, and it's so beautifully done. I just love
the direction that you went, the concepts for of course
the video, but also your songwriting. It's just I can't
believe that was your first one Amaze, and you know,
of course I have to bring up that it huge
milestone this year, twenty five years since your debut album.
(08:10):
I represent and you're still representing to this day, my friend, twenty.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Five years of represt facebook page is at least, and
it is, it is, And I want to talk a
little bit about that time.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know, looking back, what can you remember from that time?
Some highlights maybe?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Oh man, let me just tell you so. I think
my number one memory on tour with in Sync was
in June of two thousand and two thousand and one,
I was at Soldier Stadium performing. It was the Stadium Tour.
It was the pop Odyssey Stadium Tour for ensynct like
(08:48):
it was the biggest tour since like Aerosmith in.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, it was like sixty plus yeah, oh.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No, it was sixty seventy thousand at least. And so
I was able to get up there. And my dad
came on tour with me on Father's Day and he
stood up in brunt of seventy thousand people and I
said Happy Father's Day to my dad, Cowboy Louie, and
everybody just.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Went wild.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I mean you hear it, right, wild?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I hear it.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It literally is, and so I feel like he lived
and I'm going to cry right now, I'm just thinking
about this, but he lived his full life's potential moment
at that time. Yeah, and a month later he died
in my arms.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I was eighteen and just eighteen years old having to
deal with so much because at that time, I mean,
people were pushing you all over the place, you were
having to go on tour in front of so many people,
and then dealing with heartbreak like that. I just I
can't even imagine how you did it at the time,
but you did it with such grace. And looking back
at it now, I know that you know you're you're
in tears, but looking back now, you should really be
(09:59):
proud of yourself that you did it and you you
got out, You came out the under other end of
you know, during during a time that you know, you
just never know, you know what I mean. So I
just think that's wonderful. You should be very proud of yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Thank you, Like I did come out of it with grace.
Justin's stepfather and mom had come over to our house
after he passed away, and Justin actually paid for his
funeral and sent flowers. So everybody was like, oh my god,
Justin Timberly sent you flowers like it was my dad's funeral,
I know, Like what's wrong.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
With why are you making this sense?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
So it was in Justin Timberlake's name, like it was
that big of a deal in little Lexington where I
was living, you know. And but my dad, like him,
he hiself, like he made a whole legacy of himself,
Like he was a cowboy magician. He went around to
two hundred and fifty schools a year promoting drug free
(10:55):
magic shows. He was a magician. That's amazing. So everybody
looked forward to Cowboy Louis and he went all the
way from oh gosh, Mississippi to Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee. Like
a lot of people, even people in the audience know
right now who my dad was and remember him for
what he was. And uh so he was a legacy
(11:17):
in hisself. So when he passed away, it was hard
for me to process, but I ended up doing it
successfully because of his legacy. And I was able to
be like, oh, yeah, you know what it's not it's
not really all about the fame, and you know, it's
about how you're remembered exactly. There's a big difference.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, there's a huge difference. And that's what I always say,
you know, if I could be remembered, you know for
just positive light, bringing men some love.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
To some manage one life, it was all worth it exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm meant. I love that and I wanted to because
you spoke briefly about it just now. Can you really
share that story about being discovered because you were performing
at an event and then just in timber Lakes family
got involved. Please can you share this with me if
you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This is probably the wildest story I've ever told in
my life. Like people are like you had a magician,
cowboy magician father. Oh no, it gets better. Hold on,
there's more, it gets infomercial. I'm like, hold on, there's more.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And it just proves that you don't know who it might.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Be in the audience. And that's the whole point. That
is the whole point of everything. I have to say.
For anybody that's up and coming, you never know where
you might be discovered, Like you never know who's out
there watching you ever like, and that can be for
entertainment industry that can be under just your management at
your job, like it's so important. So I was fifteen
(12:44):
years old. It was April tenth, nineteen ninety eight. I
had a cold, like I was so sick, and I
was like, I don't feel like going. I was ever,
you know, I was at every talent show opportunity available,
and I was like, Dad, I don't feel like going.
He was like, you're going. So my mom gave me
(13:05):
a hot Toddy and I was like, whiskey, whiskey, lemon.
What else is in there? Like lozenges? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Your Mom's like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
This is not what was a ninety eight hot toddy?
I need to google this.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
This is a Google moment. After the show, we'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
But so I took I took the drink and I
got through it. I was singing Jody Messina and Tanya Tucker,
Shania Twain, Mariah Carey with Houston like I was doing
all like pop country. I was just there right mix yeah,
And I had these little cassette tapes for sale, these
little I had three of them. One was a country
(13:49):
pop mix, one was in an original mix, and then
one was like country. And so that night I was
singing an array of pop and country and stuff, but
he Justin. Timberlake's grandfather, Bill Baumer, approached my dad that
night and he was like, I love your daughter's voice.
He bought every cassette I had for sale, and he said,
(14:12):
I'm going to take this to my daughter. She's starting
a management company. And my grandson is like really big
over in Germany right now. And I was like, oh okay.
I was like, I know where everythn he goes. Justin Timberlake.
With In Saint, we were like, nah, never heard him.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
At that time. He didn't make it an America.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
They were big over in Germany, so they didn't come
over until ninety nine or two thousand. They did like
a whole Disney introduction, you know. So by the time
they hit Disney, I was very well aware of who
they were, and I was looking through the magazines and
I was like, oh, yeah, absolutely, like I know. And
so this is so funny. The first time I ever
(14:57):
saw a picture of Insaint, I'd pointed out Justin, and
that was before I ever met them. I said, that's Justin,
That's who that guy's talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
That's amazing, wow. And then the rest is history.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
So honestly, in Sync open for Janet Jackson and I
saw Britney Spears open for n Sync.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's incredible. Oh man, jealousy over here, the jealous vibes here. No,
that's amazing to have, you know, such a great experience
within there, getting to meet so many great people. I
know you've met Brittany as well, and you just had
so many great experiences over the years. And that's what
I count, you know, that's what I count, you know
in this business, just you know, great experiences, opportunities, and
(15:44):
you've had so so many. And uh, you're of course
back and kicking made or behind. Like I said, make
sure you go and check out go available everywhere now.
But I want to also talk about on an important
note here, you are partnering up with the National Alliance
of Domestic Violence Survivors and you just had a private
(16:08):
meeting with Senator Blackburn. Can you tell us a little
bit about about that.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I am so happy to tell you more about this.
So I partnered with the National Alliance of Domestic Violence
Survivors back late last year, twenty twenty five, and that
has gone wonderfully. Like I've had women meetings and promoting
empowerment and you know how I can support other people
(16:36):
that are going through domestic violence. Yeah, but meeting with
Senator Blackburn was such a big deal for me because
Tennessee is the first state to ever pass the Savannah's Law.
And Savannah's Law is if you get convicted more than
one time, you're on a registry kind of like a
(16:56):
sex offender's registry or you know, something like that. But
I'm I'm honestly trying to push that law a little further.
I think two convictions is too much. Oh yeah, because
it's hard enough to get somebody convicted once and then
you might not be alive to tell the rest of
your story. And I'm not okay with that at all.
(17:16):
So I have met with Sandra Botburn to introduce this
law into the other states.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, Savannah's Law, Savannah Pucket. Yes, and you know her story.
If you don't know you know about Savanna's Law, please
make sure you research that you know after the show.
So before we go, I do want to talk about
this because I've heard a lil Bertie told me that
you have a memoir coming out. Is this something that
you were that you've always wanted to do? Was this
(17:44):
in the bucket? List tell me about this.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
So no, not necessarily no, but so I ended up
getting with my manager late in twenty twenty four and
I told him the whole story about how everything came
to be and however everything is, and he was like, girl,
you got to write a book. You do, you got
to write a book. So that's what I'm doing. I
(18:07):
am literally writing a memoir about the rise to fame,
the issues during that. Oh yeah, dibacle, I'll put that
as a dice, absolutely yeah, and then after yeah, because
I'm a mom of three girls, Like this was not
written in my book when I was eighteen, but it's
(18:31):
a huge part of my story.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Oh I love that. And what I love is people
are gonna be able to know you as Tanya the person,
not the artist.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
And that's what I want.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, that's what anybody wants.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Like anybody can, you know, look like Brittany or look
like Christina or sing like you know, especially with AI,
like everybody can sound like whatever. I'm just me. Yeah,
and I have a whole story to tell from before AI. Yeah,
and before you know the internets. Yes, the Internet, I'll say,
(19:04):
the Internet's exactly. I'm old, but like I have stories
way beyond like, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It's interesting, but yeah, no, you know, being so young
in this industry, you know people could always do you know,
the little comparisons and all that kind of sort of thing.
But I love how you kept it just you know,
I'm me. I'm not gonna be anybody else. I'm me
and that's perfect. And that's what I love about you.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
So a lot of people, like on the Rick D's
and Casey case some countdowns, they'd be like, so, what
makes you different from Brittany, right, And I was like, well,
I don't know. I'm eighteen, I'm blonde, I sing, I'm
with the record coming, I mean. And I was just like,
you know, it's me, Yeah, it's me, Like when you
get to know me in the end, in the end,
it's that's all that matters, right, and Lincoln parks.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yes, and you know, it's just it's it's it's I mean, and.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Then it doesn't even I mean, we can have a
whole concert, whole concert right now, I'm sure for people
who want to keep up to date with you and
find out when the new music video go comes out,
and find out when the memoir drops, please give out
your social networking site stress.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Absolutely, So I am available on all of this social
media networks as Tanya Mitchell Official, so TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X,
all the things I don't even know, like I've just
run my own personal Facebook. I got nothing else to
do with the rest of that. That's my manager.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
But yes, you're in all the fun.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yes, yes, any platform you're on, Tanya will be there.
So please make sure you keep in touch and see
what is next in her world. So please make sure
you go and check out Tanya Mitchell everywhere. And I
want to thank you so so much for joining me.
It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Thank you. It has literally been my pleasure. Like I've
had so much fun tonight, like you know, behind the
scenes girl, like we've had the.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Behind the scenes is a whole other party. I'm sorry
you guys missed it, but it was.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
It was so such an angel.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I love you such an angel. But before we do go,
I did promise surprise.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yes, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes, what so this is I feel like this is
like like this is gonna feel like a marriage proposal.
So stay with me. But I was wondering, you know,
I wanted to ask you if you would be a
presenter this year at the twelfth Annual jose Music Awards
a special guest presenter and present with me. Will you
be part of the event this year at the Grand
(21:28):
Lapprey House. Is this a yes, girl?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Oh my god, I love you so much.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh you're very welcome. You heard it here first. I
am so excited. Oh, we're gonna have so much fun.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
We're got too much, like, we're going so much fun,
we can't get on the stage.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Just wait, just wait, everyone, It's gonna be so much fun.
And of course, tickets are available now at Josie Music
Awards dot com or opry dot com their website, and
so get your tickets now because you're gonna get to
see this beautiful lady.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm a leader Weirder.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
September twentieth presenting with Moa. I'm so excited and thank
you all so much for tuning in in our live audience.
Thank you all so much, Tanya, thank you, We appreciate.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You honestly, thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yes, bye, guys.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
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