September 11, 2024 • 43 mins
Welcome to another episode of Creators Conversation from the Brothers In Company Podcast, where we highlight artists, musicians, poets, and more from Charleston, South Carolina and beyond. Tonight, Chris "C-Lyric" Wynn, one half of the Brothers In Company Podcast, sits down with his talented friend and local musician, Tadia White.
Tadia shares her journey in music, from playing the piano at age three to leading her own music business, Musical T Productions. As the assistant director of the gospel group The Plantation Singers, Tadia discusses her inspirations, favorite performance venues, and the importance of being authentic in today's music scene. Tune in for an inspiring conversation about passion, creativity, and the future of music.
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This is the Brothers in Company Podcast.
Music.
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Hello everyone and good evening.
Welcome to another episode of this segment of Creators Conversation from the
Brothers & Company podcast, where we highlight artists, musicians,
poets, business professionals, podcasters, and much more here in Charleston,
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South Carolina and beyond.
My name is Chris C. Larrick-Winn, one half of the Barbers of the Company podcast.
And tonight, tonight we have a special guest.
She is a good friend of mine. I'm so happy to have her on this show and this
episode. It's such an honor.
I'm going to give you a little bio, a little bio of, you know, my guest tonight.
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Her name is Tadia White. Talia White is a local musician born and raised in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Talia has been playing the piano since she was three years old and performing since.
She also has her own music business called the Musical Tea Productions,
where she teaches, writes, produces and perform music.
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She is also the assistant director of the local gospel group,
The Plantation Singers.
Y'all get into it. She is a lady of many hats, many hats and positions.
And I'm so happy that she's here today and tonight.
All right, everyone, show your love, amazing love to my talented friend and
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bestie in my life, Tadia White. Thank you.
You are welcome. You are welcome. how you doing today i'm
doing good today that's good that's good yeah awesome awesome you know i'm so
happy to have you on this episode tonight man this is i'm just happy to have
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you like finally like you know yeah i'm glad to finally be here absolutely absolutely,
so how does it feel to be you know a guest on on the podcast of you know brothers and company,
It feels great. It's my first podcast I've ever been on, on my own.
Oh, wow. All right. This your moment.
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Awesome. So I just want, I would really wanted you to be on this podcast for a long time.
I know we had to find the right timing and you know, the time is now.
So I'm just happy that you're here.
I want to ask this question that
asks all my, you know, guests that's on that be on my show on our show.
Um can you tell the viewers and everyone listening right now who is tadia lillian
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white oh you forgot one my my second middle name is ann and i'm sorry it's okay.
That's a good question myself like i try to be myself all the time with no regrets
i'm just my true authentic self,
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Your authentic self and being yourself truly, especially nowadays, you know.
Exactly. Absolutely. Absolutely. So I want to ask you this.
How did you get started in music and what made you want to pursue music growing up?
Up well my mom and
my grandmother are singers and they
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you know I come
from a musical family so there was music around the
house all the time and when I
was two I told my mom that I was a plantation singer that I wanted to be in
her group so she put me in and that was kind of the start of everything and
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then when I was three I asked her to teach me how to play piano and that really,
sparked things that's awesome and
then the rest is history and you're just a bona fide musician superstar is everything
I don't know about that yes you are because I I I seen greatness in you I seen
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how you play and perform you girl. You can definitely play that piano.
Yes. Yes. I wish I could play the piano like you, man.
You, you just, you, you got it all. You, you, you, you, you does it all the time when you perform.
So I, I just, I just love it. So, um, that follows up to my next question.
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Since you play the piano, what other, what other instruments do you like to play? Play the drums.
I play djembe and drum set a little bit.
I was playing pipe organ for a little minute. I need to get back on that.
Organs i play a little ukulele a little guitar,
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yeah and i sing a little bit but i sing solo i sing solo you can't hear me.
Oh we can definitely hear you do you do the noise of your your instruments
absolutely you're very versatile you know playing you're welcome with with your
instrumentation and everything you know you got it going on so absolutely that
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is awesome so uh i wish i could play those different some you know me and you
we played uh you know the djembe the drums,
and the plantation singers and you know absolutely and i learned so much from
you you and michael and this you know the tempo and everything is that i never
know how to read music and anything so i've just i learned i learned so much
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from you you know you're like a mentor to me,
thank you the music is in you you
have it oh thank you well thanks
to you i can do it by myself you know i i needed that that push that drive that
motivation like you you you you helped me to you know push myself so it's it's
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such a wonderful feeling because music is everything is so So I forgot what the word is.
It's just so feel so pure, pure.
Like I can't, I can't live without music, you know?
Yeah. I mean, I know what exactly, because we got all the stuff going on with
social media, the internet and TV reality shows.
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I'm like, you know what? I don't, I don't need all that. Just give me music and that's it.
A lot going on. So tell me about it. Tell me about it. So, Well, that is awesome.
Well, again, you know, me and you, we're part of the Plantation Singers.
I want to give a big shout out to your mom, Miss Lynette White,
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and your grandmother, Miss Martha Brooks,
and yourself for continuing to, you know, preserve the Gullah Geechee culture
in the Lowcountry through song, story, you know, storytelling,
basket weaving, and languages for years.
And, you know, performing through the community is highly informative and,
you know, it's great to showcase that in the community.
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I also asked you, do you have any favorite places that you love to perform with
the group, even in Charleston or out of town?
Is there like a specific place that you love to perform?
I like to perform downtown at the historic hotels.
Like Charleston Place Hotel and the Mills House.
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Oh, yeah. Those are nice places. Yeah. I actually used to dance at the Mills
House when I used to do the Charleston.
I used to be a Charleston flapper when I was a kid.
That is so awesome. And, you know, you used to dance.
I remember you used to dance with the Nutcracker like almost every year when you were little.
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Yeah, I did the Nutcracker at Performing Arts Center and I did some other dance stuff too.
I danced with Dance Factory as well. oh yeah it it's been it's been amazing
seeing you perform especially doing that the performances,
is with the upper girls and everything yeah you
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have to do like dance routines i used to cheer you on yes you
were you were always so supportive and you always showed up
absolutely i gotta show up for my little sis you
know you always you always support you you always come for me you know show
up for me when i do my poetry events and you know my podcasting and different
stuff going on so you know it's all love you know we gotta you know support
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one another you know we all yeah i yes exactly shoot i absolutely love it so,
all right cool cool cool so i wanted to ask you like i know we have like more
than 100 or a thousand songs in the plantation singers repertoire maybe even more.
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Sister the group was you know established in 1997 it was a 96 or 97 96 96 okay
all right okay cool i probably figure it's like more more songs over a thousand songs so yes over 300,
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and i love them so do you have
like any favorite song do you have a favorite songs in the
group that you love to perform oh yeah i
do i have i like jacob's
ladder you know i love victory is mine i love to play that one oh yeah oh yeah
that's a good one that's a good one what else come on in the room how about
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the water songs oh yeah i shall not be moved,
that one yeah take me to the
water oh yeah take me to the water yeah take me to the water it's good too wait
in the water like all the water songs are good all of them all the water all
of it keeps up so fresh so i love it i totally love it this is this is the days ago when i Oh, yes.
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Me, love that one. Yes, yes. Especially when we did Black Tap in Somerville. Oh, yeah.
I think that's what it was. Was it at, it was at this, this place called Black
Tap. Was it Black Tap in Somerville?
Oh, you mean Black Tie? Black Tie, I'm sorry. Black Tie.
Yeah, Black Tie, yeah. That's where I was doing my music lesson. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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And then, you know, me and you was performing. Jesus said, yes,
it's one of our, you know, our little big brother, little sis,
you know, little duet, little, you know, team up that we always do. Yeah.
I love it. I totally love it. And then, of course, you know,
I love Me Done Done, you know, shout out to Michael.
That's a popular one. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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And he actually did his thing on Grace's, Neely's album, you know,
added Me Done Done to, you know, the album.
So most definitely, it's been a fan favorite. So I definitely love it.
But there's like so many songs that
i like it is it is is
truly amazing so i definitely love performing different songs
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with the group so absolutely so absolutely so you know like i know these i know
a lot of people can definitely check out the plantation singers we are all around
especially tall's chop house every sunday yeah from from 10 to 3 is y'all still 10 to 3 Yep, 10 to 3.
10 to 3. With non-stop singing, no breaks. No.
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It's a long day. My bad. With no lunch, no just straight singing.
Some snacks in between. Oh, yeah. Paul has these jelly beans,
so we are back on those jelly beans.
It's a lot. Absolutely. Are they still located by the staircase?
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Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. I used to, I, it's been a guilty pleasure for me. I love chilling.
I love eating those, those, those snacks, those, those jelly beans. So colorful. Yeah.
They're so sweet and tasty. I, I would, I would like to take the whole,
the whole, the whole dish. If I could.
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Dang. Yes. Yes. So they, they keep us energized.
I love snacking on them. So most definitely, I gotta definitely come back to
the horse chop house. and definitely, you know, come out.
Because I use the same wood job, you know, busy schedule here and there.
So, you know, I definitely just come in, you know, performing most definitely.
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So I was going to ask you this. What type of genres and artists that really
help inspire you to become the talented musician and artist that you are today?
Well, Gorillaz is like my inspiration.
And I really want to be like Damon Albarn.
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Like, I like how he gets different artists and writes different songs for each one.
And, you know, you just get a little taste of everything with Gorillaz albums, you know.
Another one would be Little Dragon, a band from Sweden.
They're also on Gorillaz stuff. That's how I discovered them.
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And then Beach House, they do kind of like.
Dream pop type music and then i'm into rock music gothic music i'm into musicals right now,
absolutely so everything i just love everything me
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too me too you was gonna say
you said all the things that i was gonna say because i i wrote
down your favorite artists and people that you really like especially like little
dragon you're the one who got me into little dragon i know i did you sure did
i got you the little dragon in my car absolutely they're they're going shopping
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yes shopping with something and then i put them on,
yeah they're they're truly amazing i i like little dragon especially brush brush,
yeah you got that song you got that song in my head now like Like, absolutely.
I did check them out on Tiny Desk NPR. Yeah. They were dope. They were dope.
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Finally, they got on there. I've been wanting them to be on there for years.
Oh, yeah. I feel like every artist that's in the industry have one way or another
has did the Tiny Desk. Like, you know. Yeah.
Absolutely. I could definitely just listen, watch different artists,
like, you know, just perform.
I'm like, oh, I wish they could come to my workplace and perform.
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Yeah, my goal, my goal is to get on Tiny Desk. Hmm, absolutely.
And then play, play all your music.
Yeah. Because you're, you're a dope producer and writer and everything.
So you, you got it going on.
And then Gorillaz too, you know, I, like, I know you said like,
if Gorillaz will come, come you know almost close to charleston or north carolina
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you will you definitely want me to go with you so definitely oh yes yes you have absolutely.
Sadly i only know like one song feel good inc okay well yeah i'll send you more,
absolutely yeah yeah yeah keep me up in the loop absolutely because i feel good
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it came out while i was like in high school but you know i was always watched
yeah i i everybody loved gorillas i didn't get it until like after i got older
like they're so cartoonish i was like i can watch this,
so animated and different most definitely
absolutely and then also willow willow smith she's she's different too i you
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you yeah me me you we love her she's so different especially Jayden and Autumn
yeah I wanted to be a part of that Mrs.
Rep thing so bad when I was a teenager yeah,
that he had, you know, like when he had all the different, you know,
artists and stuff, all his friends and things like that. I really wanted to be a part of that.
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Smith's Artipisticus came out. Oh yeah. That changed my whole outlook on music.
Oh yeah. She is so different and innovative. Like, you know,
she was, she, she was like, not like any other artist, but she just create her own genre.
Like I love that. I love that. that because yeah because i'm tired of hearing
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music that's the same with the with you know,
i want something that's unique something that i never heard
before like and that's what i'm always looking for
in music it's something unique something i never heard before you know something
that really just entrances me you know absolutely absolutely because uh and
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then this this is going to my next question since we kind of answered it so
what do you think uh music today is missing from what music was in the past?
Like, you know, like there's like this trap music, commercial music,
you know, commercial type, you know, sampling of artists.
What are your thoughts on it? And what do you, you know, what do you think? Like, okay.
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So music today is missing a lot. It's missing a lot.
Just from the way, you know, now I feel like,
They're not singing from a place of truth. You know, music has to tell a story.
And I feel like we're not telling a story anymore.
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I think people are just thinking, oh, the population will like,
most of the population will like this. So I'm going to release this.
But are you really singing from your heart? Are you really performing from your soul?
You know, and I feel like we've lost that originality.
I feel like we've lost the musicality. like
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you know it just music has
changed drastically absolutely and
it just it just has the music
of today just and yeah the whole sampling thing it
can be good because i have some songs with samples
on it but i feel like now it's become this
huge thing where everybody's
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right right absolutely and then
they feel like sampling oh i can sample this this song
from the 80s or a song from the 90s and you
know it'll be popular but yet it's no
originality like it's not coming from the heart like
people just want to do it just do it just to you know
money money money i'm like for the
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money yes and that's why i feel like it's missing everybody
want to do it for the money do it for like you said do do it
do it in your heart you know just just rather just being something someone else
i sometimes i'd be tired of people being opposers like just stop being just
stop doing that yeah you know that's why every artist styling about them that's very interesting.
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There's something about them that, you know, is unique. And I feel like,
you know, there's not any uniqueness anymore.
Absolutely. We need to get their uniqueness back.
Exactly. Yes, yes. We need to get them expired again.
I wish we can go back in time, do the 70s, the 80s, you know,
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go back to that time period.
I would love to. I would love to. If they invent the time machine, I'm the first one on it.
Because if we go in the time machine oh we might not come back to present so
well you know i could live with that i think everybody wants to live in the
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time machine because i i want to work back back to the 80s and you know the
early 90s you know that's when music was pumping back then,
oh yeah especially with what fashion and in sports and video games and just
just everything thing was so nostalgic back then you know i just revert back yeah it was good times,
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but sadly we has to move forward we had to move on to the you know the present
so all this reality reality shows and you know junk tv and just it's just it's just too much.
Yeah yeah it's a lot so it's crazy so i want to ask this so like i said i know
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like me and you You are like family, you know, big brother, little sis.
Yeah, we are. And you've been knowing me since I was like 19 years old.
Yep. And I think I was like nine or something. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Long time long time and you know like like me and you like you know we met you
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know coming to your mom's house for practice and doing vocal warm-ups and you
know like singing and going over songs,
you know with the crew and then
your mom decided to let me be a part of the group like yeah i remember my first
performance was in lake city yeah at the festival at the festival and i remember
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this purple dashiki kufi that your mom i remember are you,
yeah i remember that um i think we still have it somewhere yes i loved it that
was the the best moment of my life like i remember like everybody when we was
performing the saints go marching in and like all the the all the people was dancing it was like
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holding hands and walking around, dancing in the circle.
I was like, oh, my God. I remember that.
I remember that. Like, I know the Saints Go Marching is the closer,
you know, like a closing song for the group.
Like, you know, like This Little Love of Mine is like an opening.
And then, you know, Saints Go Marching is the closing.
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Like, both songs are so, it just gives you an essence,
and the essence of love and appreciation and yeah
they're very engaging it is it is a very interactive like no wonder like you
know your mom and you know have these songs like you know she like she knows
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what people like he does yes yes.
Yeah you guys are so amazing i just i'm just
so happy and honored to being a part of
the plantation singers like it's been and we're happy
to have you too yes yes let
plantation singers go i would never retire i will
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always be in me
always because you
look like like dealing with work and deal but you know that and you know i love
performing with the group it helps me to be be a better person and it just helped
me to you know get through life you know yeah yes yes,
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it's truly amazing so so i
was gonna ask you this since we're talking about great moments do you have any
amazing memories or great moments that we had together over the years like i
know we did so much together like i know like the whiz where we went to see
the whiz like a couple Was it a couple years ago in Greenville?
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No, it wasn't. Wasn't it earlier this year?
I think it was maybe last year. I can't remember. Lord, we can't remember.
I think it was early this year because it was a little cool outside.
But yeah, it was in Greenville.
And it was truly amazing. Like, you love The Wiz. You really love The Wiz. I do.
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It's my favorite musical. It's my favorite movie because I was two years old. And they came back.
And so me and you went to see them.
And it was it was a good it was a
pretty good show it was it was i really
enjoyed it it was a little different you
know it was different than you know the old ones but you know that was to be
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expected right because you know the original would never you know the original
was always top you know the current ones of course yes but um shout out to yes to that
actors and you know the production they did their thing you know i'm glad me
and you went it was a nice little road trip it sure was it sure was it was a good day trip.
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And i wouldn't go you know see the
woods with anyone else but you i'll always go see
it with you of course you have to see with me
yes yes i'm like because you know
everything about the woods is like you should be in it i definitely
wish i had some say in the music yes yes exactly you could have been the director
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you know your temples your your your sound you know what sounds good what sounds
bad you know how everything runs you probably know the strip line from line,
yeah at this point right
blocking and everything including you you just you just know
everything thing about the Wiz like it's it's
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amazing so I'm glad I was I was
happy to go with you and then you know we rocked out all the
Wiz shirts like just shout out to you know the
merch people I had to make sure we get our shirts yeah exactly and then we also
went to Dudley's to see their and you know their drag performances of the Wiz
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it was true yeah that was fun yeah it was fun it was fun me me,
you and Jimmy went, it was actually on a Sunday.
Okay. I still remember when it was, but I remember when it was on a Sunday and
I had Monday off because I'm at my job.
We had, um, inventory and you know,
The workers don't work during him. We, we was lucky to go.
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So I was like, oh, let's go to the West. The West track to all the performers
like that, that did it. Like they, they killed it.
Like it was amazing.
They, they, they get all my monies for, you know, their performances.
Absolutely. So we have so much memories. Well, I will say the cabaret.
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You helped me with doing the music.
Yeah, I played. Yes, you did. You did.
Did my did an endless love a poem that I did about, you know,
my partner that I love so much.
Endless love is truly amazing. Like, you know, and then I was thinking with
that, I was thinking cabaret like burlesque.
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You know i came up with the with the temple came up
with this kind of do do do showgirl type
vibe and then you played it on the piano and you
just and then i made my own little take doing the snaps and snaps and dancing
and just yeah it all came together it did it did it did and i was like i was
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like you know my what my theater degree you know it was like an adult you know i was like like,
you know, put it in the back burner because I was dealing with other stuff,
different, you know, work and all that.
And then, you know, it was so good to use my theater background to,
you know, use that, you know, help me perform.
Yeah. And I was so thankful to have you there helping me with the music and suddenly see more.
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Shout out to Josh for definitely, you know, doing the duet with me because I
couldn't do it by myself.
I needed someone else. That was very good. that was very good it was and it
was perfect to have that at the end,
It was truly amazing. It was my first cabaret.
And I'm so happy to... That was my first cabaret.
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I'm just happy that we're doing it. I'm glad I asked you to do it. I'm just so happy.
I'm glad you asked me to do it. Absolutely. I hope we can do more because I loved it. Yeah.
Absolutely. It's been amazing. And we got good chemistry.
Chemistry we perform well we've been
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performing for a long time together i love it i
love it and then like if this is perfect
so i say like you know to anyone that's performing like if you have if you do
if you if you have great chemistry definitely use it to your advantage because
it's amazing so yeah i definitely love it we got to do more definitely absolutely
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and then also you You helped me with my book release,
like, last year.
You helped me with the vending table, the merch table and all.
I definitely appreciate you. You definitely helped me with that.
And then shout out to my podcast.
And, you know, my family and friends came out. We definitely had a good time.
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So shout out to you and everybody for that.
That was a great day. It was.
And then what else remember we got? Oh, yeah, the Comic-Cons.
The Comic-Cons, you know, I love Spider-Man. Oh, yeah, there's one coming up. Yes, this Saturday.
And, you know, I know me and you are going. So I definitely got to get my tickets.
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So it's going to be fun. And then one of my friends, Robert Lewis,
is going to be there, too.
So, you know, he's going to vendor his book. So it's going to be a fun day.
I cannot wait. so awesome awesome awesome so i was gonna ask you since since
you got your your music business together you got you know you got that going
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on can you tell me about musical tea productions how did you created it and
how did it came about and you know.
Tell us a little bit more so I decided when I was 14 that I was going to do music full-time,
and when I was around 16 I decided
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I wanted to be a producer so that's kind
of where musical tea production started was I was
just going to you know be a producer but then I
added things you know like the teaching and performing
and it just it grew the
list grew of like things that I offer but producing is
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what i really want to do producing and songwriting
awesome awesome that is
so wonderful and i'm glad you're doing it you're doing what
you love and making it into
a career and then also i'm so
happy and proud of you like you know especially you
you you worked on a big sis debut poetry album i'm
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called yes yes yeah
shout out to your local vampire higher victim who does
um yeah worked hard
on that absolutely i i can tell because i listen for about a year i believe
about a year wow it's truly amazing i definitely loved it especially the mac
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and cheese poems it makes me hungry i just just looking at the titles.
That's her hit and i believe she did perform that at my book party at you know i remembered.
Yeah it's amazing i'm just glad i'm just
so happy that we was there to support big shout
out to vix shout out yes shout out it shout out to you to get that that local
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vampire poetry album go get it it's been amazing so what's it like working with
your your bestie vix what was it like working with it yes fun we had a lot of laughs.
It was a great time because it was my first time doing a poetry album and I
wouldn't want to produce anyone else's poetry album, you know,
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to start off with, but hers. And we had a lot of fun.
That's good. I'm definitely glad you had a fun time with Vix.
And then when I, when I actually like looked at it on Apple music,
and then I saw on the credits, it says musical tea production. I'm like, Oh my God.
Oh my God. Tanya, Tanya, Tanya. i was
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thinking tanya got a record label and i saw that yeah that that is that's also
kind of the record label name as well so oh my god so vix is your your first
artist under you yeah vix is my first artist oh my god that is huge that that is that is huge.
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Oh my god i was
gonna ask you are you gonna have any more artists under
under you or you know testing the waters out i hope so i hope so no one's come
to me yet but i hope but they will after that listen to uh your local vampire
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absolutely so i'm definitely proud of both of you guys worked hard,
worked hard on, on this project.
So definitely shout out to both of y'all. Like seriously, you're welcome. You're welcome.
So in addition of things that you got going on, also see, like you said,
you're tutoring, teaching young kids, and then you also worked for a 105.5 the bridge.
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Yeah. And 98 rock. Yeah. 98 rock. Awesome. So how was that? Like,
how was that experience like working for them?
Oh, I love it. And what do you like about it? What I like about it is like,
you know, when I get to the event, I get to work the event and then I get to
enjoy the event usually afterwards.
So that's a fun thing that I get to do.
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Absolutely. That sounds similar to, you know, me working at the Coliseum,
working at the different events and just watching the shows.
I mean, that's the work still, but, you know, it's so good to see free shows.
And then you know that's how yeah absolutely and
and i think that's that's how you know you support your artists and
you know i think that's why you know if i
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see the concerts let me go ahead and buy their albums you know
just seeing them live i'm like oh my god this is such a different experience
than listening to them on the radio or the cd player and stuff so this is truly
fun i'm so honored to definitely do that you know so uh you know my brother
derrick you know he He works for Charleston Rail Group and he almost do the same thing,
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you know, like vendoring and, you know, different, different events.
He truly loves it, too. That's right. He loves it.
So I was going to ask you this. What advice can you give to those that want
to pursue a career in music, no matter how old or young they are?
What can you tell them? Well, I would say.
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Know who you are. And.
Be passionate about it. you know don't half step anything be passionate about
it know who you are and just do it,
absolutely and do exactly love it and like like the slogan i mean me and my
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brother there we always say be the best at what you already already do just
do what you love absolutely and i i keep that,
Absolutely.
I definitely love it. I was going to ask you this. What type of legacy would
you like to leave or contribute to the community regarding your dreams, goals, and ambitions?
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It's okay to be different i want people to know that it's okay to be different and you know i hope,
people remember me for being different in
a good way and i hope i can change the
music scene you know in charleston a little bit
absolutely and i feel you're going
definitely going to change the music scene the poetry scene
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the theater scene everything around because because this
this this uh poetry album that you do with vix is the beginning beginning
of something great because i i feel greatness is
coming you know you're welcome do do the amazing stuff that you do so definitely
and different is fun different is fun different is different is unique ever
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keep thinking different is bad like it's risk i'm like take the risk you know
people love that we want we We want different. We want edginess.
We don't want everybody to be the same.
The same as being the same is boring.
You know, yes, we need, we need, we need more of that. So absolutely.
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Let me ask you this. So is there anything else you would like to tell your viewers
or anything else you got going on or upcoming events or any projects that you've got going on?
As far as projects i'm kind
of just working like privately on stuff i don't have
like a big thing coming out right now but i will i hope i hope to have something
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coming out too but just follow me on social media musical tea productions and
you know i talk about music and different things on there so hopefully you find that interesting,
Absolutely. Absolutely. And I also want you to get your podcast, too.
Oh, yeah. That's a whole nother can of worms. Yes, I know.
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And I know you've been trying to definitely have your podcast with different radio shows.
I'm not going to name any, you know, but I know because you definitely want
to talk about music, different types of music on your podcast.
That is most needed. Like, seriously.
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Like they need to pick you up. Different radio stations need to pick you up so you can talk about it.
Yes. You know, as much as needed, I'll definitely support you no matter what.
Oh, I know. Yes. Cause we were supporting each other.
Like you, you know, support me with my poetry and then I support you with your music. Yes.
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And also shout out to Marcus Amaker. Cause I remember you, I went to your electoral event.
Oh yeah. Yeah, our electronic show. Yes.
That was so different. I'm like, oh, I can do that. I didn't know you can,
you know, do the soundboard and instrumentations.
Because I'd known you more for playing the piano.
I didn't know you was, you know. Yeah.
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Yeah, I didn't know that. That's what most people had known me for.
So it was different seeing you do other stuff besides the piano and doing the
soundboard and the different instrumentations with the sounds.
And you know it's awesome i love it thank you i love it i was like oh my god,
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this is truly amazing so i was gonna ask you
how can people follow you how can they find you on social
media which are of social media credentials well like i said on instagram it's
musical tea productions on youtube it's musical tea productions and on soundcloud
it's musical tea productions or you can search Tati and White if that doesn't
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come up but yeah that's all my,
media thank you so much for that information uh i
love it thank you thank you well you
know as we come into a close i hate that the you know
in the show because we definitely had a good time you know me and you having
a great conversation about your life and music and you know different projects
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that you got going on and you know future stuff you got in the works i definitely
i'm I'm definitely going to be checking you out.
Yes, absolutely. You're welcome. You're welcome. Well, I would like to thank
you, Tadia, for definitely being part of this segment of, you know,
Creators Conversation with the Brothers & Company podcast.
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It was definitely a great show. And I felt very inspired by your gift of music and beyond.
I love you as my little sis.
I love you, too. Thank you. We did so much together and I'm so happy and honored
to have you in my life. So definitely, definitely. Thank you.
And thanks for having me on the show. Oh, you are welcome. You are so welcome.
(42:00):
Thank you for being a part of it. You know, it's been a long time coming and I finally got you.
Yes. Yes.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. You're welcome.
All right, folks, just to wrap up. My name is Chris C. Larrick-Winn of the Brothers
& Company podcast, presents the Critters Conversation.
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Music.
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Hello everyone and good evening.
Welcome to another episode of this segment of Creators Conversation from the
Brothers & Company podcast, where we highlight artists, musicians,
poets, business professionals, podcasters, and much more here in Charleston,
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South Carolina and beyond.
My name is Chris C. Larrick-Winn, one half of the Barbers of the Company podcast.
And tonight, tonight we have a special guest.
She is a good friend of mine. I'm so happy to have her on this show and this
episode. It's such an honor.
I'm going to give you a little bio, a little bio of, you know, my guest tonight.
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Her name is Tadia White. Talia White is a local musician born and raised in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Talia has been playing the piano since she was three years old and performing since.
She also has her own music business called the Musical Tea Productions,
where she teaches, writes, produces and perform music.
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She is also the assistant director of the local gospel group,
The Plantation Singers.
Y'all get into it. She is a lady of many hats, many hats and positions.
And I'm so happy that she's here today and tonight.
All right, everyone, show your love, amazing love to my talented friend and
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bestie in my life, Tadia White. Thank you.
You are welcome. You are welcome. how you doing today i'm
doing good today that's good that's good yeah awesome awesome you know i'm so
happy to have you on this episode tonight man this is i'm just happy to have
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you like finally like you know yeah i'm glad to finally be here absolutely absolutely,
so how does it feel to be you know a guest on on the podcast of you know brothers and company,
It feels great. It's my first podcast I've ever been on, on my own.
Oh, wow. All right. This your moment.
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Awesome. So I just want, I would really wanted you to be on this podcast for a long time.
I know we had to find the right timing and you know, the time is now.
So I'm just happy that you're here.
I want to ask this question that
asks all my, you know, guests that's on that be on my show on our show.
Um can you tell the viewers and everyone listening right now who is tadia lillian
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white oh you forgot one my my second middle name is ann and i'm sorry it's okay.
That's a good question myself like i try to be myself all the time with no regrets
i'm just my true authentic self,
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Your authentic self and being yourself truly, especially nowadays, you know.
Exactly. Absolutely. Absolutely. So I want to ask you this.
How did you get started in music and what made you want to pursue music growing up?
Up well my mom and
my grandmother are singers and they
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you know I come
from a musical family so there was music around the
house all the time and when I
was two I told my mom that I was a plantation singer that I wanted to be in
her group so she put me in and that was kind of the start of everything and
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then when I was three I asked her to teach me how to play piano and that really,
sparked things that's awesome and
then the rest is history and you're just a bona fide musician superstar is everything
I don't know about that yes you are because I I I seen greatness in you I seen
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how you play and perform you girl. You can definitely play that piano.
Yes. Yes. I wish I could play the piano like you, man.
You, you just, you, you got it all. You, you, you, you, you does it all the time when you perform.
So I, I just, I just love it. So, um, that follows up to my next question.
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Since you play the piano, what other, what other instruments do you like to play? Play the drums.
I play djembe and drum set a little bit.
I was playing pipe organ for a little minute. I need to get back on that.
Organs i play a little ukulele a little guitar,
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yeah and i sing a little bit but i sing solo i sing solo you can't hear me.
Oh we can definitely hear you do you do the noise of your your instruments
absolutely you're very versatile you know playing you're welcome with with your
instrumentation and everything you know you got it going on so absolutely that
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is awesome so uh i wish i could play those different some you know me and you
we played uh you know the djembe the drums,
and the plantation singers and you know absolutely and i learned so much from
you you and michael and this you know the tempo and everything is that i never
know how to read music and anything so i've just i learned i learned so much
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from you you know you're like a mentor to me,
thank you the music is in you you
have it oh thank you well thanks
to you i can do it by myself you know i i needed that that push that drive that
motivation like you you you you helped me to you know push myself so it's it's
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such a wonderful feeling because music is everything is so So I forgot what the word is.
It's just so feel so pure, pure.
Like I can't, I can't live without music, you know?
Yeah. I mean, I know what exactly, because we got all the stuff going on with
social media, the internet and TV reality shows.
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I'm like, you know what? I don't, I don't need all that. Just give me music and that's it.
A lot going on. So tell me about it. Tell me about it. So, Well, that is awesome.
Well, again, you know, me and you, we're part of the Plantation Singers.
I want to give a big shout out to your mom, Miss Lynette White,
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and your grandmother, Miss Martha Brooks,
and yourself for continuing to, you know, preserve the Gullah Geechee culture
in the Lowcountry through song, story, you know, storytelling,
basket weaving, and languages for years.
And, you know, performing through the community is highly informative and,
you know, it's great to showcase that in the community.
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I also asked you, do you have any favorite places that you love to perform with
the group, even in Charleston or out of town?
Is there like a specific place that you love to perform?
I like to perform downtown at the historic hotels.
Like Charleston Place Hotel and the Mills House.
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Oh, yeah. Those are nice places. Yeah. I actually used to dance at the Mills
House when I used to do the Charleston.
I used to be a Charleston flapper when I was a kid.
That is so awesome. And, you know, you used to dance.
I remember you used to dance with the Nutcracker like almost every year when you were little.
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Yeah, I did the Nutcracker at Performing Arts Center and I did some other dance stuff too.
I danced with Dance Factory as well. oh yeah it it's been it's been amazing
seeing you perform especially doing that the performances,
is with the upper girls and everything yeah you
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have to do like dance routines i used to cheer you on yes you
were you were always so supportive and you always showed up
absolutely i gotta show up for my little sis you
know you always you always support you you always come for me you know show
up for me when i do my poetry events and you know my podcasting and different
stuff going on so you know it's all love you know we gotta you know support
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one another you know we all yeah i yes exactly shoot i absolutely love it so,
all right cool cool cool so i wanted to ask you like i know we have like more
than 100 or a thousand songs in the plantation singers repertoire maybe even more.
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Sister the group was you know established in 1997 it was a 96 or 97 96 96 okay
all right okay cool i probably figure it's like more more songs over a thousand songs so yes over 300,
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and i love them so do you have
like any favorite song do you have a favorite songs in the
group that you love to perform oh yeah i
do i have i like jacob's
ladder you know i love victory is mine i love to play that one oh yeah oh yeah
that's a good one that's a good one what else come on in the room how about
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the water songs oh yeah i shall not be moved,
that one yeah take me to the
water oh yeah take me to the water yeah take me to the water it's good too wait
in the water like all the water songs are good all of them all the water all
of it keeps up so fresh so i love it i totally love it this is this is the days ago when i Oh, yes.
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Me, love that one. Yes, yes. Especially when we did Black Tap in Somerville. Oh, yeah.
I think that's what it was. Was it at, it was at this, this place called Black
Tap. Was it Black Tap in Somerville?
Oh, you mean Black Tie? Black Tie, I'm sorry. Black Tie.
Yeah, Black Tie, yeah. That's where I was doing my music lesson. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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And then, you know, me and you was performing. Jesus said, yes,
it's one of our, you know, our little big brother, little sis,
you know, little duet, little, you know, team up that we always do. Yeah.
I love it. I totally love it. And then, of course, you know,
I love Me Done Done, you know, shout out to Michael.
That's a popular one. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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And he actually did his thing on Grace's, Neely's album, you know,
added Me Done Done to, you know, the album.
So most definitely, it's been a fan favorite. So I definitely love it.
But there's like so many songs that
i like it is it is is
truly amazing so i definitely love performing different songs
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with the group so absolutely so absolutely so you know like i know these i know
a lot of people can definitely check out the plantation singers we are all around
especially tall's chop house every sunday yeah from from 10 to 3 is y'all still 10 to 3 Yep, 10 to 3.
10 to 3. With non-stop singing, no breaks. No.
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It's a long day. My bad. With no lunch, no just straight singing.
Some snacks in between. Oh, yeah. Paul has these jelly beans,
so we are back on those jelly beans.
It's a lot. Absolutely. Are they still located by the staircase?
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Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. I used to, I, it's been a guilty pleasure for me. I love chilling.
I love eating those, those, those snacks, those, those jelly beans. So colorful. Yeah.
They're so sweet and tasty. I, I would, I would like to take the whole,
the whole, the whole dish. If I could.
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Dang. Yes. Yes. So they, they keep us energized.
I love snacking on them. So most definitely, I gotta definitely come back to
the horse chop house. and definitely, you know, come out.
Because I use the same wood job, you know, busy schedule here and there.
So, you know, I definitely just come in, you know, performing most definitely.
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So I was going to ask you this. What type of genres and artists that really
help inspire you to become the talented musician and artist that you are today?
Well, Gorillaz is like my inspiration.
And I really want to be like Damon Albarn.
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Like, I like how he gets different artists and writes different songs for each one.
And, you know, you just get a little taste of everything with Gorillaz albums, you know.
Another one would be Little Dragon, a band from Sweden.
They're also on Gorillaz stuff. That's how I discovered them.
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And then Beach House, they do kind of like.
Dream pop type music and then i'm into rock music gothic music i'm into musicals right now,
absolutely so everything i just love everything me
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too me too you was gonna say
you said all the things that i was gonna say because i i wrote
down your favorite artists and people that you really like especially like little
dragon you're the one who got me into little dragon i know i did you sure did
i got you the little dragon in my car absolutely they're they're going shopping
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yes shopping with something and then i put them on,
yeah they're they're truly amazing i i like little dragon especially brush brush,
yeah you got that song you got that song in my head now like Like, absolutely.
I did check them out on Tiny Desk NPR. Yeah. They were dope. They were dope.
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Finally, they got on there. I've been wanting them to be on there for years.
Oh, yeah. I feel like every artist that's in the industry have one way or another
has did the Tiny Desk. Like, you know. Yeah.
Absolutely. I could definitely just listen, watch different artists,
like, you know, just perform.
I'm like, oh, I wish they could come to my workplace and perform.
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Yeah, my goal, my goal is to get on Tiny Desk. Hmm, absolutely.
And then play, play all your music.
Yeah. Because you're, you're a dope producer and writer and everything.
So you, you got it going on.
And then Gorillaz too, you know, I, like, I know you said like,
if Gorillaz will come, come you know almost close to charleston or north carolina
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you will you definitely want me to go with you so definitely oh yes yes you have absolutely.
Sadly i only know like one song feel good inc okay well yeah i'll send you more,
absolutely yeah yeah yeah keep me up in the loop absolutely because i feel good
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it came out while i was like in high school but you know i was always watched
yeah i i everybody loved gorillas i didn't get it until like after i got older
like they're so cartoonish i was like i can watch this,
so animated and different most definitely
absolutely and then also willow willow smith she's she's different too i you
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you yeah me me you we love her she's so different especially Jayden and Autumn
yeah I wanted to be a part of that Mrs.
Rep thing so bad when I was a teenager yeah,
that he had, you know, like when he had all the different, you know,
artists and stuff, all his friends and things like that. I really wanted to be a part of that.
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Smith's Artipisticus came out. Oh yeah. That changed my whole outlook on music.
Oh yeah. She is so different and innovative. Like, you know,
she was, she, she was like, not like any other artist, but she just create her own genre.
Like I love that. I love that. that because yeah because i'm tired of hearing
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music that's the same with the with you know,
i want something that's unique something that i never heard
before like and that's what i'm always looking for
in music it's something unique something i never heard before you know something
that really just entrances me you know absolutely absolutely because uh and
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then this this is going to my next question since we kind of answered it so
what do you think uh music today is missing from what music was in the past?
Like, you know, like there's like this trap music, commercial music,
you know, commercial type, you know, sampling of artists.
What are your thoughts on it? And what do you, you know, what do you think? Like, okay.
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So music today is missing a lot. It's missing a lot.
Just from the way, you know, now I feel like,
They're not singing from a place of truth. You know, music has to tell a story.
And I feel like we're not telling a story anymore.
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I think people are just thinking, oh, the population will like,
most of the population will like this. So I'm going to release this.
But are you really singing from your heart? Are you really performing from your soul?
You know, and I feel like we've lost that originality.
I feel like we've lost the musicality. like
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you know it just music has
changed drastically absolutely and
it just it just has the music
of today just and yeah the whole sampling thing it
can be good because i have some songs with samples
on it but i feel like now it's become this
huge thing where everybody's
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right right absolutely and then
they feel like sampling oh i can sample this this song
from the 80s or a song from the 90s and you
know it'll be popular but yet it's no
originality like it's not coming from the heart like
people just want to do it just do it just to you know
money money money i'm like for the
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money yes and that's why i feel like it's missing everybody
want to do it for the money do it for like you said do do it
do it in your heart you know just just rather just being something someone else
i sometimes i'd be tired of people being opposers like just stop being just
stop doing that yeah you know that's why every artist styling about them that's very interesting.
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There's something about them that, you know, is unique. And I feel like,
you know, there's not any uniqueness anymore.
Absolutely. We need to get their uniqueness back.
Exactly. Yes, yes. We need to get them expired again.
I wish we can go back in time, do the 70s, the 80s, you know,
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go back to that time period.
I would love to. I would love to. If they invent the time machine, I'm the first one on it.
Because if we go in the time machine oh we might not come back to present so
well you know i could live with that i think everybody wants to live in the
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time machine because i i want to work back back to the 80s and you know the
early 90s you know that's when music was pumping back then,
oh yeah especially with what fashion and in sports and video games and just
just everything thing was so nostalgic back then you know i just revert back yeah it was good times,
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but sadly we has to move forward we had to move on to the you know the present
so all this reality reality shows and you know junk tv and just it's just it's just too much.
Yeah yeah it's a lot so it's crazy so i want to ask this so like i said i know
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like me and you You are like family, you know, big brother, little sis.
Yeah, we are. And you've been knowing me since I was like 19 years old.
Yep. And I think I was like nine or something. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Long time long time and you know like like me and you like you know we met you
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know coming to your mom's house for practice and doing vocal warm-ups and you
know like singing and going over songs,
you know with the crew and then
your mom decided to let me be a part of the group like yeah i remember my first
performance was in lake city yeah at the festival at the festival and i remember
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this purple dashiki kufi that your mom i remember are you,
yeah i remember that um i think we still have it somewhere yes i loved it that
was the the best moment of my life like i remember like everybody when we was
performing the saints go marching in and like all the the all the people was dancing it was like
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holding hands and walking around, dancing in the circle.
I was like, oh, my God. I remember that.
I remember that. Like, I know the Saints Go Marching is the closer,
you know, like a closing song for the group.
Like, you know, like This Little Love of Mine is like an opening.
And then, you know, Saints Go Marching is the closing.
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Like, both songs are so, it just gives you an essence,
and the essence of love and appreciation and yeah
they're very engaging it is it is a very interactive like no wonder like you
know your mom and you know have these songs like you know she like she knows
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what people like he does yes yes.
Yeah you guys are so amazing i just i'm just
so happy and honored to being a part of
the plantation singers like it's been and we're happy
to have you too yes yes let
plantation singers go i would never retire i will
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always be in me
always because you
look like like dealing with work and deal but you know that and you know i love
performing with the group it helps me to be be a better person and it just helped
me to you know get through life you know yeah yes yes,
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it's truly amazing so so i
was gonna ask you this since we're talking about great moments do you have any
amazing memories or great moments that we had together over the years like i
know we did so much together like i know like the whiz where we went to see
the whiz like a couple Was it a couple years ago in Greenville?
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No, it wasn't. Wasn't it earlier this year?
I think it was maybe last year. I can't remember. Lord, we can't remember.
I think it was early this year because it was a little cool outside.
But yeah, it was in Greenville.
And it was truly amazing. Like, you love The Wiz. You really love The Wiz. I do.
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It's my favorite musical. It's my favorite movie because I was two years old. And they came back.
And so me and you went to see them.
And it was it was a good it was a
pretty good show it was it was i really
enjoyed it it was a little different you
know it was different than you know the old ones but you know that was to be
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expected right because you know the original would never you know the original
was always top you know the current ones of course yes but um shout out to yes to that
actors and you know the production they did their thing you know i'm glad me
and you went it was a nice little road trip it sure was it sure was it was a good day trip.
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And i wouldn't go you know see the
woods with anyone else but you i'll always go see
it with you of course you have to see with me
yes yes i'm like because you know
everything about the woods is like you should be in it i definitely
wish i had some say in the music yes yes exactly you could have been the director
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you know your temples your your your sound you know what sounds good what sounds
bad you know how everything runs you probably know the strip line from line,
yeah at this point right
blocking and everything including you you just you just know
everything thing about the Wiz like it's it's
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amazing so I'm glad I was I was
happy to go with you and then you know we rocked out all the
Wiz shirts like just shout out to you know the
merch people I had to make sure we get our shirts yeah exactly and then we also
went to Dudley's to see their and you know their drag performances of the Wiz
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it was true yeah that was fun yeah it was fun it was fun me me,
you and Jimmy went, it was actually on a Sunday.
Okay. I still remember when it was, but I remember when it was on a Sunday and
I had Monday off because I'm at my job.
We had, um, inventory and you know,
The workers don't work during him. We, we was lucky to go.
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So I was like, oh, let's go to the West. The West track to all the performers
like that, that did it. Like they, they killed it.
Like it was amazing.
They, they, they get all my monies for, you know, their performances.
Absolutely. So we have so much memories. Well, I will say the cabaret.
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You helped me with doing the music.
Yeah, I played. Yes, you did. You did.
Did my did an endless love a poem that I did about, you know,
my partner that I love so much.
Endless love is truly amazing. Like, you know, and then I was thinking with
that, I was thinking cabaret like burlesque.
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You know i came up with the with the temple came up
with this kind of do do do showgirl type
vibe and then you played it on the piano and you
just and then i made my own little take doing the snaps and snaps and dancing
and just yeah it all came together it did it did it did and i was like i was
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like you know my what my theater degree you know it was like an adult you know i was like like,
you know, put it in the back burner because I was dealing with other stuff,
different, you know, work and all that.
And then, you know, it was so good to use my theater background to,
you know, use that, you know, help me perform.
Yeah. And I was so thankful to have you there helping me with the music and suddenly see more.
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Shout out to Josh for definitely, you know, doing the duet with me because I
couldn't do it by myself.
I needed someone else. That was very good. that was very good it was and it
was perfect to have that at the end,
It was truly amazing. It was my first cabaret.
And I'm so happy to... That was my first cabaret.
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I'm just happy that we're doing it. I'm glad I asked you to do it. I'm just so happy.
I'm glad you asked me to do it. Absolutely. I hope we can do more because I loved it. Yeah.
Absolutely. It's been amazing. And we got good chemistry.
Chemistry we perform well we've been
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performing for a long time together i love it i
love it and then like if this is perfect
so i say like you know to anyone that's performing like if you have if you do
if you if you have great chemistry definitely use it to your advantage because
it's amazing so yeah i definitely love it we got to do more definitely absolutely
(29:58):
and then also you You helped me with my book release,
like, last year.
You helped me with the vending table, the merch table and all.
I definitely appreciate you. You definitely helped me with that.
And then shout out to my podcast.
And, you know, my family and friends came out. We definitely had a good time.
(30:19):
So shout out to you and everybody for that.
That was a great day. It was.
And then what else remember we got? Oh, yeah, the Comic-Cons.
The Comic-Cons, you know, I love Spider-Man. Oh, yeah, there's one coming up. Yes, this Saturday.
And, you know, I know me and you are going. So I definitely got to get my tickets.
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So it's going to be fun. And then one of my friends, Robert Lewis,
is going to be there, too.
So, you know, he's going to vendor his book. So it's going to be a fun day.
I cannot wait. so awesome awesome awesome so i was gonna ask you since since
you got your your music business together you got you know you got that going
(31:07):
on can you tell me about musical tea productions how did you created it and
how did it came about and you know.
Tell us a little bit more so I decided when I was 14 that I was going to do music full-time,
and when I was around 16 I decided
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I wanted to be a producer so that's kind
of where musical tea production started was I was
just going to you know be a producer but then I
added things you know like the teaching and performing
and it just it grew the
list grew of like things that I offer but producing is
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what i really want to do producing and songwriting
awesome awesome that is
so wonderful and i'm glad you're doing it you're doing what
you love and making it into
a career and then also i'm so
happy and proud of you like you know especially you
you you worked on a big sis debut poetry album i'm
(32:10):
called yes yes yeah
shout out to your local vampire higher victim who does
um yeah worked hard
on that absolutely i i can tell because i listen for about a year i believe
about a year wow it's truly amazing i definitely loved it especially the mac
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and cheese poems it makes me hungry i just just looking at the titles.
That's her hit and i believe she did perform that at my book party at you know i remembered.
Yeah it's amazing i'm just glad i'm just
so happy that we was there to support big shout
out to vix shout out yes shout out it shout out to you to get that that local
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vampire poetry album go get it it's been amazing so what's it like working with
your your bestie vix what was it like working with it yes fun we had a lot of laughs.
It was a great time because it was my first time doing a poetry album and I
wouldn't want to produce anyone else's poetry album, you know,
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to start off with, but hers. And we had a lot of fun.
That's good. I'm definitely glad you had a fun time with Vix.
And then when I, when I actually like looked at it on Apple music,
and then I saw on the credits, it says musical tea production. I'm like, Oh my God.
Oh my God. Tanya, Tanya, Tanya. i was
(33:47):
thinking tanya got a record label and i saw that yeah that that is that's also
kind of the record label name as well so oh my god so vix is your your first
artist under you yeah vix is my first artist oh my god that is huge that that is that is huge.
(34:08):
Oh my god i was
gonna ask you are you gonna have any more artists under
under you or you know testing the waters out i hope so i hope so no one's come
to me yet but i hope but they will after that listen to uh your local vampire
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absolutely so i'm definitely proud of both of you guys worked hard,
worked hard on, on this project.
So definitely shout out to both of y'all. Like seriously, you're welcome. You're welcome.
So in addition of things that you got going on, also see, like you said,
you're tutoring, teaching young kids, and then you also worked for a 105.5 the bridge.
(34:55):
Yeah. And 98 rock. Yeah. 98 rock. Awesome. So how was that? Like,
how was that experience like working for them?
Oh, I love it. And what do you like about it? What I like about it is like,
you know, when I get to the event, I get to work the event and then I get to
enjoy the event usually afterwards.
So that's a fun thing that I get to do.
(35:20):
Absolutely. That sounds similar to, you know, me working at the Coliseum,
working at the different events and just watching the shows.
I mean, that's the work still, but, you know, it's so good to see free shows.
And then you know that's how yeah absolutely and
and i think that's that's how you know you support your artists and
you know i think that's why you know if i
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see the concerts let me go ahead and buy their albums you know
just seeing them live i'm like oh my god this is such a different experience
than listening to them on the radio or the cd player and stuff so this is truly
fun i'm so honored to definitely do that you know so uh you know my brother
derrick you know he He works for Charleston Rail Group and he almost do the same thing,
(36:02):
you know, like vendoring and, you know, different, different events.
He truly loves it, too. That's right. He loves it.
So I was going to ask you this. What advice can you give to those that want
to pursue a career in music, no matter how old or young they are?
What can you tell them? Well, I would say.
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Know who you are. And.
Be passionate about it. you know don't half step anything be passionate about
it know who you are and just do it,
absolutely and do exactly love it and like like the slogan i mean me and my
(36:44):
brother there we always say be the best at what you already already do just
do what you love absolutely and i i keep that,
Absolutely.
I definitely love it. I was going to ask you this. What type of legacy would
you like to leave or contribute to the community regarding your dreams, goals, and ambitions?
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It's okay to be different i want people to know that it's okay to be different and you know i hope,
people remember me for being different in
a good way and i hope i can change the
music scene you know in charleston a little bit
absolutely and i feel you're going
definitely going to change the music scene the poetry scene
(37:29):
the theater scene everything around because because this
this this uh poetry album that you do with vix is the beginning beginning
of something great because i i feel greatness is
coming you know you're welcome do do the amazing stuff that you do so definitely
and different is fun different is fun different is different is unique ever
(37:51):
keep thinking different is bad like it's risk i'm like take the risk you know
people love that we want we We want different. We want edginess.
We don't want everybody to be the same.
The same as being the same is boring.
You know, yes, we need, we need, we need more of that. So absolutely.
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Let me ask you this. So is there anything else you would like to tell your viewers
or anything else you got going on or upcoming events or any projects that you've got going on?
As far as projects i'm kind
of just working like privately on stuff i don't have
like a big thing coming out right now but i will i hope i hope to have something
(38:36):
coming out too but just follow me on social media musical tea productions and
you know i talk about music and different things on there so hopefully you find that interesting,
Absolutely. Absolutely. And I also want you to get your podcast, too.
Oh, yeah. That's a whole nother can of worms. Yes, I know.
(39:01):
And I know you've been trying to definitely have your podcast with different radio shows.
I'm not going to name any, you know, but I know because you definitely want
to talk about music, different types of music on your podcast.
That is most needed. Like, seriously.
(39:21):
Like they need to pick you up. Different radio stations need to pick you up so you can talk about it.
Yes. You know, as much as needed, I'll definitely support you no matter what.
Oh, I know. Yes. Cause we were supporting each other.
Like you, you know, support me with my poetry and then I support you with your music. Yes.
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And also shout out to Marcus Amaker. Cause I remember you, I went to your electoral event.
Oh yeah. Yeah, our electronic show. Yes.
That was so different. I'm like, oh, I can do that. I didn't know you can,
you know, do the soundboard and instrumentations.
Because I'd known you more for playing the piano.
I didn't know you was, you know. Yeah.
(40:06):
Yeah, I didn't know that. That's what most people had known me for.
So it was different seeing you do other stuff besides the piano and doing the
soundboard and the different instrumentations with the sounds.
And you know it's awesome i love it thank you i love it i was like oh my god,
(40:26):
this is truly amazing so i was gonna ask you
how can people follow you how can they find you on social
media which are of social media credentials well like i said on instagram it's
musical tea productions on youtube it's musical tea productions and on soundcloud
it's musical tea productions or you can search Tati and White if that doesn't
(40:48):
come up but yeah that's all my,
media thank you so much for that information uh i
love it thank you thank you well you
know as we come into a close i hate that the you know
in the show because we definitely had a good time you know me and you having
a great conversation about your life and music and you know different projects
(41:14):
that you got going on and you know future stuff you got in the works i definitely
i'm I'm definitely going to be checking you out.
Yes, absolutely. You're welcome. You're welcome. Well, I would like to thank
you, Tadia, for definitely being part of this segment of, you know,
Creators Conversation with the Brothers & Company podcast.
(41:35):
It was definitely a great show. And I felt very inspired by your gift of music and beyond.
I love you as my little sis.
I love you, too. Thank you. We did so much together and I'm so happy and honored
to have you in my life. So definitely, definitely. Thank you.
And thanks for having me on the show. Oh, you are welcome. You are so welcome.
(42:00):
Thank you for being a part of it. You know, it's been a long time coming and I finally got you.
Yes. Yes.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. You're welcome.
All right, folks, just to wrap up. My name is Chris C. Larrick-Winn of the Brothers
& Company podcast, presents the Critters Conversation.
(42:21):
You can definitely follow us on Facebook, X for me known as Twitter, Instagram,
TikTok, and on our website at thebrothersandcompany.popbean.com,
where you can view our latest episodes,
check out me and my brother's bios, pictures, and along with checking out our
(42:41):
merch store, where you can purchase T-shirts, like the one I got here that I'm
wearing, hoodies, coffee mugs, and more.
And also, me and Derek, we always say this on our podcast.
We are free, 99, to listen to us online.
You ain't got to take out a loan or mortgage or change to watch us.
(43:04):
You can watch us definitely for free.
So definitely, definitely check us out at no cost for you whatsoever.
Whatsoever definitely tuning in this evening on this
new episode of creators conversation again my name is chris c larick win one
half of the brothers and company podcast you guys have a good night peace and
(43:28):
one love this is the brothers and company podcast.
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