November 4, 2024 • 29 mins
Cozy Len, a remarkable musician from Zachary, Louisiana, is stepping into the spotlight on the national stage as a contestant on season 26 of NBC's "The Voice" with Team Gwen. Join us as we connect with Cozy to explore his transition from aspiring basketball player to soulful singer, a journey redirected by a wrist injury that led him back to his musical roots. Cozy recounts the deep influence of his church environment and the awe he holds for artists like Brian McKnight, Snoop Dogg, and Boyz II Men.
Our conversation takes a turn as Cozy opens up about his experience on "The Voice," offering an insider's perspective on the audition process and the relief of Gwen Stefani turning her chair. He shares what it takes to maintain vocal health and authenticity in performances, emphasizing the invaluable coaching and camaraderie he’s found on the show. Cozy’s dual role as the frontman of Rewind Band and a worship leader at Healing Place Church highlights his dedication and the support he draws from his local community, underscoring the importance of faith and resilience on his artistic path.
As we conclude, Cozy shares a touching tribute to a special person in his life who has been his perpetual source of strength and inspiration, reminding us of the personal connections that propel our dreams forward. The episode wraps with a sense of celebration and anticipation for Cozy's continued journey on "The Voice," as we cheer him on from his hometown to the national stage. This is more than a story of musical success; it's a testament to the power of perseverance, community, and unwavering support.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
My name is Cozy Lynn.
I am from Baton Rouge,louisiana, a Zachary resident
currently, and I am on season 26of NBC's the Voice Team.
Gwen hey and you got to keeplistening to Porch and Parish,
the number one podcast inZachary Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode
of Porch and Parish the podcast,your inside scoop on everything
happening right here in Zachary.
From our headquarters onVirginia Street, I'm your host,
jen Gennaro, and today we've gota special story that's making
waves not just here in ourhometown but on the national
stage.
Our very own Zachary resident,cozy Lynn, is lighting up the
(00:45):
stage on the Voice.
Cozy is showing the countrywhat we already know here in
Zachary that we've got someincredible talent.
We're so excited to dive intoCozy's journey, share some
behind-the-scenes stories andrally our community to support
one of our own.
So, without further ado, thisis Porch and Parish the podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
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Speaker 2 (01:34):
All right, cozy.
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neighborhood barista KatieLofton at PJ's.
She said you're a regular, sowhat is your order?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Lofton at PJ's.
She said you're a regular, sowhat is your order?
My order currently is ice greentea with three honeys.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Three honeys.
Is that like a matcha tea orwe're doing like a?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Green tea.
Okay yeah, just ice green tea.
Sometimes I'll do the hot greentea, but I usually do that in
the colder season.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Are you not like a hot coffee drinker?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I am, but I had to get away from coffee man.
Coffee, the caffeine reallyover time drives your voice out,
damages your vocals.
Oh no, kidding, so I kind ofopt for the lesser caffeine
option whenever I drink caffeine.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh, is that what's wrong with?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
me.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, so who is one musical artist whose voice you
love but could never emulate?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh man, I grew up loving Brian McKnight's voice.
I grew up, I can remember.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's who you remind me of.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Really.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, oh, I love some what.
Circa 2000 Brian McKnight yeah,he's so good, yeah, I love
Brian McKnight.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I can remember being in high school and I would try
to emulate him so much, man tothe point to where it got
frustrating at times.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And what did you want to be when you were little?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Wow, I always wanted to be a musician.
I mean, I was just hands down.
I came from a music family.
My dad, he was a pastor forabout 40 years.
I grew up in a church.
My mom was musically inclined.
I think it missed my olderbrother though I think that's
the only person it missed but Ialways wanted to be a musician.
Um, aside from being a musician, though, I really wanted to
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play basketball.
Basketball kind of it was oneof my main things, and when I
got in high school it kind ofalmost pushed music to the back
burner.
But God had a different plan,man.
When I went to school andcollege at UL it was USL, then
it was 1999, my freshman year Iwent to try to pursue a
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basketball scholarship, tried towalk on with the university and
my first practice man, Ifractured my wrist and that was
a done deal.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So, needless to say, I just fell back on music it was
kind of God's way of telling meman it's, I got a different
journey for you.
All right.
So, as a Zachary resident, tellme what is your favorite dish
from a Zachary restaurant.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Ooh uh, I like to go to.
I'm pretty simple man, I reallyam I love.
I love red meat, I love steaks,so I like to go to Sidelines
really and go to their steaknight yeah, I like to either go
to their steak night and get asteak, or I'd go get their
quarterback hamburger okay, yeah, there's a lot of good steaks
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in Zachary it is.
Now there's a place closer.
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot ofgood steaks in Zachary.
It is Now there's a placecloser.
That's on Plank going down.
You make a right on Plank andit's right to the right.
Me and my wife went there forthat Thursday night steak night
for the first time last week.
I can't remember the name, isit Mills or something like that?
(04:43):
I can't remember the name of itIn Zachary.
Yeah, it's to the right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
By, like Angus, by that coffee time trailer.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I think so oh.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'll have to look into that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They have a Thursday night steak night.
It was really good.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I love a good steak night.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
All right Cozy.
So tell us a little bit ofintro and background when?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
did you grow up?
I grew up in Baton Rouge, inNorth Baton Rouge, in the Glen
Oaks area.
I grew up there.
Since I was a kid, lived therefor most of my life.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Okay, and are you allowed to say what your real
name is?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
My real name is Cozy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No way yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
My real name is Cozy, First name's Cozy C-O-Z-Y.
My middle name is Lynn L-E-N,so that's where I get my artist
name from Cozy Lynn?
No kidding, I always thoughtthat was like a stage name, my
last name is Gage G-A-G-E and ofcourse I'm junior because my
dad is senior.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
How cool.
Okay, I thought for sure, therewas going to be some sort of
backstory about a nickname.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, the backstory about me choosing my first and
middle name as an artist name,one of my mentors, ty Cook.
I'm really close to him and hiswife Darnell.
She would just always call meCozy Lynn, off the cuff, cozy
Lynn, cozy Lynn, and I just lovethe ring to it.
And she comes from a musicalfamily as well.
Her brother's an accomplishedmusician artist and she just
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started calling me that off thecuff man and I like the sound of
it, so I just kind of took iton as my, as my stage name.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I love it.
That's a great name.
So when did you realize thatyou had a voice like a real
voice?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
so I guess I was around eight, nine-ish at the
time.
I was a big hip-hop fan.
I had a friend of mine who Igrew up with in the neighborhood
.
We wanted to start a little rapgroup.
So we started a rap group.
Um, my parents, our parentsrealized the talent that we had
so they tried to put somebacking to it.
They got us a manager and wewould write our own songs and we
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would record on karaokemachines, tape cassettes, things
like that.
So, uh, in writing our ownsongs and doing our own music, I
kind of combined this thing ofrapping and singing and the more
people actually heard me singoutside of the church set in the
hip hop set.
They were like man, you shouldreally push that more, you
should really push that more.
(06:55):
So as I got older, I justgravitated more to singing than
I did actually rapping.
Do you write your own music?
I do, I do.
Yeah, I have original musicavailable on all digital
platforms Spotify, google, appleMusic, the whole nine Awesome.
(07:18):
It's all available.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So who's been your greatest supporter in your
musical journey?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
My wife.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Really.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, she's been my biggest, greatest supporter, man
.
She's a blessing.
We'll be married four yearsnext month actually on the 20th,
november 20th and she's reallybeen the wind beneath my wings,
the blessing that I needed,because she's very supportive.
I work so hard in what I do andshe calls me a workaholic.
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She says I never sit down, Inever kind of rest and I tend to
get tapped out a lot, giggingso much with my band day in and
day out, sometimes three, fournights a week in a different
city every night.
So I'll hit these brick wallsto where I get really depleted
and I'm just like man, I don'tknow how long I can do this.
I'm ready to give this up.
(08:08):
And she's the one she's alwaysthe one patting me on the back
and holding me, saying look, youcan't give up.
This is you, this is who youare, this is the gift that God
gave you and you just got tostay true to your promise and
keep doing it.
So yeah, man, there were a lotof times I wanted to quit and
she was the one that stopped mefrom doing it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I think I need to hire Jasmine as like my personal
hype woman to come pat me onthe back.
I think any artist of anymedium you know whether it's a
writer or a singer or what have.
You can relate to feeling thatway at times, like why am?
I doing this.
You know that's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
She sounds great.
Yes, um, how long have y'alllived in Zachary?
We have been living here forover a year now.
I think we moved here last June, okay, and uh, we moved here
because we really couldn't finda good school for our youngest
daughter to go to in EBR.
My wife is a school teacher, sothat's her main job.
She's actually an interiordesigner and decorator and
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stylist, but being that she's aschool teacher, she wanted to
move into a better schooldistrict, so she was already
living here before we gotmarried.
So when we got married, shemoved in with me in North Baton
Rouge where I was living at thetime, and as Casey and our
youngest started getting older,we wanted to get her in a better
school district.
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So we ended up moving back hereto Zachary.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Wonderful.
And last question of ourbackground.
You are a pretty sharp dresser,so tell us where do you shop
for your looks?
You?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
are a pretty sharp dresser, so tell us where do you
shop for your looks, man?
So my two main places for mysuits that I love to shop is
Express and Men's Warehouse.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay, but I love finding things on sale, so when
I shop at Express I go to theoutlets.
I love Express.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, my wife, we kind of I don't want to say we
clash, but we kind of fightabout style sometimes because
she thinks she has a betterstyle than me.
At times I got a reminder.
I'm like, look, I had stylebefore I met you, but she, she
dresses me for the most part.
She actually dressed me for, uh, my blind audition.
Okay, the producers ended up,uh, picking that outfit that she
(10:25):
picked out for me and, uh, shepicked out basically all my
outlet, uh outfits for, uh, allof my filming I bet she never
let you live that down.
Nah, nah, she won't she wants totake all credit and she's
deserving of it yeah yeah, butthose are my two places that I
like to get my suits from.
There's some other places thatI like to shop.
(10:45):
I'm a sweater guy.
I love sweaters, button-downshirts, my comfortable feel.
I love to golf, so I got mygolf pants on right now.
I like to wear things like thatpullover polo shirts, things.
But I love shopping for sales.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
This guy here.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He's not miced up today, but uh, mike has
discovered ebay and buying likelululemon and polo and all these
nice clothes for like 20, soyou can get lululemon on ebay
for a discount oh yeah, man, I'mlearning something today.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
He's a, he's an ebay connoisseur now man, thank you
for that all right, let's moveon and talk a little bit about
your experience so far on thevoice.
So, of all the judges on thevoice, who were you starstruck
by the most?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I can't say that I was starstruck by any one of
them the most, and I reallycan't say that I was starstruck
at all.
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I mean, those are legends up there they are.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They are, but I mean, I've done this is not to
diminish them at all.
I've been in the music industryfor a long time and I've had
the God-given privilege to meeta lot of people and you know,
when I met them, it's not that Iwas so much starstruck as much
as I was just excited to bearound them, in their presence,
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because they are legends and theopportunity to know that I have
to glean from them and learnfrom them.
And I guess I'm saying I wasn'tstarstruck because you can get
to a point to where if you'restarstruck it can affect your
nerves.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And it didn't really seem to affect your nerves
Exactly Like you were just supercool with it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Exactly so.
Yeah, that's what I didn't wantto happen.
You know you want to be able tooperate as a professional.
I mean, you're here to do a joband you're here to try to do
that job well and to have toprepare for that moment the
nerves can actually break you,moment the nerves can actually
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break you.
This is, this is anotherplatform, this is another stage
that uh has a tendency to breaksome people who are actually
good, you know.
So I just try to hold thatdemeanor and still be
appreciative of you know,meeting some of these great
legends, man in their own right.
They're all fantastic, fromMichael Buble to Gwen Stefani to
Reba McEntire and Snoop Dogg.
I go the furthest back withSnoop, though, because I was a
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big hip hop fan coming up in the90s.
So I loved Snoop when he waswith Death Row Records.
Uh, with Dr Dre, I loved a lotof what he did because I was a
big hip hop fan and I love tosee his maturation as well, even
when he came in the late 90s.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, it's been so cool to watch his career.
Just, you know now he used tobe like this, you know real hard
rapper, and now he's likecollaborating with Martha
Stewart and I just love thatLike he's
Speaker 4 (13:38):
a.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Snoop for all ages.
He's the best, so that'sawesome.
Um, now, how did you decide onyour song choice for the blind
audition?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
well, I was a big uh boys to men fan and um, that was
a song that we could actuallyget clear to do on the show.
So, being that I was a fan, Ireally wanted to do that song.
I could see myself, I couldremember myself, actually, when
I was younger, I would be in myliving room playing their music
on the stereo and the cassettetape and I play it it loud, and
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I'd sit in the living roomNobody's at home I'm acting like
I'm performing, performing totheir music, performing to their
songs.
You know, r&b at a time backthen it was when people really
sang.
It wasn't, you know, studiomade.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Pitch wheels and all that Exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know auto-tune this, that and the other.
So I felt like it would be agood song for me to display two
strengths uh about my voice thesmooth texture of my voice.
That would, uh, exemplify mytone, and it would also give me
the dynamic range in the song tobe able to express, uh, my high
pitch range and my falsettothat's what Mike said earlier.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We were very impressed by the high notes.
I mean, not everybody can pullthat off.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, I think my brother was impressed too,
because he's about to be turnedinto a meme and how he was
looking side stage with my wife.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, that's great, ok.
So what went through your mindwhen Gwen turned around for you?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
man, what went through my mind was finally you
know, because I'm talking tomyself through the whole song,
I'm getting through it.
I'm like, OK, here's the start,we're coming off the runway.
And then I hit the chorus.
I'm like, OK, we're gettingthere.
And I'm like, OK, the bridge iscoming up, Nobody's turned yet.
So I'm panning to the crowd andas soon as I get to the
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pinnacle of the song, I see herturn and I'm like, finally and
it was like a a light bulb wentoff to where I just took my foot
and put the pedal to the metaland just just went hard with it.
So, you know it was.
It was a wonderful feeling.
And then, uh, gwen not Gwen,I'm sorry Reba ended up turning
as well.
So it was a great feeling.
(15:43):
It's a great feeling.
That's that's what I was therefor.
And it was a great feelingbecause I knew that if I didn't
get a chair turn, my journey wasover, and I didn't want my
journey to be over like that.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Right.
So what has been the mostsurprising or unexpected part of
the competition so far?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
that's a good question.
Um, I can't say that anythingwas too surprising or unexpected
.
Um, I went into thiscompetition with an open mind,
uh, and going into it with anopen mind, I was fully ready for
whatever was to come.
I kind of knew the ground floorof the steps that we had to
take in each process of thecompetition.
What I can say is this that Ihad heard a lot about the Voices
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process, how smooth it is, howmuch the producers make it easy
for you.
They don't bring you in havingyou to worry about too much.
All they want you to reallyworry about is your vocal health
and you performing at a highlevel, and they facilitated that
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for us well, so there wasn'ttoo much that I was really
surprised about it.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It kind of caught me off guard, but it was a
wonderful process now they don'tdo pitch wheels or voice tuning
or anything like that, right?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
so what we're hearing , yeah yeah, what you're hearing
is is is truly who you are youknow so if you and that's a lot
of pressure too, because if youmess up on that stage then it's
gonna show right yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
how much one-to-one like what is it like being on
team gwen?
Do you interact with her a lot,do, do you?
Are you like texting with her?
Can I have her number, likewhat you know?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
we're either working towards something, if we're
working toward the next phaseafter our blind audition, which
is the battles, so we'll worktogether as a team.
Usually a lot of ourinteraction is on camera, some
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of us off camera, but she doeshave the autonomy and the
interaction to coach us, to helpus be better, to hear us in our
rehearsals, to point out youknow what we can do here to make
us better, or what we can dohere to to Help us out on stage,
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how we look, how we sound.
Yeah, we have a pretty goodamount of interaction with her
to build that rapport.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Are the judges kind of hanging out with you guys in
the downtime or?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
are y'all totally separate.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay, it's not like that, yeah, got it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So is there any advice that you've received
during your time on the Voicethat's really stuck with you,
any specific coaching, anythingyou've really taken to heart?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is when Gwen
first heard me in our initialrehearsal, she had to stop and
she was like man, I absolutelylove your tone and your falsetto
tone.
It's just freaking amazing.
And then she doubled down bysaying you just have amazing
instincts.
And then she doubled down bysaying you just have amazing
instincts.
That really sticks with mebecause it blessed me.
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Michael Buble has some greatcomments from my blind audition
that really stuck with me.
Although he didn't turn hischair, I felt like he would have
if he didn't already have thediversity in his team.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He had a good reason Right right.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But you know, I can tell from his spirit man he's a
genuine guy.
He has some great comments.
Snoop has some great comments.
Yeah, there was a lot of thingsthat the coaches and the
interactions that we've had toldme that I really hold to heart,
that actually keep me going.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So, moving on to your connection to Zachary in the
Baton Rouge area, tell us alittle bit about your singing,
like your worship services, yourwork at Healing Place, just
kind of give us a background asto where people can hear you
perform locally.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So I'm the front man for a band called Rewind Band.
We're based out of Baton Rouge.
We're a party band.
We do mostly private gigs, sowe travel a lot.
We're usually mostly inLouisiana, but sometimes we can
be outside of Louisiana acrossthe Southern region Mississippi,
Texas, Florida.
We've been in California a fewtimes.
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I've been the front man forthem for the last seven years.
I'm also one of the leadworship leaders at Healing Place
Church on Highland Road.
I lead worship there with themon Sundays.
We have three services.
We have a eight o'clock, a 930and an 1130.
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So, yeah, that's where I am.
That's where I am on theweekends doing worship with HPC
and my main gig is being atraveling and gigging musician
with Rewind Band.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So have you ever had it happen where you're playing
music until like 3 o'clock inthe morning, Yep, and then
you've got to get up and okay.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Always.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Oh man Always always.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm in a different city pretty much 98% of the time
every Friday and Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So I don't know how your green tea is getting you
through that 8 am worshipservice.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Man look when I get in Saturday.
Most of the time I'm getting in1.30.
I can get in the bed for two,and then I got to be up and be
at call time at service for 6.45am.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Holy moly.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, with on the cusp of me having gigged for the
last two three days straight.
Each gig is about three to fourhours, so my vocals are kind of
like.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Almost on their last leg.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I got you, so has the support from your hometown and
your church community given youextra motivation, motivation
during this whole process.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
they have, they have I'm really uh, I'm really
blessed at how they responded.
Baton rouge, zachary, I'mreally blessed how the community
has gotten behind me and I'vebeen looking at all the comments
and the youtube videos thevideos that's been posted by the
comments and the YouTube videos, the videos that's been posted
by the Voice and myself and man,the comments are so encouraging
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, they're blessing me.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And I really appreciate it.
Everybody's really proud of you.
I mean it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I really appreciate that man and I just with that
statement.
I always have to say this, andit makes me feel a little
indifferent at times when peoplesay they're proud because in
all actuality, I really wouldn'tbe here on this stage if it
were not for God opening thisopportunity for me.
You know, I mean, obviously Iput in the work but without
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having the favor of the Lord onme I wouldn't have made it out
of hundreds of thousands ofpeople to be able to be on this
stage.
So yeah, if you want to sayyou're proud of me for putting
in the work, I appreciate that.
But actually, having thisopportunity, I'm thankful and
proud of God for even giving methe chance.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Amen, that's wonderful to hear.
All right, so let me see we arecoming up on time and I still
want to have you.
I'm going to put you on thespot to sing me a song.
Ok, but tell us what is yourultimate goal as an artist, both
during and after thecompetition.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
My ultimate, ultimate goal as an artist.
My ultimate goal as an artistis to do music at the highest
level possible.
If that means you know, successis different for everybody,
right?
My success generally is to beable to tap out my potential and
to do music at the highestlevel.
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My vision is to be able totravel the world and do shows in
front of hundreds of thousandsof people.
My ultimate vision is to beable to travel the world and do
worship in front of hundreds ofthousands of people.
And my ultimate vision is to beable to travel the world and do
worship in front of hundreds ofthousands of people and bless
the people of God with the giftthat he has given me.
So I guess that's my ceiling,that's what I'm aspiring after,
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that's what I'm striving toward,and I'm just trying to put in
all the work that I can and togive myself the opportunity to
walk through any door that Godopens for me.
So I just have this mantrawhere I have to say always, stay
ready, always stay ready.
And it's hard staying readybecause you can put in the work
for so long.
You'll get discouraged whennothing happens.
(24:21):
Nothing happens.
But you have to stay focusedand stay believing.
And that's where my wife comesin again to kind of double back
on that.
You know, when you put in thework for so long, you don't see
anything happening.
You have to have somebody inyour corner that can just tell
you hey, it's going to happen.
You just got to keep doing whatyou're doing, like the Bible
said.
The Bible says the best.
Don't be weary in well-doing.
(24:41):
If you know you're doingsomething well and you're
striving out to something, don'tget weary in it.
You'll get tired, but don'tallow that to affect you to the
point to where you're saying Iwant to stop and I want to quit.
Keep going so you can reachthat potential.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
What wonderful inspiration.
Thank you for that.
Okay, so give us a quick recapon where we are in the
competition.
What's coming up next?
As we're recording this, it isTuesday, october 29th, so what
is in store for the next fewepisodes of the Voice?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
So what's in store right now?
We're still in the battle phaseof everything.
Once we get out of the battlephase, we'll be moving over to
knockouts, and the next roundout of knockouts will be
playoffs, and after playoffs,we'll find out who's all making
it to the live shows at the endof this thing, which will start
in November.
So that's what we're lookingforward to.
(25:36):
Well how can the Zacharycommunity support you and kind
of rally around you and all bepresent for these live shows
that are coming up?
Number one the Zacharycommunity can support me by
streaming my music.
You can go on any platform,check out my music.
I got good R&B music, goodChristian music out there good
my music.
You can go on any platformcheck out my music.
I got good R&B music, goodChristian music out there, good,
clean music.
So look me up.
I'm on every platform.
Artist name Cozy LynnC-O-Z-Y-L-E-N.
(25:56):
I'd be happy for you to checkme out Also.
Stay watching the show.
Stay tuned.
Comment.
Go to my Instagram page CozyLynn.
Follow me.
Follow my journey.
Go to my Facebook page CozyLynn.
Follow me.
Follow my journey.
That's the way that you cansupport me and stay in tune to
what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We will definitely put all those links in the show
notes and in the social posts.
All right, so last question ifyou win the voice, what is the
first thing you'll do tocelebrate?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Going to Disneyland.
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I really thought you were going to say that You're
going somewhere.
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Man, I'll probably take my wife and kids to an
international trip.
They love trips, so we'llprobably go somewhere
internationally, somewhere oftheir choosing.
I know my wife likes she reallywants to go to Jamaica, so may
do a Jamaica trip.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
A little Christmas cruise to Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That would be fun too , because she likes to do that.
She likes to take trips forholidays as well, so that might
be fun.
Go to a tropical island forChristmas, or tropic Christmas
Love it All right.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Now it is time for you to sing me a song.
I was going to make you singFancy by Reba McEntire, but I
don't know Does he have therange.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't know about that man.
Some people try to put me onthe spot.
I think I got Mariah Careyrange but nah, it's just
depending on the time of day,you know.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, All right.
Why don't you sing one of youroriginals that you're really
proud of and that you'd love foreverybody to hear?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh, one of my originals?
Sure, OK, this is one of myoriginals.
It's called Angel.
You can download it on allplatforms.
I actually recorded this livewith my band Cozy Lynn
Experience.
So yeah, go check it out.
But here it goes.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
She was standing five-five beautiful brown eyes
Lady looking so fly.
She's blowing my mind.
Soft, caramel complexion,beautiful like the sunrise, make
me say, oh my, and what I'vebeen holding my eyes.
(28:07):
Her style's like no other.
No other lady is above her.
She is the only one for me.
Her inner beauty is so, so deep.
Never thought I'd meet someonelike this.
I sit back and reminisce,thinking of you, thinking God
(28:27):
that I have you cause you're myangel.
You're the only one for me, mylady, always there to care for
me, my friend.
Together we will always be andnothing can ever break us apart.
(28:49):
You're the one for me, wow.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Wow, was that about me?
No.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
That was beautiful Cozy, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Thank you Awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Alright, that is going to wrap up our interview.
Thank you so much for sharingyour voice your talent your
stories with us.
And we are so excited to rallyaround you and we will all stay
tuned to the Voice.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Thank you all so much .
It's been a blessing.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
All right, this is Fortune Parish, the podcast.
Yes, ma'am.
My name is Cozy Lynn.
I am from Baton Rouge,louisiana, a Zachary resident
currently, and I am on season 26of NBC's the Voice Team.
Gwen hey and you got to keeplistening to Porch and Parish,
the number one podcast inZachary Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode
of Porch and Parish the podcast,your inside scoop on everything
happening right here in Zachary.
From our headquarters onVirginia Street, I'm your host,
jen Gennaro, and today we've gota special story that's making
waves not just here in ourhometown but on the national
stage.
Our very own Zachary resident,cozy Lynn, is lighting up the
(00:45):
stage on the Voice.
Cozy is showing the countrywhat we already know here in
Zachary that we've got someincredible talent.
We're so excited to dive intoCozy's journey, share some
behind-the-scenes stories andrally our community to support
one of our own.
So, without further ado, thisis Porch and Parish the podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
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Speaker 2 (01:34):
All right, cozy.
I was actually tipped off aboutthis story by our friendly
neighborhood barista KatieLofton at PJ's.
She said you're a regular, sowhat is your order?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Lofton at PJ's.
She said you're a regular, sowhat is your order?
My order currently is ice greentea with three honeys.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Three honeys.
Is that like a matcha tea orwe're doing like a?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Green tea.
Okay yeah, just ice green tea.
Sometimes I'll do the hot greentea, but I usually do that in
the colder season.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Are you not like a hot coffee drinker?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I am, but I had to get away from coffee man.
Coffee, the caffeine reallyover time drives your voice out,
damages your vocals.
Oh no, kidding, so I kind ofopt for the lesser caffeine
option whenever I drink caffeine.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh, is that what's wrong with?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
me.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, so who is one musical artist whose voice you
love but could never emulate?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh man, I grew up loving Brian McKnight's voice.
I grew up, I can remember.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
That's who you remind me of.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Really.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, oh, I love some what.
Circa 2000 Brian McKnight yeah,he's so good, yeah, I love
Brian McKnight.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I can remember being in high school and I would try
to emulate him so much, man tothe point to where it got
frustrating at times.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And what did you want to be when you were little?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Wow, I always wanted to be a musician.
I mean, I was just hands down.
I came from a music family.
My dad, he was a pastor forabout 40 years.
I grew up in a church.
My mom was musically inclined.
I think it missed my olderbrother though I think that's
the only person it missed but Ialways wanted to be a musician.
Um, aside from being a musician, though, I really wanted to
(03:15):
play basketball.
Basketball kind of it was oneof my main things, and when I
got in high school it kind ofalmost pushed music to the back
burner.
But God had a different plan,man.
When I went to school andcollege at UL it was USL, then
it was 1999, my freshman year Iwent to try to pursue a
(03:36):
basketball scholarship, tried towalk on with the university and
my first practice man, Ifractured my wrist and that was
a done deal.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
So, needless to say, I just fell back on music it was
kind of God's way of telling meman it's, I got a different
journey for you.
All right.
So, as a Zachary resident, tellme what is your favorite dish
from a Zachary restaurant.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Ooh uh, I like to go to.
I'm pretty simple man, I reallyam I love.
I love red meat, I love steaks,so I like to go to Sidelines
really and go to their steaknight yeah, I like to either go
to their steak night and get asteak, or I'd go get their
quarterback hamburger okay, yeah, there's a lot of good steaks
(04:22):
in Zachary it is.
Now there's a place closer.
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot ofgood steaks in Zachary.
It is Now there's a placecloser.
That's on Plank going down.
You make a right on Plank andit's right to the right.
Me and my wife went there forthat Thursday night steak night
for the first time last week.
I can't remember the name, isit Mills or something like that?
(04:43):
I can't remember the name of itIn Zachary.
Yeah, it's to the right.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
By, like Angus, by that coffee time trailer.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I think so oh.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'll have to look into that.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They have a Thursday night steak night.
It was really good.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I love a good steak night.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
All right Cozy.
So tell us a little bit ofintro and background when?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
did you grow up?
I grew up in Baton Rouge, inNorth Baton Rouge, in the Glen
Oaks area.
I grew up there.
Since I was a kid, lived therefor most of my life.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Okay, and are you allowed to say what your real
name is?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
My real name is Cozy.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No way yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
My real name is Cozy, First name's Cozy C-O-Z-Y.
My middle name is Lynn L-E-N,so that's where I get my artist
name from Cozy Lynn?
No kidding, I always thoughtthat was like a stage name, my
last name is Gage G-A-G-E and ofcourse I'm junior because my
dad is senior.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
How cool.
Okay, I thought for sure, therewas going to be some sort of
backstory about a nickname.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well, the backstory about me choosing my first and
middle name as an artist name,one of my mentors, ty Cook.
I'm really close to him and hiswife Darnell.
She would just always call meCozy Lynn, off the cuff, cozy
Lynn, cozy Lynn, and I just lovethe ring to it.
And she comes from a musicalfamily as well.
Her brother's an accomplishedmusician artist and she just
(05:58):
started calling me that off thecuff man and I like the sound of
it, so I just kind of took iton as my, as my stage name.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I love it.
That's a great name.
So when did you realize thatyou had a voice like a real
voice?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
so I guess I was around eight, nine-ish at the
time.
I was a big hip-hop fan.
I had a friend of mine who Igrew up with in the neighborhood
.
We wanted to start a little rapgroup.
So we started a rap group.
Um, my parents, our parentsrealized the talent that we had
so they tried to put somebacking to it.
They got us a manager and wewould write our own songs and we
(06:34):
would record on karaokemachines, tape cassettes, things
like that.
So, uh, in writing our ownsongs and doing our own music, I
kind of combined this thing ofrapping and singing and the more
people actually heard me singoutside of the church set in the
hip hop set.
They were like man, you shouldreally push that more, you
should really push that more.
(06:55):
So as I got older, I justgravitated more to singing than
I did actually rapping.
Do you write your own music?
I do, I do.
Yeah, I have original musicavailable on all digital
platforms Spotify, google, appleMusic, the whole nine Awesome.
(07:18):
It's all available.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So who's been your greatest supporter in your
musical journey?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
My wife.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Really.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, she's been my biggest, greatest supporter, man
.
She's a blessing.
We'll be married four yearsnext month actually on the 20th,
november 20th and she's reallybeen the wind beneath my wings,
the blessing that I needed,because she's very supportive.
I work so hard in what I do andshe calls me a workaholic.
(07:48):
She says I never sit down, Inever kind of rest and I tend to
get tapped out a lot, giggingso much with my band day in and
day out, sometimes three, fournights a week in a different
city every night.
So I'll hit these brick wallsto where I get really depleted
and I'm just like man, I don'tknow how long I can do this.
I'm ready to give this up.
(08:08):
And she's the one she's alwaysthe one patting me on the back
and holding me, saying look, youcan't give up.
This is you, this is who youare, this is the gift that God
gave you and you just got tostay true to your promise and
keep doing it.
So yeah, man, there were a lotof times I wanted to quit and
she was the one that stopped mefrom doing it.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I think I need to hire Jasmine as like my personal
hype woman to come pat me onthe back.
I think any artist of anymedium you know whether it's a
writer or a singer or what have.
You can relate to feeling thatway at times, like why am?
I doing this.
You know that's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
She sounds great.
Yes, um, how long have y'alllived in Zachary?
We have been living here forover a year now.
I think we moved here last June, okay, and uh, we moved here
because we really couldn't finda good school for our youngest
daughter to go to in EBR.
My wife is a school teacher, sothat's her main job.
She's actually an interiordesigner and decorator and
(09:12):
stylist, but being that she's aschool teacher, she wanted to
move into a better schooldistrict, so she was already
living here before we gotmarried.
So when we got married, shemoved in with me in North Baton
Rouge where I was living at thetime, and as Casey and our
youngest started getting older,we wanted to get her in a better
school district.
(09:32):
So we ended up moving back hereto Zachary.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Wonderful.
And last question of ourbackground.
You are a pretty sharp dresser,so tell us where do you shop
for your looks?
You?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
are a pretty sharp dresser, so tell us where do you
shop for your looks, man?
So my two main places for mysuits that I love to shop is
Express and Men's Warehouse.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay, but I love finding things on sale, so when
I shop at Express I go to theoutlets.
I love Express.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, my wife, we kind of I don't want to say we
clash, but we kind of fightabout style sometimes because
she thinks she has a betterstyle than me.
At times I got a reminder.
I'm like, look, I had stylebefore I met you, but she, she
dresses me for the most part.
She actually dressed me for, uh, my blind audition.
Okay, the producers ended up,uh, picking that outfit that she
(10:25):
picked out for me and, uh, shepicked out basically all my
outlet, uh outfits for, uh, allof my filming I bet she never
let you live that down.
Nah, nah, she won't she wants totake all credit and she's
deserving of it yeah yeah, butthose are my two places that I
like to get my suits from.
There's some other places thatI like to shop.
(10:45):
I'm a sweater guy.
I love sweaters, button-downshirts, my comfortable feel.
I love to golf, so I got mygolf pants on right now.
I like to wear things like thatpullover polo shirts, things.
But I love shopping for sales.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
This guy here.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He's not miced up today, but uh, mike has
discovered ebay and buying likelululemon and polo and all these
nice clothes for like 20, soyou can get lululemon on ebay
for a discount oh yeah, man, I'mlearning something today.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
He's a, he's an ebay connoisseur now man, thank you
for that all right, let's moveon and talk a little bit about
your experience so far on thevoice.
So, of all the judges on thevoice, who were you starstruck
by the most?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I can't say that I was starstruck by any one of
them the most, and I reallycan't say that I was starstruck
at all.
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I mean, those are legends up there they are.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They are, but I mean, I've done this is not to
diminish them at all.
I've been in the music industryfor a long time and I've had
the God-given privilege to meeta lot of people and you know,
when I met them, it's not that Iwas so much starstruck as much
as I was just excited to bearound them, in their presence,
(12:09):
because they are legends and theopportunity to know that I have
to glean from them and learnfrom them.
And I guess I'm saying I wasn'tstarstruck because you can get
to a point to where if you'restarstruck it can affect your
nerves.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And it didn't really seem to affect your nerves
Exactly Like you were just supercool with it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Exactly so.
Yeah, that's what I didn't wantto happen.
You know you want to be able tooperate as a professional.
I mean, you're here to do a joband you're here to try to do
that job well and to have toprepare for that moment the
nerves can actually break you,moment the nerves can actually
(12:48):
break you.
This is, this is anotherplatform, this is another stage
that uh has a tendency to breaksome people who are actually
good, you know.
So I just try to hold thatdemeanor and still be
appreciative of you know,meeting some of these great
legends, man in their own right.
They're all fantastic, fromMichael Buble to Gwen Stefani to
Reba McEntire and Snoop Dogg.
I go the furthest back withSnoop, though, because I was a
(13:11):
big hip hop fan coming up in the90s.
So I loved Snoop when he waswith Death Row Records.
Uh, with Dr Dre, I loved a lotof what he did because I was a
big hip hop fan and I love tosee his maturation as well, even
when he came in the late 90s.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, it's been so cool to watch his career.
Just, you know now he used tobe like this, you know real hard
rapper, and now he's likecollaborating with Martha
Stewart and I just love thatLike he's
Speaker 4 (13:38):
a.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Snoop for all ages.
He's the best, so that'sawesome.
Um, now, how did you decide onyour song choice for the blind
audition?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
well, I was a big uh boys to men fan and um, that was
a song that we could actuallyget clear to do on the show.
So, being that I was a fan, Ireally wanted to do that song.
I could see myself, I couldremember myself, actually, when
I was younger, I would be in myliving room playing their music
on the stereo and the cassettetape and I play it it loud, and
(14:07):
I'd sit in the living roomNobody's at home I'm acting like
I'm performing, performing totheir music, performing to their
songs.
You know, r&b at a time backthen it was when people really
sang.
It wasn't, you know, studiomade.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Pitch wheels and all that Exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
You know auto-tune this, that and the other.
So I felt like it would be agood song for me to display two
strengths uh about my voice thesmooth texture of my voice.
That would, uh, exemplify mytone, and it would also give me
the dynamic range in the song tobe able to express, uh, my high
pitch range and my falsettothat's what Mike said earlier.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We were very impressed by the high notes.
I mean, not everybody can pullthat off.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, I think my brother was impressed too,
because he's about to be turnedinto a meme and how he was
looking side stage with my wife.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, that's great, ok.
So what went through your mindwhen Gwen turned around for you?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
man, what went through my mind was finally you
know, because I'm talking tomyself through the whole song,
I'm getting through it.
I'm like, OK, here's the start,we're coming off the runway.
And then I hit the chorus.
I'm like, OK, we're gettingthere.
And I'm like, OK, the bridge iscoming up, Nobody's turned yet.
So I'm panning to the crowd andas soon as I get to the
(15:23):
pinnacle of the song, I see herturn and I'm like, finally and
it was like a a light bulb wentoff to where I just took my foot
and put the pedal to the metaland just just went hard with it.
So, you know it was.
It was a wonderful feeling.
And then, uh, gwen not Gwen,I'm sorry Reba ended up turning
as well.
So it was a great feeling.
(15:43):
It's a great feeling.
That's that's what I was therefor.
And it was a great feelingbecause I knew that if I didn't
get a chair turn, my journey wasover, and I didn't want my
journey to be over like that.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Right.
So what has been the mostsurprising or unexpected part of
the competition so far?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
that's a good question.
Um, I can't say that anythingwas too surprising or unexpected
.
Um, I went into thiscompetition with an open mind,
uh, and going into it with anopen mind, I was fully ready for
whatever was to come.
I kind of knew the ground floorof the steps that we had to
take in each process of thecompetition.
What I can say is this that Ihad heard a lot about the Voices
(16:35):
process, how smooth it is, howmuch the producers make it easy
for you.
They don't bring you in havingyou to worry about too much.
All they want you to reallyworry about is your vocal health
and you performing at a highlevel, and they facilitated that
(16:56):
for us well, so there wasn'ttoo much that I was really
surprised about it.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It kind of caught me off guard, but it was a
wonderful process now they don'tdo pitch wheels or voice tuning
or anything like that, right?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
so what we're hearing , yeah yeah, what you're hearing
is is is truly who you are youknow so if you and that's a lot
of pressure too, because if youmess up on that stage then it's
gonna show right yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
how much one-to-one like what is it like being on
team gwen?
Do you interact with her a lot,do, do you?
Are you like texting with her?
Can I have her number, likewhat you know?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
we're either working towards something, if we're
working toward the next phaseafter our blind audition, which
is the battles, so we'll worktogether as a team.
Usually a lot of ourinteraction is on camera, some
(17:55):
of us off camera, but she doeshave the autonomy and the
interaction to coach us, to helpus be better, to hear us in our
rehearsals, to point out youknow what we can do here to make
us better, or what we can dohere to to Help us out on stage,
(18:21):
how we look, how we sound.
Yeah, we have a pretty goodamount of interaction with her
to build that rapport.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Are the judges kind of hanging out with you guys in
the downtime or?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
are y'all totally separate.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Okay, it's not like that, yeah, got it.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So is there any advice that you've received
during your time on the Voicethat's really stuck with you,
any specific coaching, anythingyou've really taken to heart?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is when Gwen
first heard me in our initialrehearsal, she had to stop and
she was like man, I absolutelylove your tone and your falsetto
tone.
It's just freaking amazing.
And then she doubled down bysaying you just have amazing
instincts.
And then she doubled down bysaying you just have amazing
instincts.
That really sticks with mebecause it blessed me.
(19:08):
Michael Buble has some greatcomments from my blind audition
that really stuck with me.
Although he didn't turn hischair, I felt like he would have
if he didn't already have thediversity in his team.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He had a good reason Right right.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But you know, I can tell from his spirit man he's a
genuine guy.
He has some great comments.
Snoop has some great comments.
Yeah, there was a lot of thingsthat the coaches and the
interactions that we've had toldme that I really hold to heart,
that actually keep me going.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So, moving on to your connection to Zachary in the
Baton Rouge area, tell us alittle bit about your singing,
like your worship services, yourwork at Healing Place, just
kind of give us a background asto where people can hear you
perform locally.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So I'm the front man for a band called Rewind Band.
We're based out of Baton Rouge.
We're a party band.
We do mostly private gigs, sowe travel a lot.
We're usually mostly inLouisiana, but sometimes we can
be outside of Louisiana acrossthe Southern region Mississippi,
Texas, Florida.
We've been in California a fewtimes.
(20:20):
I've been the front man forthem for the last seven years.
I'm also one of the leadworship leaders at Healing Place
Church on Highland Road.
I lead worship there with themon Sundays.
We have three services.
We have a eight o'clock, a 930and an 1130.
(20:41):
So, yeah, that's where I am.
That's where I am on theweekends doing worship with HPC
and my main gig is being atraveling and gigging musician
with Rewind Band.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
So have you ever had it happen where you're playing
music until like 3 o'clock inthe morning, Yep, and then
you've got to get up and okay.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Always.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Oh man Always always.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I'm in a different city pretty much 98% of the time
every Friday and Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
So I don't know how your green tea is getting you
through that 8 am worshipservice.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Man look when I get in Saturday.
Most of the time I'm getting in1.30.
I can get in the bed for two,and then I got to be up and be
at call time at service for 6.45am.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Holy moly.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, with on the cusp of me having gigged for the
last two three days straight.
Each gig is about three to fourhours, so my vocals are kind of
like.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Almost on their last leg.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I got you, so has the support from your hometown and
your church community given youextra motivation, motivation
during this whole process.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
they have, they have I'm really uh, I'm really
blessed at how they responded.
Baton rouge, zachary, I'mreally blessed how the community
has gotten behind me and I'vebeen looking at all the comments
and the youtube videos thevideos that's been posted by the
comments and the YouTube videos, the videos that's been posted
by the Voice and myself and man,the comments are so encouraging
(22:09):
, they're blessing me.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And I really appreciate it.
Everybody's really proud of you.
I mean it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I really appreciate that man and I just with that
statement.
I always have to say this, andit makes me feel a little
indifferent at times when peoplesay they're proud because in
all actuality, I really wouldn'tbe here on this stage if it
were not for God opening thisopportunity for me.
You know, I mean, obviously Iput in the work but without
(22:40):
having the favor of the Lord onme I wouldn't have made it out
of hundreds of thousands ofpeople to be able to be on this
stage.
So yeah, if you want to sayyou're proud of me for putting
in the work, I appreciate that.
But actually, having thisopportunity, I'm thankful and
proud of God for even giving methe chance.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Amen, that's wonderful to hear.
All right, so let me see we arecoming up on time and I still
want to have you.
I'm going to put you on thespot to sing me a song.
Ok, but tell us what is yourultimate goal as an artist, both
during and after thecompetition.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
My ultimate, ultimate goal as an artist.
My ultimate goal as an artistis to do music at the highest
level possible.
If that means you know, successis different for everybody,
right?
My success generally is to beable to tap out my potential and
to do music at the highestlevel.
(23:35):
My vision is to be able totravel the world and do shows in
front of hundreds of thousandsof people.
My ultimate vision is to beable to travel the world and do
worship in front of hundreds ofthousands of people.
And my ultimate vision is to beable to travel the world and do
worship in front of hundreds ofthousands of people and bless
the people of God with the giftthat he has given me.
So I guess that's my ceiling,that's what I'm aspiring after,
(24:00):
that's what I'm striving toward,and I'm just trying to put in
all the work that I can and togive myself the opportunity to
walk through any door that Godopens for me.
So I just have this mantrawhere I have to say always, stay
ready, always stay ready.
And it's hard staying readybecause you can put in the work
for so long.
You'll get discouraged whennothing happens.
(24:21):
Nothing happens.
But you have to stay focusedand stay believing.
And that's where my wife comesin again to kind of double back
on that.
You know, when you put in thework for so long, you don't see
anything happening.
You have to have somebody inyour corner that can just tell
you hey, it's going to happen.
You just got to keep doing whatyou're doing, like the Bible
said.
The Bible says the best.
Don't be weary in well-doing.
(24:41):
If you know you're doingsomething well and you're
striving out to something, don'tget weary in it.
You'll get tired, but don'tallow that to affect you to the
point to where you're saying Iwant to stop and I want to quit.
Keep going so you can reachthat potential.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
What wonderful inspiration.
Thank you for that.
Okay, so give us a quick recapon where we are in the
competition.
What's coming up next?
As we're recording this, it isTuesday, october 29th, so what
is in store for the next fewepisodes of the Voice?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
So what's in store right now?
We're still in the battle phaseof everything.
Once we get out of the battlephase, we'll be moving over to
knockouts, and the next roundout of knockouts will be
playoffs, and after playoffs,we'll find out who's all making
it to the live shows at the endof this thing, which will start
in November.
So that's what we're lookingforward to.
(25:36):
Well how can the Zacharycommunity support you and kind
of rally around you and all bepresent for these live shows
that are coming up?
Number one the Zacharycommunity can support me by
streaming my music.
You can go on any platform,check out my music.
I got good R&B music, goodChristian music out there good
my music.
You can go on any platformcheck out my music.
I got good R&B music, goodChristian music out there, good,
clean music.
So look me up.
I'm on every platform.
Artist name Cozy LynnC-O-Z-Y-L-E-N.
(25:56):
I'd be happy for you to checkme out Also.
Stay watching the show.
Stay tuned.
Comment.
Go to my Instagram page CozyLynn.
Follow me.
Follow my journey.
Go to my Facebook page CozyLynn.
Follow me.
Follow my journey.
That's the way that you cansupport me and stay in tune to
what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We will definitely put all those links in the show
notes and in the social posts.
All right, so last question ifyou win the voice, what is the
first thing you'll do tocelebrate?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Going to Disneyland.
No, I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I really thought you were going to say that You're
going somewhere.
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Man, I'll probably take my wife and kids to an
international trip.
They love trips, so we'llprobably go somewhere
internationally, somewhere oftheir choosing.
I know my wife likes she reallywants to go to Jamaica, so may
do a Jamaica trip.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
A little Christmas cruise to Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That would be fun too , because she likes to do that.
She likes to take trips forholidays as well, so that might
be fun.
Go to a tropical island forChristmas, or tropic Christmas
Love it All right.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Now it is time for you to sing me a song.
I was going to make you singFancy by Reba McEntire, but I
don't know Does he have therange.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't know about that man.
Some people try to put me onthe spot.
I think I got Mariah Careyrange but nah, it's just
depending on the time of day,you know.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, All right.
Why don't you sing one of youroriginals that you're really
proud of and that you'd love foreverybody to hear?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh, one of my originals?
Sure, OK, this is one of myoriginals.
It's called Angel.
You can download it on allplatforms.
I actually recorded this livewith my band Cozy Lynn
Experience.
So yeah, go check it out.
But here it goes.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
She was standing five-five beautiful brown eyes
Lady looking so fly.
She's blowing my mind.
Soft, caramel complexion,beautiful like the sunrise, make
me say, oh my, and what I'vebeen holding my eyes.
(28:07):
Her style's like no other.
No other lady is above her.
She is the only one for me.
Her inner beauty is so, so deep.
Never thought I'd meet someonelike this.
I sit back and reminisce,thinking of you, thinking God
(28:27):
that I have you cause you're myangel.
You're the only one for me, mylady, always there to care for
me, my friend.
Together we will always be andnothing can ever break us apart.
(28:49):
You're the one for me, wow.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Wow, was that about me?
No.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
That was beautiful Cozy, thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Thank you Awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Alright, that is going to wrap up our interview.
Thank you so much for sharingyour voice your talent your
stories with us.
And we are so excited to rallyaround you and we will all stay
tuned to the Voice.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Thank you all so much .
It's been a blessing.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
All right, this is Fortune Parish, the podcast.
Yes, ma'am.
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