Choir is a fusion of singing, faith, community, and tradition that resonates with many of us. In this episode we've orchestrated a vibrant discussion around reviving choir traditions, the undervalued power of corporate singing, and the intricate challenges choir directors confront in today's ever-evolving world, particularly in the wake of a pandemic that left many choir rooms silent. We enrich the conversation with hymn highlights and thought-provoking queries that peel back the layers of this communal art form's impact on the fabric of society,
Joined again by Disney's "Encanto" multi-talented artist Adassa, we step into hers and husband Gabriel's personal lives where music isn't just a passion—it's the foundation of family. With Gabriel, not just her partner in life but also a driving force in the music industry, we peel back the curtain to reveal what it's like orchestrating the symphony of two music careers. They share tales from the heart about their serendipitous meeting, their journey to become a creative powerhouse, and the profound moments that remind them of why unity, trust, and Christ are at the core of both family and professional pursuits.
As the final notes of our discussion fade, we express our deepest gratitude to Adasa and Gabriel for their inspiring stories and the wisdom they've shared about intertwining scripture with art. It's a tapestry woven with the threads of personal values, the resonance of choir music, and the spiritual sustenance it provides. The music backdrop is from their latest release "In Jesus We Are One" featuring Adassa on vocals, and each song carrying a message of divine hope and unity, available for your listening pleasure across all music platforms. So, take a moment to relish in the sounds that bind us and the profound narratives hidden within their songs and story.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the choir room.
This is episode 36 of the ChoirRoom Podcast.
I'm Greg Thomas, your host.
Welcome to the choir room,joined by my co-host, dorian
Johnson.
Hello, and me at Estanso Farrar.
Hello.
Welcome to the choir room.
And today we continue with parttwo, with our guest contributor,
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adasa, and our live audience.
This podcast exists to promoteand encourage to longtime
traditions in our society thatseem to be dwindling away, and
that is choir and corporatesinging.
We hope to revive theexcitement and joy experienced
with singing in a choir, as wellas inform and educate the
listener on all things singingand all things choir.
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This podcast is also aproduction of Metro Music and
Arts, whose purpose is toperpetuate and promote the
Christian and positive ideathrough the medium of music and
other arts.
We've got a live audience herein the choir room today and
they're going to help welcomeour guest contributor.
She's a wife, a mother, anactress, a singer, a songwriter
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and a voiceover artist and somuch more, known for her role as
Dolores in the hit Disney filmEncanto.
Adasa is with us, so stay tunedas we hear from this incredible
artist and we hear from our ownDorian with the hymn of the
week and Mieta with the CRQ.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Welcome to the choir room.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Thanks, greg.
His first John 419, tells us welove because he first loved us.
And in addition to lovingChrist, another facet of our
appropriate response to all thatChrist has done for us is trust
, trusting in Him.
Psalm 9, verse 10, says andthose who know your name put
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their trust in you.
For you, o Lord, have notforsaken those who seek you.
And as he spoke to the apostlesin the upper room, jesus said
to them in John 14, one let notyour hearts be troubled, believe
in God, believe also in me.
Some translations render ittrust in God, trust also in me.
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This week's hymn of the week isTis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus.
This hymn by Luisa Stead waspublished in 1882.
And while the exact detailsregarding the occasion for
writing the hymn are not known,it is known that her husband
drowned in 1880.
So one can imagine that if theloss of her husband was the
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occasion for writing this hymn,the words of this hymn reflected
the trust and a desire for moretrust that would enable one to
persevere through trials anddifficult circumstances.
Verse one says Tis so sweet totrust in Jesus and to take him
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at his word, just to rest uponhis promise and to know, thus
say, of the Lord.
This first verse declares aconfidence in God's word and
reminds us that, as IICorinthians 120 tells us, all
the promises of God are yea in aman, in Christ.
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Verse two says how sweet totrust in Jesus, just to trust
his cleansing blood and insimple faith, to plunge me
beneath the healing, cleansingflood.
Once again we are pointed toChrist's work on the cross, his
shedding of his blood to pay thepenalty for our sin.
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Hebrews 10, verses 12 to 14,says but when Christ had offered
for all time a single sacrificefor sins, he sat down at the
right hand of God, waiting fromthat time until his enemies
should be made a footstool forhis feet, for by a single
offering he is perfected for alltime.
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Those who are being sanctified.
Verse three yes, tis sweet totrust in Jesus just from sin and
self, to cease just from Jesus,simply taking life and rest and
joy and peace.
Galatians 220 says I've beencrucified with Christ.
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It is no longer I who live, butChrist who lives in me, in the
life I now live in the flesh.
I live by faith in the Son ofGod, who loved me and gave
himself for me, turning from oursin, turning from self and
seeking contentment, seekinglife and rest and joy and peace
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in Christ.
Then, in verse four, we wouldsing I'm so glad I've learned to
trust thee, precious Jesus,save your friend, and I know
that thou art with me, wilt bewith me to the end.
It speaks to us of theperseverance of the Christian
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and the confidence that we havethat God has promised and will
complete the work that he beganin us, as Philippians 1.6 tells
us, and the refrain that is sungafter each of these verses,
quite familiar to many, I'm sure.
Jesus, jesus, how I trust him,how I've proved him, or and or.
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Jesus, jesus, precious Jesus, ofor grace to trust him more.
May we be reminded of all ofthe times that we have proven
our Lord and Savior, that wehave seen his faithfulness, that
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we've experienced his keepingpower, and O as we go through
our current circumstances thatmay seem so much more difficult
than those that we remember, maywe ask him for the grace to
trust him all the more.
Welcome to the choir room.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Miya has our CRQ of the week.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Thank you, greg.
So tonight's CRQ is and I mostpreface this question by saying
that I have been late as of latetalking to choir directors
regarding their church choirs.
In particular, I haven't reallyspoken to anyone or choir
director outside of the churchchoir so when they've been
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struggling a lot with kind ofpulling the choir back into
place, back into the choir stand, if you will.
So the question tonight is I ama choir director and I'm
finding it hard to gather thechoir back together, especially
after COVID.
I'm a choir director finding itextremely hard to gather the
choir back together, especiallyafter COVID.
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So yeah, I think that'sprobably it's a pretty universal
situation.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's 2024.
We're still blaming COVID forthis situation.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't think that we'd like to blame COVID for a
lot of things.
In my opinion.
I don't believe COVID is thesole issue for the choir, the
church choir, not being in itsplace.
I think those struggles werehappening far above COVID, far
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before COVID was going on orCOVID had come into play.
I think that was a struggle formany churches in particular I
don't know about and I've saidthis, I've said this about
choirs A lot of people.
They always talk about bringingthe choir back, bringing the
choir back, bringing the choirback.
The choir in terms of acommunity effort, those choirs
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and I've said this before thosechoirs are thriving In the
community.
You can find a community choirin every corner, just about
every state, every city aretrying to put together.
There's one being put togetherright now, as we speak, a
specific purpose right now, andthey're telling me, from what
I'm hearing.
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They're telling me that therehearsals are good, so the
community efforts are doing well.
It's the church choir that'sstruggling and I feel bad about
that because that's what I grewup singing.
Long before there was acommunity choir, there was my
church choir.
That's all I had, and so wesang there.
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We did everything right thereat the church but since COVID in
particular, the choir directorsare really finding it difficult
to bring these choirs back intoplay.
I was at a convention back inAugust and in one of the
workshops and they discussed.
They had that discussion in oneof the workshops and there were
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so many ideas.
I had never seen this.
I didn't know that you haverecruiting for the church choir.
They have.
I mean, I'm learning, I waslearning some things.
They were putting out cookiesand juice, you know, trying to
get people to come back,whatever whatever Coffee and
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bagels, coffee and bagels.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Doing everything short of opening a Starbucks in
the house, Right exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
They were doing everything that they could to
try to get this choir backtogether, bring it back into the
churches, because they believethat the pastors are ready for
that.
The pastors of these churcheswant that, but these directors
are finding it hard.
So, gentlemen, what say you?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well, first, I would just say you got to pray.
Yeah, you have to pray, right,because, as you were saying that
COVID is not the sole S-O-L-Ereason, there's something else
going on spiritually with folks,and there's just there's some
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soul S-O-U-L things going onwith folks where there isn't a
desire to connect with people ona human level.
We think that we can walk thisChristian walk, that we can be
the church and be at home.
Wow, yeah, that we can somehowbe the church and be separated
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from people.
And I think that, seeing thatdynamic play out in many
churches, still there's no waythat you're going to have even a
smaller aggregation of peopleto come together to say so.
It's if these pastors are readyfor choirs to come back
together.
They need to be praying for thespiritual revival and renewal
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of the folks that are in thechurches, because that's where
it starts.
That's where it starts Well,greg.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, I agree with Dorian, we have two soul issues
that we're concerned with.
But this CRQ prompts anotherquestion.
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because he said oh, she saidthat they are having a hard time
pulling the choir back together, especially after COVID, which
tells me that there were somedifficulties bringing the choir
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together prior to COVID.
Now, difficulties meaning thatmaybe you didn't have the number
that you thought you shouldhave or wanted to have.
And I think we need to beasking ourselves and what are we
trying to bring the choir backto?
Because if it's an oldsituation, I think that's
telling.
I think COVID was both and I'veheard this said many times
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COVID was both revealing andexposing.
What are we trying to bring thepeople from the choir back to?
Is it the same old thingthey've always done?
Were they already getting tiredof what they were doing?
Was it already boring?
Did COVID become their excusenow to not show up?
I mean, there's a lot ofquestions to be asked here and
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again, I'm not making light ofthat.
I mean, the whole premise forthis podcast is to reassemble
choir corporate singing.
But we have to ask ourselvessome hard questions.
What was happening in 2019?
I think we're dealing with twoor three kinds of people with
choir during that year.
Some who desired to be thereand couldn't because of all of
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the restrictions.
Others who desired to be therebut were grateful that they
didn't have to be there.
They don't have that long-termcommitment anymore.
And then you've got the thirdgroup who were just looking for
an opportunity to stay home.
They were tired, and Imentioned this already.
Maybe they were tired, maybe itwas boring, or maybe they just
served so many years that theywere looking to do something
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else.
And COVID was an opportunityfor a lot of people to decide.
You know what?
I'm going to take my Sundaysback and I think that's what
we're dealing with.
People have to now love againsing it in choir.
They have to love again beingamongst other people.
They have to love again.
God corporately.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I have a question now Do you think that the love, the
love is no longer there like itonce was when I was growing up
in the choir?
I love to do it.
That I love to do it Not justbecause I had the ability to do
it, but I also understood howimportant it was for us to be
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able to get the message out insong and how relevant it was to
the believer or unbeliever,nonbeliever, when they came into
the sanctuary.
How important it was for us toget that message across to them
that their lives could somehowbe changed or they don't
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necessarily have to leave thatplace the same way they came in.
It was an uplifting.
There was some revelation inall of that that those people
would get through our music andwe just love to do that.
I don't know if that's the samething now.
That's going on like it didthen.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, I'm certainly not the one to question the
motivation of choir members.
First of all, I don't know thechoir or the person who sent
them, the CRQ, and I don't wantto be questioning anybody's
motivation, but I do know thismuch that, prior to 2020, choirs
and churches across the boardwere seeing a decline, and not
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all of them, but a large numberof them were seeing a decline.
The ones that were maintainingand growing were the ones who
were reinventing themselves, andthey were for lack of a better
term staying modern.
They were keeping up with thelatest music.
They were doing things in termsof arrangements slightly
different.
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They maintained a consistentgroup of musicians who were
always growing, and some of themon the cutting edge of today's
music.
And so the choir and we'vetalked about this before the
choir still has to be attractive.
It still has to minister.
Well, the leadership still hasto do what it has to do in terms
of pouring into the choir,making sure that there's
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community, making sure thatpeople want to be there and that
, when they do leave afterrehearsal or after a service
that they're leaving saying itwas good to have been there, it
was good to be with this groupof people.
So the leadership then has aresponsibility to make sure that
the choir is attractive, thatthey're on the cutting edge,
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that they are growing not justnumerically but they're growing
spiritually, they're growingmusically, so that in the
absence of your normal people,your regular crowd, you're still
attracting new people.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, I hope that the choir directors who may be
listening understand what'sbeing said tonight, and it is
certainly thought provoking.
I pray that these directors arelistening to this tonight, and
that's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I pray.
So Good stuff.
Adasa is waiting.
So let's get to part two of ourconversation with Adasa.
Welcome to the choir.
So let's talk about the familydynamic.
You and your husband, gabrielhave how many children?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
We have seven kids.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, I'm going to ask you to say it again, because
either our audience didn't hearwhat you said or they
misunderstood what you said.
I can tell by their eyes.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We have seven children.
Seven, yes, that is awesome.
We have five babies at home,too, that already flew the nest.
My husband and I.
We have six together that Igave birth to and I'm the mother
of well, he calls me this Latinmama, you know his first born
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kid, but yeah, in total we haveseven, and it's such a beautiful
experience to share this withthem, and they're your biggest
critics and they bring you downat Earth like Brutally honest.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Round you Quick.
Let's get your husband in here,Gabriel.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
He's amazing.
Okay, I got to talk him up,okay.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So now I get to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
So Gabriel Candiani is an incredible producer.
He is has worked with so manyamazing artists in Pique
Iglesias, pitbull, sierra.
He has over 6,000 placements infilm and TV.
He owns a record label for filmand television music, as well
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as works with multiple labelsdoing music for television and
film.
He's also my manager and he'sthe most incredible husband ever
.
And, yeah, he could change adiaper with his eyes closed.
Oh yeah, less than 60 seconds.
Nothing on the hands either.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So, yeah, it's a honey, mr Gabriel.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Come on come on, come on, you take that, hi everybody
.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome Mr Gabriel
Candiani.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Hello, good to have you.
I love that sound.
It sounds good For us inanything.
I would like to say thatsometimes when people hear my
what I've done, I will say thatshe's always been a part of it.
When, when it has to do with mycareer, she takes care of,
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actually, my contracts.
She takes care of all thelogistics.
That's a very intelligent one,and when it's her career as an
artist, then I do so.
We just cannot switch.
When it's her career, then Itake care of the production and
take care of the contracts.
I take care of her assistant.
I do her here if I have, andwhen it's my, when it's me the
one who's producing a movie orwhatever I'm producing, it is
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her that takes care of thelogistics, makes sure that I'm
in the plane on time and allthat kind of stuff is.
I feel like I would say inSpanish, un manco y un cojo.
If there's any anybody speakSpanish, they would understand.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, there were a few here with us tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Somebody with an arm and a cojo, with somebody with a
leg.
Gotcha, that makes it.
It makes sense, yeah, sotogether we make a whole Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right, you got to tell the audience how you met.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, I used to produce albums for Sony and my
one of my best friends told mehe wanted to put together a
group.
And then I was oh that's great,it's going to be four girls.
And he says and you shouldlisten to my sister?
And I said absolutely not.
No, whatever we do, we're notgoing to take your sister.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
No family, why Because?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
it's your sister.
If anything goes wrong orwhatever, you know you're going
to be very upset.
No, so we keep looking andlooking for people and we
already have three people thatwe have selected.
And he was you really need tolisten to my sister.
And I said I already told youwe're not going to do this.
I wasn't charged for theproject.
And I said we are not, let'sfind somebody else.
So one day he showed up with acassette and play me a cassette.
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I just wanted to hear this once.
No, all right, fine.
And then I played it and I go,wow, that is a really great
texture.
But she looked like I'm showinga picture, okay, or something.
Yeah, honestly, he's not thatcute.
So I didn't expect that.
And I go, oh well, you know,actually sounds good.
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So you like her and the bandand the group and I say, yeah,
what is my sister?
And I go, okay.
So we may have been working onthat record for a while and at
one point we just couldn't livewithout each other.
And for bad we were, just wewere together.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's all good it's all good.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
We really haven't always gotten along just
perfectly.
A lot of us are amazing in thisposition.
She is just a wonderful, trulywonderful person and it's always
really being very wise beyondher ears.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I would have to say it's both because I know he is
100% committed to his family andI am 100% committed and because
of that, regardless, if todayhe was to tell me we need to go
to Wyoming, I'm like I'll getthe kids in the car.
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I would not ask why, becausehis first and foremost thought
every day is how can my familybe better, how can I protect
them, what can I do to servethem deeper and better?
So because I know that's alwayson his mind as the number one
catalyst, then I can trust him150,000%.
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And so he shows it to me everysingle day.
And just the little things.
And that's what makes them.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I think what we follow what the Lord has told us
, which is be one.
Why don't you become one thatwe can go forever together?
Because it's just, you don'tfeel complete without the other
person.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I'm sounding so corny , but yeah, that's right, she
completely.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Listen, that's not corny at all.
Yeah, I agree.
This audience understands that.
They understand the concept ofone Now speaking of one, the
fact that you two are one andyou work so closely together.
Adasah, you made mention of thefact that when you were going
through that difficult season,you couldn't hug your children.
That was a very hard part.
You couldn't hug them, youcouldn't kiss them and you felt
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helpless.
But yet out of that experiencecame a bunch of songs and thus
the project.
In Jesus we are one.
Can we talk about that a minute?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I do wanna talk a little bit about that.
Oh yeah, basically we were inhip hop, all right.
So for all of you who've beenin hip hop, you know what's up.
So we did a lot of touring anda lot of we were in that world
and, honestly, we were in theworld.
Now we always tried to play thegray you know that idea yeah.
The idea of you know, it's justlike there is a line and I'm
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close to it you know that kindof idea.
We were those people you know,just kind of trying to be good
and all the stuff and at thesame time not quite being what
we should be, when thatexperience happened, it was a
huge surprise.
We have already had COVID andwe thought we were past it.
And Adasah told me I'm feelingreally dizzy, I'm feeling really
weird, but maybe we're pregnant.
I don't know that kind of thing.
I'm like no baby, no great.
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But I thought, okay, just goget a test.
And she went to the hospital toget a test and I stayed feeding
the kids and taking the school.
But when I came back, adasahcalled me and she was like like
that and if you heard Adasahtalking, she has no problems
talking.
So I was like what's going on?
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She was like blub, blub, blub,blub, blub, blub, blub and she
had completely lost her abilityto put her thoughts together and
whatever.
It was extremely scary.
The doctors literally told usthat she was gonna die and they
gave her the choice to die athome or die in the hospital.
Wow, and Adasah chose to die athome.
We went to the house and that'swhat happened, with the whole
thing on the top, and she wascompletely paralyzed and it was
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just a horrendous, horrendousmoment.
And then the insurance call andsay, well, if you don't bring
it back to the hospital, it'sbasically we're gonna like if I
was keeping her there because Iwanted the money or something.
It became even worse problem soI had to take it back to a
different hospital.
We went to a different hospital.
They couldn't figure out whatit was and after 17 hours of
trying to figure out the total,we can't do nothing about you.
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Basically she's gonna die.
And I took her home with afriend in a truck because I
couldn't I was crying so much Icouldn't drive and then we got
home, put it in the bed andbasically just put her life on
the hands of God.
And bottom line is it's kind oflike I said when it says that
he took the bead and some wordsare not in English, okay, but
the bead and then he chopped itto the bottom and then so it
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could grow from scratch.
It was like that it was at thatmoment of death was so
horrendous that it was likebeing chopped from the core and
then any expectations or desiresof doing whatever wearing out
that window.
And then we noticed that weneeded to say thank you to God
for the integral miracle.
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But it was because now manyfamilies didn't have this
miracle and we were veryconscientious that, yeah, we
were full of joy that she wasgetting better, but many didn't.
So I started, honestly, westarted paying more attention to
what's going on in the worldand as we were doing and
figuring out what we were goingto do, I noticed an incredible
division that we're living onthese moments, and it's a
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division where, instead offocusing on everything that we
have in common, we are focusingmore on what we have not in
common, and it is just like abig.
It's just a big point of thefinger and who's got the right
and who doesn't have the right?
And in this fight, we have asituation where, I believe, us
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as Christians are a little bitdivided.
There is a group ofChristianity who believes in
certain things and is like no,you're not, yes, you are.
And it is a little bitconflicted.
And there is a saying divideand conquer.
So Adas and me were saying whatcan we come together?
Where are all Ralees?
Where is our for Jesus Ralee?
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But where are those things?
Where are we coming togetherand being one?
Why can we just say we allbelieve in the Ten Commandments,
we believe in Jesus Christ andalso Savior and the Lord and
Holy Spirit.
What can we take everythingthat we believe together and be
one in Jesus?
That's kind of like what ourconversation was before we
started working on that albumand I thought I had a friend, he
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had a friend he's my goodfriend.
And he, he's a national.
We live in Nashville.
And he has this show that theytake everywhere, out to the
jails, to everywhere you know.
He's like a bunch of artistswho go and sing about God and
about Jesus Christ and and jailsand stuff like that.
And I told him dude, I wouldlike you to invite me.
Let me tell you, I put theLuskius record and he told me no
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.
And I go, dude, you know me,I'm a good person, you know I
believe in God.
Allow me to go and express mylove for God too.
And he said I mean, I can't letyou because you belong to a
different religion, you know adifferent church.
And I say, well, what can wefocus on?
I tell what?
Look at my lyrics.
Tell me there's anything thatyou disagree on?
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What everybody?
If we don't disagree, allow meto also participate.
He told me I don't know, I just, you know every religion has
that.
And I go wow, you know thatneeds to be, that needs to
change.
You know we need to have lovefor each other and love each
other with.
You know differences, even ifwe have a little bit different
opinion.
So then the idea of in Jesus weare one became strong.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And that's when we started thinking about the
lyrics, and for that particularsong was one of the first ones,
I think, that we wrote it saysmy sins might not look like
yours.
Still I seek redemption in Hisgrace.
We both sing hallelujah, weboth say amen, long to see His
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face again.
All love for the Lord is ourcommon bond.
You're not eating strength.
That's where we belong.
And, baby, there's no evil wecan overcome In Jesus.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
We are one, and then, and then.
And then, and then that isbasically the message of the
album and then I told her thatwe need to have a choir Now by
this time for all of us.
We don't know.
We are in a class.
I teach a master class aboutproduction and I don't know if
he'll need no teaching he's sogood, but anyway, I knew that he
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did choir.
I knew he did choir, but I wasafter he prayed to get a hold of
him and I couldn't.
And so I thought, well, okay,let me just call to Africa.
I have some friends in Africawho lose music from all over the
world.
And then I called to Nigeriaand I called my friend over
there who does the choir inNigeria and I told him I want
you to find one person from adifferent religion Every single
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one has to be from a differentreligion Because I made it my
purpose to show that we can beone, that we need to leave that
situation on the side and form achoir over there to do in Jesus
.
We are one.
When I call you to do, I'm surewe're gonna talk about how
we're going to try.
Oh yeah, carol.
Actually what we did is we tookall the choir from Africa, from
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all these different religions,and then we took another choir
from Arizona and we were tryingto figure out what to do and
that's when you and me werehaving the discussion you
playing, what do you think aboutthis?
And I heard like wow what isthat.
And it was the choir that youdirected in the arrangement
perspective.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I just absolutely loved it, loved it.
So I ask you, would you allowus to collaborate in the song
and you were gracious enough toallow to put my own spin,
because my idea is, I wanted thedrummer to be from England, I
wanted the guitar player to befrom Australia.
I truly had this in Jesus' Rearand One Concept it had to be
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like that, like for reals.
So you were playing the organand the keys and all.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Oh, this is still good, Y'all.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
If y'all have not heard it, go and it was an
amazing arrangement, that yourvocal arrangement was
spectacular.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Oh, thank you, and yes, he sent over the sheet
music.
Yeah and me, yeah, all thechoir people was like there's
the sheet music, y'all do it.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
I don't read either.
I don't read either.
So what he told me?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
might as well be in Chinese.
I had to send some.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
But everybody did read it, so I sent it all.
Right, I'm going to send it tothem and everybody understood it
.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
It turned out great.
It was so much fun working withyou guys and thanks for asking,
but I got to tell you that theoriginal soloist for Carole of
the Christ is in the choir roomtoday.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh wow, Amazing vocals.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Carla meet Adasa, adasa meet Carla.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Oh, you're chicken oh .
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Oh, you're chicken.
You know I'm dating.
You're absolutely cute.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Actually, when we got it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I was like OK.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I was like OK, adasa you going to have to say this
and I girl can say Put the bar.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Put the bar back.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You guys can mix it up in your native tongue.
Show our audience some of ourdiversity here.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Bejísimo, de verdad, carla, era Carla Lindy.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Sí, muchísimas gracias.
Hola, que señor los bendicamuchísimo.
Hermoso testimonio, hermoso.
Yo estaba tan emocionada deestar en esta llamada porque
Greg y yo habíamos estadohablando y él me enseñó la
versión de Carole of the ChristY fue tan original, tan
fantástica que, o sea, no, tú noves a dónde puede llevar el
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señor un mismo tipo, una mismacanción le puede poner un sonido
tan lindo y algo tan originalque simplemente es algo que
impacta diferente.
Entonces, bueno, me encantó,felicidad Es hacer una canción
tan linda y muy contenta desaber que las dificultades que
han pasado los ha llevado a unavida, a un testimonio, a una
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profundidad tan hermosa conCristo.
Así que estoy súper, súperemocionada y, bueno, súper lindo
conocerlos en esta noche.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Nosotros estamos completamente enfocados a hacer
eso.
Yo le dije, I said I'm going tospeak.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
English too.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
We talk to him and whenever you guys give, like,
some event or whatever and youwant to ask out there, you know,
just call us.
You know, and we would like tocollaborate because you know
what?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It's kind of love too .
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Talk, talk and then no action.
It's not good, you know, yeah.
So the idea is not not leaving,at the worst.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah, we would love to do something with your choir
Greg.
You know that I've been, we'vebeen hunting you down.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And we go?
Speaker 5 (33:20):
yeah, because we love to like physically, like us,
fly to New York, take a basicset up for filming and just do
something in a church wherewe're just like everybody just
walking out and just just justblowing it.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Because you know what we, we really need to all of us
cool.
Ok, so the force of the secretof a choir is individual
spiritual power, each one of usmembers.
The reason why it's so powerfulis because, even though you
think it sounds like one, itreally sounds like a multitude.
You know and you feel themultitude of the, the chills
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going through the body ofeverybody who's singing one.
They're doing it from their,from their soul.
It just gets into your bonesand, like every single song in
this album, has a choir.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Every single one.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
It was like something that we demanded.
It has to have a choir, youknow, and it has to sound big,
because we wanted to sound likea hoist.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, hoist, a hoist, like a heavenly hoist.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Heavenly hoist, that's right.
So just to tell you guys, allof you who have, if you have
some big band or something, thatyou would like a lot of stuff
to be there, you're to sing foryou a song or this song or
something else, and your church,we will try to move.
You know, earth and whatever wehave to move to try to show off
for you, because we want to beunified and instead of be trying
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to focus in and so forth.
What church are you From?
Whatever, what we want to do isdo you believe in Christ?
Yes, yes.
Then you can start testimony.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I did too.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
I like on a mission, you play a little bit of an
animation.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Now, in Jesus we are one is the title track for this
project, but you can find allseven tracks in Jesus we are one
.
Almighty God, better Than I Am,which is my favorite.
The Great I Am on a mission onemore day, and then there's a
seventh one in Spanish.
I can't remember the title ofthat one because my Spanish is
so great, but you can find allseven tracks anywhere that you
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buy your music today.
Now I want to get to some ofthe questions from our audience
before we run out of time.
Now this is to you both Wasthere a particular scripture
that spoke to you during thattrying time that prompted these
songs In the hidden?
Speaker 5 (36:30):
scripture.
We have hidden scriptures, allthrough the pictures, all
through our artwork.
Yeah, when you see the artwork.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
If you really look at it, the scripture for every
song is somehow hidden in it.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
It could be in a grill or a car, so like if you
say the cover.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
It's from Philippines On the cover.
Philippines, yeah, philippines.
Ok, if you find the cover, yes,like if you see the church in
the picture and you're going tosee the scriptures written in
the top of the church.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
So it's in the artwork design yes.
It's a little hidden, but it'sin the cover art.
Most people don't even look atartwork today.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Yes, Well, in Jesus we have one, as it's from John.
You know, In John, when JesusChrist says to be one in me,
like I am in the Father and theFather John 17.
That area of John I alwaysthought was amazing that we
should all be one with Him.
Right, If you think about it.
It doesn't mean that we areJesus, obviously, but we can be
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one with Him.
There you go, so we can all beone, even though we are all
different.
We are all different people, weare different things, but we
can all be one in Him and that'swhat the scripture that
inspired, that particularAbsolutely.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
And there's different scriptures, like Psalms 91.
I love this one.
Whoever dwells in the shelterof the Most High will rest in
the shadows of the Almighty, Iwill say of the Lord.
He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
That's one, because sometimeswe can have our doubts as to why
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something is happening to us.
But if we trust that all thingswill give us experience and be
for our good, then we shouldn'tdoubt that we're already on the
right path.
As long as we are not breakingany commandments or we haven't
deviated from the road leadingback to Him, then everything
we're going to go through thatroad is going to be for our own
benefit.
It's going to be for our owngrowth.
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But you don't expect to go intoa gym and never lift away, then
where's the growth going from?
Resistance is part of thatgrowth and if you have no
resistance in your life, you'renot growing.
So during these experiences andevery obstacle that came along
or everything we were facing, weknew this is the resistance
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that we're going to grow from.
And we didn't know where ourpath was leading and the hardest
thing was To know that youdon't know what's coming.
But the excitement of itdoesn't matter, because the one
who's leading is the oneAlmighty God.
And so Almighty God was anothersong that was just just being
thankful, a grateful song, justthankful for his patience, for
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everything he's made from thebirds and trees, testifies of
him.
And so every single song inhere, gabriel and I did Every,
every song with all heart andjust.
We're so grateful for desertbook supporting and shadow.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
Everybody participated, from the singers,
musicians everything came from aterribly different backgrounds
and probably different points ofview, in terribly different
things.
Because I wanted to make thatpoint that we need to get stop
being children and get us, youknow this, cultural differences
and stuff like that, and justAll these sons and daughters of
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God, and that's it.
That's the only Thing thatshould define so, and that is
really what it's all about now.
Alasa is not a Christian artist.
She's an artist who is aChristian.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
So that's an important distinction for a lot
of people, so thanks for sharingthat?
Speaker 6 (40:01):
yes, because right now they're working on another
album and we are working onanother album and it's not going
to be like to Jesus, but italways mentions God.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
It's always mentioning my faith.
It always mentions family.
It keeps it grounded on who Iam, so I'm grateful to be able
to share it and for peopleasking about where the song.
You can get a month's potifyApple music.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Yeah, just yeah all right.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
So the next question here and you probably see these
in the chat Can you share moreabout the timeline of your
healing to Production and inKanto and how soon before the
production did your voice returnand did you have any, or did
you have an understudy?
So that's three questions inone.
No under.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Yeah, so I'll start with the last one.
There is.
There was no understudy orbackup.
That was it.
Once you get cast, it is you.
The first thing that I did dowas speak to the casting
director when she called us andbecause the the day that I
auditioned with the producersand with With all of them, I did
so, so, so, so this is what itfeels like to match with someone
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at your level with the hell Isthe cat?
just the feeling of freedom, ofseeing the light, has been
fricking with a keen and kind.
You see it right, you know alittle.
Alexander Hamilton which turned.
I didn't know at the time, youknow what liminal had in mind,
but then I noticed, oh, hewanted to know my speed, because
then the good 11 favorite,bruno Stuttering, is jumbling.
You know, is him sort ofmattering in mumbling?
I also see me with the sound of.
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So it's a very intimate, verylow rap.
When I got sick and we we callthem, I literally had three no.
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I didn't know it was gonna be,but I didn't really have, but he
wrote it.
You tell me if it's not amarriage.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
Come on, she used to have all this range and got to
Everything.
Well, whomever it was, orwhatever, for whatever reason
that she was, with three notesand left with what she needed.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
Happens just happens.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
Those were the three.
No, that she's supposed to singwow.
And if you pay attention to theLord, and she's very Diminished
, you know, because she canbarely speak.
And that's what I had.
Now, when you listen, how greatit, how whisper it is, people
don't know.
I'll tell you a secret.
So I was engineer that and whatwe will do is she had an iPad
and they were talking to her andI was engineering, I was
controlling the iPad, the fee,the whole thing that.
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So I had signed that she'll doto me when she thought she was
gonna faint, wow.
So what I will do is I'll belike doing like that, and when
she looked at me like I'm goingto faint, then I will plug the
the and I go down for just asecond.
I will.
I took off the and that's whatwe just bringing yourself to
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pieces.
That's a place and when she'stell me I'm ready, then, boom,
I'll bring it back on and shewill go like Like everything was
awesome, but in reality, whenshe finished recording the high
the part that she has to,actually At one point they came
back and she had to do the highpart.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Of my dreams would be just Troll to another, which is
like I hear him now.
It's like I can hear him now, Ican hear him now, now, normally
that would be nothing but thatday.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Was way, way more than she's supposed to be able
to do.
So actually she finished it and, man, her eyes were like I can
see the pressure.
Yeah, I literally popped veinsin my eyes and sometimes the
Lord shows us a way to show youwho is really giving you that
mark.
It's not because you, becauseyou're so talented that you saw
some years, or whatever.
No, he shows to give it to youand sometimes he makes a point
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clear.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
So your banner is don't go all the way out there,
you know sure and in honest,when they told us that we got
the part and um, and he spoke tojames pair roberts, we only had
three weeks.
So as opposed to how much time,I only had three weeks to
prepare and it was likepreparing in rocky but in slow
motion.
Everything was slow motion,just me getting to the kitchen
and walking from the kitchen tothe bedroom.
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There's just like.
I'm going and I'm gonna talkwhile I'm moving.
Speaker 6 (44:30):
She broke a lot of blades.
She will not sit down.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
She had to go on question issues and I like maybe
you couldn't just go to mycoordination was off, I could
barely like move my hand, sosometimes I'd be washing in my
hands and just go, and then Ijust dropped dishes and they're
break all.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Hmm, so you recorded all of your parts in your home
studio.
You didn't go there.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
No, no, we recorded it in our our studio another
great blessing.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
When she got the cold , she really was in my legs like
this, and I was just crossingher hair and then the phone ring
and I picked it up and it wasjayme and jayme goes
Congratulations, you got themovie.
I'm like, uh, she couldn'tspeak, so so, so she's in my leg
like that ago.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
I'm really like, well , that's, you got the movie and
then and.
Speaker 6 (45:14):
I thought we're not gonna take it.
Baby, I'm sorry you cannot doit.
I want you to get hurt.
You know how you're gonna flyto Los Angeles.
You can't even walk to thekitchen.
You know this is.
This is not all right.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
I was trying to convince it and as I go, you
call them if I'm dead.
Speaker 6 (45:29):
That is the exact word.
That is the exact word you callif I'm dead and I go.
Well, you better prepare a fewwords.
You're gonna have to say I'llnegotiate the contrast and you
breathe.
So I, I'm muted and Inegotiated the whole competition
.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
Just bring yourself together, bring yourself
together and then she, a onemoment we done negotiating and
she goes all right, let's talkto alaza.
Speaker 6 (45:50):
And then she goes can I talk to alaza?
And I'm thinking, yeah, that'sthe question, okay.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
Thank you so much.
When do I start?
Speaker 6 (46:02):
That's what she had and then give it to me.
Speaker 5 (46:05):
I literally almost passed out, like literally
almost at the floor, just bysaying that.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
We came very good friends with time again.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Yeah, so.
So when your kids see the film,or first saw the film, what was
their response?
Speaker 6 (46:19):
Alisa, one of her kids, is in the movie.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Yeah, alyssa, who's now?
She's 11 years old, but thattime she got cast was eight
years old.
She's one of the town kids.
She's like yeah, she's about totell us about the awesome gift,
so she even got captain.
You know, we made a day out ofit.
Like the kids do not want topreview it, until we all sat
down and they gave us a speciallink and they were like let's
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watch it, but I want.
We want to watch it as a familyand we did like the whole
popcorn thing and they all cried.
I cried, I couldn't believe it.
I still listen to the movie,still.
Like people ask me are you sickof sitting we don't talk about?
When I was like never.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I think you can see the next question from one of
our audience participants.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
Oh, oh as artists who are christians, do you have
rules about what type ofprojects you will or won't do?
Okay, even more, ah, all right.
So immediately after we gotthis film, the offer started
flooding it, oh yeah.
And for a lot of men we'retalking seven figure offers and
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and Gabriel and I were lookingthrough the scripts and they
were just coming from HBO.
Yo, it was like a no, no, no,no who said yes, and then we
were like we can't take it wecan't take it because in this
one I would have to be like thenarcotraficante girlfriend.
They're always into having sexwith a guy, and this one I'm
gonna have to take my top offand this one I'm gonna have to,
you know, not dress modestly.
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So, yes, there were a lot ofthings and roles and
opportunities in which I waslike I'm sorry, I cannot move
forward with this opportunity.
So it is true, when you knowwho you are and you know whose
gift you have, I don't waste itand I don't.
I no longer go, oh man, Ishould have if I could have.
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I don't do that.
My husband and I know where ourprinciples lie and it's it was.
At first it was a littledifficult, because you work your
whole life, to be in that pointwhere you're receiving all
these offers, but then if theoffer is not a good one, then
what's the question?
Speaker 6 (48:19):
about.
Sometimes people ask us is thata temptation?
And I go if I serve a big plateof poop, is that a temptation
to eat it?
Speaker 1 (48:25):
No, okay, well, there you go, you know, because the
bottom line is you only temptedif you want, if you want it, you
know.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
You're not, you don't want it, yeah, yeah, there's a
whole lot of places of both cameaway and and we just have to
say no, and it was just sad tosee the difference between how
much of this side was againstthe other.
And then it goes further thanthat.
We prioritize our family overabsolutely everything money,
everything which means that whenshe tours, she just tours two
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weekends out of the month.
Rarely she has a third, andjust usually only when, when,
these nas.
When these nas, we go that dothe other one, but otherwise we
just take two, which, honestly,we have a great life.
We don't need any more lifethan this, because joy is
nothing to do with yourbelongings.
Two times out of the week wewant to put our shoes together
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as a family.
So we don't only have to say no, honestly, we don't only have
to say no to projects that arenot Clean.
Basically, we also have to sayno to even clean projects
because they're taking over ourlife, and that is a lot, but
that also does that just likeGreg was saying, it takes.
But we still got everything weneed and we don't need more.
We are perfectly fine.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
At one point, like like Greg says, it does take
courage to understand where doour priorities lie?
Because there's no such thingas you doing everything at all
times, at all moments.
So we make a priority and ourfamily is first our marriage,
like it's our marriage, and it'sour kids, and then it's our,
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our families and extended familyfriends.
You know all of that.
We need to make sure that thatstays intact because, at the end
of the day, what is success ifit's alone?
If everything that you had thatwas at the core of what made
you happy and gave you joy Iswhat you have to relinquish to
have money trust me, moneydoesn't hug you back.
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Money doesn't sit with you andremember the good times and and
reminisce with you.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Let me put it to you in this way If breathing is
necessary for you to live andsomebody tells you I can give
you a million dollars for younot to breathe for 10 minutes,
yeah, whatever, keep your 10million dollars.
God be dead by the time thathappens.
So because my priority isbreathing, your 10 million means
nothing to me, see.
So when you have yourpriorities straight, you don't
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feel tempted to it.
You have to think about, forexample, the temptations with
Jesus when he goes to themountain and Satan is trying to
tempt him.
You know and think about howand in what order he tempted.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
First it was the bread.
Y'all remember the scripturehe's done turned these around,
basically hunger, and let metell you all of us musicians, we
will get that temptation first.
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Basically, it is you're starving and one day
somebody tells you there's two,some buses stop and you're gonna
be just fine, I'm gonna turnthis stone into bread.
You'll see, come on, let's go.
Let's go Do the evil thing youknow you shouldn't do.
It doesn't matter, becauseyou're gonna get that bread.
If you resist that one, what isthe second one?
Speaker 5 (51:32):
Come on, guys.
Do you know the scripture?
What is the second temptation?
Y'all remember the secondtemptation.
Speaker 6 (51:35):
What is the second temptation?
Speaker 4 (51:37):
There it is, look at that, what is it?
Speaker 5 (51:40):
Just throw yourself, throw yourself.
Speaker 6 (51:41):
Okay, so let me explain that one.
That one is the secondtemptation that all musicians
get.
It is get close to the edge.
Nothing's gonna happen to you,it's okay.
Go to the party.
No, you shouldn't go, itdoesn't matter, nothing's gonna
happen, because you got thepower of the Lord with you.
You're gonna be there,nothing's gonna happen.
And then you feel that you canlive in that age and you're not
gonna fall.
And the angels are gonna catchyou and you fall, it's gonna
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happen and you're going to befine and whatever.
And let me tell you, you gothere, you end up falling,
you're not gonna catch you, youslam and the floor will sink at
plenty of times.
And you know, what happens ifyou resist that temptation, what
is the third temptation thatcomes?
You guys remember the third one.
What is it?
It finally says okay, fine,I'll give you the world.
I'll give you the world.
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Okay, let's stop the games here.
I can see you're not gonna fallfor easy stuff.
I'll give you the world,richness, fame, power, whatever.
Trust me, that is the next onethat comes in.
So in our case, because wealways known that's the order of
the temptations- we are reallyat the point of that you
understand, oh here it is theworld.
All the money you ever won, allthe things you ever won,
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whatever do you take it.
So that's the thing I love thefact that I have enough.
There's a script that says Ican never have enough.
So sad for those ones, becauseguess what?
Having enough, feelingsatisfied, it's where it's
happening, it's this so ifyou're satisfied with what the
Lord has given you and you arein joy and grateful what the
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Lord has given you, then youdon't need more, so the other
stuff don't even matter, don'teven tempt you.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
That's good stuff.
We've got room for one or twomore questions.
There's one here that saysAdasa, I heard you mentioned
that you homeschool yourchildren.
I do too.
How do you juggle that alongwith your music responsibilities
and do you homeschool all ofyour children?
Speaker 5 (53:25):
Yes, all five of them .
Five of them.
I do homeschool them.
So, like I said, I do make mypriority list of the day, so
like today that we were gonnahave this with Greg.
Speaker 6 (53:37):
We'll describe a normal day.
Speaker 5 (53:38):
I'll show you a normal day today, so I got up
Five Five o'clock in the morningagain.
Speaker 6 (53:43):
Like I said, I get up I pray and we do our scripture
study.
I said, like one of the kids, Itake it to seminary and she
starts her day.
Speaker 5 (53:51):
And then we'll get into the kitchen.
So if I have left dishes in thesink, I wash my dishes first,
then I start cooking.
I cook breakfast.
I go like up the kiddos theyget ready to clean their rooms,
come down and have breakfast andthen I give them about an hour
for them to have breakfast,because I do have a four year
old and a seven year old with athree year old.
Speaker 6 (54:10):
No, I'm not putting it in the breakfast, I'm sorry,
it's just putting it on.
So we started five in themorning and then I take off and
I leave one of the babies.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
Oh yeah, when she goes to seminary, when he takes
the kids to seminary, he has tovocalize.
Speaker 6 (54:21):
She goes to the gym downstairs.
Speaker 5 (54:23):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
I do.
By the way, somebody asked me aquestion.
Speaker 6 (54:26):
I thought I think you should explain how you do it.
So she puts the walker.
And she vocalizes and theytread me.
That's the thing.
Trust me, all of you guys outthere, just do that.
You won't believe it.
Just doing that when you go upon stage and you're racing, your
voice shakes and stuff likethat, because your heart rate is
up and all that stuff.
So you get used to doing it.
You're always, even if you'rescared, whatever, your voice
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comes out just smooth.
Speaker 5 (54:50):
So yeah, when he takes our kids to seminary, I'm
doing that.
So that's usually about between5.30 AM and 6.30 that I do that
.
So yeah, we have to wake upabout 4.30 to5 in the morning to
be able to do our personal time, our personal scripture study,
him taking our kids to seminary.
Then I do that For the studioThen.
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So then after that I fixbreakfast, do that, and then
after they finish eatingbreakfast, I usually leave the
dishes or get the dishes.
I go.
Then we go to school time.
That's when we dedicate.
Speaker 6 (55:22):
It's about 10 in the morning.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Yeah, so about 10 in the morning.
We do that for about threehours.
I do homeschool with them andthen I do different activities
and each one of the kids has tohave their chart, what are the
goals for the day, and then Icheck over, making sure that
they do all of their basics.
Right now our 14 year old.
Her goal is to graduate by 16because she wants to go to
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college early, so then she canserve a mission at 20.
Speaker 6 (55:48):
The ASA is like the goal.
All of them know they have topass the.
Speaker 5 (55:50):
ASA, asa, teeth or ATT's I'm like.
Speaker 6 (55:51):
So they are already starting for them, since they're
like in fourth grade, becausenow it's the easiest way.
Speaker 5 (55:57):
So I'm telling you.
They learned a lot ofinformation, but it all comes
down to three tests.
If you have an umbrella school,we go through home life academy
.
Then they'll be able to gettheir certificate at 16.
Speaker 6 (56:10):
If you go through the GED route, and I have children,
so I'll be right back.
So that is gotta be Get in thedoor.
Speaker 5 (56:17):
So if you want them to do their GED, start with the
GED book.
Now it's the easiest way to gois just start with the GED book,
because that's what they'regonna get tested on.
I mean, it has all of thebasics.
So what I do is I make surethey have their reading writing
up into the level that they canstart that GED book.
So, even with the little ones,I'm starting with words that I
know are gonna be in the GED orin the SAT or the ACT and I just
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put it into her syllabus andthen that's one of the words she
knows, and so we start makingsure that they're prepped for
SATs, acts.
That is the biggest thing forthem, because they do.
I want them to go out of thehouse.
My goal is for them to go.
I love you, mom, but I gottaplay and remember to go.
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Go, brady.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
Dorian just did a holy wave right there We've
launched three of them.
Speaker 3 (57:08):
Three of them.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
We've got time for one more question, I believe.
Speaker 5 (57:12):
Oh yeah, I see one here.
Do your children sing or we dofamily choir?
Actually, we were invited tosing this Christmas together as
a family.
We had not done that before,weirdly enough, and we did and I
thought the baby wouldn't do itshe's poor.
And then she was like I lovethis baby too, and she actually
came up there and she sang toowith us.
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So that was really fun.
We don't push music on our kids, but they're extremely musical
on their own.
So my 14 year old she's pickingup the guitar, she's playing it
, she's enjoying it, she's got abeautiful voice and she loves
to do her own littlechoreographies.
Alyssa, she actually has like avoiceover career.
Speaker 6 (57:52):
She makes money, though.
Speaker 5 (57:52):
Yeah, she makes money doing that and I don't push it
on her either.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
Great, great.
Well, here's the last question,because I know you need to get
back to your kiddos.
We can do a quick fire round,all right, did you maintain your
full vocal range after yourhealth setback?
Speaker 5 (58:06):
You're again your full vocal range.
Yes, but it's different.
My voice is a lot deeper nowand so it's a lot more raspiest.
I can't really control it asmuch, which does for some really
fun Disney collaborations,because I would have to take a
hollow of hole and do Disneysongs and that was pretty cool.
Okay, thank you.
Anything else?
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Any last?
Speaker 1 (58:28):
That looks like the last one.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
Okay, I think that was the last one.
I think I got it right.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
We got it.
Thanks, Adossa.
Thanks Gabriel for joining us.
Speaker 5 (58:35):
Thank you all so much , thank you.
Speaker 1 (58:37):
Everybody has immensely enjoyed hearing your
story and hearing the motivationbehind your music.
Now let me remind our listenersthat you can find all seven
tracks on iTunes, Spotify andanywhere else that you get music
.
In Jesus, we are one.
Thanks again, and remember, ifever we put the messenger before
the message, we have failed topresent an unblemished gospel.
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Join us again next week, righthere in the choir room.
Music.
Welcome to the choir room.
This is episode 36 of the ChoirRoom Podcast.
I'm Greg Thomas, your host.
Welcome to the choir room,joined by my co-host, dorian
Johnson.
Hello, and me at Estanso Farrar.
Hello.
Welcome to the choir room.
And today we continue with parttwo, with our guest contributor,
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adasa, and our live audience.
This podcast exists to promoteand encourage to longtime
traditions in our society thatseem to be dwindling away, and
that is choir and corporatesinging.
We hope to revive theexcitement and joy experienced
with singing in a choir, as wellas inform and educate the
listener on all things singingand all things choir.
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This podcast is also aproduction of Metro Music and
Arts, whose purpose is toperpetuate and promote the
Christian and positive ideathrough the medium of music and
other arts.
We've got a live audience herein the choir room today and
they're going to help welcomeour guest contributor.
She's a wife, a mother, anactress, a singer, a songwriter
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and a voiceover artist and somuch more, known for her role as
Dolores in the hit Disney filmEncanto.
Adasa is with us, so stay tunedas we hear from this incredible
artist and we hear from our ownDorian with the hymn of the
week and Mieta with the CRQ.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Welcome to the choir room.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Thanks, greg.
His first John 419, tells us welove because he first loved us.
And in addition to lovingChrist, another facet of our
appropriate response to all thatChrist has done for us is trust
, trusting in Him.
Psalm 9, verse 10, says andthose who know your name put
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their trust in you.
For you, o Lord, have notforsaken those who seek you.
And as he spoke to the apostlesin the upper room, jesus said
to them in John 14, one let notyour hearts be troubled, believe
in God, believe also in me.
Some translations render ittrust in God, trust also in me.
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This week's hymn of the week isTis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus.
This hymn by Luisa Stead waspublished in 1882.
And while the exact detailsregarding the occasion for
writing the hymn are not known,it is known that her husband
drowned in 1880.
So one can imagine that if theloss of her husband was the
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occasion for writing this hymn,the words of this hymn reflected
the trust and a desire for moretrust that would enable one to
persevere through trials anddifficult circumstances.
Verse one says Tis so sweet totrust in Jesus and to take him
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at his word, just to rest uponhis promise and to know, thus
say, of the Lord.
This first verse declares aconfidence in God's word and
reminds us that, as IICorinthians 120 tells us, all
the promises of God are yea in aman, in Christ.
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Verse two says how sweet totrust in Jesus, just to trust
his cleansing blood and insimple faith, to plunge me
beneath the healing, cleansingflood.
Once again we are pointed toChrist's work on the cross, his
shedding of his blood to pay thepenalty for our sin.
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Hebrews 10, verses 12 to 14,says but when Christ had offered
for all time a single sacrificefor sins, he sat down at the
right hand of God, waiting fromthat time until his enemies
should be made a footstool forhis feet, for by a single
offering he is perfected for alltime.
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Those who are being sanctified.
Verse three yes, tis sweet totrust in Jesus just from sin and
self, to cease just from Jesus,simply taking life and rest and
joy and peace.
Galatians 220 says I've beencrucified with Christ.
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It is no longer I who live, butChrist who lives in me, in the
life I now live in the flesh.
I live by faith in the Son ofGod, who loved me and gave
himself for me, turning from oursin, turning from self and
seeking contentment, seekinglife and rest and joy and peace
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in Christ.
Then, in verse four, we wouldsing I'm so glad I've learned to
trust thee, precious Jesus,save your friend, and I know
that thou art with me, wilt bewith me to the end.
It speaks to us of theperseverance of the Christian
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and the confidence that we havethat God has promised and will
complete the work that he beganin us, as Philippians 1.6 tells
us, and the refrain that is sungafter each of these verses,
quite familiar to many, I'm sure.
Jesus, jesus, how I trust him,how I've proved him, or and or.
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Jesus, jesus, precious Jesus, ofor grace to trust him more.
May we be reminded of all ofthe times that we have proven
our Lord and Savior, that wehave seen his faithfulness, that
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we've experienced his keepingpower, and O as we go through
our current circumstances thatmay seem so much more difficult
than those that we remember, maywe ask him for the grace to
trust him all the more.
Welcome to the choir room.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Miya has our CRQ of the week.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Thank you, greg.
So tonight's CRQ is and I mostpreface this question by saying
that I have been late as of latetalking to choir directors
regarding their church choirs.
In particular, I haven't reallyspoken to anyone or choir
director outside of the churchchoir so when they've been
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struggling a lot with kind ofpulling the choir back into
place, back into the choir stand, if you will.
So the question tonight is I ama choir director and I'm
finding it hard to gather thechoir back together, especially
after COVID.
I'm a choir director finding itextremely hard to gather the
choir back together, especiallyafter COVID.
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So yeah, I think that'sprobably it's a pretty universal
situation.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's 2024.
We're still blaming COVID forthis situation.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't think that we'd like to blame COVID for a
lot of things.
In my opinion.
I don't believe COVID is thesole issue for the choir, the
church choir, not being in itsplace.
I think those struggles werehappening far above COVID, far
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before COVID was going on orCOVID had come into play.
I think that was a struggle formany churches in particular I
don't know about and I've saidthis, I've said this about
choirs A lot of people.
They always talk about bringingthe choir back, bringing the
choir back, bringing the choirback.
The choir in terms of acommunity effort, those choirs
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and I've said this before thosechoirs are thriving In the
community.
You can find a community choirin every corner, just about
every state, every city aretrying to put together.
There's one being put togetherright now, as we speak, a
specific purpose right now, andthey're telling me, from what
I'm hearing.
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They're telling me that therehearsals are good, so the
community efforts are doing well.
It's the church choir that'sstruggling and I feel bad about
that because that's what I grewup singing.
Long before there was acommunity choir, there was my
church choir.
That's all I had, and so wesang there.
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We did everything right thereat the church but since COVID in
particular, the choir directorsare really finding it difficult
to bring these choirs back intoplay.
I was at a convention back inAugust and in one of the
workshops and they discussed.
They had that discussion in oneof the workshops and there were
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so many ideas.
I had never seen this.
I didn't know that you haverecruiting for the church choir.
They have.
I mean, I'm learning, I waslearning some things.
They were putting out cookiesand juice, you know, trying to
get people to come back,whatever whatever Coffee and
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bagels, coffee and bagels.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Doing everything short of opening a Starbucks in
the house, Right exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
They were doing everything that they could to
try to get this choir backtogether, bring it back into the
churches, because they believethat the pastors are ready for
that.
The pastors of these churcheswant that, but these directors
are finding it hard.
So, gentlemen, what say you?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Well, first, I would just say you got to pray.
Yeah, you have to pray, right,because, as you were saying that
COVID is not the sole S-O-L-Ereason, there's something else
going on spiritually with folks,and there's just there's some
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soul S-O-U-L things going onwith folks where there isn't a
desire to connect with people ona human level.
We think that we can walk thisChristian walk, that we can be
the church and be at home.
Wow, yeah, that we can somehowbe the church and be separated
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from people.
And I think that, seeing thatdynamic play out in many
churches, still there's no waythat you're going to have even a
smaller aggregation of peopleto come together to say so.
It's if these pastors are readyfor choirs to come back
together.
They need to be praying for thespiritual revival and renewal
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of the folks that are in thechurches, because that's where
it starts.
That's where it starts Well,greg.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, I agree with Dorian, we have two soul issues
that we're concerned with.
But this CRQ prompts anotherquestion.
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because he said oh, she saidthat they are having a hard time
pulling the choir back together, especially after COVID, which
tells me that there were somedifficulties bringing the choir
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together prior to COVID.
Now, difficulties meaning thatmaybe you didn't have the number
that you thought you shouldhave or wanted to have.
And I think we need to beasking ourselves and what are we
trying to bring the choir backto?
Because if it's an oldsituation, I think that's
telling.
I think COVID was both and I'veheard this said many times
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COVID was both revealing andexposing.
What are we trying to bring thepeople from the choir back to?
Is it the same old thingthey've always done?
Were they already getting tiredof what they were doing?
Was it already boring?
Did COVID become their excusenow to not show up?
I mean, there's a lot ofquestions to be asked here and
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again, I'm not making light ofthat.
I mean, the whole premise forthis podcast is to reassemble
choir corporate singing.
But we have to ask ourselvessome hard questions.
What was happening in 2019?
I think we're dealing with twoor three kinds of people with
choir during that year.
Some who desired to be thereand couldn't because of all of
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the restrictions.
Others who desired to be therebut were grateful that they
didn't have to be there.
They don't have that long-termcommitment anymore.
And then you've got the thirdgroup who were just looking for
an opportunity to stay home.
They were tired, and Imentioned this already.
Maybe they were tired, maybe itwas boring, or maybe they just
served so many years that theywere looking to do something
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else.
And COVID was an opportunityfor a lot of people to decide.
You know what?
I'm going to take my Sundaysback and I think that's what
we're dealing with.
People have to now love againsing it in choir.
They have to love again beingamongst other people.
They have to love again.
God corporately.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I have a question now Do you think that the love, the
love is no longer there like itonce was when I was growing up
in the choir?
I love to do it.
That I love to do it Not justbecause I had the ability to do
it, but I also understood howimportant it was for us to be
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able to get the message out insong and how relevant it was to
the believer or unbeliever,nonbeliever, when they came into
the sanctuary.
How important it was for us toget that message across to them
that their lives could somehowbe changed or they don't
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necessarily have to leave thatplace the same way they came in.
It was an uplifting.
There was some revelation inall of that that those people
would get through our music andwe just love to do that.
I don't know if that's the samething now.
That's going on like it didthen.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, I'm certainly not the one to question the
motivation of choir members.
First of all, I don't know thechoir or the person who sent
them, the CRQ, and I don't wantto be questioning anybody's
motivation, but I do know thismuch that, prior to 2020, choirs
and churches across the boardwere seeing a decline, and not
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all of them, but a large numberof them were seeing a decline.
The ones that were maintainingand growing were the ones who
were reinventing themselves, andthey were for lack of a better
term staying modern.
They were keeping up with thelatest music.
They were doing things in termsof arrangements slightly
different.
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They maintained a consistentgroup of musicians who were
always growing, and some of themon the cutting edge of today's
music.
And so the choir and we'vetalked about this before the
choir still has to be attractive.
It still has to minister.
Well, the leadership still hasto do what it has to do in terms
of pouring into the choir,making sure that there's
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community, making sure thatpeople want to be there and that
, when they do leave afterrehearsal or after a service
that they're leaving saying itwas good to have been there, it
was good to be with this groupof people.
So the leadership then has aresponsibility to make sure that
the choir is attractive, thatthey're on the cutting edge,
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that they are growing not justnumerically but they're growing
spiritually, they're growingmusically, so that in the
absence of your normal people,your regular crowd, you're still
attracting new people.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, I hope that the choir directors who may be
listening understand what'sbeing said tonight, and it is
certainly thought provoking.
I pray that these directors arelistening to this tonight, and
that's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I pray.
So Good stuff.
Adasa is waiting.
So let's get to part two of ourconversation with Adasa.
Welcome to the choir.
So let's talk about the familydynamic.
You and your husband, gabrielhave how many children?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
We have seven kids.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, I'm going to ask you to say it again, because
either our audience didn't hearwhat you said or they
misunderstood what you said.
I can tell by their eyes.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We have seven children.
Seven, yes, that is awesome.
We have five babies at home,too, that already flew the nest.
My husband and I.
We have six together that Igave birth to and I'm the mother
of well, he calls me this Latinmama, you know his first born
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kid, but yeah, in total we haveseven, and it's such a beautiful
experience to share this withthem, and they're your biggest
critics and they bring you downat Earth like Brutally honest.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Round you Quick.
Let's get your husband in here,Gabriel.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
He's amazing.
Okay, I got to talk him up,okay.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So now I get to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
So Gabriel Candiani is an incredible producer.
He is has worked with so manyamazing artists in Pique
Iglesias, pitbull, sierra.
He has over 6,000 placements infilm and TV.
He owns a record label for filmand television music, as well
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as works with multiple labelsdoing music for television and
film.
He's also my manager and he'sthe most incredible husband ever
.
And, yeah, he could change adiaper with his eyes closed.
Oh yeah, less than 60 seconds.
Nothing on the hands either.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So, yeah, it's a honey, mr Gabriel.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Come on come on, come on, you take that, hi everybody
.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome Mr Gabriel
Candiani.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Hello, good to have you.
I love that sound.
It sounds good For us inanything.
I would like to say thatsometimes when people hear my
what I've done, I will say thatshe's always been a part of it.
When, when it has to do with mycareer, she takes care of,
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actually, my contracts.
She takes care of all thelogistics.
That's a very intelligent one,and when it's her career as an
artist, then I do so.
We just cannot switch.
When it's her career, then Itake care of the production and
take care of the contracts.
I take care of her assistant.
I do her here if I have, andwhen it's my, when it's me the
one who's producing a movie orwhatever I'm producing, it is
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her that takes care of thelogistics, makes sure that I'm
in the plane on time and allthat kind of stuff is.
I feel like I would say inSpanish, un manco y un cojo.
If there's any anybody speakSpanish, they would understand.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, there were a few here with us tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Somebody with an arm and a cojo, with somebody with a
leg.
Gotcha, that makes it.
It makes sense, yeah, sotogether we make a whole Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right, you got to tell the audience how you met.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, I used to produce albums for Sony and my
one of my best friends told mehe wanted to put together a
group.
And then I was oh that's great,it's going to be four girls.
And he says and you shouldlisten to my sister?
And I said absolutely not.
No, whatever we do, we're notgoing to take your sister.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
No family, why Because?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
it's your sister.
If anything goes wrong orwhatever, you know you're going
to be very upset.
No, so we keep looking andlooking for people and we
already have three people thatwe have selected.
And he was you really need tolisten to my sister.
And I said I already told youwe're not going to do this.
I wasn't charged for theproject.
And I said we are not, let'sfind somebody else.
So one day he showed up with acassette and play me a cassette.
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I just wanted to hear this once.
No, all right, fine.
And then I played it and I go,wow, that is a really great
texture.
But she looked like I'm showinga picture, okay, or something.
Yeah, honestly, he's not thatcute.
So I didn't expect that.
And I go, oh well, you know,actually sounds good.
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So you like her and the bandand the group and I say, yeah,
what is my sister?
And I go, okay.
So we may have been working onthat record for a while and at
one point we just couldn't livewithout each other.
And for bad we were, just wewere together.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's all good it's all good.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
We really haven't always gotten along just
perfectly.
A lot of us are amazing in thisposition.
She is just a wonderful, trulywonderful person and it's always
really being very wise beyondher ears.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I would have to say it's both because I know he is
100% committed to his family andI am 100% committed and because
of that, regardless, if todayhe was to tell me we need to go
to Wyoming, I'm like I'll getthe kids in the car.
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I would not ask why, becausehis first and foremost thought
every day is how can my familybe better, how can I protect
them, what can I do to servethem deeper and better?
So because I know that's alwayson his mind as the number one
catalyst, then I can trust him150,000%.
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And so he shows it to me everysingle day.
And just the little things.
And that's what makes them.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I think what we follow what the Lord has told us
, which is be one.
Why don't you become one thatwe can go forever together?
Because it's just, you don'tfeel complete without the other
person.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I'm sounding so corny , but yeah, that's right, she
completely.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Listen, that's not corny at all.
Yeah, I agree.
This audience understands that.
They understand the concept ofone Now speaking of one, the
fact that you two are one andyou work so closely together.
Adasah, you made mention of thefact that when you were going
through that difficult season,you couldn't hug your children.
That was a very hard part.
You couldn't hug them, youcouldn't kiss them and you felt
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helpless.
But yet out of that experiencecame a bunch of songs and thus
the project.
In Jesus we are one.
Can we talk about that a minute?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I do wanna talk a little bit about that.
Oh yeah, basically we were inhip hop, all right.
So for all of you who've beenin hip hop, you know what's up.
So we did a lot of touring anda lot of we were in that world
and, honestly, we were in theworld.
Now we always tried to play thegray you know that idea yeah.
The idea of you know, it's justlike there is a line and I'm
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close to it you know that kindof idea.
We were those people you know,just kind of trying to be good
and all the stuff and at thesame time not quite being what
we should be, when thatexperience happened, it was a
huge surprise.
We have already had COVID andwe thought we were past it.
And Adasah told me I'm feelingreally dizzy, I'm feeling really
weird, but maybe we're pregnant.
I don't know that kind of thing.
I'm like no baby, no great.
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But I thought, okay, just goget a test.
And she went to the hospital toget a test and I stayed feeding
the kids and taking the school.
But when I came back, adasahcalled me and she was like like
that and if you heard Adasahtalking, she has no problems
talking.
So I was like what's going on?
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She was like blub, blub, blub,blub, blub, blub, blub and she
had completely lost her abilityto put her thoughts together and
whatever.
It was extremely scary.
The doctors literally told usthat she was gonna die and they
gave her the choice to die athome or die in the hospital.
Wow, and Adasah chose to die athome.
We went to the house and that'swhat happened, with the whole
thing on the top, and she wascompletely paralyzed and it was
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just a horrendous, horrendousmoment.
And then the insurance call andsay, well, if you don't bring
it back to the hospital, it'sbasically we're gonna like if I
was keeping her there because Iwanted the money or something.
It became even worse problem soI had to take it back to a
different hospital.
We went to a different hospital.
They couldn't figure out whatit was and after 17 hours of
trying to figure out the total,we can't do nothing about you.
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Basically she's gonna die.
And I took her home with afriend in a truck because I
couldn't I was crying so much Icouldn't drive and then we got
home, put it in the bed andbasically just put her life on
the hands of God.
And bottom line is it's kind oflike I said when it says that
he took the bead and some wordsare not in English, okay, but
the bead and then he chopped itto the bottom and then so it
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could grow from scratch.
It was like that it was at thatmoment of death was so
horrendous that it was likebeing chopped from the core and
then any expectations or desiresof doing whatever wearing out
that window.
And then we noticed that weneeded to say thank you to God
for the integral miracle.
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But it was because now manyfamilies didn't have this
miracle and we were veryconscientious that, yeah, we
were full of joy that she wasgetting better, but many didn't.
So I started, honestly, westarted paying more attention to
what's going on in the worldand as we were doing and
figuring out what we were goingto do, I noticed an incredible
division that we're living onthese moments, and it's a
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division where, instead offocusing on everything that we
have in common, we are focusingmore on what we have not in
common, and it is just like abig.
It's just a big point of thefinger and who's got the right
and who doesn't have the right?
And in this fight, we have asituation where, I believe, us
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as Christians are a little bitdivided.
There is a group ofChristianity who believes in
certain things and is like no,you're not, yes, you are.
And it is a little bitconflicted.
And there is a saying divideand conquer.
So Adas and me were saying whatcan we come together?
Where are all Ralees?
Where is our for Jesus Ralee?
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But where are those things?
Where are we coming togetherand being one?
Why can we just say we allbelieve in the Ten Commandments,
we believe in Jesus Christ andalso Savior and the Lord and
Holy Spirit.
What can we take everythingthat we believe together and be
one in Jesus?
That's kind of like what ourconversation was before we
started working on that albumand I thought I had a friend, he
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had a friend he's my goodfriend.
And he, he's a national.
We live in Nashville.
And he has this show that theytake everywhere, out to the
jails, to everywhere you know.
He's like a bunch of artistswho go and sing about God and
about Jesus Christ and and jailsand stuff like that.
And I told him dude, I wouldlike you to invite me.
Let me tell you, I put theLuskius record and he told me no
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.
And I go, dude, you know me,I'm a good person, you know I
believe in God.
Allow me to go and express mylove for God too.
And he said I mean, I can't letyou because you belong to a
different religion, you know adifferent church.
And I say, well, what can wefocus on?
I tell what?
Look at my lyrics.
Tell me there's anything thatyou disagree on?
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What everybody?
If we don't disagree, allow meto also participate.
He told me I don't know, I just, you know every religion has
that.
And I go wow, you know thatneeds to be, that needs to
change.
You know we need to have lovefor each other and love each
other with.
You know differences, even ifwe have a little bit different
opinion.
So then the idea of in Jesus weare one became strong.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And that's when we started thinking about the
lyrics, and for that particularsong was one of the first ones,
I think, that we wrote it saysmy sins might not look like
yours.
Still I seek redemption in Hisgrace.
We both sing hallelujah, weboth say amen, long to see His
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face again.
All love for the Lord is ourcommon bond.
You're not eating strength.
That's where we belong.
And, baby, there's no evil wecan overcome In Jesus.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
We are one, and then, and then.
And then, and then that isbasically the message of the
album and then I told her thatwe need to have a choir Now by
this time for all of us.
We don't know.
We are in a class.
I teach a master class aboutproduction and I don't know if
he'll need no teaching he's sogood, but anyway, I knew that he
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did choir.
I knew he did choir, but I wasafter he prayed to get a hold of
him and I couldn't.
And so I thought, well, okay,let me just call to Africa.
I have some friends in Africawho lose music from all over the
world.
And then I called to Nigeriaand I called my friend over
there who does the choir inNigeria and I told him I want
you to find one person from adifferent religion Every single
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one has to be from a differentreligion Because I made it my
purpose to show that we can beone, that we need to leave that
situation on the side and form achoir over there to do in Jesus
.
We are one.
When I call you to do, I'm surewe're gonna talk about how
we're going to try.
Oh yeah, carol.
Actually what we did is we tookall the choir from Africa, from
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all these different religions,and then we took another choir
from Arizona and we were tryingto figure out what to do and
that's when you and me werehaving the discussion you
playing, what do you think aboutthis?
And I heard like wow what isthat.
And it was the choir that youdirected in the arrangement
perspective.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I just absolutely loved it, loved it.
So I ask you, would you allowus to collaborate in the song
and you were gracious enough toallow to put my own spin,
because my idea is, I wanted thedrummer to be from England, I
wanted the guitar player to befrom Australia.
I truly had this in Jesus' Rearand One Concept it had to be
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like that, like for reals.
So you were playing the organand the keys and all.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Oh, this is still good, Y'all.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
If y'all have not heard it, go and it was an
amazing arrangement, that yourvocal arrangement was
spectacular.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Oh, thank you, and yes, he sent over the sheet
music.
Yeah and me, yeah, all thechoir people was like there's
the sheet music, y'all do it.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
I don't read either.
I don't read either.
So what he told me?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
might as well be in Chinese.
I had to send some.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
But everybody did read it, so I sent it all.
Right, I'm going to send it tothem and everybody understood it
.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
It turned out great.
It was so much fun working withyou guys and thanks for asking,
but I got to tell you that theoriginal soloist for Carole of
the Christ is in the choir roomtoday.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Oh wow, Amazing vocals.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Carla meet Adasa, adasa meet Carla.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Oh, you're chicken oh .
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Oh, you're chicken.
You know I'm dating.
You're absolutely cute.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Actually, when we got it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I was like OK.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I was like OK, adasa you going to have to say this
and I girl can say Put the bar.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Put the bar back.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
You guys can mix it up in your native tongue.
Show our audience some of ourdiversity here.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Bejísimo, de verdad, carla, era Carla Lindy.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Sí, muchísimas gracias.
Hola, que señor los bendicamuchísimo.
Hermoso testimonio, hermoso.
Yo estaba tan emocionada deestar en esta llamada porque
Greg y yo habíamos estadohablando y él me enseñó la
versión de Carole of the ChristY fue tan original, tan
fantástica que, o sea, no, tú noves a dónde puede llevar el
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señor un mismo tipo, una mismacanción le puede poner un sonido
tan lindo y algo tan originalque simplemente es algo que
impacta diferente.
Entonces, bueno, me encantó,felicidad Es hacer una canción
tan linda y muy contenta desaber que las dificultades que
han pasado los ha llevado a unavida, a un testimonio, a una
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profundidad tan hermosa conCristo.
Así que estoy súper, súperemocionada y, bueno, súper lindo
conocerlos en esta noche.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Nosotros estamos completamente enfocados a hacer
eso.
Yo le dije, I said I'm going tospeak.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
English too.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
We talk to him and whenever you guys give, like,
some event or whatever and youwant to ask out there, you know,
just call us.
You know, and we would like tocollaborate because you know
what?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It's kind of love too .
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Talk, talk and then no action.
It's not good, you know, yeah.
So the idea is not not leaving,at the worst.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yeah, we would love to do something with your choir
Greg.
You know that I've been, we'vebeen hunting you down.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And we go?
Speaker 5 (33:20):
yeah, because we love to like physically, like us,
fly to New York, take a basicset up for filming and just do
something in a church wherewe're just like everybody just
walking out and just just justblowing it.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Because you know what we, we really need to all of us
cool.
Ok, so the force of the secretof a choir is individual
spiritual power, each one of usmembers.
The reason why it's so powerfulis because, even though you
think it sounds like one, itreally sounds like a multitude.
You know and you feel themultitude of the, the chills
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going through the body ofeverybody who's singing one.
They're doing it from their,from their soul.
It just gets into your bonesand, like every single song in
this album, has a choir.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Every single one.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
It was like something that we demanded.
It has to have a choir, youknow, and it has to sound big,
because we wanted to sound likea hoist.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, hoist, a hoist, like a heavenly hoist.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Heavenly hoist, that's right.
So just to tell you guys, allof you who have, if you have
some big band or something, thatyou would like a lot of stuff
to be there, you're to sing foryou a song or this song or
something else, and your church,we will try to move.
You know, earth and whatever wehave to move to try to show off
for you, because we want to beunified and instead of be trying
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to focus in and so forth.
What church are you From?
Whatever, what we want to do isdo you believe in Christ?
Yes, yes.
Then you can start testimony.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
I did too.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
I like on a mission, you play a little bit of an
animation.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Now, in Jesus we are one is the title track for this
project, but you can find allseven tracks in Jesus we are one
.
Almighty God, better Than I Am,which is my favorite.
The Great I Am on a mission onemore day, and then there's a
seventh one in Spanish.
I can't remember the title ofthat one because my Spanish is
so great, but you can find allseven tracks anywhere that you
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buy your music today.
Now I want to get to some ofthe questions from our audience
before we run out of time.
Now this is to you both Wasthere a particular scripture
that spoke to you during thattrying time that prompted these
songs In the hidden?
Speaker 5 (36:30):
scripture.
We have hidden scriptures, allthrough the pictures, all
through our artwork.
Yeah, when you see the artwork.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
If you really look at it, the scripture for every
song is somehow hidden in it.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
It could be in a grill or a car, so like if you
say the cover.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
It's from Philippines On the cover.
Philippines, yeah, philippines.
Ok, if you find the cover, yes,like if you see the church in
the picture and you're going tosee the scriptures written in
the top of the church.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
So it's in the artwork design yes.
It's a little hidden, but it'sin the cover art.
Most people don't even look atartwork today.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Yes, Well, in Jesus we have one, as it's from John.
You know, In John, when JesusChrist says to be one in me,
like I am in the Father and theFather John 17.
That area of John I alwaysthought was amazing that we
should all be one with Him.
Right, If you think about it.
It doesn't mean that we areJesus, obviously, but we can be
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one with Him.
There you go, so we can all beone, even though we are all
different.
We are all different people, weare different things, but we
can all be one in Him and that'swhat the scripture that
inspired, that particularAbsolutely.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
And there's different scriptures, like Psalms 91.
I love this one.
Whoever dwells in the shelterof the Most High will rest in
the shadows of the Almighty, Iwill say of the Lord.
He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
That's one, because sometimeswe can have our doubts as to why
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something is happening to us.
But if we trust that all thingswill give us experience and be
for our good, then we shouldn'tdoubt that we're already on the
right path.
As long as we are not breakingany commandments or we haven't
deviated from the road leadingback to Him, then everything
we're going to go through thatroad is going to be for our own
benefit.
It's going to be for our owngrowth.
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But you don't expect to go intoa gym and never lift away, then
where's the growth going from?
Resistance is part of thatgrowth and if you have no
resistance in your life, you'renot growing.
So during these experiences andevery obstacle that came along
or everything we were facing, weknew this is the resistance
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that we're going to grow from.
And we didn't know where ourpath was leading and the hardest
thing was To know that youdon't know what's coming.
But the excitement of itdoesn't matter, because the one
who's leading is the oneAlmighty God.
And so Almighty God was anothersong that was just just being
thankful, a grateful song, justthankful for his patience, for
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everything he's made from thebirds and trees, testifies of
him.
And so every single song inhere, gabriel and I did Every,
every song with all heart andjust.
We're so grateful for desertbook supporting and shadow.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
Everybody participated, from the singers,
musicians everything came from aterribly different backgrounds
and probably different points ofview, in terribly different
things.
Because I wanted to make thatpoint that we need to get stop
being children and get us, youknow this, cultural differences
and stuff like that, and justAll these sons and daughters of
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God, and that's it.
That's the only Thing thatshould define so, and that is
really what it's all about now.
Alasa is not a Christian artist.
She's an artist who is aChristian.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
So that's an important distinction for a lot
of people, so thanks for sharingthat?
Speaker 6 (40:01):
yes, because right now they're working on another
album and we are working onanother album and it's not going
to be like to Jesus, but italways mentions God.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
It's always mentioning my faith.
It always mentions family.
It keeps it grounded on who Iam, so I'm grateful to be able
to share it and for peopleasking about where the song.
You can get a month's potifyApple music.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Yeah, just yeah all right.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
So the next question here and you probably see these
in the chat Can you share moreabout the timeline of your
healing to Production and inKanto and how soon before the
production did your voice returnand did you have any, or did
you have an understudy?
So that's three questions inone.
No under.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Yeah, so I'll start with the last one.
There is.
There was no understudy orbackup.
That was it.
Once you get cast, it is you.
The first thing that I did dowas speak to the casting
director when she called us andbecause the the day that I
auditioned with the producersand with With all of them, I did
so, so, so, so this is what itfeels like to match with someone
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at your level with the hell Isthe cat?
just the feeling of freedom, ofseeing the light, has been
fricking with a keen and kind.
You see it right, you know alittle.
Alexander Hamilton which turned.
I didn't know at the time, youknow what liminal had in mind,
but then I noticed, oh, hewanted to know my speed, because
then the good 11 favorite,bruno Stuttering, is jumbling.
You know, is him sort ofmattering in mumbling?
I also see me with the sound of.
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So it's a very intimate, verylow rap.
When I got sick and we we callthem, I literally had three no.
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I didn't know it was gonna be,but I didn't really have, but he
wrote it.
You tell me if it's not amarriage.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
Come on, she used to have all this range and got to
Everything.
Well, whomever it was, orwhatever, for whatever reason
that she was, with three notesand left with what she needed.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
Happens just happens.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
Those were the three.
No, that she's supposed to singwow.
And if you pay attention to theLord, and she's very Diminished
, you know, because she canbarely speak.
And that's what I had.
Now, when you listen, how greatit, how whisper it is, people
don't know.
I'll tell you a secret.
So I was engineer that and whatwe will do is she had an iPad
and they were talking to her andI was engineering, I was
controlling the iPad, the fee,the whole thing that.
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So I had signed that she'll doto me when she thought she was
gonna faint, wow.
So what I will do is I'll belike doing like that, and when
she looked at me like I'm goingto faint, then I will plug the
the and I go down for just asecond.
I will.
I took off the and that's whatwe just bringing yourself to
(43:02):
pieces.
That's a place and when she'stell me I'm ready, then, boom,
I'll bring it back on and shewill go like Like everything was
awesome, but in reality, whenshe finished recording the high
the part that she has to,actually At one point they came
back and she had to do the highpart.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Of my dreams would be just Troll to another, which is
like I hear him now.
It's like I can hear him now, Ican hear him now, now, normally
that would be nothing but thatday.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Was way, way more than she's supposed to be able
to do.
So actually she finished it and, man, her eyes were like I can
see the pressure.
Yeah, I literally popped veinsin my eyes and sometimes the
Lord shows us a way to show youwho is really giving you that
mark.
It's not because you, becauseyou're so talented that you saw
some years, or whatever.
No, he shows to give it to youand sometimes he makes a point
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clear.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
So your banner is don't go all the way out there,
you know sure and in honest,when they told us that we got
the part and um, and he spoke tojames pair roberts, we only had
three weeks.
So as opposed to how much time,I only had three weeks to
prepare and it was likepreparing in rocky but in slow
motion.
Everything was slow motion,just me getting to the kitchen
and walking from the kitchen tothe bedroom.
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There's just like.
I'm going and I'm gonna talkwhile I'm moving.
Speaker 6 (44:30):
She broke a lot of blades.
She will not sit down.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
She had to go on question issues and I like maybe
you couldn't just go to mycoordination was off, I could
barely like move my hand, sosometimes I'd be washing in my
hands and just go, and then Ijust dropped dishes and they're
break all.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Hmm, so you recorded all of your parts in your home
studio.
You didn't go there.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
No, no, we recorded it in our our studio another
great blessing.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
When she got the cold , she really was in my legs like
this, and I was just crossingher hair and then the phone ring
and I picked it up and it wasjayme and jayme goes
Congratulations, you got themovie.
I'm like, uh, she couldn'tspeak, so so, so she's in my leg
like that ago.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
I'm really like, well , that's, you got the movie and
then and.
Speaker 6 (45:14):
I thought we're not gonna take it.
Baby, I'm sorry you cannot doit.
I want you to get hurt.
You know how you're gonna flyto Los Angeles.
You can't even walk to thekitchen.
You know this is.
This is not all right.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
I was trying to convince it and as I go, you
call them if I'm dead.
Speaker 6 (45:29):
That is the exact word.
That is the exact word you callif I'm dead and I go.
Well, you better prepare a fewwords.
You're gonna have to say I'llnegotiate the contrast and you
breathe.
So I, I'm muted and Inegotiated the whole competition
.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
Just bring yourself together, bring yourself
together and then she, a onemoment we done negotiating and
she goes all right, let's talkto alaza.
Speaker 6 (45:50):
And then she goes can I talk to alaza?
And I'm thinking, yeah, that'sthe question, okay.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
Thank you so much.
When do I start?
Speaker 6 (46:02):
That's what she had and then give it to me.
Speaker 5 (46:05):
I literally almost passed out, like literally
almost at the floor, just bysaying that.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
We came very good friends with time again.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Yeah, so.
So when your kids see the film,or first saw the film, what was
their response?
Speaker 6 (46:19):
Alisa, one of her kids, is in the movie.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Yeah, alyssa, who's now?
She's 11 years old, but thattime she got cast was eight
years old.
She's one of the town kids.
She's like yeah, she's about totell us about the awesome gift,
so she even got captain.
You know, we made a day out ofit.
Like the kids do not want topreview it, until we all sat
down and they gave us a speciallink and they were like let's
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watch it, but I want.
We want to watch it as a familyand we did like the whole
popcorn thing and they all cried.
I cried, I couldn't believe it.
I still listen to the movie,still.
Like people ask me are you sickof sitting we don't talk about?
When I was like never.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I think you can see the next question from one of
our audience participants.
Speaker 5 (47:00):
Oh, oh as artists who are christians, do you have
rules about what type ofprojects you will or won't do?
Okay, even more, ah, all right.
So immediately after we gotthis film, the offer started
flooding it, oh yeah.
And for a lot of men we'retalking seven figure offers and
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and Gabriel and I were lookingthrough the scripts and they
were just coming from HBO.
Yo, it was like a no, no, no,no who said yes, and then we
were like we can't take it wecan't take it because in this
one I would have to be like thenarcotraficante girlfriend.
They're always into having sexwith a guy, and this one I'm
gonna have to take my top offand this one I'm gonna have to,
you know, not dress modestly.
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So, yes, there were a lot ofthings and roles and
opportunities in which I waslike I'm sorry, I cannot move
forward with this opportunity.
So it is true, when you knowwho you are and you know whose
gift you have, I don't waste itand I don't.
I no longer go, oh man, Ishould have if I could have.
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I don't do that.
My husband and I know where ourprinciples lie and it's it was.
At first it was a littledifficult, because you work your
whole life, to be in that pointwhere you're receiving all
these offers, but then if theoffer is not a good one, then
what's the question?
Speaker 6 (48:19):
about.
Sometimes people ask us is thata temptation?
And I go if I serve a big plateof poop, is that a temptation
to eat it?
Speaker 1 (48:25):
No, okay, well, there you go, you know, because the
bottom line is you only temptedif you want, if you want it, you
know.
Speaker 6 (48:31):
You're not, you don't want it, yeah, yeah, there's a
whole lot of places of both cameaway and and we just have to
say no, and it was just sad tosee the difference between how
much of this side was againstthe other.
And then it goes further thanthat.
We prioritize our family overabsolutely everything money,
everything which means that whenshe tours, she just tours two
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weekends out of the month.
Rarely she has a third, andjust usually only when, when,
these nas.
When these nas, we go that dothe other one, but otherwise we
just take two, which, honestly,we have a great life.
We don't need any more lifethan this, because joy is
nothing to do with yourbelongings.
Two times out of the week wewant to put our shoes together
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as a family.
So we don't only have to say no, honestly, we don't only have
to say no to projects that arenot Clean.
Basically, we also have to sayno to even clean projects
because they're taking over ourlife, and that is a lot, but
that also does that just likeGreg was saying, it takes.
But we still got everything weneed and we don't need more.
We are perfectly fine.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
At one point, like like Greg says, it does take
courage to understand where doour priorities lie?
Because there's no such thingas you doing everything at all
times, at all moments.
So we make a priority and ourfamily is first our marriage,
like it's our marriage, and it'sour kids, and then it's our,
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our families and extended familyfriends.
You know all of that.
We need to make sure that thatstays intact because, at the end
of the day, what is success ifit's alone?
If everything that you had thatwas at the core of what made
you happy and gave you joy Iswhat you have to relinquish to
have money trust me, moneydoesn't hug you back.
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Money doesn't sit with you andremember the good times and and
reminisce with you.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Let me put it to you in this way If breathing is
necessary for you to live andsomebody tells you I can give
you a million dollars for younot to breathe for 10 minutes,
yeah, whatever, keep your 10million dollars.
God be dead by the time thathappens.
So because my priority isbreathing, your 10 million means
nothing to me, see.
So when you have yourpriorities straight, you don't
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feel tempted to it.
You have to think about, forexample, the temptations with
Jesus when he goes to themountain and Satan is trying to
tempt him.
You know and think about howand in what order he tempted.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
First it was the bread.
Y'all remember the scripturehe's done turned these around,
basically hunger, and let metell you all of us musicians, we
will get that temptation first.
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Basically, it is you're starving and one day
somebody tells you there's two,some buses stop and you're gonna
be just fine, I'm gonna turnthis stone into bread.
You'll see, come on, let's go.
Let's go Do the evil thing youknow you shouldn't do.
It doesn't matter, becauseyou're gonna get that bread.
If you resist that one, what isthe second one?
Speaker 5 (51:32):
Come on, guys.
Do you know the scripture?
What is the second temptation?
Y'all remember the secondtemptation.
Speaker 6 (51:35):
What is the second temptation?
Speaker 4 (51:37):
There it is, look at that, what is it?
Speaker 5 (51:40):
Just throw yourself, throw yourself.
Speaker 6 (51:41):
Okay, so let me explain that one.
That one is the secondtemptation that all musicians
get.
It is get close to the edge.
Nothing's gonna happen to you,it's okay.
Go to the party.
No, you shouldn't go, itdoesn't matter, nothing's gonna
happen, because you got thepower of the Lord with you.
You're gonna be there,nothing's gonna happen.
And then you feel that you canlive in that age and you're not
gonna fall.
And the angels are gonna catchyou and you fall, it's gonna
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happen and you're going to befine and whatever.
And let me tell you, you gothere, you end up falling,
you're not gonna catch you, youslam and the floor will sink at
plenty of times.
And you know, what happens ifyou resist that temptation, what
is the third temptation thatcomes?
You guys remember the third one.
What is it?
It finally says okay, fine,I'll give you the world.
I'll give you the world.
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Okay, let's stop the games here.
I can see you're not gonna fallfor easy stuff.
I'll give you the world,richness, fame, power, whatever.
Trust me, that is the next onethat comes in.
So in our case, because wealways known that's the order of
the temptations- we are reallyat the point of that you
understand, oh here it is theworld.
All the money you ever won, allthe things you ever won,
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whatever do you take it.
So that's the thing I love thefact that I have enough.
There's a script that says Ican never have enough.
So sad for those ones, becauseguess what?
Having enough, feelingsatisfied, it's where it's
happening, it's this so ifyou're satisfied with what the
Lord has given you and you arein joy and grateful what the
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Lord has given you, then youdon't need more, so the other
stuff don't even matter, don'teven tempt you.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
That's good stuff.
We've got room for one or twomore questions.
There's one here that saysAdasa, I heard you mentioned
that you homeschool yourchildren.
I do too.
How do you juggle that alongwith your music responsibilities
and do you homeschool all ofyour children?
Speaker 5 (53:25):
Yes, all five of them .
Five of them.
I do homeschool them.
So, like I said, I do make mypriority list of the day, so
like today that we were gonnahave this with Greg.
Speaker 6 (53:37):
We'll describe a normal day.
Speaker 5 (53:38):
I'll show you a normal day today, so I got up
Five Five o'clock in the morningagain.
Speaker 6 (53:43):
Like I said, I get up I pray and we do our scripture
study.
I said, like one of the kids, Itake it to seminary and she
starts her day.
Speaker 5 (53:51):
And then we'll get into the kitchen.
So if I have left dishes in thesink, I wash my dishes first,
then I start cooking.
I cook breakfast.
I go like up the kiddos theyget ready to clean their rooms,
come down and have breakfast andthen I give them about an hour
for them to have breakfast,because I do have a four year
old and a seven year old with athree year old.
Speaker 6 (54:10):
No, I'm not putting it in the breakfast, I'm sorry,
it's just putting it on.
So we started five in themorning and then I take off and
I leave one of the babies.
Speaker 5 (54:17):
Oh yeah, when she goes to seminary, when he takes
the kids to seminary, he has tovocalize.
Speaker 6 (54:21):
She goes to the gym downstairs.
Speaker 5 (54:23):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
I do.
By the way, somebody asked me aquestion.
Speaker 6 (54:26):
I thought I think you should explain how you do it.
So she puts the walker.
And she vocalizes and theytread me.
That's the thing.
Trust me, all of you guys outthere, just do that.
You won't believe it.
Just doing that when you go upon stage and you're racing, your
voice shakes and stuff likethat, because your heart rate is
up and all that stuff.
So you get used to doing it.
You're always, even if you'rescared, whatever, your voice
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comes out just smooth.
Speaker 5 (54:50):
So yeah, when he takes our kids to seminary, I'm
doing that.
So that's usually about between5.30 AM and 6.30 that I do that
.
So yeah, we have to wake upabout 4.30 to5 in the morning to
be able to do our personal time, our personal scripture study,
him taking our kids to seminary.
Then I do that For the studioThen.
(55:11):
So then after that I fixbreakfast, do that, and then
after they finish eatingbreakfast, I usually leave the
dishes or get the dishes.
I go.
Then we go to school time.
That's when we dedicate.
Speaker 6 (55:22):
It's about 10 in the morning.
Speaker 5 (55:23):
Yeah, so about 10 in the morning.
We do that for about threehours.
I do homeschool with them andthen I do different activities
and each one of the kids has tohave their chart, what are the
goals for the day, and then Icheck over, making sure that
they do all of their basics.
Right now our 14 year old.
Her goal is to graduate by 16because she wants to go to
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college early, so then she canserve a mission at 20.
Speaker 6 (55:48):
The ASA is like the goal.
All of them know they have topass the.
Speaker 5 (55:50):
ASA, asa, teeth or ATT's I'm like.
Speaker 6 (55:51):
So they are already starting for them, since they're
like in fourth grade, becausenow it's the easiest way.
Speaker 5 (55:57):
So I'm telling you.
They learned a lot ofinformation, but it all comes
down to three tests.
If you have an umbrella school,we go through home life academy
.
Then they'll be able to gettheir certificate at 16.
Speaker 6 (56:10):
If you go through the GED route, and I have children,
so I'll be right back.
So that is gotta be Get in thedoor.
Speaker 5 (56:17):
So if you want them to do their GED, start with the
GED book.
Now it's the easiest way to gois just start with the GED book,
because that's what they'regonna get tested on.
I mean, it has all of thebasics.
So what I do is I make surethey have their reading writing
up into the level that they canstart that GED book.
So, even with the little ones,I'm starting with words that I
know are gonna be in the GED orin the SAT or the ACT and I just
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put it into her syllabus andthen that's one of the words she
knows, and so we start makingsure that they're prepped for
SATs, acts.
That is the biggest thing forthem, because they do.
I want them to go out of thehouse.
My goal is for them to go.
I love you, mom, but I gottaplay and remember to go.
(57:01):
Go, brady.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
Dorian just did a holy wave right there We've
launched three of them.
Speaker 3 (57:08):
Three of them.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
We've got time for one more question, I believe.
Speaker 5 (57:12):
Oh yeah, I see one here.
Do your children sing or we dofamily choir?
Actually, we were invited tosing this Christmas together as
a family.
We had not done that before,weirdly enough, and we did and I
thought the baby wouldn't do itshe's poor.
And then she was like I lovethis baby too, and she actually
came up there and she sang toowith us.
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So that was really fun.
We don't push music on our kids, but they're extremely musical
on their own.
So my 14 year old she's pickingup the guitar, she's playing it
, she's enjoying it, she's got abeautiful voice and she loves
to do her own littlechoreographies.
Alyssa, she actually has like avoiceover career.
Speaker 6 (57:52):
She makes money, though.
Speaker 5 (57:52):
Yeah, she makes money doing that and I don't push it
on her either.
Speaker 1 (57:55):
Great, great.
Well, here's the last question,because I know you need to get
back to your kiddos.
We can do a quick fire round,all right, did you maintain your
full vocal range after yourhealth setback?
Speaker 5 (58:06):
You're again your full vocal range.
Yes, but it's different.
My voice is a lot deeper nowand so it's a lot more raspiest.
I can't really control it asmuch, which does for some really
fun Disney collaborations,because I would have to take a
hollow of hole and do Disneysongs and that was pretty cool.
Okay, thank you.
Anything else?
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Any last?
Speaker 1 (58:28):
That looks like the last one.
Speaker 5 (58:29):
Okay, I think that was the last one.
I think I got it right.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
We got it.
Thanks, Adossa.
Thanks Gabriel for joining us.
Speaker 5 (58:35):
Thank you all so much , thank you.
Speaker 1 (58:37):
Everybody has immensely enjoyed hearing your
story and hearing the motivationbehind your music.
Now let me remind our listenersthat you can find all seven
tracks on iTunes, Spotify andanywhere else that you get music
.
In Jesus, we are one.
Thanks again, and remember, ifever we put the messenger before
the message, we have failed topresent an unblemished gospel.
(58:59):
Join us again next week, righthere in the choir room.
Music.
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