Yolanda Adams On Her Role In 'Kingdom Business,' 'Sunny Days,' Gospel Artist Of The Year + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up. It's way up at Angela.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ye man, I love when we have the definition of
way up here in the building with us, we have
Yolanda Adams.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Such a pleasure to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Thank you so much for having me, and congratulations on
all your success.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
You know I followed you for a long time. Ah well,
thank you, this is way up.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Congratulations to you. You have so many things happening at
one time right now. And back to the music where
you know, putting out a new album that must feel
so exciting for you sunny days.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, I love the fact that this is like a
how like a six year journey because we started before
the pandemic and everything.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Jimmy Jim and Terry Lewis and I we write a
lot to each other. I just love my brothers.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And so we started the day after the Grammys in
twenty eighteen, and then I got busy.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Started doing a lot of overseas travel.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They got busy working with Babyface, and then of course
the pandemic happened, right and that stopped a lot, and
then Kingdom business started and we left that and so
finally I got a break and it was like, okay, good,
let's finish the album, and I'm just so glad that
we're here today talking about it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh my goodness. I love the song Sunny Days too,
the title track. Yes, it gives you such a great feeling,
like just to feel like sunny days ahead. And it's
nice because there's so many things happening in the world
that sometimes we have to feel some positivity.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And that's the reason we wrote the song, because you know,
you look at the climate in any given day, you
can find.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
The worst news that can just shock your world.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, the school shooting just happened in Georgia and
I'm just following on my phone while it's happening, like,
I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And a fourteen year old did that.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I remember last year they said that he threatened to,
you know, to hurt some people, and they didn't go
to the house because Georgia doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Have a red flag law. Wow, so they couldn't red
flag him or they.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Might need that.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, they definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You know, things like this happened and it's like, and
I was talking about this earlier. It was a forty
fifth school shooting so far this year, and it's like
every time it happens like we need to do something,
we need some type of reform, we need new laws.
But then it happens again, and then we just do
the same thing again. It's in circles. And I hate
how politics is more about, like, let me stop this
side from doing something that could benefit people, because I
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don't want them to get credit for it. Absolutely if
I feel like it's never about what's going to help
the most people, it's more about posturing.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
A lot of times, wait.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
For a long time. And what I don't like about
this type of over zealous posturing is that they do
it at the expense of all the people who would
benefit from it.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Like you just say it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I just don't think that if you call yourself a believer,
if you call yourself a person who trusts God or
believes in you know, the spirit of God, they're just
some things you cannot do.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
You cannot say, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I love God, but then you hate people. Oh
I love God, you hate folks, sexuality.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I love God. You're judging, we can't die. It's not
the same guy.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And that's interesting because even now, look now we got
to talk about Kingdom business.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Where she judges everything exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Look, and that was the evil laughing. Yes, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I wasn't for you getting into character for a role
like that because it doesn't feel anything like so connected
to who we look at Yolanda Adams as well.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I am so glad that you have what listen, folks
all in my d MS. I can't support you anymore
because you cussed.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm like, it's a role in the script.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Call for one cuss word, go to him, go to
Kirk Franklin.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
It's the cuss word that's end the Bible.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, So it's not like I said something out of
the you know, didn't call nobody a b or anything
like that. But I love this role because she's a
meaty kind of you know, deeply.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Confused, conflicted person.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And you know, as acting, while you're acting, you are
actually not just mimicking the person, you're becoming who they are,
so you can authentically project what that character needs to
do at that time. Growing up in the church, and
I know a lot of your listeners know there are
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several different kinds of people that you meet that come
in and out of the church, and there's she's like
a combination of some people that I knew grow growing
up in the church, and of course it's fantasy and
it's a little drama in there because it has to
be great television, it has to be, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
But yeah, she's a mess.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And the more we peel the layers from her, we
find out what her mother did, what her father did,
what everyone around her did to make her such an
ice cold person. And we're very, very different because I
don't believe that I have the right to crush somebody's
dreams or to stop them from living their purpose.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And so yeah, we're really different from them, yes, thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But I think people also do look at church as
like a judgmental place, and.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's not because if we say we want to be
like Jesus, if we say we want to walk like him,
he was the least judgmental person. And I think people
need to just read and if they read the Life
of Jesus, you know, for folks who really don't know
the Bible or anything like that, I tell them to
go and get a Bible that has the rid where
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Jesus is speaking, and you'll find the most compassionate words,
You'll find the most loving words, you'll find the most
empowering words, and you'll find.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
The words that make you feel like, man, I can
make it right.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, and forget what other people say, because you and
God have to have that thing.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You have to have your own relationship.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Absolutely absolutely, were you hesitant because I know it's season
two right for Kingdom Business where you initially when you
first were off of this. It has to give you
some type of like, Okay, it's Kirk Franklin, it's divine Franklin.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I trust that too.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But were you somewhat hesitant because it is something that
is different, you know, for you and for what people
are like, oh, this is not what she and it
is acting, but it's people might say, like you said
in your DMS, this is I can't support you anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Did you think about all of those things?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I didn't care. Okay, and I really didn't care.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I have lived my life knowing that there will be
those people who don't agree with me, who don't like
what I wear, who don't like the way I see.
Thank you so much, thank you so much, But you know,
and that's fine, But stay across the street and I'll
leave you alone.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
You leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Because I grew up in a household where all six
of us as kids had our own individual everything. We
had our own individual sports, we had our own individual
way of dressing. I was the hippie and the family,
so I had the afros and all of that kind
of stuff, the best and stuff like that. And I
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have another sister who was totally designer everything, and you know,
and our parents allowed us that room to be us.
So we grew up in a situation where I didn't
have to be like my sister or my brother or
my cousins. And so, you know, when you get into
the real world and you see, oh, people really.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Don't understand that you can. We can all.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Thrive, we can all get exactly what we want, and
we don't have to knock each other down absolutely, you know.
And the whole social media thing. My daughter can tell
you sometimes I'm on it, sometimes I'm not. She's like, Mom,
you really need to post.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm like, okay, do it for me.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You go to Taylor is in the room today, cause
you definitely got your whole face. This is a positive blessing.
But she's also an actress, right, is an actress. She
has done what three movies?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Two?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Uh, just graduated a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And now she's in California, you know, and I'm so
proud of her because.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I wanted to be everything.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That her heart desires for her to be because I've
lived my life.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, your life. Oh absolutely, listen.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I see all the moves that you're making. You know,
I think that, first of all, I don't know how
you have time to do it all. So you have
a new album that's coming out, Sunny Days Church Doors.
That single just came out, and you know that is
representative of a lot of things because people come into
that church. So talk to me about about the single
church Doors and what that represents and the message that
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you're giving people in that song.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Well, church Doors.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
We have three different versions of church Doors. We have
the churchy churchy version of church Doors. We have the
house version of church Doors, and we have the extended
house version that includes spoken word poor with j Ivy,
who's a Grammy Award winner and everything. You know, you've
played some of his stuff and now he has commercials
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on the NFL and stuff, and I'm like, nephew, the nephew,
I need your help. And so church doors means different
things because, as we know, in the physical realm, you
can have a big cathedral with gorgeous ornate doors, or
you can have a storefront church with just glass doors
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that you walk into. And the analogy and symbolism of
church doors is we're actually the church, right, you know,
wherever we go.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
If it's Starbucks, we're the church.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
If it's targeted, you know, not to mention anybody's names
because they're not sponsoring me. But if it's online, church online,
and you know a lot of people are still doing church.
And so our symbolism is listen, although we have a
whole bunch going on in this world, we still have
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something to be grateful for. So when the tagline says,
when you let me make it to the church doors,
I'll tell them what you've done for me. And so
again it's anywhere you go that you feel the need
to tell somebody you know, God is just good.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So that's what church doors is all about it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And as people hear more about you, I am so
sure that people come to you. And yes, because you
have that vibe too, like I just feel like I
could talk to her and tell her anything, you know,
and that's a great positive thing. But that's also like,
who do you talk to when you have things that
you're going through.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh I have, you know, my pastor and I have
first ladies who are friends of mine when we grew
up together. I have my best friends. I have my
my tailor. You know, I don't like to put anything
on her, but you know, I am of the mind
that God will send people to you, especially when you're
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that kind of person. He'll send someone to you right
at the nick of time, you know, and at the
opportune time to share your heart and say.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Hoo, child, I'm just tying, you know, something like that.
And so.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I look at it as not just a responsibility, but
also as a pleasure for me to do it because
I know how hard people work, and I know how
hard they work on their mental I know how hard
they work on their spear ritual and.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
To be able to hold people's secrets.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And to hold their you know, their confidence, that means
a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know, church does you also have the video with
oh my God? That was that was really an amazing video.
I felt bad that I just said, oh my God,
but that was an amazing video. So talk to me
about the concept and coming up with that, because I,
first of all, have never seen him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Do well, you know, okay, so if we go back
to the Bobby Brown, yeah yeah movie, Well you know
the we know he got the moves. Oh my gosh,
he has the moves. And he's such a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You know, I know his power structure right now. It's
kind of like anti bang, you know what it was.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I think, yeah, I think we put him in that
role because that was the most recent one.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
The most recent one, so they sat.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Him do this. The video was like, whoa, what's going
on here?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Listen? I had got so many dms. Oh so you're
taking Woody to church?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And of course you know that used his screen name,
but I thought it was so funny, and I thank
him because he was one of the keys to making
the video go viral.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
And I'm just so blessed. I want it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like I said, like I was explaining church doors, there's
so many different ways that we can look at life.
We can look at spirituality, we can look at our
relationship with God. And I wanted the video to be
bright and full of love and light and all of
that good stuff. So people, you know, I would say,
oh okay, come home, Michelande.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I think I'm a TikTok viral video.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, because I can see people are going to be
recreating that.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So I can't see how it could. I feel like
we got to get that started.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, somebody is going to recreate I think a whole
bunch of people are going to recreate that choreography.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yes, yes, absolutely, I look forward to it. You Fatima.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Shout out to Fatima and Sylvia Rown who came up
with all these great ideas and the video director.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It expresses my, you know, my cool side to speak,
so that means I'm current, you know. But I just
I love the fact that it gives people pause sometimes, like,
oh wait a minute, is this my the.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Battle is the Lord's Lady?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You know?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
And so when they when.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
They see church doors and they see the video and
they hear the different versions.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
They're like, wow, I like that. So yeah, I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And this is their first album. Since you just mentioned
Sylvia Arone on Epic, is that counrrect.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
My first album on Epic?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
She and I were together when Elektra was Elektra back
in the day, and she said, listen, got we gotta
do this one more time, I'm like, Okay, now, if
we do it one more time, we got to do it.
Do it Selphie Okay, It's like okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And she's so invested. I love her, I love my
epic family. I'm I'm so proud of this right, I'm proud.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Of this project.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And you said you've been working on this for sixty year?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
How did it evolve from when you first started to
where we are today with it ready to come out?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I am glad that it took a six year journey.
And here's why. Sometimes we can do something so quick
and so fast and we feel like, oh, that's that
was good, but there's no real life experience happening in there.
So between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty four, we've.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Had a lot of stuff, a lot. But then, isn't
that just like life? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It is.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
That's exactly like exactly like life.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You know, there's a day when you're up and you're
doing well, and there's a day when you're conflicted and like,
oh should I even.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Be doing this?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You know, there's a day when you're like, Okay, I
know I want to do this, this and this, but
let me count up the costs, you know, and you're
a business woman, so you know all about it. Yeah,
I did every in the days when it's like oooh,
I'm done, I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore, and
then something in your heart tugs and said, come on,
come on, just finish finish it thing. You know, because
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I taught Taylor this years ago. My mom grandmother taught
me the same thing. If you start a thing, you
gotta finish it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, And even to start it is a big deal
because sometimes we have ideas and we don't even get
to the starting point.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And in the middle of eighteen nineteen twenty, when everything
stopped almost to twenty one twenty two, there were different
things I was feeling.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I was watching the.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
News and the cynicism was getting, you know, to everyone,
and then we started blaming everyone for the pandemic and
all of this, you know, and then they started blaming
folks for the deaths and all of it. I'm like,
so just speak to me and tell me what I
should be doing, what should I write, so that everyone
who listens to this project can feel I'm not by
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my myself right, because you know, that's one of the
enemy's biggest tricks is to make you feel like you're
the only person on earth out of all these eight
billion plus people, that you're the only one going through.
So you can start feeling sorry for yourself or get
into despair, and then despair turns into depression, and then
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depression turns into self hate and loathing and all of that.
When an actuality is just another day at the office.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Right, Yeah, I mean I think during that time you
were fortunate enough to come together like d nice. Yes,
that was such a moment that never could have happened
versus absolutely ended up happening during that time. More podcasts, yes,
more podcasts and moreativity, you know, and uh and.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So it just it just it was a real test.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's it was a test.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
But it was also a season of creativity, a season
of building, right, A season of restructuring, a season of
trying to figure out, hmm, am I going to stay
in this position?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Or am I going to create my own lane?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
A lot of entrepreneurship. Some businesses actually thrived during that time. Yes,
I had friends who owned the restaurants and they were like, look,
we didn't have to have the whole staff. We just
did take out to go we were able to do
certain things and if not, I would have had to
shut my business down. So it really helped people if
you were able to work and pivot and figure out
the right way to do things. It also made us
realize the importance of being able to be online and
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technology and how that plays such a big role in success,
so that if something happens, you can still keep your business.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Going absolutely and keep your life going.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And keep your life going right and stay connected. I
mean zooms.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I had never been on a zoom prior to the pandemic,
and the next thing you know, I was on a
zoom every day.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yes you were. There were meetings, this, and this was that.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And then shout out to mss Oprah who created this
sisterhood kind of thing. And so myself, Tamlaman, Erica Campbell,
and Tasha Cobbs, Leonard we all got on and we
were laughing and talking and that made a big difference too.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I think laughter had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So when the comedians started doing their thing, it's like, oh, good, Okay,
So I'm waiting for keV on stage, and I'm waiting
for this one and I'm waiting for that one.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
So a lot of people thrived.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And with this project, I wanted to make sure that
the people who were left behind or who felt left
behind understood, Hey, I was right there with you. And
that's why the song when You Pray is so important?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, you got that.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
That's why the.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Song can I love somebody the way I want to
be loved was so important because at that moment, you know,
most people couldn't go visit their loved ones or anything
like that. And you know, we always expect the person
that we are in love with or enamored with to
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go beyond, you know, to capture our love and everything.
But then the question that I found find myself asking,
and I found myself asking as well, is now I'm
requiring all of this of someone else, But am I
willing yes to.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Be what I require?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Exactly? We got to look at ourselves, come on.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
A lot of self reflection and you and listen, we
talked about business.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You also have your jewelry line.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I have my jewelry line, and I'm very proud of that.
It's Joland Adam's Jewelry. You can find it on the
website and Instagram.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Some of the stuff they Oh, I had to do.
When we first started, they were like, Okay, we're going
to do these nice little do me.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I said, listen, I wear nuds, I wear big hoops,
I wear the chunky ear rings. I wear the little
chandelier ear rings. I'm a jewelry girl. I'm a girly girl.
I love, you know, just being able to go into
the you know, the little thing and just pick something out.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Oh, that'll look good today.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And I wanted it again thinking about the pandemic and
people's you know, economics. I wanted it where it was
stylish but also affordable, right right, And so we had yes, yes, absolutely,
And of course we have the watch line. I gotta
get you one, Lady Banneker. I'm the face of lady. Yes.
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You're so excited about that.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You're so passionate about the jewelry and the watch and
Absolute watches and everything too, because it's nice to be
able to do something that you use and you care about.
Sometimes people start businesses just to make money, but it's
so different when it's like I love.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
This absolutely because I feel it's a piece of you.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, it's a piece of me, but also I feel
good when I believe I look good and you know
you are a.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Public got my air said.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was so mad, like, man, what am I.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Going to do? But I'll send you a nice little package.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
But don't worry. We support here.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Oh no, no, no, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Order, I don't support because I love that. That's the
main thing. We want to support businesses like that because
what I love is to be able to see your Lyne,
to see Mary J.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Blige and Simone.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, just to see all of that, like all the
different options that we have that we can purchase.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's a powerful thing.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I remember when Simone went came to Houston our Neemans
and she was doing a trunk show and I said,
oh my gosh, my daughter and my nieces would love
you know, remember the little lollipop with the rhinestones and stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I bought so many of those.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It were not good that we could support it. So
the person behind the brand.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Absolutely and know that there's integrity behind the brand and
that they stand by it, and so yeah, I'm just
really excited about.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So besides that, the reunion tour, my goodness, I don't
know how I mean, but it's amazing. So that has
to be a good time though, because you got like
quite the lineup of gospel artists on tour.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I mean, Kirk Franklin, the.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Clarkss Sierra is opening up. It's like, oh my god,
all of these legacy artists coming together. And we've all
been on tours with one another at some point in
time and for all of our schedules. Here's the miracle,
all of our schedules work together so we could be
on this tour for thirty plus days.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
It's like, wow, they never happened.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It would yeah, it would never happen. Fred and I
have been on two tours together. Kirk and I have
been on three tours together. Marvin and I we've done
some dates together. Uh, you know, like many tours and stuff.
And the Clark sisters we all grew up together, so
to be able to hang out with them and our
you know, our running theme for this tour is just gratitude.
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We're so grateful to be able to go anywhere and
still be influential, still be inspirational and still have a
little you know, flare and a little flash to us
and yet a little edge to us. The folks are like,
oh man, we got to go see that.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah. Uh, you know, we were earlier. I was in
the room before you got here.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We were talking about it about you know, all of
the records that you've sold and all of the accolades
that you've gotten.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That's not something you know, being like the gospel.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Artists of the decade, all of those things, that's not
something that people accomplish a lot in gospel music.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It still blows my mind.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And so yeah, I want to ask you about that.
How do you feel about all of these because sometimes
you have to sit down and be like I did that,
I did a thing.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
And I think for me it's like who are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And then yeah, for any genre and it's like wow,
you feel first, you feel gratitude again, but then you
feel responsibility.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
How do I continue this?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Not trying, not that you know, of course I want
Sunny Days to sell another five to ten million of anything,
thank you Lord, but the responsibility to keep giving great
music because you can't sell that many records without touching
the hearts of people. And so if you make it
your mission to touch the hearts of people, to make
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sure that you give them music that can guide their
lives and can help them celebrate milestones in their lives.
Half of that other stuff is you know, it's just bravy, right,
and so you know, I'm really really grateful for that.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
It still blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And yeah, it's oh a rare thing.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh you know, I know that there's a lot of
you know, up and coming gospel artists that might feel like,
how can I ever achieve that level of success and
to be able to test people's hearts in such a manner, And.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
All it takes is the focus, the determination and the
heart to be willing to say, if I sell a
million copies, fine, but if I touch a million people,
if I touch ten million people, that's more than enough.
Because you know, and I've had conversations with everybody on
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the tour. We never set out, Okay, this record we're
going to sell, so on this record, I'm going to
get this video awards and all that kind of stuff,
because you don't even think about it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
It's like way at the back of the burner, you know.
But to.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Really sincerely want the best for the people who have
guided you, who've watched you grow, who've watched you get married,
who've watched your child be born, and you know, saw
you on stage when you were pregnant, all of that
kind of stuff. Those are the things that really really matter.
And now she's twenty three, so there are a lot
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of people who've been with me thirty.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Forty plus years.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
And I am still in awe of the fact that
God has kept He's more than kept his promise, and
everything that I've asked for, he's superseded. So I don't
care what your genre of music or where you find
yourself business wise or whatever, when you keep your heart
pure and when you make sure that what you're doing
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is to benefit somebody else as well, because it's gonna
benefit years, but to benefit someone else as well. Hey,
the sky is not even the limit.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
But can you tell Danita that because.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oh Danita, Oh well see that's a I don't have
to have that conversation with her like season.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's an episode. Yeah, well, listen.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I appreciate you so much, and congratulations for everything.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean, did I miss I know there's other things,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Oh my gosh, no, that was more than enough. And
thank you again for sharing your platform. I love what
you're doing. I love how you're opening the door for
young women to understand that there's more than enough room
everywhere for everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And listen, whatever I could do, I always want to help.
And there's people that are like new artists, up and
coming women. I'm always like, I know how hard it
is yes to be a woman and to be in
this business, and so if there's anything I can do
to help other people, I'm definitely the person that is
glad to be in this position for that very.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Purpose, and that's why you're in.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
You know, I don't know how what a blessing this
is for me to have you up here, So thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I really thank you. Like I said, I've been following
you for a long time. We've been following you for
a long so proud of everything.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I feel like it's shining on me right absolutely, it
was shining on you when I walked the road, you know,
like it is.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
All you have to do is just show up and
be you. That's the beauty of everything, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Thank you. You can come up here anytime my days,
but thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I appreciate it. Make sure y'all get the album September thirteenth.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
September thirteenth and Sunny Days and the Church Doors, whichever
version you want. You can buy all three if you
want to praise the Lord. It's out right now wherever
you get your great music.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
All right, and we're not going to take a long
break again from putting out an album.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
No we're not, okay, no we're notice. I've already promised.
No I have already prom all right.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know Sylvia Roon got at you, absolute yes she did.
It's rollout doing all right. Well you're lying to Adams.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Angie
What's up. It's way up at Angela.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ye man, I love when we have the definition of
way up here in the building with us, we have
Yolanda Adams.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Such a pleasure to have you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Thank you so much for having me, and congratulations on
all your success.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
You know I followed you for a long time. Ah well,
thank you, this is way up.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Congratulations to you. You have so many things happening at
one time right now. And back to the music where
you know, putting out a new album that must feel
so exciting for you sunny days.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, I love the fact that this is like a
how like a six year journey because we started before
the pandemic and everything.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Jimmy Jim and Terry Lewis and I we write a
lot to each other. I just love my brothers.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
And so we started the day after the Grammys in
twenty eighteen, and then I got busy.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Started doing a lot of overseas travel.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They got busy working with Babyface, and then of course
the pandemic happened, right and that stopped a lot, and
then Kingdom business started and we left that and so
finally I got a break and it was like, okay, good,
let's finish the album, and I'm just so glad that
we're here today talking about it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh my goodness. I love the song Sunny Days too,
the title track. Yes, it gives you such a great feeling,
like just to feel like sunny days ahead. And it's
nice because there's so many things happening in the world
that sometimes we have to feel some positivity.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And that's the reason we wrote the song, because you know,
you look at the climate in any given day, you
can find.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
The worst news that can just shock your world.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, the school shooting just happened in Georgia and
I'm just following on my phone while it's happening, like,
I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And a fourteen year old did that.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I remember last year they said that he threatened to,
you know, to hurt some people, and they didn't go
to the house because Georgia doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Have a red flag law. Wow, so they couldn't red
flag him or they.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Might need that.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, they definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You know, things like this happened and it's like, and
I was talking about this earlier. It was a forty
fifth school shooting so far this year, and it's like
every time it happens like we need to do something,
we need some type of reform, we need new laws.
But then it happens again, and then we just do
the same thing again. It's in circles. And I hate
how politics is more about, like, let me stop this
side from doing something that could benefit people, because I
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don't want them to get credit for it. Absolutely if
I feel like it's never about what's going to help
the most people, it's more about posturing.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
A lot of times, wait.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
For a long time. And what I don't like about
this type of over zealous posturing is that they do
it at the expense of all the people who would
benefit from it.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Like you just say it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I just don't think that if you call yourself a believer,
if you call yourself a person who trusts God or
believes in you know, the spirit of God, they're just
some things you cannot do.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
You cannot say, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I love God, but then you hate people. Oh
I love God, you hate folks, sexuality.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I love God. You're judging, we can't die. It's not
the same guy.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And that's interesting because even now, look now we got
to talk about Kingdom business.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Where she judges everything exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Look, and that was the evil laughing. Yes, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I wasn't for you getting into character for a role
like that because it doesn't feel anything like so connected
to who we look at Yolanda Adams as well.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I am so glad that you have what listen, folks
all in my d MS. I can't support you anymore
because you cussed.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'm like, it's a role in the script.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Call for one cuss word, go to him, go to
Kirk Franklin.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
It's the cuss word that's end the Bible.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, So it's not like I said something out of
the you know, didn't call nobody a b or anything
like that. But I love this role because she's a
meaty kind of you know, deeply.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Confused, conflicted person.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And you know, as acting, while you're acting, you are
actually not just mimicking the person, you're becoming who they are,
so you can authentically project what that character needs to
do at that time. Growing up in the church, and
I know a lot of your listeners know there are
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several different kinds of people that you meet that come
in and out of the church, and there's she's like
a combination of some people that I knew grow growing
up in the church, and of course it's fantasy and
it's a little drama in there because it has to
be great television, it has to be, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
But yeah, she's a mess.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And the more we peel the layers from her, we
find out what her mother did, what her father did,
what everyone around her did to make her such an
ice cold person. And we're very, very different because I
don't believe that I have the right to crush somebody's
dreams or to stop them from living their purpose.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And so yeah, we're really different from them, yes, thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But I think people also do look at church as
like a judgmental place, and.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's not because if we say we want to be
like Jesus, if we say we want to walk like him,
he was the least judgmental person. And I think people
need to just read and if they read the Life
of Jesus, you know, for folks who really don't know
the Bible or anything like that, I tell them to
go and get a Bible that has the rid where
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Jesus is speaking, and you'll find the most compassionate words,
You'll find the most loving words, you'll find the most
empowering words, and you'll find.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
The words that make you feel like, man, I can
make it right.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, and forget what other people say, because you and
God have to have that thing.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You have to have your own relationship.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Absolutely absolutely, were you hesitant because I know it's season
two right for Kingdom Business where you initially when you
first were off of this. It has to give you
some type of like, Okay, it's Kirk Franklin, it's divine Franklin.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I trust that too.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But were you somewhat hesitant because it is something that
is different, you know, for you and for what people
are like, oh, this is not what she and it
is acting, but it's people might say, like you said
in your DMS, this is I can't support you anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Did you think about all of those things?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I didn't care. Okay, and I really didn't care.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I have lived my life knowing that there will be
those people who don't agree with me, who don't like
what I wear, who don't like the way I see.
Thank you so much, thank you so much, But you know,
and that's fine, But stay across the street and I'll
leave you alone.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
You leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Because I grew up in a household where all six
of us as kids had our own individual everything. We
had our own individual sports, we had our own individual
way of dressing. I was the hippie and the family,
so I had the afros and all of that kind
of stuff, the best and stuff like that. And I
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have another sister who was totally designer everything, and you know,
and our parents allowed us that room to be us.
So we grew up in a situation where I didn't
have to be like my sister or my brother or
my cousins. And so, you know, when you get into
the real world and you see, oh, people really.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Don't understand that you can. We can all.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Thrive, we can all get exactly what we want, and
we don't have to knock each other down absolutely, you know.
And the whole social media thing. My daughter can tell
you sometimes I'm on it, sometimes I'm not. She's like, Mom,
you really need to post.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm like, okay, do it for me.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
You go to Taylor is in the room today, cause
you definitely got your whole face. This is a positive blessing.
But she's also an actress, right, is an actress. She
has done what three movies?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Two?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Uh, just graduated a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And now she's in California, you know, and I'm so
proud of her because.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I wanted to be everything.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That her heart desires for her to be because I've
lived my life.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, your life. Oh absolutely, listen.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I see all the moves that you're making. You know,
I think that, first of all, I don't know how
you have time to do it all. So you have
a new album that's coming out, Sunny Days Church Doors.
That single just came out, and you know that is
representative of a lot of things because people come into
that church. So talk to me about about the single
church Doors and what that represents and the message that
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you're giving people in that song.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Well, church Doors.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
We have three different versions of church Doors. We have
the churchy churchy version of church Doors. We have the
house version of church Doors, and we have the extended
house version that includes spoken word poor with j Ivy,
who's a Grammy Award winner and everything. You know, you've
played some of his stuff and now he has commercials
(09:42):
on the NFL and stuff, and I'm like, nephew, the nephew,
I need your help. And so church doors means different
things because, as we know, in the physical realm, you
can have a big cathedral with gorgeous ornate doors, or
you can have a storefront church with just glass doors
(10:02):
that you walk into. And the analogy and symbolism of
church doors is we're actually the church, right, you know,
wherever we go.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
If it's Starbucks, we're the church.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
If it's targeted, you know, not to mention anybody's names
because they're not sponsoring me. But if it's online, church online,
and you know a lot of people are still doing church.
And so our symbolism is listen, although we have a
whole bunch going on in this world, we still have
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something to be grateful for. So when the tagline says,
when you let me make it to the church doors,
I'll tell them what you've done for me. And so
again it's anywhere you go that you feel the need
to tell somebody you know, God is just good.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So that's what church doors is all about it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And as people hear more about you, I am so
sure that people come to you. And yes, because you
have that vibe too, like I just feel like I
could talk to her and tell her anything, you know,
and that's a great positive thing. But that's also like,
who do you talk to when you have things that
you're going through.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh I have, you know, my pastor and I have
first ladies who are friends of mine when we grew
up together. I have my best friends. I have my
my tailor. You know, I don't like to put anything
on her, but you know, I am of the mind
that God will send people to you, especially when you're
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that kind of person. He'll send someone to you right
at the nick of time, you know, and at the
opportune time to share your heart and say.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Hoo, child, I'm just tying, you know, something like that.
And so.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I look at it as not just a responsibility, but
also as a pleasure for me to do it because
I know how hard people work, and I know how
hard they work on their mental I know how hard
they work on their spear ritual and.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
To be able to hold people's secrets.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And to hold their you know, their confidence, that means
a lot to me.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You know, church does you also have the video with
oh my God? That was that was really an amazing video.
I felt bad that I just said, oh my God,
but that was an amazing video. So talk to me
about the concept and coming up with that, because I,
first of all, have never seen him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Do well, you know, okay, so if we go back
to the Bobby Brown, yeah yeah movie, Well you know
the we know he got the moves. Oh my gosh,
he has the moves. And he's such a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You know, I know his power structure right now. It's
kind of like anti bang, you know what it was.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I think, yeah, I think we put him in that
role because that was the most recent one.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
The most recent one, so they sat.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Him do this. The video was like, whoa, what's going
on here?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Listen? I had got so many dms. Oh so you're
taking Woody to church?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And of course you know that used his screen name,
but I thought it was so funny, and I thank
him because he was one of the keys to making
the video go viral.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
And I'm just so blessed. I want it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like I said, like I was explaining church doors, there's
so many different ways that we can look at life.
We can look at spirituality, we can look at our
relationship with God. And I wanted the video to be
bright and full of love and light and all of
that good stuff. So people, you know, I would say,
oh okay, come home, Michelande.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I think I'm a TikTok viral video.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, because I can see people are going to be
recreating that.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So I can't see how it could. I feel like
we got to get that started.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, somebody is going to recreate I think a whole
bunch of people are going to recreate that choreography.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yes, yes, absolutely, I look forward to it. You Fatima.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Shout out to Fatima and Sylvia Rown who came up
with all these great ideas and the video director.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It expresses my, you know, my cool side to speak,
so that means I'm current, you know. But I just
I love the fact that it gives people pause sometimes, like,
oh wait a minute, is this my the.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Battle is the Lord's Lady?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You know?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
And so when they when.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
They see church doors and they see the video and
they hear the different versions.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
They're like, wow, I like that. So yeah, I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And this is their first album. Since you just mentioned
Sylvia Arone on Epic, is that counrrect.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
My first album on Epic?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
She and I were together when Elektra was Elektra back
in the day, and she said, listen, got we gotta
do this one more time, I'm like, Okay, now, if
we do it one more time, we got to do it.
Do it Selphie Okay, It's like okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And she's so invested. I love her, I love my
epic family. I'm I'm so proud of this right, I'm proud.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Of this project.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And you said you've been working on this for sixty year?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
How did it evolve from when you first started to
where we are today with it ready to come out?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I am glad that it took a six year journey.
And here's why. Sometimes we can do something so quick
and so fast and we feel like, oh, that's that
was good, but there's no real life experience happening in there.
So between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty four, we've.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Had a lot of stuff, a lot. But then, isn't
that just like life? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It is.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
That's exactly like exactly like life.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You know, there's a day when you're up and you're
doing well, and there's a day when you're conflicted and like,
oh should I even.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Be doing this?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You know, there's a day when you're like, Okay, I
know I want to do this, this and this, but
let me count up the costs, you know, and you're
a business woman, so you know all about it. Yeah,
I did every in the days when it's like oooh,
I'm done, I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore, and
then something in your heart tugs and said, come on,
come on, just finish finish it thing. You know, because
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I taught Taylor this years ago. My mom grandmother taught
me the same thing. If you start a thing, you
gotta finish it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, And even to start it is a big deal
because sometimes we have ideas and we don't even get
to the starting point.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And in the middle of eighteen nineteen twenty, when everything
stopped almost to twenty one twenty two, there were different
things I was feeling.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I was watching the.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
News and the cynicism was getting, you know, to everyone,
and then we started blaming everyone for the pandemic and
all of this, you know, and then they started blaming
folks for the deaths and all of it. I'm like,
so just speak to me and tell me what I
should be doing, what should I write, so that everyone
who listens to this project can feel I'm not by
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my myself right, because you know, that's one of the
enemy's biggest tricks is to make you feel like you're
the only person on earth out of all these eight
billion plus people, that you're the only one going through.
So you can start feeling sorry for yourself or get
into despair, and then despair turns into depression, and then
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depression turns into self hate and loathing and all of that.
When an actuality is just another day at the office.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Right, Yeah, I mean I think during that time you
were fortunate enough to come together like d nice. Yes,
that was such a moment that never could have happened
versus absolutely ended up happening during that time. More podcasts, yes,
more podcasts and moreativity, you know, and uh and.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So it just it just it was a real test.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's it was a test.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
But it was also a season of creativity, a season
of building, right, A season of restructuring, a season of
trying to figure out, hmm, am I going to stay
in this position?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Or am I going to create my own lane?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
A lot of entrepreneurship. Some businesses actually thrived during that time. Yes,
I had friends who owned the restaurants and they were like, look,
we didn't have to have the whole staff. We just
did take out to go we were able to do
certain things and if not, I would have had to
shut my business down. So it really helped people if
you were able to work and pivot and figure out
the right way to do things. It also made us
realize the importance of being able to be online and
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technology and how that plays such a big role in success,
so that if something happens, you can still keep your business.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Going absolutely and keep your life going.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And keep your life going right and stay connected. I
mean zooms.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I had never been on a zoom prior to the pandemic,
and the next thing you know, I was on a
zoom every day.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yes you were. There were meetings, this, and this was that.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And then shout out to mss Oprah who created this
sisterhood kind of thing. And so myself, Tamlaman, Erica Campbell,
and Tasha Cobbs, Leonard we all got on and we
were laughing and talking and that made a big difference too.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I think laughter had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So when the comedians started doing their thing, it's like, oh, good, Okay,
So I'm waiting for keV on stage, and I'm waiting
for this one and I'm waiting for that one.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
So a lot of people thrived.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And with this project, I wanted to make sure that
the people who were left behind or who felt left
behind understood, Hey, I was right there with you. And
that's why the song when You Pray is so important?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, you got that.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
That's why the.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Song can I love somebody the way I want to
be loved was so important because at that moment, you know,
most people couldn't go visit their loved ones or anything
like that. And you know, we always expect the person
that we are in love with or enamored with to
(20:11):
go beyond, you know, to capture our love and everything.
But then the question that I found find myself asking,
and I found myself asking as well, is now I'm
requiring all of this of someone else, But am I
willing yes to.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Be what I require?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Exactly? We got to look at ourselves, come on.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
A lot of self reflection and you and listen, we
talked about business.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You also have your jewelry line.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I have my jewelry line, and I'm very proud of that.
It's Joland Adam's Jewelry. You can find it on the
website and Instagram.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Some of the stuff they Oh, I had to do.
When we first started, they were like, Okay, we're going
to do these nice little do me.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I said, listen, I wear nuds, I wear big hoops,
I wear the chunky ear rings. I wear the little
chandelier ear rings. I'm a jewelry girl. I'm a girly girl.
I love, you know, just being able to go into
the you know, the little thing and just pick something out.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Oh, that'll look good today.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And I wanted it again thinking about the pandemic and
people's you know, economics. I wanted it where it was
stylish but also affordable, right right, And so we had yes, yes, absolutely,
And of course we have the watch line. I gotta
get you one, Lady Banneker. I'm the face of lady. Yes.
(21:44):
You're so excited about that.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You're so passionate about the jewelry and the watch and
Absolute watches and everything too, because it's nice to be
able to do something that you use and you care about.
Sometimes people start businesses just to make money, but it's
so different when it's like I love.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
This absolutely because I feel it's a piece of you.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, it's a piece of me, but also I feel
good when I believe I look good and you know
you are a.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Public got my air said.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was so mad, like, man, what am I.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Going to do? But I'll send you a nice little package.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
But don't worry. We support here.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Oh no, no, no, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Order, I don't support because I love that. That's the
main thing. We want to support businesses like that because
what I love is to be able to see your Lyne,
to see Mary J.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Blige and Simone.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, just to see all of that, like all the
different options that we have that we can purchase.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's a powerful thing.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I remember when Simone went came to Houston our Neemans
and she was doing a trunk show and I said,
oh my gosh, my daughter and my nieces would love
you know, remember the little lollipop with the rhinestones and stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I bought so many of those.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It were not good that we could support it. So
the person behind the brand.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Absolutely and know that there's integrity behind the brand and
that they stand by it, and so yeah, I'm just
really excited about.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So besides that, the reunion tour, my goodness, I don't
know how I mean, but it's amazing. So that has
to be a good time though, because you got like
quite the lineup of gospel artists on tour.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I mean, Kirk Franklin, the.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Clarkss Sierra is opening up. It's like, oh my god,
all of these legacy artists coming together. And we've all
been on tours with one another at some point in
time and for all of our schedules. Here's the miracle,
all of our schedules work together so we could be
on this tour for thirty plus days.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
It's like, wow, they never happened.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It would yeah, it would never happen. Fred and I
have been on two tours together. Kirk and I have
been on three tours together. Marvin and I we've done
some dates together. Uh, you know, like many tours and stuff.
And the Clark sisters we all grew up together, so
to be able to hang out with them and our
you know, our running theme for this tour is just gratitude.
(24:12):
We're so grateful to be able to go anywhere and
still be influential, still be inspirational and still have a
little you know, flare and a little flash to us
and yet a little edge to us. The folks are like,
oh man, we got to go see that.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah. Uh, you know, we were earlier. I was in
the room before you got here.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We were talking about it about you know, all of
the records that you've sold and all of the accolades
that you've gotten.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That's not something you know, being like the gospel.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Artists of the decade, all of those things, that's not
something that people accomplish a lot in gospel music.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It still blows my mind.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And so yeah, I want to ask you about that.
How do you feel about all of these because sometimes
you have to sit down and be like I did that,
I did a thing.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
And I think for me it's like who are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And then yeah, for any genre and it's like wow,
you feel first, you feel gratitude again, but then you
feel responsibility.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
How do I continue this?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Not trying, not that you know, of course I want
Sunny Days to sell another five to ten million of anything,
thank you Lord, but the responsibility to keep giving great
music because you can't sell that many records without touching
the hearts of people. And so if you make it
your mission to touch the hearts of people, to make
(25:48):
sure that you give them music that can guide their
lives and can help them celebrate milestones in their lives.
Half of that other stuff is you know, it's just bravy, right,
and so you know, I'm really really grateful for that.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
It still blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And yeah, it's oh a rare thing.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh you know, I know that there's a lot of
you know, up and coming gospel artists that might feel like,
how can I ever achieve that level of success and
to be able to test people's hearts in such a manner, And.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
All it takes is the focus, the determination and the
heart to be willing to say, if I sell a
million copies, fine, but if I touch a million people,
if I touch ten million people, that's more than enough.
Because you know, and I've had conversations with everybody on
(26:40):
the tour. We never set out, Okay, this record we're
going to sell, so on this record, I'm going to
get this video awards and all that kind of stuff,
because you don't even think about it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
It's like way at the back of the burner, you know.
But to.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Really sincerely want the best for the people who have
guided you, who've watched you grow, who've watched you get married,
who've watched your child be born, and you know, saw
you on stage when you were pregnant, all of that
kind of stuff. Those are the things that really really matter.
And now she's twenty three, so there are a lot
(27:20):
of people who've been with me thirty.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Forty plus years.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
And I am still in awe of the fact that
God has kept He's more than kept his promise, and
everything that I've asked for, he's superseded. So I don't
care what your genre of music or where you find
yourself business wise or whatever, when you keep your heart
pure and when you make sure that what you're doing
(27:47):
is to benefit somebody else as well, because it's gonna
benefit years, but to benefit someone else as well. Hey,
the sky is not even the limit.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
But can you tell Danita that because.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oh Danita, Oh well see that's a I don't have
to have that conversation with her like season.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's an episode. Yeah, well, listen.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I appreciate you so much, and congratulations for everything.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean, did I miss I know there's other things,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Oh my gosh, no, that was more than enough. And
thank you again for sharing your platform. I love what
you're doing. I love how you're opening the door for
young women to understand that there's more than enough room
everywhere for everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And listen, whatever I could do, I always want to help.
And there's people that are like new artists, up and
coming women. I'm always like, I know how hard it
is yes to be a woman and to be in
this business, and so if there's anything I can do
to help other people, I'm definitely the person that is
glad to be in this position for that very.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Purpose, and that's why you're in.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
You know, I don't know how what a blessing this
is for me to have you up here, So thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I really thank you. Like I said, I've been following
you for a long time. We've been following you for
a long so proud of everything.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I feel like it's shining on me right absolutely, it
was shining on you when I walked the road, you know,
like it is.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
All you have to do is just show up and
be you. That's the beauty of everything, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Thank you. You can come up here anytime my days,
but thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I appreciate it. Make sure y'all get the album September thirteenth.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
September thirteenth and Sunny Days and the Church Doors, whichever
version you want. You can buy all three if you
want to praise the Lord. It's out right now wherever
you get your great music.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
All right, and we're not going to take a long
break again from putting out an album.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
No we're not, okay, no we're notice. I've already promised.
No I have already prom all right.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I know Sylvia Roon got at you, absolute yes she did.
It's rollout doing all right. Well you're lying to Adams.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Thank you so much, Thank you, Angie
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Angela Yee
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