January 5, 2025 • 59 mins
D&A Live - Season 4, Episode 1 "Classical / Contemporary Artist - Michelle Langone". Hosted by Danny & Althea. D&A Live is aired live from Paradise Studios NY via the Strong Island Entertainment Network. www.strongisland.com
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
First off, ladies and gentlemen, this is the new DNA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Go ahead, you started off. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I want to give a big shout out to my
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Shampoo Man, thank you so much for these lovely jackets.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
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There you go. I just wanted to start because this
is our very first episode.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Of and we are just so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So with that said, though, because we're starting off the
show with a very very talented individual. She's a classical
contemporary artist and let me tell you, I fell in
love with her with the first note. Okay, so when
we come back from commercial break, you're going to meet her,
and her name is Michelle A. Gon So sit right back,
(01:16):
don't move, don't change the job dial or whatever you know,
don't don't don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
If you change the dial, I'm gonna haunt you and
we'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
It is bed no, it is, I think all the time.
(01:56):
But it's been two years now, Sinzala.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
In those sides, they.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Put your hand up.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We're inside of war with ourselves. You America. We're gonna
wake up from this where the real Americans.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
A h where we are.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Man, you blinded and you lie, You just send suicide
your own. Everyone pretenses love you, but messing you upping homes,
laughing without the way you can't even afford food, and
everybody looking at you whackings so rude. They thinking that
they love you. Your skin, that's what they see. They
still don't understand the militant wall of speed, but they
ain't good that they got it. They just play for
(02:53):
each other. I said of water trying to come for us,
kill one another. But I woke up last night I
gotta talked to my PIDs them listen, we try to marching.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
What do we get?
Speaker 8 (03:03):
You laughing?
Speaker 7 (03:03):
You cry and you think where you feel in the
skating and say you win All.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
The time they judge gentlemen with chad.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
Maybe you inside the cars.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
They don't want to see you out. They leave you
lock doors, bringing your jawers over the line.
Speaker 10 (03:14):
They're like, it's what they want to try and put
you inside where the lock of smith no block.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's all you want to hear we're just the cops.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Streaming likeness travel the side and we're thinking prices and
putting that too there because.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Crashing the crisis. Now, they hadn't tell the way how
they even look.
Speaker 10 (03:29):
They try to lock us up and up with down,
trying to play the one that get his chuck every time,
trying to get him fu over shop tell you got
his head and love and the try be churning that
we're close with the phone next to each other's hears.
But we in my socialst and say cahoon.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
The years and try to acting like we ain't one
inside at home, we acted like that. We ain't want
a wayside, I said, gone, I shall, let's.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Fine, DNA isn't the house? Make sure you check out
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the radio station that what mister and miskit's on. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know, you know what's so cool about that, just
watching the growth in all of our careers, Like you know,
when I'm taking a look and I'm seeing back and
lock you up or from seeing doing fight for your rights.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, those are like three years ago, years ago, so.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We've come a long way, baby.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, And if anybody's listening right now, I know I
got to get better commercials.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We're starting the new year off so far with the
new logo animation, so yeah, but I'm pretty impressed with
that one. Okay, thank you. So anyway, we have a
beautiful artist coming up right now and she is in
classical and contemporary music and she's done a little country too,
(05:15):
I think. But you got to meet her because she
is fabulous. So please welcome to the show, Michelle Lingo.
Oh please, I'm glad you came.
Speaker 11 (05:29):
Such a beautiful introduction.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Thank you, You're welcome. You know why because it was
funny when I was talking to Samantha, you know, and
I was they were telling me who was going to
be on the show, and you know, you're always like
skeptical what you're going to get, right, and then she
sent me the songs and you had me at Breath
(05:53):
of Life. Wow, thank you.
Speaker 11 (05:56):
I still can't believe that that, out of all the songs,
is the one that made it to radio, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, that's all to radio. So he's saying like it's
on the media, it's on the charts right now for
right Yeah.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
I yes, it's on the charts. Last time I was
notified it was number fifty seven on top forty.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I could not actually believe on top the ladies and gentlemen,
she's getting that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You give her the applause right now for that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Applause.
Speaker 11 (06:27):
Man, it's all glory to God, because that was actually
my first worship song that I'd ever written, because I
started out kind of just exploring pop territory, but then
I realized the longer I was writing music, everyone was like,
you're Christian artist, aren't you. And I was like, well,
that's not necessarily what I was going for. But someone
(06:48):
was like, if the shoe fits, you know, and I
was like, well, I guess that is what I write about.
I mean, I so, I guess that's what I am.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Because she has such a it's like one of those
I don't want to say. I don't want to compare
her yet because I want you to listen to the
songs before I say it. Because when I heard her,
it automatically took me to two women. Take I'm not
going to tell you all.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
I'm so excited to hear this, Okay, there are twos.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
There were two women who I actually I thought of
right away with her voice and it's just a powerful vibrato.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm excited to hear it.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 12 (07:32):
Well.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
I've worked many years on developing that vibro because I
actually used to only be an opera singer before I
traversed into the world of like, you know, mainstream music.
Because my goal is I wanted to share the art
with the world. I didn't want it to just be
you know, me singing songs in Italian, German, French or
Latin for the rest of my life that no one
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understands what it's about. But I wanted to write music
that really connected with people's hearts. So that's why I
switched fears so intensely.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Background.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm just I Will, I'm just this woman, because you
know what it is. I come from a musical background
because of my mother, and she was a soprano sure
a lot of musical theater as well as a younger girl.
Speaker 11 (08:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my god. So when I hear you, I think
about my mom, you know, saying like I make that transition,
and I'm like, if I wish my mother was around
right now, she would have just loved her. She would
have you know, my mom to make me cry.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But you know what, when you're when you bring.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Out the best in somebody like that. I mean, because
I was reading about you. I mean, you sang. She
sang in the school choir from eleven years old to
eighteen correct.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
Yes, the choir girl soprano.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You know what I'm saying. So you had that that
It wasn't like it was the beginning, right, It's all
the beginning of you know, because you learn everything. I
went into the chorus too in high school. I was bad,
but you know I still went into the chorus because
my mom was hoping that I would get her vocals.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Never did.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But you know that's scary. I'm just saying, your brother
got her vocals in. My brother got it. My brother
had vocals. He was a good bass.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
You guys are hearing my brother. Oh my goodness. My
brother also the chorus. He's insane. He's just very shy.
He's like, you can have the spotlight, Michelle, I'm going
to be in the shadows. I'm like, one day I'm
going to bring you all stay with me, and we're
going to tear it up.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
She's done that all her life. She fell in love
with that method of expression when you're in the choir,
it's so different than just saying it's just a different
feeling for the listener, and she brings that. So when
she was also in the Florida All Stay Choir from
twenty twelve, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen. Correct, Oh my.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
Goodness, you really did do your research. You went into
the archives.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, you know, because I what I do is I'm
not I always tell it like I told you, I'm
not Barbara Walters. I'm more like Carol Burnett. But I
try to get little snippets so this way we can
have a conversation. Right. That's so excited.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
I'm so grateful you brought this up. Because I usually
talk about my transition from being a classical to a
contemporary singer. I never talk about my roots, and the
roots are the foundation of myself. So this is incredible,
the little great conversation starter. This is like the foundation
of my reality was singing at school choirs and just
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falling in love with.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
These music, theater and stuff like theater exactly of the opera.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
No, I didn't do a fanom of the opera. I
auditioned for Fantom of the Opera and I never got
a call back.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But still you were you saying wishing you were somewhere.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
Oh, yes I did do that. Yes I forgot that
was in high school and you didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Okay, score one for Alia.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
You're amazing. This is an amazing interview.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Can you sing me a little bit of that?
Speaker 11 (11:08):
Sure? I should we go from the chorus?
Speaker 13 (11:14):
Yeah, who wishing young.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Wish knowing you a song. Sometimes it seems.
Speaker 13 (11:34):
If I just read.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Somehow what.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
I haven't sung that in years?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh my god, Actually talent, it's not even talent, it's
just it's samarizing. Excuse me, ladies, it's cool. That's why
she went over the awards.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh we got to get to that guy, Albie Award.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
This is so I'm like, oh, this is hard for
me to thank you how I am right now? Because
when you hear that, that tone that you have, I mean,
it's it's not something that you just jump into. It's
something that you were born with. And then little by
little as you go to the choir and the chorus
and stuff like that, it kind of takes it out right.
(12:28):
Trying to say it brings it out in you. People
they have never known it. But when you you know
what I'm saying. But when you go to the musical
theater and the choir and stuff like that, and then
you start singing like, damn, I had this all this time.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
Oh my gosh, I'll never forget that. I was like
sixteen years old and I was like, I didn't know
because I started training with a vocal coach at sixteen,
and that's when the sound really came out. You know,
it definitely took years and years to develop, like of
singing voices, not like learning an instrument. It's actually a
very deeply personal journey with your own genetics, your own DNA,
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your own health ups and downs, which I've had a
lot of, and your like you know, your hormonal changes,
especially as a woman, throughout the cycle, throughout life, there's
so much fluctuation. But but like it always comes down
to the breath. And which is why I love the
song Breath of Life because it really is like my
thank you to God of you know, speaking like life
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into well, you gave me this breath, and I translate
this breath into music as like my gratitude.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You know, go ahead, Sorry, My first thing is you trained,
so you.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Started to realize your vocal potential at sixteen?
Speaker 11 (13:41):
Yes, I would say, well, I mean I had a
little bit earlier than that, because I would say eighth
grade was like my breakthrough year because that's when I
was like, all right, I'm really gonna go hard. I'm
gonna take all of the classes. I'm gonna, you know,
audition for all state. I'm gonna audition for theater. And
I had my first like somewhat lead role in a
musical at like eighth grade. I played Savon Trapp, which
was not Maria, but it was like von Trapp's wife
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and the sound of music, like the diva. I always
played the diva roles or like the woman that like
with like seems sweet but then like would lose her
mind later in the show. Like it's the roles I
always like, I really enjoyed playing really complicated. It's like
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you guys, like music is my It's probably it's my
it's my love. You know, it's everything to me. It's
hard for me to separate myself from it. There have
been times when I needed to for mental health, but
I always come back to it. You know.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I feel like everybody has that music because it's so
much overwhelming and the sad thing about music is and
people don't realize it is there's so much talent that
never gets their time to ever shine, you know. And
this is for me being in the industry, sol realizing that,
like it really will break.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You down mentally.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
Oh oh one hundred percent a thousand. It's broken me
down mentally. This this whole breath of Life thing kept
coming up for me was like wait what. I was like,
hold on, I'd given up a while ago, you know.
It was like God wasn't finished with me yet, you know.
I and I just gave so much love and devotion
to this project.
Speaker 14 (15:25):
You know.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Breath of Life is one of the tracks on the
album From My Soul to Yours, which is what I
worked on for two years because my first two albums
like no one heard, you know, and I just kept
I was like, well, I love this and it's the
only thing that really makes me happy, you know, so
I'm just going to keep going with it. And eventually
we got to we got some traction. You know. It's
beautiful to see and I love, you know, collabing with
(15:48):
other artists, like I have some collapse coming up next
year that are like with artists and completely different genres
as me, like hip hop, you know, stuff like you know,
just to really test myself to see, like.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What can I do?
Speaker 11 (16:01):
You know, I love it's a theater kid, you know,
different roles and we like to explore and be different.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know what I like about what she just said
basically is that's what's gonna make you a good artist.
It is because you like to challenge yourself and a
lot of people want to stay in the safe zone.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're like, you know what, I'm just going for it.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
That's like, that's like a meme. You should make a
meme of me being like, you know what, I'm just
go for it. That's exactly how I got to this point.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But that's what I love the most.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I love when an artist wants to challenge itself because
come on, let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We live in in a world right now. I am
going to be the same person.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I am a robot, and I'm not gonna sit there
and try to lead, you know what I mean, Like
we're sitting there.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Everything is repetitive.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's no, it's no, it's not how when we were younger.
It's not or it's not original.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Everything got to sound the same, everybody got to look
the same, everybody got.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
To talk the same. And it's how when we were younger,
when it was like I don't want to be like you. Yeah,
and to everybody looking at me right now, I don't
want to be like you.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
That's crazy, because I mean one of the songs on
there is called original, and it was a song that
I wrote, and I was like, I don't know should
I put it out? And my team was like, this
is like one of your best songs because it's it
almost felt like hard for me to even claim that
I wanted to be original, you know what I mean,
especially as someone that saw other people's music my whole
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life and was always so prim and proper and always
like you know, in the lines and you know, choir girl.
It was so nice to just break free from all
of those like rules and restrictions and confines, like yes,
I'm a Christian artist, but also I can work with
a hip hop artist, but also I can do jazz,
and also I like all of the types of music
out there, because music is God's form of Russian that
(18:01):
is a gift to us humans, and you know, it
is one of the most beautiful, spiritual things I've ever
experienced in life, you know. So that's exactly it you
hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
What the thing is, You're talented, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Let's just put it in the grapevine. Ted, you know
where you're going. You gotta plan. God's gonna lead you.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Now, wait, wait when we talk about other you know,
avenues and other things that we've seen in this game,
we know it's called the dark side and we don't
want to go to that side.
Speaker 11 (18:34):
Oh I almost quit music because of all that stuff.
I was like, please protect me from that, Like it's
so intense.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm not gonna lie to you. Okay, the dark side
is a dark side, and if you got light, you're
not a god yourself away from that dark side.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So let's just be real with that. Another thing, too,
is what I love is that your music has a
meaning in every single aspect. So me and a DJ,
when I was listening to it, I was like, yo,
I can play this because A it makes you feel good.
B I love Honestly. I was watching the videos and
I can't wait for my viewers to see it as well.
(19:10):
But I loved and I was telling her about the videos.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It was so detailed, Oh God, and you know it
was funny at one point when I when I played
a Breath of Life and.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know what, let's start talking about Let's okay, we'll.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Just play it, but I just wanted to give the
little backstory about that. Yes, okay, So.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
I have more videos coming this year, like way more.
I only have two on my YouTube so far, because
that was the part of my artist career that I
struggled with the most, was like creating videos, and this
year I was finally able to get what I needed
and we're launching them this year. So tuned.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
No, that's excellent to hear, but because we got crazy
people that just want to, you know, just keep the
camera and then any cud.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Of video and all send the videos out. You're like,
nothing to do with the record, you see. I see
they just walk around with kids.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
Has nothing to do with the record.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But anyway, anyway, like I was saying, okay, when I
played Breath of Life, he looked at me because I
got all like emotional, and he didn't. He didn't understand it.
And I said, you'll look, you'll understand when you hear
the song. So he listens to it, he understand, So please,
we don't have a video for it, but I don't care.
(20:28):
We're playing that breath of life. Please we can.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Take them on, you can take it off and so cute.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Say see the world dude, slowing you love is so
alive and it chafes my heart.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Keeps me be.
Speaker 16 (21:08):
Breathing on, surrounding me more than the space and time
in my breast.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Hi, sid of a million of jus, song of.
Speaker 17 (21:33):
Heads, the two tables.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
When I'm trying.
Speaker 17 (21:42):
And discard, you take my two dreams things cool world,
a breath.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Of You're so loved, cheap, smart, cheers me, every thing
n sold most start timing a line so time Scotty
(22:35):
Jes resents my scouts.
Speaker 15 (22:49):
You been the breath of life, your lone, so life.
It jeeves my heart burning it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Je for the first time. But no, no, you don't,
(23:30):
he literally said.
Speaker 18 (23:31):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I said no, I listen, I know because you're wrong.
Turn it off now, thank you?
Speaker 11 (23:39):
You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You know what because we do this.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Wow, ladies and gentlemen watching right now, did you hear
what she just said to the music expert.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
Wait what happened? What happened?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Because a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Times what we do is when somebody singing and we're
playing their song. We both write like little notes to
each other, like who we think they sound like or whatever? Right,
oh okay, he wrote someone and I said, now I'm
going to go with it, but I would love to
hear this.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Who who?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
He said, Selene Dion.
Speaker 13 (24:11):
I get that a lot.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Actually, when I sung this live at a healing center
this summer, everyone said I sounded like Celene Dion's like
child or something.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Can I just say why?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
The reason why I want to say that is because
of the way that you hit the note. She hits
the note in her pipes, compliment her Celene Dion had
the best pipes I have heard when it goes like Selene.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
You know what's so funny is that I actually grew
up listening to her, and I actually did model my
voice after her her Barbers and later on Lady Gaga,
and then when I wanted to get to get into
more pop.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You're not helping her all right?
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Hold on, sorry, I'm so curious. Who did you say
I had?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Whatever?
Speaker 11 (25:08):
I don't really know what I sound like in terms
of like, I'm just saying that these.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Are all night If you want, okay, maybe to blow
her mind. Maybe it won't. I don't know. I said,
two people. One person she reminded me of was Leanne Rhymes.
One person if you see actually Leanne Rhymes when she
was on the Mask Singer and she sang Billie Eilish's
(25:32):
song Wow. You reminded me particularly of that, of that specifically. Okay,
then when you hit your high notes and stuff, you
know who you reminded me of. Remember the greatest showman
on earth? Remember that? Remember Lauren Aldred.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Read the Queen. Okay, that's crazy because I absolutely adore her.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's what she reminded me of.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Right, if you're watching this, I love you, Jacket. But
so I know I used to sing that song never enough,
like on repeat, like when I was in college. I'm
obsessed with that song.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Can you sing a little bit of that right now?
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Sure, let's do it. Oh my gosh, this is a
little bit of a pipier one. I'll go from the beginning.
Speaker 18 (26:23):
I'm trying to hold my breath, let it stay this.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Way, can't let this smallment and you set off for
me getting loud? Now can you hear?
Speaker 11 (26:50):
H it?
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Ud take my hand?
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Will you share this with me? Starting without you let's see,
we're gonna do this part. All the shine of a
thousand spotlights, all the stars that we steal from the
night sky.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
Will never be enough, noa be enough.
Speaker 18 (27:24):
Towns of gold to still too little, these hands could.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Hold never be enough, no be enough, never never enough?
Speaker 11 (27:43):
You know because.
Speaker 9 (27:46):
What I was talking about now, you guys are right.
Speaker 11 (27:49):
I love those singers. They're great, They're my favorites. Actually,
I have like this place he has nothing to say
right now, and I have like all those singers on.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There has nothing to say.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, I don't know, I know.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
See you guys both win.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You know because I was like, oh my god, because
when Leanne Rhyme saying on the mass singer and they
didn't know obviously who she who was behind the mask,
but when she came out with that belting tone, that's
what made me think of you with the breath of life.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh wow, I agree.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
It took me so hoppy. You guys love that song, Like, oh,
it means a lot to me because you know, being
in the pop world and like, you know, coming out
with a worship song, it's like, oh, you're kind of
switching gears because it's like, well, if you're not like
a full time music like leader, you're more of a
pop artist. You're like not Christian enough to be like,
you know, signed to like a Christian record label, but
(28:46):
you're not worldly enough to like you know, be like
you know, in the mainstream. So it's like I've been
really traversing this very uncomfortable like in between territory in
the realm of music, where I'm not sure where to
put myself and other people kind of categorize me for me,
and I'm like, listen, like I'm just like my Instagram
(29:08):
bio says, like I'm just a vessel of God's love,
Like I'm just here to eternally express through poetry and song.
I'm just having a good time, you know. Thank you
for being here, thank you for listening. I really enjoy it.
Like thank you that like some of these songs resonate
with you, because sometimes I think I'm way too in
my head. My teammates are like, you know, come down
to earth when you're writing songs, you know, make it
more relatable, but sometimes, you know, I felt like Birth
(29:30):
of Life was relatable because of the concept of like
the second verse of like when I'm drowning and discouraged.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, the thing is right, give me a courage. My
quick device is is.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I always said the best songs come for feelings, right,
And everybody wants people to write, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
What I'm saying. Like they'll sit there for hours and
they'll write their little rhymes of their song and something
is meaningful.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, And when something is just something that somebody had
just written for you and that I'm hearing, I'm meaningful.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Like I can literally sit there and just feel the
spirit of your voice in the music while I'm there.
And you know, you hear a lot of records that
are like, okay, all right, you know what I mean?
I listen. I feel like if I'm not honest with people,
it's they're just terrible. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Know what you mean?
Speaker 11 (30:27):
Because I feel that the care of music has kind
of gone away. Music has sort of become this like,
you know, time and you gotta put a song out,
We gotta do this, we gotta do really fast. It
took me very long to make these songs because of
the time and the love that was put into it.
So I'm really grateful that that translates through it. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I don't feel like she's an artist that's going to
be forgotten. You know, this is really dope. I the
TikTok people, I look at them, stole them. They're gone forever.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You know what I say.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
I mean when you mentioned TikTok because everyone's like, you
gotta get on TikTok, and I'm like, I'm so bad
at TikTok, Like I really that's like my like my
lowest platform.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Give me too TikTok.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I really, Oh you I don't do to be I
have you on? Do you have your own TikTok? You
just don't know about it?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Anyway, so what I was saying, don't worry about talking
about don't.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Worry about it.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Everything was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (31:25):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
But also even the dog has TikTok.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
You know TikTok.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You know, let me finish this and then okay, you
go finish it. How are you up? Because I want
to put another song on.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Your voice is rare. That's all I need to say.
I love the way it sounds. And let's get to
the next song.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Okay. Can we get to the next song as song
as you pick? Okay, I want mister producer man, I
want reimagined.
Speaker 11 (31:52):
Oh home, reimagine. Let's shout out to Angelica director. Maybe
the underwater.
Speaker 15 (32:02):
Been for the way you and ihold don't out the
quatest lord.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
I didn't know.
Speaker 19 (32:11):
I've fought the birds and wars in the sky, but
I heard your foe when I consed my thighs.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I can call.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Ho ho.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Ho ho.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
To you.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
You you.
Speaker 15 (33:16):
Got every touch feels like the very first time I
left my old world time.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Now we speak p we loud. It's kind of inn.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Give up.
Speaker 11 (34:13):
W you.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Since time creation.
Speaker 11 (34:28):
Let you.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
I took welck my for me. Don coming home to
a sol sup? Sup home? Come with you? O oh.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Ew ew wow, that's crazy to watch again.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
My question to you was right, And this is what
I want to know. How did one where did you
shoot that scene?
Speaker 11 (35:43):
Okay, so which one? The above water? Underwater in a
person who had a heated pool in the middle of
February time last year in Miami, Florida. And yeah, let's
just say I had to hold my breath for really
long time.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Well, oh my god, Oh no, I was normous.
Speaker 11 (36:04):
We're singing, came in, you know, breath of life. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I was like I cannot even I'm not gonna lie
to you right like five seconds the border.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
I did have to keep coming up and down. But
there were like, you know, like those moments where I
was dancing, you know, like I was pretty hell down there.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Let me just say that was a pretty pretty cool video.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (36:26):
I have my beautiful friend Angelica Borland to thank for
that concept. Do you guys want to hear about like
the meaning behind it? Go ahead, I love nerding out
about the meaning behind videos. This one is a particularly
meaningful one. So Home was actually this like classical piece
of music from my very first EP album, which was
(36:47):
released on Tune First twenty twenty two, and I, as
I was starting the release season of my full length
debut album for My Soul to Yours, I wanted to
resurrect that song and sort of make it like this
EDM breakthrough piece that caught people's attention long enough to
have people continue to listen. As I was kind of
(37:09):
like I was basically releasing a song a month all year,
as I was also continuing to make music videos for
all of my songs for this new album promotion cycle,
and so it was an insanely busy year, and glory
to God he helped me get everything and then some done.
But this music video is what kicked off the year
because I didn't think I would be able to actually
(37:31):
make a music video. But this concept was an Angelica's
mind since like April of twenty twenty two, but it
didn't actually get brought to life until February of twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
So she had this.
Speaker 11 (37:42):
Concept of having this underwater music video to represent the
mother's womb and this sort of like being in the
womb of creation, and like that whole scene underwater in
the white dress is like basically like God is forming
your soul and in the Mother's womb and like that
whole like dancing. This is like a very interpretive mind
that I have. The dancing underwater was actually representing like
(38:07):
the forming of your being and like that cosmic like
primordial like that just you know that creative energy that
you know that formed things into being and that explosive light.
You know that that's what our souls are made of.
And so then coming out of the water in the
scene in the studio, which was actually at Miami, Florida
(38:29):
studio Wool Studios, it's just you know, a plain background
white like jud juxtaposing the black background underwater, we did
a white background and a black dress. It's actually Angelica's dress,
And that funny sort about the white dress, that white
dress is actually what I'm wearing in the From My
Soul to Yours album cover and then the Eternal album
cover and then the Eternal music video which is coming out.
(38:52):
So like I've used that dress many times. It is
just a plain white dress and it's representing you know,
like that that that like Bride of Christ, sort of
like Peter's soul energy and so yeah, I mean there's
so many layers of meaning with being above the water
represents sort of like that feeling of being disconnected from home, right,
(39:13):
Like being under the water is like you're in the
womb and then you were birthed out and then you
felt separate from where you came from, you know, and
coming out of the water, and like that scene where
I'm talking about like you know, like I'm banging against
the walls, I'm like, oh, like get me out of here,
you know, I don't I want to go home. That's
(39:33):
the name of the song, right. The whole concept is like,
you know, God was in here all along, Like I
was looking all over the place and I came home
and so that's like the whole meaning behind it. It's
crazy how like we did some visuals, you know, visuals
tell the story a lot better sometimes.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
No, that was that is so deep.
Speaker 14 (39:55):
Everything my team and I do is like fifty layers
of meaning in depth, and like sometimes you know, even
in the unplanned shoots, God really comes through with really
unplanned magical things.
Speaker 11 (40:07):
And I can't wait to share with you guys in
the future about that because I can't tell you yet
because it's not yet. There have been so many magical
things that have happened in the making of all of
this that it's insane. I can't wait to share more
with you guys.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
There's so much that's But also I wanted to get
into something else before we get another the other video
because she's also she gives back this girl, Okay, she
gives back because I met also about you can tell
us a little bit more about singing for smiles.
Speaker 11 (40:38):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 11 (40:42):
Wow, you really did your research. Thank you.
Speaker 20 (40:45):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (40:45):
I feel very seen right now because that has been
the pride and joy of my existence with my ironically,
I met the person that we created it together in
high school in choir. We were like, it was me
and two other chorus sopranos. Shout out to Dali Marienfeld
and Nicole bermerher they're all kind of doing their own
(41:06):
thing now. But you know, we actually reconnected recently with
Delhi and she's like, we really do have the intention
of making it a bigger thing than it ever was
bringing that back because what happened was I had done
it all of high school and all of college, and
then the pandemic happened and that we weren't allowed to
go anymore. So but basically, singing for smiles was something
(41:27):
that myself and you know, rounding up the troops of
different musicians and singers and actors and performers in my area,
whether I was in high school or college, and going
to different places around town such as nursing homes, rehabilitation centers,
children's hospitals, places that needed music the most. You know,
(41:48):
we get the privilege of like going to pay for
concert tickets to go you know, joy music or even
like listening to it on our phones, but unfortunately in
these locations that's not the case, and so bringing that
light and that positivity to these locations was it gave
me a meaning and a purpose that you know, all
(42:09):
of the awards and all of the like you know,
ostentatious accolades of like oh yeah, your voice and all this,
like you know, judging, you know, performance assessments, none of
that mattered anymore to me because I found true meaning
of why I do what I do when I was
in high school doing Satan for smiles and seeing the
people light up and have their day changed and have
(42:31):
their whole mood uplifted, and just seeing the power of
sound and like you can change the whole room with music.
And that's why I made a vow to never make
music that was like a drag, you know, like I
have like one sadder song coming out, you know, because
everyone wants a good sad song here and there. But
for the majority of what I put out, it's consciously
(42:52):
created to be very uplifting and like smokeling, because I
feel like the world needs more of that. We've gone
through a lot here, all of us, you know, in
different ways, and that was my purpose behind it. And
if you don't have a strong purpose guiding you, like
you said this industry will eat you up like it
is a terrible thing sometimes, and so I felt like
I had this north star because of my early experience.
(43:16):
You know, I had a real like guiding light showing
me like you're gonna You're meant to make music that
is meant to uplift other people.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
You know.
Speaker 11 (43:25):
That's why you have the gift and you have the
discipline too, because it is hard. You know, it really
is hard to do. That's why not everyone does it,
you know, and it actually costs a lot of relationships
sometimes because people don't understand like, oh, you know, like
how intense your music can be with all its ups
and downs and.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Five.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yeah, well listen, she knows because she's seen me, and
she's seen all the promises, and she's seen all the people.
Speaker 19 (43:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
What's really hard.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
At the game. It is so hard being married to
a rapper.
Speaker 11 (44:01):
Go ahead, it's funny that you mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
What's very hard is she has measured it.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Okay, what's very hard is basically you don't know who's
got your best interest, whose genuine, You don't know who's real, because.
Speaker 11 (44:23):
That's what you got to keep your ogs around you.
That's that's how I've been able to handle your ogs,
like the people that were with you when you were
literally no one. Yeah, when you were just a choir girl.
You know, like that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
That's given some Ojesus when you get to a certain
level and a certain point, as they feel.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Like they deserve more than what they gave in and
they think that you can give them more, I know,
than what you have right now, that's only one thing.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
About It's like they want to share the piece of
the pie, not.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Even like you know what I mean, like I believe
you mean, we started together. Let's all eat together, right,
We're not. I always believed and I always told her
this is why I feel like DNA and the brand
and everything went far, is that you want to just
be yourself. You don't need to be even if you
want to the platinum status, want to the high status.
Always know, we'll keep yourself grounded, because honestly, god man,
(45:20):
that's where you're gonna land anyway.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, you know amen, right, real, it's so funny.
Speaker 11 (45:26):
Yeah, that's facts. Keep yourself ground.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
That's excellent to hear that you do all that, you
know what I mean? And I love doing hearing with
the nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
And stuff like that as well. I want to get
to the last video because when he got fifteen minutes. Okay, okay,
that is so awesome.
Speaker 11 (45:40):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
The last question I have for her is I wanted
to know who's the rapper that told you to expand
your horizons?
Speaker 11 (45:49):
Wow, that's crazy that you mentioned that. Well, he is
my closest person in my life for many years. The
only word I can call it is like a divine counterpart.
You know, he was my best friend in college and
we had, you know, our fair share of relationships with
(46:13):
each other, ups and downs throughout the years. But I
will never speak a bad word about him because he
is He's the reason why I do what I do,
and that's why he's the reason why I mean it's
you know, there's many songs on my album about him
and our origins and like how how he gave me
(46:34):
the courage and the belief in myself to go for
this and I never thought that I could, And he
helped me actually become a songwriter, like because before I
was a theater kid, I was a choir kid, I
was an opera and he started freestyling and he's like, hey,
be my music partner. And then next thing, you know,
I'm just channeling things that I can't even believe that
(46:55):
are coming out of my mouth in response to his energy.
And that was my first really deep collaboration and we
I still feel like we will work together in the future.
Right now, he's actually in firefighting school. Oh God, bless him.
I'm so happy for him. He's he's an amazing human.
He's gone through a lot, but I know that he
(47:17):
is someone that I will always love eternally. Like that's
actually kind of what the song Eternal is about. It's
because I.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Have this like soul of love for this person connection.
Speaker 11 (47:29):
Yeah, you brought a love connection. Listen. I'm gonna like
just make make it very public, like this person, I
won't ever say a negative word out like even if,
like our relationships are up and down sometimes, Like I
love this person eternally. He is my best friend. He
is so creative. He's a good person, he really is.
(47:50):
He tries really hard, you know, and I feel like,
you know, have you guys ever heard of the concept
of like like a twin soul, Like you know, like
I feel like he's like the male version of me.
I feel like when God made us, he made us
male and female.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
You know there was I am the girl version of you.
Speaker 11 (48:12):
No way, have you ever met someone that you felt
was like you but in a different like?
Speaker 2 (48:19):
No, no, no, let's get to get to the song.
Stop pointing at me, so let's get to the next song, Danny.
Speaker 11 (48:29):
I love your Louisa song song.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
So let's get to the next song. Now, please that night.
Speaker 11 (48:36):
Yeah, it's my first Christmas song. Shot in New York.
Speaker 8 (48:52):
Shot a shepherd was Carly thunderous horn sad night. Somewhere
in the dark.
Speaker 15 (49:12):
Nets the lost, broken herded found reason to hold.
Speaker 8 (49:23):
Sad night. When the light came, and a child chap
the world.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
For child.
Speaker 18 (49:41):
Sang in his glady, the greatest of stary twelve be hard,
we have joint, we have peacelove, and live.
Speaker 8 (49:59):
We Because of.
Speaker 12 (50:03):
Night, sad night, the king became lowly, so humbilliot, homely.
Speaker 8 (50:19):
Just a babe in the straw, and.
Speaker 12 (50:24):
Manundered would long alibi.
Speaker 18 (50:30):
She could sing for her son, who the world awaited
on of a great father day to say you would
come and head.
Speaker 6 (50:42):
Wood. And the charge since thor.
Speaker 8 (50:53):
God in joy was.
Speaker 6 (50:57):
The same his. The greatest stuff stuff is j E beacon,
we have joy.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
We happius beneve.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
Be consult and when the and the choice.
Speaker 8 (52:07):
Joy.
Speaker 20 (52:13):
Although it's saying aetnyth the rates of stop we have joy,
we happy?
Speaker 6 (52:29):
No bang.
Speaker 21 (52:32):
Pe coustop we have joy, we happy bangs.
Speaker 6 (52:48):
Bek sa.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Not all right New York for this.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
I'm just guys were so cute.
Speaker 11 (53:17):
I loved like your reactions. I was watching you guys.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Okay, oh my god, hot in here.
Speaker 11 (53:26):
That was a one day turnaround music video we shot
in New York.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Yea, make it quick?
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Are you originally from New York?
Speaker 12 (53:36):
My dad is.
Speaker 11 (53:39):
Yes. I was born in Hollywood, Florida.
Speaker 9 (53:42):
Cheeople that are not from New York for some reason,
for some reason, catch the best footage.
Speaker 11 (53:56):
I was home there, you know, like it was easy.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I was looking at every thinking, I'm like, I don't
even know those damn spots in New York.
Speaker 11 (54:04):
Can I tell you my secret? Can I honestly tell
my secret? Before we shoot anything, before I write anything,
before we do anything, we pray like we pray to God.
We literally ask God to guide our steps and he
just lays the path in front of us. Like it
is insane, like these videos that we've been shooting have
been insanely divinely orchestrated like it has been magical, like
(54:28):
nothing short of a magical experience. Plus my teammates are
insanely talented, so then they just, you know, we just
kind of work like an orchestra all together.
Speaker 2 (54:36):
You know, she went to the vessel. I don't want
to even I can't go to the vessel.
Speaker 11 (54:40):
That's crazy. Shout out to mother Mary. Right the vessel.
Saw a lot of the light coming through the vessel.
Did you see that?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
That's the first thing I saw.
Speaker 6 (54:53):
It was.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
New York was like.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Being in New York.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
When we shoot a video, you go look at that
old bill, and we don't want to go right into
that bill.
Speaker 9 (55:08):
That's a huge, nice, big, huge.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
You know what it is.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
There's a lot of people in New York. And let
me just tell you. You asked about let's say twenty
people from New York and ask them how many of
them have been to the Empire State Building, you'd be
surprised not all of them will say yes.
Speaker 11 (55:21):
I say what you mean, because you know, I've even
shot in my home city in Miami, and it's like
when you live somewhere you kind of are like, kind
of not they did as much as like a tourist.
You're like, oh, these are like the shots, you know,
like you knocked it out. You know, well, actually God
mapped it out. We didn't. We just kind of had our.
Speaker 2 (55:40):
Want to a lot of New Yorker I'm just saying,
next time you have your friends over something, ask them
how many of them have been to the stature liberty.
They're gonna say none, none, exactly agreed that they don't
take advantage of some of the beauty of the certain
places at the school trip was Twin Towers. Oh you
know what, so long ago, dude, you're making yourself look
(56:03):
really old right now, okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (56:06):
So with that video was like modern day woman changed
by God walking through the city grids, you know, in
the middle of the in the world, but not of
the world.
Speaker 6 (56:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (56:21):
I feel like I just think very deeply because you know,
it says in scripture that God put eternity in the
hearts of man. And actually that's that's why I wrote
the song eternal.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
Oh hello, hello, we lost her God to me.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
So I feel that what you said, because you froze
for a second but don't worry for a second.
Speaker 11 (56:42):
So frozen again. Okay, Okay, So, as I was saying,
you just.
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Killed the game, it's ober, it is. No, it's not.
I'm not saying the show. I'm just saying that she was.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
In the middle of a conversation.
Speaker 11 (57:02):
Sorry today, But what was I saying? Oh? Yes, so
long story short, The art comes from God. So it
comes from a very divine place. It comes from a
place deep within the soul. And I always try to
bring it out in a way that others can understand.
I can resonate with and can feel, even if not consciously,
(57:23):
even if it's more of like a subliminal, subconscious like suggestion,
that's cool too. And you know, the whole New York,
you know, New York is like, you know, known to
be like one of the greatest cities on Earth. And
having that you know, version of me walking through the
streets of New York, but like feeling the light of
God and the light of Christ and like feeling His presence,
whether I was inside of the church or outside of
(57:45):
the just feeling Him wherever I go. That that's what
we wanted to translate on camera. And I bless my
teammates because they just nail it every time.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
You know, she's just so deep, Okay, really deep.
Speaker 11 (57:58):
I'm deep like the ocean.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
Listen, man, we're about to get I know. So we
gotta do a part two down.
Speaker 11 (58:07):
This has been super fun. I was like, it's been
like talking to old friends, you know.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
I know you guys so much to stay on. Don't
hang up yet because you want to get everybody in there.
So Michelle Lane going. Everybody, you got to go check
her out. If you don't know how to spell Michelle,
write me okay and life and everything about her is beautiful.
Speaker 11 (58:32):
So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 11 (58:36):
Please you guys, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (58:39):
The dishes before mom.
Speaker 11 (58:43):
That is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
Oh my goodness, you have no idea. That thing has
stuck in my head forever.
Speaker 11 (58:49):
Okay, so that's what you want to I feel like
like music that's meaningful is what you want to be
stuck in your head, not music that makes you depressed.
Speaker 8 (58:57):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
It's amazing, it's been amazing. We definitely got to do
a part of Okay, yeah, okay, thank you again, thank
you for everybody for watching, and we'll see you next week.
This was our first show of twenty five Today
First off, ladies and gentlemen, this is the new DNA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
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There you go. I just wanted to start because this
is our very first episode.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Of and we are just so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So with that said, though, because we're starting off the
show with a very very talented individual. She's a classical
contemporary artist and let me tell you, I fell in
love with her with the first note. Okay, so when
we come back from commercial break, you're going to meet her,
and her name is Michelle A. Gon So sit right back,
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don't move, don't change the job dial or whatever you know,
don't don't don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
If you change the dial, I'm gonna haunt you and
we'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
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But it's been two years now, Sinzala.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
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Speaker 1 (02:19):
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Speaker 2 (02:21):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
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wake up from this where the real Americans.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
A h where we are.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
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your own. Everyone pretenses love you, but messing you upping homes,
laughing without the way you can't even afford food, and
everybody looking at you whackings so rude. They thinking that
they love you. Your skin, that's what they see. They
still don't understand the militant wall of speed, but they
ain't good that they got it. They just play for
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each other. I said of water trying to come for us,
kill one another. But I woke up last night I
gotta talked to my PIDs them listen, we try to marching.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
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Speaker 8 (03:03):
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Speaker 7 (03:03):
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Speaker 6 (03:06):
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Speaker 9 (03:09):
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Speaker 1 (03:10):
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Speaker 10 (03:14):
They're like, it's what they want to try and put
you inside where the lock of smith no block.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
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Speaker 7 (03:20):
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putting that too there because.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Crashing the crisis. Now, they hadn't tell the way how
they even look.
Speaker 10 (03:29):
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trying to play the one that get his chuck every time,
trying to get him fu over shop tell you got
his head and love and the try be churning that
we're close with the phone next to each other's hears.
But we in my socialst and say cahoon.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
The years and try to acting like we ain't one
inside at home, we acted like that. We ain't want
a wayside, I said, gone, I shall, let's.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Fine, DNA isn't the house? Make sure you check out
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the radio station that what mister and miskit's on. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You know, you know what's so cool about that, just
watching the growth in all of our careers, Like you know,
when I'm taking a look and I'm seeing back and
lock you up or from seeing doing fight for your rights.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, those are like three years ago, years ago, so.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
We've come a long way, baby.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, And if anybody's listening right now, I know I
got to get better commercials.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We're starting the new year off so far with the
new logo animation, so yeah, but I'm pretty impressed with
that one. Okay, thank you. So anyway, we have a
beautiful artist coming up right now and she is in
classical and contemporary music and she's done a little country too,
(05:15):
I think. But you got to meet her because she
is fabulous. So please welcome to the show, Michelle Lingo.
Oh please, I'm glad you came.
Speaker 11 (05:29):
Such a beautiful introduction.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Thank you, You're welcome. You know why because it was
funny when I was talking to Samantha, you know, and
I was they were telling me who was going to
be on the show, and you know, you're always like
skeptical what you're going to get, right, and then she
sent me the songs and you had me at Breath
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of Life. Wow, thank you.
Speaker 11 (05:56):
I still can't believe that that, out of all the songs,
is the one that made it to radio, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, that's all to radio. So he's saying like it's
on the media, it's on the charts right now for
right Yeah.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
I yes, it's on the charts. Last time I was
notified it was number fifty seven on top forty.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I could not actually believe on top the ladies and gentlemen,
she's getting that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You give her the applause right now for that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Applause.
Speaker 11 (06:27):
Man, it's all glory to God, because that was actually
my first worship song that I'd ever written, because I
started out kind of just exploring pop territory, but then
I realized the longer I was writing music, everyone was like,
you're Christian artist, aren't you. And I was like, well,
that's not necessarily what I was going for. But someone
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was like, if the shoe fits, you know, and I
was like, well, I guess that is what I write about.
I mean, I so, I guess that's what I am.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Because she has such a it's like one of those
I don't want to say. I don't want to compare
her yet because I want you to listen to the
songs before I say it. Because when I heard her,
it automatically took me to two women. Take I'm not
going to tell you all.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
I'm so excited to hear this, Okay, there are twos.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
There were two women who I actually I thought of
right away with her voice and it's just a powerful vibrato.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'm excited to hear it.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 12 (07:32):
Well.
Speaker 11 (07:33):
I've worked many years on developing that vibro because I
actually used to only be an opera singer before I
traversed into the world of like, you know, mainstream music.
Because my goal is I wanted to share the art
with the world. I didn't want it to just be
you know, me singing songs in Italian, German, French or
Latin for the rest of my life that no one
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understands what it's about. But I wanted to write music
that really connected with people's hearts. So that's why I
switched fears so intensely.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Background.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'm just I Will, I'm just this woman, because you
know what it is. I come from a musical background
because of my mother, and she was a soprano sure
a lot of musical theater as well as a younger girl.
Speaker 11 (08:18):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my god. So when I hear you, I think
about my mom, you know, saying like I make that transition,
and I'm like, if I wish my mother was around
right now, she would have just loved her. She would
have you know, my mom to make me cry.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But you know what, when you're when you bring.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Out the best in somebody like that. I mean, because
I was reading about you. I mean, you sang. She
sang in the school choir from eleven years old to
eighteen correct.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
Yes, the choir girl soprano.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You know what I'm saying. So you had that that
It wasn't like it was the beginning, right, It's all
the beginning of you know, because you learn everything. I
went into the chorus too in high school. I was bad,
but you know I still went into the chorus because
my mom was hoping that I would get her vocals.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Never did.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But you know that's scary. I'm just saying, your brother
got her vocals in. My brother got it. My brother
had vocals. He was a good bass.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
You guys are hearing my brother. Oh my goodness. My
brother also the chorus. He's insane. He's just very shy.
He's like, you can have the spotlight, Michelle, I'm going
to be in the shadows. I'm like, one day I'm
going to bring you all stay with me, and we're
going to tear it up.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
She's done that all her life. She fell in love
with that method of expression when you're in the choir,
it's so different than just saying it's just a different
feeling for the listener, and she brings that. So when
she was also in the Florida All Stay Choir from
twenty twelve, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen. Correct, Oh my.
Speaker 11 (09:56):
Goodness, you really did do your research. You went into
the archives.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, you know, because I what I do is I'm
not I always tell it like I told you, I'm
not Barbara Walters. I'm more like Carol Burnett. But I
try to get little snippets so this way we can
have a conversation. Right. That's so excited.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
I'm so grateful you brought this up. Because I usually
talk about my transition from being a classical to a
contemporary singer. I never talk about my roots, and the
roots are the foundation of myself. So this is incredible,
the little great conversation starter. This is like the foundation
of my reality was singing at school choirs and just
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falling in love with.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
These music, theater and stuff like theater exactly of the opera.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
No, I didn't do a fanom of the opera. I
auditioned for Fantom of the Opera and I never got
a call back.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
But still you were you saying wishing you were somewhere.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
Oh, yes I did do that. Yes I forgot that
was in high school and you didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Okay, score one for Alia.
Speaker 11 (11:03):
You're amazing. This is an amazing interview.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Can you sing me a little bit of that?
Speaker 11 (11:08):
Sure? I should we go from the chorus?
Speaker 13 (11:14):
Yeah, who wishing young.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Wish knowing you a song. Sometimes it seems.
Speaker 13 (11:34):
If I just read.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Somehow what.
Speaker 11 (11:43):
I haven't sung that in years?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh my god, Actually talent, it's not even talent, it's
just it's samarizing. Excuse me, ladies, it's cool. That's why
she went over the awards.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Oh we got to get to that guy, Albie Award.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
This is so I'm like, oh, this is hard for
me to thank you how I am right now? Because
when you hear that, that tone that you have, I mean,
it's it's not something that you just jump into. It's
something that you were born with. And then little by
little as you go to the choir and the chorus
and stuff like that, it kind of takes it out right.
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Trying to say it brings it out in you. People
they have never known it. But when you you know
what I'm saying. But when you go to the musical
theater and the choir and stuff like that, and then
you start singing like, damn, I had this all this time.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
Oh my gosh, I'll never forget that. I was like
sixteen years old and I was like, I didn't know
because I started training with a vocal coach at sixteen,
and that's when the sound really came out. You know,
it definitely took years and years to develop, like of
singing voices, not like learning an instrument. It's actually a
very deeply personal journey with your own genetics, your own DNA,
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your own health ups and downs, which I've had a
lot of, and your like you know, your hormonal changes,
especially as a woman, throughout the cycle, throughout life, there's
so much fluctuation. But but like it always comes down
to the breath. And which is why I love the
song Breath of Life because it really is like my
thank you to God of you know, speaking like life
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into well, you gave me this breath, and I translate
this breath into music as like my gratitude.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You know, go ahead, Sorry, My first thing is you trained,
so you.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Started to realize your vocal potential at sixteen?
Speaker 11 (13:41):
Yes, I would say, well, I mean I had a
little bit earlier than that, because I would say eighth
grade was like my breakthrough year because that's when I
was like, all right, I'm really gonna go hard. I'm
gonna take all of the classes. I'm gonna, you know,
audition for all state. I'm gonna audition for theater. And
I had my first like somewhat lead role in a
musical at like eighth grade. I played Savon Trapp, which
was not Maria, but it was like von Trapp's wife
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and the sound of music, like the diva. I always
played the diva roles or like the woman that like
with like seems sweet but then like would lose her
mind later in the show. Like it's the roles I
always like, I really enjoyed playing really complicated. It's like
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you guys, like music is my It's probably it's my
it's my love. You know, it's everything to me. It's
hard for me to separate myself from it. There have
been times when I needed to for mental health, but
I always come back to it. You know.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I feel like everybody has that music because it's so
much overwhelming and the sad thing about music is and
people don't realize it is there's so much talent that
never gets their time to ever shine, you know. And
this is for me being in the industry, sol realizing that,
like it really will break.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You down mentally.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
Oh oh one hundred percent a thousand. It's broken me
down mentally. This this whole breath of Life thing kept
coming up for me was like wait what. I was like,
hold on, I'd given up a while ago, you know.
It was like God wasn't finished with me yet, you know.
I and I just gave so much love and devotion
to this project.
Speaker 14 (15:25):
You know.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Breath of Life is one of the tracks on the
album From My Soul to Yours, which is what I
worked on for two years because my first two albums
like no one heard, you know, and I just kept
I was like, well, I love this and it's the
only thing that really makes me happy, you know, so
I'm just going to keep going with it. And eventually
we got to we got some traction. You know. It's
beautiful to see and I love, you know, collabing with
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other artists, like I have some collapse coming up next
year that are like with artists and completely different genres
as me, like hip hop, you know, stuff like you know,
just to really test myself to see, like.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What can I do?
Speaker 11 (16:01):
You know, I love it's a theater kid, you know,
different roles and we like to explore and be different.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know what I like about what she just said
basically is that's what's gonna make you a good artist.
It is because you like to challenge yourself and a
lot of people want to stay in the safe zone.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You're like, you know what, I'm just going for it.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
That's like, that's like a meme. You should make a
meme of me being like, you know what, I'm just
go for it. That's exactly how I got to this point.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But that's what I love the most.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I love when an artist wants to challenge itself because
come on, let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We live in in a world right now. I am
going to be the same person.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I am a robot, and I'm not gonna sit there
and try to lead, you know what I mean, Like
we're sitting there.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Everything is repetitive.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's no, it's no, it's not how when we were younger.
It's not or it's not original.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Everything got to sound the same, everybody got to look
the same, everybody got.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
To talk the same. And it's how when we were younger,
when it was like I don't want to be like you. Yeah,
and to everybody looking at me right now, I don't
want to be like you.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
That's crazy, because I mean one of the songs on
there is called original, and it was a song that
I wrote, and I was like, I don't know should
I put it out? And my team was like, this
is like one of your best songs because it's it
almost felt like hard for me to even claim that
I wanted to be original, you know what I mean,
especially as someone that saw other people's music my whole
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life and was always so prim and proper and always
like you know, in the lines and you know, choir girl.
It was so nice to just break free from all
of those like rules and restrictions and confines, like yes,
I'm a Christian artist, but also I can work with
a hip hop artist, but also I can do jazz,
and also I like all of the types of music
out there, because music is God's form of Russian that
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is a gift to us humans, and you know, it
is one of the most beautiful, spiritual things I've ever
experienced in life, you know. So that's exactly it you
hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
What the thing is, You're talented, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Let's just put it in the grapevine. Ted, you know
where you're going. You gotta plan. God's gonna lead you.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Now, wait, wait when we talk about other you know,
avenues and other things that we've seen in this game,
we know it's called the dark side and we don't
want to go to that side.
Speaker 11 (18:34):
Oh I almost quit music because of all that stuff.
I was like, please protect me from that, Like it's
so intense.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm not gonna lie to you. Okay, the dark side
is a dark side, and if you got light, you're
not a god yourself away from that dark side.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So let's just be real with that. Another thing, too,
is what I love is that your music has a
meaning in every single aspect. So me and a DJ,
when I was listening to it, I was like, yo,
I can play this because A it makes you feel good.
B I love Honestly. I was watching the videos and
I can't wait for my viewers to see it as well.
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But I loved and I was telling her about the videos.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It was so detailed, Oh God, and you know it
was funny at one point when I when I played
a Breath of Life and.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know what, let's start talking about Let's okay, we'll.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Just play it, but I just wanted to give the
little backstory about that. Yes, okay, So.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
I have more videos coming this year, like way more.
I only have two on my YouTube so far, because
that was the part of my artist career that I
struggled with the most, was like creating videos, and this
year I was finally able to get what I needed
and we're launching them this year. So tuned.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
No, that's excellent to hear, but because we got crazy
people that just want to, you know, just keep the
camera and then any cud.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Of video and all send the videos out. You're like,
nothing to do with the record, you see. I see
they just walk around with kids.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
Has nothing to do with the record.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But anyway, anyway, like I was saying, okay, when I
played Breath of Life, he looked at me because I
got all like emotional, and he didn't. He didn't understand it.
And I said, you'll look, you'll understand when you hear
the song. So he listens to it, he understand, So please,
we don't have a video for it, but I don't care.
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We're playing that breath of life. Please we can.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Take them on, you can take it off and so cute.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Say see the world dude, slowing you love is so
alive and it chafes my heart.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Keeps me be.
Speaker 16 (21:08):
Breathing on, surrounding me more than the space and time
in my breast.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Hi, sid of a million of jus, song of.
Speaker 17 (21:33):
Heads, the two tables.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
When I'm trying.
Speaker 17 (21:42):
And discard, you take my two dreams things cool world,
a breath.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Of You're so loved, cheap, smart, cheers me, every thing
n sold most start timing a line so time Scotty
(22:35):
Jes resents my scouts.
Speaker 15 (22:49):
You been the breath of life, your lone, so life.
It jeeves my heart burning it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Je for the first time. But no, no, you don't,
(23:30):
he literally said.
Speaker 18 (23:31):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I said no, I listen, I know because you're wrong.
Turn it off now, thank you?
Speaker 11 (23:39):
You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
You know what because we do this.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Wow, ladies and gentlemen watching right now, did you hear
what she just said to the music expert.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
Wait what happened? What happened?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Because a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Times what we do is when somebody singing and we're
playing their song. We both write like little notes to
each other, like who we think they sound like or whatever? Right,
oh okay, he wrote someone and I said, now I'm
going to go with it, but I would love to
hear this.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
Who who?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
He said, Selene Dion.
Speaker 13 (24:11):
I get that a lot.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Actually, when I sung this live at a healing center
this summer, everyone said I sounded like Celene Dion's like
child or something.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Can I just say why?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
The reason why I want to say that is because
of the way that you hit the note. She hits
the note in her pipes, compliment her Celene Dion had
the best pipes I have heard when it goes like Selene.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
You know what's so funny is that I actually grew
up listening to her, and I actually did model my
voice after her her Barbers and later on Lady Gaga,
and then when I wanted to get to get into
more pop.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You're not helping her all right?
Speaker 11 (24:57):
Hold on, sorry, I'm so curious. Who did you say
I had?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Whatever?
Speaker 11 (25:08):
I don't really know what I sound like in terms
of like, I'm just saying that these.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Are all night If you want, okay, maybe to blow
her mind. Maybe it won't. I don't know. I said,
two people. One person she reminded me of was Leanne Rhymes.
One person if you see actually Leanne Rhymes when she
was on the Mask Singer and she sang Billie Eilish's
(25:32):
song Wow. You reminded me particularly of that, of that specifically. Okay,
then when you hit your high notes and stuff, you
know who you reminded me of. Remember the greatest showman
on earth? Remember that? Remember Lauren Aldred.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
Read the Queen. Okay, that's crazy because I absolutely adore her.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's what she reminded me of.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Right, if you're watching this, I love you, Jacket. But
so I know I used to sing that song never enough,
like on repeat, like when I was in college. I'm
obsessed with that song.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Can you sing a little bit of that right now?
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Sure, let's do it. Oh my gosh, this is a
little bit of a pipier one. I'll go from the beginning.
Speaker 18 (26:23):
I'm trying to hold my breath, let it stay this.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Way, can't let this smallment and you set off for
me getting loud? Now can you hear?
Speaker 11 (26:50):
H it?
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Ud take my hand?
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Will you share this with me? Starting without you let's see,
we're gonna do this part. All the shine of a
thousand spotlights, all the stars that we steal from the
night sky.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
Will never be enough, noa be enough.
Speaker 18 (27:24):
Towns of gold to still too little, these hands could.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
Hold never be enough, no be enough, never never enough?
Speaker 11 (27:43):
You know because.
Speaker 9 (27:46):
What I was talking about now, you guys are right.
Speaker 11 (27:49):
I love those singers. They're great, They're my favorites. Actually,
I have like this place he has nothing to say
right now, and I have like all those singers on.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There has nothing to say.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, I don't know, I know.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
See you guys both win.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
You guys.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You know because I was like, oh my god, because
when Leanne Rhyme saying on the mass singer and they
didn't know obviously who she who was behind the mask,
but when she came out with that belting tone, that's
what made me think of you with the breath of life.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh wow, I agree.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
It took me so hoppy. You guys love that song, Like, oh,
it means a lot to me because you know, being
in the pop world and like, you know, coming out
with a worship song, it's like, oh, you're kind of
switching gears because it's like, well, if you're not like
a full time music like leader, you're more of a
pop artist. You're like not Christian enough to be like,
you know, signed to like a Christian record label, but
(28:46):
you're not worldly enough to like you know, be like
you know, in the mainstream. So it's like I've been
really traversing this very uncomfortable like in between territory in
the realm of music, where I'm not sure where to
put myself and other people kind of categorize me for me,
and I'm like, listen, like I'm just like my Instagram
(29:08):
bio says, like I'm just a vessel of God's love,
Like I'm just here to eternally express through poetry and song.
I'm just having a good time, you know. Thank you
for being here, thank you for listening. I really enjoy it.
Like thank you that like some of these songs resonate
with you, because sometimes I think I'm way too in
my head. My teammates are like, you know, come down
to earth when you're writing songs, you know, make it
more relatable, but sometimes, you know, I felt like Birth
(29:30):
of Life was relatable because of the concept of like
the second verse of like when I'm drowning and discouraged.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, the thing is right, give me a courage. My
quick device is is.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I always said the best songs come for feelings, right,
And everybody wants people to write, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
What I'm saying. Like they'll sit there for hours and
they'll write their little rhymes of their song and something
is meaningful.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, And when something is just something that somebody had
just written for you and that I'm hearing, I'm meaningful.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Like I can literally sit there and just feel the
spirit of your voice in the music while I'm there.
And you know, you hear a lot of records that
are like, okay, all right, you know what I mean?
I listen. I feel like if I'm not honest with people,
it's they're just terrible. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Know what you mean?
Speaker 11 (30:27):
Because I feel that the care of music has kind
of gone away. Music has sort of become this like,
you know, time and you gotta put a song out,
We gotta do this, we gotta do really fast. It
took me very long to make these songs because of
the time and the love that was put into it.
So I'm really grateful that that translates through it. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I don't feel like she's an artist that's going to
be forgotten. You know, this is really dope. I the
TikTok people, I look at them, stole them. They're gone forever.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You know what I say.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
I mean when you mentioned TikTok because everyone's like, you
gotta get on TikTok, and I'm like, I'm so bad
at TikTok, Like I really that's like my like my
lowest platform.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Give me too TikTok.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I really, Oh you I don't do to be I
have you on? Do you have your own TikTok? You
just don't know about it?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Anyway, so what I was saying, don't worry about talking
about don't.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
Worry about it.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Everything was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (31:25):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
But also even the dog has TikTok.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
You know TikTok.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You know, let me finish this and then okay, you
go finish it. How are you up? Because I want
to put another song on.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Your voice is rare. That's all I need to say.
I love the way it sounds. And let's get to
the next song.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Okay. Can we get to the next song as song
as you pick? Okay, I want mister producer man, I
want reimagined.
Speaker 11 (31:52):
Oh home, reimagine. Let's shout out to Angelica director. Maybe
the underwater.
Speaker 15 (32:02):
Been for the way you and ihold don't out the
quatest lord.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
I didn't know.
Speaker 19 (32:11):
I've fought the birds and wars in the sky, but
I heard your foe when I consed my thighs.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
I can call.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Ho ho.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Ho ho.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
To you.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
You you.
Speaker 15 (33:16):
Got every touch feels like the very first time I
left my old world time.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
Now we speak p we loud. It's kind of inn.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Give up.
Speaker 11 (34:13):
W you.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Since time creation.
Speaker 11 (34:28):
Let you.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
I took welck my for me. Don coming home to
a sol sup? Sup home? Come with you? O oh.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
Ew ew wow, that's crazy to watch again.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
My question to you was right, And this is what
I want to know. How did one where did you
shoot that scene?
Speaker 11 (35:43):
Okay, so which one? The above water? Underwater in a
person who had a heated pool in the middle of
February time last year in Miami, Florida. And yeah, let's
just say I had to hold my breath for really
long time.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Well, oh my god, Oh no, I was normous.
Speaker 11 (36:04):
We're singing, came in, you know, breath of life. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I was like I cannot even I'm not gonna lie
to you right like five seconds the border.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
I did have to keep coming up and down. But
there were like, you know, like those moments where I
was dancing, you know, like I was pretty hell down there.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Let me just say that was a pretty pretty cool video.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (36:26):
I have my beautiful friend Angelica Borland to thank for
that concept. Do you guys want to hear about like
the meaning behind it? Go ahead, I love nerding out
about the meaning behind videos. This one is a particularly
meaningful one. So Home was actually this like classical piece
of music from my very first EP album, which was
(36:47):
released on Tune First twenty twenty two, and I, as
I was starting the release season of my full length
debut album for My Soul to Yours, I wanted to
resurrect that song and sort of make it like this
EDM breakthrough piece that caught people's attention long enough to
have people continue to listen. As I was kind of
(37:09):
like I was basically releasing a song a month all year,
as I was also continuing to make music videos for
all of my songs for this new album promotion cycle,
and so it was an insanely busy year, and glory
to God he helped me get everything and then some done.
But this music video is what kicked off the year
because I didn't think I would be able to actually
(37:31):
make a music video. But this concept was an Angelica's
mind since like April of twenty twenty two, but it
didn't actually get brought to life until February of twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
So she had this.
Speaker 11 (37:42):
Concept of having this underwater music video to represent the
mother's womb and this sort of like being in the
womb of creation, and like that whole scene underwater in
the white dress is like basically like God is forming
your soul and in the Mother's womb and like that
whole like dancing. This is like a very interpretive mind
that I have. The dancing underwater was actually representing like
(38:07):
the forming of your being and like that cosmic like
primordial like that just you know that creative energy that
you know that formed things into being and that explosive light.
You know that that's what our souls are made of.
And so then coming out of the water in the
scene in the studio, which was actually at Miami, Florida
(38:29):
studio Wool Studios, it's just you know, a plain background
white like jud juxtaposing the black background underwater, we did
a white background and a black dress. It's actually Angelica's dress,
And that funny sort about the white dress, that white
dress is actually what I'm wearing in the From My
Soul to Yours album cover and then the Eternal album
cover and then the Eternal music video which is coming out.
(38:52):
So like I've used that dress many times. It is
just a plain white dress and it's representing you know,
like that that that like Bride of Christ, sort of
like Peter's soul energy and so yeah, I mean there's
so many layers of meaning with being above the water
represents sort of like that feeling of being disconnected from home, right,
(39:13):
Like being under the water is like you're in the
womb and then you were birthed out and then you
felt separate from where you came from, you know, and
coming out of the water, and like that scene where
I'm talking about like you know, like I'm banging against
the walls, I'm like, oh, like get me out of here,
you know, I don't I want to go home. That's
(39:33):
the name of the song, right. The whole concept is like,
you know, God was in here all along, Like I
was looking all over the place and I came home
and so that's like the whole meaning behind it. It's
crazy how like we did some visuals, you know, visuals
tell the story a lot better sometimes.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
No, that was that is so deep.
Speaker 14 (39:55):
Everything my team and I do is like fifty layers
of meaning in depth, and like sometimes you know, even
in the unplanned shoots, God really comes through with really
unplanned magical things.
Speaker 11 (40:07):
And I can't wait to share with you guys in
the future about that because I can't tell you yet
because it's not yet. There have been so many magical
things that have happened in the making of all of
this that it's insane. I can't wait to share more
with you guys.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
There's so much that's But also I wanted to get
into something else before we get another the other video
because she's also she gives back this girl, Okay, she
gives back because I met also about you can tell
us a little bit more about singing for smiles.
Speaker 11 (40:38):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 11 (40:42):
Wow, you really did your research. Thank you.
Speaker 20 (40:45):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (40:45):
I feel very seen right now because that has been
the pride and joy of my existence with my ironically,
I met the person that we created it together in
high school in choir. We were like, it was me
and two other chorus sopranos. Shout out to Dali Marienfeld
and Nicole bermerher they're all kind of doing their own
(41:06):
thing now. But you know, we actually reconnected recently with
Delhi and she's like, we really do have the intention
of making it a bigger thing than it ever was
bringing that back because what happened was I had done
it all of high school and all of college, and
then the pandemic happened and that we weren't allowed to
go anymore. So but basically, singing for smiles was something
(41:27):
that myself and you know, rounding up the troops of
different musicians and singers and actors and performers in my area,
whether I was in high school or college, and going
to different places around town such as nursing homes, rehabilitation centers,
children's hospitals, places that needed music the most. You know,
(41:48):
we get the privilege of like going to pay for
concert tickets to go you know, joy music or even
like listening to it on our phones, but unfortunately in
these locations that's not the case, and so bringing that
light and that positivity to these locations was it gave
me a meaning and a purpose that you know, all
(42:09):
of the awards and all of the like you know,
ostentatious accolades of like oh yeah, your voice and all this,
like you know, judging, you know, performance assessments, none of
that mattered anymore to me because I found true meaning
of why I do what I do when I was
in high school doing Satan for smiles and seeing the
people light up and have their day changed and have
(42:31):
their whole mood uplifted, and just seeing the power of
sound and like you can change the whole room with music.
And that's why I made a vow to never make
music that was like a drag, you know, like I
have like one sadder song coming out, you know, because
everyone wants a good sad song here and there. But
for the majority of what I put out, it's consciously
(42:52):
created to be very uplifting and like smokeling, because I
feel like the world needs more of that. We've gone
through a lot here, all of us, you know, in
different ways, and that was my purpose behind it. And
if you don't have a strong purpose guiding you, like
you said this industry will eat you up like it
is a terrible thing sometimes, and so I felt like
I had this north star because of my early experience.
(43:16):
You know, I had a real like guiding light showing
me like you're gonna You're meant to make music that
is meant to uplift other people.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
You know.
Speaker 11 (43:25):
That's why you have the gift and you have the
discipline too, because it is hard. You know, it really
is hard to do. That's why not everyone does it,
you know, and it actually costs a lot of relationships
sometimes because people don't understand like, oh, you know, like
how intense your music can be with all its ups
and downs and.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Five.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yeah, well listen, she knows because she's seen me, and
she's seen all the promises, and she's seen all the people.
Speaker 19 (43:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
What's really hard.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
At the game. It is so hard being married to
a rapper.
Speaker 11 (44:01):
Go ahead, it's funny that you mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
What's very hard is she has measured it.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
Okay, what's very hard is basically you don't know who's
got your best interest, whose genuine, You don't know who's real, because.
Speaker 11 (44:23):
That's what you got to keep your ogs around you.
That's that's how I've been able to handle your ogs,
like the people that were with you when you were
literally no one. Yeah, when you were just a choir girl.
You know, like that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
That's given some Ojesus when you get to a certain
level and a certain point, as they feel.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Like they deserve more than what they gave in and
they think that you can give them more, I know,
than what you have right now, that's only one thing.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
About It's like they want to share the piece of
the pie, not.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Even like you know what I mean, like I believe
you mean, we started together. Let's all eat together, right,
We're not. I always believed and I always told her
this is why I feel like DNA and the brand
and everything went far, is that you want to just
be yourself. You don't need to be even if you
want to the platinum status, want to the high status.
Always know, we'll keep yourself grounded, because honestly, god man,
(45:20):
that's where you're gonna land anyway.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah, you know amen, right, real, it's so funny.
Speaker 11 (45:26):
Yeah, that's facts. Keep yourself ground.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
That's excellent to hear that you do all that, you
know what I mean? And I love doing hearing with
the nonprofit.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
And stuff like that as well. I want to get
to the last video because when he got fifteen minutes. Okay, okay,
that is so awesome.
Speaker 11 (45:40):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
The last question I have for her is I wanted
to know who's the rapper that told you to expand
your horizons?
Speaker 11 (45:49):
Wow, that's crazy that you mentioned that. Well, he is
my closest person in my life for many years. The
only word I can call it is like a divine counterpart.
You know, he was my best friend in college and
we had, you know, our fair share of relationships with
(46:13):
each other, ups and downs throughout the years. But I
will never speak a bad word about him because he
is He's the reason why I do what I do,
and that's why he's the reason why I mean it's
you know, there's many songs on my album about him
and our origins and like how how he gave me
(46:34):
the courage and the belief in myself to go for
this and I never thought that I could, And he
helped me actually become a songwriter, like because before I
was a theater kid, I was a choir kid, I
was an opera and he started freestyling and he's like, hey,
be my music partner. And then next thing, you know,
I'm just channeling things that I can't even believe that
(46:55):
are coming out of my mouth in response to his energy.
And that was my first really deep collaboration and we
I still feel like we will work together in the future.
Right now, he's actually in firefighting school. Oh God, bless him.
I'm so happy for him. He's he's an amazing human.
He's gone through a lot, but I know that he
(47:17):
is someone that I will always love eternally. Like that's
actually kind of what the song Eternal is about. It's
because I.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Have this like soul of love for this person connection.
Speaker 11 (47:29):
Yeah, you brought a love connection. Listen. I'm gonna like
just make make it very public, like this person, I
won't ever say a negative word out like even if,
like our relationships are up and down sometimes, Like I
love this person eternally. He is my best friend. He
is so creative. He's a good person, he really is.
(47:50):
He tries really hard, you know, and I feel like,
you know, have you guys ever heard of the concept
of like like a twin soul, Like you know, like
I feel like he's like the male version of me.
I feel like when God made us, he made us
male and female.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
You know there was I am the girl version of you.
Speaker 11 (48:12):
No way, have you ever met someone that you felt
was like you but in a different like?
Speaker 2 (48:19):
No, no, no, let's get to get to the song.
Stop pointing at me, so let's get to the next song, Danny.
Speaker 11 (48:29):
I love your Louisa song song.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
So let's get to the next song. Now, please that night.
Speaker 11 (48:36):
Yeah, it's my first Christmas song. Shot in New York.
Speaker 8 (48:52):
Shot a shepherd was Carly thunderous horn sad night. Somewhere
in the dark.
Speaker 15 (49:12):
Nets the lost, broken herded found reason to hold.
Speaker 8 (49:23):
Sad night. When the light came, and a child chap
the world.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
For child.
Speaker 18 (49:41):
Sang in his glady, the greatest of stary twelve be hard,
we have joint, we have peacelove, and live.
Speaker 8 (49:59):
We Because of.
Speaker 12 (50:03):
Night, sad night, the king became lowly, so humbilliot, homely.
Speaker 8 (50:19):
Just a babe in the straw, and.
Speaker 12 (50:24):
Manundered would long alibi.
Speaker 18 (50:30):
She could sing for her son, who the world awaited
on of a great father day to say you would
come and head.
Speaker 6 (50:42):
Wood. And the charge since thor.
Speaker 8 (50:53):
God in joy was.
Speaker 6 (50:57):
The same his. The greatest stuff stuff is j E beacon,
we have joy.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
We happius beneve.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
Be consult and when the and the choice.
Speaker 8 (52:07):
Joy.
Speaker 20 (52:13):
Although it's saying aetnyth the rates of stop we have joy,
we happy?
Speaker 6 (52:29):
No bang.
Speaker 21 (52:32):
Pe coustop we have joy, we happy bangs.
Speaker 6 (52:48):
Bek sa.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Not all right New York for this.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
I'm just guys were so cute.
Speaker 11 (53:17):
I loved like your reactions. I was watching you guys.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Okay, oh my god, hot in here.
Speaker 11 (53:26):
That was a one day turnaround music video we shot
in New York.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Yea, make it quick?
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Are you originally from New York?
Speaker 12 (53:36):
My dad is.
Speaker 11 (53:39):
Yes. I was born in Hollywood, Florida.
Speaker 9 (53:42):
Cheeople that are not from New York for some reason,
for some reason, catch the best footage.
Speaker 11 (53:56):
I was home there, you know, like it was easy.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
I was looking at every thinking, I'm like, I don't
even know those damn spots in New York.
Speaker 11 (54:04):
Can I tell you my secret? Can I honestly tell
my secret? Before we shoot anything, before I write anything,
before we do anything, we pray like we pray to God.
We literally ask God to guide our steps and he
just lays the path in front of us. Like it
is insane, like these videos that we've been shooting have
been insanely divinely orchestrated like it has been magical, like
(54:28):
nothing short of a magical experience. Plus my teammates are
insanely talented, so then they just, you know, we just
kind of work like an orchestra all together.
Speaker 2 (54:36):
You know, she went to the vessel. I don't want
to even I can't go to the vessel.
Speaker 11 (54:40):
That's crazy. Shout out to mother Mary. Right the vessel.
Saw a lot of the light coming through the vessel.
Did you see that?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
That's the first thing I saw.
Speaker 6 (54:53):
It was.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
New York was like.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Being in New York.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
When we shoot a video, you go look at that
old bill, and we don't want to go right into
that bill.
Speaker 9 (55:08):
That's a huge, nice, big, huge.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
You know what it is.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
There's a lot of people in New York. And let
me just tell you. You asked about let's say twenty
people from New York and ask them how many of
them have been to the Empire State Building, you'd be
surprised not all of them will say yes.
Speaker 11 (55:21):
I say what you mean, because you know, I've even
shot in my home city in Miami, and it's like
when you live somewhere you kind of are like, kind
of not they did as much as like a tourist.
You're like, oh, these are like the shots, you know,
like you knocked it out. You know, well, actually God
mapped it out. We didn't. We just kind of had our.
Speaker 2 (55:40):
Want to a lot of New Yorker I'm just saying,
next time you have your friends over something, ask them
how many of them have been to the stature liberty.
They're gonna say none, none, exactly agreed that they don't
take advantage of some of the beauty of the certain
places at the school trip was Twin Towers. Oh you
know what, so long ago, dude, you're making yourself look
(56:03):
really old right now, okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (56:06):
So with that video was like modern day woman changed
by God walking through the city grids, you know, in
the middle of the in the world, but not of
the world.
Speaker 6 (56:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (56:21):
I feel like I just think very deeply because you know,
it says in scripture that God put eternity in the
hearts of man. And actually that's that's why I wrote
the song eternal.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
Oh hello, hello, we lost her God to me.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
So I feel that what you said, because you froze
for a second but don't worry for a second.
Speaker 11 (56:42):
So frozen again. Okay, Okay, So, as I was saying,
you just.
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Killed the game, it's ober, it is. No, it's not.
I'm not saying the show. I'm just saying that she was.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
In the middle of a conversation.
Speaker 11 (57:02):
Sorry today, But what was I saying? Oh? Yes, so
long story short, The art comes from God. So it
comes from a very divine place. It comes from a
place deep within the soul. And I always try to
bring it out in a way that others can understand.
I can resonate with and can feel, even if not consciously,
(57:23):
even if it's more of like a subliminal, subconscious like suggestion,
that's cool too. And you know, the whole New York,
you know, New York is like, you know, known to
be like one of the greatest cities on Earth. And
having that you know, version of me walking through the
streets of New York, but like feeling the light of
God and the light of Christ and like feeling His presence,
whether I was inside of the church or outside of
(57:45):
the just feeling Him wherever I go. That that's what
we wanted to translate on camera. And I bless my
teammates because they just nail it every time.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
You know, she's just so deep, Okay, really deep.
Speaker 11 (57:58):
I'm deep like the ocean.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
Listen, man, we're about to get I know. So we
gotta do a part two down.
Speaker 11 (58:07):
This has been super fun. I was like, it's been
like talking to old friends, you know.
Speaker 2 (58:11):
I know you guys so much to stay on. Don't
hang up yet because you want to get everybody in there.
So Michelle Lane going. Everybody, you got to go check
her out. If you don't know how to spell Michelle,
write me okay and life and everything about her is beautiful.
Speaker 11 (58:32):
So thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 11 (58:36):
Please you guys, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (58:39):
The dishes before mom.
Speaker 11 (58:43):
That is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (58:44):
Oh my goodness, you have no idea. That thing has
stuck in my head forever.
Speaker 11 (58:49):
Okay, so that's what you want to I feel like
like music that's meaningful is what you want to be
stuck in your head, not music that makes you depressed.
Speaker 8 (58:57):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
It's amazing, it's been amazing. We definitely got to do
a part of Okay, yeah, okay, thank you again, thank
you for everybody for watching, and we'll see you next week.
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