TAKING CENTER STAGE With Michael Cagle

A Fun, Anything Goes One On One Interview Talk With Guests, Most Of WHom Are In The Performing and Creative Arts. We Will Talk About Their Beginnings. Their Inspirations. Their Dreams and Goals, As Well As Their Accomplishments. Guests Wil Have a A Chance To Display or Perform Their Talent, and They Will Also Talk About Topics and Events That Are Happening That Are Important To Them and The Audience Listening.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah, yeah, old school, that's what I'm talking about. Listening,
this thinks for everybody.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Somebody wanted to give idiots. I know you're in the
trenches fighting. Check it out.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm gonna put this down like this and give him sinks.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Understand everything you're going through. It's all part of the
master plaintause you got stage.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Everything was gonna be features of Queen. You better wait, guy,
hand don't nothing to come to a super.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good evening everybody, and is all right. I got all

(01:01):
the technical stuff done except for how to get online
or make it work. Hi, everybody. We are on the air,
and we've been on the air for a minute five
seconds and this is taking center stage, and wow, this
is rough because yeah, it's our first show and there's

(01:23):
a lot of technology that we're trying to deal with.
My name is Michael Cagle, and I will be with
you for the next ninety minutes and we are going
to be talking one on one with two different guests today.
And like I said, this is our premiere show. So
I apologize for it not being up and ready, but

(01:45):
I thought we had everything figure it out. But once
you hit the go button, something always weird happens. I
do want to make sure that I've got my guests.
My guests today are Lamont Patterson, who is the CEO
and founder of World World Movement Enterprises, and the second

(02:08):
half will be Las Vegas singer Brenda Heybert, my my
chantus of Las Vegas. We are. I'm just having a
good time, and like I said, this is our first one,
and you can tell because it's a little rough right now. Anyway,

(02:28):
I'm wondering if everybody can hear me. There's really no
way to find out. I guess I'm what I'm gonna
do is have my mentor, who is also my first guest,
let me know how I'm doing. I'm going to try
to bring him in and see if I've got this

(02:50):
working and that we're up to snuff. Hello. Hello, I'm
looking for Lamont. Hello.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
I can hear you. You can't hear me.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
I can hear you now, I can.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Hear you now.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh you know, I was I was so ready for this.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Look, you're doing well, man, don't trist Man. You do
everyone else. You're doing a whole lot more than a
whole lot of other people would love to do. So
you're doing well.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, thank you so much. Everything was all set up
and I talked to my next guest and made sure
everything was working, and then all of a sudden, I
went to hit start and my screen went blank and
the only thing that was happening is music was playing,
and I'm like, wow, okay, so yeah, but here we are,

(04:00):
and it's our premiere episode, our debut episode, and I
want to thank everybody for listening. UH. This is taking
center stage with me, Michael Cagele, and obviously I'm here
thanks to UH the incredible UH sponsorship and support of

(04:20):
World Movement Enterprises. And I thought it was only fair
to have my first guests, to have my first guest
be UH, the CEO of World Movement Enterprises, and that
is the one and only Lamont Patterson say hello, sir God.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I had to I had to do my own I
had to do my own fan.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Fare there, you know, yay, I will well, I'll have
to find like an audio clip of like screaming and
cheering and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, first
of all, I want to tell you it's such a
great honor to have you as my first guest. And
like I said, I thought it was only I thought

(05:13):
it was only fair and the right thing to do,
because you are just right now, such a pivotal and
important person in my life and such a great mentor.
And I'm learning so much from you. I mean, just
when you think you know a lot about the business,
you know, you run into someone who's been in the

(05:34):
business and done a lot and then you're like, WHOA,
I have so much to learn. So I'm just really
thrilled to have you as a guest, but more importantly
as a really good friend and, like I said, a
really good mentor. And I welcome you to my show.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Man A honored to be a part of it. Man.
And we got another buddy on the line listening to
to Shoes. Well, we got to stand from Vegas Online
listen to the show too.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Hey, that's great.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Is is he these three five eight? Yes, sir, I'm
gonna say hi to him. I'm going to bring him on.
I hope he's ready. I haven't. I haven't seen him
in it's been like twelve years. Wow. Time time flies
when you're not having fun.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Sometimes we were having fun. It's lies.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes, it is, sir, Stan. How are you, sir?

Speaker 4 (06:35):
I'm good, Michael. How you doing man.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I congratulate, Thank you so much, thank you for being patient.
How's that happen? I mean, you know, how's it going.
How's how's things going in Vegas? Oh?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Everything is going good man. You know, we gotta things
happening with you and Brandy right now, and that's what
we focused on. So everything's going good.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Good. So I take your stake, was that? Are you
staying busy?

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Oh yeah, definitely good. Yeah, we're staying busy. You know,
Vegas has changed a little bit since you left, but
things is still going on.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, Well it's it's great to have
it's great to reconnect with you and you know, reconnecting
with everybody that was involved in world Moving and of
course the Rising Star showcases and and that was weekly
shows were awesome. They were just wonderful.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
So yeah, a lot of great We had a lot
of great talent come through there. You know, I was
really pressed, you know, when I'm left California to move
to Vegas. That was actually my intention was to come
there and delve into the to the Vegas talent. A
lot of people think that when people go to Vegas,

(08:14):
they see a lot of the tribute artists there. But
it's a lot of artists there as well as doing
you know, original music, they now a tribute artists doing
the older but goody stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, you know, and it is wild because going into Vegas.
I moved there in two thousand and one, and I
really had no you talk about somebody that was green.
I had done a whole bunch of touring by that time,
but I'd never really been to like a a city
like Vegas, and my my expectations were pretty well dashed

(08:54):
when I figured out how tough it was there. And
it's there's a whole lot of talents, a lot and
a lot of undiscovered talents that uh never has you know,
I feel really blessed in that regard because there's just
so many people there in that city with so much
talent that never get to touch a stage or or

(09:16):
chore or anything. And uh, I think rising I think
the rising what with the rising stars, really gave everybody
an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, you know, one thing I do want one thing
I do want to say to Mike. You know, there's
a lot of artists there, you know, seem like for
some reason they're they're they're they're their mentality is stuck.
They understand that you have to work and perform you know,
a different casinos, you know, to put food on the table.
I got that, but by the same token, I see
a lot of them just don't really think out of

(09:48):
the box. You know. They can have you know, music
played on the radio, they could be doing some other
things simultaneously, but for some reason, they get hung up
on the weekly drind you know, the at that paycheck,
and to me, it kind of stifles their artistry because
they could be doing so much more, you know what
I mean to me as a yeah, as a as

(10:10):
a producer, and I saw that a lot, and that's
partly why I had to move back, you know, move
out of Vegas and move back into trenches where people
was doing you know what I do you know, for
that exact reason.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, it just you know, it's kind of an interesting
thing because there's there is a lot of talent in Vegas,
but I think a Vegas has become a place where
established artists are going to are going to not retire
but set up residency. But Vegas isn't really producing like

(10:48):
new artists or you know, everybody seems to be either
established and you know, whether the twenty year history or
they're like you said, they're doing tributes or you know,
entire covers and stuff. And so even though the talent
is good, there's not a lot of new artists that

(11:10):
are breaking out of out of Vegas.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Not at all. There was there was one that came
out of their Neil and he don't even playing Vegas.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, yeah, you know, and and I and I will
definitely say I I don't regret a minute of moving
to Vegas. It was incredible. I had great friends there
and I was very very like I said, I was
very fortunate to be at the right place at the

(11:41):
right time that enabled me to to, you know, do
a bunch of showrooms and that kind of thing. But
when you go to the to the level of wanting
to be an artist doing your own music, and Vegas
isn't really I don't think Vegas is in interested in
making stars.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
They're they're not there.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Now. You have to go you have to go to
l A or you know.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
So that's what I called, that's what I called. That's
what I call the trenches La New York, Atlanta, Okay,
or anywhere across the pond, anywhere outside of the United States.
If you're successful anywhere outside of the United States, you
automatically are hit here. Yeah yeah, are you still with us?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Stand?

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, welcome to you guys.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
That's awesome. Well, my big ones, I guess for you,
Lamont as my first guest. I wanted to give you
an opportunity for people to get to know. I mean,
it's easy to say that you're the CEO of a
label or a multi media you know, enterprise. But how

(13:05):
did you get How did you get there? You didn't
just wake up overnight and say I'm going.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
To do this.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Tell us a little about the Lamont Patterson story.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh, man, one day I just woke up in front
of a liquor store. Man, it was just on from there. No. Well,
it's interesting, Like I guess, a lot of people that
came up in my era, I'm dating myself now. You know.
We all came up in church, you know pretty much,

(13:38):
you know, singing in choirs and doing that stuff, and
on to the high schools, you know, playing band and
singing in choir and going through the whole music thing
all the way through school. But I've always had some
type of music around me, one way or another. You know,
my auntie, she was the matriarchan church. She played pre
and keyboard. So I have to be there everyone. And uh,

(14:01):
one of my family members, my cousin, He was a producer, promoter,
singer and uh. When I was going through school, Uh,
he had a uh a popular group at the time.
The group was called the Young Hearts. And Stan could
attest to this cause Stan and I and when we
were in high school, we used to walk like four
or five miles just to those those of these guys rehearsal,

(14:24):
you know, just to watch them, you know, with the
with the clothes and the dancing and the pretty cars,
and you know, it's always about the gals, you know,
cause they always had that and always had the you know,
the same and oh that was attractive, you know to
young guys of course. So my cousin was the manager
of the group. You know. He said, well, man, when
you stay in school, you know, I may help you

(14:45):
with your music. So howd went his his fame. Uh,
he got more successful, and when I finished school, he
just didn't have time for a little cousin. So during college,
my little college days, I met this girl named Dorothy
Few uh and her uh uncle. He was representing his
group called UH the New Birth, UH Dramatics, Side Effect,

(15:10):
and a bunch of other pretty well known R and
B groups at the time. So I met some of
the guys UH in the New Birth and I ended
up going on tour with them, UH as a you know, songwriter,
you know, horn player, singer and so on and so forth.
So I've always had that thing where I I just

(15:30):
loved music. I was always smitten by the music thing.
So from the artist thing, from UH being a a
singer musician, UH, the next thing was going to production.
So I dealt with productions for quite a few years.
From that point, I went into artists management, and I

(15:51):
had a lot of success when the management field, and
I got kind of burned out on that one because
management is a whole thing, and it's a lot of
managers out there. I'm sure they understand what I meant.
You know, it's it's more than the notion to manage
other artists and stuff. It's hard enough to manage yourself,
but uh it you know, you know, I had the

(16:12):
pleasure of you know, managing this guy Bill Summer's UH,
which I got to work with, you know, quits Quincy Jones,
Stean you know, Herbie Hancock and a lot of other notorieties,
you know, with that whole little era. And from then
in nineteen ninety oh, I actually I had Big Boy too.

(16:33):
Everybody know Big Boy from Power one oh six and
Big Boy's neighborhood. I I managed him as well and
did his first record also. So from that point nineteen
ninety we started the World Movement Records. So we just
been doing the record label stuff ever since. And in
the last ten years we got more involved into the

(16:55):
film TV stuff, and of course fourteen years ago we
started the podcast. We started doing podcasts when nobody, nobody,
nobody respected internet radio. Everybody was, you know, terrestrial radio.
That's the thing nobody respected. Podcast. Now today everybody and

(17:17):
their mama and they pet fish have a pot.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Everybody has a podcast.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Everybody, everybody, and we're blessed to say right now this
podcast is on every platform that's out there. So if
you say you can't hear the show, I ask you,
ask your mama, ask your daddy, ask your neighbor across
the street, go as the milkman and guy to work
at the doughnut shot. Somebody should be able to tell

(17:45):
you how to hear this show, so you don't have
no excuse.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
So do you miss any do you miss the performing
days at all? Or you? Are you pretty sad? Although
honestly I know that you're doing. You know, it's if
somebody watches TV, they'll probably spot you in several either
uh TV movies or mini series or series. But do

(18:14):
you do you miss the uh the actual singing aspect
of it?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Actually I don't, and I tell you why. Uh part
of this my little story. I had to mention that
through that whole management production process, I own a recording
studio as well. I don't really feel like I miss
it because I sing in a shower every day and
I always and I always and I always tell myself

(18:40):
whenever I get ready, and this is real talk, whenever
I get ready already, you know, I could sing on something.
I could, I could get with you, you know, I
could get with me, or I can call some other
little separate celebrity friends say come on, man, let's let's
let's sing something. You know, let's do something. So I
don't miss it for the for the for the thought
that I know I can always do it if I

(19:02):
chose to if that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Okay, oh yeah, I'm all right. When when is the
last time you got on stage and and cut loose?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's been a minute. It's been a minute, because my my,
it's been a minute. And that again is because you know,
my my dream was to build a full service entertainment company,
not to only do music, publish books, TV, film, a podcasts.
I want to have a full service entertainment company. And

(19:35):
it's always been my dream. Once I do that, I
could really get into my painting because I want to
paint murals and stuff I shouldn't. Oh wow, I really
want to get into really heavy into my creativity, if
that makes sense. I'm still I'm still building now, you
know what I mean. So once I feel like the

(19:57):
company is where it's supposed to be, then I ain't
go play with me singing some of the songs that
I want to sing, or painting pictures or doing that,
you know what I mean, and calling all my talented friends,
like I said, like yourself and say come on, man,
let me get all you guys in the studio and

(20:19):
we're gonna do this project.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
That would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I you know, I'm there, so yeah, yeah, So I
have I have, I have a plan to this end game.
So it's not over you good.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
So I was gonna say what what is it? Would
say the next three years as you look into you know,
the things that you got going on. What what are
you the most excited about the next three years?

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Let me see. We have we have Cooking with My
Homies that's in pre production, which is a celebrity based
uh cooking show.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
You know you know I can cook.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Well, me too.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Okay, Wow, there was that silence was deafening.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Hey, look well look you already you're already in the mix,
so I can't count to you. But anyway, I'm trying.
I'm talking to your I'm talking to your listen. I'm
talking to you. I'm talking to your listeners right now.
It's a it's a celebrity based cooking show, and it's
featuring it's featuring recording artists past, present, and future. We're

(21:36):
doing we're doing all genres and uh basically the artists,
uh you know, he'll he or she'll performed whatever song
that they're known for. Then we'll discuss, you know, you know,
what's been having with their careers, what's going on in
their lives. Now you know that whole little thing. Then
you know, we transition into the kitchen and they'll prepare

(21:59):
the favorite dish and then we'll pull somebody up from
the audience to come up and help their favorite artists
cook whatever it is. If they're cooking, what are you
cooking with my homies? I'm from Texas, man, so I
would say I'm more of a barbecue type guy. And
and by being the oldest or five boys, if if

(22:24):
you couldn't cook something, you didn't eat because the other
brothers are not cooking nothing for you. So we all
learned how to cook hot dogs. We all learned how
to boil hot dogs.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
You know what I'm saying, and.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's it's a bee. Come on, no, I've gotten better
over the years, man, honestly.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Okay, So if yeah, because you're talking barbecue, then you
know you gotta you know how to slow cook a brisket.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Oh absolutely, Texas all of that.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay, Okay, well no, because you're talking about our dogs.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Come on, well I was talking about you know, we
all had my brothers and I we all had to
learn how to you know, basically cook something. Because there
was a whole bunch of chiefs in the house and
no Indians.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh yeah, can you cook stan.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Oh yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
What what's your what's some of your favorite.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Uh that's a good question, man't you know when it
comes to cooking, you know, anything.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
That's gonna be on the venue, I usually do pretty good.
I had a good teacher, so you know, I'm not
no gooring main cooking nothing like that. But whatever I
do make do.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, I don't know what like so I don't know
that sound like sous flad water and onion soup.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
About the only thing that I can't cook.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I can't cook Japanese or Chinese food like Asian food,
and for some reason I just can't do it. But
like I I can cook really good Mexican food and
I make like crazy amazing gumbo. Uh and.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah yeah, people are.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Like shot, uh, They're like wow, this is but but
I you know, I can't I for some reason. There's
I don't know if it's just the ingredients or whatever,
but that that's my achilles heel cooking wise is is Uh?
Any kind of Asian cooking is just so hard to do. Uh. Yeah,

(24:42):
So well, see.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
One could come to Seattle. Go ahead, you cook us
some Dumbo.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Oh yeah, you know that's gonna happen. That that I
will do and you'll be like okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, yeah, we know, we know you could that one.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh no, my.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Gumbo was so good.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Chef Ramsey's scared of it.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Chef Ramsey challenge right there.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
I got to be a big fan of his.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
And it took me a long time, but now I
can make I make incredible risotto. I know how to
properly cook my scallops. I have not attempted beef Wellington yet,
just because the thought of cooking it and making it
the right thickness and cooking the beef and yeah, that

(25:48):
scares me because I have a feeling I might burn
the pastry or Yeah. It's a tough one. But other
than that, nah nah, I'm ready for Hell's Kitchen.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Bring it on, all right, Well, look we're gonna make
We're gonna make sure you're in the building. Okay, uh definitely.
So yeah, I think that's pretty much the next thing
for uh, you know, world movement. Of course, we're gonna,

(26:19):
you know, to continue to put out great music and
you know that's our model, you know, moving the world
with our music and that's the next plateau is our
TV and film production. So and then I think, once we.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
How do you how do you think being being in
the industry for the length of time that you have
been in and uh the level of uh expertise and experience,
how how do you feel music is changing? I know

(26:58):
that like the way it's released now, the days of
CDs and LPs and that kind of thing with streeting
is has kind of removed that. But do you feel
like music is moving in a different direction now that
that it was even like five years ago.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
That's a really good question, Michael. I'm not quite man.
I don't know how much time you got left on
the show, because I guess it that was That was
a deep question, man, because my mind kind of went
a lot of different places with that because when we

(27:42):
when we when we started out with music, we was
dealing like with just two tracks right, left and right.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
That was it.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
You know, then you went from two to four track,
six track, eight track, twenty four eight, you know, the
different vices, you know, the the a Dad machines, the
twenty four track machines and different things. And then now
I was one of the first guys in California. Actually

(28:11):
that did a surround sound hip hop record and it
was a five plus one, and nobody had surrounds sound
and the automobiles at the time, you know, very few
people had it in their homes because it was too expensive.
So I think musics came full circle technically because now

(28:35):
we still back down to do we still dealing with
digital applications, and we're still dealing with you know, five
plus one, six plus one and dobe admost for people
that understand that. But I still just like regular old
simple left and right stereo with a good mixed Now,

(28:58):
as far as the artist is concerned, I think by
me coming up in the era shortly after the big
band days, you know, and watching the production and being
in studios where we had live instrumentation, we didn't have
a lot of the technical gadgets, you know what I mean.

(29:24):
We would have to go in there and not sing it,
but sing it, you know, and we couldn't like this
one take and rewind it and do it like fifty
thousand different times, so it was different. I really think
the artists, the old school artists, were a lot more
serious about the music than the artists today, simply because

(29:49):
they have more technical gadgets to play with to make
them sound better, because it seemed like the old school
artists even you sound good or you didn't, you know.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
What I mean.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
It wasn't auto tune, It wasn't none of that, right, So.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, you know absolutely, I mean, I'm I'm such a
big fan of of of I don't want to say
the old old school, but when you when you think
about someone like Stevie Wonder walking in without auto tune
and having to hit those notes clean every time. Uh,

(30:29):
it's it's amazing to me the the level of artistry
and the level of sheer talent they had because like
you said, they didn't really they didn't have something that
would make them adjust the key or or you know,
uh raise the pitch on something. Uh. They either hit

(30:52):
it or they had to try to hit it again,
you know, but they didn't have any technology to change that.
I agree, you know, I think that I think there's
some great artists that are out there now that are
like really really good. But I think it's now it's
now coming into It's now more about the packaging and

(31:17):
what the person looks like and appears like, and what
kind of production or show they have as.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Opposed to they're produced their produced artists. There's a definite
difference between a natural artist versus a produced artist.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm you know, I well, I'm
in honest some of them. I'm in honest some of
the things that the people did, you know, even back
in you know, because auto tune is what is relatively new,
didn't it. It isn't that something that started that came

(31:55):
out at the beginning of the early two thousands, or
was it around.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Before that toward the middle I'd say probably toward the
middle of two thousand, people start really like, you know,
locking into it and stuff.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
So what is what is on the agenda for World
Movement Records this year? I mean, we talked about World
Movement Enterprises in the next you know fight.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
We we got your projects that were finalizing for this year,
for your Christmas projects, looking forward for the new single
for the first quarter from you. We have a project
with Brandy that would be coming out shortly and then
she has her single coming out as well for the

(32:46):
first quarter. So we pretty much lined up for the
next few months, you know, going into the holiday season,
which you know, I know, I'll be working, but a
lot of people in the industry are going to be
taken off. You know, God bless them that they could
do that. I wish I could do.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
What kind of artists is Lamont Patterson looking for for
his label?

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Oh, first of all, man, I've answered this question before too.
Let me see.

Speaker 7 (33:23):
The kind of.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Artists that really motivate me is ones that believe in themselves.
First two, they don't expect anybody to do more for
them than they're willing to do for themselves, which means,
you know, I get a lot of mail from a

(33:44):
lot of people that want to come with the label,
but they haven't even done their due diligence. I mean
they haven't you know, recorded anything. They haven't even put
together any type of package whatsoever. No pictures, no nothing.
They haven't done anything to approach somebody. And been in

(34:06):
the business a long time, you don't expect them to
come come with you with, you know, no ten thousand
dollars package, something picture perfect. You got that. But what
you what you look for is is the effort. The
effort is the thing, you know, if you humble and
you come with sincere effort. Any anybody that's real in

(34:28):
this industry will help you because somebody has helped them.
But don't come ask me. Don't come asking somebody to
believe more in you than you believe in yourself, because
that's ridiculous to even expect. You know, people called me
all the time, many man, can you book me? Can
you give me? Can you get me a show somewhere?
And you know, the first thing gonna comes to my mind, well,

(34:52):
who would you pay to go see that?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
You don't know?

Speaker 3 (34:57):
And then they give you that, they give you that
par that silence. Okay, So you know, I would say
the artist that would excite me is the one that's
not sitting around waiting for somebody to do something for
them that they now willing to do for themself. And
that's quite as simple as I could put it. I'll
I'll go with you, I'll ride with you, but it's

(35:20):
with you, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
It's not for you, it's with you, all right, everybody.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
We are talking to Lamont Patterson, who, aside from being
the CEO of World Movement and record World Movement Records.

Speaker 8 (35:36):
Which is the label I am happily associated and signed with,
he is also the CEO of World Movement enterprises, which
covers a variety of like he was talking about publishing podcasts,
record label TV movies.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
And if you would like to ask him or would
like to call and just say hello on our premiere
show here, you can call in at aera code three
four seven three zero eight eight seven four seven. Once again,
that's three four seven three oh eight eight seven four seven.

Speaker 9 (36:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
And if you want to ask them on a question
or talk to me, feel free to do that. And uh, yeah,
I'm I'm having a good time. I uh, I'm kind
of excited about the fact that you're doing so much
movie work and TV work. How did that? How did

(36:37):
that actually get started for you?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Well, I was sitting around thinking one day while I
was playing my fiddle, and I said, and I said,
lamont everybody they do music eventually want to be in
TV and being new movies and stuff. And then then
I started thinking, I say, well, everybody's doing film and
TV work want to do music, so there's a natural

(37:05):
synergy there. So I said, let me see how I
could get involved with that. So many years ago, in
my office in Hollywood, I was involved with this guy
named Al Franklin and actually this guy named Benny Joey
Joy Medina, which is a well known Latin Latino comedian.

(37:27):
Everybody know Joy Medena. We did this movie called El
Matador and we use my office for one of the
scenes in there, and I say, this is kind of
really cool. I say, so if I could do this
and do my music simultaneously, it doesn't really matter which
door I kick in first, because I'll eventually come to

(37:50):
a place where I'll be in a room where all
doors lead to the same place. So from there, I
started getting involved in more TV productions and getting in
front of the camera because I felt like, you know,
if I find myself in different TV productions and working
on different films, I get to meet different actors. I

(38:14):
get to learn what the cameraman does, how the audio,
the sound people work, the lighting system work. It was
almost like taking a TV film production course, but instead
of me going to school for it, I did on
the job training. So here it is, years and years
and years down the road. I've came out with a
wealth of contacts in the business, and not to mention

(38:39):
I hadn't been on it. Pretty much every TV show
out there, so to speak.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Wow, So yeah, you're.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
I see you on like.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
FX and Hulu, and now I know you're on Netflix.
Are they are? Are you? Do you have anyone that's
a favorite of yours or do you just kind of
treat it the same way every time or.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Well, I treated like it's all on the job training,
And like I said, I just you know, did a
couple of days with Cedric finent Tanner on his show
The Neighborhood, which was which was cool, which is being
aired now. And some other friends told me that they
saw me on the Jeffrey Dahmer that's on Netflix. But

(39:31):
every production that I've worked on or everything that I've
been an actor on, it's all been a learning experience
of me because in goal for World Movement Enterprise is
to produce their own content where you know, I haven't
mentioned con for not the movie that we're involved in,

(39:52):
the britt Error Story, another film that we're involved in
that we're doing this time track on, so you know,
the whole thing for this is to do our own
content of the whole TV film thing, the whole production,
the soundtrack where I have to utilize you know, all
my friends, all the artists, all the musics that I've

(40:16):
put in the last three years, but that would complete
this struggle for me.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
All right, we are talking to him, as I said,
we are talking to Laman and Patterson, and he'll be
with us for about the next five minutes or so.
If you like to call, you're gonna ask him a
question or just say hi. At three four seven three
eight eight seven four seven. And I believe we still
have Stan.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Are you still with us?

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Stan?

Speaker 4 (40:48):
I'm Mike.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
You're just lay back listening.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
He been doing that ever since we was in junior
high school. He's been doing that. He let he let
me getting all the mess and then he come up
behind me shaking his head.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
I love it. So you guys, you guys met it.
You guys met in junior high.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah. I think I think we were fifteen fourteen, fifteen sixteen,
something like that.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Wow. That's a long that is a long friendship.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Wow, it's been fifty five years or so.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, that's incredible.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Started back back when we back when we was doing
showcases in junior high school doing doing temptation songs.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
What that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
I rather, I really love that. Yeah, all right, you guys, well,
I am thrilled to have actually thrilled to have both
of you on as my very very first guest, and
obviously I'm going to be leaning on your expertise and mentorship,

(42:17):
and I'm just looking forward. I just am going to
continue to repeat it. I feel really blessed to be
involved with everything that World Movement is doing, being part
of the label, and just having such an important and
valuable friendship and relationship with you, Lamont is really really

(42:44):
amazing to me. And Stan you I remember Stan, Stan
Stan was Stan did all the work and didn't want
very much recognition. I remember I remember him being the
one that was putting out fires and making sure stuff

(43:07):
was at but he was very very content being on
the sidelines making sure that everything was supported. And you know,
everybody needs that. You know, there there are people that
are very pivotal on the front stage and being a
face of a company or a face of of what's happening.
But you know, you can't survive without pillars and people

(43:30):
to support you, because.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
It's just not everybody's position is important. And that's what
people could get. You know, they get they get they
get hung up on their egos and stuff and and
and I do understand sometimes the ego is like petrol
in your gas tank. You know, it's like you know,
gas in your gas tank. You need a certain amount

(43:52):
of ego because everybody's not going to like you, but
everybody's not going to dislike you, So you definitely need
those people that you're associated with, like those supporting people.
Like you said, but everybody's position is important, and it's
usually the people that's standing behind you holding you up.
They're the most important people exactly about it because without them,

(44:14):
you couldn't do none of the things that you do.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
And I'll tell you one thing that I've that I
have always valued is watching someone that is either on
their way up or they're they have at least achieved
part of their goal and to watch them helping somebody
else is amazing to me because there's so many people

(44:41):
that in the industry that I know that have so
much talent, but they're not about supporting anybody else or
being you know, because they feel like if they encourage
or support someone else that it's it looks negative upon
what they do, and it's actually the opposite, because the

(45:02):
more the more self confidence and comfortableness you have with
what you do, the more you're willing to reach out
and help somebody else.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
And I.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Say, people, Michael, when they were little kids, they wouldn't
let you play with their toy. Yeah, right, same people.
They're just older now, same people.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Well, I want to thank you guys so much for
being on STAN. Thank you for your your incredible commentary, no.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
Your support. I'm going.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
I'm thrilled, and I'm thrilled to be. Like I said,
I'm thrilled to be part of this whole, whole enterprise
and uh and I feel really good about knowing the
fact that you're that you're still involved, because I do
remember you very vividly, and you were. You were a
very very pivotal part of all those showcases that we

(46:07):
did week after week, and your input, in your your
ability to just uh help and support and keep things
on track was really impressive. So I'm thrilled that you're
part of that. Yes, and Lamont, you know what I

(46:30):
think of you.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
I didn't I didn't do it. I don't care what
nobody said.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
All right, we'll work on it.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
I've always I've always thought you was great man, and
I believe that you're then and I believe in you now.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
So well, thank you. That really does mean a lot,
it really does. I'm just I'm just working to be
the better me.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
That's all we could do. That's all we could have.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Yeah, just working on being the better me.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
So all right, you guys, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
And by the way, if you're interested in anything that
we've been talking about today, uh, please go to World
Movement is it World Movement Enterprises dot com or World Movement.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Calmovement dot com. And the show is available everywhere wherever
they listen to it, you know, Iunes, YouTube, let me see, iHeartRadio, Amazon, Apple.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Wow, let me see.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
So just pretty much pretty much everywhere.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Yeah, all they gotta do is google the show.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
And in the cool show, well, I'm talking about them
just getting excited about what's going on and being able
to follow. Uh, not only the label and the TV stuff,
but like the artists and stuff. Everybody check out Worldmovement
dot com. Uh. A lot of great stuff is happening.
And I'm really on a believe it's gonna be a

(48:01):
company that's just gonna explode within the next five years
with so much great stuff. And I'm ready for my
cookoff with Chef Ramsey.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
You're gonna have it too. Be careful what you ask
for Hey, hey, you got another guest, Brenda. I mean,
I guess she's.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Quiet though, but yeah, Brendan is my second guest. Uh,
and she's being a doll and uh but uh I
want to huh.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
We're gonna we're gonna be quiet, man, We're gonna listen
to you and Brenda for a minute.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Uh. Oh okay, well okay, uh, thank you guys so
much for being here everybody. My guest, the one and
only Locke Patterson, who you can see right now on
Netflix's Dahmer series, and the one and only Stan Doris,
who doesn't talk a lot, but his presence has always
felt all right, guys, thanks so much. All right, I

(48:59):
just want to thank you guys for showing up. This
is Michael Cagle. You're watching or I'm not watching, you're
listening to taking center stage with yours truly. My first guest,
of course, that I just appreciated was Lamont Patterson and
sliding in with Stan Doris, and I'm so excited and

(49:19):
now we are going to be bringing she just disappeared
my second guest. Oh. This is one of those fun
things that happens when you're doing live your person leaves
your guest leaves, I will wait for her to come
back because I'm very excited my second guest.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
My second guest is.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
An incredible singer from Las Vegas. She is not only
a regular singing the national anthem for a bunch of
incredible sporning events, she also does quite a few night
clubs and even spend some of her time singing to

(50:08):
the people in retirement centers as well. And she's incredible,
She's wonderful. I've asked her to start by giving us
a song, and I want her to sing for us.
I want to make sure she's there. Are you there,

(50:28):
miss Brenda?

Speaker 6 (50:31):
I think?

Speaker 1 (50:31):
So?

Speaker 9 (50:32):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (50:34):
I hear you amazingly?

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Oh good.

Speaker 9 (50:39):
I tried connecting through the website and it didn't work.
I don't think I couldn't hear anything.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
So, oh you couldn't hear anything? Okay, well I can
hear you now. So I know this is this is
our first show, so technically we're going to work out
little kings and everything. But I think everybody gets the
idea of what the show is going to be like.
It's it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be entertaining, and
I want my guests to have the freedom to be

(51:05):
themselves and just do what they do. And uh, as
I said, I think you're one of the most incredible
singers I know, and I know that you're doing so well.
We'll get into that, will uh what you're doing in
Vegas and some of the stuff that's going on. But
ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment singing now ready, this

(51:28):
is how this is how gutsy this show is. Right here,
she's gonna sing live. You wouldn't want me to sing,
ladies and gentlemen as if we never said goodbye. This
is Las Vegas chantus brenda abert.

Speaker 7 (51:55):
And this oh no, yeah.

Speaker 10 (52:00):
A few moments ago. Oh yes, it's lies.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Hey, uh oh.

Speaker 10 (52:11):
Uh now it's it's it's fine.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
It's just, of course, things decided to go wrong when
you know when things.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Are supposed to go right of course, right, Hey, I
only have professionals on my first show so that we
can roll with the bunches as stuff happens. And I'm like, uh, yeah,
I have been in shows where that has happened, where

(52:41):
something that was queued up wasn't queued up correctly, or yeah,
just let me know how it is. It starting to go.

Speaker 11 (52:51):
Let's see, oh give me okay, now I got hold
on one second because.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Sure it's just well I'm gonna give her remember, okay,
So you are listening sort of to taking center stage
and uh with as with every first time show with
live singing and singing and bringing different guests on every
now and then, we have technical issues and we're having
one now. But if you would like to call in,

(53:25):
let me give you the number before on the interview
and singing starts. You can give us a call at
three four seven three zero eight eight seven four seven.
That's three four seven three oh eight eight seven four seven,
and I will uh love to hear from you, and

(53:48):
we'll go from there.

Speaker 6 (53:55):
Right no way over.

Speaker 12 (54:02):
The car but trees.

Speaker 6 (54:06):
Dise sounds be.

Speaker 10 (54:11):
You're so enough doing it the sub.

Speaker 12 (54:16):
But they're not any.

Speaker 10 (54:21):
And then this third conversation, you know, the grounding always really.

Speaker 12 (54:45):
Still funny, play everything football, oh and so many money.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Descrying this, I'm perhaps like you can't.

Speaker 7 (55:17):
I make you.

Speaker 10 (55:22):
The verstension of them in this snyman, we will.

Speaker 6 (55:31):
You to give can we do take the.

Speaker 10 (55:40):
Life all red footing a turning.

Speaker 12 (55:52):
And really funny had been.

Speaker 6 (55:57):
Antic can make.

Speaker 10 (55:59):
You yes, everything, we never let boss.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
Don't want to be.

Speaker 12 (56:13):
That's all the same that waits all up at the
side to be sin.

Speaker 6 (56:32):
And trier, that you w watch were.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
To me.

Speaker 10 (56:48):
Fro shaky, that's a that.

Speaker 12 (56:58):
Listen, oh.

Speaker 10 (57:02):
Listen, conversation in able gradue wait.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
So much to say the job to say with all way.

Speaker 10 (57:27):
Love making.

Speaker 9 (57:31):
You're just.

Speaker 10 (57:34):
Neble good god, oh please don't tam eble bly say.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Cool.

Speaker 7 (57:55):
But whoo.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Yay, that was awesome.

Speaker 7 (58:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Oh you're so good.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Yeah it every we wasn't bad.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
It's uh your your speaker and your voice are pretty powerful.
So I I the sound was it was good. I
just was I a.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I think the music got a little.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Thumpy, but that's okay. We'll all Like I said, I
bring in prose to helped me on my first show
because uh yeah, and yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
It was great. I love that song and I didn't
know that you.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Sang Barbara streisand right, yeah, that's such a shock to me.
Uh yeah, just a little bit. There's there's a little
bit of uh, there's a little stride that in the

(59:19):
repertoire there anyway.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
I want to thank you guys, thank you for being
my first guess that's so exciting.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
And obviously I know, well you should he well, because
I just.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
You know, from the moment I met you, I just
I just fell in love with your personality and just
how uh you just embrace all these songs that you
sing and and I I have to admit, you have
shocked me in how much repertoire you really know and

(59:58):
how diverse you are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Like that's yeah, because.

Speaker 9 (01:00:05):
When I when I broke out with a.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Yeah, I was gonna say, when you're saying you shook
me all night long, I'm just like, what, I'm sorry,
go ahead.

Speaker 9 (01:00:26):
I take myself too seriously, so I gotta come up
with some funny songs like Casey Jones, like never wear
panties to a party. And you know, every man I
loved was either Mary Day or.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Dead And that's my I know that. First Well, what
I had liked? What is it like to be a singer?
And first of all, how does it feel to be
a singer in Las Vegas?

Speaker 9 (01:01:00):
Oh? Well, when I moved here in two thousand and nine,
I moved here from the Seattle area, although I was
living in Aberdeen. Don't hold that against me, though, And.

Speaker 10 (01:01:14):
I moved here with a one way.

Speaker 9 (01:01:17):
Ticket, plane ticket, a backpack and a suitcase and that
was it. So, you know, I because I wanted to
be able to, you know, work on my music and
do what I wanted.

Speaker 11 (01:01:31):
You know what I love to do.

Speaker 9 (01:01:34):
So and so I mean right now I do a
lot of shows with at a sister living homes and
things like that, So may not be a stadium full
of people, but as a stadium full of love.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
As I like to say, yeah, have you have you
felt like it's probably much different now the Vegas now,
especially post pandemic, as when you then when you first.

Speaker 6 (01:02:07):
Moved here, Yeah, it was. I had.

Speaker 9 (01:02:13):
I started doing my shows a like a sister living
homes in like twenty fourteen, and I finally built up
like about twenty shows a month, wow, you know, twenty
shows a month at his sister living homes from Boulder
City to Centennial Hills, which is like from one end

(01:02:37):
of Clark County.

Speaker 10 (01:02:38):
To the other end of Clark County.

Speaker 9 (01:02:42):
And doing twenty shows a month when the pandemic hit,
so yeah, and I mean I think was either the
first week or the second week. Then I started doing
Facebook live shows and although lately I've been I mean,

(01:03:04):
with everybody going back to work, it was I wasn't
pulling in as many viewers as I had been during
the Dream of Quarantine.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
So yeah, you were you were averaging.

Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Because I have to be honest, uh, I I as
as many people know, I I do do some vocal
coaching on the side with people that I really believe in,
and Brenda is one of my amazing talent that I
get to work with. But even during the pandemic, when

(01:03:39):
we were just basically friends and I knew you, Uh yeah,
it was not unusual for you to have a huge
amount of people that were turning into your uh tuning
into your uh to your live shows on Facebook, and
they were so good. I mean, there were costume changes,
and you know, you're just you know, you're not one

(01:03:59):
of those that just stands there in sings. You know,
you're you believe in bringing a song to life. And
and I cannot wait when we go video on these shows, uh,
to be able to let everybody see you, because it's
it's awesome. I just, you know, very few people unfortunately

(01:04:23):
these days, really get get it that singing and performing
is five senses, you know, and so you want to
you want to be visually stunning. You want people to
feel what you're singing, and and you know you don't
have to do leap, you know, calisthenics or cartwheels across
the stage. But you also don't want to, like at

(01:04:45):
any moment you're going to be embalmed.

Speaker 9 (01:04:48):
So yeah, you don't want to look like some of
these bass guitar players in some of these bands.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Get it bird, Yeah right, can.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Just yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Because you know, I mean to me, I've I've always
because I come from a really strong theater background. Uh,
songs to me are always monologues. I think about, Okay,
what what is the what is the purpose of this song?
It's not just to hit notes, it's what is the purpose?
Is it to be fun? Is it to move you?

(01:05:25):
Is it to tell a story? Is it to share
how you're feeling? And you need to be able to
convey that to an audience. And by I've you do
that and leaves and bounds. It's like, like I said,
you're one of those people I cannot wait to have
back on when we do video, when we're doing a video,

(01:05:46):
because to see you live is just amazing. Talk to
me about Uh, how did Brenda how did you get
into singing and why did you get into singing?

Speaker 9 (01:05:59):
Well, actually, I can't remember a time that I didn't sing.
I mean, you know, even if it was just with
the radio or you.

Speaker 13 (01:06:08):
Know, with my records or yes, that records. I used
to say, you know that Donnie Osmond.

Speaker 9 (01:06:19):
And then with tapes it was Barbara, it was Helen Ready,
it was uh Manhattan Transfer, it was I don't know,
Harry Connick Junior. Let's see, so you know, oh and
Peter Gabriel. So I've got kind of oh yeah, an eclectic.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Music struction.

Speaker 9 (01:06:48):
I've got like a big media shelf that's overflowing in
my lipp aproom.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
So basically, music has been There's never been a time
that you haven't felt music or been inspired by it, or.

Speaker 9 (01:07:09):
That I've never been inspired by No, I know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
What yeah, what I mean is there hasn't been a
time that it hasn't inspired you, like right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 9 (01:07:22):
My mom My mom says that when I was little
and she'd take me to go get my shots, you know,
she would sing to me to try to distract me
from you know, getting a shot. And she said, I
give her the funniest look. Well, one night, my brother

(01:07:42):
and I invited her to karaoke and we figured up
and I figured out why I gave her.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
The funny look.

Speaker 9 (01:07:49):
I love my mom, but I did not get my
singing talent from.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Oh wow. Okay, okay, I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:07:59):
You know, even as as a little little girl, I've
always had like an ear, I could distinguish voices, you know,
even when somebody was in costume or something like that.
My brother's godfather came one year for Christmas dressed up

(01:08:20):
as Santa Claus, and she said, ho, ho ho, I'm
Sana Claus and here I am at four years old,
and I'm like.

Speaker 10 (01:08:27):
That's not Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
Oh wow.

Speaker 9 (01:08:32):
My mom was work. Of course, my brother was only
nine months old, so he didn't realize.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Who God, you're so cute? So who is who has
been some of your to get to be the Brenda
that you are now? Who are some of your inspirations?

Speaker 9 (01:08:59):
Let's well Barbra, mainly because she has been the longest
that I've listened to. Helen Ready, I guess as a vocalist,
I prefer number one other vocalists that number one. I

(01:09:19):
cannot understand what the heck they're singing, okay, sill andyon
and I guess in the last fifteen years have gotten
into uh Liza Minelli and mainly because I guess her

(01:09:42):
range and my range truly are about the same our vocals.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Yeah, yeah, very very similar. Are you going to do
another song for me?

Speaker 8 (01:09:56):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
Yes, if I must.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
What what are you planning on?

Speaker 9 (01:10:06):
How about Anti Babies by Helen Rady?

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
What's good.

Speaker 6 (01:10:17):
From the topical? N It's really nice place to come,
turn up and say.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Love.

Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
They allay step so.

Speaker 14 (01:11:02):
Faces, She said, day, well stop people Cohn a smile.

Speaker 6 (01:11:31):
Pass through bla.

Speaker 10 (01:11:36):
See stars with the dance. Should have a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
And she said he.

Speaker 10 (01:11:50):
When he walks in, but you walked into the same
as the music.

Speaker 6 (01:11:57):
So wow.

Speaker 10 (01:11:57):
This about of the bos the play off radio never.

Speaker 6 (01:12:28):
Never one thing to die.

Speaker 14 (01:12:30):
Let up to Brady the Radium Summer and says.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
A little.

Speaker 7 (01:13:04):
Say yes, okay, yes, well I wasn't I muted so

(01:13:46):
you didn't hear any like breathing or.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
Yes, I will say I think that Nasa, I have
you on, I will talk about this and like I said,
I'm just kind of learning. I love the fact that
people are singing live on the show. We just have
to make sure that speakers are not super close to
the microphone because sometimes it's just like it, it overpowers them.

(01:14:15):
And of course you have a good sized voice like
nobody else in this conversation does, but being this thing
or the big voice, it's real. Yeah, it's real hard
to Yeah, my poor little microphones at time just goes no.
Please anyway, tell me about I know that you do.

(01:14:40):
You get to sing in the national anthem for several
sporting events. How did you get into that? And how
fun is that for you?

Speaker 9 (01:14:51):
I love staying the national anthem. My first time was
actually for the Seattle Thunderbirds when I was seventeen years old.
It's saying the US and comedian at that time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
And so.

Speaker 9 (01:15:07):
It's been a little more difficult to get break in
here in Las Vegas because some teams, well at least
one team thinks that they should only have one singer,
which makes no sense. But you know, what are you
gonna do?

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
But I did? I want to the.

Speaker 9 (01:15:26):
Official national anthem singer for the Las Vegas Silver Stars
women's tackle football teams.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
So they have three they have three.

Speaker 9 (01:15:37):
Games a season, but hey, uh, they only play American teams.
So I get just in the I mean the star
spangled banner. But I got to sing this season for
the Las Vegas Aviators Triple.

Speaker 6 (01:15:56):
A team baseball team, I think for them quite a few.

Speaker 9 (01:15:59):
Times when they were or the fifty ones.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
And then.

Speaker 13 (01:16:03):
I got to sing again this this last season.

Speaker 6 (01:16:06):
So hopefully.

Speaker 13 (01:16:10):
I'll get to sing again next season.

Speaker 9 (01:16:12):
Trying to get in, get my foot in the door
to sink for the Las Vegas thesis, and it's being
kind of a trial.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
But all right, so let me ask you what what
is what does the next three to five years look
like for Brenda? Where would you like where would you
like Brenda to be at?

Speaker 10 (01:16:38):
Ah, that's a good question.

Speaker 9 (01:16:44):
I would I'd like to have, you know, showing a
lounge at least a lounge here in Las Vegas. I mean,
I mean I can see myself, you know, head lighting
on the strip. But people we'll get to know who
I am before they'll pay for it.

Speaker 13 (01:17:05):
Can't just come see me, especially at those prices.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Do you find are you are you able to do
you know a lot of the open mic cabaret kind
of things that are that are still out there in
Vegas or.

Speaker 9 (01:17:24):
When I can, when I can't. It's just mainly, well,
I'm also working at night, so so that's kind you know,
but I work at night so I can do my
shows terding the day and then.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 9 (01:17:44):
Non music work at night.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
Yeah, yeah, Okay. You know there there's a reason why
they say, you know, go to New York as an actor,
be prepared to wait tables. You know, it comes. It's
just because it's the cuff industry, you know, and sometimes

(01:18:07):
it's you're going to have all the talent in the world.
You just got to be in the right place at
the right time. And I've not. You know what, My
experience in Vegas was exactly the same thing. I I
came with a pretty decent resume to Las Vegas and
but nobody was interested. You know, They're like, okay, well
that was cool, but what are you doing here? And

(01:18:30):
you know, I you know what saved my what saved
me years of fighting in Vegas was I won a
contest that the grand prize was a week long contract
in the showroom. Uh And at the end of the
week they told me they wanted to sign me and

(01:18:51):
keep me on. And had I not had I not
won that contest, I would be you know, I'd be
like so many other incredibly talented people really working to
be recognized and heard and and everything. So it's it's
a tough it's a tough situation. Did you see yourself?

(01:19:12):
Would you like to see yourself doing a fronting a
band or do you want to do a one woman show?
Or what what would the ideal Brenda show look like?

Speaker 9 (01:19:27):
Oh? I guess that's my problem is trying to narrow
it down because you know, I can.

Speaker 10 (01:19:34):
I I like the idea of the band, but you know, uh,
and I.

Speaker 9 (01:19:41):
Guess it would lend more creativity than just singing to
the Tryeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
Yeah, I will tell you the more the more you
get into you know, lounge work and showroom work. Uh,
because I used to do have you know, try actually
never bothered me. But then the amount of money they
wanted to pay the artists and everything they but they
weren't going to pay it if if there wasn't a

(01:20:11):
drummer and a piano player and a guitar player. So
having a band is really really pivotal. But your issue
is going to be you're so diverse, you know you're
gonna have to find music. You have to find music
unless you narrow it down, you know, to a specialty,
because I know, I know that one of the things
I love about you is that you sing bilingual as well,

(01:20:36):
and which is often done, or if it is done,
it's kind of done terribly, but you really do it.
I know that's terrible, I know, but I you know,
I'm one of these people. I'm one of these people
that when I go to a show, I want to
I want to see and feel the music, not just vocally,

(01:21:00):
but presentation wise. I think that's such an important responsibility
for a performer to do, is to perform. Uh, and
you actually do that. So yeah, and.

Speaker 9 (01:21:14):
You know, I like, I don't know, especially as French
is there aren't a lot of French English singers, at
least in the United States. And but I can think
sometimes Spanish and a little bit of Italian too, you know,

(01:21:35):
the Italian I would work a little new work on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
But well, I hate to do this to you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
I know that do you have I thought you have
one more song?

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
Correct? Oh, I guess so is it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
How long?

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Is it.

Speaker 13 (01:21:56):
Three and a half minutes?

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
Let's do it now?

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
That leave me a pout? Okay, wait to Cheleen singing?
What more?

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
And honey, go ahead and turn your speakers down just
a little bit and we'll see you get some better
audio or other than that. Looks good.

Speaker 9 (01:22:15):
Is that you lower?

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
No, that's good?

Speaker 10 (01:22:22):
What good is sitting alone in your breath?

Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
Come here the old music play, my dear.

Speaker 10 (01:22:32):
The travel him. Come to the cable ray. Down the knitting,
the book and the room.

Speaker 15 (01:22:45):
It's time for the holiday, my DearS, the travel chol
So come to the cable ray.

Speaker 10 (01:22:59):
See why come here to the band?

Speaker 6 (01:23:03):
Tell more than.

Speaker 12 (01:23:04):
Hans tealbrating stray.

Speaker 14 (01:23:08):
Table slatany committee, come profit of two.

Speaker 12 (01:23:13):
White that breathes my way.

Speaker 10 (01:23:18):
PLASTI cabo fraid chump, so't.

Speaker 15 (01:23:23):
Come to the camel ray.

Speaker 14 (01:23:29):
Thank used to have to stroke friend known as Selsia
with my chef was lord of Bruis and Chelsea. She
wasn't what you call a flushing flows. As a matter
of fact, she rented.

Speaker 10 (01:23:46):
By the hour. The space she died in neighbors came
the snicker.

Speaker 14 (01:23:53):
Well that's what comes from too much pills and liquors.
But when I had saw the laid out like please,
she was the happiest coach.

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
I never seen.

Speaker 10 (01:24:11):
I think of Elsie to the very day. I remember
Hushing turned to me to say, what could this sitting
all alone? You come here the music.

Speaker 12 (01:24:33):
Play like me the cab Ray chalm.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
So come to the cab Rain.

Speaker 12 (01:24:48):
And as for me, and as for me, I mean
my mind back in Chelsea.

Speaker 10 (01:24:59):
W by god, I'm going my girl dot com and.

Speaker 12 (01:25:13):
Pro fail to see.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
It is a sad.

Speaker 6 (01:25:20):
Day, my mister camel ral chump, this.

Speaker 12 (01:25:29):
Rail chum and.

Speaker 9 (01:25:33):
Of rail.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Yes, and that is the wonder and only Brendan Heber
from Las Vegas. And I'm winding down. I have about
thirty seconds. I want to thank my guests today. Thank
you Brenda so much for showing up and arming for us,
and I really appreciate it. You been and again, Laman
and Stan. Laman and Stan, thank you so much. You've

(01:26:09):
been listening, taking set Astrade with Michael Kaggle and it's
been an honor to be here. We will be back
next week at two o'clock. I hope you enjoy this.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Take care of yourselves, but everybody, bye bye

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
H