February 14, 2025 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A special conversation with “internationally renowned artist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and keyboard master” Cory Henry; who last appeared on the program in celebration of his sixth Grammy nomination, now returns having won the Grammy Award for ‘Best Roots Gospel Album’ for his critically acclaimed gospel album "Church" and to preview his new single “Let’s Go Fall in Love” (available now on Spotify) … PLUS – A micro-treatise on the ascendance of comic book character Sam Wilson; from ‘Falcon’ to the role of ‘Captain America’ - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Lad, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Corey
Henry is literally coming up the stairs at this moment.
He'll beat in the studio in just a moment. But
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just want to let you know after the show tonight.
I made mention of it earlier. The whole crew. We're
going to see Captain America Brave New World. We actually
like each other on this show. We actually hang out
together on occasion, believe it or not. For all the
sniping at one another and for all the attempts to
(00:43):
make fun of each other, we actually kind of like.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Each other's people.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's going to turn into Valentine's Day while we're at
the movie. Yes, yeah, I think right around midnight. But
I want you to keep your hands to yourself. I'm
not getting a popcorn. I'm not putting it in my lap.
I'm not the one you need to worry about. It's
it's Twala Waller about you see it?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well him, I don't mind. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What usually happens is Twala will just buy all the tickets,
and then when I get there, I'll buy all the food,
and then we just usually have a good time and
watch the movie and then we go home.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
At I don't know, three four in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I don't know why he gets these tickets always after work,
after we've had a full day. Now it works for
Mark Ronner because Mark Roner is gonna be up till
six am anyhow.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Doesn't bother me at all middle of the day me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, I can't speak for Stephan because you're usually out
of here around tennis right right after the show.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah yeah, round ten. Yeah. But and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's kind of getting me used to, you know, if
we do start doing these more often, doing uber again,
because you know, staying out till like four in the morning,
it's like, okay, well, I think I can hang watching
a movie if I can drive around.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I can't do that. Now I can hang till two
three in the morning, I can. I can do it
if only because I took a nap today, and since
I took a nap today, since I'm old, I can
handle it. But if I didn't take a nap, oh no,
it would have been just like that Aquaman two fiasco
we saw. It was all I could do to stay
awake at all in that theater.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, weirdly though, that's a movie where it's okay, if
you sleep through as much of it as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't remember half of it, and I never went
back to revisit it or.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
See any of it. It did not matter. Yeah, that's
the right thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But tonight it's going to be a little bit different
because I'm going to try to stay up through the
whole movie. Somehow, some way, I hear good things. We're
getting actual, real reviews of the movie now, which are
coming out people that I know who've seen it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
They're saying good things about it. So fingers crossed, fingers cross.
It's supposed to have had a very troubled production. Trouble production.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I know they had extensive reshoots, there were some other
issues going on, and also Marvel's track record as of
late hasn't been great. So the expectations are much higher
for any movie. They haven't had a major hit. I'm
trying to think the last major hit they had, well,
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Wolverine and Deadpool. Deadpool, that's true, that's true. But outside
of that, Endgame was maybe the last one, and that
was really good.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But yeah, they've they've had some code browns in the meantime.
I'll just say this, I know we got to do
something else. Here, but I just forward myself an article
that said Brave New World was allegedly the most tense
Marvel set that people say they've worked on, with the
sequences completely cut. Lots of sequences that they shot were
cut out of the film, and a quote I think
everyone on the crew knew this is probably not going
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to be a good film, so kind of mixed feedback going, yes, yeah,
you don't know, but you know a lot of times
I've heard that, and then the movie completely surprised me.
The trailer looks terrific, and I haven't gotten sick of
it no matter how many times I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I would be more concerned if they didn't do reshoots
and they just plowed ahead. So if they did reshoots,
hopefully it's for the betterment of the whole movie.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We should clarify for listeners, every big movie has reshoots.
That means nothing when people complain about reshoots. You need
the context.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
No, but there are are some other issues as far
as the perception of Anthony Mackie as being quote unquote
Captain America and whether that fits within some people's idea
of who Captain America was. Even though and I'm going
to save this from my final thought. I have some
thoughts on that. But also people lose sight of the
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fact that it's in the comics. You know, you always
complain about comic accuracy. Then when you give it and
they get it, and it's almost like, well, not that accuracy.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We don't want that much accuracy. I wonder what problem
people could possibly have.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I can only hypothesize it has something to do with
I'll wait to my final remarks. But the fellows, we're
going to get together and do this, and you wonder, like,
do you guys actually do this a lot?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Not often?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Not often, I would say maybe three four times a year,
maybe once a quarter. We get it because it also
depends on whether there's a movie that we all collectively
want to see. We can't let Tuala just do what
he wants to do because if he does, he'll have
us going to any old movie and we just can't
trust him like that. He likes to stay up late.
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Mark likes to stay up late. I like to be
asleep by one am.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Tula also has a fondness for those children's movies.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
He does, he does, and he'll wanted to see like
Mwana too.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I have no desire to see Mwanao. Also for the
does his daughter wanted to see it? Right? I don't
give a damn. I don't want to see that.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And with Twala is a distinct possibility that he'll actually
buy us all tickets to go see it. And I
have to let him know, No, that's not me, Doug,
that's you and the family.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
That's for me.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That's a that's a note for me. I'm Randy Jackson
of this. That's a noe dog. It's just shocking how.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know how he doesn't zombie out the next
day at work because you know, staying up so late
and he gets up early there, and that's what I'm saying, like,
how does he even like function?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Tuila has two jobs.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
In the first job, he has to be in there
like maybe six thirty seven in the morning, like five,
and that has nothing to do with whether he's dropping
his daughter off to school. I don't know how he
does it, but I chose the life in which I
would not have to do it, So I am not
trying to get up at four point thirty to go
to one job and then have to maybe sleep in
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my car for lunch or something, and then come to
this job and then go out to the movies afterward.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
No Tuala stamina fascinates me because I remember scheduling whole
college semesters around sleeping in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh I did.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, here was a trick and my father taught me this.
Don't have early classes because early classes mean early exams,
and if you want to do a test at seven
in the morning, that's probably not in your best interest.
You'd rather have won at like eleven o'clock, where even
if you're studying until four in the morning, you can
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get a good four hours of sleep or so and
then take your exam and be goaded.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Also hangovers.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I have never gotten drunk the night before an exam
in my life. Well, I can say that confidently before
a class just in general. I probably did in my
senior year when things are coming down to the end.
There's some days I was day drinking on the lawn
and then go to class. But it wasn't the same.
But not like during the course of a normal semester. Yeah, yeah,
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because I did.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Like what Mark did, I would have like some late
morning classes like ten or eleven, and then the last
one would be like at four or five so I could,
like you said, nap sometimes.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
There you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When we come back Corey Henry in the studio, we're
gonna celebrate his Grammy. He was Grammy nominated when he
last was here. Now he's Grammy Award winning. Can't I
Amswerce four. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Kf I Am six forty is Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You may recognize
that virtuosity. When we last spoke to Corey Henry, he
was a Grammy nominee in the category of Best Roots
Gospel Album, and as we speak to him right now tonight,
he is the Grammy Award winning artist thanks to his
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win back on February second for his album Church or
as We Say Chuch. He also has a new single,
we'll let you know about that just in time for
Valentine's Day, Let's Go Fall in Love. We'll listen to
that in just a moment, but it is available right
now on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
My brother and I'll call you my friend now.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I think we have talked enough in person, Corey Henry, congratulations,
thanks for coming back in the studio.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh thank you mother, thanks for having me and Sam.
I'm so glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I look when I saw when it finally hit the web,
when you actually won your Grammy, and you ran, I
mean literally ran up to the stage.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Thank you to the coord Academy, Recording Academy. Thank you God,
Thank you God, Thank you God. That's all I can say.
I was just rushing in here. I'm just so happy
to be here. Thank you to all my peers. Thank
you to everybody who helped me make the Church album,
Raphael Sadik, Bishop Carton, Pierce, John p Key. The list
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goes on in so many songs, and it's been a
blessing to me because it's my literally my life history
on record. So and this is a testimony, testimony for
me to tell everybody who knows me to follow God
and to follow your dreams. Follow God, you direct your path.
Thank you guys for this award. I love you.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
All you said on social media to God be the
Grammy as a play on words, to God be the Glory.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I understood that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I felt that, and there's another same way say you
may know my glory to tie together. But you may
not know my story. And part of your story was
you were going to retire, weren't you. Yeah, yeah, that
is That's been a lot. That's been a big talking
point for me as of recent as of the recent years,
and and the career has brought me much.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Joy and much pain at that time, and ill, you know,
but winning brings a lot of joy now, it brings
it brings it kind of full circle, makes it feels
like all the hard work wasn't in vain.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You know, you made it clear, and not that you're
not humble, but you were honest and you were transparent
saying basically, and I'm paraphrasing you, yes I want to win.
Yes it's nice to be nominated, but yes I want
to win. How nervous were you in the moments leading
up to them saying your name?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Honestly, I wasn't nervous at all this time around, actually
every other year that I've been nominated as a solo artist,
when they are doing the name call, I get anxious
and my heart start pounding, and I just like I
start breathing, and you know, I hear them say my name,
and then I'm waiting for them to call my name
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for the winner, and I just get like so like pressure.
But this time was much different. My grandmama was with me,
Big Mama, doctor J. Yeah, you know, Grammy Award winning
doctor J. She was with me. My little sister, my
little cousin was with me. My uncle was with me,
which is a total difference than any other time that
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I spend in California to have my family. So I
felt like the stress or the pressure or the whatever
it was that was happening that would normally lead up
to this moment in which, you know, I've waited so
long to you know, to live and get to it
felt like it was just chill. It felt like we
was getting ready for church. And put another way, maybe
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you let go and let God. Yeah, let go, let God,
you know, and just enjoy the time and enjoy to
enjoy what's happening. Matter of fact, to be honest to
the reason why I was running is because I just
got in the room. That's what I heard.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's like you were literally running as they were announcing
your category.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah. Yeah, there was a traffic jam. Imagine you know
in La Geez. It was somebody like some car crash,
and then we ran into another jam somewhere else. So
it was just not normal, you know, just getting there,
it was very unusual. I felt like the devil was
trying to block men, but I made it anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I have followed your career for quite some time, but
I know your career transcends genre. I know you as
a gospel artist, you're a funk artist, you're a jazz artist.
You already had a Latin Grammy. You had appeared on
all music from hip hop to pop, as far as
guest artists. In fact, your new single when I play
that in a moment, available on Spotify right now, Let's
Go Fall in Love. I would say it's probably one
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of the broadest musical selections I've heard you do in
a musical genre, since you can wear all the hats.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But here's the question. How would you describe your music?
Oh man, I described my music as soul music, or
better yet, future soul. I've been liking to call it
future soul, you know, but music that just touches the heart.
I want all my music to touch the heart, to
touch the emotions, to make you feel something. So soul
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music is what I would call it. When I was
playing your bumper coming in.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I didn't play the whole song, but it's from you
were performing on BBC BBC and it was your performing
Billy Gen a rendition of Billy Jean. And it's amazing
to me how you seemingly are very comfortable in any
musical environment. You're playing with a full orchestra, and also
there were electronic instruancy at someone obviously playing the guitar
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risks from Billy Jean. Is there anything that you haven't
done in a musical sense that you would like to
do or performance venue?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Man, that's my job to ask those questions, which makes
you pause and things.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, I'm like, oh, I haven't thought about that. I
will say this. I am over About two three weeks
ago at NAM Convention, I started a new duo you know,
maybe I want to call it Yeah. And it's interesting
because it happened from a jam session with my brother
shout out to Shawan Andrews. And we've been playing music
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that sounds like something I wasn't even really trying to
target before. And it sounds like and I never called
it this. My other homie called it this. He said,
it's like it sounds like you're doing adium jazz soul
music idiom, you know, DJ, and I was like, Oh,
that's interesting, you know that that's happening and that people
were like that. We played it a few three about
two or three times around now, and then it got
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me closer to what I wanted to do coming into
this year. I've been wanting to DJ.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't see you as a DJ,
but I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I got these ideas in which, you know, I'm a
DJ and play some drums on the side or take
a solo, you know, or the mogue or something like that.
But I want to spend records and for a lot
of reasons. But doing how I was doing it in
a new duo, I was like, Oh, we could be
in a DJ space, and I'm looking forward to making
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music that is like dancy, but I don't want to
call it idiom, but like in that space.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You know, you took one of my questions because I
was going to ask you. When I encounter people who
are driven, they're usually less concerned about what they've already
done and more concerned about the next thing. Yes, you
wanted to win a Grammy, but your mind is already
probably beyond the Grammy. So is the DJing the next
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thing or just one of a bunch of next things.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It is one of a bunch of things I think
already coming into it. I was several projects of things
I recorded, worked on and got to the finish line,
and I want to get those things out, you know,
much like this song. Like like this song. I worked
on this song and nobody, you know, knew I was
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working on it. But I just have these songs, you know,
just like ready and like ready to push play on and.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Let me jump in there. I wonder and tell me
if I'm wrong, but I think I'm right. Do you
sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with
a melody in your head? You just have to get
it down before you forget about it? Absolutely absolutely, you know.
As soon as it hits I'm like, oh man, I
feel a tingle in my fingers, you know, and I'm like,
oh man, let me go sit down and grab my phone.
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It's a lot of let me grab my phone. I'd
be like, do you sing the melody or do you
do you have like an app where you can like
just play a melody.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
No, just singing it, singing it is normally enough, and
it's normally uh like really jumbled, you know, like I
can be singing. I was like, and I start saying
chords like E flat.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
To the G to the oh you will go back
to So it's not even a melody, it's a chord progression.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And you hear the parts already in your head.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, yeah, especially if I'm not around a piano, you know.
And sometimes that's those are the best songs when I'm
not around the piano, you know, And I'll just like
just be in the car and then it hits me.
I'm like, and I'll just start singing and thing, and
I'm like, oh, this is a.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Song, okay, But you hear the melody, the harmony. Do
you hear the backing vocals. Do you hear the full
instrumentation or they just a melody in that moment.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
It depends, But normally I hear the whole song. It's
like if I get an idea, or let's say, and
I say the whole song, but I hear all the
parts in the song, like if I get a chorus right. Normally,
if I hear a melody in my head, I can
hear the bass part to the melody, the chords to
the melody, the drum part, you know, like all that's
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kind of playing along with it. So the idea comes
packaged normally, you know, if it's one part of the
song or the entire song, it's normally packaged. And if
it's not, then I'm like, all right, let me call
on Homie to make some drums up to this or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But the song is pretty much complete, you just haven't
put it down as a full recording.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yes, that's what they call brilliance and genius. My goodness.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
When we come back, we're going to get into his
new song, Let's Go Fall in Love. I would call
it a national debut, you know, world premiere.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
If you like.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Here on Later with Mo Kelly, Corey Henry in studio.
Excuse me wait, let's be back up, Grammy Award winning
Corey Henry Wow I six forty. We're live everywhere in
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
kf I am six forty, can't.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I mister Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and I'm continue
to be joined in the studio by Grammy award winning
artists Corey Henry and Corey let me pick up right there.
It's one thing to win a Grammy. It's another thing
to say I have a Latin Grammy and a Grammy.
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What is I would say, more impactful or more not
more important, but touched you more emotionally.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
In terms of the Grammys, I guess this one does
more emotionally. This one. It seems like my whole life
is now made some type of sense personally, And there's
so many reasons I can go forever talking about it.
I think I was thinking often about how long I
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spent in church and how you know, many years and
hours and like times and services and concerts and traveling
and practicing and just it's just so much that went
into that experience and I used it for and I
use it rather for all my music, no matter you know,
like the genre yep. But to actually specifically go back
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and go to the studio and remember and record the
music that I grew up playing, and to win a
Grammy for that is like it's kind of mind blowing,
you know, like to get it from the thing that
like I started from.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What I appreciate most about that album Church, It took
me back to my early days in the church, the
old time religion, the hymns, the things that we would
sing in the church all the time. And I always
go ballistic in a good way when I hear a
Hammond B three, and usually it's not necessarily promptly featured,
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but I can hear it in what you do. And
before we get to your single, it reminded me you
did this piece for doctor Henry Lewis Gates where you
were playing on the Hammond B three, and it almost
brought tears to my eyes.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That look at the gospel that takes me back.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
When you sit down at the hand in these days,
does it also take you back?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Does it take you somewhere else sometime else? Oh yes,
And especially when I'm playing songs like Amazing Grace. My
mama tult me how to play that song. That's the
first song I ever lost, I ever learned. And when
I play any song that's like that, or songs that
are from my childhood, you know, it makes me think
about when I was a kid learning them and playing
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them in church, and it does bring me to tears
very often, you know, it's right, very emotional. I'm very
connected to these songs in a very deep way. And yeah,
and it brings me back every time. You know, that
was the beginning.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But where you are now, you're the different point in
your career, your you're playing different music. I think it's
now time that we play a little bit of Let's
Go Fall in Love and it's perfect. It's in time
for Valentine's Day. But before I play it, tell me
about it. What inspired you?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
What is it about? This song is for the lovers.
This song is for all the lovers out there. I think,
I just I'm not even think. I just like love songs,
you know, and I play love songs all the time.
Some of my favorite songs are love songs from Al Green,
Marvin Gaye.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I was getting ready to ask you who's that feel
for you, Bill Wethers and you know, Stevie Wonder and
you know the lists go earth Win and Fire.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Love songs are some of the greatest songs ever written.
And and no matter what you know people feel about
Valentine's Day, you know, this song is for the lovers,
you know. So it's always a good time for the love.
And I got with my boy. Shout out to my boy,
Charlie Burrell and Cheris Burrell for helping me put this
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one together. And I'm just excited that this song is,
you know, beyond just being for the lovers, is a dance,
feel good track, and you know, something that's very different
from what I've heard from you. Very sure. For sure,
there's definitely a left turn from all my other music.
But I'm really happy about it, excited that it's out,
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you know.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And world premiere of Let's Go Fall in Love from
Grammy Award winning artist Cory Henry available right now on Spotify.
Let's Go Fall in Love from Grammy Award winning artist
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Corey Henry and Corey let me in our conversation with
this question, and it kind of connects back to Let's Go.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Fall in Love.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I was not amazed or surprised that you won, because
I know about your keyboard virtuosity, but you Jean Batist,
who just performed the national anthem for the Super Bowl,
and Alicia Keys were among the nominees in the annual
Pianote Awards, honoring the top pianists and virtuosos in the world.
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What the Live Peanotes Awards will be broadcast next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What does it mean to be seen in that company
or heard more. Actually, oh, this is incredible, man, that's
incredible to be just in the company's amazing players and
amazing musicians, amazing people. You know, I didn't even know
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that was happening.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yes, you got so many awards and accolades. You're you're
among the number You're you're in the member.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm just glad to be in the number one right
more time, thank god. And your cup is running over,
run over. Oh, yes, that's it's just it's beautiful. You know.
I put out a piano album right like last year
or something like that, and uh, and I've been devoting
more time to the instrument. When I listened to John
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Baptiste play, you know, since you mentioned them specifically, and
and all the time that I've spent with him, you know,
working on music and things. But I hear him play,
I'm inspired by the way he is trying to always
like use the instrument like as a resource or a
source of energy of like freshness, and like he's never
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being fake about, you know, playing the instrument. And I
was like, I just always love that. And I got
a piano in my house now, so I like practice
every day and and I really put time. I grew
up as an organ player if I said that before,
but I grew up as an organ player, so you know,
the piano is a different world. It's a completely different instrument.
I mean, it's their night and day, night and day,
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night and day. And to be recognized, uh, for a
piano is like, oh man, most of my favorite music
is coming from the piano, you know, and almost every
time I mentioned a favorite musician of mine is normally
a piano player. So to be recognized in this honor
is humbled and grateful and.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Thank you very quickly before we close out, what's coming
up next?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Anything that you want to share?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And of course how can people find you on social
media if they haven't already?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
What's coming up next? I am gearing up to start
the church fellowship. Church doors are now the church. The
church that's specific one is there one? We will be
(28:49):
going up, oh man, once a month in LA and
once a month in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
There'll be more details. You could catch me on my
Instagram or which is Corey Henry c O r Y
Henry or X is the same thing Corey underscore Henry.
But yeah, you see some things that I'll be posting,
and I got a lot more music happening. I've got
a lot more releases happening, and yeah, that's it. That's
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about it right now.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I means you've got a lot more appearances and times
you got to stop by here, because anytime you got something,
you got to stop by here.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Later, Mo Kelly, we would love to have you. I
was so glad. I would be so glad to come
back and and share all this new stuff that's going on.
For sure, I.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Will tell you, as I tell other friends of the show,
your success is our success, and we celebrate you and
salute you. Congratulations Corey Henry on your Grammy Award for
Best Roots Gospel Album.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank yous Over.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It's Later with Mo Kelly, can't I Am six forty
Live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (30:07):
Kelly six.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I wish
you could have heard the conversation. During the break, Corey
Henry was nice enough to bring in his keyboard. He
was going to play. I just didn't know he had
it with him. I was all prepared for it. I
was talking to his person, his publicist, who was We
were going back and forth as like, Okay, do I
(30:34):
need to bring the apple. Yeah, he's gonna bring his keyboard.
And because things were rushed at the end, because he
was so nice to come in, I didn't see him
bringing his keyboard. So that means he's going to have
to come back again and he's going to play for us.
Oh that's that's just my bad, missed opportunity. I want
to blame you, Steph. You should have let me know,
or Mark, you should have let me think you did
(30:55):
that on purpose so we could get another performance. But
we're going to get a performance at some point. But
as I close out the show in the week, for
my final thought, I did say that the fellas we're
gonna go see Captain America a brave New World, and
I wanted to talk about that. And you know, it's
starring Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Tim Blake Nelson and others,
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and the movie is not hitting theaters without controversy.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
We've talked about some of it.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You may not know all of it, but some have
complained maybe you are in this group that there's only
one Captain America and it's the character Steve Rogers, as
portrayed by Chris Evans. I mean, that's nice. It's not true,
but it's nice for you to think that. Even in
the comics, Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson took the mantle
of Captain America. Even Bucky took the mantle of Captain America,
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and he basically was a Russian spy killing Americans. And
if you're okay with him taking the mantle of Captain America,
I damn sure know that Sam Wilson can and others
have complained Anthony Mackie's character didn't take the souper, so
therefore he can't be Captain America.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's nice, it's nice that you think that.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
But if you really know the Captain America's subtext, it
was Steve Rogers heart, which made him great, and that
was enhanced by the serum. But speaking of the comics,
if you really knew Sam Wilson the character, you should
already know that. And this is assuming you know the
comics that Sam Wilson the character served in the Air
(32:26):
Force fifty eighth Rescue squadron as a pair of rescue
men and did two tours and was a test pilot,
expert marksman with military firearms.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
He was an expert in hand to hand combat.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He was a master pilot, He was an expert tactician
who helped plan special operations. He was a counselor to
veterans with PTSD. He was already an American hero. Put
that in a real person, you'd probably say, Yeah, they're
worthy of being Captain America. And for all the talk
we have about respecting or disrespecting the military, to say
(33:04):
that that guy, Sam Wilson, that character is either unworthy
to represent America or is not appropriate to represent America,
y'all are telling on yourselves. But such a debate is
not completely disconnected to the whole point of the Kendrick
Lamar halftime show and this idea of what is America,
(33:25):
who is American, and who deserves to represent America. Yeah, yeah,
I know, Captain America. Braveny World is a movie, but
it's also a mirror held up to us as we
trip over ourselves, making Kendrick Lamar's point that some people
have the idea and it's the wrong idea. Some people
have the idea that America is only for some people
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and only certain circumstances. That never was and never will
be the case. For kf I AM six forty, I'm o.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Kelly and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Live everywhere on the Younger Radio app
Lad, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Corey
Henry is literally coming up the stairs at this moment.
He'll beat in the studio in just a moment. But
(00:22):
just want to let you know after the show tonight.
I made mention of it earlier. The whole crew. We're
going to see Captain America Brave New World. We actually
like each other on this show. We actually hang out
together on occasion, believe it or not. For all the
sniping at one another and for all the attempts to
(00:43):
make fun of each other, we actually kind of like.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Each other's people.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's going to turn into Valentine's Day while we're at
the movie. Yes, yeah, I think right around midnight. But
I want you to keep your hands to yourself. I'm
not getting a popcorn. I'm not putting it in my lap.
I'm not the one you need to worry about. It's
it's Twala Waller about you see it?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well him, I don't mind. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
What usually happens is Twala will just buy all the tickets,
and then when I get there, I'll buy all the food,
and then we just usually have a good time and
watch the movie and then we go home.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
At I don't know, three four in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I don't know why he gets these tickets always after work,
after we've had a full day. Now it works for
Mark Ronner because Mark Roner is gonna be up till
six am anyhow.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Doesn't bother me at all middle of the day me.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, I can't speak for Stephan because you're usually out
of here around tennis right right after the show.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah yeah, round ten. Yeah. But and it's hard.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's kind of getting me used to, you know, if
we do start doing these more often, doing uber again,
because you know, staying out till like four in the morning,
it's like, okay, well, I think I can hang watching
a movie if I can drive around.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I can't do that. Now I can hang till two
three in the morning, I can. I can do it
if only because I took a nap today, and since
I took a nap today, since I'm old, I can
handle it. But if I didn't take a nap, oh no,
it would have been just like that Aquaman two fiasco
we saw. It was all I could do to stay
awake at all in that theater.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, weirdly though, that's a movie where it's okay, if
you sleep through as much of it as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't remember half of it, and I never went
back to revisit it or.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
See any of it. It did not matter. Yeah, that's
the right thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But tonight it's going to be a little bit different
because I'm going to try to stay up through the
whole movie. Somehow, some way, I hear good things. We're
getting actual, real reviews of the movie now, which are
coming out people that I know who've seen it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
They're saying good things about it. So fingers crossed, fingers cross.
It's supposed to have had a very troubled production. Trouble production.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I know they had extensive reshoots, there were some other
issues going on, and also Marvel's track record as of
late hasn't been great. So the expectations are much higher
for any movie. They haven't had a major hit. I'm
trying to think the last major hit they had, well,
(03:13):
Wolverine and Deadpool. Deadpool, that's true, that's true. But outside
of that, Endgame was maybe the last one, and that
was really good.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But yeah, they've they've had some code browns in the meantime.
I'll just say this, I know we got to do
something else. Here, but I just forward myself an article
that said Brave New World was allegedly the most tense
Marvel set that people say they've worked on, with the
sequences completely cut. Lots of sequences that they shot were
cut out of the film, and a quote I think
everyone on the crew knew this is probably not going
(03:44):
to be a good film, so kind of mixed feedback going, yes, yeah,
you don't know, but you know a lot of times
I've heard that, and then the movie completely surprised me.
The trailer looks terrific, and I haven't gotten sick of
it no matter how many times I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I would be more concerned if they didn't do reshoots
and they just plowed ahead. So if they did reshoots,
hopefully it's for the betterment of the whole movie.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We should clarify for listeners, every big movie has reshoots.
That means nothing when people complain about reshoots. You need
the context.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
No, but there are are some other issues as far
as the perception of Anthony Mackie as being quote unquote
Captain America and whether that fits within some people's idea
of who Captain America was. Even though and I'm going
to save this from my final thought. I have some
thoughts on that. But also people lose sight of the
(04:36):
fact that it's in the comics. You know, you always
complain about comic accuracy. Then when you give it and
they get it, and it's almost like, well, not that accuracy.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We don't want that much accuracy. I wonder what problem
people could possibly have.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I can only hypothesize it has something to do with
I'll wait to my final remarks. But the fellows, we're
going to get together and do this, and you wonder, like,
do you guys actually do this a lot?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Not often?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Not often, I would say maybe three four times a year,
maybe once a quarter. We get it because it also
depends on whether there's a movie that we all collectively
want to see. We can't let Tuala just do what
he wants to do because if he does, he'll have
us going to any old movie and we just can't
trust him like that. He likes to stay up late.
(05:27):
Mark likes to stay up late. I like to be
asleep by one am.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Tula also has a fondness for those children's movies.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
He does, he does, and he'll wanted to see like
Mwana too.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I have no desire to see Mwanao. Also for the
does his daughter wanted to see it? Right? I don't
give a damn. I don't want to see that.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And with Twala is a distinct possibility that he'll actually
buy us all tickets to go see it. And I
have to let him know, No, that's not me, Doug,
that's you and the family.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
That's for me.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That's a that's a note for me. I'm Randy Jackson
of this. That's a noe dog. It's just shocking how.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't know how he doesn't zombie out the next
day at work because you know, staying up so late
and he gets up early there, and that's what I'm saying, like,
how does he even like function?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Tuila has two jobs.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
In the first job, he has to be in there
like maybe six thirty seven in the morning, like five,
and that has nothing to do with whether he's dropping
his daughter off to school. I don't know how he
does it, but I chose the life in which I
would not have to do it, So I am not
trying to get up at four point thirty to go
to one job and then have to maybe sleep in
(06:33):
my car for lunch or something, and then come to
this job and then go out to the movies afterward.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
No Tuala stamina fascinates me because I remember scheduling whole
college semesters around sleeping in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh I did.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, here was a trick and my father taught me this.
Don't have early classes because early classes mean early exams,
and if you want to do a test at seven
in the morning, that's probably not in your best interest.
You'd rather have won at like eleven o'clock, where even
if you're studying until four in the morning, you can
(07:09):
get a good four hours of sleep or so and
then take your exam and be goaded.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Also hangovers.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I have never gotten drunk the night before an exam
in my life. Well, I can say that confidently before
a class just in general. I probably did in my
senior year when things are coming down to the end.
There's some days I was day drinking on the lawn
and then go to class. But it wasn't the same.
But not like during the course of a normal semester. Yeah, yeah,
(07:38):
because I did.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Like what Mark did, I would have like some late
morning classes like ten or eleven, and then the last
one would be like at four or five so I could,
like you said, nap sometimes.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
There you have it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When we come back Corey Henry in the studio, we're
gonna celebrate his Grammy. He was Grammy nominated when he
last was here. Now he's Grammy Award winning. Can't I
Amswerce four. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Kf I Am six forty is Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You may recognize
that virtuosity. When we last spoke to Corey Henry, he
was a Grammy nominee in the category of Best Roots
Gospel Album, and as we speak to him right now tonight,
he is the Grammy Award winning artist thanks to his
(09:00):
win back on February second for his album Church or
as We Say Chuch. He also has a new single,
we'll let you know about that just in time for
Valentine's Day, Let's Go Fall in Love. We'll listen to
that in just a moment, but it is available right
now on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
My brother and I'll call you my friend now.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I think we have talked enough in person, Corey Henry, congratulations,
thanks for coming back in the studio.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh thank you mother, thanks for having me and Sam.
I'm so glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I look when I saw when it finally hit the web,
when you actually won your Grammy, and you ran, I
mean literally ran up to the stage.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Thank you to the coord Academy, Recording Academy. Thank you God,
Thank you God, Thank you God. That's all I can say.
I was just rushing in here. I'm just so happy
to be here. Thank you to all my peers. Thank
you to everybody who helped me make the Church album,
Raphael Sadik, Bishop Carton, Pierce, John p Key. The list
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goes on in so many songs, and it's been a
blessing to me because it's my literally my life history
on record. So and this is a testimony, testimony for
me to tell everybody who knows me to follow God
and to follow your dreams. Follow God, you direct your path.
Thank you guys for this award. I love you.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
All you said on social media to God be the
Grammy as a play on words, to God be the Glory.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I understood that.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I felt that, and there's another same way say you
may know my glory to tie together. But you may
not know my story. And part of your story was
you were going to retire, weren't you. Yeah, yeah, that
is That's been a lot. That's been a big talking
point for me as of recent as of the recent years,
and and the career has brought me much.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Joy and much pain at that time, and ill, you know,
but winning brings a lot of joy now, it brings
it brings it kind of full circle, makes it feels
like all the hard work wasn't in vain.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You know, you made it clear, and not that you're
not humble, but you were honest and you were transparent
saying basically, and I'm paraphrasing you, yes I want to win.
Yes it's nice to be nominated, but yes I want
to win. How nervous were you in the moments leading
up to them saying your name?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Honestly, I wasn't nervous at all this time around, actually
every other year that I've been nominated as a solo artist,
when they are doing the name call, I get anxious
and my heart start pounding, and I just like I
start breathing, and you know, I hear them say my name,
and then I'm waiting for them to call my name
(11:52):
for the winner, and I just get like so like pressure.
But this time was much different. My grandmama was with me,
Big Mama, doctor J. Yeah, you know, Grammy Award winning
doctor J. She was with me. My little sister, my
little cousin was with me. My uncle was with me,
which is a total difference than any other time that
(12:15):
I spend in California to have my family. So I
felt like the stress or the pressure or the whatever
it was that was happening that would normally lead up
to this moment in which, you know, I've waited so
long to you know, to live and get to it
felt like it was just chill. It felt like we
was getting ready for church. And put another way, maybe
(12:37):
you let go and let God. Yeah, let go, let God,
you know, and just enjoy the time and enjoy to
enjoy what's happening. Matter of fact, to be honest to
the reason why I was running is because I just
got in the room. That's what I heard.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's like you were literally running as they were announcing
your category.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah. Yeah, there was a traffic jam. Imagine you know
in La Geez. It was somebody like some car crash,
and then we ran into another jam somewhere else. So
it was just not normal, you know, just getting there,
it was very unusual. I felt like the devil was
trying to block men, but I made it anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I have followed your career for quite some time, but
I know your career transcends genre. I know you as
a gospel artist, you're a funk artist, you're a jazz artist.
You already had a Latin Grammy. You had appeared on
all music from hip hop to pop, as far as
guest artists. In fact, your new single when I play
that in a moment, available on Spotify right now, Let's
Go Fall in Love. I would say it's probably one
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of the broadest musical selections I've heard you do in
a musical genre, since you can wear all the hats.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But here's the question. How would you describe your music?
Oh man, I described my music as soul music, or
better yet, future soul. I've been liking to call it
future soul, you know, but music that just touches the heart.
I want all my music to touch the heart, to
touch the emotions, to make you feel something. So soul
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music is what I would call it. When I was
playing your bumper coming in.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I didn't play the whole song, but it's from you
were performing on BBC BBC and it was your performing
Billy Gen a rendition of Billy Jean. And it's amazing
to me how you seemingly are very comfortable in any
musical environment. You're playing with a full orchestra, and also
there were electronic instruancy at someone obviously playing the guitar
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risks from Billy Jean. Is there anything that you haven't
done in a musical sense that you would like to
do or performance venue?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Man, that's my job to ask those questions, which makes
you pause and things.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah, I'm like, oh, I haven't thought about that. I
will say this. I am over About two three weeks
ago at NAM Convention, I started a new duo you know,
maybe I want to call it Yeah. And it's interesting
because it happened from a jam session with my brother
shout out to Shawan Andrews. And we've been playing music
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that sounds like something I wasn't even really trying to
target before. And it sounds like and I never called
it this. My other homie called it this. He said,
it's like it sounds like you're doing adium jazz soul
music idiom, you know, DJ, and I was like, Oh,
that's interesting, you know that that's happening and that people
were like that. We played it a few three about
two or three times around now, and then it got
(15:46):
me closer to what I wanted to do coming into
this year. I've been wanting to DJ.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't see you as a DJ,
but I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I got these ideas in which, you know, I'm a
DJ and play some drums on the side or take
a solo, you know, or the mogue or something like that.
But I want to spend records and for a lot
of reasons. But doing how I was doing it in
a new duo, I was like, Oh, we could be
in a DJ space, and I'm looking forward to making
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music that is like dancy, but I don't want to
call it idiom, but like in that space.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You know, you took one of my questions because I
was going to ask you. When I encounter people who
are driven, they're usually less concerned about what they've already
done and more concerned about the next thing. Yes, you
wanted to win a Grammy, but your mind is already
probably beyond the Grammy. So is the DJing the next
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thing or just one of a bunch of next things.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It is one of a bunch of things I think
already coming into it. I was several projects of things
I recorded, worked on and got to the finish line,
and I want to get those things out, you know,
much like this song. Like like this song. I worked
on this song and nobody, you know, knew I was
(17:10):
working on it. But I just have these songs, you know,
just like ready and like ready to push play on and.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Let me jump in there. I wonder and tell me
if I'm wrong, but I think I'm right. Do you
sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with
a melody in your head? You just have to get
it down before you forget about it? Absolutely absolutely, you know.
As soon as it hits I'm like, oh man, I
feel a tingle in my fingers, you know, and I'm like,
oh man, let me go sit down and grab my phone.
(17:38):
It's a lot of let me grab my phone. I'd
be like, do you sing the melody or do you
do you have like an app where you can like
just play a melody.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
No, just singing it, singing it is normally enough, and
it's normally uh like really jumbled, you know, like I
can be singing. I was like, and I start saying
chords like E flat.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
To the G to the oh you will go back
to So it's not even a melody, it's a chord progression.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And you hear the parts already in your head.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, yeah, especially if I'm not around a piano, you know.
And sometimes that's those are the best songs when I'm
not around the piano, you know, And I'll just like
just be in the car and then it hits me.
I'm like, and I'll just start singing and thing, and
I'm like, oh, this is a.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Song, okay, But you hear the melody, the harmony. Do
you hear the backing vocals. Do you hear the full
instrumentation or they just a melody in that moment.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
It depends, But normally I hear the whole song. It's
like if I get an idea, or let's say, and
I say the whole song, but I hear all the
parts in the song, like if I get a chorus right. Normally,
if I hear a melody in my head, I can
hear the bass part to the melody, the chords to
the melody, the drum part, you know, like all that's
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kind of playing along with it. So the idea comes
packaged normally, you know, if it's one part of the
song or the entire song, it's normally packaged. And if
it's not, then I'm like, all right, let me call
on Homie to make some drums up to this or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But the song is pretty much complete, you just haven't
put it down as a full recording.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yes, that's what they call brilliance and genius. My goodness.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
When we come back, we're going to get into his
new song, Let's Go Fall in Love. I would call
it a national debut, you know, world premiere.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
If you like.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Here on Later with Mo Kelly, Corey Henry in studio.
Excuse me wait, let's be back up, Grammy Award winning
Corey Henry Wow I six forty. We're live everywhere in
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Speaker 4 (19:40):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (19:58):
I mister Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and I'm continue
to be joined in the studio by Grammy award winning
artists Corey Henry and Corey let me pick up right there.
It's one thing to win a Grammy. It's another thing
to say I have a Latin Grammy and a Grammy.
(20:20):
What is I would say, more impactful or more not
more important, but touched you more emotionally.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
In terms of the Grammys, I guess this one does
more emotionally. This one. It seems like my whole life
is now made some type of sense personally, And there's
so many reasons I can go forever talking about it.
I think I was thinking often about how long I
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spent in church and how you know, many years and
hours and like times and services and concerts and traveling
and practicing and just it's just so much that went
into that experience and I used it for and I
use it rather for all my music, no matter you know,
like the genre yep. But to actually specifically go back
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and go to the studio and remember and record the
music that I grew up playing, and to win a
Grammy for that is like it's kind of mind blowing,
you know, like to get it from the thing that
like I started from.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What I appreciate most about that album Church, It took
me back to my early days in the church, the
old time religion, the hymns, the things that we would
sing in the church all the time. And I always
go ballistic in a good way when I hear a
Hammond B three, and usually it's not necessarily promptly featured,
(21:50):
but I can hear it in what you do. And
before we get to your single, it reminded me you
did this piece for doctor Henry Lewis Gates where you
were playing on the Hammond B three, and it almost
brought tears to my eyes.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
That look at the gospel that takes me back.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
When you sit down at the hand in these days,
does it also take you back?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Does it take you somewhere else sometime else? Oh yes,
And especially when I'm playing songs like Amazing Grace. My
mama tult me how to play that song. That's the
first song I ever lost, I ever learned. And when
I play any song that's like that, or songs that
are from my childhood, you know, it makes me think
about when I was a kid learning them and playing
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them in church, and it does bring me to tears
very often, you know, it's right, very emotional. I'm very
connected to these songs in a very deep way. And yeah,
and it brings me back every time. You know, that
was the beginning.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But where you are now, you're the different point in
your career, your you're playing different music. I think it's
now time that we play a little bit of Let's
Go Fall in Love and it's perfect. It's in time
for Valentine's Day. But before I play it, tell me
about it. What inspired you?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
What is it about? This song is for the lovers.
This song is for all the lovers out there. I think,
I just I'm not even think. I just like love songs,
you know, and I play love songs all the time.
Some of my favorite songs are love songs from Al Green,
Marvin Gaye.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I was getting ready to ask you who's that feel
for you, Bill Wethers and you know, Stevie Wonder and
you know the lists go earth Win and Fire.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Love songs are some of the greatest songs ever written.
And and no matter what you know people feel about
Valentine's Day, you know, this song is for the lovers,
you know. So it's always a good time for the love.
And I got with my boy. Shout out to my boy,
Charlie Burrell and Cheris Burrell for helping me put this
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one together. And I'm just excited that this song is,
you know, beyond just being for the lovers, is a dance,
feel good track, and you know, something that's very different
from what I've heard from you. Very sure. For sure,
there's definitely a left turn from all my other music.
But I'm really happy about it, excited that it's out,
(25:29):
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And world premiere of Let's Go Fall in Love from
Grammy Award winning artist Cory Henry available right now on Spotify.
Let's Go Fall in Love from Grammy Award winning artist
(25:53):
Corey Henry and Corey let me in our conversation with
this question, and it kind of connects back to Let's Go.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Fall in Love.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I was not amazed or surprised that you won, because
I know about your keyboard virtuosity, but you Jean Batist,
who just performed the national anthem for the Super Bowl,
and Alicia Keys were among the nominees in the annual
Pianote Awards, honoring the top pianists and virtuosos in the world.
(26:22):
What the Live Peanotes Awards will be broadcast next Thursday.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
What does it mean to be seen in that company
or heard more. Actually, oh, this is incredible, man, that's
incredible to be just in the company's amazing players and
amazing musicians, amazing people. You know, I didn't even know
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that was happening.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yes, you got so many awards and accolades. You're you're
among the number You're you're in the member.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm just glad to be in the number one right
more time, thank god. And your cup is running over,
run over. Oh, yes, that's it's just it's beautiful. You know.
I put out a piano album right like last year
or something like that, and uh, and I've been devoting
more time to the instrument. When I listened to John
(27:18):
Baptiste play, you know, since you mentioned them specifically, and
and all the time that I've spent with him, you know,
working on music and things. But I hear him play,
I'm inspired by the way he is trying to always
like use the instrument like as a resource or a
source of energy of like freshness, and like he's never
(27:39):
being fake about, you know, playing the instrument. And I
was like, I just always love that. And I got
a piano in my house now, so I like practice
every day and and I really put time. I grew
up as an organ player if I said that before,
but I grew up as an organ player, so you know,
the piano is a different world. It's a completely different instrument.
I mean, it's their night and day, night and day,
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night and day. And to be recognized, uh, for a
piano is like, oh man, most of my favorite music
is coming from the piano, you know, and almost every
time I mentioned a favorite musician of mine is normally
a piano player. So to be recognized in this honor
is humbled and grateful and.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Thank you very quickly before we close out, what's coming
up next?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Anything that you want to share?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And of course how can people find you on social
media if they haven't already?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
What's coming up next? I am gearing up to start
the church fellowship. Church doors are now the church. The
church that's specific one is there one? We will be
(28:49):
going up, oh man, once a month in LA and
once a month in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
There'll be more details. You could catch me on my
Instagram or which is Corey Henry c O r Y
Henry or X is the same thing Corey underscore Henry.
But yeah, you see some things that I'll be posting,
and I got a lot more music happening. I've got
a lot more releases happening, and yeah, that's it. That's
(29:20):
about it right now.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I means you've got a lot more appearances and times
you got to stop by here, because anytime you got something,
you got to stop by here.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Later, Mo Kelly, we would love to have you. I
was so glad. I would be so glad to come
back and and share all this new stuff that's going on.
For sure, I.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Will tell you, as I tell other friends of the show,
your success is our success, and we celebrate you and
salute you. Congratulations Corey Henry on your Grammy Award for
Best Roots Gospel Album.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank yous Over.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It's Later with Mo Kelly, can't I Am six forty
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Speaker 4 (29:57):
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Speaker 2 (30:07):
Kelly six.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I wish
you could have heard the conversation. During the break, Corey
Henry was nice enough to bring in his keyboard. He
was going to play. I just didn't know he had
it with him. I was all prepared for it. I
was talking to his person, his publicist, who was We
were going back and forth as like, Okay, do I
(30:34):
need to bring the apple. Yeah, he's gonna bring his keyboard.
And because things were rushed at the end, because he
was so nice to come in, I didn't see him
bringing his keyboard. So that means he's going to have
to come back again and he's going to play for us.
Oh that's that's just my bad, missed opportunity. I want
to blame you, Steph. You should have let me know,
or Mark, you should have let me think you did
(30:55):
that on purpose so we could get another performance. But
we're going to get a performance at some point. But
as I close out the show in the week, for
my final thought, I did say that the fellas we're
gonna go see Captain America a brave New World, and
I wanted to talk about that. And you know, it's
starring Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Tim Blake Nelson and others,
(31:15):
and the movie is not hitting theaters without controversy.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
We've talked about some of it.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You may not know all of it, but some have
complained maybe you are in this group that there's only
one Captain America and it's the character Steve Rogers, as
portrayed by Chris Evans. I mean, that's nice. It's not true,
but it's nice for you to think that. Even in
the comics, Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson took the mantle
of Captain America. Even Bucky took the mantle of Captain America,
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and he basically was a Russian spy killing Americans. And
if you're okay with him taking the mantle of Captain America,
I damn sure know that Sam Wilson can and others
have complained Anthony Mackie's character didn't take the souper, so
therefore he can't be Captain America.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's nice, it's nice that you think that.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
But if you really know the Captain America's subtext, it
was Steve Rogers heart, which made him great, and that
was enhanced by the serum. But speaking of the comics,
if you really knew Sam Wilson the character, you should
already know that. And this is assuming you know the
comics that Sam Wilson the character served in the Air
(32:26):
Force fifty eighth Rescue squadron as a pair of rescue
men and did two tours and was a test pilot,
expert marksman with military firearms.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
He was an expert in hand to hand combat.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
He was a master pilot, He was an expert tactician
who helped plan special operations. He was a counselor to
veterans with PTSD. He was already an American hero. Put
that in a real person, you'd probably say, Yeah, they're
worthy of being Captain America. And for all the talk
we have about respecting or disrespecting the military, to say
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that that guy, Sam Wilson, that character is either unworthy
to represent America or is not appropriate to represent America,
y'all are telling on yourselves. But such a debate is
not completely disconnected to the whole point of the Kendrick
Lamar halftime show and this idea of what is America,
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who is American, and who deserves to represent America. Yeah, yeah,
I know, Captain America. Braveny World is a movie, but
it's also a mirror held up to us as we
trip over ourselves, making Kendrick Lamar's point that some people
have the idea and it's the wrong idea. Some people
have the idea that America is only for some people
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and only certain circumstances. That never was and never will
be the case. For kf I AM six forty, I'm o.
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