August 11, 2025 • 26 mins
Zoey Clarke 🎤🎧 is the heartbeat of Atlanta’s next musical wave—fusing vintage doo-wop soul 🎶 with the raw honesty of modern R&B ❤️🔥. A singer, DJ, and cultural curator, Zoey’s new single “Solid” 💎—co-written with Penjamin Button (Usher’s “Good Good”)—is a fearless anthem of self-worth and emotional clarity. From her breakout tracks “Karma” and “Anxiety” to her game-changing DJ-vocal performances, Zoey is redefining what it means to be an artist. Off stage, she’s building platforms like 400 Northside and The Refresh to uplift her community. In this interview, she opens up about music, meaning, and making your own lane. 🚀✨
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both a mirror and a megaphone. These blending eras, bending
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Koach Shadini, and change is possible.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Are you ready? Are huge ready? Are you ready to read?
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Speaker 2 (02:25):
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and even past that thing that we call the ego.
Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes into
the minds of these brilliant human beings, you know, the
ones who are out there giving it. They're all for me,
for you, and for the world. Well, ladies, gentlemen, She's
not just creating music, She's creating worlds. Zoe Clark is
a genred defined artist whose voice can soothe, ignite, and
(03:12):
challenge all that at once. From soulfial ballads like Karma
to the anthemic Solid she blends R and B, doo
wop and modern edge into a sound that uniquely hers.
As a certified DJ and founder of groundbreaking Elena events,
she's as much as community architect as a performer, and
(03:36):
her artistcryt is bold, her vision is fearless. So please
join me in saying welcome friend to Zoe Clark. Hey, Hey,
welcome to the show. Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm doing well, Zoe. How are you?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I'm doing great? How are you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I'm great, I'm great. Thanks for asking. So we are
excited to have you here with us tonight. And before
we just really dive into everything, Zoe, what's been sitting
on your heart or inspiring your thoughts most in these
past few weeks.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know, I've really just been in a space of
growth and just wanting to develop my talent to the
highest level. I really enjoyed meeting a lot of people
in person over the summer, having a chance to tour
and really get out into the community in different assets.
(04:35):
So what's been all my heart has really just been
making sure that I move my music to its highest
potential and do my part in what's bigger than me.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sure you mentioned growth. Are there growing pains associated with
that growth? Or is it a smooth ride for you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Always? You know, nothing is always been a exactly as planned.
And my music story is like anybody else's.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It's been full of adventures.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
So yeah, you have to take the good with the
bad and grow from all of it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So let's talk about your single. It's called Solid and
it's both vintage and fresh. I don't know how you
did it, but you did it. How did you land
on that mix of like nineteen sixties do wop and
modern R and B.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I just really love all genres of music, And when
I got in the studios that day, I was really
looking to just do something different. Of Course, I wanted
to make something relevant because I was working with people who.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Were working with everyone.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
You know, I wanted to do something popular, but I
also wanted to do something authentic to me, and that
is just my style. I like to do things that
are really tempo driven, and I also like to do
things that are fun musically.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah. Yeah, you mentioned working with some uh some key people,
some notable people. Uh, and people have to know you're
just not a regular Deglar artist, like you really have
some notches in your belt, and I wanted to think, Yeah,
one of the people you did work with was Benjamin Button. Uh,
So it was like working with them.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It was a it was an amazing experience.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You know, they they're writing for everyone that's on rady
right now. So I was just honored to be in
the pot and a part of you know, the list
of people that.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
They're giving me this incredible music too.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
And I explored that, you know, even with them being
so established, that I was able to be such a
part of the creative process. They really cared about where
my thoughts were with certain topics and how I wanted
to express myself on relationships and love and different things
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So it was a really cool process.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
It was easy to do because the beat was just
amazing to all of us. As soon as we heard it,
we knew that was like exactly what we wanted to
work on. And Benjamin is just really easy to work
within that aspect. He's gonna feed off of you know
where you want to go with everything. So it's a
very cool creative process. And I think we did something
(07:21):
that again was just like authentic to how we felt
that day.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So Solid is about emotional clarity. Can you share a
time when you had to choose yourself over a relationship? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Wow? I can think of that time.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Shortly after my son was born, and just knowing that
any relationship that I had, I was gonna have to
put my goals, my music, and myself as a priority,
mostly because I couldn't boar into anything or anybody unless
my club was full. So I had to pick me
(08:08):
for sure to re enter the business and to have
my best had my best hats on when it came
to just maneuvering.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
A post pandemic industry.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
So definitely a few years ago getting back into the
business was a time where I had to pick myself
over relationships, romantic and otherwise.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Getting back into the business. Where did you go?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Well, I just took a break, and I think a
lot of artists need one sometimes when you've been doing
music or entertainment your whole life, Like me, you know
a lot of friends who maybe come from musical families,
and it's like they're just always been doing gigging and performing.
It's something you love and you're passionate about, but there's
(08:54):
still so much industry, politics and business that's involved.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I just need a break, you know.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
So I took one for my mental health and for
my creative health too, to be able to get inspired
again and revisit why I even wanted to do music
to begin with. You know, I think it's important to reset,
and that's that's where I you know, to reset and
get my mind together.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, when did you decide to come back or what
made you come back?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know, and speak about the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
During the pandemic, a lot of people found my music online.
I had released fright, a few like really big singles
prior to the pandemic. One had a major feature with
Petty Watt and just records that were floating and kind
of slow burning, so to speak.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
And during the pandemic, a lot of people found my music.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
And would write me messages about if I was going
to get back.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Into it when they could get new music from me.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I didn't have obviously million as a followers, so it
was kind of overwhelming, you know, positively, with so many
people caring.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
To encourage me, you know, to do more music because
they had found me online.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And so I got a blaque from Pandora for a
million streams, which was like not normal for an independent artist,
and I just kind of took it as a sign
that this was what I was meant to be doing.
I wasn't promoting anything, I wasn't pushing a song actively,
and I was still streaming and you know, independently making
money off my music. So I did take that time
(10:35):
to get with producers and writers and team members that
I felt with if I was going to get back
into the business, support me.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
And doing it on my own terms.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
And yeah, about three years ago, two end of twenty
twenty two, two and a half years ago, I decided
to drop original music and test the market to see
if there was some space for me, and it got
well received and we've just been going since then.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, congratulations on the plaque. That's amazing.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Oh Yeah, extremes are still very important, even if we're
fighting for the financial components of it all. For artists,
I think it's very important for us to acknowledge that
people hurd You know, that's very important.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Indeed, indeed I told you guys she wasn't a regular deggler.
So Zoe, you just mentioned that, you know, sometimes the
financial aspects, especially in streaming music, isn't always what's suspected.
You know, it is your hearts, your soul, It's your blood,
sweat and tears that are poured into these records, your experience.
(11:45):
Snoop Dogg made many points, so has many other artists
about the unfairness of the the market and that aspect.
Uh but what keeps you positive about, you know, continually
to put out music independence, even though you know the
screams don't really pay you for your talent.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I think the music business has long time been a
place where there's so many ankles.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
At which you can attack it, and I.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Think there's just a stigma that there's only one way
to skin this cat. You have to get a record deal,
you have to be you know, the super famous artists
in order to be successful, and it's just not true.
So I found solid in just knowing that I'm multi
talented and that that's okay.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I can one.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Music is not the end of my skill set. I'm
also a DJ, I'm also a songwriter. I can make
money in this business doing things other than being in
front of the camera.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
And for the most part, that's just.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Where I've been able to maneuver through this industry has
been tapping into the other things that I can do.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
And being an artist is a beautiful thing. If you're
a performer, ever.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Lose that, you know, if you know any performers, you
know that they're always okay with getting back on safe
because it's in them.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But I've always found piece financially and just knowing that whether.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
My music is up or down, or what I'm putting
out is popular or not working with popular people or not,
that I just have the ability to push my music
on your own, reach my people on my own as
independent artists.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And if music is not striking.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
There's so many other aspects from background vocals to voiceovers.
You know, just so many things that I can do
in music as an artist instead.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And you're not just a singer, you are a DJ too.
What's the magic of blending live vocals with turntable skills
And what's like the wildest crowd reactions you've had.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Doing well, Let's let's let's be clear everybody who's a
DJ does not have turn takes. This is clear, and
I'm from New York City, so I'm not gonna let
them eat me for lunch about this. I definitely respect
the DJ and understand the power that the DJ has
(14:13):
in terms of artists being heard. So that's definitely why
DJing was so important to me. It originally started by
being a black pop artist in Atlanta and just having
difficulty with people playing my music, you know, So that
was my way to solve my issue with that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So to speak.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
But the best blend, not necessarily turntable scratch or blend,
but the best transition. There's a lot of sampling going
on right now, and I think that just overall, I
think the blend of new records, but pulling that sample
(14:53):
out and showing this new generation about where that original
record came from. Those are the blessed blen blends for
me right now, just educating people on where the sample
comes from has been very much a great part of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Indeed, I've seen you perform in a script club, which
is dope. That's dope, but your shoulders have been called
spiritual experiences. What's the moment Yeah, what's one moment on
the stage where you truly felt the audience and you
(15:31):
were on the same as act frequency.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
You know, no shame.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
The ship club can be a spiritual you know, people
are in there trying to have a good time, they're
trying to live it up, and their mind is focused
on enjoying themselves. So I think performances are what you
mean them, no matter where they are.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
You know what I mean. If I'm performing in front of.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Five people, I'm gonna make it like I'm performing in
front of State Farm Marina, and the location is not
really the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's the vibe of the people.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
It's the energy from the audience that really matters the
most to me.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, all right, guys, we're about to jump into the
record Solid and it'll be right back with more. This
is Obe Clark. Stay tuned. So I forgot to mention
we have a hot Seak segment where she can perform
for us if she wanted to. She could rap, sing
spoken word, tell us a joke, tell us a story
from her life, play an instrument, give some advice, or
(16:34):
do nothing at all. That's cool as well, But for
right now here, it is Solid Stay tuned, put in.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Safe, say want a man in six big U six
books with hit your life.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
But I say no, I need a little more.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
I'm not that conserve that love treating.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I'm a oh are you jail? And I need to
know the so so.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Let me know.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Trying to find out how are your chilling.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Way your kids, if you'll hear from trauma san, How
you treat your mama and them?
Speaker 6 (17:27):
It's a lot of them. I just need you to feast.
Don't be perfect. They gotta people. When you're moving up
and down Sama seu and me confe guy, baby your
feeling you don't be perfect, they gotta be. Then you're
(17:51):
moving up in the pama se meco free baby sister,
just take take my pace, slow snick consistence.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Can you be fl Can you put it down and
keep it?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I mean, look at.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Me saving that it seeming she can get away at
but and you know this, the no saying.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Work.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I guess that ole baby, give me let me trying
to find out the just how your chilling way?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You can you love a trauma man?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
How you treat your mama them? It's a lot of them.
I just need your two faces everything and the big
can you move it up and down? The baby?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
All right? All right, all right, welcome back again. That
was the Dope Records. Spolid Let's go ahead and bring
Zoe Clark back. Hey, you're back live with us and
in our heart hot seat. Are you gonna perform for us?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's a goodness. I'm not gonna perform. I'm not gonna
do that. I'm a vie person.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I like to you know, like see my see who
I'm performing to. So I think I'm gonna take you
up on the option of like telling the story.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's a love story.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I said, we love stories.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
That's a story. I was like, I don't know, I.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Love story, but yeah, great, so I have one because
it's something I experienced recently as a performer, and I definitely.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Think I could probably inspire somebody with it.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
But we were speaking about music or inspiration and like
where certain song titles come from. And I was performing
and was experiencing a lot of anxiety, like what they
call panic attacks. And I would be on stage and
then I would have to turn around and like take
a deep breath, and I constantly was having.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
My back to my audience because.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
That was my way of like hiding to take these
really deep breaths, and then eventually I just decided that
I was gonna just write a song about it, you
know what I mean, and just put it into words
like what I was dealing with in terms of getting
back into the business and how that was making me feel.
And once I wrote these lyrics, they just kind of
(20:53):
freed me from that whole thing. Like the words of anxiety.
For the people who care to dig a little deeper
into my cat alog and hear some original music, Anxiety said,
I shouldn't took my meds today, and I wouldn't be tripping,
I wouldn't be tweaking, I wouldn't have anxiety.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I should have took my med today.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Then I wouldn't feel different, and I wouldn't feel so
distant and out my mind today. And I just think
it's important, you know, to take our experiences and turn
them into art and then allow the ability to perform
them and express ourselves to be like what heals us
from things.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I love that. I love that for young women coming
up in music, especially as DJs and singers are performers
or rappers, or any female that's entered into the to
the game what's the advice you wish you had earlier.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Surround yourself with people that the leaving your vision as
much as you do. It's very important to have a
team of people that can go hard for you and
your absence. And no one's gonna go harder than you
do about your own vision or understand what you're trying
to execute better than you.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
But it's important to have the right team of people
around you, and.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
It shapes the things that you are a part of,
and the rooms you can sit in, and just your
overall confidence about your presentation as an artist. So if
I could give advice to anybody entering the business, I
would say the music is the easy part because you're talented,
Get your team together, get your budget in order, and
(22:44):
make sure that you are clear on your plan in
the business.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Aid Indeed, Zoey, where can our listeners connect with you
on an Internet and check out more music? Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah, absolutely please check out all go down rabbit hole
with my music.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I hope you enjoy yourself.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You're gonna find some pop, you're gonna find some R
and D, there's gonna be some EDM in there, and
I hope you enjoy every part of it all the
seasons of my music so far at Zoe Clark dot com.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
If you want to get corporate information on my social media.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Handles, it's Zoe with a Live, Clark with THEE at
Zoe Underscore Clark on Everything.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
All right, listeners, just in case you need those links,
I will have them in the description of this episode
and in the show notes, So all you guys have
to do is just click the links. In five with
Zoe Clark, she didn't just talk about music today. She
gave us a masterclass and authenticity, courage, and vision. Explore
the make and the solid balance between turning this strength
and the power of community platforms. He has four hundred
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north Side and the beauty of merging DJ mastery with
vocal artistry. Zoe, your artistry proves you're not just building
songs because solid is pretty dope. You're building faces for
healing and joy. So listeners, go stream Solid and it
follow Zoe Clark everywhere. Be sure to describe a Vigilantis
Radio live, leave us a ratings, share the episode, and
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until next time, stay solid. Thank you so much for Zoe.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You're very welcome. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
You're welcome. Thank you peace to all.
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Hey, Hey, what's going on? Guys? Welcome to another incredible
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guest for you. Guys. You could definitely want to stick
around for that and as a matter of fact, takes
your buddy. Use the family members. Family members are even
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Before I bring my guests on, I do want to
say that this is the frequency of the fearless. You know,
the most powerful voices, don't just sing. They shift the room,
rewrite the mood, and dare you to feel something deeper.
Today's guest is a living reminder that art can be
(01:26):
both a mirror and a megaphone. These blending eras, bending
genres and building spaces where music isn't just heard, it's experienced.
You're not just here for a talk show. And this
isn't just radio. This is revival for your mind, body,
and spirit. This is Vigilanti's Radio Live. My name is
(01:47):
Koach Shadini, and change is possible.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
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Well, let's go, Let's go, And all right, all right again,
welcome to the show. You're listening to vr L. That's
Vigilantes Radio Live right here on Iheart's Radio, and I
am your host, Deani. Our interviews are designed to go
beyond music, news, books, art, acting, films, technology, education, entrepreneurship, entertainment, spirituality,
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and even past that thing that we call the ego.
Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes into
the minds of these brilliant human beings, you know, the
ones who are out there giving it. They're all for me,
for you, and for the world. Well, ladies, gentlemen, She's
not just creating music, She's creating worlds. Zoe Clark is
a genred defined artist whose voice can soothe, ignite, and
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challenge all that at once. From soulfial ballads like Karma
to the anthemic Solid she blends R and B, doo
wop and modern edge into a sound that uniquely hers.
As a certified DJ and founder of groundbreaking Elena events,
she's as much as community architect as a performer, and
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her artistcryt is bold, her vision is fearless. So please
join me in saying welcome friend to Zoe Clark. Hey, Hey,
welcome to the show. Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm doing well, Zoe. How are you?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I'm doing great? How are you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I'm great, I'm great. Thanks for asking. So we are
excited to have you here with us tonight. And before
we just really dive into everything, Zoe, what's been sitting
on your heart or inspiring your thoughts most in these
past few weeks.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
You know, I've really just been in a space of
growth and just wanting to develop my talent to the
highest level. I really enjoyed meeting a lot of people
in person over the summer, having a chance to tour
and really get out into the community in different assets.
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So what's been all my heart has really just been
making sure that I move my music to its highest
potential and do my part in what's bigger than me.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sure you mentioned growth. Are there growing pains associated with
that growth? Or is it a smooth ride for you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Always? You know, nothing is always been a exactly as planned.
And my music story is like anybody else's.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It's been full of adventures.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
So yeah, you have to take the good with the
bad and grow from all of it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So let's talk about your single. It's called Solid and
it's both vintage and fresh. I don't know how you
did it, but you did it. How did you land
on that mix of like nineteen sixties do wop and
modern R and B.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I just really love all genres of music, And when
I got in the studios that day, I was really
looking to just do something different. Of Course, I wanted
to make something relevant because I was working with people who.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Were working with everyone.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
You know, I wanted to do something popular, but I
also wanted to do something authentic to me, and that
is just my style. I like to do things that
are really tempo driven, and I also like to do
things that are fun musically.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah. Yeah, you mentioned working with some uh some key people,
some notable people. Uh, and people have to know you're
just not a regular Deglar artist, like you really have
some notches in your belt, and I wanted to think, Yeah,
one of the people you did work with was Benjamin Button. Uh,
So it was like working with them.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It was a it was an amazing experience.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You know, they they're writing for everyone that's on rady
right now. So I was just honored to be in
the pot and a part of you know, the list
of people that.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
They're giving me this incredible music too.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
And I explored that, you know, even with them being
so established, that I was able to be such a
part of the creative process. They really cared about where
my thoughts were with certain topics and how I wanted
to express myself on relationships and love and different things
like that.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So it was a really cool process.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
It was easy to do because the beat was just
amazing to all of us. As soon as we heard it,
we knew that was like exactly what we wanted to
work on. And Benjamin is just really easy to work
within that aspect. He's gonna feed off of you know
where you want to go with everything. So it's a
very cool creative process. And I think we did something
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that again was just like authentic to how we felt
that day.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So Solid is about emotional clarity. Can you share a
time when you had to choose yourself over a relationship? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Wow? I can think of that time.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Shortly after my son was born, and just knowing that
any relationship that I had, I was gonna have to
put my goals, my music, and myself as a priority,
mostly because I couldn't boar into anything or anybody unless
my club was full. So I had to pick me
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for sure to re enter the business and to have
my best had my best hats on when it came
to just maneuvering.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
A post pandemic industry.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
So definitely a few years ago getting back into the
business was a time where I had to pick myself
over relationships, romantic and otherwise.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Getting back into the business. Where did you go?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Well, I just took a break, and I think a
lot of artists need one sometimes when you've been doing
music or entertainment your whole life, Like me, you know
a lot of friends who maybe come from musical families,
and it's like they're just always been doing gigging and performing.
It's something you love and you're passionate about, but there's
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still so much industry, politics and business that's involved.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I just need a break, you know.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
So I took one for my mental health and for
my creative health too, to be able to get inspired
again and revisit why I even wanted to do music
to begin with. You know, I think it's important to reset,
and that's that's where I you know, to reset and
get my mind together.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, when did you decide to come back or what
made you come back?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know, and speak about the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
During the pandemic, a lot of people found my music online.
I had released fright, a few like really big singles
prior to the pandemic. One had a major feature with
Petty Watt and just records that were floating and kind
of slow burning, so to speak.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
And during the pandemic, a lot of people found my music.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
And would write me messages about if I was going
to get back.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Into it when they could get new music from me.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I didn't have obviously million as a followers, so it
was kind of overwhelming, you know, positively, with so many
people caring.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
To encourage me, you know, to do more music because
they had found me online.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And so I got a blaque from Pandora for a
million streams, which was like not normal for an independent artist,
and I just kind of took it as a sign
that this was what I was meant to be doing.
I wasn't promoting anything, I wasn't pushing a song actively,
and I was still streaming and you know, independently making
money off my music. So I did take that time
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to get with producers and writers and team members that
I felt with if I was going to get back
into the business, support me.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
And doing it on my own terms.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
And yeah, about three years ago, two end of twenty
twenty two, two and a half years ago, I decided
to drop original music and test the market to see
if there was some space for me, and it got
well received and we've just been going since then.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, congratulations on the plaque. That's amazing.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Oh Yeah, extremes are still very important, even if we're
fighting for the financial components of it all. For artists,
I think it's very important for us to acknowledge that
people hurd You know, that's very important.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Indeed, indeed I told you guys she wasn't a regular deggler.
So Zoe, you just mentioned that, you know, sometimes the
financial aspects, especially in streaming music, isn't always what's suspected.
You know, it is your hearts, your soul, It's your blood,
sweat and tears that are poured into these records, your experience.
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Snoop Dogg made many points, so has many other artists
about the unfairness of the the market and that aspect.
Uh but what keeps you positive about, you know, continually
to put out music independence, even though you know the
screams don't really pay you for your talent.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I think the music business has long time been a
place where there's so many ankles.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
At which you can attack it, and I.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Think there's just a stigma that there's only one way
to skin this cat. You have to get a record deal,
you have to be you know, the super famous artists
in order to be successful, and it's just not true.
So I found solid in just knowing that I'm multi
talented and that that's okay.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I can one.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Music is not the end of my skill set. I'm
also a DJ, I'm also a songwriter. I can make
money in this business doing things other than being in
front of the camera.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
And for the most part, that's just.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Where I've been able to maneuver through this industry has
been tapping into the other things that I can do.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
And being an artist is a beautiful thing. If you're
a performer, ever.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Lose that, you know, if you know any performers, you
know that they're always okay with getting back on safe
because it's in them.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But I've always found piece financially and just knowing that whether.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
My music is up or down, or what I'm putting
out is popular or not working with popular people or not,
that I just have the ability to push my music
on your own, reach my people on my own as
independent artists.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And if music is not striking.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
There's so many other aspects from background vocals to voiceovers.
You know, just so many things that I can do
in music as an artist instead.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And you're not just a singer, you are a DJ too.
What's the magic of blending live vocals with turntable skills
And what's like the wildest crowd reactions you've had.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Doing well, Let's let's let's be clear everybody who's a
DJ does not have turn takes. This is clear, and
I'm from New York City, so I'm not gonna let
them eat me for lunch about this. I definitely respect
the DJ and understand the power that the DJ has
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in terms of artists being heard. So that's definitely why
DJing was so important to me. It originally started by
being a black pop artist in Atlanta and just having
difficulty with people playing my music, you know, So that
was my way to solve my issue with that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So to speak.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
But the best blend, not necessarily turntable scratch or blend,
but the best transition. There's a lot of sampling going
on right now, and I think that just overall, I
think the blend of new records, but pulling that sample
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out and showing this new generation about where that original
record came from. Those are the blessed blen blends for
me right now, just educating people on where the sample
comes from has been very much a great part of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Indeed, I've seen you perform in a script club, which
is dope. That's dope, but your shoulders have been called
spiritual experiences. What's the moment Yeah, what's one moment on
the stage where you truly felt the audience and you
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were on the same as act frequency.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
You know, no shame.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
The ship club can be a spiritual you know, people
are in there trying to have a good time, they're
trying to live it up, and their mind is focused
on enjoying themselves. So I think performances are what you
mean them, no matter where they are.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
You know what I mean. If I'm performing in front of.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Five people, I'm gonna make it like I'm performing in
front of State Farm Marina, and the location is not
really the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's the vibe of the people.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
It's the energy from the audience that really matters the
most to me.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, all right, guys, we're about to jump into the
record Solid and it'll be right back with more. This
is Obe Clark. Stay tuned. So I forgot to mention
we have a hot Seak segment where she can perform
for us if she wanted to. She could rap, sing
spoken word, tell us a joke, tell us a story
from her life, play an instrument, give some advice, or
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do nothing at all. That's cool as well, But for
right now here, it is Solid Stay tuned, put in.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Safe, say want a man in six big U six
books with hit your life.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
But I say no, I need a little more.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
I'm not that conserve that love treating.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I'm a oh are you jail? And I need to
know the so so.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Let me know.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Trying to find out how are your chilling.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Way your kids, if you'll hear from trauma san, How
you treat your mama and them?
Speaker 6 (17:27):
It's a lot of them. I just need you to feast.
Don't be perfect. They gotta people. When you're moving up
and down Sama seu and me confe guy, baby your
feeling you don't be perfect, they gotta be. Then you're
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moving up in the pama se meco free baby sister,
just take take my pace, slow snick consistence.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Can you be fl Can you put it down and
keep it?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I mean, look at.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Me saving that it seeming she can get away at
but and you know this, the no saying.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Work.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I guess that ole baby, give me let me trying
to find out the just how your chilling way?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
You can you love a trauma man?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
How you treat your mama them? It's a lot of them.
I just need your two faces everything and the big
can you move it up and down? The baby?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
All right? All right, all right, welcome back again. That
was the Dope Records. Spolid Let's go ahead and bring
Zoe Clark back. Hey, you're back live with us and
in our heart hot seat. Are you gonna perform for us?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's a goodness. I'm not gonna perform. I'm not gonna
do that. I'm a vie person.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I like to you know, like see my see who
I'm performing to. So I think I'm gonna take you
up on the option of like telling the story.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It's a love story.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I said, we love stories.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
That's a story. I was like, I don't know, I.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Love story, but yeah, great, so I have one because
it's something I experienced recently as a performer, and I definitely.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Think I could probably inspire somebody with it.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
But we were speaking about music or inspiration and like
where certain song titles come from. And I was performing
and was experiencing a lot of anxiety, like what they
call panic attacks. And I would be on stage and
then I would have to turn around and like take
a deep breath, and I constantly was having.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
My back to my audience because.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
That was my way of like hiding to take these
really deep breaths, and then eventually I just decided that
I was gonna just write a song about it, you
know what I mean, and just put it into words
like what I was dealing with in terms of getting
back into the business and how that was making me feel.
And once I wrote these lyrics, they just kind of
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freed me from that whole thing. Like the words of anxiety.
For the people who care to dig a little deeper
into my cat alog and hear some original music, Anxiety said,
I shouldn't took my meds today, and I wouldn't be tripping,
I wouldn't be tweaking, I wouldn't have anxiety.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I should have took my med today.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Then I wouldn't feel different, and I wouldn't feel so
distant and out my mind today. And I just think
it's important, you know, to take our experiences and turn
them into art and then allow the ability to perform
them and express ourselves to be like what heals us
from things.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I love that. I love that for young women coming
up in music, especially as DJs and singers are performers
or rappers, or any female that's entered into the to
the game what's the advice you wish you had earlier.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Surround yourself with people that the leaving your vision as
much as you do. It's very important to have a
team of people that can go hard for you and
your absence. And no one's gonna go harder than you
do about your own vision or understand what you're trying
to execute better than you.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
But it's important to have the right team of people
around you, and.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
It shapes the things that you are a part of,
and the rooms you can sit in, and just your
overall confidence about your presentation as an artist. So if
I could give advice to anybody entering the business, I
would say the music is the easy part because you're talented,
Get your team together, get your budget in order, and
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make sure that you are clear on your plan in
the business.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Aid Indeed, Zoey, where can our listeners connect with you
on an Internet and check out more music? Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah, absolutely please check out all go down rabbit hole
with my music.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I hope you enjoy yourself.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You're gonna find some pop, you're gonna find some R
and D, there's gonna be some EDM in there, and
I hope you enjoy every part of it all the
seasons of my music so far at Zoe Clark dot com.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
If you want to get corporate information on my social media.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Handles, it's Zoe with a Live, Clark with THEE at
Zoe Underscore Clark on Everything.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
All right, listeners, just in case you need those links,
I will have them in the description of this episode
and in the show notes, So all you guys have
to do is just click the links. In five with
Zoe Clark, she didn't just talk about music today. She
gave us a masterclass and authenticity, courage, and vision. Explore
the make and the solid balance between turning this strength
and the power of community platforms. He has four hundred
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north Side and the beauty of merging DJ mastery with
vocal artistry. Zoe, your artistry proves you're not just building
songs because solid is pretty dope. You're building faces for
healing and joy. So listeners, go stream Solid and it
follow Zoe Clark everywhere. Be sure to describe a Vigilantis
Radio live, leave us a ratings, share the episode, and
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until next time, stay solid. Thank you so much for Zoe.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You're very welcome. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
You're welcome. Thank you peace to all.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
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Vigilantes Radio Live. I think that we are beyond just
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