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Speaker 1: She has an entertainment powerhouse who is a beloved advocate

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Speaker 1: seven years my company, I'm the CEO of Influence Entertainment.

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Speaker 1: I'm a creative producer and I love I love conceptualizing

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Speaker 1: So that's what my company does. That's what I've been doing.

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Speaker 1: And again, radio has been important, and you know this

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Speaker 1: The following of their lives is what I'm all about. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, Diana, when I when I listened to you,

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Speaker 1: because listen to what she just said. She said athletes,

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Speaker 1: she said, actors, she said singers, she said executive. Each

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Speaker 1: I can't mess with music. Okay, it is so complicated,

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Speaker 1: you know. Uh, you know, comedian, I got you after

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Speaker 1: I got your athlete, I got your executive music. She

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Speaker 1: throws that in like it's nothing. So so if you

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Speaker 1: to the website. I've been stealing ideas. Can you make

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Speaker 1: my website look like her website? Because it's so pretty,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's so flow, It flows, It looks big,

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Speaker 1: it looks grand, it looks like you want to know

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Speaker 1: it's amazing. But I just want to slow it down here.

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Speaker 1: When we start talking about you know, her be on

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Speaker 1: the board or the Black Music Museum that's that's opening

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Speaker 1: and the grand openings July June seventeen in Nashville, I

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Speaker 1: you do executives, you know, I do athletes. I do

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Speaker 1: actors and actresses, which is both you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: Then she throws into the rappers, which is a total

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Speaker 1: different world than you have the old school. Then you

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Speaker 1: of like pop and then she then you have Rihanna,

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Speaker 1: she kind of like pop black. But what is she?

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Speaker 1: Come on, girl, you are just something special. Listen, I'm

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Speaker 1: with you in terms of anything. Like I said that

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Speaker 1: the mind can conceive and believe, you kind of achieve.

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Speaker 1: My parents raised me to squeeze this lemon and to

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Speaker 1: loving and considerate. But for the most part, I am

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Speaker 1: opportunity to speak with you and your audience about my

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Speaker 1: passions and you know. The other question I get is

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Speaker 1: how can we celebrate like music, stream the music of

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Speaker 1: moment when you're hearing what they like. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: So there's so many ways that you can engage. My

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Speaker 1: teach learns. Celebrate Black Music Month is for all of us.

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Speaker 1: And it's not to say that we do not celebrate

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Speaker 1: happens to be the concentrated moment. Okay, Okay, Diana, I

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Speaker 1: got that. I'm talking about you. Okay, you just you

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Speaker 1: try to say is in my interview with you, and

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