Speaker 1: My next guess. It's a planner. He's a guy who
Speaker 1: don't allow setbacks to hold him back. When he see opportunity,
Speaker 1: he leaps forward. My next beck guest is a Billboard
Speaker 1: number one selling singer songwriter recording artists from Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: See I'm from Houston, Texas, so I know Dallas two
Speaker 1: and forty marls of forty five North. So I've been
Speaker 1: up that fact about my first Mercedes Bins in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Text drove it that seven the Dallas Neighbors has performed
Speaker 1: on the smash INBC series. The Voice has recorded six
Speaker 1: acclaimed studio albums and a Christmas collection released on the
Speaker 1: Acclaim in an acclaimed book, starting two films, headline of
Speaker 1: concert and conference tours all over the world. Please welcome
Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations. My man from Dallas, Texas. Anthony Evans. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just hyped. Man. I'm just hyped because you know,
Speaker 1: we've been trying to connect and we finally connect acted
Speaker 1: on this interview today because I wanted to bring your
Speaker 1: money making conversation because you know, I'm a type of person.
Speaker 1: Every every Tuesday I meet with my my my producers
Speaker 1: and they pitch out people. They recommend people who would
Speaker 1: be great for the show, who have great stories, and
Speaker 1: I just when they told me your story, you know,
Speaker 1: I just felt I wanted to hear it from you
Speaker 1: and talk about what drives you. That's the one first
Speaker 1: question I want to ask you, Anthony, what drives you
Speaker 1: to be successful? You know what there are There are
Speaker 1: a few things that drive me. The first thing I
Speaker 1: think about is being able to excellence. Drives me. Actually
Speaker 1: being able to find them a way to another way,
Speaker 1: avenues to be excellent. That that drives me at what
Speaker 1: I do when it comes to being on the stage
Speaker 1: and off the stage, but when it comes to planning
Speaker 1: tours and events. But also what drives me is is
Speaker 1: feeling like I'm actually fulfilling what I was born to do,
Speaker 1: what I was calling to do. That is a driving
Speaker 1: force to me so excellent. And then being in the
Speaker 1: center of what I know I'm supposed to be doing
Speaker 1: um and not settling that that those are those are
Speaker 1: the driving fractors for me. And then so when somebody
Speaker 1: tells you, I would tell you about me, a little
Speaker 1: bit about me, you know, like my degrees in mathematics
Speaker 1: and so I was just in college I was doing
Speaker 1: stand up comic at night, stand up comedy at night.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, people just like telling you know
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be a Eddy Murphy. You know, people
Speaker 1: really tell you, but your friends and your family can
Speaker 1: actually hold you back. I'm just let you know that, right,
Speaker 1: the people you understand, people who are so close to you,
Speaker 1: can actually be the people put the nail in it.
Speaker 1: Are you wasting your time? You're wasting your time and
Speaker 1: so so and so when I left IBM to do
Speaker 1: stand up comedy, they really thought I was crazy. And
Speaker 1: so so when I when I look at you, and
Speaker 1: because you know you you're now living in the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles areas, so you're you're transplant. So how did you
Speaker 1: undercome overcome people telling you what you couldn't do versus
Speaker 1: achieving what you are achieving? Well, I had a very
Speaker 1: great for my family, but my they has always been
Speaker 1: very supportive of me. Before I even knew what my
Speaker 1: ability was and what I was going to actually end
Speaker 1: up doing, my parents splotted it in me first. Before
Speaker 1: I actually too knew that I had sang the way
Speaker 1: that I sing or knew that I had the ability
Speaker 1: and music, they spotted it and then they started to
Speaker 1: They started to cultivate that before I was even wanting
Speaker 1: to do it. So I'm very grateful and uh for that.
Speaker 1: But then I also watched my dad, who was from
Speaker 1: both both my parents. My mom is from South America,
Speaker 1: my dad is from the inner City of Baltimore, and
Speaker 1: stats would say that they aren't supposed to be who
Speaker 1: they are now. But I watched them not operate upon
Speaker 1: what stats. They were not defined by what the statistics
Speaker 1: said they should be, and they would step into situations
Speaker 1: where they were the odd man out. They were different,
Speaker 1: they were like, where are you from? You know that
Speaker 1: those kind of vibes happened because they weren't the traditional
Speaker 1: person that was expected to be where they were. But
Speaker 1: they walked in there knowing what their ability was and
Speaker 1: let everybody's um knowledge of let let everybody figure figure
Speaker 1: out what they already knew. They would walk into a
Speaker 1: room be like, eventually you'll will figure out that we're
Speaker 1: supposed to be here, but until then, we're gonna stay here.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna leave because y'all think we're not supposed
Speaker 1: to be here. So I watched that my whole life,
Speaker 1: and so now it created and there. It created a
Speaker 1: driving me where I am from my nature likes to
Speaker 1: choose faith over fear, encourage over comfort. That's that's just
Speaker 1: because I know on the other side of that there
Speaker 1: is something bigger, broader and better waiting for me. When
Speaker 1: I choose faith over for your courage over comfort. That
Speaker 1: that's how I've gotten too the place I am. It's
Speaker 1: because of my family. Now, now you you appeared on
Speaker 1: the voice, correct, Yes, yeah, I'm just trying to remember
Speaker 1: because I's also I was looking at some photos and
Speaker 1: I was and you know, I'm one of those surfers.
Speaker 1: You know, I look at television and I just go
Speaker 1: from chownel to chown And now that did you sing
Speaker 1: a mom and gay song on the Voice? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't into that song. I wasn't in that that
Speaker 1: prin I love Game, but I wasn't you known you
Speaker 1: threw down Anthony. People have told me I looks like
Speaker 1: Martha Game. So I'm a marth and gay faint know
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm just gonna let you know that you
Speaker 1: put you put me in the right angle, put me
Speaker 1: into the right darkness. I'm Marvin Gay. Oh day alone
Speaker 1: and so and when you did that, Marvin, I said, wow, wow,
Speaker 1: because you're a certain artists you just can't do. And
Speaker 1: I remember. I remember because because because at the time,
Speaker 1: Aguilara was still one of the judges. Correct, Yeah she
Speaker 1: she was. She was my coach on the show. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know who you I wouldn't do so hey,
Speaker 1: hey that might You might not have felt it, but
Speaker 1: you hit it though, Okay, thank you. Which it's hard
Speaker 1: to feel that scenario in general, where you a quiet
Speaker 1: room and four backs, you know what I mean, face
Speaker 1: you when you're sing like you're trying to get people
Speaker 1: to turn around. It's just a weird feeling. If I
Speaker 1: come from the church, I come from church world, So like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Right right? I understand what you're saying
Speaker 1: because you used to people giving it. It's being inspired
Speaker 1: by your voice, being inspired by your movement, and you're
Speaker 1: looking at four tears, You're going okay, okay. And then
Speaker 1: then as the song goes along, who it starts eating
Speaker 1: on you. Who's gonna turn rap, who's gonna turn around?
Speaker 1: They're not gonna do me like this. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of emotions to run your head when you actually performing
Speaker 1: on the voice because you have to convinced four chairs
Speaker 1: to turn around, and as you say and then turn around,
Speaker 1: you go okay, really on National TV, really and normally
Speaker 1: you convinced them, you convinced people to turn around normally
Speaker 1: with intensity and kind of going off and doing the most.
Speaker 1: But Marvin gay didn't do that. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I was choosing in my head to honor Marvin Gaye
Speaker 1: and sing the song the way he would, which is chilled.
Speaker 1: But but the way you got those chairs to turn
Speaker 1: around was by doing the most, And so I was
Speaker 1: conflicted in my head because it's just a weird it's
Speaker 1: just a weird feeling to try to and you know,
Speaker 1: he is the antithesis of doing the most. He just
Speaker 1: was him and everybody loved him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to figure it out anyway. I
Speaker 1: want to let you know, I know of your abilities
Speaker 1: from that time frame. Now, prior to that, you had
Speaker 1: already dropped an album, correct, Yeah, I actually had three.
Speaker 1: I had three albums out before the Voice. So that's
Speaker 1: why it was weird going to the show because people
Speaker 1: were like, you already have a career, you're doing that,
Speaker 1: and that that goes back to what I was saying
Speaker 1: in minutes ago, which is choosing courage over comfort and faith.
Speaker 1: I could have been comfortable and just stayed where I was,
Speaker 1: but this was an opportunity to do something broad. I
Speaker 1: knew people would have stuff to say, like what are
Speaker 1: you doing on a complet like why would you do?
Speaker 1: You know, people talk, but if you ask forward to
Speaker 1: what's going on in my life because of that show
Speaker 1: and the people in that nineties seconds during a battle round,
Speaker 1: I say, in front of fifteen million people at that point,
Speaker 1: that's how many people were watching the show. And what
Speaker 1: happened after the show because I chose to be to
Speaker 1: move to to push through that moment of like why
Speaker 1: should I be here or not? Has been amazing. Stuff
Speaker 1: has happened off camera that no, y'all wouldn't know about
Speaker 1: unless I told you, But it's it's major, major that's
Speaker 1: happened to people have been in that. That's why I
Speaker 1: was just talking about earlier. People will tell you and
Speaker 1: you have to go through. You can just say the
Speaker 1: word faith or you can go your own belief, whatever
Speaker 1: term you want to do. You have to believe in
Speaker 1: yourself because I always tell people, if you're gonna fail.
Speaker 1: Fail being you, don't fail being something in some want
Speaker 1: want you to be failed being you. That way you
Speaker 1: can recover. You can get up being you. You can
Speaker 1: get up knowing if you knew why you failed because
Speaker 1: of something you did, or you did it for somebody else,
Speaker 1: a character or a song, and then you can't recover
Speaker 1: from that because you confuse now and so you said,
Speaker 1: you know, forget out, I know I got three albums
Speaker 1: out there. I'm gonna do the voice because I recognize
Speaker 1: this as a jump store, right, And you know what,
Speaker 1: another thing that I would just say is that you
Speaker 1: also cannot recover from succeeding by not being you, because
Speaker 1: what happens is when you are quote unquote successful in
Speaker 1: the way we define it, but you were doing it
Speaker 1: not being yourself, and you have a hit song get
Speaker 1: to sing for the rest of your life that you
Speaker 1: don't even like, but you did it to be popular.
Speaker 1: Then you will always feel you will always feel that conflict.
Speaker 1: And now you gotta sing the song because everybody wants
Speaker 1: to everybody wants to hear that from you. And so
Speaker 1: whatever fields you are in, if you're disingenuous to you
Speaker 1: and you end up with a you know, a bankful
Speaker 1: of money, which is great. You cannot go right a
Speaker 1: check for peace because you weren't being yourself to get there,
Speaker 1: My man, by a great interview. We're gonna be back
Speaker 1: with more of my man. Anthony Evans from Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: I just with Sean McDonald. You know when you get
Speaker 1: a guest on the phone, man, and the reason I
Speaker 1: like my next guest that I'm talking to you right
Speaker 1: now to just say my next guest, my guest I'm
Speaker 1: currently talking to. His energy is say the five. You
Speaker 1: want somebody at the five, and you at the five
Speaker 1: is already at the five. And that it helps me
Speaker 1: to understand that he's already he's always ready to go,
Speaker 1: he's already to promote, he's already ready to be inspired
Speaker 1: to the next opportunity. Now that's we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: this new discussions they knew. Just a production company is
Speaker 1: a turnkey production company that offers services for vocalists, uh, staging, lighting,
Speaker 1: sound and touring and choreography. That's a lot going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a lot going on here. And you're saying
Speaker 1: that right now. It's like literally I'm about to fly
Speaker 1: back to l a to go to rehearsal uh for
Speaker 1: a day and then try to Berlin to do one
Speaker 1: of these shows that that you're mentioning and you're talking about.
Speaker 1: But let me take the first place of this. It's
Speaker 1: all the way back to the beginning of my career.
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily sit in, but I kept going forward. Now,
Speaker 1: when I didn't sit in, I didn't have a team
Speaker 1: around me doing everything for me. Like most artists, I
Speaker 1: had to figure out how to do it myself. If
Speaker 1: I wanted to keep going, I had to figure out
Speaker 1: how to do it myself and not rely on people
Speaker 1: to do it for me. But fast forward to what
Speaker 1: you were just talking about. The reason why I have
Speaker 1: this company is because of the years I wasn't being
Speaker 1: accepted and I had to learn how to do it myself.
Speaker 1: So I used to resent it, and now I understand
Speaker 1: the purpose in it. So part of a money making
Speaker 1: conversation or a building you conversation is don't resent those
Speaker 1: those moments where you don't never successorily feel like you're
Speaker 1: you're the thing everybody is about, because there is learning
Speaker 1: stuff in there that will help you when you become
Speaker 1: the thing that people want. You know, I couldn'tsolutely believe that.
Speaker 1: I absolutely I preached that, absolutely tell people that. And
Speaker 1: I always tell people every day is not a happy day.
Speaker 1: And I promote the fact that I get up at
Speaker 1: four or fifteen in the morning every day, you know,
Speaker 1: and people go, WHOA. But I also to tell people
Speaker 1: I'm not happy when I get up. But that's part
Speaker 1: of my plan. If because I have gotten up at six,
Speaker 1: seven and and and that throws my whole day off
Speaker 1: for some reason, because I missed valuable time. Because when
Speaker 1: I get up, it's kind of like it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a get up process. I get up at four fifteen.
Speaker 1: I staggered around the house a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: I look at my watch. I leaned up against the wall.
Speaker 1: I said, I lose all that when I get up
Speaker 1: at six. I ain't got I don't have no start time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fire you. When I get up at six,
Speaker 1: I lost all that lazy time. You know what I'm saying, Anthony.
Speaker 1: And so when I hear you talk about what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: So when I hear you talk about I'm just a
Speaker 1: little side story to compare to your story. It's like
Speaker 1: when people ask me why I know so much. When
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey I started, there was no staff, there was
Speaker 1: no PR team, there were no managers. I was the
Speaker 1: booking agent. I was the the PR person. I made
Speaker 1: all the power points. You know, I knew I did
Speaker 1: the social media, the website. And so when when when
Speaker 1: I'm when I'm walking into corporations and are walking into
Speaker 1: talking about you know, television, uh, studios, when they talk
Speaker 1: to me, always understand branding, Always understand marketing, alla understand
Speaker 1: social media. Because I was their first hand. And that's
Speaker 1: all you're saying. You've been their first hand and so
Speaker 1: so because when it wasn't when it when when you
Speaker 1: when you being acknowledged you was developing these skills. Now
Speaker 1: you're turning these skills into a turn key company. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of us and I'll speak
Speaker 1: on behalf of me. But I was in a position
Speaker 1: where I wanted the media gratification and if and that mindset,
Speaker 1: that immediate gratification mindset will stop you sometimes from digging
Speaker 1: a deep foundation that ultimately you can build something high on.
Speaker 1: Because we don't want to take the time to build
Speaker 1: the foundation. We just want the skyscraper. But in order
Speaker 1: to have the skyscraper. You have to dig deep. And
Speaker 1: in this time of wanting what you you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of us millennials in general want stuff real quick,
Speaker 1: like we just want you know, the the new generation
Speaker 1: want stuff real fast. But that's not necessarily you building
Speaker 1: some thing that could stand the test of time and
Speaker 1: stand the storm and stand a bunch of people. But
Speaker 1: you know, so I really, again, just to reiterate what
Speaker 1: we're talking about, that's just a vital part you should consider.
Speaker 1: You're you're a Boston training when you're going through the
Speaker 1: moment where you're having to do everything for yourself like
Speaker 1: you're you're man. I'll tell you, brother, do you you
Speaker 1: have the entrepreneurial spirit? Where did you get that from?
Speaker 1: Do it? My father? My father? I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: about him and his influence in your life. Your father,
Speaker 1: my dad's My dad's name is Dr Tony Evans. He
Speaker 1: was born in Baltimore, Maryland, uh in in the inner
Speaker 1: city of Baltimore, and he just had a drive. He
Speaker 1: had people early in his life see something in him
Speaker 1: where he wouldn't take no for an answer. My grandfather
Speaker 1: makes fun of him now, and he was like he
Speaker 1: would get calms from his school because he was always
Speaker 1: the kid with his hand up that one of the
Speaker 1: answer questions. Every question he was like, I want to answer.
Speaker 1: You know, he was that driven, I I want to
Speaker 1: know the answers kind of guy. And I just watched
Speaker 1: that my whole life and didn't realize that I was
Speaker 1: an entrepreneurial training growing up, just because that was just
Speaker 1: my dad. If you told him no, he was gonna
Speaker 1: figure out another way around it. You know what I
Speaker 1: mean to to make that yes? So I just, uh,
Speaker 1: I've watched that, and I've been around people, especially in
Speaker 1: the new season in my life in Los Angeles. Well,
Speaker 1: the mindset is they're they're dreamers. They're big, big thoughts
Speaker 1: like status quo is not what they're okay with. And
Speaker 1: I love I love that. I love when somebody says
Speaker 1: no to me and I can. I love figuring out yes, Anthony,
Speaker 1: when you when you go through all this, like we
Speaker 1: mentioned the boys, we mentioned the albums everything. What what
Speaker 1: is your message? What is your general purpose? I always
Speaker 1: tell people that I'm constantly building uh content, so I
Speaker 1: can just push down my efforts so people can look
Speaker 1: at understand I am. I'm a three sixty brand and
Speaker 1: so and so, like you know, I mentioned the voice,
Speaker 1: and before the voice you had already dropped three CDs.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And you're about to go
Speaker 1: on a fall tour with your sister. What is the
Speaker 1: what is the plan? You know you got that, you
Speaker 1: got the turnkey company. You're reaching masses. You know you
Speaker 1: even knew the fact that, hey, when you was on
Speaker 1: divorce you were seen by fifteen million. You're very calculated
Speaker 1: in your approach and your planner correct, right, yes, because
Speaker 1: I'm very calculated in my approach, and I can answer
Speaker 1: your question on two sides. I'll answer it first from
Speaker 1: the business side, UM, because that's obviously what we're here.
Speaker 1: We're here to talk about. UM. The business side is
Speaker 1: I want to work hard. Basically, I want to work
Speaker 1: hard in these years of creating new concepts and ideas
Speaker 1: so that I'm diversified. And that's just a basic You
Speaker 1: know that, that's just basic. That's relates to money business.
Speaker 1: I want to be diversified because I'm also aware of
Speaker 1: the fact that in entertainment especially or in I do gospelated,
Speaker 1: but in entertainment in general, I have to be aware
Speaker 1: that there's always some new talent coming and eventually down
Speaker 1: the road, I'll be fifty five years old and there'll
Speaker 1: be some other five year old that that is doing.
Speaker 1: I don't want you have to go out and sing.
Speaker 1: I don't want to feel like, you know, anybody need
Speaker 1: me to come sing because I gotta pay the more
Speaker 1: I don't that maybe it made me think, what are
Speaker 1: other ways I can be intuitive about what um using
Speaker 1: branches of disability, not not going way off. And that
Speaker 1: was starting the production company. And that's also the vocal
Speaker 1: vocal arranging and contracting, which started because of the voice.
Speaker 1: Like we didn't talk about that, but I've vocal arranged
Speaker 1: and contracted to Kanye and to Chains and Tyler the
Speaker 1: creatives last album, Blackish and all these different TVs because
Speaker 1: of the chance I took on myself going to the voice.
Speaker 1: So it started to diversify me. So the goal on
Speaker 1: the business side is to be diversified to what I
Speaker 1: don't have to I get to do what I want
Speaker 1: to do. I'm doing what I'm living kind of in
Speaker 1: a state of um, of of developing that so that
Speaker 1: later on I don't have a lot of half to
Speaker 1: I can. I can operate from a place of want
Speaker 1: to not have to. And then yes, I call that.
Speaker 1: I call that multiple streams of income on this show
Speaker 1: that you just talked about multiple streams of income, like
Speaker 1: you said, Hey, man, when I wake up, if somebody
Speaker 1: tell me no, I go, I just go back to sleep.
Speaker 1: That's just one, you know. Oh oh that's overweight. Okay, cool, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: my wife look at me. You know, I don't stress.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not. I'm not gonna put myself in
Speaker 1: a position where somebody tells one person tells me my my,
Speaker 1: my gigs over with, my life's over, my last checks over.
Speaker 1: That can't happen with me. I've learned that. I would
Speaker 1: learned that, And that's all you're telling that my listeners
Speaker 1: in our viewer that exactly exactly. And then the other point,
Speaker 1: just real quick I was gonna touch on, is that
Speaker 1: my purpose also is not just to be um about
Speaker 1: not well. Because I'm a gospel singer, I'm not just
Speaker 1: trying to be about the bottom line, which is very important.
Speaker 1: But I also want to make sure that the work
Speaker 1: I'm doing is resonating in people's hearts and their souls.
Speaker 1: And I there's don't be a story to tell above
Speaker 1: and beyond money or number one, because those can come
Speaker 1: and go. But but what happens in the lives of
Speaker 1: the people that you're impacting, whatever fields you're in, it
Speaker 1: it happens to be more obvious with because of what
Speaker 1: I do. But I think that that the peace and
Speaker 1: the emotional health and spiritual health that comes from that
Speaker 1: is also has a value. May not be a monetary value,
Speaker 1: but there is something to be said about making a
Speaker 1: good living and being excited about what's happening in you
Speaker 1: and others emotionally and spiritually. I believe it's all tied together.
Speaker 1: That's all prosperity to me, that's all being wealthy. To me,
Speaker 1: it goes beyond just the bank account. I love this dude.
Speaker 1: You're from Dallas, Texas. I'm from Houston, Texas. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: a foodie. I'm a foodie. I got I got nanny
Speaker 1: seconds left in this show. Um, I'm gonna just tell
Speaker 1: you this. Uh, you know how the best food in
Speaker 1: the world is in Houston, Texas. Now, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: let y'all know Dallas Houston, Texas. Like I know you've
Speaker 1: been in Houston. Now, what where do you tortilla? Where
Speaker 1: we live in Houston. Loopy, he's not lying, looping tort
Speaker 1: you get the pitto beans. They listen. I get to everything.
Speaker 1: I'm tell something. I would tell my wife I come
Speaker 1: home because I live in Houston. I live in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: She said, what you want to say, Let's go loope
Speaker 1: because they say breakfast. They say breakfast. You know I'm
Speaker 1: telling the true and I'm telling something. Those beads with
Speaker 1: what they look through the chip? Oh lord, that's where
Speaker 1: it starts to me. They got so much going on
Speaker 1: in there. So yes, I I actually had my account
Speaker 1: on one time called me and go, what is this
Speaker 1: loope to a ta place? You need to slow it
Speaker 1: out like that's that's how much you need to star.
Speaker 1: Family means it to Rushaw and my wife. I'm going
Speaker 1: to town Saturday. I kid you not, I'll be leading
Speaker 1: a loope is told to you? Can I go to
Speaker 1: the one right on our ten's right around my house.
Speaker 1: So Anthony, next time you come to Houston, know that
Speaker 1: you eat right around my house. You need to call me.
Speaker 1: Boy Okay, perfect, I got listen. I want to hit
Speaker 1: you up at two seconds, all right, but man, you
Speaker 1: stay strong. I love you brother. You keep winning and
Speaker 1: always know this is family. Come to me. We need
Speaker 1: to promote something. Okay, thank you, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.