WEBVTT - Leah Turner 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:16.360 Carala, She's the Queen of talking. He was, She's on 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:21.160 the actually got the scoop on side. No one can 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:35.680 do wi Caralam, Caralam, No one can do with Caral. Carol, 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.680 you guys, I am so, so, so excited about this interview. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.559 It was just one of the most soulful conversations I've 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.760 ever had with Leah Turner. She's a freaking superstar. Her 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.600 voices out of this world, huge voice of things that 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.680 have happened to her, the divine steps that God has 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.440 laid out for her. Not to get all like hippy 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.120 to being like God and all that, but seriously like 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.160 she is such a testament to her faith and is 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.080 following her heart, believing in herself. And her dad said, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.360 the best thing when someone tells you know, you flip 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.640 it around and you turn it to on, and that 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.679 means game on. This is going to happen. And that 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.440 is Leah's fighting spirit. She said, such a journey here, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:21.360 she has her stories, amazing. Get excited, Leah Turner in 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:26.040 the hissing, I'm so excited to be here. I am 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.840 so excited to be here in your amazing house that 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:33.080 your dad made everything. Yeah, my dad owned and number 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.440 one furniture business like in the world. So he did, like, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.120 what's it called. What's it called, Mueler Turner Company, Mueller, Mueller, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:44.959 Mueller who Okay, Mueller Turner Company. And it's in California, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.760 in like Yuca Valley area, and he did, like, I 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:53.560 don't know that. Quincy Jones's home, uh Selein Dion's home 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.760 in Vegas is my favorite of all times. She's my 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:02.320 number one. Her and Michael Bolton has literally gotten me 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:09.160 through so much sitting in the car like repeat, legit, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.919 judge me like this. Yes, I'm telling you, I die fersonally. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:19.119 And then we need to know her. They met her, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.840 but like didn't like I mean, you know, he's he's 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.160 working there, you know what I mean? Building house looks 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.680 like he did this really cool like, um, there's a 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.160 like you know, you have like a thing like this 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.799 at the bottom of your bed, like I don't know 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:39.000 what it's called, like a wooden like a thing, wouldn't 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.000 thing like a thing? And then you push a button 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.360 and the TV pops up. I would have it right 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.760 in front of your bed. It's like far out. It's 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.480 really fancy, a fancy oh my gosh. Okay, So Muler 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.800 Turner company. Everyone. If you need furniture, do they ship? 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.920 What's all custom? Okay, So if you live in l 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.320 A and you want awesome furniture there, you're they yell people, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:06.720 they yelp people, they yell people. I'm like, I'm taking 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:12.440 my beanie. Excuse me, an operator. Okay, So we got 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.480 to talk about you because something I love most about 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:19.680 you is your belief system. And I personally want to 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.920 know how you got to this because you've had a 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.080 wild journey started to from the beginning. First off, you 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.200 have a huge voice, like you have this monster voice. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:37.840 You're a total bombshell. You have incredible breast. Sorry, You're like, 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.600 oh my god, and like you know, I'm just trying 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.080 to hug you everywhere. I'm just saying to me, like 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.840 you got the full package going on here, and you've 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.600 got a killer personality. So how did you come into 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.280 this journey from l A? And you have that? You 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.320 could have gone probably rock if you wanted to, but 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.600 you got a country. So just start at the beginning. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.440 Where did we're now this all come for gosh? I 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.880 mean from the beginning, beginning or just what I've always 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.200 been singing since I can ever ever remember since I 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.720 was you know, I wrote my first song when I 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.600 was six years old coming home from church. Um, you 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.760 just got inspired to sing? Yeah, well, my best friend 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.280 was leaving and so I just wrote this song. I 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:17.960 don't even know if I can remember it, but it 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.280 was something like friends or friends forever, like just like 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.839 Mama said, And it was something about like Jesus binds 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:29.600 our hearts together. We're together and I love you, don't leave. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:34.560 But you know, yeah she moved, but we're still very close. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.200 But um, so I've always always, always been singing since 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.440 I can remember, and guitar lessons and piano lessons and 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.280 voice lessons and you name it. If it had anything 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.680 to do with music, you're doing it. I was in it. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.520 My mom just really encouraged and pushed me in it. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:54.599 So cut to going to college, went Stanta Barbara and 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.360 all my classes started taking songwriting classes, and then a 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.960 guy in the songwriting class, the final was whatever song 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.960 got picked, I would sing in front of a celebrity guest. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.320 And that celebrity guest was Kenny Loggins. Yeah, because he 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.200 has a home in Santa Barbara. Okay, And so then 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.000 my song got picked and he was like, I'm not 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.720 telling you to drop out of school, but I'm telling 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.599 you to drop out of school to pack out stuff 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.840 and get out of here. If Kenny Loggins says that, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.320 how old were you? Yeah, I was nineteen. I was 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.920 in college. He's like, girl, you don't need to scoop, okay, right, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.640 So you took his advice. So I took his advice. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.800 Called my parents and that was the next logical move 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.320 was l a because that's you're so close where else 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.160 you do music, right? But there? So I called my 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.080 parents that I'm dropping out and they were like, cool, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.160 we'll send up the truck. Your parents are cool. Yeah, 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.240 well they've always believed in it. You know, how awesome 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.080 are you to have parents that aren't scared of your 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.560 talent and are scared of you chasing it or the failure, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.720 like and like when you fail, you get back up, 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.120 like it's always like all right, well that door didn't open. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.000 Well let's keep going, you know. And they never wanted 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.520 they never were worried about you having like a safe 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.359 job or something. They're like, you go there, do it. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.760 I remember my dad said, we will make this dream 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.960 happen if we have to go to our last square 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:13.960 of toilet paper. Yeah, and I'm about there. Amazing, because 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.560 if you don't have a dream, and if you don't 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.360 have people believing in you, then what do you have? 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.359 I mean, I'm sorry, it's not like such a you 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.039 have nothing, but you got to go for nothing, you 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.760 literally and you had support because it's so scary to 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.919 chase a dream. I remembered up. I had a cheap 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:35.720 Cherokee at the time, and I remember I left because 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.520 Kenny Logan said you a loud So he gave you 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.040 that one conversation and you never talked to him since, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.920 have never. I actually came full circle because I'm signing 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.760 to William Morris Agency and he signed to William Morris 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.880 and so Rob Beckham um took me backstage and I 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:59.839 you know, and here I am like, this is so cool, 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.360 and take me on tour. Can I come from? You know? 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.479 What did you say? He was just very gracious. I'm 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.000 sure you know stories happened like that to him all 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.640 the time. You know. He was very gracious and was 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.760 just like, well, you know, I'm glad it's working out, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.640 you know, because if you tell somebody that and then 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.280 it doesn't forget and you've ruined my life Kenny logging, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.240 and now I have no house, no nothing, you know. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.120 So he was like, I'm glad you have a house 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.400 right in her house. Everyone we're here, but you know 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.240 it could have gone another another way. UM So anyways 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.320 did that and then um, you know, God is so 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.680 good that I had a chance encounter with um. I'm 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:38.440 Vertigo Gautica's wife who is partners with David Foster, and 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.680 so I recorded five sides with David and you just 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.520 rant you just became friends with her. And then she's like, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.240 you gotta meet my Well we were um at, me 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.720 and my mom were at a restaurant in Beverly Hills 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.120 and um I was a server at the time, and 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.320 they didn't realize that I was a server, and so 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.480 one of the other guys sent it over free dessert 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.560 and it was because he was a bust er at 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.160 the place I was working. And so she said, why 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.680 do you get free dessert and we don't, and I 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.760 don't remember what I said, but um, I said, well 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.200 we can share with you, not realizing who they were, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.880 and then she liked the tone in my talking voice 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.360 because you have a really good thank you, thank you. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.040 People would say, maybe I should be a sex operator. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.000 How can give me a call? I'm gonna be a sexer. Hello, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.640 I'm calling because I really need some love in my life. Well, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.400 what can I do for you? Is there anything else 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.320 that you need? Tell me your problems? Oh my god, 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:38.360 you have a huge business. I mean singing voice sex operator. Hey, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.440 what can I do for you? I mean mine just 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.240 sounds like a joke. No, no, Once, I'm my friend 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.160 from high school called my mom a guy and my 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.959 mom's like, hello, you've reached. She has the same voice 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.160 as I do. She's like, hello, you've reached Susannah. And 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.280 I can't get to the phone, so leave a message 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.400 and I'll get back to you. And he lets a 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.040 message and call me. Girls, I feel like I should 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.760 have just paid your mom to do that. I mean 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.400 this agreed with you know, you just were born with this, 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.160 always have had, just like a lot of my aunts 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.200 have raspy voices. And to be such a bombs crazy 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.360 do you have to carry the taser with you? You 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.280 don't come marry anyone. I know, I know what you 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.240 like what you're seeing here, but listen back. No, no, no, 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.120 but yeah, we all have these raspy voices, so singing 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.120 doesn't work out. Operating sex operating Well, okay, so she 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.720 likes your tone, so she likes my tone. And this 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.280 is David Foster is who to her again? No, um 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.600 emberto Gautica, this is in Berto Gautica's wave, and emberto 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.559 Gautica is David Foster a long time producing partner, like 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:47.520 they've done Whitney and Michael Bubley and um Trash Grogan. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.600 I mean, it's just random, super rand. That's how God 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.360 works out. That is how God works out. My mom 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.520 calls them god sidences. God sidences. Love it because they 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.960 are not randy, are not random, but they feel feel random. Absolutely. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.800 So she said, well, are you a singer? And I said, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.160 I am, you know whatever, blah blah blah blah. Um, well, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.439 if you're any good, here's my address. She sent me 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:13.720 her address, her home address, home address, Yeah, Beverly, Beverly Gautica. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.920 And um so my mom was like, you send that demo. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.280 I don't care. I was like, Mom, everyone's husband somebody 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.880 in something like, she's probably lying, you know what I mean? 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.600 Well she wasn't, and I sent it in a week later, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:31.000 I was up at David Foster's house, Yeah, in Malibu, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:36.080 and like recording and what were you recording? Well, we 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.640 I had written songs, and so they took me into 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.440 this place called record Plant, which is like a really 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.320 awesome studio in l A. Like everyone records their Lady 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.320 Gaga justin Bieber, anyone even country when they come to 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.360 record there. I mean, that is the place. It's kind 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:55.640 of like ocean way here. So UM went up there 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.559 and you record your recording, your own songs. So you 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.319 meet this person, she like your voice, and she's hooked 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:07.240 up to the two like biggest music people. And then 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.560 they're like, oh, next week, just come up here. Let 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.520 David Foster record five songs that you wrote when he 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.440 just met you, like legit like and I didn't even 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.760 have good songs. I didn't even realize that I was 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:23.000 going to Um David Foster's house, Like Amberto just said 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.520 here is the address because they had their studio there 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.679 and come and meet us. And so I was like okay, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.080 and so Um I went and you had to go 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.120 through like he doesn't live there anymore, but you had 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.559 to go through like two gates. And I'm not kidding you. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:43.040 Und I was like what, like it is so massive 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.040 that there was a trolley that took you from the 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.280 main house down to the pool. No joke, you like 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.120 got in it and like went down. It was insane. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.760 And then I think they said that the front yard 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.560 is like three football fields or why so are you 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.200 like jaw on the ground? Yes, girl, I was like, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.280 you're driving up there in my jankie geep place. I think, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.079 are you like by yourself? So what in the world 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.400 are you? Can you speak? When I would literally just 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.160 like oh my god. So then I go in there 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.200 and why did they were they looking for a girl 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.880 to sign? Where they were looking? I know they just 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.920 said that they would like to just they just liked 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.720 my voice and I had four songs that um I 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.120 sent over to them, and they weren't looking for anything. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.360 I don't know what they were doing. This is what okay, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.960 I don't know. That's you know, that's insane. It's insane. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.120 It's insane. It's really come to the house and let 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.920 David Foster because and then so then I get there 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.960 and like I see all. I mean it is like 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.560 from lord to ceiling of like every record you've ever 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.280 thought of and listened to from like the Tubes I 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.839 think that was their name, to like Donnie McClerkin to 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:56.120 like Toto to Whitney to Barber Strikes. I mean like 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.040 you're just like what And in the room that I 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.080 recorded in like did the vocals um it is where 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.960 he has his piano and he had like this mic 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.640 that dropped down or whatever. Like you're literally standing in 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.960 there with like the tapes of like The Bodyguard, like yeah, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.719 because it was old school and you know, because that's 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.200 how they recorded. And I'm like, I mean I literally 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.040 like there was a moment when I was just like 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.200 I just need a moment because I didn't. I didn't 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.400 like I was like, this is surreal. It's like why 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.319 is this even? Why is it happening? It's like this 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.480 is true. Yeah, So I didn't realize I was going 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.600 there and Metamburdo there and then I was in there 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.800 kind of just like singing over some stuff, you know, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.440 like he like played down some chords or whatever and 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.760 just to hear how it was in the studio and whatever. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:40.920 And then he goes somebody wants to meet you, and 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.680 I was like okay, So like I walk out and 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:49.160 it's David Foster and I was like, okay, like that's crazy. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:55.600 So we did. We recorded four songs that I wrote. No, no, no. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.439 This was over a course of like I say, a 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.520 couple of months. So what was their vision with you? Like, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.760 why did they say they wanted to? They just really 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.920 liked my tone and there was nobody like my towne 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.760 except really pink um that so they just wanted to 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.880 and see what was what they could come out of. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.840 Because he also David also has a record label with 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.360 Warner Brothers. It's called One for three Okay, so they 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.240 were just like gonna have musical creativity and see what 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.040 happened to see what. They literally just love making music 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.160 and they loved your town, so let's create. Let's do it. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.800 Yeah that's kind of beautiful. It was really awesome because 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.280 that's truly for the sake of the art, right Yeah, yeah, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.640 I don't even love that. I don't know if they 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.080 were looking for somebody, I don't, I don't know anything. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.640 I just know that, like, yeah, I was there, Okay, 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.920 it was happening. So two months or so, you recording 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.960 and then I got him back in just wasn't me, 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.920 It wasn't did they were they crazy about him, Yeah, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.640 I mean they thought it was great, but I was. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.040 I remember pulling into my driveway at the house in 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.040 West Hollywood and I said, called my dad and I said, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:06.320 I am not Barbara Strikes, I am not Michael. This 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.960 is not me. And so I had to go and say, like, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.480 this isn't me. You went and told David Foster, and 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.520 I don't I can't say that. Other guy saying, Berto, Katika, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.560 you wouldn't told them when you literally and you have 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.000 nothing else going on, right, nothing, nothing, nothing like I 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.840 was serving at Master of Steakhouse in Beverly Hills. But 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:32.200 you wouldn't turn down, you said, I politefully decline. Well, 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.840 I didn't say like that. I was bawling, crying, like 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:39.160 how crazy and I this and and I just love 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.560 you guys so much, but you know, like literally, but 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.560 how crazy that you knew we're gonna have some on 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.360 that note, cheers cheers to you. But how crazy that 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.360 you knew to stand up for your sound at that point. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.280 Because break this down, because this is a trip that 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.480 happens a lot of people. Yeah, get hooked up with 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.520 really powerful people and then they change their whole vibe. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.600 They changes are sound. They change everything, and they're usually 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.960 the person is so young and green, like I was green, 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:10.880 and they're like, okay, well shoot, if they say to 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.600 do it, then I just need to do it because 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.040 this is my only shot. But not you know, I 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.120 just also know that they kind of like and this 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.640 is nothing because I am still I don't talk to 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.600 I'm not close to David Foster at all, um, and 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.760 not because any bad blood, just but different ways in 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.280 different ways. But I'm still close to emberto Um and 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.480 he's incredible. He's chile In. He has a really thick 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:38.320 um you know, Latin accent and very fiery, and he's 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.840 such a good looking older man. Holy mom, like salt 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:46.000 and pepper. You're like, okay, um. But there was a 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.800 little bit of times, like when I was in the studios, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.520 like can you clear up your rasp a little bit? 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.800 Can you? So it was they wanted to slick me 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.680 a little bit, which is what they do and it's 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.920 beautiful and it's amazing, but like I'm refined, I'm not slick, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.280 you know, I don't want to be. I don't want 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.000 to be slick, you know. Um. But it didn't in 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:05.479 there and they said, what do you want to do, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.679 And I said, I want to go to Nashville. I 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.000 think you know, how did you know you want to go? 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.600 I don't know why. Well, because my dad's a cowboy. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.840 He's a professional team rooper, so he like, I was 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.359 raised country. You know, I can ride you know, barrow 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.280 rays like my dad's been in the road. Country girl, 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.840 I mean, yeah from California. You know the West is wild. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.720 Do you feel like you are could be the new 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.440 Tanya Tucker but with a huge range like she obviously 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.959 you got Tanna Hast, but she has that Do you 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.880 feel like you who would be your inspiration of country 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.840 us because you have such a huge range? Though that 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.560 do I do? It's speaking. I was trained to opera 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.600 in Santa Barbara, so that's why I learned to really 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:53.399 do that. Um jeez. I always say that if Pink 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.040 and Shania Twain could have had a baby, that would 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.320 be me. Mike. You know, I is sassy, but she's 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.960 really refined and really sweet, you know what I mean 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.200 that you can swallow it. And Pink is a heck 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.960 of a singer and she's just kind of like a boy, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.240 you know what I mean. But then she can tear 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.520 your heart out with a ballad. And so if I 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.040 could put those two together when you say kind of 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.800 like a boy, just mean like she just has that 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:25.160 energy where she's an unapologetic yeah and just and she's 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:29.840 not she's not really like soft and so womanly. She's 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.520 beautiful and she stands for being a woman and um, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.040 that's awesome. But she and I like the way that 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.719 she kind of like puts her middle finger to certain situations. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.320 She does it very smart. It never sounds angry to me. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.960 It sounds like I would have said that, you know, 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.120 like you in your hand tonight, like stop buying me drinks? 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.480 You're going home alone? You know who would have thought 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.840 you in your hand tonight? You know? Do you know 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.600 what I mean? She says things very smartly and she 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:59.720 doesn't care trying smartly. That's a word, it is smartly 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.960 and she but she's getting her point across. She's like, listen, yeah, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.960 I don't yeah, like I can buy my own drink 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.440 and you're going home with your hand because yeah, I'm 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.960 not looking to get yeah, you know what I mean? Like, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.399 and I love that she stands in her authority of 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.240 who she is, and that's that's amazing to be able 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.760 to do that, you know, it is amazing. Yeah. Why 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.560 is that especially hard for women? Do you think? I 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:26.159 hopefully you know? Um well I never thought being a 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.200 girl meant that I couldn't do something until I moved 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:33.040 to Nashville. Okay, break that down. UM, I don't know. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.679 I just always I mean, my dad just always was like, 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.359 I mean, there's nothing could do, like you know, you 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.280 he all of his brothers had boys and I was 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.000 the only girl. And it was like put around the 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.520 horse show, go you know what I mean like that, 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.640 it's just you just you just go, you figure out, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.520 you do it. Just it doesn't matter what happened in Nashville, 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.960 you know. I mean, it's just hard to get Um. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.080 I think there's such a different way of thinking is 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.560 you know, women shouldn't have as big of a voice. 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.120 You can have a voice, but if it's what voice 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.320 is told to you to have sometimes um. And I've 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.960 been blessed to be so supported by country radio and 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.320 UM to get the record deal that I got. You 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.240 have just I got a deal straight with Sony right 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.879 after the David Foster thing. Yeah, well no, that was 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:27.040 I moved back to I moved to Nashville. Um, about 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.440 four years later I signed my deal. Um, I feel 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:35.880 like my looks were chat do they look chapter? Look great? Beautiful? Awesome? 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.040 Thank you? Um. I yeah, I moved. I signed my 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:44.560 record deal when I was so Um that was four 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.960 years ago. Um. So I moved here four years later, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:53.400 maybe four and a half, um, and was blessed enough 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.640 to get it really fast. Okay, So finish your thought 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.720 about why it was hard for women in Nashville, and 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.080 then your experienced you know, I mean I've been blessed 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.800 saying I got a deal really fast. Whatever. But you um, 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.040 it's hard. It's hard, you know, because you're on the road, 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:10.840 you're doing this, you're doing that, and we do have 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.800 different needs, you know. Um. And I think it's okay 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:15.960 to be a woman and be delicate, you know, it 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:20.760 really is okay, Um, but sometimes that's taken not okay, 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.120 it's it's more of a burden. You know. It's easier, 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.440 excuse me, it's easier to have you know, the guy 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:28.119 that throws on the baseball cap and the T shirt 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.360 and roll out. Well, we can't do that. So I'm 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.240 up at four o'clock in the morning, but on my 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.639 lashes but niket sealer, you know whatever, because there's a 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.720 little bit of a different standard that's help for us, 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:42.399 you know, and it's easier to not have to, um, 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:44.720 you know, have five bags when a guy brings a 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.440