1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Quest Left Show is a production of iHeart Radio. Ladies 2 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Welcome to the Quest Loft Show. I cannot 3 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: come up with enough superlatives to describe. 4 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 2: The gift that our guest today possesses. 5 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: Occasionally, in private, I will rant about my disdain and 6 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: dissatisfaction with the state of what we. 7 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: Call music today. 8 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: But in twenty twenty two, when I received my Grammy ballot, 9 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: and you know, I'm looking at names of people that 10 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: I know personally, people that I've played with, people that 11 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: I'm friends with, Anita mar Apollo, Dommy and j D. Beck, 12 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: Lotto Man, Skin Money Long, Toby in a wigway, Molly 13 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: Tuttle wet Leg named them all. However, I chose the 14 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: right option when voting for the Best New Artist award, 15 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 1: and that is our guest today. 16 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 2: Welcome miss Joy to the show. How are you? 17 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: I'm well, walk with me just five minutes before when 18 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: you know your cat? Do you know who's like presenting 19 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: your category? 20 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: Like are you aware of these things? Oh? So you 21 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 2: had no idea, like when it's coming up in the. 22 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 3: And I was just coming from the red carpet, and 23 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 3: so I was a little disheveled because of what happened 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 3: earlier in the day. I had to change my outfit. 25 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 3: I had my little brother with me as my date, 26 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 3: and wait outfit was wearing. That was my second outfit. 27 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 3: It was only for the pretail, you know what I'm saying. 28 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 3: It was only for the live stream portion, right, and 29 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 3: it had to change, you know, until five minutes before. 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 3: I'm trying to get my seat and all these seat 31 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 3: fillers in my seat, So I couldn't really hate that 32 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 3: I couldn't get to my seat until the next commercial break. 33 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 3: But me and my little brother. Of course, it was 34 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 3: the anniversary, fiftieth anniversary a hip hop. I think that for. 35 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 2: Me really, that was a nightmare for me together, Okay, Rhymes. 36 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 3: Is on stage quienla tifa? It was, I mean it was. 37 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 3: We were having so much fun. So five minutes before 38 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 3: I was just like, there's no way this night is 39 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 3: even happening, Like this is amazing. 40 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 2: So you walked in right when the metal was happening. 41 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: No, I was like a couple of minutes before a 42 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 3: couple of minutes Okay, there was still some other awards 43 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 3: being given out, so yeah, I. 44 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: Was real for you. 45 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: I was there at the very beginning when I believe 46 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: Bad Bunny started the the telecast and he's dancing through 47 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: the audience and if you saw the layout of the 48 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: you know they have these like elegant cocktail tables. 49 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 3: With didn't really eat. 50 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, she came, I don't know, like it was given that. 51 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're trying to write exactly, and so somehow the 52 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: producer of the show, Jesse Collins, Now as you explained, 53 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: it was, you know, hip Hop's fiftieth anniversary and the 54 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: Roots put together. 55 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: This eleven minute presentation. The thing is is. 56 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: Because the the elaborate, sort of sprawling arrangement of the 57 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: whole thing, it's not a thing where it's just like 58 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: a band playing something and we can make adjustments later. 59 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: Like we're on a clock, like the the light people 60 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: have their cues for how it's going to go, the dancers, everything, 61 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: so everything's on a clock. And you know, I'm sitting 62 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: there watching Bad Bunny before him and my phone's going 63 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: off and it's like literally like nine one one, like 64 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: and I'm looking and I'm being told that Lil Wayne 65 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: has just dropped out. 66 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: Of the performance. No way, he just took his ball 67 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: and went home. 68 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: He had an altercation between some security person whatever. 69 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 2: It was like, well I'm going. 70 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: Home, damn, and like Barack Obama couldn't make him turn back. 71 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: And the thing is is that now I'm sitting in 72 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: the audience and bad bunnies like dancing on all the 73 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: dancers and everything, and so I can't get up with 74 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: less than an hour on the clock to figure out 75 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: what plan B is going to bring. Because it's a 76 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: live show, somebody has to let the light person know 77 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: that whatever we have designated between four minutes and twenty 78 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: seconds and six minutes and five seconds has to be edited, 79 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: like you gotta go to the teleprompter person. You gotta 80 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: go through like five different people. 81 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 2: We fixed that. So no, Millie, We're fine. 82 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: And then Future decides to drop out no because he 83 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: lost Album. 84 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 2: Of the Year to Kenchrick Labarn geez. 85 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: He's like I'm going home, and it's like, dude, you 86 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: got jeez. And this is with like mere seconds left. 87 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: So right now I will say getting through that nightmare 88 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: seeing you when Best New Artist, which yes I voted 89 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: for you, but I kind of felt like it was 90 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: a hell Mary throw from all the way in and 91 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: a miracle might happen because you know, you had a 92 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: stiff competition there, but I couldn't have been more happy 93 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: as if it happened to me. 94 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 2: So for you, though, like were you in your right mind? 95 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 2: That day was? 96 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 3: It was just it was just such an emotional weekend. 97 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 3: This is my first time at the Grammys, and so 98 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 3: I naturally brought my entire family what felt like, and 99 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 3: we stayed in this Airbnb right across the way from 100 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 3: Quincy Jones's house. So we felt very much fresh, Prince 101 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 3: of bel Air, very you know, we feel very It 102 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 3: felt like such a very special and I got the 103 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 3: chance to perform and be in LA and being all 104 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 3: these Circle See artists I only ever seen on TV. 105 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 3: So yeah, the whole the whole weekend was insane, and 106 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 3: so being there with my family, with my little brother, 107 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 3: I don't know. I wasn't expecting it. I know everybody 108 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: probably says that, but I really wasn't because all well, 109 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 3: I just I had just released the album that I 110 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: was nominated for that day two months prior, two and 111 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 3: a half months prior, I had just signed with a 112 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 3: big label, and so there were a lot of things, 113 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 3: there were a lot of firsts, and so I wasn't 114 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 3: expecting that to be one of them, the nomination much 115 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: less the the win. So it's just I'm just grateful 116 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 3: for it. 117 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: Were you kind of on the impression that no Morton 118 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: would know who you were or like not really familiar, see. 119 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 3: Absolutely, because I was just starting. I mean yeah, up 120 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 3: until up until that point, I only had two albums. 121 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 3: I had never you know, it was my first tours, 122 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 3: first performances, all that kind of stuff. 123 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 1: So yeah, but you gotta look at the totality of 124 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: this situation, like you're saying, I was just starting, like 125 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: kind of like a first time house painter, like you know, well, 126 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: I was just doing that, but you're sort of forgetting 127 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: what gift you're bringing to the table, which. 128 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: Kind of leads to my next thing. 129 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: You know, as a New Yorker, I will say that 130 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: ninety percent of the time. All right, this is the 131 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: worst one percent humble brag I'll ever say. 132 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 2: I'm always driving in New York. I'm not a. 133 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: Subway in New Yorker, so people don't see me as 134 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: a real New Yorker until I'm a subway. 135 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 2: Okay, so good. 136 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: So the thing is is that I'm always listening to 137 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: Wbgoye and that's our beloved local MPR jazz station for 138 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: the tri State and some other parts of the country 139 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: that can get it syndicated. And I always joke with 140 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: my high school buddy, Christian McBride. Yes, Christian has always 141 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: been seventy years old, even imagine a fifteen. 142 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: That's what you two have in common, both of you. 143 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 2: Both of you have. 144 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: Ancestors trapped inside you, some epogenetic thing. And usually if 145 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: something moves me, I will exam it. I have no 146 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: shame whatsoever mine. I will exam everything, because that's how 147 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: you learn something new. 148 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: This is weird. 149 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: On the pop side of things, it's always Bieber Oh, 150 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: Like I'll be in CVS at two in the morning 151 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: and then like, oh this is cool and I. 152 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: Look damn right. 153 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: So on the jazz side of things, literally like after 154 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: the eighth time. 155 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 3: Oh my god, Chris, I'm like. 156 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: Yo, that like, if ixam eight songs, then that means 157 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: I really must be a fan of this person. 158 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 2: Yo. 159 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: They love you and that's how why I love you. 160 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 1: So basically, like I had a whole narrative in my head. 161 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, so one named samar Joy. 162 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 1: She has a voice sounding like this, how come this 163 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: person had to been singing for at least forty years, 164 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: so I kind of thought we were in the same 165 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: age bracket. 166 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 3: Internally. 167 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: Literally in my mind, I was like, Wow, she's easily 168 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: forty five forty, Like I really thought there was a 169 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: five on the left digit of your age, right, there's. 170 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 3: The two in front of it. That's that's the only difference. 171 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: When I'm gonna tell you a level of depression four 172 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: days ago, when I really wanted to, like, I mean, 173 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: I knew everything. I knew all the music and all 174 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: that stuff, and so I just wanted to do general 175 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: brush up things that I didn't. 176 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 2: Know, like oh, where's she born? And all that stuff. 177 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: And so when I went to Wikipedia and I saw 178 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: that my first five albums are older than you, oh 179 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: my god. It's a level of depression I never felt before, 180 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: but also a level of ease because I was absolutely 181 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: certain that anyone I tag gen Z or Jen Alpha 182 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: just has an absolute disdain for anything in the rearview 183 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: mirror of music. How at what age did you notice 184 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 1: that your voice isn't like anyone else's. 185 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 2: When did this voice first materialize? 186 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 3: I guess I started singing and imitating what was already 187 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 3: around me. My family is from Philly. They have many 188 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 3: roots in Philly. My dad to Overbrook High School and 189 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 3: Strawberry Mansion. My mom is from South Philly, and my dad, 190 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 3: my grandfather, you know, they started. My grandfather and my grandmother, 191 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 3: Eldergowyron Ruth mclein did started a group called the Savettes 192 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 3: of Philadelphia and so hearing their recordings from nineteen sixty 193 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 3: two nineteen sixty six on albums like the Sensational Savettes 194 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 3: and Mercy Hearing my dad in his home studio writing 195 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 3: songs from its very beginning to when it was finally finished, 196 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 3: Singing to and from school, listening to my mom's music, 197 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 3: Luther Vandros and Stevie Wonder and you know, all of 198 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 3: these different influences. My dad is a bass player too. 199 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 2: Could they trick you into the family business? 200 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 3: It was definitely, you know, I was absorbing what was 201 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 3: around me. You know. I listened to the Brothers Johnson, 202 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,199 Speaker 3: I listened to the Spinners and the Whispers and all 203 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 3: this kind of so all of this I was kind 204 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 3: of I don't know, I was just absorbing it. And 205 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 3: I think because of that, maybe I just had a 206 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 3: certain ear, certain. 207 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: Obsession maybe with the reason why I'm asking that is 208 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: because Okay, so I too grew up in a similar situation. 209 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: My dad was an oldies duop singer from the fifties, 210 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: and when I was in first grade, I went to 211 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: a performing arts high school and our homework assignment, we 212 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: all had to purchase songs in The Key of Life 213 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: came out the week that I started first grade. So 214 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: we all it was like, have your mommy and daddy 215 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: buy you this record, and we brought the record. We 216 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: all brought it in the next day, and for music 217 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: appreciation class we read the liner notes. You know, this 218 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: is the first time you saw like sprawling liner notes 219 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And so the thing is, the 220 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: next homework assignment was bring your favorite forty five in 221 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: and your favorite single. And you know, the kids in 222 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: my class are bringing. 223 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: In stuff of the day. 224 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: I come in with like Frankie Lymon and the teenagers 225 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: like Wider Fools fall in Love from like nineteen fifty something, 226 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: and I, honest to god, thought it was new music, 227 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 1: like my parents. My dad tricked me to thinking that 228 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: do wop and early rock was new. So I'm a 229 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: six year old that knows who chuck berry Is and 230 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: Bo Diddley and all this stuff in the way that 231 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: my teachers laughed like they were so amused, like. 232 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 2: Oh, no, this is music. Well, we were. 233 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: Kids a mirror and were feeling like, oh, they're bringing 234 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: in disco ducking y'all making me bringing like I was 235 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: angry at my parents for tricking me, like I later 236 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: found out, like, oh, there's old music, and there's my music. 237 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: And then finally my sister started feeding me what new 238 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: music was. But so for you though, like just typically 239 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,719 Speaker 1: that is what was heard in the household or just okay, and. 240 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 3: Then what was whatever was on the radio. I mean, 241 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 3: I think because my family, at least they made it 242 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 3: look so easy. When I was younger, I just wanted 243 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 3: to be able to harmonize with anything, imitate any run 244 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 3: or riff or anything like that. And I also have 245 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 3: to slide this in my uncle. I forget how how 246 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 3: we're related. My uncle in law produced the album Suddenly 247 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 3: by Billy Ocean. He like wrote the whole thing Keith Diamond. 248 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 3: So I was just listening and absorbing and. 249 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: Keith Diamond, Yeah god damn, okay, I know shit, Okay. 250 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 3: So I was listening to his music. I was listening 251 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 3: to my dad's, my grandparents, so a combination of that 252 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 3: and whatever was popular, so you. 253 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 1: Lived in a gospel Christian household that did not penalize you. 254 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 2: For listening to secular music. 255 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: I always wanted to meet the generational chain breaking because 256 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: for a lot of other artists born in the seventies, 257 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: and I mean the Clarksist is probably the best example 258 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: where they're literally making up p funk songs and Stevie 259 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: Wonder songs because they can't listen to that in their 260 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: own households. And so you know, I always wondered, and 261 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: I asked them, like when you guys are doing an 262 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: overdose of the Holy Ghost, Like do they not know 263 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: that's Doctor Funkenstein by Parliament? 264 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: Like no one in your church is like objection, they're. 265 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 3: Not listening to that. So you know, if they knew 266 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 3: what it was, then maybe it would cause a problem. 267 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: But I always wondered if there is ever going to 268 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: be a day in which a Christian. 269 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 2: House is not going to be somewhat overbearing in what 270 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 2: you receive. And so okay, I think my yeah. 271 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 3: My dad definitely broke that because he was a bass player, 272 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 3: so he was just you know, He's born in nineteen 273 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 3: sixty and during the seventies he's learning how to play 274 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 3: bass and listening to all these things on the radio, 275 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 3: trying to learn the song before it goes off and 276 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 3: before his parents get home. I think he also tells 277 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 3: a story of how he was in church playing for 278 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 3: the first time and he played a Rick James bassline 279 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 3: and the drummer was, yo, you gotta stop playing that man. 280 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: I played right right. 281 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got in trouble many times, like me coming 282 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: to the age of hip hop and drumming in my church. 283 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: If I start playing like top Building by the audio too, 284 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: or you would know as the drum beat is Real 285 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: Love by Mary J. Lodge or whatever like, then the 286 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: elders would start if the kids would start doing the 287 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: whop or whatever, like start dancing, and the elders look 288 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: at me like you're playing secular music, and I just 289 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: had to sort of morph back into a boring drummer. 290 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 2: Okay. 291 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: So I would like to talk about the Ellington Festival 292 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: competition at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Can you walk me 293 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: through that? What song did you sing? That Wild Christian? 294 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: And who else was part of the Do you know 295 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: who was part of. 296 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 2: The that one. 297 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 3: It was actually I know what you're saying there. I 298 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 3: actually did an essentially Ellington side thing when I was 299 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 3: in high school. The competition that Christian McBride was a 300 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 3: part of was the Syrevon competition, and that was when 301 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 3: I was junior in college, Okay, And during the Seravon competition, 302 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: McBride was a judge. Monifa Brown I think from WBGO, 303 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 3: Dede Bridgewater, Jane mon Height and my former a producer 304 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 3: and my former manager was a part of the judges 305 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 3: in the lineup. And that was my first competition ever. Definitely, 306 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 3: I was definitely nervous because I had only just started 307 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 3: learning about jazz when I got to college, so I 308 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,199 Speaker 3: didn't feel that I was I didn't feel like I 309 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 3: was ready yet, you know, like everything that I was 310 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: learning didn't necessarily come out at the same time. Like 311 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 3: it took a lot of I don't know, I don't 312 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 3: know the right word ingestion is probably not the right word, 313 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 3: but it just took a lot of learning and a 314 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 3: lot of listening before it would actually become a part 315 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 3: of who I was, like become a part of my 316 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 3: language and my musical identity. But I tried anyway, and 317 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 3: thankfully McBride in them saw a potential. 318 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: Okay, so let's go to that. Let's go to two 319 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: thousand and nine when you're ten. Okay, have you ever 320 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:49,239 Speaker 1: been to karaoke night? 321 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 2: No? Not? 322 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 3: At that point was yeah, no, no no. 323 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 2: But I just mean, like, do you have. 324 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: A brush in the shapur no everyday person voice? 325 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 3: Oh, I would say, so I would say it was 326 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 3: a little underdeveloped because then I was still trying to 327 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 3: copy my dad and my my parents and my my grandparents. 328 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 2: I meant. 329 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 3: And at that point, I think two thousand nine was 330 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 3: when Michael Jackson died, so I was like just becoming 331 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 3: obsessed with him. And uh yeah, I was just starting 332 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 3: to get into musical theater in school too, and performing 333 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 3: in front of people, being in choir. So I was 334 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 3: doing that kind of thing, you know, just trying to 335 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 3: trying to sing at every at every possible opportunity, right. 336 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that when you're emoting down or whatnot, 337 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: not like, are you not noticing people or like. 338 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 3: My dad definitely. I remember he called his brother and 339 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 3: my uncle one day and he was like, she sang 340 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 3: for me, my daughter sang for me. You got to hear, 341 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 3: and so I think I sang his eyes on the sparrow, and. 342 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,959 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Dad put in a classic. Wait, I'm 343 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 2: gonna tell you something. I'm gonna tell you something. 344 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: The number one clause at my will don't say that, 345 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: So I do not want his eyes on the spat. 346 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 1: Can I tell you how many funerals I've been to, 347 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 1: even a non Christians like Yore's. 348 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 2: There's I'm not even having a funeral. That's how many 349 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 2: times I've heard his eyes on his barrel. 350 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 3: It's a classic, I know, but Laura Hill brought it 351 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 3: to a new generation. Now everybody you know, including myself, 352 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 3: tries to sing it like her. 353 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 2: So we have sister act to to blame for this. 354 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 3: No, I mean not to blame. I think I think 355 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 3: it should be credited it. 356 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: I did not see his sister Act too, so thus 357 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. That's why I made it come back. Okay, 358 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: it's a long story. I'm sorry I didn't see. 359 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 3: There's a lot of things you don't like. We need 360 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 3: to know everything. 361 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 2: I'm plus love. My name is love. My name is love. Ok. 362 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 3: You know his eyes on this barrow? Got it? 363 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 2: Yeah? 364 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: So in case I passed before. If they come to you, 365 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: someone's trying to control. 366 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 3: Me, You're come in a white robe and just descend 367 00:19:58,920 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 3: upon the building. 368 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 2: At the age of three or four. It wasn't like this, my. 369 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 3: Dad Okay, sorry, sorry, my dad does have a recording, 370 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 3: a recording of me on cassette singing you don't have 371 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 3: to call by usher, But that was just because it 372 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 3: was on the radio. 373 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: I guess were you matching his tone? Like were you 374 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: always this out? 375 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 3: Definitely wasn't saying the words, but I think I was 376 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 3: an altoe got it? 377 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 2: Okay. 378 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: I think around ninety seven is when the roots started 379 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: this idea of doing jam sessions in my living room, 380 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: and you know. 381 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 2: The first generation of like I think like eleven. 382 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: To twelve record deals were born out of that first gathering. 383 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: Like this is where Kendrick the Family Soul, Jazzy Fat Nasties, 384 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: Jill Scott who's working in retail Blao was in the 385 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: eighth grade music worked at the pizza shop. Like I'm like, 386 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: we're letting the pizza guy get on the microphone now, 387 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: Like this is what. 388 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 2: We're show time, Apollo, this is what we're doing. Wow. 389 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: But at one point my boy was like, Yo, you know, 390 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: my daughter's best friend has a voice like you. 391 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 2: Wouldn't believe and da da da da da. But she's like, 392 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 2: you know, eight, like nine years old. 393 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, we can't have nine years 394 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: old like in this environment or in the nightclub or whatever. 395 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 1: But sure enough, like four years straight, Jazmine Sullivan's dad 396 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: would drive her to the five spot or to Wetlands 397 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: or to my crib. She'd sleep in the back of 398 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: the car, and when it was the time first singing 399 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 1: three songs, he come in, but with that voice with 400 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: like nine years old but be an adult voice. And 401 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: so I'm so amazed that when people get that gift early, 402 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: do you have a ritual in taking care of your instrument. 403 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,199 Speaker 3: I learned that in college. I think that because it 404 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 3: was my first time learning jazz. It was also my 405 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 3: first time kind of taking professional voice lessons. So honestly, 406 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 3: I just I look up different voice exercises ranging in difficulty, 407 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 3: and I decide what I want to work on, whether 408 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 3: it's intonation, whether it's breath support, whether it's flexibility, and 409 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 3: I just I do that, you know, and then if 410 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 3: I want to work on any other areas like my 411 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 3: piano like harmony or you know, things like that. I'll 412 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 3: study it, but it's usually just voice exercises to strengthen 413 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 3: any weaknesses I might have that I'm working on. That's 414 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:27,959 Speaker 3: kind of how I maintain. 415 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, speaking of Michael Jackson, have you ever gone 416 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: on YouTube to listen to his vocal warm ups with 417 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: Seth Riggs. 418 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 3: I don't think I have. I've heard like isolated tracks 419 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 3: and stuff like from his studio sessions, but I never 420 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 3: get his warm ups. 421 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, literally, I believe on Is it still there? 422 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 2: Yes it is. 423 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 1: It's thirty minutes long and it's literally Michael Jackson two 424 00:22:54,480 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: seconds of it. So you can literally train with Michael Jackson. 425 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,239 Speaker 1: He's training with and doing like all those like do 426 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: you have a actual vocal trainer or do you just 427 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: do this on your own? 428 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 3: Not at the moment, but everything that I learned about 429 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 3: vocal maintenance I learned while I was in college from 430 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 3: my two teachers. I had a classical teacher and a 431 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 3: jazz voice teacher. 432 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm still. 433 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: Processing that you discovered jazz in college. So how old 434 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: were you when music hits you? Not jazz, but music 435 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: like just in general, like what's your first musical memory. 436 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 3: My dad got me an iPod nano and he uploaded 437 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 3: it with all of his music, just like right, And honestly, 438 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 3: it was a bootleg one. I don't even think it 439 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 3: was a real Apple product. I think it was like 440 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 3: when you get from the corner store or something. 441 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 2: Like Kobe, like the Kobe brand or. 442 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 3: Oh no, it's literally just a little orange, you know. 443 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 3: He just he downloaded so much music. My uncle too, 444 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 3: he's a music fanatic, and he had an iPod filled 445 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 3: with so much stuff, and so he just he just 446 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 3: put a whole bunch of music on my iPod nano 447 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 3: and I was listening to it, and I feel like 448 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 3: that's when I really started noticing how the instruments interact together, 449 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 3: especially the bass. Obviously because of him, but I was 450 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 3: listening to people like George Duke for the first time. 451 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 3: The song called Images of Us. I can remember being 452 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 3: on the bus, you know, on the way to school 453 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 3: or from school, and just wereplaying it over and over again. 454 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 3: Same with the Luther Records, Kiki Sheard I used to 455 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 3: listen to all the time. Shaka Yeah, I just I 456 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 3: listened to all of them. 457 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: So if you're discovering jazz in college in your senior 458 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,959 Speaker 1: year of high school, What do you think you're going 459 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: to go to college for? 460 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 3: I mean, I knew I wanted to sing, and so 461 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 3: at the time, I didn't have the money to go 462 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 3: to any of the big expensive schools, and obviously there's 463 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 3: not a where did you go gospel program? I went 464 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 3: to a state school called Sunny Purchase, and I didn't know. 465 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 3: I mean, the only programs, at least from what I saw, 466 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 3: that were available were either jazz voice or classical voice. 467 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 3: And I definitely didn't have the training to be a 468 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 3: classical vocalist. So I decided to just audition, you know, 469 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 3: for as many jazz voice programs as I could, and 470 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 3: a couple of schools. I also because I did this 471 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 3: program after school where they helped us, and so we 472 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 3: had to choose like six QUNI schools and four Sunnis 473 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 3: and like two private programs, and I just wanted to 474 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 3: make sure they had a vocal program, you know, even 475 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 3: if I didn't end up doing that, if I went 476 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,719 Speaker 3: into business or you know whatever. 477 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: So so you just wanted vocal as like an elective 478 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 1: or just like a SID. 479 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 3: To have, just to have because I didn't know. I 480 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 3: didn't fit into I guess a specific lane or esthetic. 481 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 3: I loved R and B, I love gospel, I love 482 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 3: so like, but I just I didn't know if I could, 483 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 3: if I had the I don't know if it's strength 484 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 3: of its tenacity, if it's anything. I just didn't know 485 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 3: if I could really pursue a career in doing this 486 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 3: because I don't know. I just didn't feel like I 487 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 3: had the guts. So I'm glad that I went to 488 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 3: the vocal program at Sydney Purchase because they helped me. 489 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: Okay, So at what point did you feel comfortable in 490 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: knowing that one I landed in the touchdown zone and like, 491 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: this is this is where I belong and I have 492 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,479 Speaker 1: a gift in zero to sixty. 493 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 2: Don't even give me that I'm still deciding. 494 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: No, I think I think my sophomore year of college, honestly, 495 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 3: because I auditioned with Blessed Assurance, and I think Route 496 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 3: sixty six because those are the only that was like 497 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 3: the only jazz song I knew at the time. I 498 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 3: didn't I hadn't heard Ella, I hadn't listened to Sarah, 499 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 3: I hadn't listened to Bird or did or anything. So 500 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 3: I was very new and very fresh, but I wanted 501 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 3: to learn. And I think my goal when I was 502 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 3: a freshman was like, even if I don't pursue jazz, 503 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 3: even if it doesn't end up being a career, I 504 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 3: still want to immerse myself in it and honestly just 505 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 3: be the best student I could be. But my sophomore year, 506 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 3: I had met so many other peers who were showing 507 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 3: me records, my teachers who were so passionate about it, 508 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 3: and who were playing on the scene. I started getting 509 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 3: like little gigs here and there, and so that's kind 510 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 3: of when I realized, like, Okay, I think I can 511 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,119 Speaker 3: do this. I think I can be a part of 512 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 3: this world without letting go of what has you know, 513 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 3: formed me and informed my music and my voice. All 514 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 3: this time, I'm just adding another layer onto my identity 515 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 3: as an artist. So I think that's when I was like, 516 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 3: you know earlier to start studying and. 517 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 1: Want listening me and the world, and like, we're grateful 518 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: that you made this eleventh hour decision for your life 519 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: to change all of our lives. So that said, I 520 00:27:54,920 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: want to give you sixty seconds to convince fewtre Samaraw 521 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: Joyce out there to really pursue their dream because I 522 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: also believe that as black people. 523 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 2: And it's changing. 524 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: I think it's really changing with your generation more than me. 525 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: Even though I was brought into a world of creativity, 526 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: most of us are sort of placed in fight or 527 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,959 Speaker 1: flight scenarios where it's like survival. I mean, I've come 528 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: from hip hop. 529 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 2: Hustle is our. 530 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: Favorite word, and hustling basically means like anything to survive. 531 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: I don't hear what it is, and we're just never 532 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: given the opportunity to dream and really think what is 533 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: it that I want to do and make last minute 534 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: decisions like. 535 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 2: Most of us. 536 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: I think the reason why I'm so like mind blown 537 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: that you made this pivotal decision at such a late 538 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: stage in life is because, I mean, literally, by the 539 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: age of four, I'm already in the family business, you know, 540 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: and it's more of a survival thing, you know, And 541 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: even as a teenager, I gotta get my family. 542 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 2: Out of here. I gotta get Hooker Crook. I got it. 543 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 2: I have to, and I manifested it. 544 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: But I would like you to convince because I'm certain 545 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: that there's someone on the edge of all right, let 546 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,719 Speaker 1: me go to business school because you know, I can 547 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: make it a cushy six figure your job there, or 548 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: I could take a risk and really do something that 549 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: I know. 550 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 2: I'm talk to me as if I'm on. 551 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 3: The Okay, sixty seconds you. 552 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 2: Say, Oh, it doesn't take that long. 553 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 3: Word let me see. Okay, I know you've been thinking 554 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 3: about this for a while. Yes, and I think the 555 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 3: fact that you wake up thinking about music, thinking about 556 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 3: your art is a sign that you should keep going 557 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 3: and keep investing in it. And just remember that it 558 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 3: takes time to be great. It doesn't take that much 559 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 3: time to be famous and get your little spotlight, but 560 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 3: it takes time to actually be great and invest in 561 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 3: yourself and develop your weaknesses into strengths and become a 562 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 3: complete person, a whole person, so that you can be 563 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 3: a whole artist. So don't shortcut, take your time, have experiences, 564 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 3: meet people who are either of the same mindset or 565 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 3: can help you elevate. And always remember, if this is 566 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 3: what you're waking up thinking about, going to bed thinking about, 567 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 3: then this is what you need to do by any 568 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 3: means necessary. 569 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 2: Oh I'm not allowed to bast the table. Yes, I 570 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 2: appreciate that. Thank you. 571 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 3: I feel like you're going to grow up and pursue your. 572 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 2: Dreams now, I absolutely am, Yes, I do. 573 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: No, I'm serious, like I think it's important for all 574 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: of us. Like to me, that's the business that I'm 575 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: in right now in this part of my life, is 576 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: to make sure that that happens, that people understand that 577 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: their dreams are way more important than safety. We've done 578 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: safety for centuries. Let's try dreaming a little bit. So 579 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: you definitely feel like you made the right decision. 580 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 3: Yes, okay, absolutely, beauty, because I feel like I'm comfortable 581 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 3: singing this music and interpreting it in my own way. 582 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 3: But I also feel like I have so much growing 583 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 3: to do, gotch and so much to explore. And we 584 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 3: get the benefit of seeing artists that we love and 585 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 3: seeing their entire discographies in front of us and seeing 586 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 3: their journey and seeing what's possible. So I'm looking forward 587 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 3: to seeing what's possible and how I can take it 588 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 3: even further. 589 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: God, do you have a morning routine? 590 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: No, or what's what's the what's the first thing you 591 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: did with the first thirty minutes of your day today? 592 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 3: The first thirty minutes of my day today. I'm not 593 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 3: gonna lie to snooze my alarm like like at least 594 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 3: four times. But after that, you said an hour early, 595 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 3: just so, just because by the time I actually do 596 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 3: wake up, I'll be ready. 597 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 2: Gotcha. 598 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 3: Then I like to stew apples and put it over 599 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 3: yogurt because I'm trying to get on my on my 600 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 3: healthy kick after being on the road for the past year. 601 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 2: Got it. 602 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: Hotel room, serious, spaghetti bowl names too much. 603 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 3: For me, and I just I put on my music 604 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 3: and get ready pretty much. 605 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 2: Okay. What is the greatest cereal of all time? Hmmm, 606 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 2: I told you it's rapid fire time. 607 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 3: When I was growing up, it was honey bunches of oats. 608 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 3: You could not tear me away. Oh and uh Captain 609 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 3: crunch and corn pops. That was my joint. 610 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 2: You said the magic word. What is your favorite album 611 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 2: that you ever purchased? 612 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't think I've purchased you. I 613 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 3: will say. 614 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: You started with I was born When I was born 615 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: in ninety nine, I know, I know, okay. 616 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 3: Loud, okay, the first. I haven't purchased an album at 617 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 3: least I don't think. But one of my dad's friends 618 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 3: gave me a bunch of his vinyl and uh, what 619 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 3: was it? It was an Algebra record. It's pink, I 620 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 3: can't remember. Well, yes, that was like one of the 621 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 3: first records I started. I played and George Benson Love 622 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 3: Times Love, Give Me the Night. 623 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 2: Nice? Okay, okay, Well that was my next question. 624 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: What was the album that someone put you onto that 625 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: you otherwise would have known about? 626 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 3: An album that somebody put me onto that nobody else? 627 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 2: Uh? 628 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 3: Voodoo? 629 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 2: Really? Yeah? Okay, I didn't know. 630 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 3: My brother started very late. 631 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. 632 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: I was about to say, you were We were still 633 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: finishing when I was born. 634 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 2: We started when your parents were dating. Like, that's how 635 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 2: long the Angelo takes. 636 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 3: No, my brother was listening to it and I still 637 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 3: didn't really get put on until a couple of years 638 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 3: after that. 639 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so what's the bravest thing that you've 640 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:51,719 Speaker 1: ever done? 641 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 3: I went parasailing? 642 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 2: What is that? Like? 643 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 3: It was insane because I think we were in the 644 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 3: south of France, was an off day from tour, and 645 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 3: I was like, let's just do it. And I was 646 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 3: up there and I was like, I really hope I 647 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 3: don't fall because I cannot swim, but this is a 648 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 3: beautiful view. I can't swim. I don't have a license, 649 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 3: like I have a lot to do this winter. I 650 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,760 Speaker 3: have a lot to accomplish. Oh man, these are goals. 651 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 3: Once I'm home, once I have a solid five weeks, 652 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 3: I'm going to do everything I can to improve. 653 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, south of France. 654 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: When I went to Nice for the first time, I 655 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: didn't go to parasaling, but I went Jesky not for you. 656 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 2: Wait, you want parasaling. 657 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 3: I need about seven life jackets because I promise I 658 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 3: will not make it well. 659 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: This is next year, because you're going to be on 660 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: the circuit for a long time. 661 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,799 Speaker 2: So okay. When you sing who is your north Star? 662 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 2: Who do you channel? 663 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 3: It can be a combination of things from phrase to phrase, honestly, 664 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:58,760 Speaker 3: Like sometimes I want to sing really legato and dramatic 665 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,879 Speaker 3: and sort of operatic, and so think of Sarah von 666 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,360 Speaker 3: or somebody like Jesse Norman. If I'm thinking more on 667 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 3: the on the powerful side, I think Aretha Franklin or 668 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 3: Mahelia sophisticated and elegant. Maybe Nancy Wilson and Abby Lincoln 669 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 3: and Betty Carter. 670 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,239 Speaker 2: Sorry, the gods, I got it. The god. What is 671 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 2: the first song that you ever committed to memory. 672 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 3: I think O Happy Day, probably because we had to 673 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 3: sing it in church for Easter. 674 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 2: How a were you? 675 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 3: I might have been like seven years old and you 676 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 3: were singing lead? Yeah, I had a verse. 677 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 2: Okay, so you had a deep, rich voice even at 678 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 2: the age of seven. 679 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 3: I mean I could say yes right now. But if 680 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 3: they found a recording. 681 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 2: You weren't sing you were singing in you. 682 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 3: But I wasn't down low like Luthor either. 683 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 2: I was. 684 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,440 Speaker 3: I was somewhere in the middle. 685 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 2: Okay. 686 00:35:54,560 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 1: So no, okay, I got all right. So you're gonna 687 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: make me a mixtape for road traveling? What five songs 688 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: are you choosing? 689 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 3: What five songs? Okay? Who do you Love? By Bernard Right, 690 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 3: Carmen McCrae's version of sprinking really hanging up the most? 691 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 2: Um, yeah, you should be making beats. 692 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,759 Speaker 3: What's the third? What's the third? What was the third? 693 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 3: Maybe Miles Davis. He has a song called the Maids 694 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 3: of Cadiz on an album with Gil Evans. That's really good. No, no, no, 695 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 3: it's it's I think it's called Plus nineteen. No, it's 696 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 3: called Miles Ahead. I think ahead, Okay. The fourth would 697 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 3: be Grooven High by by bird By Charlie Parker, okay, 698 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 3: and the fifth would be I Know you, I Live 699 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:44,799 Speaker 3: you Chaka Khan. 700 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 1: So wait, as a jazz student, was it required of 701 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 1: you to memorize the entire fake book? 702 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,720 Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, no, I just listened to records. 703 00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:01,720 Speaker 1: All right, Wow, you're just a sponge all right, people. 704 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 1: I love this discussion with Samara Joy so much that 705 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: we ended up talking for nearly two hours. So as 706 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 1: we ease into the new year, we're breaking the conversation 707 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 1: into two parts. 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