WEBVTT - Chante Moore 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:00.960 Speaks to the planning. 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:02.520 I go by the name of Charlamagne of God, and 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.920 guess what, I can't wait to see y'all at the 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.319 third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. That's right, We're coming 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.360 back to Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, April twenty six at Poleman 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.800 Yards and it's hosted by none other than Decisions Decisions, 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.560 Mandy B and Wheezy. Okay, we got the R and 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.319 B Money podcast with taking Jay Valentine. We got the 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.880 Woman of All podcasts with Sarah Jake Roberts. We got 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.479 Good Mom's Bad Choices. Carrie Champion will be there with 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.440 her next sports podcast and the Trap Nerds podcast with 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.200 more to be announced. 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My name is Tank Valentine 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.640 and this is the R and B Money Podcast, the 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.080 authority on all things. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:14.120 R and B. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.959 Come on, talk to him, talk to him. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:19.319 I'm sick of your shiit. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:21.959 What the hell is going on? 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.800 I want to hear your vocal if they got them, 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.040 I want to hear your train. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:40.520 Raw fleck footed, turn the machines. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.959 Off, Darphin though Daulphin. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:45.800 Vocal. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:49.800 They know who are today? 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.400 They know yeah, yeah, because I got the same clothes twice. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.920 They I don't do that, only do that when we 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:56.840 gotta double up. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:05.640 Have not seen a combination of beauty and gift and 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.359 intellect ever. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.080 Standing on that. She's in the building. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:29.679 My my mind, Chante, it's in the building, damn it, Shante. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:40.600 You can fucking sing and no fucking sing, no question, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:42.960 no questions. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:43.880 Listen. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:49.560 We're gonna get into the history of it. But we 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.440 we were on the show. I think this was the 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.920 b T war like to look at her like tumble 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.919 as well. But you you're an athlete too. I didn't 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.040 know you had that. You put that one hand down 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:13.200 and it's still carrying them and you proceed what was 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.400 this twenty twenty two? You proceeded to show us the 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.560 difference man. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.240 That remember is like its yesterday. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.160 I was like, you hear this and it was like 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.280 the room was even even the room was confused, like 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.120 what the fuck is going on right now? Yeah, that's 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:40.520 what's going on right now. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.160 And it was like, let's do it again. 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.400 Because I fell down and listen. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.920 Cool, cool, no problem, no problem. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:56.560 Oh you want it again. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:57.760 You do this all day. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:02.200 I can do this all all night because this is 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:03.000 what I do. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:09.160 Yeah, I just I just I You're You're you are, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.160 you are what you are, You're you're a really you're gifted, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:19.120 of course by immeasurably right. But the work that you 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:24.640 have put into your gift speaks volumes because every time 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:33.520 you open your mouth, it is like see and I listen, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.680 and I've known you for such a long time, you're 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.400 like you're like you're like the coolest, nicest person. And 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.839 maybe Stephen feels differently, maybe you show him another side, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:48.279 but maybe you can tell us about the stories. Man, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.440 I'm telling you, bro, he was in the crowd other night. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.760 But it's like that gift, that beauty, that everything that 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.960 comes along with you for you to have always been 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.919 as gracious and welcoming and awesome of a person that 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.760 you are every time that I've come in contact with 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.400 you for the last fifteen, twenty years, whatever, it's just incredible, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.640 just incredible. Like I come from a place where, you 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.120 know what I'm saying, if you got all the tools 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.200 as a woman, oh you stuck all the way up? 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.560 What you know? 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.040 You're hey girl, hey whatever, you're like. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.200 I come I come from. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:31.480 That, no super turned up and you've just with with 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.760 everything that you have, but all the gifts God has 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.320 given you, you've never been that and that's I think 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.039 that's that's the other layer that's even more awesome about you. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.159 So I just I just wanted to. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.720 Make sure we throw those flowers at you at the 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:51.240 top of the pod so people can understand who and what. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.120 Is sitting in the. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.919 Hot seat now high school? 0:05:58.920 --> 0:05:59.360 Where is this? 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.839 Like, it's kind of I feel like you've been singing 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.440 since you were like one and a half. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:07.240 That's just my guess. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.400 If I had to guess, I would say she was 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:10.880 holding harmonies it too. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.240 Well. I love to see First of all, thank you 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:16.080 for having me here. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.679 Course course you're telling people I used to be chasing 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:21.000 you down. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:30.280 I wondering I'm just offing to a boulevard I'm like, what's. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:35.280 Up, and we were like, yes, yes, so thank you 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:40.200 for having me here. I appreciate that singing. I love music, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.680 So it's always been something that I played. It was 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:49.120 on a little phonograph, it was on the little album 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.280 thing my godmother got me, uh to play records on 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.680 and I play them and sing and dance. And what 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.000 is not commonly known is that my family was all music. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.159 My mother saying. My father's a pianist, he's still living. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.640 My mother's passed on. My sister is the most talented 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.880 out of all of us. She sings and plays guitar, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.480 she plays the piano, she can play the drums, She writes, 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.239 she draws, she does everything. She told her sister kind. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.920 Of like that. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.560 It was a lot, and that's what it was when 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.880 I was growing up. My brothers was a drummer. He 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.040 passed on as well, but he's played with DJ Rogers 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:28.760 and the guys from Crouches, all the Crotches anyway, Yeah, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.720 he was yeah, yeah, And so I was the baby 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.080 of the family, and so the it was just you know, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.520 shut up, just shut up, chante because I was always 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.960 running with the camera and running. I want to play. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.880 I want to, I'll sing it. They're like, baby, just 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.240 bet So. My mother got me a tape recorder when 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.600 I was about seven. She was like, this is so 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.840 you can hear how bad you sound, baby wow. And 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.920 it's okay because I never took offense to any of it. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.560 They were like shout up. I was like, I'll just 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.600 go to my room. You got to I don't, I 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.400 don't care. And so I went, and there's tapes of 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.560 me actually on one of my albums. I have this 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.640 thing where I'm talking in the middle. I shot he's 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.720 got a man whatever album that is smums Mine and 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.080 you've seen said Chantette seven. It was literally me going 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.160 so you were the only thing I could talk to 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:25.000 was you, And so I'm just talking into my papercorder. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.679 And I still had that tape. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:32.720 I still yeah wow. But I wasn't the singer. I 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.720 was in the choir. At twelve, they let me be 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.160 in the choir, but I was just in the choir. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.400 I wasn't the soloist. My sister was the one who 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.800 would sing and slay them. My mom sang before my 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.880 dad preached, and she'd slay it. And it was. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:51.360 Just like, yeah, I didn't know we really followed that 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.439 saying all these years, I didn't know that like we 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.160 followed that same. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:57.680 Either. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.000 I couldn't play my cousin's. 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:05.960 Drum, get off that piano drill like and my cousin Keisha, 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.760 my first cousin, she was the soloist. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.640 She was the one that got all the solos. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.000 My mama sang, my grandmama sang all my big cousin, 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.679 she has all of them, was saying becausein father, they 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.640 was the singers, and I was the kid trying to 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.920 just get a little She's get a little peace, like 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.120 you could just get here. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.360 I'd sneaking to the what they was saying. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.520 And as you said that that, like here, how bad 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.200 you sound? I had a solo one time. I had 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.560 fought for this solo. My grandmother fought for this solo 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.120 for me, and and I sang this solo, Jesus are 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.720 the center of my joy in front of the whole 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.640 state Congress, which my grandmother was the diana, and I'm 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.000 singing my lead, and the two other older guys singing 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.439 lead with me, and and toward toward the middle of 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.160 the song, I just felt like I was getting boxed 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.600 out from the microphone. You know, ain't know what that was. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:58.720 I was like, well, let me just sing to their 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.160 shoulders and maybe they'll get through. And after that, you know, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:04.960 were walking to the car with my anti Betty got 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.880 arrest her soul. She was the one who was teaching 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.240 us how to sing Junior Crawle. I was like, anti, baby, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.760 I'll sound. She said, you was off, Baby was real. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.199 Honest, okay. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:19.800 Didn't deter me when okay, all right, and I went 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:20.760 back and I kept doing. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:30.840 Until I figured it out. Same thing, the process, the process, it's. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.400 The love for the music. For me, it's not about 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:36.920 I didn't think I was going to become a singer. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.079 Well that wasn't even if it was going to be 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:40.880 a ballerina. And then I thought I was going to 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.199 be a gymnast, and then I thought, oh, I'll just draw. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.559 I didn't know. I didn't think singing was an option 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.559 at that point. And where you were you from the 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.400 baby the family in. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:54.120 San Francisco, Come on, yeah, come on, okay, so I 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:54.520 see it. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.920 I see man, you know. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:10.720 Singers like you know, we got right. That's good stuff. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.280 I love it. And that was the thing that they 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.320 didn't deter me from loving the music. I could only 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.160 listen to gospel music as a kid because my dad 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.040 and mom were like not having it. And then when 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.640 my brother turned eighteen, he had a drum set already 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.480 in the garage, but when he turned eighteen he could 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.080 play other music. So we just started going into the 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.520 garage and I can play the drums, which I haven't 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.679 done a lot of, but because he said, don't touch 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:38.120 them neither time you left home out So but that 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.440 was just where the love came from. And then hearing 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.840 Mini Ripperton eventually realizing other people did the thing I 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.240 thought was a broken part of my voice. I thought 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.800 it was broken me because Tremaine couldn't sing you know 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.560 that that, you know, the real and I would try 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.480 to do that with Walter and her and Andree Crouch 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.520 and all those people. I love singing with singers, and 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.000 I couldn't do that full voice. And I didn't have 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.920 anybody to ask because they weren't gonna tell me how 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:07.640 to do it, because they were like, you just be caiet. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.000 And one of my aunties used to say, good thing, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:17.439 you cute because the singing were singing I words now 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.760 though I wait, yeah, But my point was what oh, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.679 I would go over the note like if they do 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.680 that and they went at full voice, I would just 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.160 up on top of that because that was all I knew, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.760 and so I thought that was broken, so I would 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.360 I didn't even let anybody know I could do that 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.760 because I didn't think it was something to be proud of. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.640 It was just what I did to get through the 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.600 song with them. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:41.960 What. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:48.840 Yeah, I didn't know that, so wid discovery. Yeah, just 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.319 to do that, yeah, yeah. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.760 I didn't know. So yeah, that was it. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:13:01.400 That's where happened. So that was Anne. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.000 And when do you get a chance at least to 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.360 where the film is like, all right, go ahead saying 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.200 something me, let me hear what you're doing to me. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.760 I sang background with my sister and my mom, like 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.120 as we sang before my dad would preach, we would 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:23.600 do that. I was the alto, but alone. A lady 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.679 asked me to be Dorothy in a stage production college production, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.520 and I was Dorothy and she asked me to do it, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.760 and I was like, everybody always mixed me and my 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.640 sister up, it's Laton. I'm chante you Laton. She was like, no, no, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.000 I know who I'm asking. I was like you want 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.560 me to do. I never scared. I was like, yeah, okay, sure, 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.640 So I said yes to being Dorothy and we learned 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:53.240 all the lines and singing in my mother played the 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.520 what is Auntie Auntie m? She played auntiem in the beginning, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.400 and my sister was part of the Yellow Brick Road. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.680 And so I'm doing rehearsals and We're all sitting on 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.839 the floor in this college whatever replace. We were just 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.439 sitting on the floor and the guy's playing the piano 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.800 and I'm singing with him, and my sister and my 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.719 mother looking me in and it started looking at each 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.120 other and I was like, what's what I'm singing? Like 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.600 home or whatever the B line. I don't even remember 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.200 what the song it was. And they were like, when 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.840 did you learn how to sing? I was like, I 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.800 can sing? I was sixteen. I was like, I can 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:30.080 do it. I can okay. So that was the moment 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.960 I realized that they thought I could sing. And then 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:38.360 performing the end the Home at the end is when 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.440 I got bitten with the bug, the performance bug, and 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.840 they clapped. I was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna deal 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:44.160 with that. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.160 I can do it like this And you had just 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:52.960 been in your shed just working on it. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.680 Well, I didn't know I was working on it. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.280 You know, you didn't know you were working on it. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:01.560 But there's there's maybe this unconscious thing where you know, 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.800 you're just waiting for this approval. Like I wanted Auntie 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:11.520 Betty to say I could I could finally sing so bad, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.440 like you know what I mean? Like I loved it, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.280 so that's why I was doing it. But at the 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.280 same time we're looking for that. Auntie Betty was the 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.320 barn Right and she. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.200 And your mother and your your for you. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.280 I mean, I thought it was the approval of that 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.480 I can carry a note. It still wasn't the I'm 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:30.960 going to do this for a living. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.200 Well no, not even with it, just love it. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.960 I was like, oh, I'm on good yeah, all right, 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.960 all right, two thumbs up. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.320 I didn't know did you did you? Did you kill it? 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.160 You know what? There was a tape of it a 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.400 long time ago, and I don't know if I did 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.480 or didn't. I think I did good enough? 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.120 Yeah, good enough? 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.520 They did. They clapped, and it was it was the 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.080 moment I thought this could be something I could do 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.800 for a living. But I thought, you know, one song 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:01.440 don't make an. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.720 Artist, right, because you also like, it's not one of 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.280 the million outletsible. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.440 It was not even in my realm, you know, I 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.520 didn't even think yeah like that. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.480 The other part about that too, and it may be 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.120 a little different for you tank where most people don't 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.960 realize how small San Francisco is and the small community 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:29.320 of black people. So we like, we don't even have athletes, 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.840 especially when we were coming up that made the NFL 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.600 or the NBA or the major like, we don't We 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:36.760 definitely don't know singers. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.400 We don't have no artists really. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.400 I mean we have a couple, we have gospel artists, yes, but. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.520 We don't have we don't have Marvin gay If you're 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.240 from DC or the Maryland area, you're like Marvin. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.680 Gaye was, you know, he used to be right over 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:51.240 here doing that. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.400 So it almost seemed and I'll just give my own experience, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.840 it almost seemed impossible when my father would be talking 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.520 to us about what we were going to be in 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.520 music and how we were going to have careers in 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.320 music and were like, I'm probably gonna end up selling. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:11.760 I didn't make that. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:23.439 I'm difference when you when you do to use and 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.560 take out different type of church. So, but did you 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.000 see that for yourself at all, Like you're like, I'm 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.200 going to make this a career for myself, like once 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.320 you started to do it while you're in San Francisco. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:42.199 No, I didn't. I didn't. I I I knew I 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:48.520 felt special. I don't think I thought turn it into 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.320 this or that. I love to dance and perform, and 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.960 you know, whether anybody was paying attention or not, it 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.040 was what my joy was. I acted songs out and 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.800 the songs said knocked me down to the ground. I'll 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.119 be on the floor and then I like you picked 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.879 me up, oh you know, and just whatever I was 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.760 singing and doing the song. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:10.399 Yeah. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.080 So did you did you have to leave? Leave what 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:15.960 san Francisco? 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.239 Well, we moved to San Diego. We moved to San 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:25.200 Diego when I was twelve, so that was already a change. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.359 So San Diego was when I joined the choir and 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.440 middle school, and I don't know, I don't know when 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:39.040 it changed so much. Modeling Key Key Shepherd and her 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:45.280 mother Kekey and von Gretchen was a Miss Black America. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.040 They I don't remember. Oh, I know. I was in 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.639 a beauty pageant called MS Bronze and I was fourteen. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:59.879 I was fourteen and I run one first runner up 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.159 and miss Bronze and that's what made me meet Kiki 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.919 and Vaughn and they just loved on me. They really 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.200 made me feel like family and they said how special 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.240 I was. And I started modeling as soon as the 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.800 pageant was over. I was in clubs and modeling with 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:19.560 them and doing all that. I don't know, it was 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.840 just interesting how that just unfolded into just walking and 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.680 performing and clothes and you know, they were like, keep 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.879 your head up and just there were certain things that 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.760 just came with being around them. Just crazy. I forgot 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.800 about them, but yeah, they put me in the mindset 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.920 of being in front of a crowd, right, more so 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.919 than just you know, being a goofy kid somewhere. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:43.560 But are you singing it still? 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.000 At the now? 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.840 I'm modeling at this point, I mean in my room, right. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.080 But you're fully focused on. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.480 I'm in high school and I'm just, yeah, not really 0:19:55.280 --> 0:20:00.639 thinking of what could be. By seventeen eighteen, I started 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.320 thinking about, maybe it's what I can do because modeling 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.280 is out. I'm only five four, so you know, petite 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.080 modeling did not take off like I thought it would. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.320 And so my mother was always thinking out of the box. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:14.919 So she was like, what do you want to do? 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.240 Whatever that is, let's work on that. So modeling was 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.040 it for a long time, just going out on catacauls 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:25.040 and trying to make it. I don't know. She always 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.560 made me think of any moment could be the moment 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.919 for whatever it is. When I would go to the 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.240 grocery store, I'd be full on made up, and anywhere 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:37.160 I go it was just makeup and hair and shoes, nails, 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:41.200 and it was just this thing. My mother always was 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:46.040 always about presenting myself a particular way, and it's good. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.760 It was too much, but it was good to at 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.159 least have the bar. And then once I realized you 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.080 didn't have to work that hard at being pretty, you 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:57.800 know what I mean. It's not like you have to 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:02.800 have on a bunch of makeup. Sometimes natural is good. 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.560 My mother was always about just extra stuff, and I 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:07.320 call it. She was so guardy. She always had a 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.560 bunch of bracelets, earrings and lips. She was doing a lot, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.040 and I think that makes me not want to do 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.200 it as much. And her always feeding me and loving 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.280 me so and pumping up and all of that. I 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:27.120 was like, okay, okay, because if I'm not on stage, 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.879 I don't really really I don't need all attention. I 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.320 don't need it. And I think there is something in 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:38.480 people who are performers that are that is there's a 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.439 there's a monster that gets fed on stage, and that 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:43.840 what they want to feed that monster all the time. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:49.760 And I'm just like, can we go home? And I'm 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:51.879 being a bed can I'll watch it on TV? But 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.359 I don't know's some and maybe that's from not being 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.159 the center of attention as a kid, or when my 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.760 mother did pay attention, it was a whole and it 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:06.240 was like, oh Chante and Chantey is Chante was like yes, Mama, 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.960 over here is a Laton and here's Kilvin and here's 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:12.840 the other people. I just I don't know. So I 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.680 kind of have a thing that is there when I sing, 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:17.919 which is what I try to make it about when 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:22.679 I'm in concert is my voice. And I don't know, 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:24.960 I have a thing where I gotta like let myself 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.639 go and be able to jump off of the cliff 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:31.120 a little bit more often sometimes. So yeah, I don't 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.160 even know if I answered your question, But I'm back, no, no, no. 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.960