Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio, Ladies and Gentlemen. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's another episode of Quest Love Supreme. I am your
Speaker 1: host Quest Love Quest Loves taking over? How you doing?
Speaker 2: Like like he's got a man at home.
Speaker 1: Doing that would have been a hell of a time
Speaker 1: to have our theme back.
Speaker 3: I know, we just have to change platforms and you know,
Speaker 3: getting six people to change links and things.
Speaker 4: It's a process.
Speaker 1: Uh or yeah, just maybe beat right? Next episode? All right?
Speaker 1: So you got a man like good to know? Anything else?
Speaker 2: He's so good to me?
Speaker 1: Any other? Any other? No, you just got two songs?
Speaker 1: All right? All right?
Speaker 5: I got more?
Speaker 2: This is that's the same song.
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 1: This is Steve. How are you? I got no man?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, there's there's always tomorrow, bro, unpaid Bill Man,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Good to see you, Bro. I have to
Speaker 1: congratulate you on your your work on Broadway. I saw
Speaker 1: and Juliette. I highly recommend it. It's stellar work.
Speaker 3: As always, this is a good time to say, we're
Speaker 3: going to be in New York at the end of
Speaker 3: the months.
Speaker 2: So hold those tickets, Bill, hold those.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. We should figure out a date wherever
Speaker 1: we can go and we should do that.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, great field trip, field trip for the crew.
Speaker 1: Uh fan Tago, what's.
Speaker 5: That bro, I'm good man, I'm good Man.
Speaker 1: And children sexy lights down there?
Speaker 6: I see yeah, you know, hey, Shante moison Man, I
Speaker 6: had to make no right even you.
Speaker 2: Know, I'm well well out the candle light. I got more.
Speaker 5: Come on, here we go, here you go.
Speaker 1: So I will say that our illustrious guest today, for
Speaker 1: the least the for the last three decades, has been
Speaker 1: blessing us with their angelic. I would assume for octave
Speaker 1: range the ability to break glass, if you will, getting
Speaker 1: high up there. I wish I had that gift. Starting
Speaker 1: with her debut album on MCA, Precious, of course, featured
Speaker 1: in the classic Loves Taken Over, I love that. Wow.
Speaker 1: That's saying that all the time, not to mention album
Speaker 1: after album Love Supreme. You know, a moment's mind exposed
Speaker 1: in a slew of others. She's also literally worked, I'll say,
Speaker 1: with every producer like her collaboration list is almost wow.
Speaker 1: I hope we get a lot of stories out of this,
Speaker 1: from George Duke to B. B. Wins, to jam and
Speaker 1: Lewis to Keith Kraut, to Keiper Jones, to Tricky Stewart,
Speaker 1: Brian Lamren, Rodney Jerkins, Jermaine Upri, Robin Thick, Tim and
Speaker 1: Bob Philly's own James. I'm gonna call him poisoner because
Speaker 1: he hates when I at the letter into his name. Junius,
Speaker 1: Darryl Simmons, Tim, Bob Carvin and Ivan, Fred Hammond, Raphael Sadik,
Speaker 1: Kwame Bryant, Michael Cox. Of course, even work with boys
Speaker 1: de men Elle DeBarge. The Iisley Brothers won a grip
Speaker 1: of awards and plaques, and she's giving us the honor
Speaker 1: today to recap her career and her story and her
Speaker 1: journey on our platform, The Winning Quest Love Supreme. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, please welcome to our show. Chante moore, how
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great? You name people I forgot I worked with?
Speaker 4: That's how long? That and crazy?
Speaker 7: That list was the only thing I will say about
Speaker 7: that is I'm going to start with I have only
Speaker 7: won one award, and I got it this year, no
Speaker 7: excuse me, this past year for Christmas, and it was
Speaker 7: supposed to be in nineteen ninety seven, but my husband
Speaker 7: Steven found the waiting to ex Hell Soundtrack of the
Speaker 7: Year award for the American Music Awards. It was the
Speaker 7: entire album. He gave it to me for Christmas. It's
Speaker 7: the only award I have.
Speaker 1: You're trying to tell me for twenty five years, this
Speaker 1: award's been in I A.
Speaker 7: Yes, no one ever gave it to me. No one
Speaker 7: ever said anything about it. No one ever called me
Speaker 7: and said, hey, congratulations, you want or get up on
Speaker 7: stage and do and be nothing.
Speaker 4: Nothing. Ever, he found it and gave it to me.
Speaker 1: Weird do you say that because we have question of
Speaker 1: Supreme a still waiting for our Webby Award from our
Speaker 1: first day.
Speaker 4: But anyway, twenty years you need, when you need Stephen Hill,
Speaker 4: that's what you need.
Speaker 1: Stephen Hill. Does it? Shout out to brother Stephen. Stephen
Speaker 1: just reminded me that when when his episode was done,
Speaker 1: that was a very dark day in which the forty
Speaker 1: fifth president was just getting ushered into office, and it
Speaker 1: was a very and now here we are. You're here
Speaker 1: on the day that that same person got indicted and arrested.
Speaker 7: So that's very special, very special moment, full social moment.
Speaker 1: You are all right, So my very first question to
Speaker 1: you is, well, what the hell is going on? Tweet
Speaker 1: the sheets at my home playing speaking of Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, where were you born? I want to know
Speaker 1: about your childhood. Where's the city in which I was born?
Speaker 4: In San Franci San Francisco, California.
Speaker 7: I have lived in California my whole life, San Francisco,
Speaker 7: first San Diego, next Sacramento, and then Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: For the last thirty two years or so. I'm only
Speaker 4: eight years old, So you do the calculation.
Speaker 1: I've not heard you use the term hella yet, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe that it's the truth.
Speaker 4: Really I am.
Speaker 7: I am a California girl, and I color my roots
Speaker 7: because I will not accept my age yet, even though
Speaker 7: my children are all bigger than me, and my son
Speaker 7: will be twenty on the tenth of April, and my
Speaker 7: daughter will be twenty seven on the twenty seventh of September.
Speaker 2: Don't tell me how old your daughter is because that
Speaker 2: will mess me up.
Speaker 4: But I was eight when I had her, So there.
Speaker 7: You go, right, see okay, see see thirty years in
Speaker 7: the business.
Speaker 4: I was eight, Yes, I was eight. I mean you
Speaker 4: look at so far you say thank you. I you
Speaker 4: know what I feel.
Speaker 7: Good, and I'm really happy to not feel the age
Speaker 7: that the eight keeps telling me.
Speaker 4: I'm going to just keep holding on to what I feel.
Speaker 3: What do you do to keep staying that way? I'm
Speaker 3: just curious what you do to maintain it.
Speaker 1: Rock said that money was the best solution. What is
Speaker 1: what is truly the best solution?
Speaker 4: Joy and peace? Love?
Speaker 7: Yeah, because because if you're not at peace, all that
Speaker 7: stuff just makes you frown and makes I don't care
Speaker 7: what kind of botox you got, you still be just
Speaker 7: angry looking. I just feel like the joy of life
Speaker 7: and loving my children and loving love and loving life,
Speaker 7: loving music still and being able to still do that
Speaker 7: for a living is the hugest blessing I've ever the
Speaker 7: fact that I'm on here. I mean, I know you
Speaker 7: guys are saying, like, give me my flowers, but I
Speaker 7: read on Quest Love's podcast, I'm tripping that I'm still
Speaker 7: I was gonna say, here in America, here in the industry,
Speaker 7: and I.
Speaker 4: Get to do what I love to do for a living.
Speaker 4: It is mind blowing. It's mind blowing.
Speaker 7: I still get nervous about it. It's still I feel like,
Speaker 7: calm myself.
Speaker 4: I'm going it's Okay, everything's good.
Speaker 5: I'm good.
Speaker 3: For some of your fans, though, we feel like this
Speaker 3: is where you belong and you should always feel like that,
Speaker 3: like it should be a you know, comfortable place, like
Speaker 3: I said one of the best voices of our time.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm still trying to just absorb that and accept
Speaker 7: it without going And I was like, Okay.
Speaker 1: Another reluctant receiver. Yeah, now I'm not in that position. Great,
Speaker 1: thank you. Can you tell me what your first musical
Speaker 1: memory was?
Speaker 4: Ha, you know what.
Speaker 7: I don't remember the song, but I remember the time zone.
Speaker 7: What I did every day at home was dance and
Speaker 7: sing to music. I wasn't allowed to listen to anything
Speaker 7: other than gospel music until I was like twelve or thirteen,
Speaker 7: when my brother turned eighteen.
Speaker 1: Right then you started sneaking and listening.
Speaker 7: No, my brother turned eighteen and my parents let him
Speaker 7: listen to music that wasn't gospel in the garage. So
Speaker 7: I heard Prince for the first time, I heard Minnie
Speaker 7: Riperton for the first time, and everything else like that
Speaker 7: had already come before, from the Four Tops to Everybody
Speaker 7: to Spring everyone Stevie Wonder. I never heard any of
Speaker 7: these people before. My brother turned Wait weirteen.
Speaker 1: Wait were you in the seventh Day of Venice household?
Speaker 7: No, I was a Christian, but my dad's a preacher evangelist,
Speaker 7: and my mother was a sing is was She passed
Speaker 7: on when I was nineteen ninety three, two or three
Speaker 7: she passed on. So no, we weren't allowed to listen
Speaker 7: to anything in the house. But I didn't know what
Speaker 7: I was missing because I was listening to Tremaine Hawkins
Speaker 7: and Walter Hawkins and Andre Crouch. And the first lady
Speaker 7: I ever heard to do the high notes was a
Speaker 7: lady named Riba Rambo.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if you ever heard of the Rambos.
Speaker 4: Most people have not.
Speaker 1: Who are theos?
Speaker 7: They are old white gospel music singing family. And she
Speaker 7: sang these notes that I didn't know anybody else did.
Speaker 7: I only did the high notes because I couldn't sing
Speaker 7: it full voice.
Speaker 4: Like Tremaine Hawkins.
Speaker 7: So I was just like, well, I can't do it year,
Speaker 7: so I'll just jump right up to the high one instead.
Speaker 7: So that's how it happened. I thought something was wrong
Speaker 7: with my voice, rather than it being a thing.
Speaker 4: That I should be proud of. Okay, wow, So I
Speaker 4: was dancing around, singing.
Speaker 1: Usually when our guests come on the show. In every
Speaker 1: strict Christian household, there is at least kind of an
Speaker 1: exception for Stevie Wonder. So you're saying that even Stevie
Speaker 1: Wonder was too secular.
Speaker 7: To anything that wasn't talking about Jesus.
Speaker 4: Was not allowed in my house at all. I didn't
Speaker 4: wear pants till I was seven. Wow, I was in dresses.
Speaker 4: So don't skin your knees, but go out in that
Speaker 4: little dress and go play. But don't skin your knees,
Speaker 4: just go play.
Speaker 1: Were they Baptists or they were.
Speaker 7: Church of God in Christ and then we were non denominational,
Speaker 7: and then I ended up growing up and being Apostolic.
Speaker 4: Which is pretty much just a strict with like the
Speaker 4: makeup thing.
Speaker 7: But then they kind of but yeah, so, but I
Speaker 7: didn't know what I was missing because music surrounded me
Speaker 7: all the time. My brother's a drummer. My sister is
Speaker 7: a pianist, She an artist, she writes, she sings. She
Speaker 7: was who I wanted to be like my mother sang.
Speaker 7: My father is a pianist. Music surrounded me all the time,
Speaker 7: and but it was just worship. I didn't know that
Speaker 7: there were other kinds of music that did other things.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the illustrious Hawkins family. Yeah, of course they're
Speaker 1: from the Bay Area. Have you ever gotten to see
Speaker 1: them like in person performing in church in their element?
Speaker 7: It was at Love a live three or four, whichever
Speaker 7: one was. Don't Wait till the Battle is overshout Now I.
Speaker 4: Was there what they recorded it? Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I lived in San Francisco. That was up in Oakland.
Speaker 4: That was.
Speaker 1: Describe it, Describe it.
Speaker 7: I just remember the songs and being like like the
Speaker 7: like the sound of.
Speaker 4: Screaming and worship. It's such a beautiful like a ringing
Speaker 4: in your I don't know I am. I'm a worshiper
Speaker 4: at heart.
Speaker 7: That that's what I love, like even in my songs,
Speaker 7: like we can talk about it's all right, but it's
Speaker 7: all right. It's turned into this thing between me and God.
Speaker 7: That's that's about him and me that before the sun rises,
Speaker 7: I love you more than anybody else loves you.
Speaker 4: So what I love is that my foundation is.
Speaker 7: That ring that's found, that that feeling of God's presence
Speaker 7: in me surrounding me.
Speaker 4: So that's what I know as home. That's home for me.
Speaker 1: In receiving secular music in a trickle down way and
Speaker 1: sneaking or listen to it or whatever. Who did you well,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Minnie Riperton. Can I assume that's why you
Speaker 1: chose Inside My Love for New York Undercover.
Speaker 4: They actually chose it for me.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: Everyone wants me to sing Many all the time because.
Speaker 7: They love many and they love the high notes, so
Speaker 7: that is why they chose that song. But I was
Speaker 7: happy to do it. What's funny is the only time
Speaker 7: I remember hearing a song that I felt like I.
Speaker 4: Was sneaking was Don't Do Do Do Do Smokey Robinson.
Speaker 7: I was on my because I used to go to
Speaker 7: sleep listening to in la Is kb r T. It
Speaker 7: was just symphony and it was a herd. I'm such
Speaker 7: an energetic person that my mother found this this this
Speaker 7: trigger that if you listen to the symphony music, it
Speaker 7: will help you lay down, like help you just calm yourself.
Speaker 7: So I would listen to that, but you know, sometimes
Speaker 7: I would just like scoot over just a little bit.
Speaker 7: And that song came on, and that was the very
Speaker 7: first song I ever felt like, like, Okay, who is
Speaker 7: this baby tonight?
Speaker 4: What you say you felt it.
Speaker 7: I got like, like, I didn't understand what that meant.
Speaker 7: I was like, I'm not sure why I want to
Speaker 7: fly away and going your way.
Speaker 4: I don't know why, but I want to cruise.
Speaker 7: That was the first time I had ever felt like
Speaker 7: the feeling through a music that wasn't about worship. It
Speaker 7: was about that emotional, sexual kind of thing. And I
Speaker 7: was like, oh, but I listened to the whole song
Speaker 7: before I turned it off.
Speaker 1: I didn't What was the first album that you remember
Speaker 1: freely purchasing without having to look, you know, three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty degrees around to see who's in the earshot.
Speaker 4: Purchasing or hearing purchase purchasing.
Speaker 7: Good Lord, I didn't have to purchase it, but it
Speaker 7: was Prince, it was the for You album.
Speaker 4: It was my brothers, so I didn't have to buy it,
Speaker 4: and just hearing the a cappella for.
Speaker 1: You at the beginning, how fuck.
Speaker 4: It over whelmed me. It brought me to tears. I
Speaker 4: remember crying because his voice was so beautiful. The whole
Speaker 4: entire album, it like it went from dunaa, all of it.
Speaker 7: It just it was a journey that I had never
Speaker 7: been on before. It was something I had not experienced
Speaker 7: because he wasn't singing about Jesus, but I felt him
Speaker 7: in the inside of my heart and it was so angelic.
Speaker 4: That is absolutely correct.
Speaker 7: And then the second was Minnie Ripperton when it was
Speaker 7: the album when she passed away and it was just
Speaker 7: her face.
Speaker 1: MANI you mean, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: When Here we Go was the song and she had
Speaker 4: already gone.
Speaker 7: So I remember crying about that too because it was
Speaker 7: she had already left the earth and I was like, no,
Speaker 7: this force is gone.
Speaker 4: I did know how to handle that.
Speaker 1: To this day, I don't like listening to Here we
Speaker 1: Go that much because I remember when w Das announced
Speaker 1: her death and they played it like that was the
Speaker 1: first That was the first death, like my mom has
Speaker 1: explained it to me, and you know, I was like
Speaker 1: eight years old or whatever, so I still didn't understand
Speaker 1: the concept of why she felt sad and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, to this day, even though it's
Speaker 1: a somewhat I mean, it's not a sad song, but
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, especially with like people Bryson and
Speaker 1: Roberta singing in the backgrounds like it, it felt very
Speaker 1: like ominous and spooky somewhat, yeah, so you mentioned siblings.
Speaker 1: Are your siblings musically inclined as well?
Speaker 4: Or yes? I was the least talented in my family.
Speaker 1: Who you me?
Speaker 7: I was the one that they hushed. My sister sang
Speaker 7: in the choir and led songs. My dad literally had
Speaker 7: a group called the Larry Moore Singers.
Speaker 4: His name is Larry Moore.
Speaker 7: My mother was the leader of that group. My brother
Speaker 7: was the drummer of that group. They did not allow
Speaker 7: me to sing in any of it.
Speaker 4: Never, They never gave you I guess not. I mean
Speaker 4: only you know you know what I don't know.
Speaker 7: I didn't record anything until I was nineteen twenty when
Speaker 7: I got signed to Warner Brothers Records. Actually, Benny Medina
Speaker 7: signed me to Warner Brothers and then dropped me before
Speaker 7: knew that It's okay because it was the best demo
Speaker 7: ever for MCA Records. So that's how I got signed
Speaker 7: nam J Records. Was my album from Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2: But when did you get the approval from your family
Speaker 2: that you could sing?
Speaker 4: Not until I was like sixteen.
Speaker 7: This lady asked me to be Dorothy in the Whiz,
Speaker 7: and I thought she sticked me from my sister. We're
Speaker 7: three years apart, but we looked alike to people, so
Speaker 7: they were always like Laton, no chante, No, wait, which
Speaker 7: one is which?
Speaker 4: Because I'm taller than my sister.
Speaker 7: She's three years older than me, but she's only four or eleven,
Speaker 7: so they were like, oh, she asked me this lady,
Speaker 7: miss Brown asked me to be Dorothy and the Whiz.
Speaker 7: And I was like you, me and my sister Latan,
Speaker 7: and she was like, no, I know who I'm asking.
Speaker 4: I was like me. So I was never shy. I
Speaker 4: was always the goofball.
Speaker 7: I was always the comedic relief, always the one who
Speaker 7: was just willing to do like whatever to make my
Speaker 7: family happy. So whenever I'd sit around, I was always
Speaker 7: making faces or singing something goofy. But it was always
Speaker 7: them who sang, and them who told me. My mom
Speaker 7: gave me a tape recorder for my birthday, one of
Speaker 7: them and said go in there in your room and
Speaker 7: sing into that and so you can hear how bad
Speaker 7: you sound.
Speaker 4: But I never took it as a negative.
Speaker 7: They didn't say it like oh God, but it was
Speaker 7: just just go over there.
Speaker 4: And I didn't care.
Speaker 7: I don't know why, but I think that's part of
Speaker 7: the preparation for being in this industry is having a
Speaker 7: tough skin on the outside but still staying tender on
Speaker 7: the inside.
Speaker 1: Are you competitive though, I mean not competitive like, but
Speaker 1: like I'll show them. Are you driven?
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 7: I was in beauty pageants, yeah, as a young woman
Speaker 7: as well. From thirteen on. I did from like thirteen
Speaker 7: to seventeen, I did beauty pageants. Actually the first beauty
Speaker 7: pageant I did. Kiki Shepherd's mother and Von Shepherd and
Speaker 7: Von Gretchen Shepherd were my teachers of all the like
Speaker 7: little things and making sure you did this, and this
Speaker 7: is where that fork is in that war and you
Speaker 7: walk this way.
Speaker 4: So I modeled before I sang, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I just fucked me up real quick. That's why Kiki
Speaker 2: could like that is.
Speaker 7: Who she That is who she is and who she
Speaker 7: taught me to be when I'm model there.
Speaker 4: It was in San Diego where I'm Kiki. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So yeah, So I did the whiz And when I
Speaker 7: was singing in one of.
Speaker 4: The rehearsals back to the original quest, I.
Speaker 7: Was singing home for practice and practicing it with the
Speaker 7: guy on the keyboard.
Speaker 4: As I was.
Speaker 7: Practicing, and my mom and my sister looked at me
Speaker 7: and they were like, when did you learn how to sing?
Speaker 4: And I was like, I can do it. It was hot.
Speaker 4: So I was sixteen when that happened.
Speaker 6: How do you go from there to recording and making
Speaker 6: the demo for Warner Brothers.
Speaker 7: I had a boyfriend at the time, when I was
Speaker 7: eighteen that heard me sing and he was like, you
Speaker 7: have got to sing and I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 7: really not that good.
Speaker 4: He was like, yeah, you are.
Speaker 7: You were like the next went in Houston, and I
Speaker 7: was like no, no, no, no, because to me, it
Speaker 7: was she has a different kind of voice than I have.
Speaker 7: So that's why when people say I can sing, oh,
Speaker 7: you're one of the best singers of my brain goes
Speaker 7: to the absolute best to me in my mind, and
Speaker 7: I don't measure up to that. But what I've learned
Speaker 7: with this older age thing that I've thought to be
Speaker 7: me and that's it. That's all I have to be
Speaker 7: is me, and I don't have to have the range
Speaker 7: of Patty LaBelle and Chaka Khan. I don't have to
Speaker 7: have that because Shade is Shada in Shade's lane and
Speaker 7: she is the best Shade they will ever be and She.
Speaker 4: Doesn't even dance.
Speaker 7: She just does these moves that we go, who oh, yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Know, and it's perfect because she knows who she is.
Speaker 4: And that is what I'm learning.
Speaker 7: To appreciate about myself is just be who I am.
Speaker 7: I see other people saying and I'm like.
Speaker 4: Don't even don't don't.
Speaker 7: I literally have to shut my ears and my eyes
Speaker 7: and just embrace my tone and that I don't have
Speaker 7: to do a lot of runs to give you my
Speaker 7: heart through my music, because that's what I want to do,
Speaker 7: is encourage people and give you my heart through my
Speaker 7: music so that women and men, everybody knows they're not alone.
Speaker 4: Because my my heart.
Speaker 7: Has been broken, my heart has been left alone. I've
Speaker 7: been sad, I've been happy, I've been all of these things.
Speaker 7: And the only thing that separates me from you is
Speaker 7: this body.
Speaker 4: I'm just like you. I'm the girl next door that
Speaker 4: you don't think is home, but I'm so home every
Speaker 4: night until I met Stephen.
Speaker 7: And so that's where I thrive, is just being okay
Speaker 7: with me.
Speaker 6: With the Warner Brothers thing, you talk about your transition
Speaker 6: to MCA Records, I want to ask you about Louis
Speaker 6: Silas junior. He was just someone that you know, we
Speaker 6: had people on the show that have kind of talked
Speaker 6: about him, but I just wanted to just talk about him,
Speaker 6: like what was he like with his influence, how he's
Speaker 6: a businessman, because he was just really just a giant
Speaker 6: in the game at that time.
Speaker 7: You know, he was so excited about me, and he
Speaker 7: made me more excited about me than I was.
Speaker 4: The thing about Louiel is that he was like a bulldog.
Speaker 4: And to me, the thing.
Speaker 7: That was his ruin is because he was very jerky,
Speaker 7: very very very jerkly, and so he would like bark
Speaker 7: at everybody, not at me, but everybody else, like he
Speaker 7: was like, ah, like he.
Speaker 4: Had such Yeah, he had such a.
Speaker 7: It's that it's that edgy thing, like he didn't know
Speaker 7: how to bring people in with that sugar and honey
Speaker 7: instead of the anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just not they call that trauma the kids,
Speaker 3: they call that trauma.
Speaker 7: It really was to me, his his achilles heel because
Speaker 7: had he not had if he learned how to deal
Speaker 7: with people better, people at his office and the people
Speaker 7: who were in charge of the future of Louell because
Speaker 7: he had done so much in the industry and he
Speaker 7: was such a good guy. But in the end, when
Speaker 7: it was time for him to reap the benefits of
Speaker 7: being such a genius musically, because he had been so
Speaker 7: unkind to people, I think or just chopping heads off
Speaker 7: a little too quickly, or just barking too loudly. I
Speaker 7: think people didn't reciprocate enough. And he died a very,
Speaker 7: very sad person because of that.
Speaker 4: It was too soon. It was too soon.
Speaker 1: Was it like cardiac arrest or.
Speaker 7: He had diabetes? I believe it was. And he wasn't
Speaker 7: taking good care of himself, and you know, I had
Speaker 7: to always be like, okay, listen you, you know, and
Speaker 7: tell him to do better at taking care of himself.
Speaker 7: But he made my heart hurt because all the people
Speaker 7: he put on. You would think, like when his MCA
Speaker 7: days were over, that they would have put him on
Speaker 7: like big time. But I think he kind of didn't
Speaker 7: keep the relationships like he could have.
Speaker 4: I should have.
Speaker 1: But you talked about your voice, but I want to
Speaker 1: know what one how did you finally master your whistle tone?
Speaker 1: And what is the process even now? Like if you're
Speaker 1: performing on stage, is it is it a daredevil jump
Speaker 1: every time?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Is it Okay, do I have the voice that am
Speaker 1: I going to make it? Is it going to hit
Speaker 1: the because you if you do it, you have to
Speaker 1: hit the target.
Speaker 2: Spot on about that.
Speaker 1: Are there moments where like like you gotta work your
Speaker 1: way up, work your way up to it, or get
Speaker 1: some tea.
Speaker 7: I always have hot water and honey before saying always
Speaker 7: not tea. Tea is a diuretic and make you have
Speaker 7: to go to the bathroom and I don't want to
Speaker 7: be interrupted during that hour hour and a half of time,
Speaker 7: and tea can also be drying to my throat. So
Speaker 7: I have hot water and honey with me all of
Speaker 7: the time.
Speaker 4: It is always a must.
Speaker 7: And you would think it'd be easy for every promoter
Speaker 7: and person to give the hot water honey.
Speaker 4: I only ask for two things, hot water and honey.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 7: That's all I asked were I'm not ask for flowers
Speaker 7: and a carpet and son that goes this way and
Speaker 7: the scent of the Guardianias. Even though I love Guardenias,
Speaker 7: I don't ask for any of it. It's hot water
Speaker 7: and honey. And one time I ask for a pot
Speaker 7: hot water honey. Literally, I have a picture of a
Speaker 7: mama's grandma's pot like a pot at you, sir, you
Speaker 7: made grips and somebody gave me.
Speaker 4: A pot of I was like, yeah, yeah, y'all, let
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 7: There was a time where I had a bruised vocal
Speaker 7: cord when I was singing, and I was just I
Speaker 7: think I was just tired and emotionally tired.
Speaker 4: It was one of the marriages of the.
Speaker 7: People I'm married, and then those other lifetimes and so,
Speaker 7: but now I don't want if the high girl's going
Speaker 7: to be there, She's usually there ninety eight percent of
Speaker 7: the time.
Speaker 4: I learned to have fun.
Speaker 7: With her, and I say her because if she doesn't
Speaker 7: show up, at least chante will show.
Speaker 4: Up like my regular voice.
Speaker 7: If I'm singing the show, I'm going to be able
Speaker 7: to sing.
Speaker 4: Love's taking over.
Speaker 7: It's all right before the high notes and all the
Speaker 7: other songs can come sometimes a high note. If she
Speaker 7: doesn't show up, I'm like, but you still got me.
Speaker 4: I'm still here. Yeah. My friend calls her Crystal because
Speaker 4: she's Crystal Clear. That's just my friend that calls her Cristal.
Speaker 1: So you don't Bobby brown it, y'all say it.
Speaker 4: You know, when I do that. Let me tell you,
Speaker 4: Let me tell you the truth.
Speaker 7: When I do that is I once was aware you are.
Speaker 7: I make them say you are thumb man world the.
Speaker 4: Same, but I'd never.
Speaker 7: I want them proud to sing ho whoa because that
Speaker 7: is hard when I go listen to him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the hardest part of the song.
Speaker 7: That is the one part of that song that makes
Speaker 7: me listen to me, the whole part.
Speaker 4: Listen to me girl.
Speaker 3: Because you never when you did it in a studio,
Speaker 3: you did it too separate times.
Speaker 4: H Can I tell you how many times?
Speaker 2: Jimmy, Oh wow, it was Jimmy and Terry, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I forgot. Yeah, we already knew.
Speaker 1: That's about twenty right there.
Speaker 4: No, it was days.
Speaker 7: It was months of days.
Speaker 1: Just for it.
Speaker 5: Got a manager for that one song, just for the
Speaker 5: art work part.
Speaker 7: It was a month, probably about a month that they
Speaker 7: were like. Jimmy, he was so kind but so matter
Speaker 7: of fact about it. He was like, all right, so
Speaker 7: we've done a lot today.
Speaker 4: Uh, you go rest and we'll see you in a week.
Speaker 4: Rest and we'll see in a week because we get
Speaker 4: the check. I was like, and you still you don't
Speaker 4: have it and it's not it's no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: You can't just cut in and do two separate.
Speaker 7: You have to put the proof and the pudding. You
Speaker 7: gotta make it, give them what they need to. If
Speaker 7: they're gonna chop something up, they have to have some
Speaker 7: meat to chop it up.
Speaker 4: I thankfully they didn't just go, oh, never mind, We'll
Speaker 4: just do listen to the nigga. You know. They were like, no,
Speaker 4: you got.
Speaker 7: To Ni and he was like, listen, act like Mariah
Speaker 7: care is in in the audience. This is the American
Speaker 7: Music Awards, and you're out there.
Speaker 4: Mariah's there. He was like, naming folks. I was like,
Speaker 4: you're making me more nervous.
Speaker 1: No, sometimes people rise to the occasion.
Speaker 4: If they if they say, and I was trying.
Speaker 1: I will say that probably that's a sign. That's a
Speaker 1: really great sign of a producer that cares about you.
Speaker 1: Because I could, you know, in my mind, I think
Speaker 1: I just said I would have told her, look, I'll
Speaker 1: go back to one of those takes and try to
Speaker 1: make it work, or you know, they just usher you in,
Speaker 1: usher you out. But the fact that they're willing to
Speaker 1: go back to it.
Speaker 7: Jimmy and Terry, they are the best of the best
Speaker 7: besides George Duke.
Speaker 4: Truly, there are a couple.
Speaker 7: Of people like a name underneath them, but George Duke
Speaker 7: and them for me was when I learned how to
Speaker 7: record a song, how I learned how to tap into
Speaker 7: who I am behind the microphone in a booth, imagining
Speaker 7: what you're going to do live before it came live.
Speaker 1: Talk about working with George, because I'm a fan of
Speaker 1: George Duke, but probably the era of him that I
Speaker 1: really like is like a lot of the avant garde
Speaker 1: stuff he did with Frank Zappa. Yeah, kind of when
Speaker 1: to a lot of early Duke fans, like when he
Speaker 1: started making the hits and writing songs that are normal
Speaker 1: as opposed to all that avant garde stuff he was doing,
Speaker 1: and you know, we kind of we acknowledged it, and
Speaker 1: we were proud that he was, like, you know, getting
Speaker 1: getting paid for his hard work, but for a lot
Speaker 1: of us, for me at least, like listening to a
Speaker 1: lot of Frank Zappa, and you know, it's nothing for
Speaker 1: George to do these like eleventh you know, diminished chords,
Speaker 1: you know in five four meter you know, like just
Speaker 1: really crazy avant garde stuff. So but I'm also shocked
Speaker 1: that as crazy as he was, he was also there's
Speaker 1: another side to his music where he's very disciplined and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So what was it like working with him?
Speaker 7: I am so happy that he was the first producer
Speaker 7: professionally that I was in the studio with. He had
Speaker 7: a way of making me feel comfortable with myself. I remember,
Speaker 7: in particular Rochelle Farrell. He was he was producing her
Speaker 7: first record at the same time, and he made the
Speaker 7: mistake of playing zel for me. Oh my god, no,
Speaker 7: I just heard all thee I was like, oh, oh god.
Speaker 7: And she started hitting the notes that I wasn't comfortable
Speaker 7: with myself yet doing and hitting and the tricks that
Speaker 7: she had gone to school to learn that I was
Speaker 7: only in my bedroom and there with my family going
Speaker 7: shut up.
Speaker 4: Before that, I didn't know that that you could use
Speaker 4: them like that. I was like, oh wait, she's doing tricks.
Speaker 4: And George said something.
Speaker 7: That that really resonates today. He was like, listen there,
Speaker 7: Rochelle Farrell has her gift and it is her gift.
Speaker 4: Your gift is your gift. You all are two different people,
Speaker 4: and you have different strainths be you just be you.
Speaker 7: There are things that she doesn't have that you have.
Speaker 7: There are things that you have that she doesn't have.
Speaker 7: So it's not a comparison. It's about having a mortgage
Speaker 7: board of music that comes out and you be you
Speaker 7: is the most important part of that. And he was like,
Speaker 7: if you don't tell them, they won't know. If you
Speaker 7: don't make it happen in this studio, it's not going
Speaker 7: to translate to the world. And his ability to be
Speaker 7: that teddy bear to me in the studio is why
Speaker 7: I was able to relax and actually sing Precious and
Speaker 7: Loves Taken Over and all of the music that.
Speaker 4: I made that first record and second record as well.
Speaker 4: He just had a kindness about him that was tangible.
Speaker 4: It was tangible everywhere he went.
Speaker 6: There is a producer you worked with asal Benfort who
Speaker 6: did It's all right?
Speaker 5: He also did don't walk away from Jay did what
Speaker 5: was he like?
Speaker 6: Because we haven't really had people on the show that
Speaker 6: work what was he like in the studio and collaborate with.
Speaker 4: You know, Vassal and Louiel were super close friends. Okay,
Speaker 4: So because this is quest Love, I'm going to tell
Speaker 4: you something that I've never said before allowed to anybody else.
Speaker 4: If you listen to that song. I hope she don't
Speaker 4: come after nobody, but that song is even when.
Speaker 5: I cry, I can't back.
Speaker 4: If you hear that song, that's what it's.
Speaker 5: Like, all right, it's all right, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 7: If you listen to it musically, very very close to
Speaker 7: because Louil said I want to Can't Let Go for Shante.
Speaker 7: At that time, I wasn't big on listening to the
Speaker 7: radio and doing all that because I was so busy
Speaker 7: being in my little world and my little narrow world
Speaker 7: of creating music. So I'm glad I didn't know Mariah
Speaker 7: like that yet, but she was rising. I knew vision
Speaker 7: of love because that was that hit everybody we all
Speaker 7: fell down with, like, oh my god, who is this woman?
Speaker 7: But I didn't know Can't Let Go that well. So
Speaker 7: when the music came on, I didn't try to redo
Speaker 7: Mariah carey song, which is really good, but I wrote
Speaker 7: a song from my soul. But that's what that musically
Speaker 7: came from.
Speaker 4: In VISal is funny and.
Speaker 7: Creative, and loul and him both were just goofballs, and
Speaker 7: I think that's really part of why I like Louil
Speaker 7: and I like Vesal as well.
Speaker 4: And I like staved as well, because we are just goofballs.
Speaker 7: I really am okay with the goofy side of myself,
Speaker 7: and anybody who knows me long and like ten minutes
Speaker 7: knows I'm a goofball.
Speaker 1: So for our listeners out there that don't know the
Speaker 1: Rodney Jerkins If I Gave Love story.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well okay. So I did a song with Rodney Jerkins.
Speaker 4: Called If I Gave Love Gave So we did the song,
Speaker 4: loved it.
Speaker 7: Rodney did warn me, don't mess around, put this song
Speaker 7: out first.
Speaker 4: Well, considering I'm an artist, I am not.
Speaker 7: In charge of what song comes first. At that point,
Speaker 7: I don't decide that. When they heard Chante's Got a Man,
Speaker 7: they're like, oh, Shante's got a Man gotta come first.
Speaker 4: We'll come in back with a song.
Speaker 7: That is unlike you, up tempo, different kind of feeling
Speaker 7: will come with that. That's the one two punch. Before
Speaker 7: I got to the two, j Lo had come out with.
Speaker 4: What Have her song if You Had My If You.
Speaker 7: Had My Love and same song, same song, same song.
Speaker 1: They I hear they play a little dryo there at Sony's,
Speaker 1: But you know, does this happened.
Speaker 2: To you multiple times?
Speaker 7: Just that one time, just that one one good times
Speaker 7: all takes just that one good time.
Speaker 3: Oh, because I remember special too, so I never know
Speaker 3: special was the same thing.
Speaker 4: Special is different than precious.
Speaker 7: Special was running was Raphaelsa Dick, So there wasn't anything
Speaker 7: that was He didn't get that song way what's interesting
Speaker 7: and beautiful about the song If I gave love was
Speaker 7: it hurt my heart?
Speaker 4: That was the first thing that wasn't special and interesting.
Speaker 7: But it hurt my heart when it came out, and
Speaker 7: I was like, you just would have told me. And
Speaker 7: that's one of the only regrets I have, like two
Speaker 7: or three that I feel in the industry that I've
Speaker 7: like mistakes, like things that I feel like, dang, I
Speaker 7: wish I would have been more bold or fought for
Speaker 7: it or whatever. I kind of was like when she
Speaker 7: came out. She's such a machine behind her, being Jlo
Speaker 7: with Benny and just all of the right the machine
Speaker 7: she had behind her, and I felt like I couldn't
Speaker 7: compete with that, so I backed up instead of I
Speaker 7: wish I would have just been like raw like it.
Speaker 4: Took, took myself on there and just been like, you
Speaker 4: know what.
Speaker 7: Either way, it's gonna be publicity for my song because
Speaker 7: it's really the same song. And Puff Daddy came in
Speaker 7: the studio and told Rodney that he wanted that song,
Speaker 7: and Rodney said, that's chante song and he said.
Speaker 4: No, I want that song. So Rodney is good at
Speaker 4: recreating songs of himself, Like if you listen to some
Speaker 4: of his own songs, he's recreated himself.
Speaker 1: This could have been an usher, yeah, versus what's old boy.
Speaker 5: Like eight song.
Speaker 1: No, it's the same song as you don't know the rep.
Speaker 4: Frequently.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it could have been that, all right.
Speaker 1: So wait, I gotta go back to your beginnings. You're
Speaker 1: from the Bay Area, you're singing. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: there's literally no way that you can do anything without
Speaker 1: having to pass the the kind of stratosphere of of
Speaker 1: Jay King if you're in the Bay Area in the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties, I think it's literally impossible. So did
Speaker 1: you have anything to do with that organization at the time,
Speaker 1: Like at the time when Jay King is, you know,
Speaker 1: working with Tommy and Denny and by I guess degrees
Speaker 1: Tony Tony Tony and Club Nouveau and time Ax Social
Speaker 1: Club and all that stuff.
Speaker 7: I was sent by Benny Medina to Sacramento to work
Speaker 7: with Jay King.
Speaker 4: He was to produce part of my record. He wasn't
Speaker 4: a producer so much as he was a songwriter.
Speaker 7: But in that time period is when I met Brian Morgan,
Speaker 7: and that's when he wrote Week about me, which we
Speaker 7: didn't date, but he had a craft tell the story.
Speaker 1: I want to know. I want to hear your I
Speaker 1: want to hear your perspective of Week.
Speaker 4: Okay, so to tell the full story, which is interesting.
Speaker 7: Brian and I spoke last week and I told and
Speaker 7: I reminded him of this story that he had forgotten.
Speaker 4: Actually is I was dating someone and he said, and
Speaker 4: you and that guy sound like this, and he's like
Speaker 4: the Circus tune he played that. He said, but when
Speaker 4: you're by yourself, this is what you sound like. And
Speaker 4: he said, that's how it happened. He said, that's what
Speaker 4: you feel like without some smooth ship.
Speaker 1: How is it presented to you? Was it like his
Speaker 1: voice on a demo or hey, I wrote something for you,
Speaker 1: like explained, He.
Speaker 7: Wrote the song and sang all the parts because he
Speaker 7: has a beautiful voice.
Speaker 4: He was in a group called Cachet Duvoir It was he.
Speaker 7: And a girl named Rachella, and they were supposed to
Speaker 7: come out as a duet and actually Jay King dropped
Speaker 7: them soon soon I got dropped from from Warner Brothers,
Speaker 7: but they were dropped first.
Speaker 4: But it was really like the catalyst to press for more.
Speaker 7: But anyway, so Brian can sing great, which is why
Speaker 7: he's on their album.
Speaker 4: But he played the song and I remembered that moment.
Speaker 7: Because it was like, that's what I feel like. I
Speaker 7: can be a whole nother person other than.
Speaker 4: The circus that I'm going through right now. I was like,
Speaker 4: my life, that's like a circus. I'm you right, But the.
Speaker 7: Calmness of those chords and then hearing him sing. But
Speaker 7: he had a song called uh Wrong, just like five
Speaker 7: and five don't make nine, You're wrong.
Speaker 4: That was a song you have to be Brian Morgan
Speaker 4: to play that for you because that's funny. But just
Speaker 4: like five and five don't make nine, he had a
Speaker 4: song called wrong.
Speaker 7: But yeah, he had great music. But those times are
Speaker 7: those are times to learn from. Those are times to
Speaker 7: draw and you figure out that's when the wheat is
Speaker 7: sifted and the fine stuff comes out from underneath. I
Speaker 7: feel like those times happened to make me who I
Speaker 7: am right now.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like weirdness like wait, this song's about
Speaker 1: me or any of those things like me.
Speaker 7: No, I mean, I I knew he liked me because
Speaker 7: guys blirt and they act like, you know, you know,
Speaker 7: how fin you are a girl, and they do stuff
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 4: He wasn't like, well, you know, it wasn't like that.
Speaker 4: It was more he didn't know it, and it wasn't.
Speaker 2: The first time somebody wrote a song or the last
Speaker 2: time somebody.
Speaker 4: Well I don't know. I don't know if it was
Speaker 4: the last time or not. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 7: But what I know is that the song was beautiful
Speaker 7: and I didn't feel a creepiness about him.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so what I'm asking is, all right, it's
Speaker 1: ninety two and now every seven songs on R and
Speaker 1: B radio is playing this intro At any point, are
Speaker 1: you like, you know the songs about me? Right?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: You know why I didn't because we didn't have a relationship,
Speaker 7: like we weren't dating.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like that's my bull hag.
Speaker 3: It'd be different if you say more so you're amuse
Speaker 3: like even more so he don't even.
Speaker 2: He don't even know. No, I didn't even it's the inspiration.
Speaker 7: I didn't take it like that until until recently when
Speaker 7: people are like, oh my gosh, you inspired that song.
Speaker 7: And I honestly, and that's what this whole time of
Speaker 7: my life is. I think about, is me embracing myself.
Speaker 7: I don't I don't know if you if I can
Speaker 7: explain it right, but it is about me becoming or
Speaker 7: understanding my value as an entertainer. It's taken thirty years
Speaker 7: to get there for me to really feel like.
Speaker 4: I'm armed so much worthy.
Speaker 1: You're you can say it, but you're worthy.
Speaker 4: I'm Aquarius. That's us.
Speaker 2: That's what we do.
Speaker 1: Is that it January twenty.
Speaker 2: February seventeen, January twentieth. Oh my gosh, well him too, You.
Speaker 4: Think that's it. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I just thought it was because I was the youngest,
Speaker 7: and that I just didn't quit that lost.
Speaker 1: I think of the last five years, all of us
Speaker 1: have comeing to a place where we're truly seeing ourselves now.
Speaker 1: And you're no exception.
Speaker 4: Like it's bananas.
Speaker 2: That's my first loved boy birthday, and I love that.
Speaker 4: It's Michael Jordan too, it's your first love Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: No, no, because he don't love me. Let me he
Speaker 2: could love you. I just wanted to ask.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny we're talking about all your singing,
Speaker 3: but people don't really talk about your.
Speaker 2: Song writing, ma'am.
Speaker 3: And I'm interested about that and interested to when it
Speaker 3: was it instant that you were writing your songs?
Speaker 2: Did it was it gradual? Like you know?
Speaker 7: My journals started when I was twelve. My mom, brother
Speaker 7: and sister gave me a diary for my birthday when
Speaker 7: I turned thirteen, and I just began writing. Those writings
Speaker 7: began to be poetry. That poetry became music eventually. And
Speaker 7: I've written I think I've had maybe eight nine singles,
Speaker 7: maybe ten singles. I've written probably eight up those ten singles.
Speaker 7: I wrote It's all Right, Love's Taken Over and Old School.
Speaker 4: Love, and I've co written so yeah.
Speaker 2: I I mean, nobody who writes Jhonte's got a man,
Speaker 2: but Jonte.
Speaker 7: Well, with Jim and Terry, you can because they're really
Speaker 7: good at pulling and helping to navigate and to cultivate who.
Speaker 4: You are as an artist.
Speaker 7: I think that's what makes them so good at production
Speaker 7: because just like the Janet Jackson story, how she didn't
Speaker 7: know she was writing songs, but she was just talking
Speaker 7: about herself and saying, you know what my dad is.
Speaker 7: You know, he's controlling, and my mother, you know, does that.
Speaker 7: And then they go okay, so so.
Speaker 4: Cadro what you know and you lose your mind because
Speaker 4: they're listening to everything.
Speaker 7: And I just saw Jimmy literally night before last and
Speaker 7: was complimenting how kind he is and how people were saying, oh,
Speaker 7: they told him that he wasn't going to be able
Speaker 7: to get this Michael Jackson clearance, and he said and
Speaker 7: then I met Michael and Michael was like, I heard
Speaker 7: about your kindness. Jimmy Jam was saying, Michael Jackson heard
Speaker 7: about his kindness, and then he was like, yes, yes,
Speaker 7: you could have the sample to that song because of
Speaker 7: his kindness.
Speaker 4: And it really is something that if you meet well,
Speaker 4: you all know Jimmy.
Speaker 7: He's amazing, and he he makes you almost forget that
Speaker 7: he's freaking Jimmy Jam And they're like Jimmy, Jimmy, You're.
Speaker 4: Like, no, you're talk on Jimmy Cham.
Speaker 7: I lose my mind and I turn into a fan
Speaker 7: every time I'm around them, and they actually co wrote
Speaker 7: the song.
Speaker 4: I wrote. I walked down the aisle to Stephen, my husband.
Speaker 7: I wrote, I co wrote that song with Jimmy jam
Speaker 7: and Terry Lewis, and it was a secret. It was
Speaker 7: the only time I've ever lied to my husband. I
Speaker 7: told him I was with a friend, one of my girlfriends,
Speaker 7: and I wasn't. I was like, you can't tell him
Speaker 7: I'm with you tonight because he no. They were like,
Speaker 7: Terry was like, just you're just in the studio. I
Speaker 7: was like, there's no reason I'd be in the studio
Speaker 7: before our wedding unless I'm writing the wedding song.
Speaker 4: So he didn't know. He thought it was an old
Speaker 4: song that he'd forgotten.
Speaker 5: Oh he didn't know.
Speaker 7: He didn't know because Jimmy made sure he put the
Speaker 7: refrains in that sounded for C and D's Janet Sos band.
Speaker 4: You know, he put all that in there, so it
Speaker 4: sounded familiar. But it wasn't an old song. It was
Speaker 4: a new one. So it's coming out soon.
Speaker 7: I am literally the squeaky wheel that keeps going and
Speaker 7: we need to get.
Speaker 4: The song out like immediately. So it's it's a beautiful
Speaker 4: song at.
Speaker 1: What point did he realize, like, oh wait a minute,
Speaker 1: beast spoke song like this is custom made for.
Speaker 7: Honestly, Sadly, after the wedding, I wanted to play that
Speaker 7: song again to slow dance with him.
Speaker 4: On one of our first songs.
Speaker 7: He had a first song to dance to, and I
Speaker 7: was supposed to pick the second song for us to
Speaker 7: dance to.
Speaker 4: And he's gonna hate that. I'm saying this South laugh.
Speaker 4: But he was like, no, no, no, that one song
Speaker 4: was good. Let's just let's just in the Let's just
Speaker 4: let the rest of the thing.
Speaker 7: I was like, I was alone, a little bit hurt
Speaker 7: because I didn't know that he didn't get.
Speaker 4: It, that it was a freshman for him, right.
Speaker 7: He just knew it was a chante song and I
Speaker 7: was singing it and he was like, I was so busy.
Speaker 4: Looking at you that I wasn't listening as much.
Speaker 1: No, he's he's a nice.
Speaker 2: Did y'all slow dance to it in the living room?
Speaker 4: Finally he listened, y'all was a girl, listen. You don't
Speaker 4: even want I can't even say, Okay, that's fine, I
Speaker 4: got it.
Speaker 2: I gotta imagination.
Speaker 4: He's a wonderful person. He really is that?
Speaker 3: He is?
Speaker 1: All Okay, wait, why did you say it? Like Miss
Speaker 1: Speaky from Muppet Babies.
Speaker 2: I need to naciate all of it, and I'm not.
Speaker 5: I had a vertion about particular song you did.
Speaker 6: It's nice, all right, I'm sorry, satisfy you the duet
Speaker 6: with Damian Paul. Yes, the original version, you know, Brian
Speaker 6: Lenrin version. It has Michael Jack He's singing the backs
Speaker 6: on it.
Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, there's a version.
Speaker 6: The original version is Brian singing lead and Mike is
Speaker 6: doing the hook.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Do you remember anything about that session or recording that?
Speaker 4: That's crazy?
Speaker 7: It sounds familiar now that you say that, But I
Speaker 7: don't remember that happening. But I I understand why it
Speaker 7: didn't happen that way, that they would have Michael on it.
Speaker 7: So I get that part. But I do remember there
Speaker 7: being a big push on Damien and that song, and
Speaker 7: I didn't How can I say that I didn't.
Speaker 4: Get why the song was so special?
Speaker 5: Really, I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 7: I think it's a pretty song, but I didn't understand
Speaker 7: it to be that, so I didn't get it.
Speaker 5: So there you go, man, Well you sound great.
Speaker 4: On it, well, thank you.
Speaker 7: I love singing background. It's one of my very very
Speaker 7: favorite things. It's what I love to do. And I
Speaker 7: tell people all the time, you need background, call me.
Speaker 4: When I was going to quit the business, I was like,
Speaker 4: I could sing for Janet and Katie Lang.
Speaker 2: Favorite background session, come on.
Speaker 7: On my own, shoot all of them, every single song.
Speaker 7: I love harmonizing with myself. I love yourself blending and
Speaker 7: and there's a there's a first tone, and then there's
Speaker 7: a second one that makes it ring true that it's exact,
Speaker 7: and then there's a softer tone I use, and then
Speaker 7: I figure out what frequency is missing, so I do
Speaker 7: the third tone, and then the fourth one is the
Speaker 7: base the uh and it's all the same note.
Speaker 4: But it's just an approach to the note, whether it be.
Speaker 7: Only wishious and then holysious, mysious, you know what I.
Speaker 1: Mean, and no softer tune.
Speaker 7: Whatever it is that it is that that it does this,
Speaker 7: because that's what background should do, is support.
Speaker 4: They should all connect like weaving, like together.
Speaker 2: Never do this.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, y'allant, y'all should do something together. I
Speaker 3: don't know why I see that in my hand or
Speaker 3: in my mind it's like something I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yes, I love you, I love your background. They always
Speaker 6: sound like really lush and warm and full and not
Speaker 6: straight up.
Speaker 4: And well let's do that. Let's not let that pass.
Speaker 5: Gotcha.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you talked about your influences as far as
Speaker 1: like uh as you grew up idolizing, But are there
Speaker 1: any contemporaries that you really respect their game as far
Speaker 1: as like they're because it's weird. I think vocalists listen
Speaker 1: to music like as a musician, I listened for other elements,
Speaker 1: and I would probably say that I'm, you know, committing
Speaker 1: the ultimate sin that it's almost like the vocalist is
Speaker 1: the condiment on the on the burger, like I'm so
Speaker 1: busy listening to all the musical elements. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: know that singers. There's some songwriters that just listen to
Speaker 1: the words and whatnot and how things are phrased, and
Speaker 1: then singers listen to tone. So who of your contemporaries do
Speaker 1: you respect?
Speaker 7: There's like people came out of my time or people
Speaker 7: who are out.
Speaker 4: Now for me.
Speaker 1: That's like on the spot question, like like right now,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh god, okay, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: But can you see that I wrote stuff down. I
Speaker 4: am over thirty five, and I know people.
Speaker 1: Ask slightly fly, you're thirty four.
Speaker 4: Okay and a half. But what I love.
Speaker 7: The first person that came to mind was Shaka because
Speaker 7: the first time I heard her, I was at my
Speaker 7: church picnic and I was walking through somebody else's camp
Speaker 7: and here comes a drink.
Speaker 4: I'm into Hollywood and went in the Hollywood. I was like,
Speaker 4: what who?
Speaker 7: And I literally sat down on somebody else's blanket, which
Speaker 7: you're not allowed to do really, but I was like,
Speaker 7: if I leave this camp, I'm never going to hear
Speaker 7: the rest of this song. So I sat down and
Speaker 7: I heard the harmonies that I dreamed of. So Shaka
Speaker 7: was the first influence from the outside world that I
Speaker 7: was like, oh my god, wait, I have to know
Speaker 7: who that person is. And eventually I figured out who
Speaker 7: that is. I love Bruno Mars because of his showmanship
Speaker 7: and his ability to sing live and the way it's
Speaker 7: a complete show. I love him and Anderson Packt the
Speaker 7: way they have combined forces and brought different worlds together
Speaker 7: inside of his show, and how they've honored each other's
Speaker 7: talent with one another's talent Mariah Carey.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, I get why people can why people compare us,
Speaker 7: But I love Mariah.
Speaker 4: I love the way her head voice.
Speaker 7: And that's the thing. I've never had vocal training, but
Speaker 7: I want vocal training. And I'm saying it out loud
Speaker 7: Stevie Nacky that I want vocal training because there's a
Speaker 7: part of my voice that I absolutely want to train
Speaker 7: to be able to reach. Like just that Mariah carry
Speaker 7: things and there's a lot of range of sechings in
Speaker 7: her full it's called head voice that she has that
Speaker 7: I really I want to master.
Speaker 1: Sometimes as of lately she's been like and that's a
Speaker 1: new voice that I'm not used to.
Speaker 7: So no, it's the one when she says, uh, the
Speaker 7: friendship song, do do do do do?
Speaker 4: When you lonely need a friend? Yeah, you need a friend?
Speaker 7: Or she just ah, well, well she's way up there because.
Speaker 4: I'm probably not in that key. But when she sees
Speaker 4: that a.
Speaker 2: She go gospel, when she goes to gospel, oh my god.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's that's the that's the place I need to train.
Speaker 7: Like I am so okay with learning more about my
Speaker 7: voice than I know already. It's been thirty years, but
Speaker 7: I still know there's better, there's more. I'm better now
Speaker 7: than I was in nineteen ninety two. I had a
Speaker 7: very small, very airy voice when I first came out,
Speaker 7: and it has like you know, sometimes people's voice, they
Speaker 7: get lower and deeper and they sound like a man
Speaker 7: or something like that. But my voice was so high
Speaker 7: and so airy that now it's deepened and it's it's
Speaker 7: more rich than her husband. And I've learned how to
Speaker 7: do more with it than I knew how to do before.
Speaker 7: So I'm really grateful to be an older person with
Speaker 7: this voice and with the knowledge that I have of myself.
Speaker 4: So Mariah, I love her.
Speaker 7: Jojah Cat nothing to do with me, different kind of song,
Speaker 7: but I love her. I love Gibon, I love India
Speaker 7: Sean beautiful. I love her as a person and as
Speaker 7: a musician.
Speaker 4: I love her.
Speaker 1: I don't play with my heart.
Speaker 7: There's a new one she has. I don forgot what
Speaker 7: it's called, but it's sexy. I forgot what it was called.
Speaker 7: But get her new record. Robert Glasper I want to
Speaker 7: work with him. I've seen him a couple of times.
Speaker 7: I love him. Ramah, Well, you know it's funny it
Speaker 7: would be easy, except I don't meet people until recently.
Speaker 7: Like there's a lot of people that Stephen says, oh, oh,
Speaker 7: they would love to work with you.
Speaker 4: I just don't know it because I've been home, so
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You never had singing talk with Mariah. You and Mariah
Speaker 2: never talked boys stuff.
Speaker 7: I've only seen Mariah in passing where I've hugged her
Speaker 7: and said.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm such a fan, and she was like,
Speaker 4: I love you too.
Speaker 7: And then we walked past each other. We've not been
Speaker 7: in a place where we're like sitting and hey, hey,
Speaker 7: you know that's never It's never happened.
Speaker 1: We should make that happen.
Speaker 4: I love her like, I truly love her. Like people
Speaker 4: talk about her, they'll be like saying, she, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, you mentioned Steve Mackie. I believe Steve m So
Speaker 1: is he then new seth Riggs? Like is he now
Speaker 1: the go to trainer? God?
Speaker 7: Well, if you know the story as well. I don't
Speaker 7: think I've ever said this out loud to people. Okay,
Speaker 7: so I'm saying it out loud. I went to seth Riggs.
Speaker 4: Before my record came out, and he he literally turned
Speaker 4: me down.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 7: He said, no, you'll never and he actually said you'll
Speaker 7: never do the Mariah Carey notes.
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh oh sorry. He literally he
Speaker 4: was like, go to someone else, so I'm sure you
Speaker 4: can get training.
Speaker 1: Wait is there a history of people just saying like, no,
Speaker 1: it is no matter of fact to you, and then
Speaker 1: you're just like, okay, whatever I.
Speaker 7: Am to me one of the words other than love,
Speaker 7: because I am a lover at heart.
Speaker 4: I am resilient.
Speaker 7: If I was a cusser, I will say resilient as
Speaker 7: but I'm not a really cuss so I.
Speaker 4: Don't say that.
Speaker 7: But I am extremely resilient. I may fall on my
Speaker 7: face and scan all this up like bloody, but I'm
Speaker 7: getting back up. That's just part of my nature is
Speaker 7: to just like go really, let's see if that's true
Speaker 7: and do it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, yeah, because I was about to say.
Speaker 4: Like, I've had some pretty harsh nose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well okay, speaking of which, like I skip it,
Speaker 1: but I got it. I have to figure out the
Speaker 1: whole Warner Brothers situation and how that fell apart.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, I turned the record in and Benny
Speaker 7: was like, you are more interesting than your record is.
Speaker 1: But isn't he also, like, I think it's his job
Speaker 1: to make sure that you choose the right material.
Speaker 7: And I don't think happy time.
Speaker 4: Or inclination to do that.
Speaker 2: What else was going on at the same.
Speaker 4: Time, Prince Sign of the Times.
Speaker 7: Karen White, Okay, I'll be sure. Okay, I wasn't quite there,
Speaker 7: and I'm okay with that, And I think maybe that's
Speaker 7: from my history as in the More Family. I'm not sure,
Speaker 7: but I can handle no. I can't handle never, but
Speaker 7: I can handle no. Not right now.
Speaker 4: Because it's been thirty years.
Speaker 7: No, but it's been. It's miraculous and wonderful at the
Speaker 7: same time. And I've given up a couple of times
Speaker 7: and then gone okay, So seriously, what.
Speaker 4: Are you going to do instead of singing? I'm sorry, Chante,
Speaker 4: what is it?
Speaker 2: What are you going to do? What were you going
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 7: I was gonna go to some Beverly Hills hotel or
Speaker 7: something and get every night gig or something.
Speaker 4: It was just gonna be singing.
Speaker 2: You was always gonna be a singer from the jump.
Speaker 2: There was nothing.
Speaker 4: There are voiceovers. I thought before I was going to
Speaker 4: be a model, but I only drew to five four,
Speaker 4: so that was over. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Guess who I saw today. I cannot remember what project
Speaker 3: that was for. And literally like one of my favorite
Speaker 3: Nancy Wilson songs, but like I would have never thought,
Speaker 3: Chante Moore.
Speaker 4: What's crazy?
Speaker 7: I was on Warner Brothers when I first heard that song,
Speaker 7: and I thought to myself when I was nineteen twenty
Speaker 7: when I first heard that song in Warner Brothers. As
Speaker 7: a matter of fact, I thought, one day I'm going
Speaker 7: to sing that song. And then when More is More
Speaker 7: came along and they were asking for me to do
Speaker 7: a more of a jazz album, I went to George
Speaker 7: Duke and asked him if he produce it. And Nancy
Speaker 7: herself heard the song and actually gave me the head.
Speaker 4: Nod on it, and.
Speaker 7: That was one of my favorite things. And I was
Speaker 7: actually able to sing that song to her at a.
Speaker 4: Tribute to her one day. But yeah, yeah, that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 6: I wanted to ask about Ken Light and you would
Speaker 6: keep watching it. We all go together, and y'all did that?
Speaker 5: Or was that you know?
Speaker 4: We were together as we saying it.
Speaker 7: Lany Stewart and Tony Haynes and I wrote that song
Speaker 7: and kissing you would already come out and Little loved
Speaker 7: Keith Washington and he thought we'd be the new Tammy
Speaker 7: Terrell and Marvin Gaye and we all did.
Speaker 4: We we asked.
Speaker 7: Him to sing it and thankfully he came and did
Speaker 7: and we it just it just spit. He has a
Speaker 7: very masculine voice and I have a very gally.
Speaker 4: Kind of sound, and it just made sense.
Speaker 7: And yeah, that was It was in Chicago with Lady
Speaker 7: Stewart and Tony Haynes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, where are two?
Speaker 2: Keith Washington Salter just one?
Speaker 7: I Love You was the second one we did on
Speaker 7: another record, but Shawnie Wilson wrote that song with Somebody,
Speaker 7: But yeah, that was the other song we did.
Speaker 1: Really, of all the producers you worked with, who would
Speaker 1: you say is your top five in terms of like nurturing,
Speaker 1: really caring about the product.
Speaker 4: First? In mind?
Speaker 7: Of course is George Duke second? Only because of timing,
Speaker 7: because I didn't meet Jimmy and Terry until my third album.
Speaker 4: It was the top three. Yeah, that's it. I was like, wait,
Speaker 4: it was the third one.
Speaker 7: That was when I first met them and we did
Speaker 7: Mood together, so I didn't I didn't really know all
Speaker 7: of all of who they were, and as I met
Speaker 7: them and as I heard more songs. I love that
Speaker 7: part of it is that it's an unfolding as I meet.
Speaker 4: As I met the producers, I started going, oh my god,
Speaker 4: that was you, that was you. Oh my god, dan It,
Speaker 4: oh my god. Some stuff I didn't know. And it
Speaker 4: was like it was like a.
Speaker 7: Waterfall deluge of information happening so quickly. But I I
Speaker 7: they're at the top two. I'm trying to think, who gosh,
Speaker 7: who pushed me like crazy? I love Simon Law who
Speaker 7: did Loves taking over with me and we did songs.
Speaker 4: On the second album.
Speaker 7: Actually, Ronnie Jackson, who did a lot of who did
Speaker 7: produce all of the songs on this independent album I
Speaker 7: did called Rise of the Phoenix. He's one of my
Speaker 7: favorite producer writers. I just I think each each writer
Speaker 7: and producer has their own unique lane. And I think
Speaker 7: that's part of being a chameleon as an artist, is
Speaker 7: to be able to conform and do your best in
Speaker 7: all the circumstances.
Speaker 4: It's like people who are like, well, I.
Speaker 7: Don't sing in the range, or I don't sing when
Speaker 7: the sons are or I don't sing when it's a
Speaker 7: cloudy day, and I don't sing when it's I'm like,
Speaker 7: I'll sing different all the blassing. That's the thing everywhere,
Speaker 7: and that's what I think it's about. To be a
Speaker 7: person who lasts through time is being able to morph
Speaker 7: and and be able to continue to grow a Just
Speaker 7: grow that, gane it. You haven't arrived given a ride.
Speaker 1: I say that. I say that to singers who still
Speaker 1: give me the whole air conditioning thing.
Speaker 4: But no, let me say.
Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I hear it.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no no no no, I know.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 7: If you turn on the air conditioner, if I start
Speaker 7: a show and I feel the air conditioner after I
Speaker 7: started sweating, it's.
Speaker 4: The free on in the air. It isn't if you
Speaker 4: want me to finish the show, turn off the air.
Speaker 4: I want to sing for hours.
Speaker 7: I sing as long as you want me to. I
Speaker 7: sing an hour if you want me to. But if
Speaker 7: the air comes on, you got about three minutes before
Speaker 7: she's gone and I can't help it. Damn, Okay, it's
Speaker 7: the free on. I don't know how people sing under
Speaker 7: fans period.
Speaker 1: Besides saying Luke, I am your father. He's the most jokes,
Speaker 1: the worst jokes I've ever told any given episode I want.
Speaker 5: Are you so?
Speaker 6: Reportedly you're on the You're an uncredited guest on Jay
Speaker 6: Z's Girls Girls Girls Remix?
Speaker 1: Is that true or not?
Speaker 5: The one with Mike Michael Jackson on it?
Speaker 4: Amma, somebody need to pay me. I don't know, Emma,
Speaker 4: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: She's probably saying some shit inter session, you.
Speaker 4: Know what. Maybe so it could be somebody asked Stephen.
Speaker 4: He might know better than I. Is that if I am.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to be right, p sked the song I
Speaker 3: was talking about special, You're right, you had it first,
Speaker 3: but then Sarah Devine did it next, and it was.
Speaker 4: Oh, I ain't even know.
Speaker 7: I know Sarah Raphaelsa.
Speaker 4: Dek wrote it anyway, so you know he did it.
Speaker 4: It wasn't then it was him.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask this question.
Speaker 4: Go ahead and ask go ahead.
Speaker 1: So when you're getting the treatment mm hmmm for.
Speaker 3: The contagious video, Okay, yeah, yes, let's Cool's cool?
Speaker 1: Did you even realize, like I'm almost certain, there was
Speaker 1: a point in your life where you were only referred
Speaker 1: to by a certain generation as just like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: mister Biggs's wife, and you know, and I'm certain for
Speaker 1: a generation that the Isisley brothers were the two guys
Speaker 1: that's saying contagious and nothing else.
Speaker 2: Yeap, yes, fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And plus there was a period. It was a period
Speaker 1: in the late nineties in which like these gazillion dollar
Speaker 1: videos were getting made left and right, these epic budgets
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Yeah, what was that entire process? Like, like
Speaker 1: who's selling you on the concept and everything?
Speaker 7: Well, the first thing is when you talked about being
Speaker 7: in the same place at the same time singing, right,
Speaker 7: R Kelly, ron Eisley and I were never.
Speaker 4: In the same place singing anything. That's first thing.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: R Kelly is a musical genius. He's a lot of
Speaker 4: other things, but he is a musical genius.
Speaker 7: And so he called and was like, listen, so I
Speaker 7: want you to sing Greig.
Speaker 1: He piecemealed it.
Speaker 4: He was like, I'm gonna go and then you.
Speaker 6: Go no, no, he give us some drama, non no, none.
Speaker 7: So I'm singing it, but I'm doing it in a
Speaker 7: studio by myself here in la He's in Chicago. I
Speaker 7: don't know where Ron Issley was.
Speaker 4: And then when we got the I got the treatment
Speaker 4: for the video.
Speaker 1: What it happened was, yes, he is.
Speaker 4: Okay, I am in the bed in the video. That's right,
Speaker 4: I am in the video.
Speaker 7: What's interesting about that is that Robert was yeah, no, Robert,
Speaker 7: it was very specific about that. We had to be caught.
Speaker 4: In the act. So he was like, we need to
Speaker 4: practice the kissing part. I was like, no, no, we
Speaker 4: don't need to practice the kissing. We don't need to
Speaker 4: practice it.
Speaker 7: So he wanted to practice all the parts that we
Speaker 7: were going to do, and I was like, no, we're
Speaker 7: I'm sure we'll kiss just fine. Whenever it happens, it'll
Speaker 7: be fine. And so many bads I got.
Speaker 3: I just I know, it's okay.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: But even then, well I remember more or less at
Speaker 1: the height of the success and the sort of the
Speaker 1: just the fast pace of it just becoming beyond just
Speaker 1: like a hit song or whatever. Yeah, Like I'm certain
Speaker 1: by that point they were like, we got to do more,
Speaker 1: we got to do more.
Speaker 7: Like I don't think they well, they didn't come for more.
Speaker 7: They didn't ask me to do other songs. It was
Speaker 7: a phenomenon, for sure, But I think the Isley Brothers
Speaker 7: ran with the mister Big more than it ran with
Speaker 7: who was the girl?
Speaker 4: Who was mister BIG's girl? And then once r Kelly
Speaker 4: got in trouble, it was like.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm not even I'm not even singing that song
Speaker 7: in that piece in my show because I used to.
Speaker 4: Be like doom doom, doom boom and then it would
Speaker 4: be going on and.
Speaker 7: So it was really fun to bring that into my
Speaker 7: show because it was so different. They were like, oh
Speaker 7: my god, people forget really get that that was me
Speaker 7: because it didn't necessarily say shante more on it. It
Speaker 7: was just like, oh, mister Big and our Wait, you
Speaker 7: have to read the small print to see that it
Speaker 7: was me.
Speaker 1: So Steve just hit me and said, you got to
Speaker 1: ask her about tell the story. The Soul Train Awards
Speaker 1: performance this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, you got people was happy to see you.
Speaker 7: It's been the catalyst for so much after that that it.
Speaker 4: Has blown my mind. I I beforehand, you know, Stephen
Speaker 4: is really he's a great supporter.
Speaker 7: He's a he's good at That's what he does for
Speaker 7: a living is put people on, you know, whether it
Speaker 7: be you being the host of a show or on
Speaker 7: the show, or the music or the person singing or the.
Speaker 4: Lighter the lighting guy, whatever it is.
Speaker 7: He is that guy. But I don't think he had
Speaker 7: anything to do with that show. People like you scooed
Speaker 7: you married him because you put you on that show.
Speaker 4: Steven loves me for me. So, but that show happened.
Speaker 7: And I'll have to give props to Jesse Collins and
Speaker 7: Dioncle and Dion she I've.
Speaker 1: Got a last name, Kim soon to be Collins that.
Speaker 7: I believe it's I believe it is common knowledge.
Speaker 1: Yes they did.
Speaker 4: So they asked me to do the show and I
Speaker 4: and I really I was like, oh, that's so, that's
Speaker 4: so cool. Who am I tricketing? And they were like you.
Speaker 2: Poor little gerald LeVert.
Speaker 4: No, I was gonna be singing some singing somebody else's.
Speaker 4: So I'm like doing Tonia doing. What are we doing?
Speaker 4: And I wasn't saying that.
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm humble. I just had no idea, and
Speaker 7: so they were like you and I was like, holy MACARONI.
Speaker 7: So I'm still the girl who gets nervous before the shows.
Speaker 7: I'm still the person who has butterflies until I land
Speaker 7: on stage and then I let them go on the audience.
Speaker 7: So I wanted to give a show a performance that
Speaker 7: showed all the different sides of who I am.
Speaker 4: And it was.
Speaker 7: Wonderful to be able to dance a little bit and
Speaker 7: be calm a little bit and then singing Chanta's Got
Speaker 7: a Man a little bit, and.
Speaker 4: It was scary.
Speaker 7: But Adam Blackstone, oh my god, the band is amazing.
Speaker 4: Every band he puts together is amazing. Though he is
Speaker 4: such a great musician that I didn't.
Speaker 7: Sometimes some stuff happens, and I think it's a good
Speaker 7: thing that I'm naives some stuff because it makes even
Speaker 7: though I'm nervous, it makes me less nervous.
Speaker 4: When I find out effort, I'm like.
Speaker 7: Oh shoot, they were watching, Oh my god, like it
Speaker 7: becomes something else. For what I will say about that
Speaker 7: show that very few people know is that between It's
Speaker 7: all Right and Chanta's Got a Man the first time
Speaker 7: I sang it, because I sign me twice, I was
Speaker 7: supposed to be helped down the stairs. And I was
Speaker 7: being helped down the stairs. As I stepped down the stairs,
Speaker 7: and that last stair, the guy was suposed hold my
Speaker 7: hand and keep my hand until I got on level ground.
Speaker 7: The gentleman let go on my hand. Either he let
Speaker 7: go on my hand or I was like either way.
Speaker 7: On that last step, my heel got caught on the
Speaker 7: last stair and I literally fell to my knees and
Speaker 7: I was like, it felt like thirty seconds between hitting
Speaker 7: my knees and me understanding that that really did.
Speaker 4: That just happen?
Speaker 7: Because this happened to other people I've I've never gone
Speaker 7: on stage before because anybody there's TV cameras everywhere, there's.
Speaker 4: An audience of thousands of people. This is going to
Speaker 4: be on YouTube. Literally, my brain was like going and
Speaker 4: I was like, get off.
Speaker 2: I ain't even hear about that.
Speaker 7: There are people who were there who couldn't see it
Speaker 7: because of the way the audience set. I didn't even
Speaker 7: think about it. I was just like get up and finished.
Speaker 7: Because I'm alive entertainer. I've done very little TV in
Speaker 7: the last twenty years. Maybe the first ten years was
Speaker 7: a lot of stuff, but in the last twenty years
Speaker 7: I haven't been on TV a lot.
Speaker 4: And it's cool. Most of my life I've been performing live.
Speaker 7: People go, oh you still saying, I'm like listen, I
Speaker 7: think you think I'm playing the bills mama singing. So anyway,
Speaker 7: I get up, I sing Chante's got a man because
Speaker 7: Dion knows me.
Speaker 4: Girlfriend came over. She was like, okay, so baby, do
Speaker 4: you want to rub on my back? Baby?
Speaker 7: Do you want to just sing from from the start?
Speaker 7: I just wanted to go back from which park Just
Speaker 7: tell me the part you want. So she's rubbing my
Speaker 7: back and I'm like, because I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 4: I am just happy to be here. It sounds like
Speaker 4: an Aquarius god, so I so mean it.
Speaker 1: Dion's like, mom, I love the We actually have to
Speaker 1: get both of them both, Jesse Collins in love you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be dope.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that would be great.
Speaker 1: They run everything.
Speaker 7: They run the world, girl, the world.
Speaker 4: They're amazing.
Speaker 7: So I got up and I resang, it's all right,
Speaker 7: and did chants got a man, which is why they
Speaker 7: have that particular walking down the stair. That's why I'm
Speaker 7: looking at the dude on each step. If you see
Speaker 7: me go down watching the dude, I'm like, you ain't
Speaker 7: dropping my booty giggings.
Speaker 4: That's why I'm stepping on the steps like I'm stepping
Speaker 4: on the steps. And that's why I didn't look over
Speaker 4: at Steven.
Speaker 7: That's why I went like that because I was like,
Speaker 7: I'm not even looking at you because I was so
Speaker 7: self conscious at that point.
Speaker 4: But I knew, get to the end, get to the end,
Speaker 4: keep singing. That's the whole point is to be resilient.
Speaker 7: And I think that's what God was trying to tell
Speaker 7: me in the moment, is that no matter how many
Speaker 7: times you fall down, it doesn't matter. It's that you
Speaker 7: get back up again. And that's the story of my
Speaker 7: life is that I may be down, but I'm never
Speaker 7: counted out. I never count myself out. I am fifty
Speaker 7: six years old, and this is.
Speaker 4: Thirty years in this business, and I am blessed in
Speaker 4: honor to be right where I am on an uptick.
Speaker 4: The fact that I'm here on your show, the fact
Speaker 4: that there are.
Speaker 7: Things that are coming that I can't even tell you
Speaker 7: about yet, that I am so beyond blessed and so
Speaker 7: beyond thrilled to still be here.
Speaker 4: And I feel like I'm prepared for my future and
Speaker 4: not like going, oh my god, oh my God, we
Speaker 4: hope I can do it. I'm like sure about it,
Speaker 4: even though it makes me nervous.
Speaker 7: I got bats in my stomach rather than butterflies, because
Speaker 7: it's a whole nother.
Speaker 1: Level of what like nervousness.
Speaker 4: No, for real, people get butterflies. I've even got bats
Speaker 4: in there. They're like, I'm afraid before every show.
Speaker 7: I say afraid, I'm nervous before every show as soon
Speaker 7: as I step on the stage and I see each face.
Speaker 4: You talk about.
Speaker 7: Award winning, and I say it all the time, and
Speaker 7: I meet it with all my soul every time I
Speaker 7: step on the stage, each face, each person in every seat.
Speaker 4: That paid to see this girl thing, this one. They're
Speaker 4: my Grammys.
Speaker 7: They are my American Music Awards, they are my honors,
Speaker 7: they are my whatever you want.
Speaker 4: To call it. I have a million Grammys. If those
Speaker 4: people that come back and say, hey, you are the
Speaker 4: reason why I didn't kill myself.
Speaker 7: I listened to Chantez Gotta Man, or Loves Taking Over
Speaker 7: or It's all Right, and for my mother when she
Speaker 7: was dying, and it brought her peace. You are the
Speaker 7: reason why I still am here.
Speaker 4: Those things.
Speaker 7: That's the reason why I get back up and I
Speaker 7: sing over and over and over the same songs over
Speaker 7: and over again.
Speaker 4: But I'm putting new music out this year. But that's
Speaker 4: why I do what I do.
Speaker 3: I'm just glad you ain't stick of them yet because
Speaker 3: we not so I'm not I'm not finished yet.
Speaker 4: I'm really not finished.
Speaker 7: I'm really I'm not done, and I'm happy to still
Speaker 7: just be here.
Speaker 4: I really am.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for your union to one of my
Speaker 1: favorite music nerds of all time. You know, it couldn't
Speaker 1: have happened to a better person. I regret. I know
Speaker 1: there was a period in which I was sort of
Speaker 1: on the short list to DJ to DJ the wedding,
Speaker 1: and you know I couldn't do it at the time
Speaker 1: because I had a few jobs going.
Speaker 2: So I think they did just fine. I think he
Speaker 2: did just fine.
Speaker 4: We missed your presence there.
Speaker 7: Both of us respected, love you very much, and we're
Speaker 7: very happy. Both of us respect and love you very
Speaker 7: much for.
Speaker 1: Just that beautiful, beautiful You know we're big fans of
Speaker 1: you on the show, and we thank you for coming
Speaker 1: on and talking.
Speaker 2: To lapping you with these flowers.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Was on mute. You might want to take it off
Speaker 1: mute and do it again.
Speaker 6: No, I do like a silent clap because it's on zoom,
Speaker 6: so it's like I don't want to cut cut the audio,
Speaker 6: all right.
Speaker 1: Well, on behalf of Silent Steve and Hilo, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you very much Sean for coming on the show,
Speaker 1: and thank you guys for listening to Quest Supreme. And
Speaker 1: we will see you next week on the next go round.
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