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Speaker 1: for coming, Thank you for spending time with us. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me so many many
Speaker 1: things I want to ask you because I have been
Speaker 1: a fan for so long. My godson Ryan, who by
Speaker 1: the way, when he first saw you, came to me
Speaker 1: and said, I saw the woman I'm going to marry
Speaker 1: No way, Yeah, yeah he did, he did, And so
Speaker 1: he turned us on to you, and he's played so
Speaker 1: many of your videos for us, for me and the
Speaker 1: kids over the years. And when I first saw you,
Speaker 1: the thing that I was drawn to is how authentic
Speaker 1: you seem, and then I got to meet you and
Speaker 1: hang out with you, and you are who you are
Speaker 1: and I love that. Oh well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I think that when you're true
Speaker 1: to what you love, you can't fake authenticity. No, you can't,
Speaker 1: although some people try. Absolutely you would be amazed. But
Speaker 1: you are authentically down to earth and adorable. Oh thanks,
Speaker 1: absolutely adorable. I don't play video games, but I have
Speaker 1: seen you as the little elf in Zelda. Well you know,
Speaker 1: I got into that because well I played a little
Speaker 1: bit at some video games as a kid. But I
Speaker 1: love the music in them. I love that they tell
Speaker 1: stories through the music and video games, and I love
Speaker 1: dress up and so making and to play these characters
Speaker 1: is really you don't get to wear the elf fears
Speaker 1: and everything. Cosplay is fun. It is, and you're you
Speaker 1: do it. Well, you're adorable. You're just like a natural
Speaker 1: little adorable elf hopping around and playing and having a blast.
Speaker 1: So well, thank you. That's my one of my goals
Speaker 1: in life, bounce around as an elf. And I'm succeeding,
Speaker 1: I guess. And so I got to ask you, are
Speaker 1: you like, are you in a serious relationship? Lindsay sterling Ooh,
Speaker 1: one will never tell I am I'm dating a gentleman
Speaker 1: so at the moment, but you know, I've had many
Speaker 1: years single, you know, being a working woman, it's hard
Speaker 1: to balance that love life. And because my son, my
Speaker 1: god son, Ryan is willing to help you with oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh okay, oh yeah, he's so willing to help you
Speaker 1: with that. I'm just saying, just putting it out there. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, if you put something out of the universe,
Speaker 1: that's the best way that it could possibly come to fruition.
Speaker 1: That is true, A strong believer in that. That is true.
Speaker 1: So you play violin, and you've been playing for how long?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well do I reveal my age? Oh? Just?
Speaker 1: I mean you were a child? I was. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was six years old when I started. So I've been
Speaker 1: playing upwards of you know, twenty years. Wait, far over
Speaker 1: twenty years. And when did you know that you had
Speaker 1: a gift? Well, you know, to be honest, I wasn't
Speaker 1: an incredibly gifted child in any way. Like you know,
Speaker 1: it came slowly to me and all my parents encourage you.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, you're telling
Speaker 1: me you had to practice kids? You gotta practice today.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait, you're telling me
Speaker 1: you had to have discipline and practice something to be good.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, boyd I had actually a terrible pitch
Speaker 1: as a child, and as a violinist you have to
Speaker 1: have impeccable pitch, and so that was something I had
Speaker 1: to work on a lot. Whoa, whoa. Mind blown, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, young people, listen to this. Lindsay Sterling, who
Speaker 1: was recognized as the premier, the top female violinist in
Speaker 1: the world right now, is saying, you have to work
Speaker 1: on it, oh very much. So. You know, if there's
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned and how to do, it's it's
Speaker 1: even more so than play the violin or dance. It's
Speaker 1: I think I've learned to work really hard. And that's
Speaker 1: where I'm at, why I'm where i'm at today. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm better at working. I'm fun because I have You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of kids and a lot of people think
Speaker 1: that you just like snap your fingers and you're a
Speaker 1: protege or you're famous, or you're and you have had
Speaker 1: to work incredibly hard, oh incredibly hard. Well, and I
Speaker 1: think it's you know, it's ironic when people say to me, oh,
Speaker 1: I took violin lessons for a little bit, but I
Speaker 1: was terrible. And I'm like, I don't know anyone that
Speaker 1: started the violin and that was good at it. Like
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's not a very forgiving instrument. It's
Speaker 1: very you know, it's like a trombone. Trombone is not
Speaker 1: a forgiving instrument. No, you're exactly right, And you have
Speaker 1: to play for a while before you can even make
Speaker 1: a good sound, let alone play it. But just making
Speaker 1: a nice sound is you know, it takes a while.
Speaker 1: So so who was it harder on you having to
Speaker 1: have discipline and practice or your folks having to listen
Speaker 1: to that. I'm going to probably say my sisters. Actually,
Speaker 1: my parents knew they were in for this, you know
Speaker 1: when they signed me up for the violin lessons. But
Speaker 1: I remember my sisters used to clever their ears and
Speaker 1: be like, mom, maker stop. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's why I practiced so hard, because it was Wow,
Speaker 1: I found something that will drive my sisters insane. You
Speaker 1: know how kids are, Yeah, I do, I do. And
Speaker 1: I was the sister that drove my sister insane. Lindsay
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Speaker 1: me and the student as Lindsay Sterling. And you said
Speaker 1: something upstairs when we were talking beforehand. My youngest daughter,
Speaker 1: little Delilah, was, you know, getting your attention and performing
Speaker 1: for you. And I told you that she's allowed one
Speaker 1: activity either, you know, one activity a season. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be doing two or three sports or two
Speaker 1: or three activities. And your face lit up, and you said,
Speaker 1: that's why I played the violin, because you told your folks,
Speaker 1: what was your choice? What did you want to do? Well?
Speaker 1: As a kid, I, you know, five six years old,
Speaker 1: I begged for dance lessons and violin lessons, and so
Speaker 1: my mom took me to one of each, and then
Speaker 1: it was kind of you have to choose, you know,
Speaker 1: they just could not afford one, let alone both, and
Speaker 1: so they I chose the violin and played my entire life.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't until my you know, like after I
Speaker 1: think I was twenty three when I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to dance. I'm going to teach myself to dance.
Speaker 1: And so it wasn't till way later in life. And
Speaker 1: again I had to work incredibly hard as to train
Speaker 1: my body in my twenties to do what a dancer does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because most dancers starts six, seven, eight ten, Oh yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: so you had ketchup. So how many hours a day
Speaker 1: did you practice when you decided to learn how to dance?
Speaker 1: How many hours a day did you train? You know,
Speaker 1: I can't even I can't even tell you half an hour,
Speaker 1: an hour, two three, I mean two hours, probably because
Speaker 1: not only was I trying to dance, but I actually
Speaker 1: would try to dance while playing and so to kind
Speaker 1: of master that. So that's how I dance the best,
Speaker 1: actually is when I have a violin in my hand,
Speaker 1: because that's how I taught myself to dance. And yeah,
Speaker 1: hours hours of meticulously practicing the most simple movements, you know,
Speaker 1: and at first I called it dancing, but it was
Speaker 1: more like just kind of wiggling my body, or it
Speaker 1: looked like I was playing hopscotch with a violin. But
Speaker 1: you know, because it was so unnatural, and slowly over
Speaker 1: the years it's turned into dancing and twirling and jumping.
Speaker 1: And so when you play the violin, do you see
Speaker 1: the music? Some people, I mean, I can tell you
Speaker 1: feel it in your dance. You interpret it intuitively in
Speaker 1: your dance? Do you see it? Are there colors associated
Speaker 1: with it? Do you you experience it in your other senses?
Speaker 1: You know, I've heard that some people. I wish I
Speaker 1: saw music in colors. I think that's such an incredible gift.
Speaker 1: But I see it in a different way. And oftentimes
Speaker 1: when I'm writing a song, I'm in the studio with
Speaker 1: a producer and we're writing a song, and I'll get
Speaker 1: an idea just by the sounds. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, this song is a pirate song.
Speaker 1: This song is meant for dancing pirates. And so all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, the producers actually think it's
Speaker 1: quite funny, and they're like really, and I'm like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's pirates. And so we'll finish out the song for
Speaker 1: a pirate that's dancing and you know, and that's just
Speaker 1: one example, but I've written so many songs that either
Speaker 1: before or while I'm in the studio, I may not
Speaker 1: see colors, but I see stories. You see stories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you've been able to produce those in some incredible videos.
Speaker 1: Oh that's you know. I went to film school. Actually
Speaker 1: I didn't study music and call it. I ended up
Speaker 1: going I wanted to be a director, and so one
Speaker 1: of my loves, one of my huge passions is directing
Speaker 1: and creating videos. And I love that I have combined
Speaker 1: two of my passions into one thing. I loved, you know,
Speaker 1: telling story through music and I love doing it visually.
Speaker 1: And now I get to do both. And you get
Speaker 1: to dance and you get to wear the most incredible costumes.
Speaker 1: Oh my favorite. I love designing costume. So who sews
Speaker 1: your costumes for you? Well? I work with some incredible
Speaker 1: stylists and we bring on you know, we bring on
Speaker 1: different seamstress to kind of bring our visions to life.
Speaker 1: But everything from you know, I can go to her
Speaker 1: and say, I want to be like a you know,
Speaker 1: a ring master of a circus, and that was in
Speaker 1: my last tour of One of my costumes had this
Speaker 1: awesome red coat, and we made one for my dog
Speaker 1: as well, so she could come on stage and do
Speaker 1: a trick mid show. Like we I just love to create,
Speaker 1: you know, an evening for if someone's going to come
Speaker 1: to a show, I want them to be thoroughly entertained.
Speaker 1: I don't want to just play music or just I
Speaker 1: want them to learn something. I want them to leave
Speaker 1: having felt something. I think anybody who watches your videos,
Speaker 1: or goes to your show, or even encounters you has
Speaker 1: to feel a lot. You bring out the feels. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. That's I think that's what every
Speaker 1: artist hopes to do, you know, is to make everyone
Speaker 1: feel something. Will you do a fabulous job. So tell
Speaker 1: me about the new song that we've been playing, and
Speaker 1: that love is such an amazing feeling. Tell me how
Speaker 1: that came to be. Well, you know, that song kind
Speaker 1: of encompassed what I wanted the album to, like, kind
Speaker 1: of be the pinnacle of the album's story. Because my
Speaker 1: album is called Brave Enough. And when I was writing
Speaker 1: this album, I was experiencing a lot of loss. You know,
Speaker 1: my best friend had just passed away. When I started writing,
Speaker 1: and my dad was going through cancer treatment, and you know,
Speaker 1: pretty much I was preparing myself that he was most
Speaker 1: likely going to pass away, and so I was just
Speaker 1: experiencing all this grief, all these emotions, and trying so
Speaker 1: hard not to emotionally close off. And you know, an
Speaker 1: it's my nature to kind of recoil and become a
Speaker 1: workaholic and you know, work my way through problems and
Speaker 1: fight on, hold on. I need to just look at
Speaker 1: producer Janey as you say that, because I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody else in this room like that now, you know.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the bigger things that our
Speaker 1: society struggles with is using There's so many different ways
Speaker 1: to numb, whether it's turning to our phones or devices
Speaker 1: or you know. I mean, there's really unhealthy ways of
Speaker 1: numbing that we can all think of. But also I
Speaker 1: think workoholism is something that I struggled with so much,
Speaker 1: you know, and being so busy that I didn't have
Speaker 1: time to even feel, you know, And here I am
Speaker 1: trying to write an album, and you cannot write music
Speaker 1: if you refuse to let yourself feel. And so love's
Speaker 1: just a feeling is about opening, you know, is about
Speaker 1: me opening my heart, being willing to accept the storms
Speaker 1: of life along with the sun, because you cannot see
Speaker 1: the sun unless you look up, and you know, with
Speaker 1: the chance of scene clouds, you can't. You cannot selectively
Speaker 1: numb emotions. You can't numb the you know, the bad
Speaker 1: without numbing the good. And no one wants to live
Speaker 1: a gray life, to live a life that experiences the
Speaker 1: full spectrum of colors. And so that's in a very
Speaker 1: long winded version, that's what the song is about. But
Speaker 1: we do, so many people do. We were talking about
Speaker 1: this outside our society numbs us down and dumbs us down,
Speaker 1: and so many people do live in a world of
Speaker 1: gray where because we're distracted, constantly distracted, or sitting in
Speaker 1: traffic or you know, addicted to alcohol or drugs or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, we are numb right well. And you know,
Speaker 1: I there's just so many ways I have found myself numbing.
Speaker 1: I keep finding it in different ways trying to sneak
Speaker 1: into my life. For a while, I suffered from anorexia,
Speaker 1: and that is an extreme way to numb yourself. If
Speaker 1: you want to live a gray, feelingless life, you know
Speaker 1: there's a key, but nutrients out of yourself exactly like
Speaker 1: starve yourself. And I was miserable, and yeah, I wasn't
Speaker 1: feeling the you know, I wasn't feeling anything, and it
Speaker 1: left me so empty, and you know, so wait, wait,
Speaker 1: So for all the young women listening and men, because
Speaker 1: a lot of young men are dealing with body image, now,
Speaker 1: what was the breakthrough that you said, I can't do this.
Speaker 1: I need to take care of me, I need to
Speaker 1: nurture my body. Well, you know, it was, first of all,
Speaker 1: an extreme realization when I finally realized I woke up
Speaker 1: and realized, oh my gosh, I'm anarexic. And I had
Speaker 1: kind of been in denial for so long and finally
Speaker 1: it became apparent. And what really clicked it for me was,
Speaker 1: wait a second, I used to be really happy. And
Speaker 1: I remembered this all of a sudden when I was
Speaker 1: with my sister and we were roommates in college. She
Speaker 1: was my best friend growing up, and I looked across
Speaker 1: at her. She was we were both in our room
Speaker 1: and she was doing her homework and I thought, I
Speaker 1: don't remember the last time I laughed with my sister.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time we shared a funny conversation,
Speaker 1: or I don't actually know anything about what she's going through.
Speaker 1: And I realized, when did I become this shell of
Speaker 1: a human that only thinks about what? Wow? I only
Speaker 1: think about food and weight and scale numbers and I
Speaker 1: and this woke me up to the string of events
Speaker 1: caused me to realize I was annarex and I was
Speaker 1: so unhappy and had no motivation in my life was
Speaker 1: I was miserable and I hated myself. And this realization
Speaker 1: made me realize I didn't used to be this way,
Speaker 1: and I knew how to work hard. I learned to
Speaker 1: play the violin, I had taught myself to dance. I
Speaker 1: had overcome many things in my life, and I thought,
Speaker 1: I know how to work through problems and I did
Speaker 1: everything I could. In that moment, I switched. I have
Speaker 1: a switch flipped in my head and I started researching,
Speaker 1: I started going to counseling, I started going to group therapies,
Speaker 1: and I mean, it took a lot of work, and
Speaker 1: it's made me realize that sometimes happiness is something you
Speaker 1: have to fight for, the same way we work on
Speaker 1: our appearance and our bodies and go to the gym,
Speaker 1: or the same way you work on a talent or
Speaker 1: Ballerina's learned to have perfect you know, poise as they
Speaker 1: spin on their toe. Happiness sometimes takes work. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: takes more work for others than it might be for
Speaker 1: someone else. But it's something I think we all have
Speaker 1: to work for and we can fight for. And I
Speaker 1: truly believe that if you put in the time, anyone
Speaker 1: can get over their obstacles and that we can all
Speaker 1: be happy. So when you when you had that aha moment,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that your sister you said, was there. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing she was the first person you shared this with.
Speaker 1: Did they go no, or was it like, ah, we've
Speaker 1: been watching you slowly kill yourself. It was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a moment, you know, like, yes, we know,
Speaker 1: you know, mom knows, everybody knows, and it created this.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't tell even though a lot of
Speaker 1: people probably knew. I'm sure my roommates knew. But you know,
Speaker 1: my family was my core, and you know, it's something
Speaker 1: that takes time. I didn't just jump into you know,
Speaker 1: full gear right away at first. My family was my
Speaker 1: my support system, just my mom and my sister. And
Speaker 1: then I started with positive self talk. Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: to work on the thoughts in my head. They're terrible.
Speaker 1: I'm so mean to myself. I say horrible things every day,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to turn those around slowly. I'm going
Speaker 1: to say what I should be saying. And then it
Speaker 1: turned into I'm going to go to therapy, and you know,
Speaker 1: because it's really hard to go from zero to one hundred,
Speaker 1: and it takes time, it does, so it was fun.
Speaker 1: That's why it's called one step at a time, you know,
Speaker 1: one day at a time, one step at a time.
Speaker 1: And today you look very healthy. I am. I'm a
Speaker 1: healthy girl. And I saw you eating the key, so
Speaker 1: I know you're not in a pie and a healthy
Speaker 1: little slight it was it was organic though, all those
Speaker 1: berries came from the farm, which if it's organic, oh
Speaker 1: it was amazing. And whole sugar, you know, it's rocking sugar,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I can justify a cheese pie anyway. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad your style. So you have not only had
Speaker 1: those kind of obstacles, but you also have sang about
Speaker 1: or performed about and talked about in some of your
Speaker 1: videos that I've watched the struggle of having other people
Speaker 1: not believe in you or not see the gift in you.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to get emotional while they talk about this.
Speaker 1: But you did a video or you played in the
Speaker 1: New York subway system and you were in costume, you
Speaker 1: had a wig on, but it was clear it was you, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like you had makeup on to
Speaker 1: hide that. And you were performing in the subway system.
Speaker 1: And as I'm watching the video, because you the way
Speaker 1: you the video was produced, when was this your idea
Speaker 1: to intersperse it with you on stage? Yeah? It was.
Speaker 1: So there was a clip of you in the subway
Speaker 1: with people you know, on their cell phones and walking
Speaker 1: by and bumping into you and being rude. Then there'd
Speaker 1: be a clip of the adoring fans on stage, and
Speaker 1: then a clip back in the subway of people you know,
Speaker 1: kicking the little Nativity scene over or just being so caustic,
Speaker 1: almost aggressive towards you while you were performing, and then
Speaker 1: a clip of people, you know, weeping when they got
Speaker 1: to meet you and get your autograph. And that was
Speaker 1: such a good juxt of position. But as I was
Speaker 1: watching that video, I kept thinking you had you had
Speaker 1: to have edited this. Surely there were people like myself
Speaker 1: in that subway who would have recognized you and thrown
Speaker 1: their arms around you and taken selfies with you. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, to be honest, I remember being quite humbled
Speaker 1: that that was not the case. You know, I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna have to edit this video, edit out
Speaker 1: the people that you know, maybe stop and listen. But really,
Speaker 1: I you know, I was there for about two hours
Speaker 1: to catch all these shots, and the cameras were hidden,
Speaker 1: and I can only remember, you know, there was one
Speaker 1: young man that stopped and listened and his eyes filled
Speaker 1: with tears and you know, until his subway came and
Speaker 1: then he got on. But other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: people wouldn't look me in the eye. It really made
Speaker 1: me think, Wow, how often do I go through my
Speaker 1: day and I go through the cash register, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't even look at the cashier's face as
Speaker 1: I do my transaction, and just so you know, I'm
Speaker 1: on my phone, and like, how often do we just
Speaker 1: not see like the beautiful people that are around us
Speaker 1: every day? And it really did remind me of a
Speaker 1: time when you know, that was all I'd had to
Speaker 1: do was perform you know, on the street corner sometimes
Speaker 1: are performing open mic nighter for people that wouldn't even
Speaker 1: look me in the eye. And it's not that my
Speaker 1: playing has changed, it's just that, you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: different person now due to you know, for some people,
Speaker 1: because of social media has made me quote famous, and
Speaker 1: so in that scenario, I'm worth looking at. But when
Speaker 1: I'm in a subway playing and no one knows who
Speaker 1: I am, does that make me any less of a person? No,
Speaker 1: you know, but there's beautiful people around us every day. Well,
Speaker 1: at the end of the video, you shared those thoughts
Speaker 1: and you also shared your faith, which just blew me
Speaker 1: away because a lot of artists that I interview won't
Speaker 1: even you know, touch on the subject of faith or
Speaker 1: God or spirituality or anything like that. But there were
Speaker 1: so many great scenes in that one song. It shot
Speaker 1: in the subway where you had the camera on the
Speaker 1: little Nativity scene. Yeah, and then at the end when
Speaker 1: you talked about the gift that we're all given, you know,
Speaker 1: the gift of love that God gives us out he
Speaker 1: sees all of us. I love that. I think, Well,
Speaker 1: my faith has been just a huge part of my life,
Speaker 1: not only is it the way I was raised, you know,
Speaker 1: but it I feel like in this world and this industry,
Speaker 1: you know, wherever you find yourself there, it's hard to
Speaker 1: find a foundation that's solid in this world. And I've
Speaker 1: kind of planted my feet. I've chosen my faith and
Speaker 1: my family as my foundation. And so as my life
Speaker 1: has literally flipped upside down and so many ways through
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I'm the same person, you know,
Speaker 1: and I always hope to stay that same person because
Speaker 1: I believe that God gives us all love. I believe
Speaker 1: that every person is full of that love, and you know,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what helps you see people in the
Speaker 1: right way. It's what helps you realize what's actually important.
Speaker 1: And yes, sometimes I forget, you know, day by day,
Speaker 1: but it's good to have that foundation to bring me
Speaker 1: back to that. So family, faith, people that surround you
Speaker 1: that you love. You were talking about taking your mom
Speaker 1: to a words seron. My mom was my date to
Speaker 1: the Billboard Awards, which was so much fun. You know,
Speaker 1: I've never gotten to I've taken sisters before, you know.
Speaker 1: I was like to take my family members on these
Speaker 1: adventures with me, and my Mom's come on tour a
Speaker 1: couple of times, but I realized she hasn't been to
Speaker 1: the award show yet, Like, come on, So Mom was
Speaker 1: my date. And it's funny, she didn't really know who
Speaker 1: any of the celebrities where people are freaking out over
Speaker 1: so and so, and she'd be like, oh was that
Speaker 1: And I'd whispered in her ear with that's someone. So
Speaker 1: she's a singer, that's an actor. And then Chaer came
Speaker 1: on stage at the end of the night, and oh my,
Speaker 1: Mom stood up so fast. So she knew the diva,
Speaker 1: she knew the way she got. So she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, I used to listen to Sonny and Share
Speaker 1: and just she went off of, you know, talking about
Speaker 1: that the whole rest of the night, how great it
Speaker 1: was to see Share. So the night was a success
Speaker 1: because Mom got to see Share. Yeah, well I haven't
Speaker 1: got I've got to meet Share before. And you can
Speaker 1: tell your mom this for me, she is as aw
Speaker 1: awesome and beautiful in personally. Yeah, yeah, I love hearing that.
Speaker 1: That's passed it alone. She was as well, very very kind,
Speaker 1: just very you know, she had this huge head dress
Speaker 1: on and all these jewels on because she's getting ready
Speaker 1: to go on stage. Oh, I was going to say,
Speaker 1: did you meet at a restaurant? I'm at a rise
Speaker 1: like that, right, No, right before she goes on stage.
Speaker 1: And yet she was like, oh, Grabor, I come over
Speaker 1: here and let me give you a hug. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. Oh was it a little bit of
Speaker 1: a like starstruck moment? Yeah, because I know you meet everybody,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it was. It was definitely a big starstruck more. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Yeah. So of all the people you've
Speaker 1: got to meet since you've become you know, Lindsay Sterling,
Speaker 1: the famous dancer violinist elf, who has been your starstruck moment?
Speaker 1: Are your most fun Well? I have just a brief
Speaker 1: story on that. It was after the Billboards War Billboard Awards,
Speaker 1: like two three years ago, and I got invited, you know,
Speaker 1: to Taylor Swift's after party, and I thought, oh, it's
Speaker 1: probably one of those huge after parties where you know,
Speaker 1: just everybody was invited. Anyways, we go up the you know,
Speaker 1: we go there and there's like fifteen twenty people on
Speaker 1: this rooftop and I just think we must be in
Speaker 1: the wrong place. But then there's you know, Faith Hill
Speaker 1: and Tim McGraw and Ed Sheeron and Taylor Swift and
Speaker 1: my sister grabs my hand and she's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: who are we supposed to talk to at this party?
Speaker 1: And we're like, oh no. But then Taylor Swift calls
Speaker 1: my name and is like, get over here, girl, and
Speaker 1: we literally turned around, thinking, oh, Lindsay Lohan must be here,
Speaker 1: somebody like another Lindsay, another Lindsay. She looked right at
Speaker 1: me and said, Lindsay, get over here, and we were
Speaker 1: so stupid looking. We turned around and then looked right
Speaker 1: back at her and I kind of like motioned to
Speaker 1: myself like me, and she's like yes. Anyways. Then Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift was the kindest, nicest, you know, most gracious host
Speaker 1: and you know, talk to me and took me over,
Speaker 1: you know, showed me where the dessert table. Taylor swiftl
Speaker 1: who knew? But I don't know. I don't remember anything
Speaker 1: we talked about because I was I was trying so
Speaker 1: hard to not stutter, and I was trying so hard
Speaker 1: to just be like quote normal. But wow, what a
Speaker 1: surreal moment. That's kind of how I feel like when
Speaker 1: I met you. Honestly, seriously, even though seriously, Lindsay, because
Speaker 1: I'm such a fan and I kind of feel like,
Speaker 1: though I never met you, like kind of like a
Speaker 1: mom because my kids relate to you so much and
Speaker 1: you're like a part of their vernacular. Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 1: And my little daughter Delilah wants to be you. You know,
Speaker 1: it's so cute. She is. She is full of energy.
Speaker 1: Oh she wants in life. Oh boy, yeah boy, oh boy.
Speaker 1: Fearless as you said, fearless. She and her sister Blessing
Speaker 1: both were born without the fear factor, or if they were,
Speaker 1: they certainly lost it quickly in their environment in Africa,
Speaker 1: and so they are just bold. Bold. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: feel it from them too, like they are powerful women.
Speaker 1: They are going to be They're powerful girls. They are
Speaker 1: going to be very powerful women. Yeah, God help the
Speaker 1: person that tries to stand in their way. Exactly. They're
Speaker 1: going to have the motto you can either move aside
Speaker 1: and applaud me, or I will run you over. Those
Speaker 1: are your options. Like it. We could all take a
Speaker 1: page from that book. You know, you're doing pretty good.
Speaker 1: So I've been talking with Lindsay Sterling. How can folks
Speaker 1: find all these great videos of yours online. Ooh, I
Speaker 1: love YouTube, so you can go to YouTube and look
Speaker 1: up Lindsay Sterling, all kinds of interesting. It's STI yeah,
Speaker 1: l I n g. If somebody wants to do that,
Speaker 1: and I just have to say, they have to watch
Speaker 1: first off, number one, Phantom at least twice. Oh that's
Speaker 1: your favorite. That's my favorite because I love that music.
Speaker 1: I love that music. I love that play. I've seen
Speaker 1: it like ten times, so good. Yeah, Phantom, they have
Speaker 1: to watch that a couple of times. Lim is, Oh
Speaker 1: you're a Broadway fan. Yeah, big Broadway fan, love it.
Speaker 1: The Electric Electric Daisy was that? Oh yeah, yeah, very cute.
Speaker 1: I love the Western one. Oh. Roundtable. That's my personal
Speaker 1: favorite is Roundtable. Rival and the guy who plays a guitar,
Speaker 1: he's one of your band members, right, Actually he was.
Speaker 1: He was not one of my band members. We brought
Speaker 1: on an act no, so yeah we did. Who is he?
Speaker 1: A beautiful bad guy? Durango Black? Well that was his
Speaker 1: bad guy name anyway, Durango Black. Yeah you can. You
Speaker 1: could come and drop my bad with your guitar. Drango. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was fun. That one was so fun to make
Speaker 1: my band wasn't that they were some of the extras,
Speaker 1: like the cop or the sheriff, I mean the deputy
Speaker 1: and sheriff in the video. So many fun videos. Lindsey Sterling,
Speaker 1: thank you so much and God bless you. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having me, and God bless you as well. You're
Speaker 1: You're amazing. It's been so wonderful to chat with you.
Speaker 1: I want to want a run fun, stay inside a barricade,
Speaker 1: the dog. This is the son of avoid the song.
Speaker 1: We'll do any sense of feel. I want to wear
Speaker 1: all because he loves you, the friend, some kind of
Speaker 1: emomside when you need to heal, when you're all probabcast
Speaker 1: so of the thing for the moment, it's stall it
Speaker 1: because he loves you. Defend right now. I'm I'm open.
Speaker 1: I want to find I got hit the crown. I
Speaker 1: want to dance. I nobody's all right, honey, what on
Speaker 1: the and di bo down? Oh my heart, my head,
Speaker 1: the double clouds. It's a going out back now. Loves
Speaker 1: just the fee. I'm kind of the morside when you
Speaker 1: need the heat when girl brother again don't know a
Speaker 1: thing for the moment, it's cold because loves is a
Speaker 1: friend right now, I'm of it. Oh my god, a
Speaker 1: friend of a mine. Some le a go, maybe alle
Speaker 1: that and no, I'm gonna let that go because he
Speaker 1: loves us to feel over. Day closes the field. Some
Speaker 1: cut down, look at polls, one of the big about
Speaker 1: the money, Slow down and let some mod with you
Speaker 1: long