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#153 - Donyale Renee - International Singer/Songwriter · The Chris and Mike Show

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Welcome to YouTube and Twitchers.
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What's up, boys and girls? Here we are live, like Mike
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said, Twitch and YouTube and we're waiting for guests to pop
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on. But we've been ruining golden
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moments about football, so here we are, because you know what
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we're going to do. Oh, look, there she is.
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There you go, boys and girls. So here we are live on the Chris
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and Mike show. I'm Chris.
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He's Mike. And this is Danielle Renee.
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Perfect timing because you know, once we get past 10 minutes with
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technical difficulty, we just go and hope the guests can come in
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and join us. And here you are.
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Here. I am.
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How are you going? I found in my computer would not
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work, so I had to go to my Android.
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There you go, It's OK. As long as we got you here now,
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that's all that matters. We were talking football, so
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this will be much more engaging now that you're with us.
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Did y'all see that game on Sunday with the Texan?
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Yeah. I'm in the middle.
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Who did Texans? Play Yeah.
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Jacksonville. Who do Texans play?
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Jacksonville. OK, yeah, no, I'm, I'm in
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Arizona. Mike's in Illinois.
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OK. Yeah, yeah.
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So let's let's let's dive right into it.
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So Danielle, Don, am I saying that right?
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Danielle, Renee. Yes, Danielle, Renee, yes.
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OK, OK, so give us a little elevator speech of who you are
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and and what we're going to talk about and promote for you today
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on the Chris and Mike Show. OK, hold on.
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Let me justify real quick. Oh, can you hear me, Donnell?
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Yeah. OK, I there's, there's a,
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there's a delay. Are you on a, are you on a, a
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Wi-Fi high speed or you on like a hotspot?
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I'm on and I'm on a Wi-Fi high speed the Xfinity.
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OK, I don't know why is there's a delay.
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We usually don't have delays, but it is what it is.
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So tell, tell our tell our listeners of 28 countries who
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you are and and what you're all about.
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Well, hello 28 countries. My name is Daniel Renee.
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I I reside from a little country town called Arcola, Texas and
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right outside of Houston. I am an international trainer,
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performer, singer. I've been around the world 8
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Times Now. Wow, no.
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Kidding 8 times. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
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Yeah. Word a lot Chinese finger reggae
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artist my my myself. I was I did a lot of residencies
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in Asia. Yeah, that that pretty.
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Much so kind of like a residency in Vegas.
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Well, if I did do a residency in Vegas, I was working on one, but
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it never pulled through. I was going to do Donna Summers
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and Natalie Cole and it didn't come through.
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But I've done like about 6 shows there in Vegas now within the
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last. No, What, what, what, what,
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what, what I was, what I was asking to kind of make people
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understand a residency, a residency in Asia is kind of
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like a residency in Vegas. So you you pick one spot and you
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had X amount of shows there. Yes, that's correct.
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That's correct. And mostly Thailand, Japan,
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Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Those are things like
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top hotels, yeah. Nice.
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So, so how, how is the response for, for you going to those,
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those countries, 'cause I know a lot of the countries used to be,
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you know, behind where we were at in the United States
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musically until the Internet exploded and opened everything,
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opened everything up, right? So are you, are you getting
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real, a real embrace from those crowds in those countries?
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Oh yes, of course. Like in I first left America in
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96 and I went to Japan and I was just phased at how they knew the
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lyrics better than I did and they would always, always
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correct me. But they didn't speak English
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and I I just found it fascinating.
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So it made me have to study harder because they really
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didn't know all spirit citizens. Wow, that's amazing.
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Yeah, it really was. It really was.
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Great country, great country. Any questions, Mike?
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Now I'm looking at these. Your photography is amazing
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here. I'm just checking out your
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website as he's scrolling through here.
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This is really cool. Thank you.
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You have to update I. Have are you based in the United
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States and then you tour out of here or do you live outside the
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United States permanently now? Well, no honey, I used to live
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outside of the states, but unfortunately COVID well I
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shouldn't say unfortunately because it it was it brought me
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home COVID. I came home me and my brother
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were preparing to do a short little tour.
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We released a aligning song that's line dance is going crazy
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now but we released the song, came home for a little short
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tour about 3 weeks and the world shut down for COVID and I was
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like OK I'm going back to work blah blah blah blah.
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Next thing I know here we are five years later and I'm still
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here. Wow.
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So that kind of put the kibosh on your touring schedule for a
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while. Yeah, it it.
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No, not really because I entered into a John the music called
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Southern Soul and basically trail ride country zydeco soul
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music. So I entered it.
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I was in pop for a very long time.
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So at a certain age you like auntie does not have good knees
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anymore, so we can't be up here knees.
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You can't be up there dancing, doing, doing the all the, all
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the choreography when you as you age up, right?
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That part, thank you. Tina Turner trying to tell us
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how we could. Right.
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No SO. Tina Turner Love Tina Turner.
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Oh, I love her, I love her. I always said I was going to go
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and knock on her, go to Switzerland.
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I was going to knock on her door until I was her.
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Long. Long if she would believe.
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Me. She had a place in Switzerland.
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Yeah, she she left. You didn't.
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Know that. Long time ago, she moved.
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To Queen man. OK, so so so Bruce, because we
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found you via Bruce Gambino on a Villo Cheetah.
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He actually sent me this link that you that you went on a tour
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with Smoke or you did some shows with Smokey Robinson, which
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super cool because Smokey Robinson legend, right?
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Yeah. So how was so did you get to
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hang out with him? Did you hang out with him, meet
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him, talk to him, or did you just kind of perform and, you
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know, never cross paths because that always intrigues us as
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musicians too. When you get to play with
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somebody that's that's up in that, you know, an upper echelon
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performer, you know, what's the vibe like?
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Is he a nice guy? Is he arrogant?
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You know, give us some insight on him.
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Donnelly. Let me tell you that I had just
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flew in from Japan. No, I wasn't.
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I'll take that back. I flew in from Hong Kong.
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It was in the Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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Anyway, flew in, I was tired, tired, tired.
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So exhausted, I got to do the sound check and this big guy
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comes in and say, who are you? And I said, I'm opening it
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first. And he says, why?
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We don't know anything about it. How can you not know about me?
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And I'm on your name. You see my face on your the name
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tag. He looked and he was like, oh, I
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said, well, you need to talk to the manager.
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So at the end of the day, I go backstage and smoke.
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He's there and he's like, you have a very beautiful voice.
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I love it. Then afterward I said thank you,
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Mr. Austin. My eyes were closing like I was
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jet lagged like none other. Oh no.
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I just want to just curl up in a corner and go to sleep.
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But this was an amazing opportunity for me, so I had to,
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you know, I had to put it together.
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So after the show, he invites us to his dressing room.
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He's, you know, says, you know, I wish you good luck.
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You keep going. Your voice is amazing.
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He talks to my manager at that time and, you know, was giving
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him some tips on, you know, what to do with me and stuff.
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And, you know, we we fought for years trying to get a song with
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him, but that didn't happen. But but he was such a nice
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person. Now, on the other hand, I do
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have to say like, you know, the the manager wasn't pleased at
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first, but then I thought something he was kind of cool,
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cool with me. Right, right.
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I'm sorry. My wife is texting me so I had
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to respond. No.
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That's a great story. I love Smokey Robinson myself.
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Yeah, my song is. That's the only way.
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I was like, I'm waiting for the last.
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I was like, so by that time I was underneath the bleach.
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So the cool thing that's popping out to me on your on your on
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your website here as I scroll through your photos, you have
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the unique ability to look different.
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I, I mean, it's just, it's amazing why I was.
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Go ahead, Mike. That's kind of why I was
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speechless there for a minute, because as you were scrolling
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through, I'm like, how many different people can this person
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because? Yeah, like right there.
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Fascinating. Yeah, like right there, it's the
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same person. All beautiful.
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That's right. Usually you look better as one
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person or the other. You look great as all these
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people. Yeah, that's why I was
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fascinated it. You're.
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Able to like he said, you're able to pull off each different
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looks so well. Yeah, and your smile is
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contagious. You have a great smile.
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Like you can tell you're, you're truly filled with joy and
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happiness. And just, I mean, because you
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just your, your, your, your smile bounces off the screen.
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I agree. Thank you, gentlemen.
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I. Like the gangster style.
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I see I have a fashion wigs, so I'll go in the store and I'll
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put on a wig and it just changed my whole whole style.
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So so can you give us the address to your store?
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I know. We want to look amazing too.
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I know I started AI did start a wig line and I it was for my
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door. It was called Pink Box Slam Shop
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and she had no interest in it, no interest in it.
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So I am thinking about relaunching that at that shop
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again. Hey, we had, we had a guy on the
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show that he just his turmoil was went through a really dark
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path, ended up being in in jail for the fifth time, had an
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epiphany, you know, dropped to his knees, praised to the baby
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Jesus and, you know, helped turn his life around.
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But he went from that chaotic life to taking a, a, a pasta
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dish to an, a, a meeting in which everybody was blown away
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by how good it was. And now he sells his custard,
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his homemade pasta, he's in Piggly Wiggly and some other
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store he's working on that's launched him to write a book
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about his experience from bars to jars, a saucy redemption
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story. And then that has taken him down
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the path of where they're putting together a pilot to be
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on one of the streaming networks all about that.
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And then that's taken another step further.
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Where's potential movie stuff in the works just from.
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Oh, and he does Cologne and and perfumes as well, just from a
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moment. So, so I would absolutely say
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get that line going again because it's just more branding
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for you, the person and the artist and another reason for
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people to find you online, right?
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Well, that, that's amazing story.
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I like that. From bars to jars.
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Yeah. So, yeah, Pink.
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Yeah. Pink slam shops.
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Say that again. I said that gives enough
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opportunity for gives a chance inspiration for Pink Box.
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So go ahead on and come to life, yes?
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There you go. I for some reason I thought she
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said lamb chop. So I got she's into stuff myself
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like Lamb chop Stevie Wonder, get out of Dodge.
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Michael Jackson. Where's Michael Jackson?
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You got a picture of Michael Jackson, right?
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There next to. Right next to it, to the left.
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To the left. Over here, maybe 2 year old.
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Wow, that's. Cool, so amazing.
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What year is that? Yeah.
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Then Benny King is to the right of that.
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OK, and I have a funny story now.
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What year was? Oh, that's been, that's been.
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That's Benny King right there. No, that's Robert.
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Robert. OK.
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That's Robert Shipley from. There's the Yep, there's Stevie.
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The next. So there's Benny King.
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OK, cool. And I'm funny story about that
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one too. So Maxi Priest, I worked with
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him, I toured with him for about four years, OK.
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And his manager, Toby Ludwig was managing Benny King as well.
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So he says, hey, come over to the Blue Note, Benny King is
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here, blah, blah, blah. And no Cotton Club.
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He was at the Cotton Club in Japan.
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And so I was like, OK, so as we're walking through the the
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corridor from the train station to get to the club, I noticed
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that James Brown is to the right at another being.
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I'm like. Another legend.
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Yeah, as I should go to James Brown, but I said, well, he's
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always here, right. Benny King on the other hand, I
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really am. I really thought the man was
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dead. So I was like, Oh my God, I this
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is I this is an opportunity I have to go see him because I
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thought he had passed away a long time ago.
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So I went in met with him such I mean, oh, such a great man.
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Oh wow, such you know, he gave us so much insight in the
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business and songwriting as well as you stroll down to you see me
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with blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Mr. 02
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and. A foodie, So two and a foodie.
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Let me get back to that story, then I'll come back to this one.
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So literature, Little Richard? Yeah.
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So as I come out, you know of of there I said, Dang, I thought we
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were going to get a least opportunity to go in and catch
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the end part of James Brown's show, but then it already
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finished, right? So 3 weeks later, I'm on my way.
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I always came back home on Christmas Day or because I
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always did a big Christmas Eve party in Japan.
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So oh nice. He packed Christmas Day as I was
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landing in Atlanta. He was there.
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I wanted to run the Grady Hospital and just like resurrect
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him. Get up.
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You can't die. I need to stay here.
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I was so sad because I had an opportunity to really just, you
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know, go in the thing about Japan, working in Japan that,
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you know, there weren't many black artists there in Japan or
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singers. So most of these art artists
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that came over, they would walk the street.
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Not Michael Jackson, but they would, you know, walk the
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street. And if you're out and about,
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they see you. They're like, hey, and you're
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like, hey, do you know who you are?
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You know, like that and with them or you got to meet them
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through someone else that you knew in the music industry.
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So that was the coolest. I loved work in Japan because I
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got so many artists and and go to so many shows.
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Charlie Wilson, I got a free ticket.
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Most of the shows were always like they invite you to their
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shows. But Charlie Wilson, I paid his
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show four times because his show was it changed every night.
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It shows change every night. So I tried.
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That's what I what I try to do is change my appearance, change
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my shows, have different things going on in my shows.
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You know, that makes it after you see greats, the great
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legends do their shows, you try to be great as well, too.
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So yeah, that's why you see a lot of the looks because.
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That's. Awesome.
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It's good though, because it keeps it fresh and then it's
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you're not, you're not putting on the same show every time
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somebody comes to see you, right?
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You're changing it up and you're making it.
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You're making it each show a unique experience on some level.
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I mean, I'm sure you'll do certain things that are the
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same, but it's it's nice to do that, to be able to, hey, you
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know, like we can't do that. I can't change my look.
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I can shave this and put a hat on or take the hat off.
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That's what you get right. So you have that ability, you
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know, women luckily have that ability, right, where you can
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kind of change your parents with, like you said, with hair
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color, with a wig, with what you wear, you know, different colors
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or different things, bring out your eyes, all that kind of
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jazz. So I mean that that's really
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cool. That's really cool.
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And we are on your YouTube page now.
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So boys and girls. Donnelly, Renee.
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There's a Donnelly, Don Danielle.
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Renee. Sorry, Danielle, Danielle Renee
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Diamond, Diamond of Diamond of Soul, Diamond of Soul.
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I like that. Right.
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Diamond of Souls. So, yeah, boys and girls, go
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check out her video. Now.
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How, how recent are some of these?
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Oh, there you go on the end. So you, are you doing, what are
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you doing now? Are you, are you touring now?
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Are you taking a break? You know, talk a little bit
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about what you're doing and, and and all the kind of fun stuff.
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I'm making a comeback now. Last year was a very, very hard
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and the beginning of this year, very, very hard year.
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My sister was cancer and so I stopped.
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Thank you. This time last year I was in
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California, Riverside. So when I did the platform, you
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guys on Riverside, I was like, oh sis, look.
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So I went to go take care of my stepmom and she passed away this
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April and my aunt had just passed away prior to me leaving
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there and next. I'm so sorry.
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Yeah, it, it was a bad year. Last year my nephew, he was in a
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bad car accident and the hospital wanted his organs and
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we would dealt the family dealt with that man.
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It was just like crazy. So I didn't do any.
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Last year was just bad my mental state was off the meter like no
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I can't do this. Then my brother pet just passed
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away in June so I am just then my child I'm sorry.
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And you know our best friend she passes away about two months
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ago. So it had been it was like when
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I get started back singing some something.
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Brings my heart, makes my heart heavy again.
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So I did back into my meditation and prayers and just clearing
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everything up. So now I finally finished my
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first Christmas song. So congratulations and.
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What's what's the Christmas song?
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Is it a, is it, is it a remake or is it something original?
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It's original. It's called Best Gift.
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Nice. Yes.
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So I'll make sure you got a copy of it when we release it.
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We have thanks for night is what we're trying to do it midnight
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release it. That's good.
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We're doing also a documentary of the ladies that are in
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Southern that I work with and it's called The Diamonds of
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Soul. Nice.
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And I am the diamond of soul, they're the diamonds of soul.
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And my goal is to put the documentary out the first two
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year to start a tour. We've already start touring, but
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we we don't have like the big tour.
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We have like certain groups in the organization.
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So there's 7 ladies and eight including myself.
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And we've done like 3 or 4. You know, we did one big show in
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Dallas, but we haven't really did the big, big show.
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So that's the goal is releasing documentary and then taking that
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on tour internationally. Hopefully the middle part other
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than the last part of 2026 then there's OK, so let me.
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Ask you let me ask you a question.
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I'm going to I want to stop you right there.
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I want to ask you a question because a lot of a lot of people
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that that watching the star show, they're not going to
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understand the concept of this. So you're going to do an
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international tour talk. I don't want you to spend the
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whole rest of our time about it, but talk a little bit about what
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goes into actually planning something like that and how much
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involvement is needed as far as the prep time to just create an
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international tour. Cause in the United States it's
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relatively simple, right, for the most part, but you're going
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internationally. So what kind of barriers do you
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have to get through to in order to make that happen?
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And how far in advance do you have to start scheduling dates
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and planning the trips and all that kind of jazz?
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Just so like the reason I'm asking this question is we
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watched, we watched the thing one time on our show here that
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Bruno Mars behind the scenes. Like you never think about what
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an artist has to go through preparing for a show, kind of
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like what you probably do. Like we were just in a rock
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band. So you know, everybody but me
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because I was a singer, they just kind of, you know, stood in
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their place and did their thing. I'm the one that's going all
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over the stage and stuff, right? Not that I was dancing like
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Bruno Mars, mind you, but it intrigued, it fascinated me when
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I saw that. And I was like, because you
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never think about it. You see the finished product,
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but you never think of it as just a normal guy who buys the
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music and stuff like what actually is involved in creating
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that product on stage especially.
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Thank you, Mike. So I, I kind of just want to get
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some insight as to for doing an international tour.
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What's involved in that? Because it's it's it's it's got
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to be very time consuming and it's got to be very detail
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oriented, right? You just can't say I'm going to
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go to Japan tomorrow. So give us a little insight to
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that because that's something I think it fascinates me.
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So I think it'll fascinate others that are watching and
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listening. OK.
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Well, with this particular one, it's it's definitely difficult
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because I have I am the glue and so therefore I can get along
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with a different people. So I have seven women that I
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have two. Make sure that they can get
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along with each other. That's the first.
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Key, right? Well.
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Step #1. Step number one, that's a big
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step two. Well.
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Everybody has passports. Step 3 is getting sponsorship.
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That is where I am at now. I'm trying to get the
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sponsorship from, you know, liquor brands, hotel brands, as
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well as, you know, promoters. I don't have deep pocket, you
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know, so I have to get the sponsorship needed to take these
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ladies on tour. Now we're not asking a whole
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bunch of money because we want to brand our brand the Diamonds
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of Soul and brand our name and with with giving a great show,
24:40
we hope with you know, the following tour would be bigger
24:44
money. So then you have rehearsals
24:48
once, once you get the dates, you know the sponsorship, then
24:51
you can get the dates. Once the date starts, then you
24:53
go and get the rehearsals, but before the rehearsal you have to
24:58
get the band. But I have, you know, several
25:01
different great musical directors I work with who
25:04
believe in the vision. So that was really, really,
25:07
really the easiest right there. The main after you do that, the
25:12
rehearsals, you know, we have to set out how many rehearsals is
25:16
going to be required. Everybody has to have be on
25:18
their a game and make sure that they know their their their
25:23
music, their words, their lyrics, because it is going to
25:25
be a show with a three hour show where you know, take a you may
25:33
not take intermission. So I'm trying to keep it where
25:37
it's three hours. Everybody gets to do four or
25:39
five songs, high energy, a preview.
25:44
You know, there's going to be a tribute to the legends and and
25:47
Blues and soul. And so that's where it's it's
25:53
it's complicated right there because, you know, pinky the
25:57
right songs, because the legends, they all have great
25:59
songs. So how do you say, OK, I can
26:01
just choose one song. Imagine you can't.
26:04
Like Aretha has 2000 million songs.
26:08
Now Tina has 800 million. You know, Whitney has so many
26:12
songs. So that is what the key point
26:14
of. Whitney, Yeah.
26:16
Yeah, it's selling. Yeah, Whitney.
26:19
Yeah. Whitney's the goat.
26:20
Whitney's the goat. I don't care what anybody says.
26:22
Whitney's the goat when it comes to female singers.
26:24
That woman, when she sang the Star Spangled Banner to Super
26:28
Bowl, Super Bowl 25, you know that.
26:30
And it was live. She sang that live and nailed
26:34
it. I even now I'm getting chills.
26:36
I mean, granted, I'm a Giants fan.
26:37
So wide, right? Yeah, but the national anthem,
26:40
Nobody I and I, nobody I, I've ever heard anybody even come
26:45
close to how she nailed that song.
26:47
No, she's just. Like, it's so sad that she left
26:50
us, left our world, because what a voice, what a gift she was to,
26:53
to, you know, lovers of music, right?
26:57
Absolutely. That's the only version of that
26:59
song I actually like. But I actually have in my
27:01
playlist. I'll be driving around, yeah.
27:08
I think we should have a better tune for a national anthem.
27:11
So that's the only version that I actually can stomach as hers
27:16
because it's perfect. You.
27:17
Didn't like Marvin Gaye? Just yeah, you.
27:20
Didn't like Marvin Gaye? I I like Marvin Gaye, but I
27:25
think I. Think I love Marvin Gaye as a
27:27
singer, but I I personally, I don't like the melt.
27:31
Like, I think we should actually have a song that's uplifting and
27:34
moves people. And I, I don't know, it's just
27:37
to me, it needs to be updated. We need an updated tune.
27:41
Yeah, it's. Hard though, man, because that's
27:44
hard though. It's.
27:45
Hard. That was Francis Scott
27:47
Fitzgerald. Man, that's that's old now.
27:49
The funny thing is, there's more to that song than actually is
27:52
performed. Yeah, there's like what, two or
27:55
three more? Two or three more verses that
27:56
when you put those all together, it's like, I can see why they
27:59
just picked this chunk of it because yeah, the the other
28:02
ones, just the other part of it doesn't work.
28:04
But yeah. So when you do, when you when
28:07
you do your international tour, are you going to do stuff in the
28:09
States or you're just going to go on outside the country?
28:13
No, we're going to be we're going to start here, kick out
28:15
the kinks and then go where my goal go to London, Dubai,
28:20
London, Dubai, Greece. I do have connections in Greece,
28:26
then back to Asia, only reason and in Germany, I'm sorry.
28:31
So I have those connections that I'm trying to work with to bring
28:34
the tour. Then the budget once again, I
28:37
have to work on sponsorship, what monies I can get from them,
28:43
the hotels and all that to be able to say OK, I can bring 8
28:48
girls, I can bring 5 girls, 5, four girls, whatever.
28:51
That's the you have it and scale it down.
28:54
So, so how do you, how do you, how do you pick if you have 7
28:59
girls to start with and then the budget ends up being that you
29:01
can do 5 including you, how do you take from those seven girls
29:04
and pick 4? I flip a coin.
29:09
No, no, I just think they're availability and I also I look
29:18
at who most likely and then they say all the ladies, they get
29:23
along well. It's just like, you know, but
29:25
some of them, you know, just don't jail together or some are
29:32
just way outrageous Divas and you know, and and I'm just like
29:37
this simple hometown girl. And they they wonder why are you
29:41
so calm all the time? Girl, please, I meditate.
29:44
I'm, you know, I'm very, you tell.
29:50
That answers my question. So the, the, the, the, the
29:52
humble ones are going to be the ones that get chosen as opposed
29:56
to the, you know. Yeah.
29:58
You know. I have to because I, I, I deal
30:02
with the drama. I can't, I really can't.
30:05
So but the overall goal my ladies, because I'm, I'm a big
30:08
fan of all the ladies that I picked 4 times or so.
30:12
I'm a huge fan of all of them. That's good as you as you
30:17
should, because you're going to let's you're going to share the
30:19
stage with them and you're going to give them their moments to
30:21
shine, right? Every show, like you said, every
30:23
one of the, the, the stars, even though you're the diamond,
30:26
they're going to have four or five songs to sing.
30:29
So you have to be just as much as a fan, right?
30:31
Because otherwise why are you letting them showcase that?
30:34
You know, why are you letting them step in front of you and be
30:37
like, you know, the person for the crowd for that 10, 15
30:40
minutes, depending on the length of the song?
30:42
So I think what you have set up sounds really intriguing.
30:45
That's why I asked if we're going to be in the country as
30:47
well. So if as the tour goes on, as
30:50
you make money, because I'm sure you're going to, it's going to
30:51
be a success, if you ever come to Arizona or or Chicago, let us
30:55
know because I would love to come check it out, as I'm sure
30:57
it might, would, might. And by the way, you're the first
30:59
female artist we've had on the show.
31:05
Yeah, yeah. And we love female singers.
31:08
I mean, to me, I tell my wife all the time when I'm listening
31:10
to something that women have such a better dynamic voice than
31:14
men do. You can do so many different
31:16
things. You know the voice where where
31:17
you know, you have certain men that can kind of, you know, do
31:22
the nice, the big 767 octaves right.
31:24
But to me, there's nothing sexually than a woman on stage
31:28
just belt down a song and you just feel it in every, you know,
31:32
being of your Viber, of your fiber of your being, just
31:34
because they can hit those notes.
31:35
And then when you go like it came up and you remember the
31:38
band 4 Non Blondes. Oh yeah.
31:41
OK, so the song What's Up came on the Radio One night.
31:44
We were going out somewhere and, and if you, if you listen to
31:48
that like you've never heard it before, as as she goes from
31:51
clean to rasp and then the higher the low register, it's
31:54
it's a phenomenal track. And that's something that a male
31:58
voice can't pull off. So there's things that women
32:01
artists like yourself can do vocally that you automatically
32:04
win me over because as a vocalist, I look at the vocalist
32:07
and I listen to how they sound and how they sing.
32:09
So that to me is just, you know, phenomenal.
32:12
I mean you. And it doesn't matter what genre
32:15
either because aside from Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey drives me
32:17
nuts. But especially with just a
32:21
dynamic, a female artist, you know, I just you, you
32:24
automatically win me over. You automatically have have
32:26
credibility with me anyway, because you're a female artist
32:29
and you're doing things that that most male vocalist cannot
32:33
do. So that's a win right there.
32:35
No, thank you. Yeah.
32:36
And what was the name of that group again, 4/9?
32:40
4 Non Blondes. I just I'll tell you I just we
32:43
just did it ourselves. Mike.
32:44
I'll tell you who's she's got a picture.
32:46
With Michael Jackson, I mean, I'm not.
32:48
She does have a picture of Michael Jackson.
32:49
She does, yeah. I'll tell you who she is.
32:51
Danielle's her name is Linda Perry.
32:54
She I know. She is.
32:55
I thought I knew. I knew who I knew she would know
33:00
who that is, because Linda Perry actually wrote most of Pink's
33:05
first. She probably wrote all of Pink's
33:07
first album, and then Pink took credit for it and it became a
33:11
big deal behind the scenes. So anybody that's familiar with
33:14
that story knows who Linda Perry is because there.
33:17
Was a. Falling out.
33:18
They used to be best friends. Really.
33:21
Oh yeah. Interesting.
33:24
And I could be skewing that story a little bit, but my
33:27
understanding is Linda Perry is pretty much direct, directly
33:30
responsible for writing most of that first album for Pink.
33:34
No shit. Yeah.
33:36
Now wait. Is that your understanding as
33:38
well? Album after she left the Face
33:41
Records. Yes, the one that made her
33:46
famous, right? The one that Yes, right.
33:48
Uh huh. Yeah, Yeah, I know now.
33:53
Yeah, definitely. And you mentioned Mariah Carey
33:57
also. With your mute.
34:00
I'm sorry, I'm saying I also I did think I'm.
34:03
Sorry, go ahead. Right here as well too.
34:05
When you said that I was I'm like, you poor thing, pull the
34:11
baby. No.
34:17
So I know you sent me some social links and stuff.
34:20
So as far as your music catalog, can people find you on on all
34:24
the Spotify and Apple iTunes etcetera?
34:28
Yes, and they can actually go. You probably find more music on
34:31
YouTube because there are songs that like people bought in Japan
34:39
or, or when I was doing shows in France and like, did you?
34:45
They just put my music up and it was amazing.
34:47
Like I'll go put in Danielle Renee and oh, I forgot I did
34:52
this song. Oh, that was on the other album
34:54
or album, album, album and that one, you know.
35:01
Oh. So yeah, they can find it
35:03
everywhere. This is the one that we're about
35:04
to release now. Back that booty was when I first
35:08
came back, it was aligning. That's awesome.
35:13
We're going to promote that. And so it's back there booty,
35:17
back there booty 2 point O, and back there booty 3 point O.
35:20
So next month we're recording a collaboration video of Myself,
35:28
The Party, King, Buddha Jones, Johnny James, It's Karma Ice
35:34
Doll and Miss Pizza. So all three records were placed
35:40
into one and we're going to record the video, which is going
35:45
crazy now. Line dances.
35:47
But I was reminded that I was one of the first females to put
35:51
a line dance in her song. But because of the things that
35:55
were going on in my life, I just basically, I didn't promote the
35:59
record as much. So I decided to go ahead on and
36:03
re record it with my brother and then these other five other
36:09
artists. And we're going to just do the
36:11
big video and drop it and see where it goes.
36:14
But everybody loves me because it's a it's a tribute to women
36:18
with all kinds of booties, little booties, big booties,
36:21
stomachs, all that. Just get up and party.
36:26
No, don't get one. That's awesome.
36:30
That's awesome. Very, very, very.
36:34
Fun. So I have to assume that you
36:36
have country music to go with your line dance, otherwise it
36:39
wouldn't make much sense. No, no, it's, it's, it's kind of
36:42
it's, it's a, it's in the Southern soul genre, which is
36:47
also my music is in this new genre, music that hasn't been
36:52
really recognized yet is OK, whole country.
36:59
And so, as you see, Yep, we have our little, we have our country,
37:02
we out there in the fields and horses and wagons.
37:08
This is the back to booty video. I pulled this off the I pulled
37:15
this off the YouTube boys and girls.
37:16
This is back your booty. Yeah, she said.
37:20
This is in Texas. Cool, we'll give it a little
37:24
volume, even though we usually get shut down by giving a volume
37:31
like the Voice Man. Oh my ladies, if you got set
37:37
fire step up on. The road we.
37:40
Can take it a little higher, you know that.
37:44
I love. It.
38:01
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
38:06
We're going to get, yeah, yeah, we're going to put that up on
38:09
our on our Facebook page for sure.
38:11
Back then, we'll share that for sure.
38:12
That's. All nice, nice, really nice,
38:15
nice melody. Love the sound of the voice like
38:19
that's that's right on Danielle, right on.
38:22
I like it. Yeah, I like the swing that you
38:24
got to your music. That's definitely the Southern
38:26
element. Is that swing?
38:28
Uh huh. Absolutely.
38:30
Yeah, it was fine. That was one of my that was that
38:32
was I called a low budget movie got my because I had had a car
38:37
accident too. After this, I mean before this,
38:41
Oh my days, literally 4-8 days, a lady slams in the back of my
38:47
my car and almost like me and my granddaughter went she was in
38:53
the back. She we were going to another
38:56
show. I was getting ready to.
38:57
I stopped by my uncle's to give him his birthday present and
39:00
then I had a show in the park. Well, I didn't make the show in
39:03
the park and but I had the video already set up.
39:07
So when I tell you I was in so much pain in that video right
39:10
there, baby, I was like, oh God, please let this hurry and be
39:14
over with. But yeah, we, we had fun.
39:17
All those my trail rider friends, like they had to trail
39:23
ride. We was like, we're coming to do
39:24
the video. We need your scenery there.
39:28
And so, yeah. It turned out amazing, I love
39:31
it. Yeah, I just put you up on our
39:33
Facebook page because I dig it. I dig it.
39:35
I dig it back. That booty I'm going to show.
39:38
I'm going to play it for my wife later.
39:40
Come here, honey. I'll spend my money.
39:51
Women love that because they at the shows they get to share my,
39:55
my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my. It's my, my, my, my, my.
40:00
It's my. That's the whole thing.
40:03
The show. Women just like this.
40:05
My money. You can't tell me how to spend
40:07
it. It's so she may love that one
40:09
too. I have.
40:32
So who's who's the male singing there?
40:34
That's the party king, my brother, the party king, He's
40:37
my. Cool, shout out, shout out the
40:39
party king you got. You got the sound, brother.
40:42
Like it? Absolutely.
40:43
That's great. I like it.
40:45
I like we need to get some electric guitars in this and get
40:47
some rock it out a bit. You know, I got just take it to
40:51
a whole new level, man. I got you covered.
40:54
Yeah. Yeah, I can totally see that
40:58
being a hit. Yeah, I can totally.
41:01
I can totally see this being a hit man.
41:03
Are you so? Are you signed to a record label
41:07
or are you independent? Or how are you promoting your
41:10
music? I am an independent artist.
41:14
I, I was fine. My very first record deal was
41:18
well, only record deal was that take that back was in it out of
41:22
Atlanta and that was in 95 and I was released in 97 and went to
41:29
Japan and just stayed overseas and, and put music out on my
41:33
own. Just Nick Entertainment label.
41:37
So now I'm working with marketing team called Expand
41:42
Entertainment and basically they help me market the music through
41:46
social media platforms and whatnot.
41:49
But I still record my own music, hold my own masters and and put
41:56
them out. When I work about 2026, you'll
42:00
hear a lot more of me. I'm going to also go back to
42:04
doing some more pop EDM tracks I've been having at people.
42:11
I have about 3 EDM tech, tech techno songs out that I've done
42:18
throughout the years and so I've been getting asked to use my
42:23
voice on those tracks. Yeah, so.
42:27
You know, I I could. I could, I could, yeah.
42:30
I could see that the the way your voice is that you could
42:33
kind of, you could kind of go up and down the dial genre wise,
42:35
which is really cool. Which again goes back to what I
42:37
said earlier, women have such a better dynamic of vocals range
42:42
than men do. And you know, I mean, there's a
42:44
there's a few men that can kind of do it all, but.
42:46
I would say it differently. I would say that it's easier for
42:50
women to cross genres than it. Is for me.
42:53
Right. I can take her seriously as a
42:56
country singer. I can take her seriously as a
42:58
gospel singer. I can take her seriously as a
43:00
pop singer. She can do all those things
43:03
because not only, like I said, you became a different character
43:06
for every song you sang, right? She's literally becoming a
43:09
different human being in a different genre, but because her
43:14
voice is so dynamic, you take it seriously.
43:17
I think it's more that they can cross genres.
43:20
That's a yeah, that's a that's. You know what I was trying to
43:22
People gave Beyoncé a hard time for releasing this country
43:25
album, but it still sold 100 million copies, right?
43:28
She's still giving a middle finger to the big to the world.
43:30
At that point right there, I wouldn't do whatever.
43:33
That would have gone back to business.
43:34
Yeah, You know, one of my favorite, honestly, tell you
43:39
what, I had two favorite singers and that's, well, definitely
43:48
Barbra Streisand and then the Carpenters, like I.
43:53
Karen Carpenter. First got to Japan.
43:56
I was like, I had to sing so many pop.
44:03
I guess though, what that wasn't like pop, but was it pop that
44:08
era for them, The Carpenters? And it was pop for the era for
44:13
sure. Yeah.
44:14
Right. Because really.
44:15
Really. Awesome.
44:16
Because all pop. Because back in the day, right,
44:18
pop is just popular music. It wasn't, right?
44:20
It wasn't. You think of pop music now, it's
44:22
a whole different meaning, right?
44:23
It wasn't. Demonized.
44:24
Back then it was. Right, exact hair.
44:26
It was just popular, right? It was just popular music.
44:28
It was rock music and that was kind of and country western,
44:31
right? Because it wasn't country music,
44:33
it was country western. So you had really just those
44:36
kind of three mains, mainstay categories, right?
44:39
And then you had the folk rock and folk music.
44:41
But yeah, pop rock back then was just pop their music or pop
44:43
music. Right now it's just, you know,
44:46
the Justin Bieber's and the Bruno Mars and all that kind of
44:48
candy ass pop rock stuff that I like to call it.
44:50
But that's just me. But yeah, I was just popping a
44:52
music for sure. And that surprises me.
44:55
Those are your two people you pull out from from from your
44:59
favorites. Like I wasn't expecting that.
45:01
I wasn't, which is. Cool, impressive, and.
45:04
Listen to Barbra Streisand and the Carpenters like all day
45:09
because the melody is just recorded with my soul.
45:14
I'm telling you, lyrics like when Barbra Streisand sings the
45:19
way we were like, come on, man, that's just so beautiful.
45:25
It's like her tone is even though it's like even now, it's
45:29
just the tone in her voice just was like amazing, you know?
45:34
And then the way the music, the melodies are the Carpenters
45:38
music on top of the world. That was the very first one I
45:44
had to sing. And I was like, I had never
45:48
heard it before. And they were like, sing top of
45:51
the world, top of the world, top of the world.
45:52
I'm like, who is top of the world?
45:54
I don't know this song. And when I sang it, I was like,
45:56
I'm singing it top of the world, down on creation.
46:02
And the only explanation I could find, it's the way you know, her
46:08
voice. Their voice is just like, oh.
46:11
It's so. That's what I do.
46:13
The little subtle vibrato she had in there was so it was so
46:17
subtle. But if you don't do those
46:19
things, it doesn't come out right.
46:20
You Can't Sing that song straight.
46:22
Absolutely, absolutely. So that's when that's how I
46:27
really rehearse my voice and my music.
46:32
I try to look into when I'm singing, you know, ballads and
46:36
mid tempo songs. I try to use those tones and
46:40
techniques from those two singers and and then I I get
46:46
jobs like left and right internationally because their
46:49
ears are tuned to those type of singers.
46:54
Oh yeah. So.
46:56
Nice. So you found a, you found a
46:58
niche. You found a niche.
47:00
That's awesome. You found your space.
47:03
That's what it's all about, right?
47:04
Finding that little spot you can slide into like Danielle's back.
47:09
Yeah, yeah, we want her there to go.
47:12
And my I think I've sung I will always love you more than
47:14
Whitney ever could have sang live.
47:18
And it was like did. You hit it did do you nail it?
47:23
Do you nail it? Course you does.
47:26
I. I don't.
47:29
Know about now? I haven't sung it in five years,
47:31
but I used to. It's on YouTube.
47:34
You can see it. You can see it on YouTube but it
47:37
was also one. That's the.
47:39
Record deal. And he called me at 8:00 in the
47:42
morning talking. I heard you could sing Whitney
47:44
Houston singing. And I was like, who is this
47:46
click? And then he called right back
47:48
and I was like, OK, let me get some water.
47:50
And I sang it. And they were like.
47:56
Over that's a great story right there.
47:58
Who is this hang up call back? Let me.
48:01
Get some water. I got hold on a second.
48:04
That's fantastic. I did.
48:07
And that was it. You just, you just sang Whitney
48:10
over the phone and boom, that's awesome.
48:12
Yeah. And then Savannah, the next, the
48:14
next week it was it. Yeah, we're with.
48:16
Atlanta. That's fantastic.
48:18
Yeah, yeah. Now it did go under because it
48:21
was backed by a telemarketing company.
48:24
It went under and so I had to basically leave for Japan.
48:27
So, But other than that, you know God has his own plan for
48:30
you all the time. I almost guarantee you at that
48:34
moment in time they were selling beepers and prepaid phone cards.
48:42
What? It was a no two way at that time
48:47
the. Oh, like the Nextel kind of set
48:51
up? Yeah, that's, that's what they
48:55
were saying, yeah. They were like walkie talkies on
49:00
steroids. Absolutely.
49:03
They sure what? Actually, those things, Super
49:08
squirrel moment, those things actually worked better than cell
49:10
phones still work to this day. Wow.
49:13
I wish I still had mine. They did.
49:16
You'll have mine. Me too.
49:17
Don't we all? No, let's talk about size.
49:20
Doesn't matter. Now that is an anthem to men.
49:26
So I told you I had a booty song for the ladies.
49:28
I figured. I figured it was an anthem to
49:30
men. It's like it's a subliminal
49:36
message is that it does not matter how you know big you
49:41
think you may be. If you don't know how to work it
49:44
in the IT doesn't matter. You just got to have some.
49:50
It's right. It's, it's kind of like, right.
49:52
It's kind of like singing a song, right?
49:53
If you don't know how to sing the song, it doesn't matter how
49:55
good the song could or or could not be, because you don't know
49:59
how to deliver. Exactly.
50:01
So that's and then I have one for a big belly man.
50:06
So you know, and it's they're all just like encouraging songs.
50:12
So the big man song I had wrote for my boyfriend and he was
50:16
like, that ain't for me. And I say listen to the music.
50:20
It's not about you being fat. It's about that, ain't?
50:30
For me. No, no, it was I did 4 versions
50:37
of that one which was the pop version, EDM version, reggae
50:42
tone and the IT was one other version.
50:47
I can't remember what it was, but that was a very that was my
50:50
very first release on Jess Nick Entertainment.
50:56
Yeah, OK. So I did well though.
51:02
Yeah, I like the fact that you that you released more than one
51:05
version. That's a nice twist on, on on
51:08
your craft because then you're you're able to like we talked
51:11
about, then you can go up and down that dial, right?
51:13
Because you have the same song with three or four different
51:15
versions, then it's going to fit fit different styles and
51:19
different different listeners are going to pick it up.
51:21
There's that back that booty again.
51:24
So here's some merch. She's she's.
51:27
Yeah, she's having a flash shell, boys and girls.
51:29
Go buy some. Go buy some of her merch, man.
51:31
You know, because you want to be a Back That booty.
51:34
I may have to buy a back that Booty shirt for my wife.
51:36
I'm just saying. OK, I'll.
51:37
Make you just give me that that address.
51:40
I'll see you. Yeah, if you get an address in
51:44
Queen Creek, that's me, because I'm buying a T-shirt for my wife
51:47
about backing up that booty. She has a cute little booty, you
51:49
know, shouldn't have that Jlo booty.
51:51
She's got a cute little booty, but but you know, it's I don't.
51:55
Have one at all, It's a booty. That I love, so there.
51:57
You go, there you go. Love that booty.
52:00
Put that back, I guarantee. You.
52:03
She'll make you happy. Now we can put that song on.
52:07
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, she makes me happy
52:09
regardless so. OK, let's go.
52:12
No discriminating against booties.
52:14
No booty discrimination here man, we love all the booties.
52:17
But we love them all. You just, you know, I just got
52:20
to be, I got to love my wife's booty, you know, like she loves
52:23
my booty. She gives me, she want me sticky
52:25
note not too long ago that she left on the mirror in the
52:27
morning when I got up says you have a cute butt.
52:29
I was like, thank you. You know, sticky notes, sticky
52:33
notes make people's day. So you know your boyfriend, give
52:36
him a little sticky note every now and then.
52:38
Just tell him something nice about him.
52:39
And I guarantee you it's going to just it's going to make his
52:41
day. Little things like that.
52:43
Just we've been married. We've been together 31 years.
52:45
So those little sticky notes we write for each other on, on
52:48
randoms, you know, she was having a bad day at work the
52:50
other day and I text her, you know, how's your day going?
52:53
And then she's like, well, it's, it's better now that I found
52:55
you, not my lunch box. So, you know, it's just little
53:01
things. Do little things like that with
53:02
with your significant other. You'd be surprised how how far
53:05
it goes to help strengthen your relationship and your friendship
53:08
because you have to have both, right?
53:10
So, you know, let your man understand you wrote that song
53:14
out of love. Damn right.
53:17
Thank you. Thank you for that.
53:18
Yes, absolutely. Yep, Yep.
53:23
So in 2026 we're going to have a tour.
53:25
International tour. We're hoping right?
53:28
Yes, we. Also and then.
53:33
I'm sorry. Pimp all your stuff.
53:36
No, pimp all your stuff. I want to know everything that
53:39
you're doing so we can get everything rolling, rolling
53:41
forward. So what else you got going?
53:43
OK, the tour, I have a few more singles and then I'm releasing a
53:49
Blues album. Hopefully.
53:52
I'm going to now, hopefully. I'm almost finished.
53:55
You have to be Mr. Masters. I have to record 2 songs, which
53:58
is a Natalie Cole song and a Aretha Franklin song.
54:01
Those are only two that I'm putting on there.
54:03
Two of my favorites. Yeah, it's like, and I'm doing a
54:07
Aretha Franklin song that, you know, most people do not have
54:10
ever heard of or have ever done because Willie Nelson did it
54:14
first. So I'm doing and I'm going to
54:17
put that out. But before I put the Blues album
54:20
out, I'm putting a short film out that's a Blues related.
54:26
And it's for my songs that are on the album, but it's going to
54:31
be telling the story and how nice the man is cheating on me.
54:38
I he gets caught, I'm waiting on him to come home.
54:42
I put him out then I burn up his post so.
54:46
Oh, nice. Oh yeah, so and you also have
54:50
the documentary coming out about the diamonds, right?
54:53
We have the documentary coming out with the young, the ladies
54:56
and I am telling our story up in the music business, touring, our
55:01
ups and downs. We've been asked to do it as a
55:04
reality show. I just don't like reality shows
55:07
because I don't like the drama and negativity that they put on
55:11
most women and they have to fight her, crack their eyeballs
55:14
out. I just never wanted that.
55:17
They they told me, Oh no, we're going to make it to where it's
55:21
like you guys maybe arguing. No, you already know that
55:25
they're going to. Turn it away.
55:27
Personal experience. I personal.
55:29
You definitely aren't going to like it.
55:31
Yeah, I got on one. I got on one and there was down
55:35
to like the final 12 they wanted and there was like 24 of us.
55:38
And kid you not, the producer came up to me and this one guy
55:41
said, I need you guys to have more drama.
55:43
And I'm like, what you talking about?
55:44
He's like, I need you to do this, this, this.
55:46
And as soon as it went rolling, that dude started being an
55:48
asshole. Everything I could do not to
55:50
step up and punch him in the face, but I kind of let him do
55:53
his thing. And then when it was cut, I
55:55
looked at him like, motherfucker, there wasn't a
55:57
bunch of people in this room. I would drop you.
55:59
And I looked up producer. I said, I'm out, man.
56:01
Like I'm not playing this game. You're not going to.
56:03
You're not going to come in to destroy my character for your
56:06
ratings. And I walked away.
56:07
The whole thing ended up falling apart anyway.
56:08
But I feel you. Good for you for not doing that,
56:11
because it is to me, reality TV is bullshit.
56:14
It's made-up, it creates drama that doesn't need to be there,
56:16
and then you create friction and chaos and it.
56:19
It's everything but reality. Right.
56:22
And there's that saying there's no such thing as bad publicity,
56:24
but there is bad publicity. If you're coming across as a
56:27
drama king or drama queen and you're you're shredding somebody
56:30
just for ratings, that comes back to you like that that that
56:34
comes back. You can't chip away at
56:36
somebody's soul for ratings. It doesn't work.
56:38
Soapbox. Sorry.
56:40
Sorry, Yeah, thank you for telling me because I felt, I
56:44
keep feeling that in my experience, like, no, I'm just
56:47
going to finish the documentary. We tell our story, we sell it on
56:50
Netflix. The tour.
56:51
Good for you. No, the tour is the end part of
56:54
it, but we get with the the first part of it, we're getting
56:58
together, we're making this thing work, rehearsals and all
57:01
of that. And then the tour and that's
57:03
that's it. Because no, I was like, I don't,
57:05
I don't want to do it. I just I.
57:08
Just I, but I agree it's no I. No, I admire you for not doing
57:13
that because I like to do things that I have not total control
57:18
of. But at least in this instance,
57:21
Chris and I are the only ones making the decisions.
57:23
I trust him to make the same great decision I'm going to
57:25
make, right? Or at least if we're going to
57:27
agree to disagree, we're going to do it respectfully.
57:31
You have control of everything you're doing right now.
57:34
If you let that outside influence in, like Chris said,
57:37
then that just starts chipping away at your soul and what you
57:41
want for your vision. Just keep doing what you're
57:44
doing. You're the master.
57:45
You're the one that's got the voice.
57:47
Yeah, and like you said, you own all your product, you own your
57:50
masters, you do everything on your own.
57:51
So that's that's solid right there.
57:53
Bill, keep building your life resume and keep creating a
57:55
masterful legacy that people are going to look up to for years
57:58
and years and years. Because just in this short
58:00
amount of time, I'm going to go buy your stuff.
58:02
Especially I can't wait for the Blues album.
58:05
I want to hear. I want to hear what you do with
58:06
the Blues. Man, that's my favorite, yeah.
58:09
Yeah, So what I asked about. That earlier, so I'm glad you're
58:11
doing that. Yeah.
58:13
So sometime in 26, we want you back on, even if you're
58:17
overseas, because we've had people on from Australia, from
58:19
South Africa, from the United Kingdom, doesn't matter where
58:21
you're at, this platform, you know, overcomes boundaries and
58:25
borders and things like that. So definitely once you come back
58:28
on, especially after the Blues thing hits, because then we're
58:30
going to get it and we can talk about that because it's, it's a,
58:33
it's a powerful thing to be able to sing the Blues even.
58:36
And it it takes up a notch to me with a female because, you know,
58:39
again, the voice, the dynamics, the range.
58:42
Let me ask you this real quick. How much have you listened to
58:44
Beth Hart? Beth Hardin.
58:49
Beth Hart. Hart.
58:51
No, I, I don't know. No, I have never, said Beth
58:54
Hart. But.
58:55
I go listen to her sing with Jeff Beck.
58:58
OK. Oh.
58:59
I love Jeff Beck. I think you're going to get a
59:01
lot of ideas that might help you along the way if you have not
59:05
recorded this Blues album yet. She's one of my favorite Blues
59:10
singers out there that a lot of people don't know about her
59:13
because she never went after the fame and fortune, but she spent
59:16
a lot of time playing with Jeff Beck because he loved her voice.
59:20
OK. Yeah, Jeff Beck.
59:23
I love Jeff Beck too. Me too.
59:24
See, we could just talk music for hours because I told you,
59:28
Danielle, we love musicians and you know, so you guys want to
59:31
find Danielle? Just go to go to Google machine
59:33
type and Danielle Renee, it's DONYAL Renee RENN EE and find
59:38
all her stuff. 2026 is going to be another breakout year for
59:41
her. And you want to be part of that?
59:43
Because I sure want to be. I want to check out the stuff
59:46
she's doing in back that booty, right back.
59:49
Is that what it is? Back that booty, back that
59:52
booty. And we leave every show.
59:54
We leave every show like this. If you're feeling, you know,
59:57
sad, depressed, suicidal, don't do it.
59:59
Go for a run, go scream in a pillow.
1:00:00
Go journal, go write, go work out.
1:00:02
Do something that's going to change your mindset.
1:00:04
If you can't find somebody to talk to, text 988.
1:00:06
Somebody is standing by waiting to help you.
1:00:09
Tomorrow is a better day with you in it because someone does
1:00:11
love you. They will miss you.
1:00:12
Don't leave a hole in somebody else's heart.
1:00:14
I'm Chris. He's Mike.
1:00:15
This is the the the fantastic. Just the gracious Danielle
1:00:18
Renee. You definitely want to check her
1:00:20
stuff out because I'm telling you she's going to she's going
1:00:22
to shake the world in 2026. Thank you so much time with us.
1:00:27
We appreciate time is valuable thing and we we love that you
1:00:30
you chose to spend an hour with us today.
1:00:32
You are a beautiful human with a great life.
1:00:33
Resume. We'll talk to you soon.
1:00:35
Love you. Brother love you too man Thank
1:00:39
you. Thank you.
1:00:41
Don't leave yet, Danielle. We got to make.