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Mastering The Art Of Music At 16 Liv Ciara From NBC's The Voice · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Good morning, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good?
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic? Being sixteen years old. You're either in homeschool
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  Speaker 1: or you're in school right now and your principal's watching you.
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  Speaker 1: Which one is it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm really at home, so I have a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more freedom, so that's Good's good?
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  Speaker 2: Thank god?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this way you can build everything around your moment
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  Speaker 1: of now. And that's what I feel. And I listen
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  Speaker 1: to your music, you really do have this way of
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  Speaker 1: making me feel like I am here and I'm okay
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  Speaker 1: with being here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I really try and prioritize that I've always had a
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  Speaker 3: love for performing, and I feel like every time I
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  Speaker 3: perform with the song, I try to connect it, connect
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  Speaker 3: to it on a personal level. But then you also
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  Speaker 3: have to realize that the audience is such a big
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  Speaker 3: part of the performance as well, and connecting with them
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  Speaker 3: and making them feel like they're included is really kind
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  Speaker 3: of just a cheering on top for a performance. So
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  Speaker 3: every performance I do, whether it's a happy song, sad song,
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  Speaker 3: in the middle, I always make sure to not only
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  Speaker 3: look at the coaches because they're like kind of trying
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  Speaker 3: to judge you to see if.
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  Speaker 2: You're, you know, willing to move on, move forward.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I always make sure to connect with
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  Speaker 3: the audience, look at the audience and just have a
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  Speaker 3: good time.
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  Speaker 1: And those people out there in the audience have got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things on their mind, one of them
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  Speaker 1: being did somebody just email me? Was that a text message?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on with all the kids doing right now?
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  Speaker 1: And somehow, some way you've got to get through that
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  Speaker 1: mess and reach them.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it can be a challenge sometimes because also
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  Speaker 3: there's so much to think about while you're upstage, while
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  Speaker 3: you're on stage, which is so much that's going on
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  Speaker 3: in your head. But what I always make sure to do,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, whatever happens, no matter if you hit a
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  Speaker 3: bad note, no matter if you forget a lyric, whatever happens,
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  Speaker 3: make sure to look at the audience and really try
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  Speaker 3: and make them feel that connection.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny you say that, because that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that they teach us in radio is that
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  Speaker 1: when you do make a mistake, so what nobody heard it,
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  Speaker 1: and if they did, they thought, oh, he's just human.
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  Speaker 2: Like me exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. How do you deal with that on a live
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  Speaker 1: stage though, because when you're up there live and your
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  Speaker 1: heart is going, oh no, you just stepped on something bad,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, you've still got to play. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: do you get that in mind back in the game.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly, it's so it's so confusing how everyone does it.
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  Speaker 3: Very It's very baffling because I know me, like backstage,
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  Speaker 3: before everyone goes on stage, it's a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: are nervous. A lot of people are like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what's going to happen when I get out there,
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  Speaker 3: because we don't know what's going to happen. So when
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  Speaker 3: you get out there, you honestly just have to take
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  Speaker 3: a deep breath and accept that whatever is going to
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  Speaker 3: happen is going to happen for a reason. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna try and perform my best because I try,
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  Speaker 3: and I bet a lot of the other artists try
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  Speaker 3: to perform each performance as if it was their last.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I've done so far with these past
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  Speaker 3: three performances, and I'm so happy with how they came out.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you're gonna think I'm a freak. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a reason why I watch Johnny Carson every night on
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  Speaker 1: Antenna TV because he makes mistakes. He makes so many
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  Speaker 1: mistakes doing that show, and I'm going, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: And we sat here and we didn't tune out. We
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  Speaker 1: kept watching. He was so perfectly in tune with what
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  Speaker 1: was going on. And then you go, Okay, as a performer,
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  Speaker 1: what can I do so people don't feel like that
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  Speaker 1: I violated their space? So I asked you the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, honestly try not to you know, understanding that
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  Speaker 3: mistakes are human, like he said, is a great thing.
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  Speaker 3: But also try not to like focus so so deeply
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  Speaker 3: intently on one person because at times it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like a concert situation. If someone were to come up
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  Speaker 3: to you and stare at you for like thirty seconds
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  Speaker 3: of the song, it could make you feel a bit uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 3: and I know how that feels. So I tried to
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  Speaker 3: while I'm trying to include everybody, it's like, you look
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  Speaker 3: at this person, make them feel like you're you know,
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  Speaker 3: including them, but also shift your attention towards the other side.
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  Speaker 2: It's so much, so much going on because.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people there, and it's like I
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  Speaker 3: want to connect with everyone, but I also don't have to,
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  Speaker 3: like death stare like, you know, all the people in
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  Speaker 3: the audience.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, look at them, make.
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  Speaker 3: Them feel included, but also don't make them feel like
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  Speaker 3: they have to, you know, have some kind of physical,
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  Speaker 3: visible reaction from you, because everybody reacts to music differently,
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  Speaker 3: and it could just be a thought you have while
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  Speaker 3: listening or something you say to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be some big reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and we get our share of hecklers too.
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  Speaker 1: There's only been one time in all my years where
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  Speaker 1: this guy wouldn't leave me alone on that live stage.
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  Speaker 1: And so what I did was I took my shoes
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  Speaker 1: off and I said you wear them and get up here.
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  Speaker 1: And I left the stage and he sat there looking
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  Speaker 1: me go, no, I didn't mean to do that. You
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have said it in dude, you know. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's like you want, you want to be open. But
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  Speaker 1: then at the same time one person received your message,
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  Speaker 1: the other people think you're now a butt heead and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, yeah, I wasn't trying to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, exactly, Wow Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up in Saint Peter's, Missouri, now I'm from Montana
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  Speaker 1: where that Missouri River actually gets it start from the
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  Speaker 1: three forks, the three rivers coming together. What nice does
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  Speaker 1: that Missouri come through your state as well? In the
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  Speaker 1: way of honoring where that and because I mean, or
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  Speaker 1: do you get it right there? When when it's part
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  Speaker 1: of the Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't the Missouri River? The do we have the Mississippi?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a few we drive by it, there's
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  Speaker 3: a bridge over and we drive by it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, it's just it's so cool knowing that, well,
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  Speaker 3: number one, Missouri borders I think the most states, so
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  Speaker 3: we have a connection to almost every state around us.
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  Speaker 3: And knowing that the river kind of crosses through all
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  Speaker 3: those states, all those different kind of parts of of
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  Speaker 3: the country is so cool and yeah, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I grew up convinced that in Montana, in the
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  Speaker 1: Missouri River, that's where the duck build Platterpuss lived. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody was like, no, it doesn't know, it doesn't. I'm going, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it does. I swear to God I saw one. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because that river and anything connected to that river, even
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  Speaker 1: the mighty Mississippi, it still has something in it. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's music, and it gets to people like
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  Speaker 1: you live definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever just get out there and write music?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's what I did when we lived in Wyoming,
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  Speaker 1: is I would get out there on the hay bales
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  Speaker 1: and I would just sit there and sing to the
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  Speaker 1: chickens or whoever the hell else was out there in
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  Speaker 1: that field.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I've yet to get on a boat and like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, be on the river. I drive over it
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  Speaker 3: all the time, but one day eventually my parents, and
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  Speaker 3: I really want to like go on a boat and
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  Speaker 3: kind of sail, not necessary sale, but just.
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  Speaker 2: Be on the river.
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  Speaker 3: But while I don't write on the river, I hope
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  Speaker 3: to one day. I write music in general all the time,
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  Speaker 3: at home, in my room, everywhere, because I feel like
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  Speaker 3: music is such a great form of expression, and honestly
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been I've been writing for a while now,
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  Speaker 3: but for the longest time, I really haven't considered myself
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  Speaker 3: to be a good writer.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of had to get over that mental block
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  Speaker 3: of in order to actually be good at something and
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  Speaker 3: to consider yourself a decent songwriter, you have to practice.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't just say, oh, I'm such a bad writer,
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  Speaker 3: it's just not going to happen for me, like you
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  Speaker 3: actually have to try. And over the past few months,
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  Speaker 3: in the past year, I've really been working on writing
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  Speaker 3: and kind of getting my feelings out and kind of
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  Speaker 3: sharing the message that I want to portray to the
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  Speaker 3: world in a different form rather than just you know,
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  Speaker 3: saying it.
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  Speaker 2: And I was able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I wrote four new songs and I put them on
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  Speaker 3: an EP and I'm so so proud of how my
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  Speaker 3: EPI lob came out.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing when you release an EP like that and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you relinquish it to the
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  Speaker 1: people to bring in. I mean that to me is
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  Speaker 1: such a golden moment because in this Spotify iHeartRadio generation,
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  Speaker 1: people are hearing your music. You don't have to wait
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  Speaker 1: for the terrestrial radio stations to pick you up. It's
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  Speaker 1: already there. I'm so jealous of your generation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was just talking with my dad the other day
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, you guys got it good.
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  Speaker 3: Because the releasing, the process of releasing music back in
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  Speaker 3: the seventies, eighties.
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  Speaker 2: Et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: It took forever and it didn't even reach as many
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  Speaker 3: people as it does now. So the kind of process
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  Speaker 3: that is, you know, the process of today, it's so
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  Speaker 3: much more handy, and now more people than ever can
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  Speaker 3: release music and kind of share their message with the world.
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  Speaker 1: You being sixteen years old, you probably don't remember the
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  Speaker 1: Warp Festival, but what it would do is it would
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  Speaker 1: travel around the country and every one of those musicians
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  Speaker 1: and the locals would come out there with their cassettes
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  Speaker 1: and CDs and hand it to the fans. It was
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  Speaker 1: such an experience and to me, I mean it's like wow, live.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems to be the same type of person
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  Speaker 1: that would jump on a tour like this just to
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  Speaker 1: get her words out there.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's so much fun too, like just having like
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  Speaker 3: a big box at your CDs, like you're take it,
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  Speaker 3: take it, but like you don't have to do that today.
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  Speaker 3: You still can, honestly, but you know it's much easier
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  Speaker 3: to do it this way.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of easy or difficult, what is it like for
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  Speaker 1: you to step in there to record those songs for
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  Speaker 1: the EP and all of a sudden you now have
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  Speaker 1: to harmonize does it Does it come easy for you
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  Speaker 1: to do that or is it something that you've got
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  Speaker 1: to physically work with when it comes to that engineer.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I think harmonies are my favorite
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  Speaker 3: part of the original music, singing all of that.
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  Speaker 2: When I did my Battle last performance with.
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  Speaker 3: My friend McKinley, it was the most fun getting to
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  Speaker 3: work with someone and having to, you know, carve out
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  Speaker 3: harmonies and do really cool things with like the notes.
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  Speaker 2: And I have always from.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think from as long as I can remember,
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  Speaker 3: Like we would have the radio on in the car
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  Speaker 3: on my way to like preschool, or some you know,
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  Speaker 3: little child event whatever, and I would be just harmonizing
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  Speaker 3: with any song that was on the radio, and my
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  Speaker 3: parents would be like, wow, she can she can really
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  Speaker 3: hold a good tune with the main melody. And when
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  Speaker 3: I was recording my EP, I was like, Okay, we
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  Speaker 3: have some harmonies here, but I kept wanting to add more,
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  Speaker 3: and there's there's a couple sections and a few my
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  Speaker 3: songs really where it was just it's just harmony after harmony,
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  Speaker 3: and then.
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  Speaker 2: It builds and builds.
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  Speaker 3: And I love a good build in a song, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's instrumentally. With my song Breakaway that performed in the Knockouts,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, whatever happens, I wanted to build,
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  Speaker 3: you know, until the end. So I made sure to
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  Speaker 3: do that with my original music as well, and just
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  Speaker 3: listening to harmonies like anyone else who does harmonies, it's
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  Speaker 3: so pleasing to the ear to hear, and I kind
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  Speaker 3: of wanted to give that same experience with my songs.
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  Speaker 1: Please Do Not Move. There's more with Live Sierra coming
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  Speaker 1: up next NBC's The Voice. We are back with Live Sierra.
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  Speaker 1: As a fan of NBC's The Voice all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to the beginning, one of the things that I've
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  Speaker 1: always wanted more than anything in the world is for
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  Speaker 1: the Knockout Rounds to create an album of their own.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, that is the only time where we're
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna see you with anybody else that's on that show.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like we you know, as a fan, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going I want more, I want more, I want more.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a but we haven't seen that yet. Are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna work on something like that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The Voice is yet to contact me about doing a
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  Speaker 3: collaboration album. I think they have done an album in
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  Speaker 3: the past, like from the very beginning of like blind
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  Speaker 3: Audition songs, but like you said, yeah, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they've done a Knockout album or any of the round
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  Speaker 3: after and I would love for them to do that.
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  Speaker 3: But if not, I'm always working on music and I
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  Speaker 3: would love to release I did actually release a cover
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  Speaker 3: of my blind Audition song we Can Be Friends by
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  Speaker 3: Arianne Grande, and I hope to do that with all
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  Speaker 3: of the other songs because they're so special and what
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  Speaker 3: I love to do with music is kind of take
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  Speaker 3: the song with so much respect to the original, but
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  Speaker 3: kind of put my own twists on in and kind
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  Speaker 3: of bring my own interpretation to it. And that's what
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I really did with the songs that
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  Speaker 3: I've done on the show so far, and I would
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  Speaker 3: love to release them so that people can listen to
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  Speaker 3: them because actually a lot of people have comments and
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  Speaker 3: I was really surprised, like, Okay, I want to hear
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  Speaker 3: this like on Spotify so I can play it on
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  Speaker 3: repeat and not have to play the YouTube video over
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  Speaker 3: and over again.
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  Speaker 1: So you being as creative as you are, and we're
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  Speaker 1: all very big dreamers, because that's just what would radio
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  Speaker 1: and music people do. So you're talking about Ariana Grande
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  Speaker 1: when you make it to the finals, and you know
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  Speaker 1: how NBC's the voice is they let you sing with
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  Speaker 1: your idols and the people that you've performed.
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  Speaker 2: What would happen?
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  Speaker 1: What would happen if Ariana Grande showed up and you
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  Speaker 1: sang with her?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what I would do.
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  Speaker 3: Just the thought of that like makes me like how
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  Speaker 3: my stomach drop when you said that, Like I she
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  Speaker 3: is one of those people where there is nobody out
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  Speaker 3: there that is like her.
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  Speaker 2: Yep along honestly with So I love my.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Kelly as well, Like I auditioned last season and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people ask me, like, what would be
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  Speaker 3: your dream coach out before? And while I have so
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  Speaker 3: much respect to them and they are so so amazing,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have a favorite. But then when I got
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  Speaker 3: called back for this season and I and I heard
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  Speaker 3: them say Kelly Parks is one of the judges, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, so like this is why I
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  Speaker 3: need to actually get a cheir churm this time. So
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  Speaker 3: people like Kelly and Arianna there's nobody out there like them.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, if I made it to the finale to
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  Speaker 3: get to sing I mean, if Arianna showed up to like, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: let's just do a Kelly, Arianna and libtrio, because that
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  Speaker 3: would be.
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  Speaker 2: That would be so insane. But I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: that would be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed with the opportunity to be with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people in their real life situations. And one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I'm hearing a lot lately is I
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  Speaker 1: hear people talking about the old R and B singers,
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  Speaker 1: the old R and B singers, there's nobody new right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going, well, wait a second, why can't live
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  Speaker 1: be that next voice, because we do need another Anita Baker.
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  Speaker 1: We need a new Whitney Houston. We need somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna fill that void because we need R and B
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  Speaker 1: music right now in a really, really good way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: My parents all the time are like, listen, you choose
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  Speaker 3: the genre and the route you kind of want to
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  Speaker 3: go down. But I always make sure kind of my
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  Speaker 3: main genre, I would say, is pop. But I've grown
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  Speaker 3: up so much with Whitney Houston, with Jennifer Hudson, with
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  Speaker 3: like you said, Anita Baker, and the classic R and
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: B singers, and I kind of get a lot of
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: my the way I sing from those big powerhouse vocalists.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: So I feel like someday I hope to release like
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: a pop R and B album, And I always, even
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: with my EP out loud and made sure to have
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: kind of some R and B and kind of soul
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: flares to it. And honestly, as I get older, that's
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: just going to develop more and more because I love
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: to really, you know, dig into that R and B
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: feel because there's so much to it, and like you said,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: there's not a lot of that now, especially among people
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: in my age, like sixteen seventeen eighteen. So I would
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: love to tie into that in the future, and honestly,
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: in my performances as well, vocally and instrumentally, I always
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: try to include a little bit of R and B
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: into my performances.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because that, to me is that's a form
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: of acceptable soul. In other words, we just sit there
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: and we can because if we go, oh you listen
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: to soul music, Oh you mean that Jesus stuff. Oh no, no, no,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: well come on, don't go give it a label like that.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: It's soul. It's great music, it's R and B. It
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: really is shaped where music is.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone has a differ definition of its Soul is
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: just such a broad category, honestly, and there's so many
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: different kind of subcategories with soul. There's R and B,
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: like you said, there's Christian music and faith music. So honestly,
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: everyone has a different definition of soul. But every version
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: of soul is like respectable in its own way.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: When you take it out on the road, how are
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: you going to prepare yourself mentally as well as physically,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Because I know mentally what it's like when you got
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: that show in two to three hours, and what you
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: put yourself through. You're living a life that hasn't even
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: happened yet, and yet you've got so much pressure on you.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: How do you deal with that knowing that stage is
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: still three hours away?
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Well, fatfually, I've had the experience when I was thirteen, actually,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: i joined my dad's my dad's cover band, and he
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: asked me to be the lead singer.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: And I've really had that time.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: To think about, you know, Okay, the shows in three hours,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: what am I going to do? And I've had that
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: time to kind of prepare myself and tell myself that
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: You're going to get out there. You've done this a
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: dozen times before. When it was the first performance, I
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: could not say that. And also when it was the
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: first performance, I was sick, so that was a totally different,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: totally different environment. But I told myself, I'm going to
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: get out there and perform to my best ability.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: You know, this is what I want to do in
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: my life.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to go out there and show everyone
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: in the audience exactly why I love this as my passion.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: And I try not to think about one thing I
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: always like have in the back of my mind, and
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to get like out of doing is what happens?
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: What's the next lyric? What happens if I forget the
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: lyrics but somebody's on the voice. I never did that, Like,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: I'm glad I didn't have that mindset on the show,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: but a lot of times, just in my personal shows,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I always had the lyrics in the back of my mind, obviously,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: but I try not to think about what's the next
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: lyrict because I tell myself, I've done this so many
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: times before, I know exactly what I'm doing.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to get out there and go for it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know how you even remember your lyrics
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and the reason why. I mean, I would get out
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: there and I would flub up the lyrics all the time.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: And then one day when I was introducing Michael Bolton
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: out there for a live audience and I saw that
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: he had like a little karaoke videos green up there,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: changed my life. It's like, oh my god, you mean
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: you're watching videos while you're up here? Oh my god,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Why didn't I think of that?
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, like I think I have forgotten the lyrics
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: on stage, not on the voice, but just in general.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe once.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: So after that one time, when I was probably like
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: a few years ago, I was always like, Okay, this time,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I can't forget the lyric this time. Oh no, what
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: happens this time I forget the lyric. It's like, it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: just you have these little mistakes every now and then.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: But knowing that you're a singer.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: And it's your job to get out.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: There and know the songs by heart, you kind of
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: just have to accept that. And if you forget a
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: lyric or mess up a note along the way, that's
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: kind of just what happens.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: When you're human. So it's not like it's a big deal.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I love the idea that you've invested in writing original
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: songs because when I was in the band and Tony
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and Gary were like, no, we gotta have the old songs,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you gotta have cover songs, and I stood up from
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: my rights. I lost. How are you winning? Knowing that
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you've got original songs underneath your belt, Well.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: It's awesome having original music because you can show like
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: people watching this shit and they see kind of your
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: side of being an artist with your performances on the show,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: but then they're able to go back and look at
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: your you know, social media pages and see Oh she
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: has original music too, So it's a different, completely different
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: side of you, and honestly a more vulnerable side of you.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: When I was writing these songs, it's like, Okay.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of sharing my part of myself with the
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: entire world that you know, not a lot of people
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: have ever heard or seen before.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of a risk you take when you're
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: releasing music.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: But also it's a risk that can pay off so
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: well because what I love to do and one of
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: the main you know, aspects of music is being able
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: to relate to others through through music, through instrumentation.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Through harmonies, love me good harmony and.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and so honestly being able to have music
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: out and thanks so much to my dad because my
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: dad actually produced my EP for me.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: We have a little tiny.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a little studio in our house where
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: we recorded it, and I trusted him along the way.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: There's so many I literally know like little to nothing
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: about producing, so knowing how much work goes into that
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: and is so special and having my dad able to
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: do that so I can have music out and show
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: that different side of me is really special.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna stop by a Kmar,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: grab a cassette recorder and some radio shack microphones the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: way we used to do it. I'm gonna come over
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: there and put that EIGHTYBD microphone in front of it,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and we're all gonna sing into it at the same time.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're so spoiled with your own studio.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: You are spoiled and you know it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. Though.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: so they can jump on there and give you some love.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Well, you can follow me on all my social media
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: at liveseer and music, and you can check out I
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: have a link to a bioside and all my profiles there.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: You can find my original music, you can find the
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: cover of my Bland audition song, and you can also
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: just stay tuned to NBC The Voice because you know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I'm in the semi finale now, which is crazy, So
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: you know, just stay tuned for my journey and we'll
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: see where I go next.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you live.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. This was so
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: much fun.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You'd be brilliant today.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, awesome. I will thank you God,