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Reaching Beyond NBC's The Voice Singer Songwriter Alexia Jayy · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 3: Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Arrow Alexias here you have till twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Alexi, come on, you gotta be the same way when
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  Speaker 3: you step into a recording studio to put a song together.
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  Speaker 3: They've always got those new toys and things that they're saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: let's try this. I haven't done it yet, And all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, you feel like the guinea pig over
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  Speaker 3: there in the studio with your vocals ready to go,
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  Speaker 3: and they're going, I'm gonna try something new. What do
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  Speaker 3: you think of this one? Have you done it? Have
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  Speaker 3: you gone through that as well?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? But I'm like, I'm a gadget NERD, so I
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  Speaker 5: am the one in the corner asking like, what is
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  Speaker 5: that I don't do.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mind gadgets, gadgets. I'll sit there for hours
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure them out. And then and the thing
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  Speaker 3: about it is is that when you do finally get it,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, oh man, what's next. Get on Amazon, Let's
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  Speaker 3: go get something else to play with here. Oh I
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  Speaker 3: got to talk to you about that song? Who raised you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: My god? This is I You know what, There's something
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  Speaker 3: in my heart that's telling me that people in all
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  Speaker 3: four corners of this nation and around the world are
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  Speaker 3: going to adopt this song in different ways. And that's
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  Speaker 3: where we start a conversation and that's what I That's
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  Speaker 3: what I love about music. It's a conversation starter.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is, it really is. I look
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  Speaker 5: at it like art. It's like with my music, majority
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  Speaker 5: of my songs were either feelings that I was having
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  Speaker 5: or conversations that I've had with other people about life.
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  Speaker 5: And so you are exactly right, it's the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: One of one of the things that I that I've
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  Speaker 3: really I put a lot of study into the creative
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  Speaker 3: flow of basically creativity as well as in art, and
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  Speaker 3: I really do dig in deep because I want to
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  Speaker 3: understand the psychology of it. And I about fell over
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  Speaker 3: yesterday when I found out that loneliness is a huge
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  Speaker 3: part of creativity. What what is it? Yeah? Yeah, is
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  Speaker 3: that not the crepeakest because we disconnurselve, We disconnect ourselves
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  Speaker 3: from reality to go feel something and then come back
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  Speaker 3: to the moment and it's it's you know, it's almost
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  Speaker 3: like artemists two going behind the moon over the past
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  Speaker 3: couple of days. They lost connection with the earth. I
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  Speaker 3: think artists are the same way. And when I listened
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  Speaker 3: to Who Raised You, you had to have disappeared for
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  Speaker 3: a moment and said, I got it here it is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have to. Like, if I am in a
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  Speaker 5: setting where there is noise or there are things going
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  Speaker 5: on and I hear like something in my head, I
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  Speaker 5: have to get away and I have to detach myself
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  Speaker 5: from the world.
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  Speaker 4: To be able to focus on that one thing.
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  Speaker 3: And that focus can come with a price though, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: because it can be a you know, it's something that
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  Speaker 3: steals from your energy source and you've got to be
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  Speaker 3: there with something to kind of fill it up. Well,
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  Speaker 3: at least you've got Matthew. Oh my god, I would
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  Speaker 3: sit down with him for hours just to have a
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  Speaker 3: conversation with him.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes, I have my kids, and so they make
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  Speaker 5: sure that they are part of anything I do, even
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  Speaker 5: if I need a little moment to get a song together.
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  Speaker 5: My kids are always trying to come in my room
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  Speaker 5: like hey I heard this, or hey I heard this.
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  Speaker 5: So it's not really lonely for me because my family
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  Speaker 5: is super musical.
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  Speaker 4: So I get it from outside.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm so jealous of you because I was the
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  Speaker 3: black sheep of the family. Nobody understood why I wanted
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  Speaker 3: the piano. Nobody understood why I went to get that guitar.
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  Speaker 3: They just said, turn it down, turn it down now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, my mom she was She was an advocate
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  Speaker 4: for me.
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  Speaker 5: Like it was songs when I was younger that I
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  Speaker 5: just wrote based off of the songs that I was
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  Speaker 5: hearing on the radio, and my mom she.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't even judge me.
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  Speaker 5: She would be like, that is a really good song
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  Speaker 5: for your age, and should keep writing, keep writing it.
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  Speaker 5: So she brought me studio equipment. She did everything that
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  Speaker 5: she needed to do to cultivate what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm happy that I had her. She's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Well you just activated my imagination because when you said
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  Speaker 3: my mom bought the studio equipment, and of course I'm
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  Speaker 3: sitting here right away going, okay, how old is she?
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  Speaker 3: And I wanted to know what kind of equipment you
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  Speaker 3: were using. You weren't doing real to real yet. You
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  Speaker 3: were probably just getting into digital at that time, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I think she got me like a pro tools set.
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  Speaker 3: Of Oh my god.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, mom, she was a little kit you got to
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  Speaker 5: you got the figures, MI everything, and so she wasn't playing.
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  Speaker 5: Once she heard me saying, she was like, no, you
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  Speaker 5: gotta do that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you are so spoiled with pro tools because radio
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  Speaker 3: people won't do pro tools because it makes us think
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  Speaker 3: too hard. That's what they kept telling me at my
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  Speaker 3: radio station. No, I don't want you guys to think
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  Speaker 3: too hard inside that production room. Go in there and
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  Speaker 3: do your job.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 3: So did you learn how to do all the plugins
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  Speaker 3: and everything? Because I mean in the very I mean back,
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  Speaker 3: you know, twenty twenty five years ago, pro tools was
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  Speaker 3: all about plugins. You really had to be like a scientist.
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  Speaker 5: Well no, I was that person who knew how to
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  Speaker 5: just hit records.
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  Speaker 4: That was and you were gonna get what you got.
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  Speaker 3: When when you are in the studio, don't you love
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  Speaker 3: that feeling of that is? I don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: that we go through a personality change, but there's something
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  Speaker 3: that happens. What what happens to you? Because all there's
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  Speaker 3: an energy, there's something what How do you explain.
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  Speaker 4: It is a question. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It's like when for me my energy changes when like
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  Speaker 5: all the musicians come in the room, I love like lie, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I love that that that inspires me to write, Like
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  Speaker 5: when all the musicians come in a room and I
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  Speaker 5: hear all of these different creative you know, ideas, and
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  Speaker 5: it just, I don't know, it sends me somewhere else
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  Speaker 5: and it creates a really beautiful song each and every time.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's been one of the craziest things about
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  Speaker 3: where we are with music right now. I'm jealous of
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  Speaker 3: you that you got to be with the musicians, because
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  Speaker 3: when I was in there, I had to pay for
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  Speaker 3: the musicians, but they came in on their time. So
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  Speaker 3: then I would step in with Jim and be and
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  Speaker 3: Jim and say, Okay, this is what Tamer put down,
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  Speaker 3: and then I had to go with it. So it's
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  Speaker 3: like I was never part of what he did on
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  Speaker 3: the guitar. I just had to trust the engineer and
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  Speaker 3: the musicians. Have you been in a place like that?
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  Speaker 5: When I first started, I definitely didn't have musicians.
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  Speaker 4: But as I've progressed, I know what I love and.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up around I was in a gospel group
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  Speaker 5: when I was little, and so we did live everything,
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  Speaker 5: and so I always had musicians, so I was always
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  Speaker 5: able to like feel it in a live setting, and
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  Speaker 5: so as I, you know, progressed in the music, I
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  Speaker 5: just started to, you know, be more vocal and say Hey,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I really love when the guitar player is
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  Speaker 5: in the room. It really like something my creative juices,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And I feel like every
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  Speaker 5: artist should do that. Like if that's your thing, that's
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  Speaker 5: your thing. Like if that helps you be creative, then
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  Speaker 5: that's what you need to do.
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  Speaker 3: You brought up gospel music. I'm here in the South,
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  Speaker 3: so therefore we're feeling it. We love it, We got
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  Speaker 3: to have more of it. But I'm seeing a transition
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to gospel music inside our churches. I
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  Speaker 3: see them moving back to gospel and not necessarily the
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  Speaker 3: popular kind of top forty vibe that. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: I'm from Elevation, so I can sit here. I love
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  Speaker 3: my Elevation Worship band. But I swear they're going back
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  Speaker 3: into gospel, and I'm not hearing it just in my church.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hearing it around. Do you feel the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: I think gospel is definitely coming back in a major way.
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  Speaker 5: I've been seeing a lot of my peers on the
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  Speaker 5: internet just spreading the words, So yeah, I think it
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  Speaker 5: is coming back in a major way.
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  Speaker 3: You bring up an interesting point. Maybe gospel isn't just music.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's what we're saying. Maybe it's what we're presenting
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  Speaker 3: in social media, and it's our presentation rather than just
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  Speaker 3: having a base beat behind us.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I think, like I'll just say, millennials, like
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  Speaker 5: when I was younger, contemporary with contemporary gospel was a
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  Speaker 5: thing or quartet was something, and now, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: feel like the millennials are understanding how to involve love,
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  Speaker 5: to capture everybody instead of just you know, one audience,
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  Speaker 5: because when I was younger, it was categories of and
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  Speaker 5: it was just one audience for each category. But I
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  Speaker 5: think what we've discovered is, you know, God is loved
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  Speaker 5: and so as long as you're singing about love, you'll
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  Speaker 5: be all right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're so right about that because you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: like you know, and you can always tell the vibration
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  Speaker 3: of those who went Sunday and who did not go Sunday, because,
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  Speaker 3: as Steven Fredick would say, you wear it, well, now,
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  Speaker 3: how are you going to wear it today?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, I know that's right.
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  Speaker 3: So then how do you wear it when you step
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  Speaker 3: on that stage on NBC's The Voice, Because to me,
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  Speaker 3: that is the global connector all of a sudden, all
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  Speaker 3: eyes are on you you're next.
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  Speaker 5: So my ritual is I pray right before I get
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  Speaker 5: thank you, thank you. I ask God, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: tell them I said, I don't know what these people need.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know what these people are going through.
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  Speaker 5: But whatever I whatever, you give me tonight, let it,
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  Speaker 5: let it, you know, touch to them or whatever they're
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  Speaker 5: going through.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm super nervous before I get on there.
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  Speaker 5: But as soon as I get there, Mike, all my nerves,
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  Speaker 5: like all my nerves just go away.
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  Speaker 3: But do you remember being on that stage, because there's
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  Speaker 3: many times I'll come off and they'll go, you did
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah blah. Noh, I have no idea
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  Speaker 3: what you're talking about. And they go, oh, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: your age. It's your age. No, it's not my age.
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  Speaker 3: I can't explain it.
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  Speaker 4: It's a I can. That's me. I was not there.
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  Speaker 4: I was a whole nother person.
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  Speaker 5: And it's like, when you get through, you go back
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  Speaker 5: to your regular self.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know what just happened.
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  Speaker 5: I tell my mom all the time, Girl, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know what just I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 6: Please do not move. There's more with Alexia j coming
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  Speaker 6: up next Alexia J from NBC's The Voice, and you
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  Speaker 6: spell her last name Ja?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 3: What do you do in a situation where you're giving
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to bring music forward that is a part
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  Speaker 3: of our past. But I know inside my heart that
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  Speaker 3: you are somebody who lives in the now. But but
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  Speaker 3: yet you you're sharing the music of Aretha Franklin as
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  Speaker 3: well as well as Carol King. I happen to love
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  Speaker 3: that because I believe that music is what Stevie Nick says,
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  Speaker 3: it is transitional. It is it's going to evolve, and
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  Speaker 3: we give it to the future forward. How do how
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  Speaker 3: do you do that to where you make it your own? Alexia?
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I just that's I always listen to the song as
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  Speaker 5: if I were saying it, and and and with Aretha.
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  Speaker 5: Aretha already made a moment, and so I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 5: hold you. That was the most nerve wracking thing I've
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  Speaker 5: ever done, because, like I said, Aretha Whitney, they already
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  Speaker 5: made these songs a moment. So it can either make
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  Speaker 5: or break you. You could either do really any do
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  Speaker 5: really bad. And so my method was to just do me.
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  Speaker 4: What would you do on song?
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  Speaker 5: Not you know, not trying to do anything other than that,
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  Speaker 5: but what Alexia would do. So I try to I
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  Speaker 5: try to keep that mindset when I'm singing any of
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  Speaker 5: the Legend of the songs, because they already made it
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  Speaker 5: a moment.
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  Speaker 3: You get what I'm saying, I do. And you've got
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  Speaker 3: the soul of Aretha in the way that during during
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  Speaker 3: her final moments up on those stages. I remember her
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  Speaker 3: being in Charlotte and she openly admitted that she needed
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  Speaker 3: to sit down at the piano and that's where she
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  Speaker 3: was going to be. And I feel that you would
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  Speaker 3: be the same way. Ale I say, you know that
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  Speaker 3: those people are there, maybe maybe not to sing their
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  Speaker 3: favorite song, but to receive something. And I just feel
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  Speaker 3: inside my soul when I see you on TV that
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  Speaker 3: you are that person that would say, I'm gonna sit
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  Speaker 3: down for a moment, but we're going to continue. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to continue sharing. You've got that in you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I will. Now I will take my shoes off too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Now you're somebody who's after my heart.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I can't stand wearing shoes. That's just not my thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not even a Southerner. So then when when
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  Speaker 3: you've gotten your kids around and your family around you.
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  Speaker 3: How do you prepare them for the next generation of
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  Speaker 3: sound or do you sit there and allow them to
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  Speaker 3: explore it and you learn from their their guts and
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  Speaker 3: glory of growing forward.
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  Speaker 5: So what I did with my kids is what my
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  Speaker 5: mom did with me. She let us, you know, figure
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  Speaker 5: it out at first what we wanted to do. And
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  Speaker 5: once we figured out, you know, what we wanted to do,
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  Speaker 5: she just tried to figure out how to help My son.
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  Speaker 5: He loves music, and so he likes making beats. He's
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  Speaker 5: he's shy, so he hasn't got got into the singing yet,
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  Speaker 5: and so I try to encourage him to continue to
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  Speaker 5: make beats.
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  Speaker 4: He got a keyboard. I got him a keyboard so
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  Speaker 4: he can.
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  Speaker 5: You know, here, my daughter, she loves singing, so I
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  Speaker 5: got her a mic and she'll sing in front of
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  Speaker 5: that mirror.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm just trying to cultivate what they love. Right now.
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  Speaker 4: It may change, but I'm here for whatever they want
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 3: You know, don't ever let him stop on those beats.
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  Speaker 3: Because my neighbor Jack, that's all he talked about when
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  Speaker 3: he was growing up. I want the beats, I want
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  Speaker 3: the beats. Nobody really, I mean we in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 3: followed him, but a lot of people did not. And
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  Speaker 3: today he's a producer for one of the biggest singer
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  Speaker 3: songwriters out of Japan and he's stationed right there in
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles. Don't let your son stop those beats because
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  Speaker 3: the world is listening.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, you are right. I will not.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I love about about I hate this
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  Speaker 3: sound like an old guy. That's what I love about
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  Speaker 3: the younger generation. They've got courage, they've got guns, and
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  Speaker 3: they're like you. They want gadgets, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 5: And I encourage my kids to do whatever you want
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  Speaker 5: to do because you're not gonna get the first thing right,
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  Speaker 5: like you're you're gonna mess up the first time and
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  Speaker 5: whatever you do because you've never done it before. And
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  Speaker 5: so I encourage my kids to just do it. Whatever
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  Speaker 5: you think you want to do, try it first.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't like it.
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  Speaker 3: Does that also include dance? And the reason why is
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  Speaker 3: because I mean, this goes all the way back to
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  Speaker 3: the Temptations, the Four Tops, Gladys Night, it goes back
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  Speaker 3: even further than that because you can stand at that
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  Speaker 3: microphone and sing all night, but dance just seems to
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  Speaker 3: be where you take them to even a higher level
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  Speaker 3: of letting go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, dance is. I was put in dance school
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  Speaker 5: when I was little. Like I said, my mom, she
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  Speaker 5: was trying to make sure that I had everything down
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  Speaker 5: pack and it was funny because I got kicked out.
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  Speaker 4: I had to let guys.
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  Speaker 3: I try my best. Oh my god, to see the
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  Speaker 3: look on your face when they said you got to go,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: but they said, this.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Is exactly what they said, which was so funny that
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: she was like, well, you know you can actually you
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: could just start singing at the recitals.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Oh god, they don't understand, you know. And I have
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: to keep telling myself that people on the outside of
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: self don't understand what's going on on the inside of
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: you know, of who we are as creative people. Just
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: just go with the flow.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I do. Now I got a little two
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: step amy.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: So now what are you doing post NBC's the Voice,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: because that is so valuable to my soul because I've
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: been blessed with the opportunity to have these conversations for
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: over ten years now, and it's so fun to sit
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: here and have conversations with you a decade later. I
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: want to know what you're up to.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: I am recording, I'm in the studio.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I just released my newest single, Feels Right, and I'm
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: seeing a new.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Single on the fifteenth of April, Carl rent Free. So
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: I am working. I'm working, working.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: See, and that's what it's all about. But is it
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: working or is it by choice? And see here I am.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I'm bringing to psychology in here because people always say,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: what are you doing for your job today? I don't
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: have a job. I have a choice, and my choice
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: is to sit behind this control board. Your choice is
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: to create music.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: It doesn't feel like work. I think we just say that,
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: but it doesn't feel like work at all.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Are you journaling or anything like that so that everybody
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: beyond your kids can have a story of your past.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: So I've been picking up that phone, you know, trying
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: to record a lot of the stuff that I do
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: because I do want my kids to see the journey.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Because my daughter came when the journey was coming up,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: and my son he went through everything with me.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: So I do I get on that phone and I record.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: M m mmmm.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I hope your parents look at you every day and
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: say you are spoiled to have those two babies and
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: that voice, and that you're reaching the world. You're spoiled.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: You're spoiled, and please embrace that being spoiled. I mean,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: because isn't it the great greatest gift what you're holding
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: right now?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: It is being able to do what you love and
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: your kids watch you do what you love, so it
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: inspires them to do what they love. Yeah, I'm living
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: a dream, ca'lin.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Where can people go to find out more about you
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: and give you some love?
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: You can follow me on all social platforms under Alexei
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: and j with two wives and two underscores.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you spelled that out because you know how
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: people are.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Man. Man.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't get these teachers to get kids to spell.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Right now, all of a sudden, here comes these rock stars,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: you know, with different names.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I make sure that I make I make sure
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: that I say two wives because I know that Jay
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: sometimes one.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, and of course my mind this is the father
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: and me. I see two wives and I'm going, who
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: her family was going?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Why? Why? Oh?
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I'm using that I'm putting that in my name that
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: you remind me of you every day. Why why Well,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: please come back to this show anytime in the future.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: The door is always going to be open for you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. I appreciate you guys so much.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Will you be blessed today? Okay, you too,