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Artist DL Zene Joins iHeart Radio To Talk About Her Upcoming Parade Performance · The Erica Show

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  Speaker 1: Do you want to five? It's the Erica Show. So excited.
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  Speaker 1: The Raleig Christmas Prey going down tomorrow and we've got
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  Speaker 1: some incredible talent coming through, including Dlzen. She is a songstress, musician, writer,
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  Speaker 1: I mean recognized all over. You are just incredible and
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  Speaker 1: so we're so excited to have you at the parade.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm so excited to be a part. I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So what are you singing? Because I know that
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  Speaker 1: you got a song and it has to go through
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  Speaker 1: all the approvals and all the stuff. So what are
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  Speaker 1: you going to be performing tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm definitely going to perform one of the traditional
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  Speaker 2: Christmas songs, the Christmas Song. I'm not sure if you're
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  Speaker 2: familiar with that one. And of course, this is what
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  Speaker 2: Christmas means to me because that's just a classic. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever and they call you dottie by the way,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll call you dotty. That's what your friends and
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  Speaker 1: family call you. Right. Have you ever been to the
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  Speaker 1: Raleig Christmas Parade or you usually watch it on TV.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen it, but I've never been apart, No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll be out there early in the code.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not raining. It doesn't matter though, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be good. It kind of kicks off the holiday
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  Speaker 1: season and the goal. So how did you get your start,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, you're blowing up, got a big following.
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  Speaker 1: How did it all start for you? And you were like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gifted? How did you know that?
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  Speaker 2: They are still so much confident to me. So I've
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  Speaker 2: always known I've been gifted. It's just me having to
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  Speaker 2: implement working and you know, the gifts. But I've always
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  Speaker 2: loved music since I was a kid. I've been thinking
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  Speaker 2: since I was about two or three, since I could talk, basically,
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  Speaker 2: I've been thinking.
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  Speaker 1: And your goal was music therapy. Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to be a music therapist, but my career
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  Speaker 2: paths changed unfortunately. But I'm still able to do music
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  Speaker 2: full time, which I absolutely love the fact that I
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  Speaker 2: can do that and still work and you know, provide
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  Speaker 2: for my family.
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  Speaker 1: So coming up in the future, like, I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: what is the goal for you in the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to be a traveling, touring artist. I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually currently working on a live recording right now of
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  Speaker 2: original music, and it's been something that I've been wanting
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  Speaker 2: to put out for a few years now, So I'm
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  Speaker 2: hoping this for catapult my career.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you. Where can people see you? Now? I
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  Speaker 1: know that Carolina waves big advocates for you, like we're
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  Speaker 1: all on this call. And you know, Mira, she's like
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  Speaker 1: incredible talent, like absolutely the person to know she is
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  Speaker 1: so amazing.
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  Speaker 2: She is, she really is. She's actually the reason why
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  Speaker 2: we're able to have this opportunity, you know, singing at
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  Speaker 2: the Christmas Parade.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. And you're often performing around the triangles.
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  Speaker 1: So where can we come and see you perform live?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm always gigging around the area, even outside of
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  Speaker 2: the area, so you all can't keep up with me
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  Speaker 2: on social media. Again, my name is DLSN That's d
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  Speaker 2: l z e n E. And if I'm ever having
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  Speaker 2: a show that is not a private evan, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: welcome to come.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Dale is going to be performing at
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  Speaker 1: the Raleigh Christmas Parade tomorrow, which you'll see if you
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  Speaker 1: don't get to make it in person, you'll see it
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  Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day where they aired on ABC. But we
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  Speaker 1: are just so excited to see you tomorrow. Come take
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  Speaker 1: a selfie with you cause you are on your way
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  Speaker 1: for sure. You got so much talent.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Before you go, give us two fun facts about yourself
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  Speaker 1: that we don't see on stage.
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  Speaker 2: Two things that is unique about me. I love to
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  Speaker 2: play basketball. I don't know that's a unique thing, but
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  Speaker 2: I was read athletic growing up and basketball is still
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite sports. And another unique thing. I
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  Speaker 2: do perform this sometimes, but I am a whistler. So
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  Speaker 2: anything that I see, I can whistle.
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  Speaker 1: Wait me too.
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  Speaker 2: When I'm doing live show sometimes I'll like surprise the
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  Speaker 2: crowd it's not whistling, and it's always across Leason. So
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  Speaker 2: but yes, I love to whistle.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you know I used to win whistle contests
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  Speaker 1: growing up and people think it's such a talent. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, wait, y'all can't whistle, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people can.
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  Speaker 2: I know that realized like because I've been whistling so
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  Speaker 2: I was a kid, like my dad used to do
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  Speaker 2: it around me and I've eventually picked it up and
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  Speaker 2: I've never thought so love.
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  Speaker 1: The fun fact. All right, So DL's gonna be performing
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  Speaker 1: at the Raleig Christmas pread tomorrow. You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: miss it. Tell us again, where can everybody follow you again?
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  Speaker 2: I am Dottie a K A d O Van and
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  Speaker 2: there's d l V E n E. It's nice beginning
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  Speaker 2: of all today