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  SPEAKER_00: It's W E H M All Access getting to know the uh performers at this year's Sag Harbor Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's four days of free music as a whole bunch of different performers all throughout the village of Sag Harper.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's actually kind of a beautiful thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the Sag Harbor Music.org to get the full schedule.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now it's time to get to know an artist from uh across the pond, so to speak, or I should I say, over in Connecticut.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh across the water.
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  SPEAKER_01: At least a fairy ride.
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  SPEAKER_01: A fairy ride for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's time to get to know a performer of ferry ride away over in Connecticut.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Shermain Tripp.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sherman, how are you?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing well.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm doing well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for having me.
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  SPEAKER_00: My pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're performing uh four o'clock at the Steinbeck Park tents on that Saturday, September 26th.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is your uh your first time at the Sag Harbor Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, my debut.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very excited uh to bring what we call Hartford Soul to Sag Harbor um and just share some original music and uh just some good vibes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well what is Hartford Soul to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean to you?
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  SPEAKER_01: To me, it is uh an embodiment of the musical influences that we have here in um in this area.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm influenced by uh jazz, by adult contemporary, by RB, by uh 80s pop, uh, all of those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we have a rich history here in Hartford also of great jazz musicians, um, great gospel legends.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so all of that, um, when you're playing with other musicians on the scene, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: All of that influence comes in as you're collaborating.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think it just creates, I think a lot of people, you know, when they think about soul and neo soul music, they may not necessarily think of Hartford first.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which I totally get, but it but it's it's rich.
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  SPEAKER_01: We definitely, we definitely have those those sounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where were you initially from?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do you grow up?
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  SPEAKER_01: In Hartford.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, in Hartford area, greater Hartford area in Connecticut my whole life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I've taken the music on the road and traveled and done residencies in uh other countries, other areas, but this is what I call where I call home.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was it like for you as a as a child?
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you uh what got you into music?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you kind of remember that moment where you realized this is something I really want to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think I remember at a young age wanting to write songs, like just kind of jotting songs down, doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I will be honest, I think when I really started thinking about voice is when I first heard Whitney Houston.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, and it and what she was doing, I mean, it was inspiring, and I wanted to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to make pretty sounding things.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to be able to make my voice do what she did.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I, you know, I'm I'm certainly no Whitney Houston, but I'm I'm doing my best with what I got.
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  SPEAKER_00: When did you uh as a how old were you when you first started to sing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I actually didn't sing or didn't take singing seriously as a profession until I was about 18 in college.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there was no, I never took any lessons, I didn't play anything, I didn't join any choirs.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was mostly just a jock.
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  SPEAKER_01: I loved basketball and volleyball.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I spent most of my time doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then it wasn't until I went to college that that avenue sort of opened up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it was probably because I wasn't I wasn't good enough to play those sports in college.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I had to find something else to do with my time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I kind of leaned leaned into that a little bit, started exploring music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know though that you could perform?
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  SPEAKER_00: Had you done it as a child, or just were you literally just started singing when you were teen?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was probably my last year in high school, is when I started exploring with some other friends who were singing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but no, there was no no performance or any anything like that as a as a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did what did you grow up listening to?
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  SPEAKER_00: And your parents and your family, uh what kind of influence were they on you as far as what music you were kind of sampling and then kind of how that moved into it when you started to sing, I'd imagine that kind of impacted what what you chose.
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  SPEAKER_00: You mentioned Whitney Houston, but what were your parents listening to?
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  SPEAKER_01: They were listening to Soul Records, Disco, um, you know, Masala Gen X, or so there was a lot of disco going on in the house.
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  SPEAKER_01: My mom was pretty much in charge of the music.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, so we had disco, we had Shaka Khan, we had uh Earth Wind and Fire, we had Average White Band, we had Aretha Franklin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, my mom was even into some country.
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  SPEAKER_01: I remember listening to some country, uh a little bit of some country groups um then.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then I was also um, you know, in the era when rap and hip-hop was being born.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there was a lot of that between my siblings and I that we were listening to around the house.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the intersection of disco and jazz and RB, and we didn't listen to, I didn't listen to much jazz until a little bit later.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it was mostly pop and soul and RB in my house.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but there were groups like New Edition, um Atlantic Star, which I really fell in love with that group.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, Barbara Weathers, her vocals were also extremely inspiring for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I found in 80s pop, specifically around those who were singing like Whitney, was this polished soul, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Soul music had been really gritty and strong and powerful in a different way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when Whitney came out and it was more pop feeling, it was a little smoother, it was a little more polished, it was a little um less gritty, but equally as moving.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's kind of what I geared toward um when I started finding other groups that I liked was that really clean sound, listening to the jets, Elde Barge, uh that kind of music.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: You were 18.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember your first performance in front of people?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, so actually um, I was still 17 at this time, and my first big performance in front of people was actually at my high school graduation where no one knew I could sing.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one had any idea that I had these.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had done a little something at a very small church that I was attending.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I performed an original song that I wrote for church.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and there were probably about 30 people there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that was the first time I was out front.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I'm am I misremembering this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I also sang the national anthem in high at a high school game.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I can't remember which one of those came first.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a little different.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was happening, it was happening all around that time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I the national anthem was a song that I had had learned and was singing at my basketball games.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I got invited to sing actually One Moment in Time by Whitney Houston that she sang for the Olympics.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, that was our graduation song.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that was that was the first time like in front of people that was still just kind of for cute and for fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when I started taking it seriously, was when I went to college and we had like a there was a showcase, and I ended up joining this girl band, this girl group, really.
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  SPEAKER_01: We weren't a band, we were a group.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we had uh we were one and done.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had one performance, and then that was that about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I uh actually left college and came home to pursue music full-time.
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  SPEAKER_00: My parents didn't appreciate that very much, but well, I I imagine that was an interesting time for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um when when did you start writing your own music and kind of figuring out all right, I I want to try this, but I need to develop my own voice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Always.
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  SPEAKER_01: Always all of the songs um that I have recorded were my own tunes, so I always had tons of songbooks full of lyrics.
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  SPEAKER_00: When when did you sit down and kind of say, All right, I I need to figure out who I want to be as an artist?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think I'm still figuring that out, actually, in some ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think I started when I decided to come home and take it seriously, and what I understood is that I needed I needed to collaborate with other musicians and get experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, really, my first phase was just focusing on understanding what I didn't know because I didn't have any training, I didn't go to music school, I didn't know the rules, I didn't speak the language.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just kind of threw myself um in any that's amazing though, because you in you just kind of started on on your own.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Was that scary to I because you mentioned your parents or the reaction?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd have to imagine it was it was quite an adventure for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you were saying, you know what, this is what we're gonna do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, how did you find the right people to to kind of mentor you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or how did you kind of figure that out?
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  SPEAKER_00: That that's so difficult at a young age.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two things come to mind for how I how I figured this out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, one, I was actually working as a bank teller, and there was a gentleman who would come in and he would deposit checks, and they had his band name on them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so every time he'd come in, I just asked him questions about his band, what kind of music they did.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then one day I got up the nerve to kind of say, Oh, I'm I'm interested in singing and would like to do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he invited me to audition as a singer in his band.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so his name was Lance James, and he had uh the Lance James Project, which was a very popular band here in Hartford.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I ended up joining his band um and learned a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he worked with other players, other bands who would then begin to call me to sit in with them and to work with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that was really um helpful in learning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I learned from that is that um I didn't speak the language, so I did feel insecure about not necessarily reading music or knowing how to notate.
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  SPEAKER_01: But so what I did say was that I I may not be the most learned musician in the room, but I'm gonna be the most prepared.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I made sure I was always on time, I made sure I knew my lyrics, I knew my stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so that took me, took me a long way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just again, practicing with my voice, mimicking lots of artists that I that I really uh admired, and then in that sort of experimenting to find my own sound.
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  SPEAKER_01: The second thing that really helped me actually was working at a drag bar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um Working with drag queens really helped me, really helped me polish my stage act, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because it's one thing to be able to stand and sing and you're focusing on remembering the lyrics and technically sounding good, but um stage presence was a different thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I worked at a drag bar for a little while, and those those ladies really helped me um learn how to connect with the audience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd imagine it's it just grows over time too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you've been doing this for for 25 years plus uh now.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's that been like?
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  SPEAKER_00: I I've read you, of course, you're you want a Grammy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um it's gotta be interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've really built this career for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um what's uh what would you because it's uh it's interesting to hear how you started and really it's just perseverance and and getting out there and doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love the fact that you were a bank teller.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um that's such a great lesson for people because you never know who you're gonna run into in your daily life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and and and think about that, where where how far you've come with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, when did you start uh as far as the first record, recording songs?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious uh as far as when you kind of started to really just develop this this Hartford Soul sound.
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  SPEAKER_00: How old were you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I think I think I realized the Hartford Soul sound.
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  SPEAKER_01: I actually started calling it that maybe probably in the last three or four years, realizing as I started to really think about what is my genre, what am I doing, what is this called, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm you know, sometimes it's neo soul, sometimes it's a little jazzy, sometimes it's a little RB.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is it?
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  SPEAKER_01: And it felt like a, you know, it felt like a like a soul soup, like a soul food soup, really.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I and I wanted to also like be really clear about, I think representing like where I'm from, where I learned all these lessons, the artists that I learned from were all here in Hartford that I learned different things from, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: From the jazz community, from the RB community, um, from the Hartford Conservatory, from the drag queens, from all of those spaces were all here in Hartford.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think I just really didn't realize how much I was embodying that um, even when I was going other places, that the all of the lessons and all of the things that I learned were from here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it just became important for me to to lift that up and to and to live that and to also lean into lots of times folks from uh New England or other places feel like they need to move to another bigger city, right?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'm very close to New York, I'm very close to Boston, Philly's not that far.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and a lot of folks move, right, and think they have to go there to like have this like this to legitimize their sound and their style and where they're from.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just felt like that wasn't a thing I had to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm grateful that I was able to have this community behind me to really allow me to build.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of the great things about a small city is your you do have an opportunity to build so much.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: No, that that's that's very true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and you and you certainly have built a a lot over the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm curious, uh, first off, your your process for writing, obviously it's changed over the years, uh, I'd imagine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because also working with different types of music as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, when you start thinking about uh putting together a project or uh how does that begin for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you start with?
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  SPEAKER_00: I know you've got a whole bunch of different projects that you've worked on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and I'm curious, like how I have the Parkville Sounds and different projects like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: What how does that begin?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the the seed, how does that start to grow for you?
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  SPEAKER_01: It actually is a little chaotic initially.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I think sometimes I'm really clear about what I want to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Other times I'm just doing things, and then I look up and realize, oh wow, you have this whole body of work that you can actually share with the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I the project with Park Bill Sounds is actually are actually songs that um I have been um toiling with for over 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of those songs are um about 20 years old within the last 20 years that were written.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I felt like the writer and the performer I was 20 years ago is not who I am now, and I wanted to give them new life and sort of have live more live instrumentation with these.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I've always felt like I'm better live than I am on a recording.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I was encouraged to do a live album so that I could properly communicate that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's where the live EP came from.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, is just kind of I wanted to, I took a break from music for a little while and I wanted to really think about when I came back, what is it I wanted to be clear about?
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: What was be more intentional?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes as an indie artist, you're just taking opportunities in front of you because, right, you have to.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes it doesn't feel like a clear strategy or an intention.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes joy in performing is an intention and is a very clear strategy and can be fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in order to make sure that it was sustainable for me and I didn't burn out, I had to be more intentional.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I recorded the live album because I wanted to be able to submit uh accurately to festivals like Zag Harbor Music Festival, what it is like to have me on your stage.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that was the intentionality behind Parkville Sounds and the other projects.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes it's just that I've done some writing and done some recording, and now I feel like I have enough that I want to put out and share with the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Over 25 years, uh you've watched it change, how music reaches an audience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh really.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've kind of been able to figure that out as you go.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: How do you see, especially now?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: I I'd imagine, is it about just getting out songs instead of records and kind of just getting the music out there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it it's it's difficult, I'd imagine.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: It is difficult.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: It is I there was an in-between space there before we are here now that was kind of a sweet spot for me.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I think it was a sweet spot for a lot of indie artists where you could sell your CD, you could you could invest in yourself, you could make some money, you know, you could have a gig and then you could sell, you know, 10, 15, 20 CDs and go home with a little decent money.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I think what's most frustrating for me is that the first thing people say now is, oh, are you on Spotify?
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  SPEAKER_01: And not, can I buy your record or can I buy your CD?
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  SPEAKER_01: That makes it tough because it's it's it can be rather expensive to produce a high quality project.
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  SPEAKER_01: And because people are so used to on demand and being able to just consume it the way that we consume it, and we all I'm guilty of it too.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not, this is not um, you know, shade, but I do think the difference is it when you don't have anyone who is going to buy your merch, then you have to play shows, you have to get gigs.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: And that can be a challenge in itself, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: When you have to bring an entire band somewhere or or you know, put a show together, um, being able to, you know, meet the financial needs of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think that's really frustrating.
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  SPEAKER_01: The other thing that's a little remember that song uh video killed the radio star?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, of course.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think I think about that so much when it comes to like having to make reels.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, it's it's a complete well that's we we joke that our entire the radio show now you have to be on multiple platforms.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: You have to, and and it's it's difficult um because it's not and I'm a little older in this business now.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: I've been around for a little bit, and it's not as easy to to change either.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, you look at our you know, you look at new artists and they're just used to constantly posting on TikTok and constantly getting a reel out there, and it's not second nature uh for some people, including myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so it's interesting to see, and I love talking and speaking with artists about this because it is it is important.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to say that the music is the most important thing, but you also need an audience, and it's this whole kind of formula of trying trying how to build that is really the uh the interesting challenge and and interesting conversations, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's one of some of the good parts too about I'd imagine working with a lot of different musicians performing at these types of festivals, you get to you get to meet with other people that are dealing with the same things you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Definitely.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I there are very few musicians that I have met or any artists who don't find this a challenge.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some, like you said, are just really good at it, right?
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: And that has always been there there have always been artists that are really good at marketing themselves, right?
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like if you think in the past that there have been some amazing um marketing efforts, but we do have to market, we do have to let let folks know.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: But I think what's different now about this is that there's there's so many of us trying to get people's attention.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's easy to get overlooked and you have to really spend time where you used to spend all of your brain power really diving into the music and diving into lyrics and diving into the project.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: You now have to split that space and split that capacity to think about marketing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's just a different, it's a different switch.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's a different, it actually I think can make some people uncomfortable after you've done this like vulnerable thing to now go say, come listen to this vulnerable thing.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't wasn't it enough to do the vulnerable thing, and now you have to you have to of course uh speak about it constantly and and mention it.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: I will say that I I love what you've done.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: I like the uh the merch you have on your website, uh shrimantrip.com, and we'll link to it uh because it's it's different.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the indie soul seeker online is very cool.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: I like that.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just nice that it's uh you know, you've you've put a lot of thought into it.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just a a shirt with your name on it, type of thing.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: So um it shows that you are working on those things.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: But ultimately it is about the it should be about the music.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I'm looking forward to seeing you at the St.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: Harbor Music Festival.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you're coming to town.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: What can people expect from the live show?
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because you mentioned you you prefer live more than studio.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the live show, I think you can expect connection, I think you can expect musicianship.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm working with some really great musicians.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I have Dee Davis on the keys, she's our musical director.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: We have Dale Green on the bass, and we have Jocelyn Pleasant on the drums, and she's amazing.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm looking forward to bringing some fun arrangements, really having fun, raising the vibration, and just, you know, sharing some really tunes that are meaningful to me and hopefully they connect with folks.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Papa the Ferry, come on over, Sag Harbor Music Festival from Connecticut, Hartford Soul, come into town at the end of September.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: We'll uh put all the links up uh in the uh the description of the interview and all of that on social at WEHM Radio.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Shermain, thank you so much for your time.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's really nice to get to know you, and I look forward to uh to hearing you at the at the festival.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: This should be great.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: I really appreciate you having me.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: We're looking forward to it, and we'll see you soon.