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Singer Jay Renee Joins Erica DeLong To Talk About Balancing Life As An Artist and Teacher · The Erica Show

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  Speaker 1: Do you want know five? It's the Erica Show iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 1: We're so honored. We've got Jay Renee on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: who is one of the performers at the Raleigh Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Parade tomorrow, kicking off the holiday season around the Triangle.
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  Speaker 1: And you are a born and bred Durham native. We're rare,
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  Speaker 1: so bull City in the house.
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  Speaker 2: Bull City is in the house. Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so thank you Carolina Waves singing your praises.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we've seen all of your stuff. I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: she's good. But you have a huge following, and so
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  Speaker 1: this is this is like you are on your way
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  Speaker 1: to just blowing it up. We're gonna see you everywhere
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  Speaker 1: before long.
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  Speaker 2: I can't you know what, I'll take that. Yes, put
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  Speaker 2: that out there.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, put it in the Universe's put it in.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put it out there. Let's go ahead and put
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  Speaker 2: it out there. Yes, I'm excited about tomorrow. Like you said,
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  Speaker 2: I am born and bred from Durham, North Carolina. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, Alreadie, you is in the area. So I've
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  Speaker 2: been to the Christmas Array when I was smaller, So
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  Speaker 2: it's almost a full circle moment. Because I going like
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  Speaker 2: when I was eight and nine in ten, So this
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  Speaker 2: is this is exciting. This is such a big, big
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  Speaker 2: circle moment. Okay, super excited.
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  Speaker 1: So is all of your family showing up to see
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  Speaker 1: you perform, because it is a big full circle moment
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  Speaker 1: for you and your whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: It is. Yes, my my family's coming in. I teach
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  Speaker 2: those cyclones Smith's Middle School in Carboro, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Carborough,
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  Speaker 2: So I have some students coming out there too, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm like super excited they get to see me, not
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  Speaker 2: in a teacher rope, but as Jay Renee. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: super excited.
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  Speaker 1: Think you're teaching our youth and then you're out here singing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying, go girl, go, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: What is the holiday tradition that always like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know that it's not even Thanksgiving you it will
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  Speaker 1: be soon, but people already start thinking about Christmas when
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  Speaker 1: we do the Raley Christmas Parade. So is there a
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  Speaker 1: holiday tradition your family does every year?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Every year we actually have two. We come to
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  Speaker 2: my parents' house Christmas Eve, the entire family, kids, grandkids,
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  Speaker 2: and my my dad cooks, you know, grills a little things.
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  Speaker 2: My mom reads Christmas stories and they make ginger play
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  Speaker 2: ginger houses and we play games, and then we have
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  Speaker 2: a brunch that day too. So that's every year, Like
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  Speaker 2: every year, it doesn't matter brunch ms Eve. We're having
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  Speaker 2: our brunch and we're having our sleepover. So every year
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  Speaker 2: that I'm excited. I can smell the apple pie already.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there be a time where it rotates to your
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  Speaker 1: house and your hosting, or it always needs to be
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  Speaker 1: at your parents.
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  Speaker 2: It will probably down the line, but I love coming
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  Speaker 2: to my parents' house. It gives me nostalgia. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: gives just the whole nostalgia of like all and now
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  Speaker 2: see my niece and nephews and we have our uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, pajamas on and things like that. I it
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  Speaker 2: probably will, but we love. Everybody loves camping at our
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  Speaker 2: parents' house. It's like the that's the staple, that's where
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  Speaker 2: we're going.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely we go to my grandma's house.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, okay, that's where we're going. And you know
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  Speaker 2: down south, listen, once is the staple, that's where it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly Okay, So when did you know you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to perform and sing. You said you were going to
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  Speaker 1: the parade eight nine, ten years old. Were you looking
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  Speaker 1: at those singers at that time saying like, hey, one
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  Speaker 1: day that might be a performing Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was performing actually at that age by then too.
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  Speaker 2: I was in a group actually out of Rawley called
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  Speaker 2: them Martin Luther King All Children's Choir. Yeah, so I
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  Speaker 2: was performing around that time then. So but I've always
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  Speaker 2: known I wanted to sing since like the age of six.
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  Speaker 2: Something that is a God give a gift that I
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  Speaker 2: just knew.
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  Speaker 1: This is what What are your performing tomorrow? Is it
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  Speaker 1: a secret?
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  Speaker 2: It's a secret. We're gonna, We're gonna. I want to
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  Speaker 2: be I want you all to be surprised. But no,
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  Speaker 2: it's a phase. It's a phase.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a phase.
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  Speaker 1: How do you have time to teach sing, do all
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  Speaker 1: the things? Like? That's a lot, but we always see
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  Speaker 1: you perform.
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  Speaker 2: It is a lot, But you know what, I've been
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  Speaker 2: grace to be able to handle it all. So I
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  Speaker 2: take it with strives. But you can follow me on
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  Speaker 2: Instagram at the j renee th h E j A
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  Speaker 2: y r E n e E and all of my music.
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  Speaker 2: I have holiday music and regular clean the house, feel
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  Speaker 2: good music, good soul music. They're all on all streaming platforms.
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  Speaker 2: So if you type in jay Renee and put the
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  Speaker 2: hyphen at the end of the e, you'll see me
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  Speaker 2: pop up. And yes, you can follow me anywhere, everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: anywhere everywhere you type in jay Renee, You're gonna see
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  Speaker 2: my faith.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, we will see jay Renee with her family there
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  Speaker 1: to support this full circle moment. I'm written for you. You're
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  Speaker 1: a teacher, You're just doing all the things. So I
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  Speaker 1: am sending you good vibes to see you blow up
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  Speaker 1: all around the world one day. Thank you an international.
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  Speaker 2: Success, Okay, and I will take that in the atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: and I'm taking I appreciate that, but yes, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I've actually been teaching for fourteen years. I graduated in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eleven, okay, and so I did elementary for a
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  Speaker 2: little while. Now I'm with the middle schoolers, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that they can see that you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be bound to one thing, you can
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  Speaker 2: do multiple things, and so I think it's very huge
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very grateful. Then while I'm teaching, they get
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  Speaker 2: to see this and so yeah, I'm excited. I go
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  Speaker 2: a full circle moment.
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  Speaker 1: She's a motivational speaker too. I'm just saying, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much. We'll see you tomorrow, all right, thank you
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  Speaker 1: my bull City, my bull fellow Bull City.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, all right, see you tomorrow.