1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:10,078 --> 00:00:13,980 ♪ A train is a-coming 4 00:00:13,981 --> 00:00:18,385 ♪ It's coming 'round the curve 5 00:00:18,386 --> 00:00:22,422 ♪ That gospel train is a-comin' ♪ 6 00:00:22,423 --> 00:00:26,260 ♪ Lord, coming 'round that curve ♪ 7 00:01:35,129 --> 00:01:39,031 - It's AM 1560, W-G-O-B 96.1 FM. 8 00:01:39,032 --> 00:01:42,969 You just heard sounds from the Georgia Mass Choir. 9 00:01:42,970 --> 00:01:46,874 Hey, request lines are now open at 414 5781 560. 10 00:01:49,076 --> 00:01:50,977 I was born and raised in church, 11 00:01:50,978 --> 00:01:53,780 and I've been singing practically all my life. 12 00:01:53,781 --> 00:01:57,083 But at the time, I wanted to go and be a singer, 13 00:01:57,084 --> 00:02:01,554 I call myself going to be a singer at UW Whitewater. 14 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:03,490 They told me I couldn't sing. 15 00:02:03,491 --> 00:02:04,924 That's not good. 16 00:02:04,925 --> 00:02:08,028 - But that didn't stop me though, 'cause I sing at church. 17 00:02:09,330 --> 00:02:11,731 Of course, God had other plans 18 00:02:11,732 --> 00:02:14,301 and the singing thing didn't work out for me. 19 00:02:14,302 --> 00:02:17,337 So, which led me to go into radio. 20 00:02:17,338 --> 00:02:18,571 Well, first of all, 21 00:02:18,572 --> 00:02:23,009 gospel music is food for the soul, 22 00:02:23,010 --> 00:02:25,412 and it feeds us in such a way 23 00:02:25,413 --> 00:02:28,080 that we know where our faith lies. 24 00:02:28,081 --> 00:02:33,086 - Everyone has an appreciation for music. 25 00:02:33,954 --> 00:02:35,955 Music is a soulish thing. 26 00:02:35,956 --> 00:02:38,291 I would tell you emphatically 27 00:02:38,292 --> 00:02:41,228 that everyone has a connection to music. 28 00:02:41,229 --> 00:02:44,264 What type of music may differ and vary, 29 00:02:44,265 --> 00:02:46,933 but everyone has a connection to music. 30 00:02:46,934 --> 00:02:49,069 I sing all day in the car. I just sing. 31 00:02:50,538 --> 00:02:53,606 Voice can be hoarse, and I'm still singing, I love singing. 32 00:02:53,607 --> 00:02:56,709 And so, music, it does a lot. 33 00:02:56,710 --> 00:02:59,946 I think it can touch us consciously, 34 00:02:59,947 --> 00:03:02,149 and I think it does something to us subconsciously. 35 00:03:03,951 --> 00:03:05,253 It's very powerful. 36 00:03:51,699 --> 00:03:56,537 ♪ You better start doing everything right ♪ 37 00:04:02,843 --> 00:04:04,844 ♪ You need to give it up 38 00:04:04,845 --> 00:04:09,181 ♪ Lord, God 39 00:04:09,182 --> 00:04:14,187 ♪ Sop doing those mean things to hurt your fellow man ♪ 40 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:16,723 ♪ You need to give it up 41 00:04:16,724 --> 00:04:20,860 ♪ Lord, God is what you need to do ♪ 42 00:04:20,861 --> 00:04:22,463 ♪ You need to give it up 43 00:04:41,081 --> 00:04:45,618 ♪ Listen, church 44 00:04:45,619 --> 00:04:48,855 ♪ God wants you to do right 45 00:04:48,856 --> 00:04:51,224 ♪ In everything you do 46 00:05:03,837 --> 00:05:08,676 ♪ You better start doing everything right ♪ 47 00:05:16,249 --> 00:05:20,587 I just really love gospel music. 48 00:05:20,588 --> 00:05:21,854 Yeah, I love that. 49 00:05:21,855 --> 00:05:24,391 That's why I stuck with it so long. 50 00:05:24,392 --> 00:05:27,394 Sometime I sing because I can, 51 00:05:27,395 --> 00:05:32,400 and then sometime I just get the real, just a happy feeling. 52 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:35,569 It just does something to me. 53 00:05:37,070 --> 00:05:39,105 The group that I join up with, 54 00:05:39,106 --> 00:05:41,842 we call ourself the Masonic Wonder. 55 00:05:43,243 --> 00:05:47,781 Kevin James, which was one of the guys that was a mason. 56 00:05:49,082 --> 00:05:51,117 And they got together, 57 00:05:51,118 --> 00:05:54,621 he and Charles McCullum and Amus McCullum, 58 00:05:54,622 --> 00:05:58,559 back in the '50, like '57, '58. 59 00:06:01,294 --> 00:06:06,299 So, they needed another guy to sing with them. 60 00:06:07,034 --> 00:06:09,602 So, unfortunately, 61 00:06:09,603 --> 00:06:12,072 they picked me up somewhere down the road, 62 00:06:14,007 --> 00:06:18,010 so I was with them ever since then. 63 00:06:18,011 --> 00:06:19,211 I couldn't sing, 64 00:06:19,212 --> 00:06:22,114 I couldn't hold a chair of tune at all. 65 00:06:22,115 --> 00:06:24,451 So, they taught me how to sing. 66 00:06:24,452 --> 00:06:28,455 And then we got together and we'd do a lot of rehearsal 67 00:06:28,456 --> 00:06:30,190 till we got ourselves together. 68 00:06:31,058 --> 00:06:34,594 Then we singing every Sunday, 69 00:06:34,595 --> 00:06:37,598 Sunday evening, Sunday nights, 70 00:06:38,766 --> 00:06:43,604 and it really become like part of our life. 71 00:06:45,038 --> 00:06:47,907 Because you know, you're busy all the time on the weekend, 72 00:06:47,908 --> 00:06:49,742 going different places, singing. 73 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:52,411 So that kinda kep you from doing things 74 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:54,313 that you shouldn't be doing. 75 00:06:54,314 --> 00:06:57,917 I never was a lead singer, never did. 76 00:06:57,918 --> 00:07:00,620 I always liked it, but I never did do it. 77 00:07:00,621 --> 00:07:02,322 I was always a background singer, 78 00:07:03,624 --> 00:07:05,525 and that's where I wind up. 79 00:07:05,526 --> 00:07:07,193 I stayed at the background. 80 00:07:07,194 --> 00:07:09,396 So for singing a solo, 81 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:12,164 you don't want me to do that. 82 00:07:12,165 --> 00:07:14,767 'Cause if you heard me sing a solo, you'll say, 83 00:07:14,768 --> 00:07:16,504 are you sure you sing? 84 00:07:27,981 --> 00:07:29,448 But I grew up in a Catholic church 85 00:07:29,449 --> 00:07:31,952 where there was Gregorian chants sung in Latin, 86 00:07:33,086 --> 00:07:35,087 and believe me, you don't hear a lot of that 87 00:07:35,088 --> 00:07:38,491 on a radio nowadays, and there's a reason. 88 00:07:38,492 --> 00:07:39,959 There's no harmony. 89 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,929 It's just like melody lines, and Et Cum Spiritu Tuo. 90 00:07:42,930 --> 00:07:44,230 Here's the thing, 91 00:07:44,231 --> 00:07:47,667 going into Walden Chapel on 17th and Center 92 00:07:47,668 --> 00:07:50,002 and seeing the same setup I saw 93 00:07:50,003 --> 00:07:52,672 when I went in a nightclub or a rehearsal 94 00:07:52,673 --> 00:07:55,174 with a set of drums and a couple guitar amps, 95 00:07:55,175 --> 00:07:56,844 a bass amp, a PA. 96 00:07:58,445 --> 00:08:00,146 I think if I'd have seen when I was a kid 97 00:08:00,147 --> 00:08:02,348 and heard that music when I was a kid, 98 00:08:02,349 --> 00:08:05,185 there might still be a whole lot of religion in my life. 99 00:08:06,153 --> 00:08:09,055 Because it was a celebration, 100 00:08:09,056 --> 00:08:13,793 as opposed to a lecture, and a feeling of shame and guilt, 101 00:08:13,794 --> 00:08:14,894 and a lot of other things 102 00:08:14,895 --> 00:08:18,598 that weren't necessarily necessary. 103 00:08:18,599 --> 00:08:20,199 It was a social service. 104 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,070 It was a part of the neighborhood and part of the community 105 00:08:24,705 --> 00:08:29,710 that was stressed out, and help was being delivered. 106 00:08:32,613 --> 00:08:36,849 - Gospel music usually hits the soul a little bit different 107 00:08:36,850 --> 00:08:41,588 because of the way it's presented, the way we say it. 108 00:08:41,589 --> 00:08:45,491 So it's like, maybe if you were raised 109 00:08:45,492 --> 00:08:47,527 in a different type of church, 110 00:08:49,296 --> 00:08:52,265 no offense, but like maybe Lutheran or Catholic, 111 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:56,003 they would sing through the hymn books, 112 00:08:56,970 --> 00:09:00,406 ♪ Yes, Jesus loves me 113 00:09:00,407 --> 00:09:04,243 And then, if you go to a gospel or a Baptist, 114 00:09:04,244 --> 00:09:05,745 or a Church of God in Christ it's, 115 00:09:05,746 --> 00:09:08,916 ♪ Yes, Jesus loves me 116 00:09:09,883 --> 00:09:12,051 It's a difference, you get it. 117 00:09:12,052 --> 00:09:16,488 Catholics and CME, they're more reserved. 118 00:09:16,489 --> 00:09:17,990 You don't have to really do a lot. 119 00:09:17,991 --> 00:09:20,092 But gospel people, gospel music, 120 00:09:20,093 --> 00:09:23,830 we have to give everything that we have. 121 00:09:23,831 --> 00:09:26,298 And so, then when you have other people that come in, 122 00:09:26,299 --> 00:09:30,369 the reason why it's so easy for us to reach 123 00:09:30,370 --> 00:09:32,672 the Catholics and people like that, it's because 124 00:09:32,673 --> 00:09:36,575 it's something that they have not been exposed to. 125 00:09:36,576 --> 00:09:38,244 So when they see this like, oh my God, 126 00:09:38,245 --> 00:09:40,112 like they're doing all this and they sound like this. 127 00:09:40,113 --> 00:09:41,614 It's a completely different. 128 00:09:41,615 --> 00:09:43,616 Not saying, 'cause I like Catholic music as well, 129 00:09:43,617 --> 00:09:45,051 I like hymns. 130 00:09:45,052 --> 00:09:49,588 But with gospel music, it's just so raw and uncut. 131 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:50,890 You just don't know what you're gonna. 132 00:09:50,891 --> 00:09:52,992 It's so spontaneous, there it is. 133 00:09:52,993 --> 00:09:54,260 It's spontaneous. 134 00:09:54,261 --> 00:09:55,695 And people like that, 135 00:09:55,696 --> 00:09:57,630 opposed to coming to church on a Sunday morning 136 00:09:57,631 --> 00:09:59,232 and just reading out of a book. 137 00:14:05,112 --> 00:14:08,181 Come on, put your hands in the air. 138 00:14:11,251 --> 00:14:16,256 - Well, I think it's a part of southern gospel 139 00:14:18,025 --> 00:14:20,593 that's rooted into me, 140 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:25,331 and I don't think I can ever get out of that. 141 00:14:25,332 --> 00:14:28,268 I could do other stuff, but it would be, 142 00:14:29,636 --> 00:14:31,870 you drink a glass of water and this, 143 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,640 oh, this is not good, I need Kool-Aid. 144 00:14:34,641 --> 00:14:37,644 So, that's about what it would be. 145 00:14:39,246 --> 00:14:40,512 It's quenched the thirst, 146 00:14:40,513 --> 00:14:43,782 but the Kool-Aid just taste a little better, 147 00:14:43,783 --> 00:14:45,685 just a little more flavor. 148 00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:53,392 But you come to a small church like us, 149 00:14:53,393 --> 00:14:54,860 like this is a big building 150 00:14:54,861 --> 00:14:58,398 but our congregation is kind of small, we be savvy. 151 00:14:59,532 --> 00:15:02,034 People be like, I ain't heard you sing, 152 00:15:02,035 --> 00:15:04,104 like where y'all come from? 153 00:15:17,985 --> 00:15:19,519 Singing with my family, 154 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,455 and it's like I'm used to doing it, 155 00:15:23,456 --> 00:15:27,859 but it's fun to do it because I'm with my family. 156 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:31,298 Nothing's better than to do something with your family. 157 00:16:22,749 --> 00:16:25,451 It's like, you're like, oh, I'm gonna do this. 158 00:16:25,452 --> 00:16:27,719 But then like when you get up in there and do it, 159 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,555 it's like you're not even worried about it, 160 00:16:29,556 --> 00:16:32,991 or you're not even like gonna think about it 161 00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:35,594 because you're too much in the spirit 162 00:16:35,595 --> 00:16:38,497 more than just thinking about, oh, I gotta do this right, 163 00:16:38,498 --> 00:16:40,332 or I gotta do this wrong. 164 00:16:40,333 --> 00:16:44,103 But it's about what is in front of you, 165 00:16:44,104 --> 00:16:45,638 not what was behind you. 166 00:17:00,587 --> 00:17:04,090 Yeah, I'll practice with everybody. 167 00:17:04,091 --> 00:17:06,125 I'm not really a technical singer. 168 00:17:06,126 --> 00:17:09,829 I really just sing for my heart, like just sing. 169 00:17:11,631 --> 00:17:12,831 Like I said, I never like with the school for it, 170 00:17:12,832 --> 00:17:14,533 nothing like that, 171 00:17:14,534 --> 00:17:17,536 but I just think I just sing whatever I feel. 172 00:17:17,537 --> 00:17:21,273 If I'm peachy I'm peachy, but it's whatever I feel. 173 00:17:21,274 --> 00:17:24,111 I think it's just something natural that I just have. 174 00:18:35,081 --> 00:18:37,349 Music or no music, we just always sing. 175 00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:38,684 We just make up songs. 176 00:18:38,685 --> 00:18:42,921 Just always just like singing, all the time. 177 00:18:42,922 --> 00:18:44,890 We just be hype, clapping our hands up and our feet, 178 00:18:44,891 --> 00:18:46,225 like anything we can find. 179 00:18:46,226 --> 00:18:48,093 If we can find a spoon in the house, 180 00:18:48,094 --> 00:18:49,695 we're banging it on the table. 181 00:18:49,696 --> 00:18:51,663 If we can find a balloon, 182 00:18:51,664 --> 00:18:54,065 we're gonna pop it just to make noise. 183 00:18:54,066 --> 00:18:56,001 I don't think I'm the best, 184 00:18:56,002 --> 00:18:58,438 but I do good at my music, I'll say that. 185 00:18:59,806 --> 00:19:01,640 - And you gotta have a passion to wanna do it. 186 00:19:01,641 --> 00:19:04,643 You can't just get up and say, hey, I wanna do it. 187 00:19:04,644 --> 00:19:07,579 There has to be a genuine connection 188 00:19:07,580 --> 00:19:12,251 with the performer and the audience, 189 00:19:12,252 --> 00:19:13,619 and the only way you can do that 190 00:19:13,620 --> 00:19:15,455 is knowing what's inside of you. 191 00:19:28,468 --> 00:19:31,637 We had an old, old radio where I, 192 00:19:31,638 --> 00:19:36,508 whenever I got my me time that I could get away, 193 00:19:36,509 --> 00:19:39,211 I always listened to a gospel program 194 00:19:39,212 --> 00:19:41,480 that came on one of the station. 195 00:19:41,481 --> 00:19:43,515 I think it was based out of Memphis, Tennessee, 196 00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:47,519 called W-D-I-A, and they had gospel music, 197 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,788 they had an hour where they would have gospel music. 198 00:19:49,789 --> 00:19:53,392 And I remember some of the songs 199 00:19:53,393 --> 00:19:55,661 like from the Swan Silver Tones, 200 00:19:55,662 --> 00:19:57,263 the Dixie Nightingales, 201 00:19:57,264 --> 00:20:00,366 and people like Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, 202 00:20:00,367 --> 00:20:03,602 and I used to sit at my time and say, 203 00:20:03,603 --> 00:20:05,271 well, I just like that. 204 00:20:05,272 --> 00:20:08,607 It was just something that I got inspired, 205 00:20:08,608 --> 00:20:10,542 I always got this warm feeling 206 00:20:10,543 --> 00:20:14,846 and felt like that I was being a part of this music, 207 00:20:14,847 --> 00:20:18,550 'cause it was like resonating, you know something to me. 208 00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:20,886 Okay, the year I got involved with The Queens Of Harmony 209 00:20:20,887 --> 00:20:25,892 was 1970, I wanna say 1971 210 00:20:27,794 --> 00:20:30,996 that I actually got introduced to them. 211 00:20:30,997 --> 00:20:33,099 And I went to their rehearsal, 212 00:20:34,601 --> 00:20:39,138 and they told me that I had a natural voice for singing. 213 00:20:40,307 --> 00:20:43,642 Okay, my try out with miss Yula Thomas, 214 00:20:43,643 --> 00:20:45,544 better known as miss Honeybunch. 215 00:20:45,545 --> 00:20:48,147 "Honey, we're gonna give you something real simple," 216 00:20:49,416 --> 00:20:51,517 in that voice, that type of voice, 217 00:20:51,518 --> 00:20:54,320 I can't get as low it's her voice, but, 218 00:20:54,321 --> 00:20:56,455 "We're gonna do something real simple, honey." 219 00:20:56,456 --> 00:20:58,957 And she asked me to try out this song, 220 00:20:58,958 --> 00:21:02,060 "It's all right to have a good time with Jesus," 221 00:21:02,061 --> 00:21:03,595 "it's all right." 222 00:21:03,596 --> 00:21:06,732 'Cause she had that tone voice that was basically 223 00:21:06,733 --> 00:21:11,503 that deep voice that brought the other voices together 224 00:21:11,504 --> 00:21:14,473 to make the harmony and the melodious sounds in the song. 225 00:21:14,474 --> 00:21:18,677 It's like music to your ears, when they acapella. 226 00:21:18,678 --> 00:21:22,914 I think acapella is better sometimes than music, 227 00:21:22,915 --> 00:21:25,051 'cause you can hear all the voices 228 00:21:26,386 --> 00:21:27,953 and it's just like old school, 229 00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:30,121 hand clapping, foot stomping basically. 230 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,892 Yeah, we bump heads, but that's my momma. 231 00:21:34,561 --> 00:21:36,829 The Holy Gospel Singers, The Masonic Wonders, 232 00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:40,031 The Queens of Harmony, 233 00:21:40,032 --> 00:21:45,037 those really like was the top, coldest groups singing. 234 00:21:46,539 --> 00:21:48,874 With Spiritual Tones, which is a group that I had made, 235 00:21:48,875 --> 00:21:52,077 it's actually been changed about three times. 236 00:21:52,078 --> 00:21:54,813 At first it was The Spiritual Charms, 237 00:21:54,814 --> 00:21:56,648 The Spirit of Charms, 238 00:21:56,649 --> 00:21:58,450 and we started when we was like five, six. 239 00:21:58,451 --> 00:22:02,522 It was me, my best friend, her little sister and my sister. 240 00:22:03,956 --> 00:22:06,392 When I'm performing one of my favorite songs, I feel good. 241 00:22:06,393 --> 00:22:11,196 'Cause if it's my favorite song, I feel like it speak to me, 242 00:22:11,197 --> 00:22:13,965 so I feel like it'll speak to somebody else in the audience. 243 00:22:13,966 --> 00:22:16,402 I wouldn't say I'm good at the song. 244 00:22:16,403 --> 00:22:17,904 That that's kinda cocky. 245 00:22:19,706 --> 00:22:23,341 I would just say, I know everybody get a different feeling, 246 00:22:23,342 --> 00:22:25,711 so they of course wouldn't feel what I feel, 247 00:22:25,712 --> 00:22:28,047 but I would hope they feel something 248 00:22:29,315 --> 00:22:31,583 God wise or spiritual wise that'll be like, 249 00:22:31,584 --> 00:22:32,552 oh, you know what I'm saying, 250 00:22:32,553 --> 00:22:34,052 like this just touched me, 251 00:22:34,053 --> 00:22:37,089 or this just touched my little soul or something. 252 00:23:06,919 --> 00:23:10,388 Audrey is my god-granddaughter. 253 00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:13,192 Audrey is the little miss spiritual tone. 254 00:23:23,169 --> 00:23:27,105 She comes in and she does her own thing. 255 00:23:27,106 --> 00:23:28,741 She likes to sing. 256 00:24:56,663 --> 00:24:59,798 Gospel music came here from west Africa. 257 00:24:59,799 --> 00:25:02,834 It came when Africans were stolen from Africa, 258 00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,870 brought here against their will 259 00:25:04,871 --> 00:25:07,139 and put into chattel servitude. 260 00:25:08,374 --> 00:25:10,542 They couldn't take anything with them 261 00:25:10,543 --> 00:25:12,878 except their cultural history. 262 00:25:12,879 --> 00:25:16,281 There, you would celebrate with music and dance, 263 00:25:16,282 --> 00:25:21,152 the harvest, a ceremony that was a secular ceremony 264 00:25:21,153 --> 00:25:24,656 as well as a worship of the gods. 265 00:25:24,657 --> 00:25:28,193 When we came here, we came bonded, 266 00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:32,497 and the spiritual aspects of the message 267 00:25:32,498 --> 00:25:36,234 allowed us to become free, because it was a message of song. 268 00:25:36,235 --> 00:25:40,639 Many of the spirituals that were generated during that era 269 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,609 that allowed the slaves to send the message. 270 00:25:43,610 --> 00:25:46,111 So, it wasn't just a message of song 271 00:25:46,112 --> 00:25:49,014 that allowed us to send signals 272 00:25:49,015 --> 00:25:50,949 and to identify certain things 273 00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:53,551 that would or would not be happening. 274 00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:58,256 It was also the heart of the individual coming out of them 275 00:25:58,257 --> 00:26:01,760 that said, I care about you enough to sing to you 276 00:26:01,761 --> 00:26:04,162 in a dialect or in a message 277 00:26:04,163 --> 00:26:07,365 that no one else understands but us. 278 00:26:07,366 --> 00:26:09,434 - The spirituals were subversive 279 00:26:09,435 --> 00:26:12,704 in that they could sing a song called Wade in the Water. 280 00:26:12,705 --> 00:26:14,906 And while the plantation owners thought 281 00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:17,408 they were just doing this to pass the time, 282 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:19,277 what they were signaling was 283 00:26:19,278 --> 00:26:23,581 tonight, if you go across the river, wade in the water, 284 00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:26,051 that's where you'll be able to join the underground railroad 285 00:26:26,052 --> 00:26:29,220 and escape to freedom. ♪ Wade in the water 286 00:26:29,221 --> 00:26:32,323 ♪ Wade in the water 287 00:26:32,324 --> 00:26:35,627 ♪ Wade in the water 288 00:26:35,628 --> 00:26:40,031 ♪ God's gonna trouble the water ♪ 289 00:26:40,032 --> 00:26:41,399 And that's how it came here. 290 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,501 Now, that's how it came to the south. 291 00:26:43,502 --> 00:26:47,706 And after emancipation and the development 292 00:26:47,707 --> 00:26:50,575 of more African American churches in the south, 293 00:26:50,576 --> 00:26:54,780 these migrants came to the north 294 00:26:54,781 --> 00:26:57,215 and they got the same kinda jobs they had down south. 295 00:26:57,216 --> 00:27:01,820 They were porters, and they were maids, and they were cooks, 296 00:27:01,821 --> 00:27:05,456 and they were doing all these menial jobs for others. 297 00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:06,758 But on Sunday morning 298 00:27:06,759 --> 00:27:08,727 when they could get in their gospel choir robe 299 00:27:08,728 --> 00:27:10,796 and march down that aisle of the church, 300 00:27:10,797 --> 00:27:13,699 they were a coloratura, they were a tenor, 301 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:16,836 they were a soprano, they were somebody. 302 00:27:31,984 --> 00:27:33,151 I always say that there are so many 303 00:27:33,152 --> 00:27:35,153 forgotten heroes in music, 304 00:27:35,154 --> 00:27:38,323 and there are so many forgotten heroes in music 305 00:27:38,324 --> 00:27:39,458 just in Milwaukee, 306 00:27:40,326 --> 00:27:42,593 quartets that struggled, 307 00:27:42,594 --> 00:27:47,332 probably didn't make much money singing, but loved it, 308 00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:50,201 did it for the love and the love of God, 309 00:27:50,202 --> 00:27:51,636 who endured things, 310 00:27:51,637 --> 00:27:54,439 who if they had a chance perhaps to travel to the south 311 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,141 in the 50s and 60s to sing, 312 00:27:56,142 --> 00:27:59,811 who probably couldn't eat at the restaurant, 313 00:27:59,812 --> 00:28:01,579 couldn't stay at the hotel, 314 00:28:01,580 --> 00:28:03,982 couldn't stop to use the restroom at the gas station 315 00:28:03,983 --> 00:28:05,683 'cause it wasn't allowed, 316 00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:08,754 kidney problems because they couldn't use restrooms, 317 00:28:08,755 --> 00:28:10,321 issues with regard to diabetes 318 00:28:10,322 --> 00:28:11,923 'cause of the kinda foods you had to eat, 319 00:28:11,924 --> 00:28:14,192 and got pulled over just because they were 320 00:28:14,193 --> 00:28:16,327 four black men or four black women in a car 321 00:28:16,328 --> 00:28:17,829 driving through Mississippi. 322 00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:20,498 And in the worst cases said, 323 00:28:20,499 --> 00:28:22,367 "You're a singing group, sing for us," 324 00:28:22,368 --> 00:28:23,701 and had to sit there 325 00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,937 in the middle of the road in Mississippi, 326 00:28:25,938 --> 00:28:29,640 singing for some sheriff or some deputy 327 00:28:29,641 --> 00:28:31,977 who just thought he was so much better. 328 00:28:31,978 --> 00:28:34,179 Sometimes would get all the way down to a program 329 00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:36,414 and there was no money. 330 00:28:36,415 --> 00:28:38,383 So, you had to love doing it. 331 00:28:38,384 --> 00:28:39,751 They paved the way. 332 00:28:39,752 --> 00:28:41,787 These are their forgotten heroes of music. 333 00:28:41,788 --> 00:28:43,421 It takes a little bit of prayer, 334 00:28:43,422 --> 00:28:46,324 and I would say a little bit of love too, 335 00:28:46,325 --> 00:28:48,126 to hit that one spot. 336 00:28:48,127 --> 00:28:53,132 But for the most part, people just can't afford to travel. 337 00:28:54,333 --> 00:28:56,601 'Cause you gotta stay in a hotel, you gotta eat. 338 00:28:56,602 --> 00:28:59,237 And you go on the road, 339 00:28:59,238 --> 00:29:01,572 sometimes you get paid, sometimes you don't. 340 00:29:01,573 --> 00:29:03,641 Sometimes they might promise your money, 341 00:29:03,642 --> 00:29:05,844 and sometimes the person that promise you money 342 00:29:05,845 --> 00:29:06,913 go out the back door. 343 00:29:09,949 --> 00:29:11,350 Now, that there's the truth. 344 00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,752 This was a community within a community 345 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,387 that gave people dignity. 346 00:29:16,388 --> 00:29:20,359 It was a democratization of church goers. 347 00:29:21,994 --> 00:29:22,929 Radio. 348 00:29:22,930 --> 00:29:24,462 Radio was extremely important 349 00:29:24,463 --> 00:29:27,632 in disseminating gospel music throughout the country, 350 00:29:27,633 --> 00:29:32,203 in part because of the power of radio at that time. 351 00:29:32,204 --> 00:29:33,905 Particularly the African American community 352 00:29:33,906 --> 00:29:36,774 received much of its news and information from radio. 353 00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:38,844 So you could be sitting in your living room 354 00:29:38,845 --> 00:29:43,648 in Milwaukee in 1948 and hear Mahalia Jackson 355 00:29:43,649 --> 00:29:45,716 sing at Greater Harvest 356 00:29:45,717 --> 00:29:48,686 and then advertise her program down the street 357 00:29:48,687 --> 00:29:50,621 and hear her selling raffle tickets. 358 00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:53,124 This is the kind of experience you would have. 359 00:29:53,125 --> 00:29:54,659 - Let me grab a guitar, if you don't mind. 360 00:29:54,660 --> 00:29:56,996 And if you play a major chord, 361 00:29:58,564 --> 00:30:00,231 and you add that seventh, 362 00:30:00,232 --> 00:30:03,836 and then you add the other blue note, the third one, 363 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:07,773 where do you think that comes from? 364 00:30:07,774 --> 00:30:09,307 That didn't come from Europe. 365 00:30:09,308 --> 00:30:10,508 How do I put this? 366 00:30:10,509 --> 00:30:12,377 Like soul wise, when you listen to a quartet, 367 00:30:12,378 --> 00:30:14,079 it got some kind of funk in it. 368 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,346 And gospel's going, 369 00:30:15,347 --> 00:30:18,483 ♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪ 370 00:30:18,484 --> 00:30:20,719 That did not come from Europe. 371 00:30:49,448 --> 00:30:53,019 I feel like having a good church tonight. 372 00:30:54,453 --> 00:30:58,190 Now come on, put your hands together like this. 373 00:34:19,658 --> 00:34:20,658 It's an art form. 374 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,928 It's American and it's African American. 375 00:34:23,929 --> 00:34:25,963 I think gospel music in particular 376 00:34:25,964 --> 00:34:30,901 helped influence a lot of these British invasion music. 377 00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:32,570 I mean, the Rolling Stones were singing, 378 00:34:32,571 --> 00:34:34,372 "This may be my last time." 379 00:34:34,373 --> 00:34:36,307 That was a song that not only was sung 380 00:34:36,308 --> 00:34:38,509 by The Staple Singers in gospel, 381 00:34:38,510 --> 00:34:39,677 but was a song that was sung 382 00:34:39,678 --> 00:34:41,346 during the civil rights movement, 383 00:34:41,347 --> 00:34:43,814 and so much of the music that was called the devil's music 384 00:34:43,815 --> 00:34:45,750 really came out of the church. 385 00:34:45,751 --> 00:34:47,218 And it's interesting, if you listen 386 00:34:47,219 --> 00:34:50,221 to the Million Dollar Quartet session from 1956, 387 00:34:50,222 --> 00:34:53,424 the famous session with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis 388 00:34:53,425 --> 00:34:55,960 and Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, 389 00:34:55,961 --> 00:34:57,728 what do they start singing? 390 00:34:57,729 --> 00:34:58,929 Gospel songs. 391 00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:00,698 And not just the white gospel songs, 392 00:35:00,699 --> 00:35:03,668 they're singing black gospel songs as well. 393 00:35:03,669 --> 00:35:05,069 This is their jam session. 394 00:35:05,070 --> 00:35:06,710 They're just jamming on the church songs. 395 00:35:08,474 --> 00:35:09,974 Elvis loved gospel music. 396 00:35:09,975 --> 00:35:11,876 He loved white gospel music, southern gospel, 397 00:35:11,877 --> 00:35:13,778 and he liked black gospel music. 398 00:35:13,779 --> 00:35:18,015 And he would go and listen to East Trigg Baptist Church 399 00:35:18,016 --> 00:35:20,251 and absorb this music. 400 00:35:20,252 --> 00:35:24,355 The best school of singing was the African American church, 401 00:35:24,356 --> 00:35:25,923 'cause you were in the choir 402 00:35:25,924 --> 00:35:29,260 and you learned how to sing in those choirs. 403 00:35:29,261 --> 00:35:31,095 Maybe you had a chance to solo. 404 00:35:31,096 --> 00:35:34,765 So you have people like Clyde McPhatter of "The drifters," 405 00:35:34,766 --> 00:35:36,601 learned everything he did in church. 406 00:35:36,602 --> 00:35:39,103 Once you go gospel you, you just don't go back. 407 00:35:39,104 --> 00:35:41,939 Even when you try to go back, it just comes out. 408 00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:46,143 It's a sound, it's a feeling, a vibe, a swag 409 00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:47,845 that just comes with the church, 410 00:35:47,846 --> 00:35:51,682 and everybody that has come up through it has it. 411 00:35:51,683 --> 00:35:56,688 The pop artists, they've got their style from the church, 412 00:35:57,856 --> 00:36:01,226 and gospel music doesn't get the credit for it. 413 00:36:01,227 --> 00:36:03,794 Like the Bee Gees, 414 00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:06,864 their sound came from gospel music. 415 00:36:06,865 --> 00:36:08,799 They might not wanna say it, you know? 416 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,535 Michael McDonald. 417 00:36:10,536 --> 00:36:12,537 Most of the people who sing soul music 418 00:36:12,538 --> 00:36:14,038 came outta the church. 419 00:36:14,039 --> 00:36:18,243 I mean, and it's pretty evident in their art form, 420 00:36:18,244 --> 00:36:19,477 you can tell. 421 00:36:19,478 --> 00:36:21,078 Like you can tell when you listen to music 422 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:24,181 and they hit a certain lick, like a certain musical tone. 423 00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:26,817 You like, ooh, that's church right there, right there. 424 00:36:26,818 --> 00:36:28,719 And you like, you know that's just, 425 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:31,989 she just went to church on that one, or he just, you know? 426 00:36:31,990 --> 00:36:33,123 Or even when they're singing, 427 00:36:33,124 --> 00:36:34,392 they could be singing about love 428 00:36:34,393 --> 00:36:36,594 but you know they took it to church. 429 00:36:36,595 --> 00:36:38,329 'Cause that's where they got her from. 430 00:36:38,330 --> 00:36:40,398 - Ray Charles, "I Got a Woman," 431 00:36:40,399 --> 00:36:42,500 that's a gospel song converted. 432 00:36:42,501 --> 00:36:44,702 So, he's number one. 433 00:36:44,703 --> 00:36:47,171 Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield, 434 00:36:47,172 --> 00:36:50,475 ostensibly one of the very first soul records 435 00:36:50,476 --> 00:36:52,977 to come outta Chicago, "For Your Precious Love," 436 00:36:52,978 --> 00:36:56,514 based on their experience growing up in a spiritual church. 437 00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:57,383 - Otis Redding. 438 00:36:57,384 --> 00:36:58,649 Boys Tamin. 439 00:36:58,650 --> 00:37:00,117 Tina Turner grew up in the church. 440 00:37:00,118 --> 00:37:02,453 You know who I wanna keep thinking of is Beyonce, 441 00:37:02,454 --> 00:37:03,488 she grew up in the church. 442 00:37:03,489 --> 00:37:04,956 Of course, Michael Jackson. 443 00:37:05,791 --> 00:37:07,091 Dionne Warwick. 444 00:37:07,092 --> 00:37:08,158 - Stevie Wonder. 445 00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:09,994 Frankie Beverly and mates. 446 00:37:09,995 --> 00:37:11,195 Etta James. 447 00:37:11,196 --> 00:37:12,030 Jill Scott. 448 00:37:12,030 --> 00:37:12,998 Brandy. 449 00:37:12,999 --> 00:37:15,366 James Brown, gospel singer. 450 00:37:15,367 --> 00:37:17,034 Little Richard came from the church. 451 00:37:17,035 --> 00:37:19,304 I would say probably Patti LaBelle. 452 00:37:19,305 --> 00:37:20,305 India Arie. 453 00:37:20,306 --> 00:37:21,539 Ledisi. 454 00:37:21,540 --> 00:37:22,408 Prince. 455 00:37:22,409 --> 00:37:23,574 Walter Beasley. 456 00:37:23,575 --> 00:37:24,410 - Toni Braxton. 457 00:37:24,411 --> 00:37:25,710 Joda C. 458 00:37:25,711 --> 00:37:26,977 - Gladys Knight. 459 00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:27,813 - Usher. 460 00:37:27,813 --> 00:37:28,647 Jennifer Hudson. 461 00:37:28,648 --> 00:37:30,348 Jazmine Sullivan. 462 00:37:30,349 --> 00:37:32,650 - Well, Aretha Franklin, she started off gospel. 463 00:37:32,651 --> 00:37:34,452 Aretha Franklin's a real good example 464 00:37:34,453 --> 00:37:38,055 of a woman dripping with gospel. 465 00:37:38,056 --> 00:37:38,890 Ben E. King. 466 00:37:38,890 --> 00:37:39,725 - New Addition. 467 00:37:39,725 --> 00:37:40,559 - The Chantels. 468 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:41,560 Justin Timberlake. 469 00:37:41,561 --> 00:37:43,894 O. V. Wright, Johnny Taylor. 470 00:37:43,895 --> 00:37:45,596 Bobby Brown. 471 00:37:45,597 --> 00:37:47,698 - Joe Henderson, the soul singer, he grew up in the church. 472 00:37:47,699 --> 00:37:49,166 Like Sam Cooke. 473 00:37:49,167 --> 00:37:51,302 Sam Cooke came right outta gospel and into secular. 474 00:37:51,303 --> 00:37:52,337 Bruno Mars. 475 00:37:52,338 --> 00:37:53,871 How can I not say Bruno Mars? 476 00:37:53,872 --> 00:37:55,005 Eulaulah Hathaway. 477 00:37:55,006 --> 00:37:55,941 Wilson Pickett. 478 00:37:55,942 --> 00:37:57,174 Fantasia. 479 00:37:57,175 --> 00:37:58,609 Like when she be seeing her little love songs, 480 00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:01,078 I'll be like, that don't even match. 481 00:38:01,079 --> 00:38:02,513 That's what she was created to do. 482 00:38:02,514 --> 00:38:06,284 That's why Fantasia, she, I think she is church. 483 00:38:08,654 --> 00:38:10,621 - Otis Clay is another one, great soul singer. 484 00:38:10,622 --> 00:38:12,222 Grew up singing quartet music. 485 00:38:12,223 --> 00:38:13,425 And Whitney Houston. 486 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:15,494 Whitney Houston, that's church, 487 00:38:15,495 --> 00:38:17,462 you know, all of these artists. 488 00:38:17,463 --> 00:38:20,631 Because when I hear it, oh man, what church does she go to? 489 00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:22,400 That's the first question I ask somebody, 490 00:38:22,401 --> 00:38:23,968 or who's their mother and father? 491 00:38:23,969 --> 00:38:25,770 - It'd probably be hard to know 492 00:38:25,771 --> 00:38:28,305 what secular artist didn't come out of the church. 493 00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:30,074 A lot of these people I know they, 494 00:38:30,075 --> 00:38:32,377 they sang in their churches 495 00:38:32,378 --> 00:38:36,013 and they changed over from gospel to the Randamp;B 496 00:38:36,014 --> 00:38:38,483 because they were inspired and made more money. 497 00:38:38,484 --> 00:38:41,018 So the church provided this sort of 498 00:38:41,019 --> 00:38:45,289 essential experience in singing in front of an audience, 499 00:38:45,290 --> 00:38:48,726 a congregation that gave individuals 500 00:38:48,727 --> 00:38:50,227 who were interested in getting in the music business 501 00:38:50,228 --> 00:38:54,298 this opportunity to then take that and promote it. 502 00:38:54,299 --> 00:38:59,304 The gospel is no different when Jay-Z or Beyonce, 503 00:39:00,772 --> 00:39:03,841 all them get on stage and people start carrying out. 504 00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:05,309 They're reaching 'em. 505 00:39:05,310 --> 00:39:07,612 They're reaching them and they're connecting with them, 506 00:39:07,613 --> 00:39:08,846 let me put it that way. 507 00:39:08,847 --> 00:39:10,615 With the gospel, it's the same thing. 508 00:39:10,616 --> 00:39:13,050 And that's just where it starts. 509 00:39:13,051 --> 00:39:16,621 And you can kinda, sometimes you'll see it, it'll come out, 510 00:39:16,622 --> 00:39:18,322 and you are like, whoa, where did that come from? 511 00:39:18,323 --> 00:39:20,257 But it's because of their roots, 512 00:39:20,258 --> 00:39:22,092 and it started in the church. 513 00:39:22,093 --> 00:39:27,098 You can kinda tell who come from church and who doesn't 514 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:29,367 because there's just a different component there. 515 00:39:29,368 --> 00:39:30,868 In church. 516 00:39:30,869 --> 00:39:34,639 I always tell people it's so much easier to sing Randamp;B music, 517 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,106 'cause it don't take. 518 00:39:36,107 --> 00:39:39,076 But in church, you cannot leave outta here and say you sang 519 00:39:39,077 --> 00:39:41,011 if you're not drenched in sweat. 520 00:39:41,012 --> 00:39:42,847 You have to put it all on the line. 521 00:39:42,848 --> 00:39:44,515 When you think of Jennifer Hudson, 522 00:39:44,516 --> 00:39:46,283 she puts it all on the line. 523 00:39:46,284 --> 00:39:49,186 When she's talking, she sound like a tenor. 524 00:39:49,187 --> 00:39:50,287 But by the time she get done singing, 525 00:39:50,288 --> 00:39:51,789 she sound like a first soprano. 526 00:39:51,790 --> 00:39:53,991 That's because she puts it all on the line, 527 00:39:53,992 --> 00:39:56,927 and you learn that component of singing in church. 528 00:39:56,928 --> 00:40:01,599 - It just has a swag to it that everybody wants, 529 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,301 everybody tries to duplicate. 530 00:40:04,302 --> 00:40:06,537 And if you've not been to church on Sunday morning, 531 00:40:06,538 --> 00:40:07,873 you can't get it. 532 00:40:15,681 --> 00:40:20,686 ♪ God's grace 533 00:40:23,855 --> 00:40:28,860 ♪ God's grace 534 00:40:32,030 --> 00:40:37,035 ♪ God's grace 535 00:40:38,236 --> 00:40:40,638 ♪ God's grace 536 00:40:40,639 --> 00:40:45,611 ♪ God's grace 537 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:53,718 ♪ God's grace 538 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,487 ♪ Amazing grace 539 00:40:56,488 --> 00:41:01,392 ♪ Amazing grace 540 00:41:02,327 --> 00:41:05,062 ♪ Amazing grace 541 00:41:05,063 --> 00:41:10,068 ♪ Amazing grace 542 00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:17,308 ♪ Amazing grace 543 00:41:18,376 --> 00:41:21,011 ♪ Amazing grace 544 00:41:21,012 --> 00:41:24,249 ♪ Amazing grace 545 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,221 I was a concert once 546 00:42:37,388 --> 00:42:40,057 and some guy was on the stage singing, 547 00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:44,229 and I'm like, man, I'm really sitting here enjoying this. 548 00:42:46,531 --> 00:42:48,232 And I said to myself, I said, 549 00:42:48,233 --> 00:42:51,669 and I know I could do the same thing. 550 00:42:51,670 --> 00:42:54,438 I said, so if I'm sitting here enjoying these guys, 551 00:42:54,439 --> 00:42:56,540 why are you sitting down not doing anything 552 00:42:56,541 --> 00:42:58,743 and somebody could be enjoying you? 553 00:42:58,744 --> 00:43:00,244 And I started a group, 554 00:43:00,245 --> 00:43:02,479 I started my group back up just from that thought, 555 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,448 and that's the absolute truth. 556 00:43:04,449 --> 00:43:08,552 But none of us had any actual formal training 557 00:43:08,553 --> 00:43:09,988 of how to sing. 558 00:43:11,389 --> 00:43:13,590 It's just something we just developed naturally. 559 00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:16,627 We just started singing. 560 00:43:16,628 --> 00:43:20,598 We found out people liked it so we kept doing it. 561 00:43:21,733 --> 00:43:23,869 So gospel always lift the person up. 562 00:43:26,638 --> 00:43:28,506 And if you are in a sad state, 563 00:43:29,641 --> 00:43:32,509 the gospel always gonna try to tell you 564 00:43:32,510 --> 00:43:34,611 you can come out of that state. 565 00:43:34,612 --> 00:43:37,848 And far as the blues, 566 00:43:37,849 --> 00:43:40,484 blues try to leave you in that spot sometime. 567 00:43:40,485 --> 00:43:41,786 They'll say, this is where it is 568 00:43:41,787 --> 00:43:43,921 and I've gotten used to this, 569 00:43:43,922 --> 00:43:46,123 and it just don't bother me anymore. 570 00:43:46,124 --> 00:43:48,025 Well, gospel is different. 571 00:43:48,026 --> 00:43:51,328 Gospel try to pull you up on another level 572 00:43:51,329 --> 00:43:54,231 to where, as I said before, 573 00:43:54,232 --> 00:43:55,465 I don't think it's even possible 574 00:43:55,466 --> 00:43:59,469 to leave somebody sad singing the gospel. 575 00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:03,507 You might reach 'em sad, but it always lift them up, 576 00:44:03,508 --> 00:44:07,912 because gospel music always encourages a person 577 00:44:07,913 --> 00:44:11,248 that they can do better, or things can get better, 578 00:44:11,249 --> 00:44:13,718 or things will be better, 579 00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:15,886 and that's what I think gospel's all about. 580 00:44:15,887 --> 00:44:17,354 Just like my daughter said, 581 00:44:17,355 --> 00:44:20,858 she was shy, she was afraid to sing. 582 00:44:20,859 --> 00:44:22,960 One man changed all of that. 583 00:44:22,961 --> 00:44:27,297 I started when I was 12 at Mount Vernon Baptist Church. 584 00:44:27,298 --> 00:44:31,001 We was on 6th and North Avenue then before we moved here. 585 00:44:31,002 --> 00:44:33,038 And that's when I started singing. 586 00:44:34,472 --> 00:44:37,008 I didn't sing much, but it was just little parts. 587 00:44:39,610 --> 00:44:42,579 I was more so very shy, 588 00:44:42,580 --> 00:44:46,183 and I've just started to kinda open up singing, 589 00:44:46,184 --> 00:44:49,820 and then things that I went through in my life 590 00:44:49,821 --> 00:44:51,588 just inspired me to sing. 591 00:44:51,589 --> 00:44:55,525 And that's why I sing so hard every time I do sing, 592 00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:58,329 because that's my testimony. 593 00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:02,166 'Cause sometimes when you sing, 594 00:45:02,167 --> 00:45:03,567 you just don't know if you gonna see the next day 595 00:45:03,568 --> 00:45:05,970 so you gotta give it all you got. 596 00:45:05,971 --> 00:45:10,675 And this man named Nwajei came, he was from Nigeria, 597 00:45:12,510 --> 00:45:17,281 and he came and he was saying like, 598 00:45:17,282 --> 00:45:19,950 there's a woman in the crowd, 599 00:45:19,951 --> 00:45:23,220 and he was just like describing me but I didn't get it. 600 00:45:23,221 --> 00:45:25,290 I'm like, you talking about me? 601 00:45:26,324 --> 00:45:31,196 Then he said something where I had 602 00:45:32,363 --> 00:45:34,664 like an encounter one night, 603 00:45:34,665 --> 00:45:37,067 and nobody knew that but me and the Lord, 604 00:45:37,068 --> 00:45:38,836 and he said that up there. 605 00:45:38,837 --> 00:45:41,005 And I'm like, he talking to me, oh my God. 606 00:45:41,006 --> 00:45:44,309 And I stood up, and then he had me come up for prayer. 607 00:45:46,912 --> 00:45:51,882 He told me, he said he was gonna remove the fear, 608 00:45:51,883 --> 00:45:54,752 and he said, every time you going sing, it's gonna be fire. 609 00:48:46,724 --> 00:48:48,225 I'm singing it to him. 610 00:48:48,226 --> 00:48:51,228 When I'm singing, I act like Jesus standing right there 611 00:48:51,229 --> 00:48:52,429 and I'm singing. 612 00:48:52,430 --> 00:48:54,798 That's how I sing every time. 613 00:48:54,799 --> 00:48:57,134 I don't care if it's three people in the crowd, 614 00:48:57,135 --> 00:48:58,868 one person, if it's myself, 615 00:48:58,869 --> 00:49:01,739 I'm acting like Jesus is standing right there. 616 00:49:14,152 --> 00:49:17,187 Milwaukee Gospel Jubilee was actually an idea 617 00:49:17,188 --> 00:49:19,723 from a few of our board members 618 00:49:19,724 --> 00:49:21,958 at progressive community health centers. 619 00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:24,861 It would tie right into the mission 620 00:49:24,862 --> 00:49:26,563 of what I do for my career, 621 00:49:26,564 --> 00:49:30,667 which is provide healthcare for everyone, 622 00:49:30,668 --> 00:49:33,003 quality healthcare for anyone, 623 00:49:33,004 --> 00:49:36,506 no matter your insurance level, lack thereof, 624 00:49:36,507 --> 00:49:40,677 and to have a facility and have staff and providers 625 00:49:40,678 --> 00:49:42,512 that can give you the same healthcare 626 00:49:42,513 --> 00:49:44,648 that you would get anywhere, quality. 627 00:49:44,649 --> 00:49:46,850 So that's what I do to serve the community 628 00:49:46,851 --> 00:49:48,785 for which I was raised, 629 00:49:48,786 --> 00:49:51,088 this is where I practice medicine, 630 00:49:51,089 --> 00:49:55,059 but to all also marry that with singing, 631 00:49:55,060 --> 00:49:56,693 which is the other half of my life 632 00:49:56,694 --> 00:49:59,096 with what I do with, with singing with our group 633 00:49:59,097 --> 00:50:01,198 and singing in church. 634 00:50:01,199 --> 00:50:05,536 Gospel music is a huge part of my life, 635 00:50:06,904 --> 00:50:08,372 being raised on it. 636 00:50:08,373 --> 00:50:11,308 Quartet music was heavily played in my household 637 00:50:11,309 --> 00:50:12,576 with my dad. 638 00:50:12,577 --> 00:50:15,145 He was a quartet, he is a quartet singer. 639 00:50:15,146 --> 00:50:18,548 And just learning the different history on that 640 00:50:18,549 --> 00:50:22,386 and who is who, and going to different programs, 641 00:50:22,387 --> 00:50:24,821 local programs that would happen with him 642 00:50:24,822 --> 00:50:27,257 was like huge for us growing up, 643 00:50:27,258 --> 00:50:29,959 wondering what the choir's gonna sing, 644 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,496 how are we gonna pack it out or what's going, 645 00:50:32,497 --> 00:50:35,399 or the fellowships that we have with other congregations. 646 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,335 So it was a lot of, it's a lot of fun. 647 00:50:38,536 --> 00:50:39,936 How many of y'all holding out there? 648 00:50:41,406 --> 00:50:44,408 ♪ Holding on 649 00:50:44,409 --> 00:50:48,445 ♪ I gotta keep on holding on 650 00:50:48,446 --> 00:50:49,813 I'm gonna say that again. 651 00:50:49,814 --> 00:50:51,248 ♪ Holding, yes 652 00:50:51,249 --> 00:50:54,218 ♪ Holding on 653 00:50:54,219 --> 00:50:58,455 ♪ I gotta keep on holding on 654 00:50:58,456 --> 00:50:59,456 Listen. 655 00:51:00,225 --> 00:51:05,130 ♪ When I was just a little boy 656 00:51:06,030 --> 00:51:09,399 ♪ I didn't know what was true 657 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,970 ♪ But since I found you, Jesus 658 00:51:13,971 --> 00:51:17,707 ♪ I know he gonna lead me through ♪ 659 00:51:17,708 --> 00:51:20,544 ♪ I'm holding on 660 00:51:20,545 --> 00:51:23,046 ♪ Holding on 661 00:51:23,047 --> 00:51:24,481 If you down and you need to hear it, 662 00:51:24,482 --> 00:51:27,217 why don't you put on some good music? 663 00:51:27,218 --> 00:51:29,052 And then it changes the atmosphere, 664 00:51:29,053 --> 00:51:30,520 it changes your spirit, 665 00:51:30,521 --> 00:51:34,458 and can change me from feeling down to feeling up again, 666 00:51:34,459 --> 00:51:38,162 because it reignites the hope that you already know, 667 00:51:38,163 --> 00:51:41,598 but sometimes with the challenges of life and the trials, 668 00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:43,600 things can get you down. 669 00:51:43,601 --> 00:51:45,669 ♪ Holding 670 00:51:45,670 --> 00:51:47,036 ♪ Holding on 671 00:51:47,037 --> 00:51:48,572 ♪ Holding on 672 00:51:48,573 --> 00:51:51,909 What I wanna know today, is there anybody out there? 673 00:51:53,178 --> 00:51:55,445 ♪ Holding on 674 00:51:55,446 --> 00:51:57,915 ♪ holding on. 675 00:52:34,118 --> 00:52:37,120 I can go back to when I was a kid packing it, I was like, 676 00:52:37,121 --> 00:52:39,889 we going over to this church, it's gonna be packed. 677 00:52:39,890 --> 00:52:41,157 I wonder how we gonna do? 678 00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:42,926 We gonna throw down, you know? 679 00:52:42,927 --> 00:52:44,628 A healthy competition. 680 00:52:44,629 --> 00:52:46,596 And you never know, just because you're up there 681 00:52:46,597 --> 00:52:48,998 smiling and singing, doesn't mean you day is going great, 682 00:52:48,999 --> 00:52:50,767 doesn't mean you're at the right place, 683 00:52:50,768 --> 00:52:53,102 but you keep the fact that you still do the work 684 00:52:53,103 --> 00:52:56,340 and you find yourself being ministered too as well, 685 00:52:56,341 --> 00:52:58,209 in the midst of ministering to others. 686 00:52:59,076 --> 00:53:03,948 ♪ Oh, it's all right 687 00:53:05,483 --> 00:53:10,488 ♪ Listen, it's all right to have a good time ♪ 688 00:53:11,256 --> 00:53:14,758 ♪ It's all right 689 00:53:14,759 --> 00:53:19,764 ♪ You can clap your hands 690 00:53:20,665 --> 00:53:24,200 ♪ You can stomp your feet 691 00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:26,470 ♪ You can shout if you wanna 692 00:53:26,471 --> 00:53:29,273 All we gotta do is just praise. 693 00:53:29,274 --> 00:53:33,943 ♪ Praise God 694 00:53:33,944 --> 00:53:38,548 ♪ It's all right to have a good time ♪ 695 00:53:38,549 --> 00:53:43,420 ♪ It's all right to have a good time ♪ 696 00:53:43,421 --> 00:53:46,856 ♪ It's all right 697 00:53:46,857 --> 00:53:50,260 - How many of y'all come to have a good time? 698 00:53:50,261 --> 00:53:54,665 When we come here, I got five brothers, one sister. 699 00:53:56,033 --> 00:53:59,269 So, we all come at the same time in 1956. 700 00:53:59,270 --> 00:54:02,238 And you might want to know what made us move. 701 00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:07,076 If anybody would remember the Emmett Till case? 702 00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:09,779 He went down from Chicago, I guess, 703 00:54:09,780 --> 00:54:13,683 went down to stay with his grandfather or grandmother. 704 00:54:13,684 --> 00:54:17,387 Anyway, they accuse him of making some kind of 705 00:54:17,388 --> 00:54:20,424 sex advance with this white girl. 706 00:54:20,425 --> 00:54:23,760 They taken him after then and arrested him for that, 707 00:54:23,761 --> 00:54:26,764 and they lynched him just terrible. 708 00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:30,834 After they beat him up, 709 00:54:30,835 --> 00:54:34,704 they put a big weight around his neck 710 00:54:34,705 --> 00:54:38,042 and throwed him in what you call the Yasu River, 711 00:54:39,209 --> 00:54:42,812 and that was all broadcast everywhere. 712 00:54:42,813 --> 00:54:44,948 So, that's what made us leave. 713 00:54:44,949 --> 00:54:47,451 When my mother went to the mailbox 714 00:54:47,452 --> 00:54:51,355 and she got the Jet magazine out of the mail 715 00:54:51,356 --> 00:54:53,624 and she opened it up and she saw his picture, 716 00:54:54,492 --> 00:54:56,926 and that was terrible for us. 717 00:54:56,927 --> 00:55:00,296 'Cause we had no idea of leaving Mississippi 718 00:55:00,297 --> 00:55:01,297 until this happened. 719 00:55:02,333 --> 00:55:06,403 And my mother couldn't be satisfied, 720 00:55:06,404 --> 00:55:07,937 she couldn't be happy, 721 00:55:07,938 --> 00:55:10,540 'cause she just cried all the time because of this, 722 00:55:10,541 --> 00:55:12,242 because she could see her boys 723 00:55:15,279 --> 00:55:17,146 would be caught up in something like that. 724 00:55:17,147 --> 00:55:22,152 So, everything was just like a 360 degree turnaround 725 00:55:24,822 --> 00:55:25,922 when we come here. 726 00:55:25,923 --> 00:55:27,724 It was just, everything was different. 727 00:55:27,725 --> 00:55:32,662 And after having that little bit of bringing up from young, 728 00:55:32,663 --> 00:55:37,200 so it had come back to me, and it was just a blessing to me. 729 00:55:37,201 --> 00:55:40,103 That singing saved me 100%. 730 00:55:40,104 --> 00:55:42,939 The Dalai Lama says, "Man is a great troublemaker." 731 00:55:42,940 --> 00:55:46,643 And so, no matter how sophisticated we get, 732 00:55:46,644 --> 00:55:48,578 how much more affluent we get, 733 00:55:48,579 --> 00:55:50,747 there are always going to be people 734 00:55:50,748 --> 00:55:52,716 that can't pay the light bill, 735 00:55:52,717 --> 00:55:55,686 can't pay the car bill, can't pay the rent, 736 00:55:56,521 --> 00:55:58,188 hungry, hurt, 737 00:55:59,189 --> 00:56:01,257 family dying, disease, 738 00:56:01,258 --> 00:56:03,593 shooting, killing, whatever the thing is 739 00:56:03,594 --> 00:56:04,794 and need to express that, 740 00:56:04,795 --> 00:56:06,896 and the music is a means to express that. 741 00:56:06,897 --> 00:56:09,165 And this is probably the most emotional thing 742 00:56:09,166 --> 00:56:12,268 you can think about, your life and your death, 743 00:56:12,269 --> 00:56:14,471 and gospel expresses both of them 744 00:56:14,472 --> 00:56:17,006 from the gut, and from the heart and the soul. 745 00:56:17,007 --> 00:56:20,910 Being in these churches and knowing the people I knew, 746 00:56:20,911 --> 00:56:22,546 like Charles McCullum, 747 00:56:22,547 --> 00:56:25,082 who lost two grandchildren to gun violence. 748 00:56:26,383 --> 00:56:27,884 And he's up on stage, he said, 749 00:56:27,885 --> 00:56:30,754 "I woke up this morning on the green side of the grass. 750 00:56:30,755 --> 00:56:32,388 Thank you, Lord." 751 00:56:32,389 --> 00:56:34,324 If that doesn't impress you, what does? 752 00:56:35,460 --> 00:56:38,963 The music comes from such a stressful place. 753 00:56:40,397 --> 00:56:42,165 I mean, it's like the way you make a diamond out of coal. 754 00:56:42,166 --> 00:56:44,400 There's so much pressure on that culture. 755 00:56:44,401 --> 00:56:46,069 God's music, what it has done for me, 756 00:56:46,070 --> 00:56:47,537 it really changed my life 757 00:56:47,538 --> 00:56:50,206 after the things that I've been through. 758 00:56:50,207 --> 00:56:54,310 And then when I hear the songs and I hear a particular song, 759 00:56:54,311 --> 00:56:56,245 they singing exactly what I went through, 760 00:56:56,246 --> 00:56:57,747 I'm like, oh my God. 761 00:56:57,748 --> 00:57:00,884 It just inspired me to wanna sing and help other people 762 00:57:00,885 --> 00:57:03,419 how when I listened to the song it helped me. 763 00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:04,854 And that's the way I wanna do it. 764 00:57:04,855 --> 00:57:07,023 When I'm singing, I wanna bring somebody in. 765 00:57:07,024 --> 00:57:09,225 - Gospel music is my whole life. 766 00:57:09,226 --> 00:57:12,997 I don't know where I would be without it, actually. 767 00:57:14,298 --> 00:57:16,332 When it comes to African Americans, 768 00:57:16,333 --> 00:57:19,235 we have always been the bottom of the barrel. 769 00:57:19,236 --> 00:57:21,871 We have always had to work extra hard 770 00:57:21,872 --> 00:57:25,441 to get the respect and gain the that we deserve. 771 00:57:25,442 --> 00:57:28,578 If we did not have the component of music, 772 00:57:28,579 --> 00:57:33,216 we probably would die quicker than, 773 00:57:33,217 --> 00:57:34,484 we probably would not be able to take 774 00:57:34,485 --> 00:57:36,152 as much as we could take on, 775 00:57:36,153 --> 00:57:39,789 but music is so strong that. 776 00:57:39,790 --> 00:57:42,225 When I get mad, I turn Michael Jackson on. 777 00:57:42,226 --> 00:57:45,562 And by the time that thriller album is over, I am okay. 778 00:57:45,563 --> 00:57:47,264 I'm okay, seriously. 779 00:57:48,566 --> 00:57:51,401 All right, fellas, let's do this. 780 01:02:45,329 --> 01:02:48,999 - There's a lot of irony and cleverness in music, 781 01:02:49,867 --> 01:02:53,002 done by people who you suspect 782 01:02:53,003 --> 01:02:55,271 haven't been tested to the degree 783 01:02:55,272 --> 01:02:58,142 people in the black community have. 784 01:02:59,643 --> 01:03:00,910 If you're gonna generalize, 785 01:03:00,911 --> 01:03:03,746 you could say it's a bit complainy, a bit whiny, 786 01:03:03,747 --> 01:03:05,148 and it's a bit suburban, 787 01:03:05,149 --> 01:03:06,749 and what's so bad about growing up 788 01:03:06,750 --> 01:03:08,417 in a nice house in the suburbs? 789 01:03:08,418 --> 01:03:12,255 So you're not getting along with your parents, welcome. 790 01:03:12,256 --> 01:03:14,557 I think that's one of the big things I learned from gospel 791 01:03:14,558 --> 01:03:17,962 is like, give it up a little bit, stop whining, 792 01:03:19,129 --> 01:03:22,099 don't be so clever, say what you mean, 793 01:03:24,434 --> 01:03:26,403 and help somebody. 794 01:03:27,404 --> 01:03:32,409 - I've had some very, very bad, 795 01:03:33,277 --> 01:03:34,810 I don't wanna say bad things, 796 01:03:34,811 --> 01:03:38,883 but some very things that happened to me in my life. 797 01:03:41,118 --> 01:03:42,118 I was shot. 798 01:03:43,387 --> 01:03:45,422 I'm a survivor from meningitis. 799 01:03:46,623 --> 01:03:51,561 I had a problem happen where my spinal fluid 800 01:03:53,230 --> 01:03:54,697 started to leak out of my ear 801 01:03:54,698 --> 01:03:57,834 because I had a pinhole leak at my base of my skull. 802 01:03:59,436 --> 01:04:01,638 I was going through a lot of these bad things. 803 01:04:03,073 --> 01:04:05,341 So, you know what, on my radio, 804 01:04:05,342 --> 01:04:07,410 I was sitting there and the radio was on 805 01:04:07,411 --> 01:04:10,679 and this song came on, and it was called 806 01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:15,218 "I'm So Glad That The Lord Let Me Live On, 807 01:04:15,219 --> 01:04:17,753 but this song ministered to me. 808 01:04:17,754 --> 01:04:20,723 I just kinda transformed. 809 01:04:20,724 --> 01:04:22,993 And it would just uplift me. 810 01:04:24,861 --> 01:04:27,330 I would a strange feeling come over me. 811 01:04:27,331 --> 01:04:28,497 It's it's just a heartbeat, 812 01:04:28,498 --> 01:04:29,798 it's the thing that's been keeping me. 813 01:04:29,799 --> 01:04:32,201 I've gone through some crazy stuff this year, 814 01:04:32,202 --> 01:04:35,404 but I thank God for my heartbeat, which is the music. 815 01:04:35,405 --> 01:04:37,506 There've been the number of hardships in my life 816 01:04:37,507 --> 01:04:40,110 that had it not been for music, 817 01:04:41,278 --> 01:04:43,179 I really don't know where I would be. 818 01:04:43,180 --> 01:04:44,948 In the transition of my husband, 819 01:04:44,949 --> 01:04:48,084 the music, the song is what kept me. 820 01:04:48,085 --> 01:04:52,588 In your most isolated moment, you still have a song. 821 01:04:52,589 --> 01:04:55,824 And so, allow that song and that expression 822 01:04:55,825 --> 01:04:57,093 to come from your heart 823 01:04:57,094 --> 01:04:58,827 and it will always keep you positive. 824 01:04:58,828 --> 01:05:02,065 So, have there been pressures in my life? Every day, 825 01:05:02,066 --> 01:05:04,834 but I manage them through prayer and song. 826 01:05:06,170 --> 01:05:07,536 The other thing I like about gospel 827 01:05:07,537 --> 01:05:09,772 is that you can measure it 828 01:05:09,773 --> 01:05:14,778 by subtracting it from our culture. 829 01:05:15,980 --> 01:05:17,813 If it wasn't there, what would we have? 830 01:05:17,814 --> 01:05:20,984 And I think the answer is almost nothing. 831 01:05:20,985 --> 01:05:22,218 We wouldn't have rock and roll, 832 01:05:22,219 --> 01:05:24,053 we wouldn't have jazz, we wouldn't have blues. 833 01:05:24,054 --> 01:05:26,255 And I'm appreciating things out of the folk tradition, 834 01:05:26,256 --> 01:05:27,790 and gospel definitely is. 835 01:05:27,791 --> 01:05:32,729 It's a homemade music that was made out of necessity. 836 01:05:33,330 --> 01:05:34,031 It's like food. 837 01:05:34,032 --> 01:05:35,332 You have to eat. 838 01:05:37,801 --> 01:05:39,902 So we went to sing at Shank Hall. 839 01:05:39,903 --> 01:05:41,104 Well, they was playing 840 01:05:41,105 --> 01:05:43,239 all of the other kind of dancing music. 841 01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:44,773 So when they called us up, 842 01:05:44,774 --> 01:05:48,144 we didn't know nothing to do but sing gospel, so we sang. 843 01:05:48,145 --> 01:05:49,745 As I was singing, 844 01:05:49,746 --> 01:05:53,416 we were watching the people at the table that were drinking, 845 01:05:53,417 --> 01:05:57,386 and there were one table I watched while I was singing, 846 01:05:57,387 --> 01:05:59,022 they guys had got a beer 847 01:05:59,023 --> 01:06:01,257 and he didn't take another drink out of that 848 01:06:01,258 --> 01:06:03,459 long as we were singing. 849 01:06:03,460 --> 01:06:05,928 And I watched him after we sang. 850 01:06:05,929 --> 01:06:08,565 So after we finish, 851 01:06:09,833 --> 01:06:14,570 he and a lady came behind now crying. 852 01:06:14,571 --> 01:06:16,572 She said, I never heard nothing like this 853 01:06:16,573 --> 01:06:17,940 And I'm looking at her, I say, 854 01:06:17,941 --> 01:06:19,442 what do you mean you never heard nothing. 855 01:06:19,443 --> 01:06:23,812 She said, "Oh, you guys, it's so warm feeling," she said, 856 01:06:23,813 --> 01:06:25,414 and she was just really crying. 857 01:06:25,415 --> 01:06:28,217 And I said, well, my God, this is. 858 01:06:28,218 --> 01:06:31,454 And that made me feel that we might've been 859 01:06:31,455 --> 01:06:33,889 doing something that was good, 860 01:06:33,890 --> 01:06:38,895 that maybe would change somebody's mind as to how they live. 861 01:06:40,330 --> 01:06:43,699 I'll never forget that, that was just fantastic to me. 862 01:06:43,700 --> 01:06:46,036 Well, I've been singing since five. 863 01:06:47,704 --> 01:06:52,709 For some reason music it spoke to me. 864 01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:55,511 While everybody else was out playing 865 01:06:55,512 --> 01:06:58,847 and doing sports and all of those other activities, 866 01:06:58,848 --> 01:07:03,452 it just connected to me, it was where I felt comfortable. 867 01:07:03,453 --> 01:07:06,489 And so, I did it regularly. 868 01:07:06,490 --> 01:07:10,759 And with me doing it regularly, it became what I could do. 869 01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:12,861 Some people could play basketball, 870 01:07:12,862 --> 01:07:15,098 some people were books smart. 871 01:07:15,099 --> 01:07:17,933 Music was just what I could do. 872 01:07:17,934 --> 01:07:20,436 Didn't really get taught in the aspect 873 01:07:20,437 --> 01:07:22,471 of going to school for it or any of that. 874 01:07:22,472 --> 01:07:25,741 It was just a natural talent that I had. 875 01:07:25,742 --> 01:07:27,843 In working with music, 876 01:07:27,844 --> 01:07:31,580 I decided to work with a gospel choir at high school 877 01:07:31,581 --> 01:07:33,682 at John Marshall High School. 878 01:07:33,683 --> 01:07:35,751 And at first I was a little hesitant about it, 879 01:07:35,752 --> 01:07:38,922 because I had just graduated from north division 880 01:07:40,124 --> 01:07:41,890 and the young lady that I was dating at the time 881 01:07:41,891 --> 01:07:43,859 had asked me to come work with her choir. 882 01:07:43,860 --> 01:07:47,596 And I was just like, I don't have time for these kids, 883 01:07:47,597 --> 01:07:50,032 even though I graduated like six months prior too, 884 01:07:50,033 --> 01:07:52,635 but I looked at them like they were kids. 885 01:07:52,636 --> 01:07:54,203 So at first it took me a minute, 886 01:07:54,204 --> 01:07:56,505 and I decided to start working with them, 887 01:07:56,506 --> 01:07:58,808 and it just grew and grew. 888 01:08:08,652 --> 01:08:10,519 Music became my best friend. 889 01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:13,257 It became my comfort. 890 01:08:14,691 --> 01:08:16,792 When I didn't feel like I could relate to anybody, 891 01:08:16,793 --> 01:08:18,595 I could always relate to music. 892 01:09:10,714 --> 01:09:13,582 You know, it's like singing a love song 893 01:09:13,583 --> 01:09:18,588 and you never been in love, you hear the lyrics. 894 01:09:20,023 --> 01:09:22,925 But if you've been in love and you hear the lyrics, 895 01:09:22,926 --> 01:09:25,795 hey, now it's saying something to you. 896 01:09:31,668 --> 01:09:33,169 - It feels magnificent. 897 01:09:35,572 --> 01:09:38,707 You don't real, but with any ministry, 898 01:09:38,708 --> 01:09:41,978 I mean, you're helping others but it's helping you, too. 899 01:10:00,230 --> 01:10:03,432 - If you're not doing music to reach someone, 900 01:10:03,433 --> 01:10:05,535 then there's no, you're not, why are you doing it? 901 01:10:47,377 --> 01:10:49,846 Gospel music is amazing. 902 01:10:57,987 --> 01:11:01,123 Love, like all of that, all those good things. 903 01:11:01,124 --> 01:11:05,295 Like it's just, gospel music is amazing. 904 01:11:18,575 --> 01:11:23,580 - Gospel music has a way of speaking directly to the heart. 905 01:11:25,248 --> 01:11:30,253 It has a way of conveying a message with such intent 906 01:11:32,155 --> 01:11:33,989 that it always hits this mark. 907 01:11:33,990 --> 01:11:35,724 But when you hear gospel music 908 01:11:35,725 --> 01:11:38,261 and it's the real gospel music, 909 01:11:39,429 --> 01:11:40,929 it definitely just opens your eyes 910 01:11:40,930 --> 01:11:43,066 to colors that you've never seen before. 911 01:14:55,024 --> 01:14:57,226 Gospel music is an American art form. 912 01:14:58,595 --> 01:15:03,299 It deserves as much respect as blues, jazz, swing, 913 01:15:04,734 --> 01:15:06,869 every other kind of American music, but it doesn't get it. 914 01:15:06,870 --> 01:15:10,806 Every form of music changes your emotion. 915 01:15:10,807 --> 01:15:12,575 When you get to gospel music, 916 01:15:12,576 --> 01:15:15,010 it gives you inspiration, it gives you life. 917 01:15:15,011 --> 01:15:17,145 Just by its name alone, 918 01:15:17,146 --> 01:15:20,248 gives it authority over every other form of music. 919 01:15:20,249 --> 01:15:22,651 This is the original soul music. 920 01:15:22,652 --> 01:15:24,587 This was the music of people who could not 921 01:15:24,588 --> 01:15:29,391 express themselves publicly for fear of backlash. 922 01:15:29,392 --> 01:15:32,896 It is a voice for the voiceless. 923 01:15:33,997 --> 01:15:35,964 That's what stands out. 924 01:15:35,965 --> 01:15:39,167 We have a voice that no one else has, 925 01:15:39,168 --> 01:15:42,705 no other, in my opinion, no, it's factual, 926 01:15:42,706 --> 01:15:46,208 in any other genre there is no other, 927 01:15:46,209 --> 01:15:48,311 it can't be, it's not comparable. 928 01:15:51,114 --> 01:15:52,180 Can I get a amen? 929 01:15:52,181 --> 01:15:53,181 Amen. 930 01:16:44,768 --> 01:16:49,172 ♪ I'm gonna hide behind the mountain ♪ 931 01:16:55,344 --> 01:17:00,316 ♪ I'm gonna hide behind, hide behind the mountain ♪ 932 01:17:05,421 --> 01:17:09,591 ♪ Every time I try to excel in you ♪ 933 01:17:09,592 --> 01:17:14,597 ♪ My past keeps on beating me down, Lord ♪ 934 01:17:16,032 --> 01:17:19,668 ♪ I need your strength, Lord, I need your power ♪ 935 01:17:19,669 --> 01:17:24,674 ♪ So no longer will I be bound 936 01:17:25,909 --> 01:17:29,845 ♪ Save my life, Lord 937 01:17:29,846 --> 01:17:34,750 ♪ With my hands lifted up 938 01:17:34,751 --> 01:17:39,621 ♪ And my mouth filled with praise ♪ 939 01:17:39,622 --> 01:17:44,627 ♪ With a heart of thanksgiving 940 01:17:45,528 --> 01:17:48,563 ♪ I will bless thee, O Lord 941 01:17:48,564 --> 01:17:53,569 ♪ I just wanna be like Jesus 942 01:17:57,874 --> 01:18:00,943 ♪ And I wanna walk right 943 01:18:00,944 --> 01:18:04,146 ♪ I wanna talk right 944 01:18:04,147 --> 01:18:09,152 ♪ I wanna live right and I wanna give right ♪ 945 01:18:10,019 --> 01:18:12,354 No, I'm not gonna sing. 946 01:18:12,355 --> 01:18:15,758 ♪ Four seasons to a year 947 01:18:15,759 --> 01:18:18,660 ♪ Winter, spring, summer and fall ♪ 948 01:18:18,661 --> 01:18:21,229 ♪ You created so many things 949 01:18:21,230 --> 01:18:26,235 ♪ I know that you did it all just for me ♪ 950 01:18:27,403 --> 01:18:31,639 ♪ I just wanna sing praises to the king ♪ 951 01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:36,544 ♪ Lifting up my voice while I have the choice ♪ 952 01:18:36,545 --> 01:18:39,715 ♪ You and I must make 953 01:18:41,250 --> 01:18:42,617 It's terrible. 954 01:18:42,618 --> 01:18:47,623 ♪ Why am I treated so bad 955 01:18:51,961 --> 01:18:56,966 ♪ One by one we'll gain the portion ♪ 956 01:18:58,634 --> 01:19:03,572 ♪ And they will dwell with the immortals ♪ 957 01:19:06,275 --> 01:19:11,280 ♪ And when they ring the golden bells ♪ 958 01:19:14,150 --> 01:19:17,420 ♪ Bells for you and me