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Rushion Interviews Grammy Award-winning singer Regina Belle; she discusses her new soulful holiday album, "My Colorful Christmas!" · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My guest is Regina Bell, with an illustrious career spanning
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  Speaker 1: thirty five years, chart topping singer, songwriter, and Grammy Award
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  Speaker 1: winning singer. Regina Bell is back, this time with a
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  Speaker 1: festive and beautifully soul for holiday album titled My Colorful Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: The ten track album, which is on sale now from
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  Speaker 1: Bell's record record label Toshi Entertainment, proves that no matter
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  Speaker 1: the genre R and B, jazz, gospel, or even holiday music,
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  Speaker 1: everything she touches turns to go. On today's show, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about her new album, About My Colorful Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: the lead single a Cradle in Bethlehem, one of her
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  Speaker 1: and my favorite holiday songs from the great Natkin Co
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  Speaker 1: Holiday Classic. We will discuss a career spanning more than
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  Speaker 1: thirty or five years, family, faith, in marriage, please working
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  Speaker 1: to money making conversation masterclass. Regina Bell, How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great? How are you awesome? You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot of talk about. But then when
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned my favorite a Cradle in Bethlehem, the the
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  Speaker 1: lead single on your album, My Colorful Grist, you hugged yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you do that? Regina is the greatest song,
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  Speaker 1: and I've loved it since I was a child. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know everybody loves chest nuts, this nuts first thing
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  Speaker 1: on an open side. But but my favorite song has
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  Speaker 1: always been A Cradle in Bethlehem. And when I say that,
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  Speaker 1: most people don't even know that song. So when you
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  Speaker 1: when you embraced it and told me that it was
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  Speaker 1: your favorite as well, Oh my gosh, we're kindred spirits already.
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  Speaker 1: You know. You know I got the classic Downpad done
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  Speaker 1: the Hathaway, I love them, I love it. But this song, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's it's a tribute to his brilliance. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about Matt Kin as a singer, as a person
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  Speaker 1: who he took the simple and made it special and
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  Speaker 1: made an emotional and that's what a Cradle in Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 1: And I was excited because sometimes you need to redo
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  Speaker 1: songs to reintroduce him into another era people, And this
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  Speaker 1: is the air I think needs a song like a
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  Speaker 1: Cradlin Bethnham. And for it to come out on your
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  Speaker 1: Christmas album is I think it's amazing and fantax and congratulations, Regina,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much, thank you so much. I I
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  Speaker 1: have loved this song for so many years. So you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: when I got ready to put my own flavor to it,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that I didn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: that was going to insult, you know, the genre. But
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  Speaker 1: I also wanted to say, well, I want to put
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  Speaker 1: a little Regina on it, thank you. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I had to put a little jazz in there. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little R and B is some gospel. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you can hear all of the flavor, all of the genres. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know that that are that I embraced that you
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  Speaker 1: hear me sing all the time whenever I sing a song.
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  Speaker 1: So um, I was really really pleased with the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: You know, here's the thing, the interesting thing about you,
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  Speaker 1: because you know I have been a part of your
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  Speaker 1: thirty five year career. Okay, and um and and blessed
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  Speaker 1: to hear your greatness and see your beauty, your natural
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  Speaker 1: beauty and music videos on live television, on television and
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  Speaker 1: the live concerts. You know that in your your statuere
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  Speaker 1: you project, you know, in a very profound manner, and
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  Speaker 1: you said, I gotta put a little Regina on it.
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  Speaker 1: You know what is a little Regina on it? Regina Bell?
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  Speaker 1: What is that you gotta Regina rize, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: because that's because when you're reginaizing it, it really makes
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  Speaker 1: it unique. And the reason I say that is that
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  Speaker 1: opt her promotions where on the show Tambler Man and
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  Speaker 1: Regina Belle, you know that's another show. Did I on
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  Speaker 1: the show The Old Jays and Regina Bell? I've been
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  Speaker 1: going like, how are you doing this? You know on
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  Speaker 1: the show? You know on the show you know Terry
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  Speaker 1: Lane Carrington and Regina Bell. You know, this is just
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  Speaker 1: unique genres that you're all in into and and and
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  Speaker 1: and excelling in. So how is that possible? Regina Bell?
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, it's the Almighty is it has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with me? Um. I give God all
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  Speaker 1: the credit. UM. I do thank God for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: And I have embraced every opportunity. I put in the
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  Speaker 1: hard work. I work. You well know, Rashaan can't just
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  Speaker 1: pop up one day and say I want to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, put your mind, your heart, your soul
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  Speaker 1: and your gift into what it is that you're doing. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I did. I Uh, I was born
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  Speaker 1: with the gift to sing, but I wanted to polish
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  Speaker 1: the gift you know, you can get a diamond, you
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  Speaker 1: can get a nine carrot diamond, right, and it can
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  Speaker 1: be full of flaws, it can have all kind of
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  Speaker 1: carbons in it. But when it's cut away, when you
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  Speaker 1: cut away all of the impurities and and make that
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  Speaker 1: diamond shine the way it should and the light passes
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  Speaker 1: through it, you know, the four carrot diamond is actually
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  Speaker 1: more expensive than the nine carrot because of the brilliance
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  Speaker 1: of it, because it is because of its perfection. And
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  Speaker 1: so I was born with the gift. But I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: stop there. I had to put in some work. So
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  Speaker 1: I studied music, play instruments coming up ranging from trombone, baritone, tuba,
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  Speaker 1: uh and steal drums. And I took vocal lessons with
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  Speaker 1: Ingle Wolf at the Manhattan School of Music UM for
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  Speaker 1: Preparatory College in New York. And then I went on
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  Speaker 1: to Rutgish University and I studied piano with Kenny Brown,
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  Speaker 1: so famous jazz pianists, and so I have um, I've
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  Speaker 1: run the gamut, and I've been able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: rough shoulders with some greats like George Duke, being able
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  Speaker 1: to be in the studio with the late great George
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  Speaker 1: Duke Um for My Lazy Afternoon CD. I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the studio with Pastor Shirley Caesar, which is you know
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I'm singing. You know, I patterned my
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  Speaker 1: whole singing style when I first started singing after her
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  Speaker 1: and Donnie Halfaway and Billie Holiday, so you know, bringing
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  Speaker 1: all of that together, Um, I found Regina Bell. And
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  Speaker 1: it's been my mantra that even at my worst, I'm
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  Speaker 1: still number one, being myself at best. Trying to be
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  Speaker 1: somebody else, I can only be at best number two.
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  Speaker 1: So I try to maintain my sound and all that
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  Speaker 1: I do, even if I do jazz, even if I
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  Speaker 1: do R and B, even if if I do gospel,
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  Speaker 1: I always have to be quintessential Regina Bell, and that's
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  Speaker 1: worked for me all through the years. You know, my
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  Speaker 1: life is really interesting, Regina, because you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some people say, you know, they look at who I
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  Speaker 1: am and they put me in a certain category as
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  Speaker 1: success asks. But I've just been a regular dude all
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  Speaker 1: my life, you know what I'm saying, And so I've looked,
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  Speaker 1: but I've looked at you, you know, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: being able to have an interview, you interview you at
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  Speaker 1: this level about your career and look at where my career.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about a journey. And I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: that I look at when I was twenty and then
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really see forty. When I looked at thirty,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really see fifty because it's about a career,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you know, you know even now, you go,
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  Speaker 1: am I gonna make it to seventy and eighty career wise?
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  Speaker 1: Because you know what it took to get to this point?
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  Speaker 1: How do you put that in perspective? Because you know
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  Speaker 1: you just right off the early years, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: you just out there just being Regina. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: always tell people between the ages of eighteen and twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: you just being you. It's after twenty four that decisions
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  Speaker 1: can be made for you, or you can make a
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  Speaker 1: decision that can take you off your path. And that's
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  Speaker 1: when that career conversation comes into play. And then the
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  Speaker 1: next thing, you look up thirty or five years later,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking now about your career, but you're also talking
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  Speaker 1: about your future. Because we had a beautiful holiday album
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  Speaker 1: next Time and I called my Colorful Christmas. How do
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  Speaker 1: you talk about your career perspective? When you talk about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before twenty four and then after twenty four. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting you say that, because even though I was
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  Speaker 1: just kind of being Regina the I still made very
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  Speaker 1: important decisions, especially as it pertains to my image. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it was very important to me to maintain a certain image.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not to knock anybody else, but you know, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I sat at the feet of Nancy Wilson and free
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  Speaker 1: to pain, and I got I glean knowledge from them.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that Nancy told me is
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  Speaker 1: that you know, everybody can't take their clothes off, and
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  Speaker 1: that you know at the end of the day, she said,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to get your accolades for your gift.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to get your accolades for what you
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  Speaker 1: have inside and the prize that God has given you.
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  Speaker 1: And and they based on that. It's not it's not
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  Speaker 1: to say that you can't have gimmicks and things in
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  Speaker 1: your show, but at the end of the day, let
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  Speaker 1: the people go home with a piece of you, and
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  Speaker 1: you will your career will span the years. And so
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  Speaker 1: I tried to make decisions throughout my life, even as
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five year old, even as a thirty five
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  Speaker 1: year old. Even as a forty five year old, I
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  Speaker 1: tried to make decisions that always appeal to who I
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  Speaker 1: am and where I want to be. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just about I don't think I've ever just thought about
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  Speaker 1: where I am. I always kind of thought about where
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  Speaker 1: am I going? What what do I what? Where? Where
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  Speaker 1: do I want to end up? What do what? Whe
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  Speaker 1: do I want to be? You know? Um? Uh? If
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  Speaker 1: I do this, how will that translate years down the road?
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  Speaker 1: Will that be a classic? Or whether that end up
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  Speaker 1: being fat music? You know? Um? And So making those
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  Speaker 1: kinds of decisions in terms of image, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: you know, showing up for a picture here versus being
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  Speaker 1: at my daughter's graduation. I ate those decisions to say,
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  Speaker 1: I know that's an important place to be and that
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  Speaker 1: it may add to my career, but guess what, I
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  Speaker 1: get one chance to be at my daughter's graduation. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to the graduation. Take a chance on it if
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  Speaker 1: it comes around, and it's great if it doesn't. Find
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  Speaker 1: and I've made those important decisions and I'm I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: with my life. I wouldn't trade my life for anybody.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more money making conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald. Now let's return to money making conversations
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Your brand, that's what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Your brand. And for Nancy wasn't free to prain with
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  Speaker 1: the boys? I can see it right now and so
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  Speaker 1: trained singing, you know, bring the boys home, free to pray?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, because that's see, that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a brand. Because I don't know what she did off
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  Speaker 1: in her personal life. I don't know who she dated,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, did she did? She party?
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  Speaker 1: And then? But some great artists, you know, they're off screen,
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  Speaker 1: it's sometimes dominate their talents that they produced to us
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  Speaker 1: on screen. And that's what we're talking about. You, your brand,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about you know, what do you want to
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  Speaker 1: be remembered from. I'm just only remembering you from your
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  Speaker 1: great music. I remember you from a stage when you
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  Speaker 1: when I when you performed for me. When I left
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  Speaker 1: that venue, I took your music with I took your
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  Speaker 1: elegance with me. I took your your presentation with me.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I remember. And that's what you want As
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  Speaker 1: an artist. You don't want you you don't want what
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  Speaker 1: you do off stage, who your dating, who he's shaking,
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes when you're getting drunk, you're getting pulled over
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  Speaker 1: to undermine what your gifts. And that's what you That's
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  Speaker 1: what Nasy Wilson was saying to you you. That's what Free
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  Speaker 1: the Pain was telling you. Don't let don't undermine your
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  Speaker 1: gifts that God gave you by being immature. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what they were telling me. And they were
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  Speaker 1: telling me that you're this is what you're selling. You're
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  Speaker 1: selling music, you're selling gifts, You're selling a story. You
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  Speaker 1: you want people to buy into your story. When every
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  Speaker 1: every time somebody comes to your concert, they're coming into
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  Speaker 1: your living room. What do you want to have prepared
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  Speaker 1: for them at your home? What do you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about? What do you want to you know? What
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  Speaker 1: is your presentation? What do you want to display? And
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  Speaker 1: and those things were the things that I thought about
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  Speaker 1: that I still continue to think about UH as I
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  Speaker 1: go from stage to stage, from city to city, from
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  Speaker 1: state to state, country to country. These are the things
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  Speaker 1: that I think about. UM. I got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: expand a little bit UH last year being in Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Franklin's UM Christmas Movie, and that was amazing because so
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, different things are opening up for
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  Speaker 1: me to be able to do UM as a result
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  Speaker 1: of you know, this gift making room for me and
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  Speaker 1: opening up other doors for me. So I'm excited about it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to what the future holds. Uh. This
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  Speaker 1: Christmas record is just a little piece of me. This
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  Speaker 1: is my favorite time of year. Uh, not necessarily for
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  Speaker 1: the commercialism of it, but because it's a time when
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us as family come together. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we get a chance to sit down, we get a
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  Speaker 1: break from the crazy. UM, people are a little bit nicer. UM,
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  Speaker 1: we exchange gifts, we get to show each other how
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  Speaker 1: much we love one another. And so it's it's Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's my favorite time of being, always has been. And
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  Speaker 1: so this music being able to do this at this time. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't even tell you, Shana, how it warms my heart. UM.
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  Speaker 1: My brother who passed away in June was a big
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  Speaker 1: part of this, and um, this is a piece of
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  Speaker 1: him that I get to carry with me for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my life. Well, I want to just commend
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  Speaker 1: you your articulation. And it was it was moving and
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  Speaker 1: impacted me and I wanted to tell you some Regina. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this show has been a sometimes a blessing for me.
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  Speaker 1: I get to interview individuals like you and um, and
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  Speaker 1: I get to share with the public a story that
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  Speaker 1: they might not have heard all the All they know
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  Speaker 1: is just the artists the artist, and you know, they
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  Speaker 1: don't know about the family, don't know about the long
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  Speaker 1: term marriage. And they hear things like where were Gina been?
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  Speaker 1: You know, Regina been raised five Kidsina been a been
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  Speaker 1: a wife. Regina live in the Atlanta area. She's been living,
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  Speaker 1: she's been doing, living a successful life and guess what
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  Speaker 1: for thirty five years, she's been still having a career.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember I remember once, Um, you know Steve
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  Speaker 1: harperd when I was managing at the time, we did
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  Speaker 1: this contract with the Radio one and he was doing
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  Speaker 1: morning drive in l A. And we did that contract
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that we gotta check every week.
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  Speaker 1: So that allowed us to do what we wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have to jump out there and do every
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  Speaker 1: movie that was offered to us. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: jump out there and take every concert check. But people
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: started saying, what what what happened to Steve Harvey? You know,
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  Speaker 1: Cindric out there, Bernie mac at that dal out there now, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: We were clock and checks and planning our career and planning.
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  Speaker 1: So that's all. I'm just chilling there. She she found
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  Speaker 1: a great man. Okay, she started having beautiful kids. She
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  Speaker 1: started controlling her destiny. Which once you started controlling your destiny,
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  Speaker 1: you can pick a choose. Yeah, when you want to
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  Speaker 1: do what you wanna do? Am I right? Regina? You
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  Speaker 1: are you? Are you? You hit the nail on the head.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you. Um. I married my husband, uh
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  Speaker 1: thirty one years ago. I'm John Sydney battle Um, former
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  Speaker 1: Hawks and Cavaliers basketball player. And we actually met each
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  Speaker 1: other at Rutgers University where we were both going to school,
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  Speaker 1: and he was my best friend for you know, years
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  Speaker 1: before we got married. So we were best friends for
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  Speaker 1: a nine years before we got before we went on
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  Speaker 1: a date. How about that look that says something somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's listening to this show, listen him being my friend?
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  Speaker 1: Is it speaks miles, Because when I tell people that
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  Speaker 1: we've never ever gotten to an argument where we cussed
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  Speaker 1: each other out, some folks look and say, what y'all
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  Speaker 1: ain't no? No, Because he started out as my best
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  Speaker 1: friend and even when we're in the midst of a disagreement,
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  Speaker 1: we have to bactfully disagree and so that I think
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  Speaker 1: that friendship speaks volumes into our marriage. Um. It helped
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  Speaker 1: us to raise our children. Uh. They they are. We
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  Speaker 1: have a foundation that goes beyond our careers. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's really really important because we don't get caught
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  Speaker 1: up in the height we we we know who we are. Um,
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  Speaker 1: folks say, oh my gods, what Gina Belle and I said,
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  Speaker 1: We just folks. And I'm making that from my whole heart.
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  Speaker 1: Just folks. UM. My mother has always told me, and
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  Speaker 1: it's something that I carry with me every day of
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  Speaker 1: my life. She says that your reputation walks in the
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  Speaker 1: door before you get there. Um. These are pearls wisdom
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  Speaker 1: that I hold onto and they help. They helped my buoyancy.
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  Speaker 1: They helped keep me my head above water. They keep
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  Speaker 1: me afloat because it never allows me to get caught
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  Speaker 1: up in the moment so much so that I forget
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  Speaker 1: who I am. Raising my family was important because at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, when something doesn't go right,
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  Speaker 1: that's who I run to. I can't run to the
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  Speaker 1: one who I signed an autograph for. I can't to
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  Speaker 1: the Grammy because the grammar is not gonna talk to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Celebrity is not going to do much for
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  Speaker 1: me when I'm going through what I'm going through. But
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  Speaker 1: it's my family that embraces me and that knows me
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  Speaker 1: for who I am. And it's not expecting Regina Bell
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  Speaker 1: the stage person, but basically embrace in Gina the family member.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So that that means when you talked about that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being able to be home raise your family. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that that speaks volumes because again that's the thing that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: keeps me level and keeps me keeps my head right.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Let's get back to the album
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  Speaker 1: and uh, guards to ten songs Holiday because I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got my favorites. And then, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: when this album came across my desk a cradle in Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 1: I went, you gotta be kid in me. You got
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  Speaker 1: to be kid in me, that kik because you know
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  Speaker 1: you always go, well, it's only more Beathley Ham, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And what other what other classics
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  Speaker 1: or did you do any original songs Christopher songs on
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  Speaker 1: the on the Timber records that you're dropping on this
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  Speaker 1: particular album. No, I honestly didn't. There's one original song
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  Speaker 1: on there, but it's not necessarily a Christmas song. And
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I'll talk a little bit more about that. Okay, let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: But I really wanted to do the familiar Christmas songs, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to involve my family. So my my
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  Speaker 1: son is playing drums on a couple of the tunes,
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  Speaker 1: M my nephews playing um drums U Jamal Bell, my
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  Speaker 1: son Jalen Battle, and then my two daughters, Sydney and Nyla. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Sydney singing a baby changes everything, and Nyla's singing the
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  Speaker 1: first Noel. And so I really wanted to make it
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  Speaker 1: a family affair because of That's why I call it
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  Speaker 1: My Colorful Christmas, because there's so many colors of what
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  Speaker 1: I love. You know, UM, the music is colorful because
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  Speaker 1: like I said, we incorporated the jazz, the gospel, the
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  Speaker 1: the the everything all that I love. UM. And then
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  Speaker 1: I incorporated members of my family, but then they come
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  Speaker 1: in with a whole different another flames. So Nylas sings
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  Speaker 1: differently than Sydney sings. Uh, Jamal plays drums differently than
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  Speaker 1: than Jalen plays trumps. So then we got a little
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little Calypso Soca uh all little town
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  Speaker 1: of beth lehand um. So. So you know, we call
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  Speaker 1: it my Colorful Christmas because we added some colors of music.
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  Speaker 1: We added um, colors of uh styles we added, I
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  Speaker 1: added different members of a family. Um uh. And the
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  Speaker 1: one song that I wanted to talk to you about
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  Speaker 1: is the last song. It's called a song from Bernie
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  Speaker 1: and that is my brother. For those of you that
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Bernard bell Is produced millions of records that
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  Speaker 1: have got above, above and beyond um from Michael Jackson's
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  Speaker 1: Remember the Time to Whitney and Bobby we have something
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  Speaker 1: in common along with Teddy Riley um uh, myself, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Patti La Belle Boy, George case Jahim. I mean the
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  Speaker 1: list goes on. The wins. He my brother, was truly
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  Speaker 1: amazing um and this song is the last song that
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  Speaker 1: he and I did together. And I'm trying not to
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  Speaker 1: get you know, tearry out about it. But it's the
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  Speaker 1: last song that he and I did together, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a song that basically speaks UM from those that have
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  Speaker 1: gone on from and mostly I. I really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do it because of COVID. COVID had us to realize
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  Speaker 1: some things that we had taken for granted, like being
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  Speaker 1: able to have a homegoing service, and and realizing what
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  Speaker 1: it meant to us to have people come in from
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  Speaker 1: other cities, other states to hug us and tell us
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  Speaker 1: how much they love us and how much they love
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  Speaker 1: your loved one. UM. Not being able to do that
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  Speaker 1: during COVID it was traumatic, not being able to touch
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  Speaker 1: our loved ones who were sick and in the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes we they passed on and we never got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to kind of bring closure to anything until
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  Speaker 1: they were gone. UM. This song simply says for all
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  Speaker 1: of you. I've been a caregiver for many years. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I was an ambassador for a a r P for
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  Speaker 1: many years. UM, and I at the same time of
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  Speaker 1: having a career with Shine with my mom, I was
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  Speaker 1: caring for my mom, my dad, and my brother. UM. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a husband and I pastor in two churches. I was
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  Speaker 1: on the road and in seminary. So you bet a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: holler at your girl. Okay, A lot going on with
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  Speaker 1: five kids and four grandkids. Yeah, so there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on. So this song simply says um. It says
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  Speaker 1: I had to leave, and it's basically saying that there's
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: nothing more you could do. I know, as caregivers, we
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: always feel like was there. You know, maybe I could
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: have scheduled one more doctor's appointment and would have changed things.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe I could have had one more visit or something. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, the song says I had to leave,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that my assignment here was up. It was my time.
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  Speaker 1: It was nothing else that you could do for me.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for everything you did. Um, I love you,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: but I had to leave. And so the song is
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  Speaker 1: a little sad, but it's something that helps us to embrace, um,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the feeling of loss with our loved ones that have
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  Speaker 1: passed on. Wow, I'm talking to Regina Bell, you know
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  Speaker 1: at lustrous career span more than thirty or five years,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: chart topping singer songwriter, Grammy Award winner, she's back. Well
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: should I say they were? I think that's in there.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: So so she's back. She actually has another project that
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: she's delivering to the forefront of the entertainment business is
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: from her record Labor She Entertainment. It's called A Colorful
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  Speaker 1: Christmas and and and it's a holiday album that's going
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to I think I would say it's a game changing
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  Speaker 1: for me because of the fact that it's allowing me
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to hear music that sometimes, you know, because you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: they only play popular songs on the radio. There's a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: few of the like ten they just play over and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: over and over, and then you have to go sometimes
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: to like Sirius XM and then go, that's my song. Well,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: this song here a Cradle in Bethlehem is on my
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: It's on my you know, my my playlists. So even
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: when it's not Christmas, I listened to this song and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: so to hear on your album is a blessing. To
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  Speaker 1: have this honest conversation, Regine. I hope it resonated with me.
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  Speaker 1: It was powerful. It allowed me to speak to somebody
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  Speaker 1: that I've always seen from Afar and the journey that
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you've taken, and you have made Nancy Wilson proud, my friend. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you have followed her words and understanding that it's about
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  Speaker 1: your brand, and when you walk off that stage, let
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: what walked off as what we heard, what we experienced
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in that venue. When you go on that poolpit at
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  Speaker 1: those two churches, let people understand that the message you're
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  Speaker 1: giving is what you want to resonate in their hearts
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  Speaker 1: and uplift them in their community. You are a blessing
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  Speaker 1: Regina Bell. And the fact that you come off with
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  Speaker 1: a my colorful Christmas album led by the first single,
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  Speaker 1: A Cradle in Bethlehem, tell everybody if we go where
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: can we find this song? And how about your social
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: media too? Oh, you can go to my website. I
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  Speaker 1: am Regina Bell dot com um and uh, you know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and you can purchase it there. I'm on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I'm on all the social media platforms. Um you can
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: find me. Or you can go to Apple Music, uh
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: anywhere pretty much and Spotify and and pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: You can stream it, just play it, play it because
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's gonna bless you. Um listen. Being
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the boss it costs uh Rashana, thank you for pointing
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  Speaker 1: that out. It's on my own record label, Tashi three Entertainment. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, it was definitely a challenge, but it was
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: also a labor of love. So I'm really excited about
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: this because it's my first full project on my own
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  Speaker 1: record label. So you know you can still do it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the gray hand fool your mom's life. Life
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  Speaker 1: ain't fooling us. Thirty or five years in this business,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and we know we got another thirty or five years
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to keep changing the business. You're uplift your blessing to
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  Speaker 1: three Entertainment. That's our record label. The single is a
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  Speaker 1: Cradle and Bepley Am. The name of the Christmas album
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  Speaker 1: is My Colorful Christmas. Thank you for Regina for coming
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  Speaker 1: on my show, Money Making Conversation Master Class. Me. I
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  Speaker 1: hope I'll be down, Oh you will. We're gonna go
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: off and talk about the reschedule, okay, but thank you
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  Speaker 1: for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclas