 I love Friday, and I love to put people on the spot. Uh-oh. Can you give me a little bit of Friday right now? This song is dedicated. Oh, man. Listen to that. Come on, win it, man. Let me get it, let me get it. Come on, give it a little bit, man. You are the workers that are worth nine to five. All right now. Hey. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see the key questions that everybody's got. I forgot you were over here. I'll just let you go. I'll just let you go. Come on, baby. I give you. Because like I didn't know anything about blues or Sir Charles or anybody until I came here to the States because I'm from Jamaica. So when I came here and he introduced me, he introduced me to you first of all, then you know Johnny Taylor and you know all of that. And I fell in love with blues. Yes, you did. You took it. I took to it. So many people don't know it. You know what I'm saying? And they don't know it. It's relaxing. It makes you swing. It makes you dance. It makes you change whatever mood that you're in. Right. It can make you cry. You know what I'm saying? It can make you laugh. It makes you laugh. It makes you, I'm like, do they just say that? Like, what? Yeah, you can't put it on at a certain time. You can't be going through something. You're going through something. You put it on. Sir Charles is going to get you. It's going to be a problem, man. It just can't let go. You put it on at the wrong time and something will happen in your life. You've been in love. You can even take you out and make you strong, whichever one you want to do. You got a stomach ache and you can't fix it. I love Friday and I love to put people on the spot. Can you give me a little bit of Friday right now? This song is dedicated. Oh, man. Come on with it, man. Let me get it. Let me get it. Come on. Give it a little bit, man. You are the workers that are worth nine to five. All right now. Boy, that was good. Boy, you went in, man. Hey, man, that man got it, man. It's easy, right? It's easy, man. You know what I'm saying? It's a gift. It's a gift that God gave me. It's a gift. And, man, I'm so thankful and blessed, man. I have, for 25 years, God has blessed me so much, man, too. Yeah. The things these eyes have seen, the things I've accomplished that they said a black man would never do. I'm like, I accomplished it easy. Yeah, yeah. And I thought you was going to make this hard for me. Oh, man. That's what I'm talking about, man. So you've always wanted to be a singer from a kid? Always. Since I was a baby, in my diapers, you know, I used to watch my mom and dad, you know, playing on the piano. And then my father is a minister. And my mother's a minister. Wow. And so I came up through the church. And it was just something that naturally was inside of me. How many instruments can you play? Um... That sounds like a lot. Yeah, I don't lost count. I would say everything. I can't play a woodwind instrument. Wow. Like saxophones and stuff like that. Anything else? If I pick it up, I can pull the song out of it. So was it male waiters? Male waiters. That was my best friend. I know you. I know you. So how did you end up meeting him? And I know he was a big influence in your life. Big influence. You know what I'm saying? Like it goes back so far, man. Like when male waiters came out and got hot, male had to get the influence from somebody, too. A lot of people don't know male was a DJ. Okay. So he was already blessed and gifted inside of him. And he opened up the door for me. Okay. To be able to get into the system him and Willie Clayton. Okay. Like Willie Clayton is the guy that gave me my actual break. Wow. Like when I came and I was like a local singer back in Birmingham, Alabama singing at night clubs and stuff, Willie Clayton just was visiting to come go out and see some of his friends. So having seen me and another two guys background singing in a night club struggling and singing for $40 a night. Okay. And he became as told as we was good. And he be like, man, you know what? I might got an opportunity for you, brothers. I'm going to take you guys to meet Mr. Marvin Cease. And I'm like, wow. She told me that. She said, Marvin Cease. I told you. Boy, that's what I wanted to get with it, man. Oh man, the candy liquor? The candy liquor. And when he took us, we sang the song for Marvin Cease and Marvin fell in love with our voices and invited us to come sing on his album. And we went to the world's famous fabulous Muscle Shows, Alabama. Okay. To Muscle Shows Studios. If you get to history, every song that you ever see, that's one of your classic favorites from Marita Franklin, the Wilson Pickett, to Johnny Taylor, Bobby Blu-Blan, Clarence Carter, Denise LaSalle, Little Miltip, Etta James. Like when you seen the Calac Records movie, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All of them great hits that you seen, Holland Wolf and Etta James and Muddy Water and stuff. All of that music was recorded at Muscle Shows Studios. Really? Okay. Okay. Then this place got a history about it, bro, where it's a spiritual thing. When you step foot in Muscle Shows, it takes off, it's like the Bermuda Triangle. When you go, bro, you just feel a peaceful vibe. Your heart rate levels out. It's like anything wrong with you starts to heal. Okay. Your ears and your hearing comes in a different type of mode. You can hear the water in the stream a force of a mile here. You can hear that chamber right here. You can hear those trees blowing right there. Okay. Wow.