 Love Friday, and I love to put people on the spot. Oh, can you give me a little bit of Friday? 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 Oh, yeah, so when I came here and he introduced me he introduced me to you first Yeah, yeah, yeah, then you know Johnny Taylor and you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I fell in love with blues 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 make you cry. Yeah Oh, yeah, it makes you laugh. It makes you I'm like, did they just say that like what? Yeah, you can't put it on a certain time right be going through some you're going to put it on I'm gonna get you. It's gonna be a problem. It just can't let go you put it on the wrong time Even take you out of make it strong, whichever one you got a stomach ache and you can't fix it and one thing I love Friday and I love to put people on the spot. Oh Can you give me a little bit of Friday right now? Oh, that was good boy you went in man. Hey man, that man got it man. It's a man easy, right? It's easy man. You know, it's a gift. It's a gift that guy gave me 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, and I thought you was gonna make this hard So you've always wanted to be a singer from 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 my father is a Minister and my mother's a minister. Wow. And so I came up through the church and and and it was just Something that naturally was inside many instruments. Can you play? Oh? That sounds like a lot I would say everything I can't play a woodwind instruments Like saxophones and stuff like that for anything else if I pick it up, I could pull a song out of it Was it male male waiters male waiters. That's my best friend. I know you I know you So how did you end up meeting him and and I know he was a big influence in your life big influence? You know saying like it goes it go back so far man Like when male waiters came out and got hot male had to get the influence from somebody to a lot of people No male was a DJ. Okay, so music was already blessed and gifts 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 gave me 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 and nightclubs and stuff Willie Clayton just was visiting To come go out and and see some of his friends and just so happen seeing me and another two guys Background singing and a nightclub struggling singing for $40 a night. Okay, and he became as told as we was good And he'd be like man, you know what I might got an opportunity for you brothers. I'm gonna take you guys To meet mr. Marvin seats. Mm-hmm, and I'm like Mom and see I told you what I get with it man. Oh, man, the candy And when he took us We sang the song for Marvin seats 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 show studios if you get to history Every song that you ever see That's one of your classic favorites from Marita Franklin. Yeah, listen. Yeah, yeah to Johnny Taylor Bobby Blu-Blan Clarence Carter Little mill to say a little milty. Yeah Etta James. Yeah, like when you seen the Calak records movie, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah All of them great hits that you seen Highland Wolfe and and and Etta James. Yeah, and Muddy water all of that music was recorded at muscle shows Studio really okay, okay, and this place got a history about it, bro. Where It's a spiritual thing When you step foot in muscle shows You it takes off. It's like the Bermuda triangle. Mm-hmm when you go bro, you just Feel a piece of that piece of your heart rate Levels out. It's like anything wrong with you starts to heal Okay, your ears and your hearing comes And a different type of mode you can hear the water in the stream a Fourth of a mile here you can hear that chamber right here. You can hear those trees blowing right there. Okay. Wow Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one