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Melanie Fiona’s POWERFUL Return with 'Say Yes' 🎶 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jul 8, 2025
Grammy-winning artist Melanie Fiona makes a powerful return with her new EP 'Say Yes'! 🎶 In this unforgettable performance, Melanie shares her journey as an independent artist, dives into her personal growth, and celebrates saying "yes" to her truth. From performing soulful hits like "Mona Lisa Smile" to the fan-favorite "It Kills Me," she delivers passion, connection, and energy. Don't miss Melanie's inspiring message of overcoming fears and staying true to yourself, all while treating us to her signature retro-soul sound. Say yes to this incredible moment and let Melanie Fiona move you! ✨🎤 #MelanieFiona #SayYes #LiveMusic #SoulMusic #musicmarketing #howtosellrecords #musicbusinessadvice #musicmarketingandpromotion #independentartistmarketing CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Melanie Fiona Performs “Mona Lisa” Live 10:25 - Melanie Fiona Performs “Make Me Feel Good” Live 13:39 - Sway & Melanie Fiona Sing “It Kills Me” Duet 15:13 - The Importance of Saying Yes in Life 19:57 - The Power of the Throat Chakra Explained Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU Watch the Best of Sway In The Morning! http://bit.ly/BestOfSITM Check out More From Sway’s Universe http://swaysuniverse.com http://twitter.com/swaysuniverse http://instagram.com/swaysuniverse http://facebook.com/swaysuniverse
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we we're so happy to have her here today
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right Heather B absolutely uh she has a
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song It Kills Me from her past uh when
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she was signed to a record label now
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she's independent she got a a new
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project called Say Yes she's just
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magnificent incredible and I need some
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of you folks that sit in it y'all ever
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watch Purple Rain who seen Purple Rain
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you seen the scene in the audience where
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Prince is performing and the audience
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just looking like this
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that's how you look okay so give us some
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energy please make some noise she's our
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headliner i need everybody to stand up
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give a standing ovation right now for
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the one and only Canada's finest
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worldwide Melanie Fiona
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shout out to the to the first two
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artists who performed tonight Jaylen and
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Nal i was listening backstage amazing
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jaylen I I love her voice so much um I'm
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so happy to be here with all of you guys
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this has absolutely been a journey for
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me um as Sway said thank you guys for
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the support we recently did we did a
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duet um I hope you have your vocals
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ready today cuz And it kills me wow see
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if you stay ready you don't got to get
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ready you know what I'm saying okay
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better watch out we we we need we we
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need a round two from our our our uh
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interview that we did viral so get ready
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be on standby um but as he said I did I
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put out a new project it's been the
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first one in a long time it is a six
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song EP named Say Yes yes amen say yes
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to your truth say yes to yourself say
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yes to overcoming your fears say yes to
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everything that you deserve in your life
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cuz it's yours it's just waiting for you
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um and that's how I feel about this
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project and this season of my life um so
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I'm going to perform one of my favorite
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songs off the project this is called
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Mona Lisa Smile because I often feel
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that we talk a lot about men and their
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pride but women have pride too
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and um it's very important that we
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recognize how we carry that and um and
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that we are carrying a lot especially as
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black women so this is Mona Lisa smile
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perfect picture in a broken framing no
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one sees the broken pieces of the
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painting i know you're lying i'm lying
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it's crazy i don't really know why in
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the hell I'm trying to say this if I
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didn't love you I'd walk out that door
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if a man can have his pride while a girl
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can have
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I'd rather go to before I let a te drop
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hit this floor i'll never let you see me
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breaking down
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you'll never have to pick me up off the
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ground
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i'd rather stand pretty than begging for
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your pity and I'll go a million
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miles wearing this monile
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well if they start coming down
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[Music]
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boy I'm afraid I might drown
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yeah before I lose my mind I'mma let you
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know now i'll go a million
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miles wearing this monies
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but you don't get to say that it's over
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instead of giving up I learned to give
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you the cold shoulder i gave you mine so
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I'm yours and you're mine my heart's on
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the line i love to die even if I could
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get my face to run I'd go around in
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circles cuz I know
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we going to lose it all before
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hit this
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[Music]
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breaking down
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you'll never have to pick me off the
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ground
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i'd ra
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[Music]
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be for your pity
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i'll go a million
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miles wearing this one
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at least a smile well if they start
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coming down
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[Applause]
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boy I'm afraid I might drown
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[Applause]
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yeah before I lose my mind I'mma let you
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know now i'll go a million
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miles we're in this
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photo at least a smile
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[Music]
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thing girl
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[Applause]
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thank you guys so much
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that's a little classic classic vibe i
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think a lot of my first fans of my first
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project the bridge and the MF Life they
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appreciate that one um you know the
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retro soul is where it all started for
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me so um but you know let's go to where
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it all started for me sway are you ready
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i'm ready and it kills me oh man how
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much I really love you okay
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so much I want How much I want to
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Yeah
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see that's what we needed in the morning
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we needed some champagne let's go let's
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get it ready
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hey you got your microphone know how
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much I really love you don't shy out
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go ahead take it from here Mel
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i got it from here thank you thank you i
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got it from here y'all make some noise
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for Sway
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and those immaculate vocals
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[Music]
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this song changed my life still changing
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my life oh yeah
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[Music]
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i've got trouble with my friends trouble
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in my life problems when you don't come
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home at night
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[Music]
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but when you do you always start a fight
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[Music]
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but I can't be alone
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i need you to come on home
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i know I'm messing around but who the
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hell else is going to hold me down
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i've got to be on my mind
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to think it's going to work this time
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a part of me wants to leave
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but the other still believe that it
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kills me
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don't know how much I really love you
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so much i want to
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do you
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should I grab a sale countless chick
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start some then hang up or should I
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be a lady
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oh baby cuz I want to have his babies
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oh yeah
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cuz I don't
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want to be alone
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i don't need to be on my own
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[Music]
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but I love this man
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some things I just can't say no
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i've got to be on my mind
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don't think it's going to work this time
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a part of me wants to leave
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but the other side still
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i really love you
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so much
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oh
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do you do you
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[Music]
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should I pay precious eyes
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hey
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to see if you react to my love my love
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my love my love my love oh
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[Music]
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I've got to be on my mind
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don't think it's going to work this time
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a part of me must believe
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and the other side still
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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you can y'all sing it out and it kills
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me kills me to know how much I really
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love you to know how much I want
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you to
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[Music]
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y'all make some noise for the background
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singers
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in LA right now thank you my goodness
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couldn't be done with y'all a little
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special treat this one is for Sway
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specifically because when we did our
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interview on the project I collaborated
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with an incredible rapper by the name of
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Lar Russell and um we did a really fun
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summer joint it's I love it it's just
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feels like summer um and so I want to
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leave you guys with a summer vibe this
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is Make Me Feel Good okay make me feel
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lately feel distracted when you come
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around and I'll be tripping out cuz you
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don't hear me out are you going to turn
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me up or you going to hold me down oh
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yeah yeah yeah yeah i know it's so good
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even when it gets bad and this thing is
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for life there ain't no going back cuz
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you know I'm the best thing that you
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ever had so let's get back to that wait
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we're waiting out the rain
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i know with this joy this pain
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and for your love I will wait
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and babe
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it won't always be this way even if we
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both change
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my love is going to stay the same so
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just make me feel make me feel good like
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a Sunday morning sunset Boulevard sun
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roof open hopping on a train with the
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palm trees blowing i know the play you
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ain't even got to say it just make me
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feel good you know how I want it i don't
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want to wait i just want to jump on it
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ride it slow with the baseline go
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hey you know how you make me feel like
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butterflies and bees when roses start to
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bloom when hummingbirds sing i'm hoping
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that it's you every time my phone ring
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throughout throughout beware that thing
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the sun don't always shine but when you
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smile it feels like it insecure about
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your weight gain i still like it you
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want this to last and you got to
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build like it no it might not last
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forever but at least it feels like it
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wait
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we're waiting out the rain
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i know if there's joy this pain
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in for your love I will wait
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and
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it won't always be this way even if we
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both change
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my love is going to stay the same so
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just make me feel
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like a Sunday morning sunset full of a
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sun roof opening on a tree with the palm
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trees blowing i know the play you ain't
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even got to say it just make me feel
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good you know how I want it i don't want
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to wait i just want to jump on it ride
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it slow with the baseline go away
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thank y'all so much
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i love you guys thank you so much for
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rocking with me an incredible artist and
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she's doing it independent she's doing
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it independent say yes can you say yes
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can you say yes can you say yes yes yeah
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yo how'd I do man no seriously man how
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did I do you did great i did real you
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You definitely redeemed yourself from
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our interview i didn't think I did bad
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in our interview but so so be it you
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know I mean that's how you feel i mean I
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mean I thought we I mean I actually I
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was I was had a lot of grace for you
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that morning you did you were a little
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hard on yourself i was but if you feel
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good about it I feel great about it
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because you told me you felt good about
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it you know what and I still do okay
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still lot i feel I feel even I feel even
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better today though okay thank you a lot
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of inconsistencies here Melbour since
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she performed for us I want to point
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them out it's Gemini season is that it
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y'all flip a lot you know Geminis's
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there's two there's two of them so yeah
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yeah y'all flippity y'all very flippity
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uh there's no Oh my gosh are there
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Geminis's in here put a hand up it's
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just specs you are y'all are strange
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people
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wow you don't even know yourselves
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what's up for my uncle Rob rob stand up
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rob stand up brother Uncle Mark Barb
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stand up you You got these two brothers
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look at that stand up those brothers
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stood up for you they sure did you know
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you hit the soul quotient thank you the
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soul quotient yeah like the Eley
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brothers right there go ahead guys uh
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yes fam and the Grammy goes to Melanie
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Fiona i mean Grammy awardw winning
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grammy awardw winning she is Juno awardw
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winning she is uhhuh and she just sang
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for y'all for free live and gave all the
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live though all of it say yes yes say
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yes say yes yes melanie this is such a
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powerful I told you what I feel about
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the project and it sounds good you're an
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outstanding performer thank you it's my
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favorite part to perform yeah see she
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she's performed with some of the
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greatest from Drake on down you know but
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you had a history before people knew who
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you were how important was that process
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to your success today just the the the
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times that people didn't see you on
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stage on stage it's interesting because
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I think a lot of people are are still
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discovering the my performance element
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um which I think is great you know I
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think it's something that I've always
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prided myself on something that I put a
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lot of um uh dedicated time into
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overcoming certain things it's funny
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because when I was a kid I was terrified
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of singing live like in front of people
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oh yeah at all the family gatherings I
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would make everybody turn around you
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know my my my Caribbean parents would be
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like Melanie come and sing for the
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family and I used to be like just don't
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look at me and now I like love looking
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at people directly when I sing um just
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because I I I understand the importance
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of connection with your audience and and
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truly what it means to really use that
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time to give people something to feel to
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be remembered by um and to remember you
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for so it's it's just that's that's what
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every encounter feels like for me no
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matter whether it's speaking with
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someone interviews on stage it's about
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just the connection and the impression
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you leave with people and they leave
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with you mhm i I love this young lady
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man she even last time she came I don't
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know where mic is working can you hear
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me here hear me that one last time she
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came she she hung out so she could just
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take Heather's cooking home like she
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wanted she had took Heather's food and
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Tupperware um I love this young lady i
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started saying yes to certain things in
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the past recent year m um I had to say
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yes to creating boundaries personal
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boundaries for myself to get to pour
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into myself what I try to pour into
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others i hadn't done that so I started
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saying yes to things I would never say
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yes to i took a vacation by myself yes
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yes mhm yes i went to Aruba yes by
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myself yes you saw the flamingos i can't
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remember the hotel it was I drank by
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myself i said yes to me i'm not a
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drinker um I went to Jamaica by myself
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right i said yes to just giving my and
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it's been the best thing things my
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auntie Katie would tell you you know I
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worked for decades and I don't even when
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I took vacation I took the family on
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vacation you know I didn't never take
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time to myself what What are some of the
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things that personal things that you had
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to recently say yes to that you normally
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haven't
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i had to say yes to putting out new
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music again yes yeah um you know for all
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the reasons why you know things take
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time i really one of the mantras I've
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been living my life by is you know take
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your time it's yours to take because we
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often feel like we're on a clock of
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somebody else's time there's really only
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one clock we're on if we're given more
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time right say it loud and so for me I
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just really valued the the space to make
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a life as well as making a living um you
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know to build a family to develop my
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personal relationships with myself my
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husband God my family and really get to
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a place where there were times when I I
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wasn't sure if I wanted to put out new
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music again i didn't know how to i
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didn't know where to begin i didn't know
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I didn't know if I had the confidence to
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um it was a real I went through a lot of
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things professionally that really broke
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my spirit and I didn't know how I was
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going to continue and so I I realized
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that once I got to this place within
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like the last year I had to say yes to
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God's calling on my gift because that's
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what I'm here to do that's all we're
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here to do truly um is to answer the
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call of God and the universe and when
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they call and so I was being called and
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I had to say yes through all the hurt or
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the doubt or the I don't know how just
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figure it out just follow through just
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follow through so now this you know the
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project just came out in April and um
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and I'm so proud of myself i'm so proud
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of myself it's not about how many people
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although I would love everybody to
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listen to it it's not about like the
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streaming numbers or the you know the
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biggest rooms it's about that it needs
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to reach who it reaches but that I
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fulfilled a purpose that I had with God
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and so that's that's why Say Yes is so
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important to me melanie Fiona y'all
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thank you guys mel what I deeply
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appreciate about you is your spiritual
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connection you know you believe in a
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higher power but you also believe in the
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higher power within absolutely that you
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possess and I'm wondering when I think
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about our throat chakra right and how
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sometimes it can be underdeveloped it
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can be overused and I'm wondering in
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your personal life during the times of
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doubt where maybe you were kind of
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clammed up you weren't vocalizing
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um your needs right you were swallowing
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a lot just hoarding a lot of feelings do
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you feel like there those times where
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you were unintentionally silent that
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impacted your vocal ability oh absol
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absolutely there was a period of of 2012
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right after the Grammys the Grammy wins
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with CEO right after um it was actually
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just before I toured with Mary J blige i
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just put out my sophomore project the MF
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Life and I'm coming off this extreme
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high the Grammys success highest heights
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like the most fame I had ever
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experienced and my my voice started to
21:09
have challenges and so songs like It
21:12
Kills Me were very very difficult to
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sing i I barely had 30 minutes of of
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singing in me at some shows and I
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remember I would pray and I would pray
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and I would pray i'd be like "What what
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is going on?" And I went to see all
21:23
these vocal doctors and they all were
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like "Nothing's wrong with your vocal
21:27
cords." And it was one doctor that said
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"What kind of a year have you had?" And
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it just opened up a floodgate of
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taking self-inventory
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how was I feeling how was I using my
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voice who was I hanging around and what
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was I saying yes to that I shouldn't
21:47
have been saying yes to you know where
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did I need to say no so that I could get
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to this place to say yes freely it was a
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lot of self-reflection and essentially
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what happened was I was experiencing an
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energetic stress block in my throat
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chakra which is we all have we're made
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of energy and um it directly attacked my
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voice and it made me pause and really
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made me shift my entire perspective of
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how and when and where I choose to use
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the gift of my voice and I couldn't just
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continue to say yes to everything i
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couldn't just show up when I didn't feel
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well i couldn't just take a check
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because it was a good one um it was
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really about God I think pulling me by
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my vocal cords really and saying "Hey I
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gave you this blessing i need you to be
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very mindful about how you use it and I
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need you to be very mindful about where
22:40
you protect how you protect it." And um
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I ended up going through you know just a
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few weeks of like just deep meditative
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work energy healing some acupuncture
22:50
some eastern medicine and within that
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self-realization and actualization I
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toured with Mary Jay Blig and D'Angelo
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for six weeks and had no problems with
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my voice ever again just from answering
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the call ladies and gentlemen give it up
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for Melanie Fiona one time man
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