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From YouTube: Inspiring Generations Celeste Williams EP16

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City of Chelsea, Guest: Brandon Coke

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Hello, welcome back to inspiring generations, I'm your host, celeste williams, there's so much things going on in the world today that inspire us, some things that don't inspire us, but I try to look for the good in all things. You know, because you never know when someone's going through something- and today I have a young man in a studio that inspires me. I knew him since he was 11. I believe when I came into his life and he came into my life, we had a chance to deliver a message together at church.

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His message was much stronger than mine, though, because I had to reference him afterwards, but without further ado, I want to introduce my guest today and his name is brandon coke, hello, guys how you guys doing welcome to the studio. Welcome to cc tv, that's chelsea, community, cable television, brandon is visiting us today um to bring us some worth inspiration um for the youth, because um in these times it's really hard for the for the young people.

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You know um there's a lot of stuff going on and that distract them there's things that they can't do that they used to do before, um and I'm so grateful that I have uh youth from my church family um that inspired me all the time to keep the faith to keep going, because they're, so young and and and they they are really trying to.

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You know, send a message to even the adults that if we can do it, you can do it and I believe that the youth is worth looking up to and I believe that a child shall lead. So on that note, I'm going to get into conversation with brandon and ask brandon brandon. Yes,.

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How old are you I'm 17 years old, you're.

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17 yeah- and I know you since you're 11., so it's been a while right. Yep time flies. Yeah time goes by. He even was shorter than me when I first met him and now he's growing up and to a nice young man.

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I want to mention that brandon is a youth minister, he's also a youth choir leader, um so his life is face based his mom's here in the studio today, and she keeps him grounded and focused.

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Want to let brenda talk a little bit about his music, because his music has a message and his music is very inspirational, and what I wanted to know from you brandon is what inspired you to write your song mama.

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Well, what inspired me to write mama? So, basically, my friend had a mother who passed away and I feel like as a writer as a songwriter. You should be able to write from different perspectives in different areas in your life, including love, death or marriage, even though I might have not been through losing my mother. I know how I feel to lose like a grandmother or someone that was close to me so like when she told me about losing her mother. It really touched me yeah.

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Yeah, and is your friend in a better place since losing her.

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Mom since she lost her mom, it's been rough for her, I'm not going to lie because she still called me to this day talking about her mom and her memories.

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She told me that my song really touched her, and people have reached out to me from other people losing their moms and told me. It touched them too yeah.

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Of course, because um it helps you understand, yeah that you know, maybe that person might be not doing so well in this life, but there is a better life yeah, a better place, a better place right and so being a youth minister. Do you feel that that inspired you more because you can find the words to inspire someone to feel better well.

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When it comes to um writing the lyrics, I feel like I guess it does in a certain way but like when it came to mama. I feel like I need to shine some light on death, because death is not a bad thing. That's what people get confused these days. Death is like you're, going to your heavenly father and you're in a better place. People want to see like oh I'm, losing this person, but you'll reunite with them. If you have faith in god, yeah.

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That's why I believe yeah I mean if you are a face-based person and you're watching this program today. um You will fully understand um what brandon and I are discussing, because faith has a lot to do with drawing strengths and and helping you to get through stuff, and so I felt there was a need for us to. You know, send some healing you know to our community.

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You know in um some sort of way and- and I feel that you know like I said in the beginning- that youth are having a hard time dealing.

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It do you find that on social media, do you get negative.

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Comments like hate on social media. Yes, um there will be some people who comment and stuff, but that's what happens when you go into this industry but, like I think I deal with the good with a good support system like my family, yeah yeah.

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Well, they say all good things start at home, right, yep, so brandon's gonna sing a little bit of his song for us today, but that's going to be like towards the end of our program. We want to get into a little bit of um his background, so brandon.

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Yes, were you born here? Yes, I I was born in melrose. He was born in melrose yeah.

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Right and where are your parents from my parents are from jamaica all.

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Right so, as I know, your mom's, a very loving person, yes he's a really good person, and for what I hear your dad is a a very musical person himself.

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Well, he's into music, but.

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We hear him sing in the bathroom, oh my my ears, but.

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We know it's: okay, brandon actually has an older sister. Her name is diantha and we just celebrated her graduation.

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College graduation.

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Right here in chelsea.

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Yep the hotel there in chelsea we celebrate it. um Brandon has some really nice words to say about his sister she's.

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An inspiration to me she's also a singer too.

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This is what we this is. This is what I know, because I've seen you and her perform together. Yes and she's she's, so humble about her talent. She plays the piano.

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She is a great vocalist and where did all this inspiration to sing come from? Did it come from church, or did it come from home.

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I think and personally because my mom used to tell me that when she had me my sister, she used to like listen to a lot of music and my dad was always listening to music around the house. And when we were like around the age of three or five, they put us into the church choir automatically and we fell in love with music.

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Yeah yeah, so do you play an instrument? Yes, I play the guitar. Oh my favorite instrument. I love the guitar. If anybody don't know me, they know. I love a good katana piano.

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Yes, so um are you planning on um furthering your career, music.

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To the point where you're gonna leave us and just go off and be big time,.

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I mean I'm never gonna forget where I come from. That's one thing: yeah, I'm gonna keep god in my path, wherever.

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Decides for me to be that's.

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Yeah brandon, I know that you had a message, one time you delivered at church and it was about the cell phone. Yes, can you give us a little bit of dialogue about that sermon or the message that you sent about the cell phone? I mean just give us a little piece of it.

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um What would inspire you to think about as a youth, because I know a lot of young people, they love their phone yeah.

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They're addicted you.

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Take their phone away, they're gonna beat you up mm-hmm.

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Know what I mean yeah, I feel you yeah or they'd, be depressed for like forever until they get their phone back yeah or they might do anything to get a phone.

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You know that's the scary part yeah, but um give us a little bit.

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Of why you so basically like in that sermon, I basically connect the phone and the bible.

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So when I did that, I was basically talking about how we rely on our phones to we're so quick to go and gossip we're so quick to go and text our friends, but can't spend five minutes or ten minutes with god and we bring our phones wherever we go. We can't even leave our house with our phones, but can't spend like five minutes to read our word.

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So I kind of compare and go back and forth about the phones and cell phones and how to rely a lot more on our phones than we do on god.

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That's a good that was a great message.

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Know I didn't pull it out like that, but I was like brandon is right. I need to put my phone down for a little while it doesn't just apply to young people. I mean older people, they have an addiction with their phones yeah, so we don't just want to put it on you guys. True. You know so brandon school.

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We want to talk school because school's gonna stop back soon yup, but how did you get to school through to covet pandemic when it was like really in the height of it?.

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Oh, that was hard. I'm not gonna lie. A lot of kids have failed school, but, like the funny thing is, I was on the honor roll that year and I have been having good grades but school.

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What can I say you just gotta just.

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Be honest, you.

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Guys know how you feel about.

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Well not going to school, because I'm like that type of person who loves to talk. That's why I'm here I love to talk. I love the cameras so like when I'm in school. I feel like, I feel like a star. Okay, always raising my hand.

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Always answering.

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The teacher's questions.

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Then, when it came to just being home and stuck, I kind of got a little bit depressed.

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I'm not gonna lie yeah. I just felt.

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Alone I felt like I had no friends, no one was really checking up on me. I was just in my room in my thoughts yeah and that's what tears a lot of.

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Down with depression, I had to fight through it. I got through it.

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Yeah, you definitely did because you know you still, um our church never closed yeah, so that still was our opportunity to get out and not feel so isolated and be around people who love you and care about. You.

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To see you succeed, and I wish that a lot of youth had that.

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What we have you know without church. I wish I pray not even wish. I pray okay, that other you know, young people such as yourself, because none of us are perfect right. Yeah. None of us.

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To make mistakes in life, you know, but as sister henry says, what she.

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You know what she says: she says you gotta make mistakes, yeah.

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If you fall down, you pick yourself back up and you get on the road and you get going and you start all over again. That is her worth of inspiration, not mine.

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Love it because she's really she's not saying that you're gonna fail yeah, because everybody you know, thinks that you know we dream.

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We think that we're gonna have all these big dreams and they all going to come true yeah and then, when we fail and we get disappointed, we don't know how to handle.

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It we gotta push through it.

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And that's why she said if you know some people say: why is she saying this failing? Why she say it's going to fail, because you have to be honest in your life with people yes and make them know that you struggle as a teen that person struggled as a adult that person struggled as an elder.

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If you feel isolated right, it's hard, you know to get back up out of it yeah, but I'm thankful that you did come back out of it because I had the pleasure of being in your video mama. Oh.

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Yeah, you did an amazing role. I.

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Had the pleasure of being in band this video, I know chelsea y'all get a lot of cme because I just did a children's play not too long ago, it's called.

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Finding friends, you know, and so I love engaging and being in the community sort of like yourself and I love to chat. So this is a great platform for me. um What.

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You're looking for right now forward to going back into school now that you're in learning.

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Well for school, I'm just trying to focus on the goal I'm trying to get a scholarship, hopefully because I have very good grades and go to college, because you know when you have immigrant parents, they always want the best in education. For you, please.

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I can never tell my parents, I got a father from jamaica.

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He'd still be telling me you have to do this, you have to do that because you're going to better yourself, yeah.

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It makes you a better person.

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You know sometimes I feel he's annoying when I call him and talk to him, even at my edge he still.

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He's like I hate your mom tell me that you're doing good things. You know yeah.

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Gave your life to the lord and I said pop I'm not quite there yet, but I'm trying it's like I I accumulate. You know to you. um I love this chat with you. This is just a brief chat, because I know that he's brenda's going to sing for us in a little while he's going to give us some acapella from his song mama mama right. Yes, okay!

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So do you want to bust us some acapella? You want to hear something right now give us some right now.

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All right, you guys ready, I didn't hear you. Are you guys ready celeste? Are you ready? I'm.

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Ready, okay, I'm ready for it.

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The conversations I have in the dark I feel closer to you, the conversations I have in the dark. I feel closer to you, loneliness sleepless nights, awful cry, breaking something: breaking inside lonely night sleepless nights awful cry breaking song.

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How could god take you from me how good or how could god take you from me.

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No more pain and suffering only angels and the sweet harmonies when she left so did a part of me.

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When she laughed so little part of me.

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Beautiful, yes- and this is why this young man inspires me so much I had to have him- come on inspiring generations with celeste williams, because you know celeste williams can sing a little bit herself right yeah. I try brandon, I'm not as good as you now. You have another song, yes, that I want to know about.

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How did you know that one I wanted to know what was that about, because I search all my life to have people in my life? That's real.

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And I didn't know: if that's the angle you were coming from, but you're gonna tell us right right now. What is real ones about.

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So real ones is about like there's a lot of fake people in now and there's a lot of people. We claim that our friends, but are the same people who stab us behind the back and won't pick us up when we fall so I'm talking about in real ones. I miss the real ones, the ones who ride tillian the ones who never pretend- and I talk about in the song also another line said the ones who stuck around. When I swear, I lost myself or my heart needed stitches and the pain just ate me up.

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That's talking about like during rona corona when I was at my lowest points, and I had no friends to call like even as a man, some people think a man can't cry and I feel like it would be nice just to have a friend I could cry to or come to when I was down at my lowest, but I had no real ones. Yeah.

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That's why I talk about in the song.

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I I watched the video and I was like brandon- is inspiring other youth to be aware of their friends.

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Aware who you accept in your life mm-hmm be aware where people want to take you and go?

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You know yeah, but being that you're, a leader that is another inspiration, mm-hmm just in general, being a leader because somebody that leads knows how to pick themselves, then that doesn't mean they never get down.

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Because people.

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Think people that lead are always strong and.

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You know, but we know that's not the case. No well.

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Know that even the.

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People get down, and you know they're not failing life, sometimes right yeah, and I thank you so much for bringing that song forward for the youth, because the youth need message like that. In this time.

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Especially in this generation with like these friends that are bringing them down, and also these friends who, like bad influences on them, they know who their real ones are. Yeah.

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And it's tough choices to make, though.

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Do you feel when you get into those situations and you you're, faced with choices of to go to the left or go to the right? Do you take a minute to meditate on it or you just activate by peer pressure.

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You see me personally, no one's perfect and I'm not perfect, even though I go to church and I pray and I have a relationship with god doesn't mean I'm perfect, but like some days I'm like I'm, I feel good. I feel like I'm on the right path, but there sometimes I'll be knocked off my path due to friends peer pressure, but never never. Once have I led towards that pressure, because my mom always warns me about those friends and keeping them away.

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Even my mom knows she doesn't see friends coming around the house, no more, because I'm mostly to myself now focusing on my goals.

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That's great because you're headed towards college, my friend, yes, you know pretty.

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You're becoming a a a man, so a man have to make some tough decisions for his life.

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Have stability? Yes, you know going forward and I appreciate you so much for that. You know.

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Chelsea chelsea, let me tell you we have a lot of good youth here and I like to see you all do well, you know, but coming from me it might seem a stretch, but I'm gonna, let brandon that came to visit us and gave us such beautiful music.

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Give us some words of inspiration and let people know where they can get your music. What platforms you on and things of that nature, all.

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Right so a message to the youth and inspiring the generations. So basically a message I have to you is to listen to your parents. Sometimes you might get annoyed or think they're bothering you, but my mom and my dad. I don't know where I would be without them for their sacrifices. They have made for me coming to this country without papers or having anything and no friends or family, and they made a life.

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My parents are real survivors and also one thing I also have to say to the youth is keep god in your right corner. Let god leave your path, because there'll be a lot of temptations that will knock you off your path. There'll be a lot of people who will tear you down, but you gotta, let god be a light and guide your path and also another message I also have is be careful who your friends are, because friends will really corrupt you and lead you down the wrong path.

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Lead you into stealing leading you into a lot of things, smoking cutting yourself and don't let that happen because when you have god anything is possible and the last message I have is I'm not saying be like me: don't you don't gotta be a singer, you, my path, might not even be a dancer, but do what you want and follow your dreams.

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Yes, thank you.

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For that brandon, thank you. Thank you. I want people to know that you can.

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Reach out to brandon on his social media platform, oh.

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You also have your own record label right, something like that. Something like that. But it's like your own little company right.

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Yeah, I'm independent artist, not science.

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That's a goddess thing: man that means that you're not buying by contract yeah right now, so you could just like flow free and do your own style yeah. For what I heard you like to do. R b is your r b r b singer.

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The guys that came.

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Yeah stevie one town.

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And all those guys.

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Motown, you see he's also he he likes the r b, music, rhythm and blues. If you don't know what r b is my favorite music is what reggae ah he knows me see he's getting to know me we're getting close yeah.

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I remember one time when I first did a music for a church and even chelsea people know every time I do a performance. It's gonna be a reggae performance. There's gonna be bob marley saying they got so much things to say right now, so much trouble in the world. The world is mine.

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You know all I'm tuned there, because yeah.

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Reggae, just like moves your spirit, inspiration.

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Yep exactly but that's what reggae is it's a movement. Rnb also comes out of that because remember barry, salmon mm-hmm.

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If you don't know who barrett simon is he's a record singer, but he sings resume and blues.

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He does all the american covers, and things like that so coming out of jamaica and seeing artists like that, I can see you on that platform. Definitely, do you think about going to jamaica to perform.

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Definitely perform for my people, I'm thinking about kind of generating a type of genre, making a song, hopefully towards reggae, but also keeping that r b flow yeah.

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I'm thinking about experimenting with my music.

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Sister, coke: I want to ask you to come up and just stand behind brandon, so I can let people know who is the woman behind this young man? Oh grand reveal yeah.

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This is uh sister cole um she's, my sister in christ and um the mother of this lovely young man, and I just brought her up on stage here just so. You can see the strength behind his um amazing journey.

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You know and her babies are leaving the the the the house, but they always be back for food, always.

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Nothing like the caribbean food.

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I know I know it was lovely having you here on the show, and I hope that you come back and inspire us here with more music, more life, lessons great and be blessed on your journey. Always, okay, don't let nothing tear you from your focus chelsea.

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I hope that you enjoyed this program today.

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I want to thank you for watching inspiring generations and we'll see you back next time.

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The conversations I have in the dark alpha questions.

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But they just don't fade.

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Mama I miss you.

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No more pain and suffering.

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The conversations.

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No more pain and suffering.

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