R2RB Podcast - Indie Artists and Entrepreneurs
Where Indie Artists and Entrepreneurs share their journeys.
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R2RB Podcast - Indie Artists and Entrepreneurs
DJ Sister Love's Resilience: A Story of Music, Love, and Perseverance
Get ready to embark on a captivating journey through the life and career of DJ Sister Love - a dynamic soul who weaves her love for music and people into a vibrant life tapestry. She unfolds her journey from her early days spinning vinyl records to embracing modern platforms like MixCloud. With stories of critiquing her own sets, learning from global DJs, and how her passion for DJing was reignited, this episode is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
Our in-depth dialogue delves into the therapeutic power of music, particularly during challenging times like the COVID-19 pandemic. DJ Sister Love shares how she returned to the turntables after a hiatus to raise her daughter and how music served as a healing balm during her battle with the virus. We cast the spotlight on her deep family connections, her bond with her niece and nephews, and her supportive church community. Listen in as she reflects on her musical journey, her brand's evolution, and her ultimate ambition to spread joy through her music.
Brace yourself for an inspiring tale of DJ Sister Love's path to success, from her brother teaching her the craft, to her career as a respiratory therapist, and how family and mentors have shaped her journey. Discover the possibility of a podcast, the concept of broadcasting on real to real and how DJ Sister Love's story is a testament to growth, inspiration and the power of perseverance. Don't miss out on this tale of love, music, and infectious spirit that is sure to light up your day.
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Thank you, dj Sister Love, for taking the time to sit down with me for the R2RB podcast series. Bernie is a longtime DJ from New York and my partner, ron Pimble, and I were introduced to Bernie by her nephew, germaine, and we are very grateful for the introduction. And, bernie, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm well. Thank you for asking, Deb.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're welcome, All right. So to get us started, I usually like to ask two questions. If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Speaker 2:Oh wow, you got me on guard there, I think France.
Speaker 1:I like it. Yes, any particular reason.
Speaker 2:It's a place where people are so different than here, where we look at color, sexuality and all of those horrible things, and I've heard that France does not, and so I have that thought process and that vibe and that feeling. I like it.
Speaker 1:Absolutely like it. What's your favorite app on your phone and why MixCloud?
Speaker 2:I can criticize my own sets and I can also listen to a bunch of other DJs and see what's going on out in the world.
Speaker 1:That's great, yeah, I mean, we can do everything on our phones these days.
Speaker 2:Everything.
Speaker 1:It's amazing. Yep, absolutely All right. So who is DJ? Sister love before becoming a DJ.
Speaker 2:Wow, dj sister love. Dj sister love was DJ love before becoming DJ sister love, and before that I am a mother, I am a grandmother Well, I guess before becoming DJ sister love. Yeah, I'm a mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister. I'm not very family oriented, also a reverend in the church, and I love God and I have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations in life and I had retired, so I thought, in 2000. I was like that's enough, it's tired of crates, tired of all the vinyl, feeling like DJs weren't DJs anymore. And then I got COVID and God brought me back to music.
Speaker 1:Thank God, thank you, thank you, absolutely. We are so appreciative to have you on R2RB. Absolutely. And where did you get your appreciation of music? Where did that come from?
Speaker 2:Oh, my family. You know music was always a part of my life. You know people say when did you start DJing? I said when I got a record player, when I was probably about two or three years old, the needle was in the top or whatever was in the top, and you put it down. You look like you remember. You know I put it down and it played the music. That was the best. That was the best. As a young person growing up, there was always music around, from jazz to R&B, to any and all types of music. And then I started playing the flute when I was about 10 years old. Wow, yeah, so I was also a musician. So I've always had this ear. And when I joined the church I was like I've always wanted to sing, so I also sing in the choir. Wow.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, are there other family members that play an instrument, or is that something you picked up on your own?
Speaker 2:You know, Deb, it's funny because the genes are something else, right, Because they did not grow up with my biological father but my biological father's family. They are the more religious and they are. We attended a funeral for a little cousin and as we stood around in grave, as they were loaning the casket, the family broke out into song and I was like they were singing a gospel song. I mean the harmony, and I was like, wow. So my sisters with my mother always say to me, oh, you got that from your father's side, so I guess my musicality came from them. Also, when I was young in Mount Vernon they would have summer band camp. I was exposed to a lot of instruments, you know, and I loved woodwood instruments. Wow, yeah, I missed that.
Speaker 1:So you don't play anymore, or do you just pick it up on occasion, or I have one overcast from us, Deb.
Speaker 2:I pick it up every once in a while, but you know anything we do takes practice anything, and so it's like yeah, I remember how to play, but I'm nowhere near like I used to be. I could teach someone. I'm hoping one day, maybe my grandson or my one of my great-grandsons will say they want to play and I'll give it to them and I'll pay for the lessons.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Were you self-taught or did you have lessons for the flu in your? Oh no.
Speaker 2:I learned in school, nice, and then my parents sent me to a music school. Oh well, yeah, but I didn't go to Deb. I was too busy wanting to hang out with my friends. I probably could have been a worldwide musician, who knows?
Speaker 1:Right. But God had other plans for you because besides right, Absolutely so besides the music career, you also had a career in I'm a respiratory therapist.
Speaker 2:I'm a retired respiratory therapist.
Speaker 1:And how long were you in that field for?
Speaker 2:30 odd years, wow, yes, I was so grateful to be in that field I am. My mother died of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was in my early 30s and I think like two years after she passed two to three years, god sent me back to school. I couldn't believe it to be a respiratory therapist. How does that happen? Right, I took care of a lot of people who have Lou Gehrig's and I just was blessed to do home care for 14 years, and then I was in the critical care hospital and I served as sometimes I would turn my head around and I served as a non-training chaplain, Right, and I was in the hospital but I always prayed that people took care of my mother the way I took care of others, and if I caught somebody mistreating patients in the medical field, I couldn't speak to them any longer.
Speaker 1:No, absolutely no, no, no. And so did you. Your love of your music and your appreciation for music did that help you balance out your day from being a respiratory Therapist.
Speaker 2:It was actually Deb. It's so funny because at one point it was like my second or third job, oh wow. So I had contract, I wrote up my own contract and I did weddings, private parties, and so I did it and I got paid and so it was a third job. I love doing it. Just the passion is a passion and a drive.
Speaker 1:And I know you have a drive for it all, and so one of the things I was asking you, going to ask you, is being a DJ, for you is more than just spinning records. What does it mean to you?
Speaker 2:You know, deb, that's I love your questions, I am. I truly love to bring joy and so when I play, I love to watch people, I love to watch their faces, I love to watch their body movements and you know, and I get so excited I was known as that girl going to dance. You know, as a DJ, I still do. A friend of mine caught me when I played recently in a club and I literally the song hit me and I'm jumping up and down and he put it on Instagram and I'm on fire and I'm like you know, I just love To play for the people. The money is nice. I'm not in house music and not really making it, although people believe that a lot of these things that I'm doing are free.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:You know, but maybe one day Wow.
Speaker 1:The passion that you have is just part of your soul. I believe.
Speaker 2:It really is. It really is. And as well as playing, I love to dance and my family, my family, they love music. You know, while I was in Atlanta I was telling you I was in Atlanta I got to spend time with one of my nieces, her mother, my sister was there, visiting at the same time two of her sons, and I got to spend time with them, and then their babies and one wife and the babies and the babies were so amazed by me. You know, I was just dancing. There was a house music event down there. They met me there. That's when we just met up. And the babies I mean to see this little baby, the smallest one, just turned a year while it was down there and every time he saw me now he would start bouncing and you know that, just that pure love, you know. But I don't know when I started loving music. You know, because our babies they love music. You know, they just kind of creeps in and just kind of snags you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a connection.
Speaker 2:You know, music is a language where we don't have to all know the same language, but we know that there is a movement, a passion, and is connecting. Exactly, it really heals the soul. It heals the spirit. I tell people when I'm out please don't come. I'm leaving everything on the floor. I don't want to talk about any world problems. Revan Bernie is it does not want to be ministering to people. At that moment I am truly trying to leave my burdens, just like when I go in church. Exactly, I do play gospel house as well, and my pastor is one of my greatest supporters. I have a bunch of people in the church who really support me, and so that's music. Yeah, I have a sure.
Speaker 1:It's a universal language and feeling. If you want to be happy, you crank up one song. You want to cry and get it all out, you play another song. You just want to dance.
Speaker 2:You know it's so funny, deb, because I have a shirt that says let me turn that light on for you. It says music is what feelings sound like.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly. Yeah, I don't play an instrument, I can't sing, but I certainly can feel the music and dance to it.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:That's it so actually. So how did you get started with the DJing? It's so funny.
Speaker 2:While I was in Atlanta I saw one of my best friends. For over 40 years We've been friends and she, we lived together at one point and when she moved in she bought these two turntables and a mixer. I had started before and I can't imagine what I did. I think I had two turntables rigged it up. I don't know what I did when I moved in with this equipment. I kind of took over. I kind of took over so much. My daughter was young, of course, at the time. She thought the equipment in her memory was mine. Yes, In her, in her mind, it was mine and I said no, it was actually Adrienne's. I shout out to Adrienne Berry Thank you, I'm the DJ, and now I'm trying to help her. Come along, she has equipment now.
Speaker 1:It's different now, though. You've gone from two turntables and the controller and oh my God, and now you're digital.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:What was that transition like for you? Because I've spoken to other DJs, as you know, that have come from where you were into the digital age. So what was that?
Speaker 2:like. So, deb, as you know, I started with 45s. I had a case that where I stacked my 45s I'm saying in the spindle and the quarter on a nickel, whatever worked on the arm and then DJing and making sure you had a supply of needles and all the stuff to make sure your records were clean. So when they started with the CDs, I immediately said those are not DJs, those were not DJs, and all the sounds that you heard were from us. Right, you know, I'm saying if there was an echo, we created that echo. There was a sound that I discovered for me, if I got the two records to play at the exact same pitch and speed, that it would make a sound like, and I called it my airplane sound. Now it's on the mixer and it's called a flanger and I said I should have patented that Right. And so the only reason I bought a controller was because a friend that I worked with was in the house music and so we would hang out, he would have parties in the park and then he would have parties in his house, and so he knew that I had DJed previously and he was like, oh, are we at his house at a party? And he says you're up next. And I said, up next, what? Yes, I don't know how to use that stuff computers and you know I can use a computer, I'm technologically savvy. So he was like, oh no, you just drag and drop. That's what you do, drag and drop. And I was like I didn't even know what music was out. I just was dancing and I did that, deb, and people started coming in. We were burning, we didn't know you, dj, and I was like, oh OK, but it reignited the DJ bug in me, passion. So I bought a small controller and then I found, hey, I got more effects. I don't have to make the effects, I've got effects. So I was trying to learn all of that stuff. And when COVID hit and I started out just playing on Facebook for fun. And then people came along and were like, no, we want you to play with our team, we want you to play over here digitally. And I started doing that, and so my perfectionist nature had me go out and buy a Denon Prime 4. And so now I'm playing and I was like wait a minute. So everything that I did by ear, it's called beat matching. Now, I didn't have a name for it. Now it's called beat matching, and I had to learn. I was like you know how to do this, it's just now digital. And so I began to realize it's still the same thing making the beats match and putting it all together.
Speaker 2:And then I have a bunch of DJ friends who show me different things. You know like, just recently a friend of mine showed me how to do this echo thing and I'm like loving it and so I love it. And then I have some female DJs who said you need CDJs. You're not going to go into a club and they're not going to let you bring your controller. Your controller is beautiful, but that's not what you're going to find in the industry. And so now I've become very. I've become very do you have CDJs if I come to play? So all I need to go out with is my USB. Crazy, I love it.
Speaker 1:It's crazy, right? I mean you've gone from your crates of vinyl all the way to. I've got everything I need right here, everything.
Speaker 2:And the amount of music.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, at your fingertips.
Speaker 2:People do not understand the work that DJs put in. As a DJ before with vinyl, like rock and soul, and I can't remember the other stories it was on West 4th Street. There were stories all over and you would go in and you would stand there for hours and you were either listening or you were either listening or you were asking for, or you were exactly searching. And now it's like I have some great people, you know, I hear the music, you know. Then you're going on such platforms such as Track Source and you sit there for hours and you're looking up at different genres and the amount of music that you have is incredible.
Speaker 1:It is definitely incredible. Do you miss? Do you miss the vinyl?
Speaker 2:Sometimes, yeah. Yeah, I still have it. Yeah, do you have your collection? I'm like where am I going to do with it? You know, I need more space now in my music room and to make it neater and nicer. And so, yes, I do, I still have my turntables. Wow, I have my Original equipment. Yeah, I'm like you're telling me you can connect your turntables to your digitally. I'm like that's crazy. I haven't gone there yet.
Speaker 1:Okay, Well, you might have to try that out. And talking about transitions now with AI, chat, AI and everything you know artificial intelligence Do you have a thought on how that's going to affect the industry or not?
Speaker 2:You know, you can have artificial intelligence all you want, but if you don't have the passion and the soul, as we've been talking about, to bring forth the music, you don't have music.
Speaker 1:I totally agree and I think that's the best description I've heard so far because, again, it's just a part of who you are, it's a part of who Ron is and Ron Kay. It's in their soul, it's in your DNA, it's everything that you are comes out through your music, and so I feel like you just said, if you don't have the soul in the AI, it's not music.
Speaker 2:It's not music. It's just a bunch of noise being put down for you to listen to. I don't think that they can ever kill or get rid of DJs.
Speaker 1:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:We've had DJs before, you know, on the radio stations. Exactly, we had DJs that were famous for being on the radio station. There's a song. A friend of mine sent me this and I was loving it. So sometimes at the end of my set I'll play it there. I go there, I go there, I go there and I'm like, and people are going, where did you get that? And I'm like you know that's how far back you know we. You know, to be honest, you know it was emerging of that platform. You know, at first it was. You had the Caucasian radio station and the black radio station and then all of a sudden it merged and it was like one sound. You know, because I did, I loved Karen Carpenter when she died, who broke my heart. I love all of that. I love all of that and I love sometimes that people will look I have a pink Floyd house record and people are like, where did you get that? And I'm like I just love it, I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that again it comes from who you are and what you feel and how the music makes you feel. So come bringing it all together. Bernie, you took a break from DJing to raise your daughter. You had said earlier what got you back into DJing.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know Deb. You know, I know the last time I got back into, but before that I don't know. You know, like I always needed music and then all of a sudden I do know, forgive me, it was my daughter's baby's father and he knew I was a DJ and he gave me two turntables and a battery operated mixer. I was like, does this man know what he just did? Shout out to Van Johnson and it, just like I said each time, it just sets off a bug Sparks.
Speaker 1:It's the spark, yes, it's that inner spark that this littlest thing will bring you back, in which I'm very grateful that you are back into DJing. Thank you, absolutely, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you.
Speaker 1:So you need you Well, thank you. Thank you, yes, and so did you take two breaks from DJing and now you're retired and you're doing the DJing yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, I did. I took two breaks. So I started in the late 70s and then I took a break and raised my daughter and then it was in the 90s. So in the 80s I had music in the house, but in the 90s was when I really, you know, started putting everything into the DJing. So from the 90s to early 2000s was when I said enough, right.
Speaker 1:Yep, there you go. Absolutely so, if I can touch on just a little bit. And unfortunately everyone has been affected by COVID, the pandemic, in one shape or form. It's taken a toll on everybody a little bit or a lot and in your case could you share with everybody kind of how music again saved you?
Speaker 2:Absolutely, deb. So in March either 26 or 27th of 2020, I woke up and I had the fever and I told myself you're not sick, you're just scared, Because we were Thank you for giving me this platform. I saw people dying rapid succession. I saw people you know not have loved ones by their side. We looked, I felt I actually wrote a poem, both COVID, for school.
Speaker 2:I was in seminary and I felt like I was in a war zone, although I've never been in a war. And you know, when I got sick, I was home for seven days monitoring myself and then I knew I had suffered. It was felt like I was suffocating two nights in a row and I awakened in the bed and I saw my oxygen dropping, call the ambulance and ended up in a hospital 100% oxygen, I believe. For another eight days. I came home on oxygen, the nasal cannula in the nose and I could only get around my house with a rollator that someone loaned me. Wow, and it's funny, because I did not know if I was going to die while I was in the hospital.
Speaker 2:But my prayer was if it's my time, thank you. Thank you for all the things that I've lived to do, and I was praying for everybody else. I was praying for those taking care of me, the world at large. You know, my family could not see me. I'd send them videos and they'd say get off the video. But I had one cousin who would say let the music play. Cousin, let the music play.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:I came home and I'm on this rollator and I put on some music and I stand up and I am now 160 pounds and I'm holding on to this rollator and the oxygen is in my nose and I'm holding on to the rollator and I got the phone and I'm sending a video saying look, cousin, I'm letting the music play. Wow, you know. And I was struggling, trying to get out of seminary. I don't remember anything I learned for the two years that I was in there. I struggled to get out and that's why, when I was here depression, anxiety, ptsd and God said go play that little.
Speaker 2:God always has the greatest plan of purpose, right that I just bought that thing just to play around with. Wow, that's what I thought. And God said go in there and play that thing, that controller that I had you buy, right? And so I did. And it began to bring me joy and it started connecting me, because we were isolated, absolutely, you know, and Facebook at that time wasn't really bothering us, right, you know. So people would come on and I was just having fun and bringing joy. You know, people would come in, you know, in the chat we'd be talking and dancing, and so I cannot believe that I did not expect to retire. It was suggested by the visiting nurse at my young age. That's right.
Speaker 2:That's right, Okay, that if I did not have to, not to go back to the hospital because COVID would come back. And then a social worker said the same thing to me and I was like God, is that you talking? And, Deb, I've had some times when I've been down to as low as $40. And I said, okay, God, what do you want me to do? Where am I going? How does this work? And breakthroughs Breakthroughs, and you know financially. And music. You know this music and people like you and Ron come along and play on other platforms and I'm just amazed.
Speaker 1:Well, we are amazed with you because of your passion and, you know, your love of God. That has, you know, brought you to where you are now DJing and your health is. Are you all back to 100%, feeling good?
Speaker 2:Not really.
Speaker 1:No, you're still.
Speaker 2:I tell people that the title of my story is smiling faces. Sometimes they don't tell the truth. There you go. Thanks, music right, everything's music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but God gave you this gift of the music and you know your ability to be such an awesome DJ and to be able to have that profession, even though it's a part of you, it's really not a profession to you, it's just who you are to bring you forward to and out of COVID.
Speaker 1:I believe is a miracle. And and you are, you know, here, telling, telling telling your story, your journey, which I hope that other people and that's what you know I like to have a takeaway is that they hear you and you have to kind of keep pushing. If you believe in God, then you need to listen to your God because he will, he will set you on your path Right, and and so we have gone through the last three years now of this awful pandemic which has affected, as I said, everybody in different ways, and I and I want people to understand that you need to find something that you can get yourself through, whatever that downside of it all is, be it the music or a passion for sewing, or a passion I love doing the podcasting and talking to everybody like this. You have to push yourself because otherwise, you know, you just let yourself get stuck in that corner and not a great place to be. So thank you. Thank you, it is not yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm so grateful, I'm humbled and I'm honored. I'm humbled and honored every time I wake up, every time I take a breath, every time I take a step, every time I get in front before I play, I pray and I ask God to use me to bring joy to the world, you know, because there's somebody out there, a lot of somebody, who aren't talking about what they're feeling, right, and they can't express it. And then they'll hear a song and it'll, it'll, it'll bring them, break them down to tears, absolutely Out for joy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, um yeah, it's like crank up the music. I mean I, I, I that's what I do, um, you know, or, or I'll go and look up you know different thing, different lyrics and stuff, and find a song and crank that one up.
Speaker 2:That's right, you know, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so, although you know, what's funny is because I used to play R and V, clean hip hop, you know, and it's funny because I play a little house. I don't know, I was intimidated by house.
Speaker 2:Oh really yes, but when I came back in COVID, god brought me back to house, and sometimes I miss my R and B. So sometimes I get up there and I say, okay, I'm going to play, I'm going to do R and B. It's going to be a little different today, you know. And so, um, I like people to know. Um, please don't put me in a box. No, and I talk to people in a minute in a heartbeat. Um, please don't put my God in a box. Yeah, and don't put me in a box. There you go, absolutely, because God knows exactly who he called.
Speaker 1:Yep and.
Speaker 2:I'm going to wrap up with all of my defects and shortcomings. God knows who God calls Absolutely, absolutely. The music is about God, my singing. I was so happy to sing five days. It was a lot. It was a lot, a lot of learning words, a lot of and just thanking God, yeah for where I am.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm grateful you are where you are, bernie. Dj Sister Love. It was at DJ Love first, and then you changed it to the DJ Sister Love. Why?
Speaker 2:When I started on a digital platform, I was with a group called the Seven right and this guy, john, taught me everything. I know I'm crazy when it comes to. That's another thing. People don't realize that I even got kicked off of YouTube. I don't know how long they're kicking me off for because I was taking videos and just using the backgrounds.
Speaker 2:I love beautiful backgrounds and so what happened was when you put in DJ Love, you couldn't find me, and so during the meeting they said do you mind? We've been talking if we change your name to DJ Sister Love? But so I must go back. Forgive me, I was DJ Love and Company and Company. Okay, company was my brother. My brother, jamie, was my company. He carried the crates he set up. I couldn't let him play because he would play some crazy stuff, but he knew he was better than me, he knew who was singing, he knew the producers, he knew the year, and so it was hard for me to let go of. I had let go of the company, but it was hard for me to let go of DJ Love because I associated it with my brother and I sat a moment when they asked and I prayed and my brother's spirit said I like it, dj Sister Love.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and DJ Sister Love has a message.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the message is Love, and so that's why my brand is Love is the Message. That's why my entire thing is DJ Sister. Love of Love is the Message. And that happens to be one of my third oldest sister's favorite song and I would play that on vinyl and I was like, what is my brand? What is my brand? And my sister would come down I lived in the Bronx and she loved the way I play that song and I would mix it up and I would do all that Even till today. As a matter of fact, one of her best friends became very into the church but a different type of church where she doesn't listen to music or anything and if I'm playing and she hears that first beat of Love is the Message, boom, she's gone. It was very fitting.
Speaker 1:Love is the Message. Oh my gosh, wow. So what's next for DJ Sister Love?
Speaker 2:That is a great question, deb. I am just following the path that God has before me. Sometimes I say okay, it's enough, and I'm like, no, it's not, it's not enough. You know, I am getting my first paid gig in this house music thing and next Saturday, as a matter of fact, and leaving from one place, going to another second place to play, and I just want to live, I want to breathe, I want to dance, I want to play. Good, good Beware, I don't want to. You know some people, deb. I watch some people and I try to tell this community like I thought this house community was a place of love. And then I see DJs backbiting and it hurts me and I'm like if Jesus fed all the people would have loaf of bread. There's enough out here for all of us, absolutely. So I'm not out here trying to. Oh, I gotta be the next Louis Vega, joe Clousel. You know that's not my ambition. You know, if that happens, that's because God called me to it.
Speaker 2:There were people on all levels that love music Absolutely, saying if I could play a kids party, yeah, I love to watch my great grandchildren, you know, I love to watch them dance and bounce around. I love to watch them come into room when I'm playing. They can do that and you know I'm saying to start putting hearts and emojis in because they're technologically more savvy than we are To play in some R&B. I did an old school. Of course YouTube took that down. I did 60s and 70s. I'm still learning because I lost a lot of music in these external hard jobs. I didn't know you're not supposed to use them just storm, but playing for older people, playing for seniors, people who are sitting there and think that life has ended until you put on some music.
Speaker 1:And it sparks all the memories.
Speaker 2:And it brings back all the memories.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Or even new memories. I was at a venue and I watched a woman, 93 years old Wow, and I was like that's what I'm talking about Exactly. You know, that's what music does.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. It is again a universal language for everybody, no matter where you're from, who you are, it is universal.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter age, no, it's new age music. It's a little rough, you know. The times are rough and these young people want to have a voice. I just wish their voice was a little more respectful, a little, you know. So I try to monitor what the children around me watch, so to watch the babies, those young babies, oh, my gosh yeah. House music, and then it didn't even care what it was.
Speaker 1:No, they just want to move.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if they don't know, go, go, go we got it. We got it. You know what that is already? Deb Right One year ago. Go, go, go. That's one of my favorite things when I'm playing. I say let's go, let's go. Yeah, I get really into it. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That's a full heart, absolutely. So how can people get in contact with you?
Speaker 2:You can easily contact me 914. Let me remember the number Deb, my friend last sent me. I think it's 5536229. Ok, 1-4-5-5-3-6229. I hope I got it right. Last, 149, b-l-e-s-s-e-d numbers 149 at Verizonnet. Come on and find me on MixCloud, dj Sister Love. Find me on Facebook, dj Sister Love. I'm sorry, bernie, grateful, but I also have the group DJ Sister Love. Then I have. You are always in there. What is it? Dj Sister Love's house? Yeah, I'm easy to find. I am Bernie Grateful, g-r-a-t-e-f-u-l. If you're looking for me on Facebook, friend me. I monitor everything and I also have a group I'm trying to see if I continue with it called Team Chosen.
Speaker 1:That is a great lineup for you and Bernie. I am grateful for you. I appreciate you taking the time to sit down with me and sharing your journey, because I think it's an awesome journey.
Speaker 2:You are an incredible person, deb. Thank you. I so appreciate you and Ron. From the first conversation that we had, we connected. It just continues to grow and I'm like you say what's next? I'm like where are we going?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're real to real broadcasting going and I'm here for the ride and you know that I do, and I look forward to growing.
Speaker 1:Yes, we appreciate that we are looking forward for you to grow with us and in the last two weeks things have started to spark for R2RB real to real broadcasting. So, yeah, it was bound to happen and we're looking forward to sharing with you and all the other family members that we have with R2RB. So stay tuned.
Speaker 2:I'm excited. Thank you so much, deb. Thank you, bernie, I am so grateful for you and Ron, I'm grateful for my nephew. I didn't know, this is one of my quietest nephews and he's in his 50s, so my nephew's not babies. But when he sent me the text and said, oh, jaylin's uncle Right Is a DJ and he's got this station or something, and then you know, let's send him my information. So, as you know, ron said when he got that message he and I were feeling the same about each other. Yeah, everybody's a DJ, everybody got a station, everybody.
Speaker 1:That's a true fact.
Speaker 2:Yes, and it's like and now you know the bond is made, it's sealed Respect, there's nowhere for us to go but up, absolutely. Who knows, maybe I won't be playing outside, maybe I'll just be playing on real to real broadcasting.
Speaker 1:There, you go.
Speaker 2:Who knows? That's right. You know we talked about a podcast. Who knows? I have to learn from you. You're a great interviewer, Thank you.
Speaker 1:No, no, thank you, yep, this will be on the R2RB podcast on real to real broadcasting. Yes, ma'am Bernie, again Thank you so much and I look forward to doing another interview on follow-up to see where we are in six months.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:All right, thank you.
