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With Bennie J. Smith
What’s your deliration process for select-
What has been one of the highlights if your music
CD? I usually navigate the music landscape
most exciting highlights was getting the opportu-
ing what track will make the cut for your
to either see what everyone, on the average, is listening to in various genres and then I try to come up with what message I want
to convey at the time and just go with my
gut instinct. It’s not a routine and primari-
ly spontaneous. But it has to feel good and comfortable within my spirit.
career? There have been many. But probably the nity to open up for many National Recording Artists at concerts. I was fortunate to recently open for the legendary MORRIS DAY & THE TIME last summer in Louisville, KY and KEITH WASHINGTON during my Texas performance debut back in November 2021. Earlier in my career, I was fortunate enough to share the stage with MIDNIGHT STAR and S.O.S. BAND in my hometown in Lexington, KY in front of
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