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For as long as he can remember, Montre Davis has loved to sing. Growing up, he listened to Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Beatles and Sam Cooke - the father of soul.

The first time he saw a video of Elvis Presley performing, he was mesmerized and said, “I want to do that!”

Though he adored music, he also pursued another passion - cooking.

“I started cooking when I was 10 years old,” Davis says. “My grandmother taught me how. I became a cook, and I thought that if I could make it in the music business, I could buy myself a restaurant and fund it with the music money. If I didn’t make it with the music, I could start a restaurant and fund my music with my restaurant money.”

Fast forward to 2015, when a man named Darius Towns contacted Davis to inform him of an audition opportunity to create a prank video called “Brothers Bring the Hood to the ‘Burbs at Christmas.” In the video, Davis and his friends, dressed in hoodies, knock on doors in the suburbs, and proceed to beautifully belt out Christmas carols.

“The video was all about crushing stereotypes - the whole ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ type of message,” says Davis, a Middletown resident.

Davis says forming a band is not an easy process. Not only do members have to make sure all voices harmonize beautifully, but there is also the mixing of personalities.

When the video scored half a billion views, the guys realized they needed to form a band.

“Everyone has a different attitude and opinion,” Davis says. “Inevitably, you’ve got two guys who want to do something and two guys who don’t, or three who do and one who doesn’t. We just take a vote and it works out.”

Davis, a baritone soul singer, paired with his cousin Shon “China” Lacy, a rhythmic, gritty tenor, along with Ralph “Big Rome” Kimbrough, a vocal powerhouse who sings first tenor, and Ekoe Alexanda. In November of 2018, Elliott “The Kid” Nichols, an energetic and versatile vocalist, joined the group, and in December of 2019 they added Louisville-based beatboxer Raul “Rayul” Lopez.

When choosing a name for their band, the men thought back to all the people who reached out to them following their prank video to say how much they appreciated the message about not judging others. Some even called them heroes for doing their part to crush stereotypes.

“That’s what we wanted to always do - be the bridge that brings people together by way of music, no matter the color of skin or background,” Davis says. “Like a linking bridge but without the ‘g’ in it. We all loved it.”

When determining the type of music the band would create, the men longed to be different.

“We wanted to do music that was not always in our wheelhouse and not always what people would expect from us,” Davis says.

“We sang soul and hip-hop when we first started out, but we were an instant crossover success when people realized that we could do anything.”

The band writes their own songs. In fact, it’s not uncommon for music or lyrics to materialize in their subconscious.

“Sometimes I’ll wake up and write down words that have popped into my head,” Davis says. “I’ll get my voice recorder out and sing.”

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Davis’s bandmates also contribute to the creation of music and lyrics.

In 2016, the band auditioned for NBC’s America’s Got Talent (AGT) and landed in the show’s finals.

“Simon Cowell stood up on AGT when we performed,” Davis says. “We felt love from all around the world.”

Actress Jennifer Lawrence saw the group on AGT and extended an invitation for them to come to New York City to perform at the premiere of her movie “Mother!”. Soon after, Lawrence, a Louisville native, guest hosted “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and invited Linkin’ Bridge to perform on the show.

my mom and flying her through a storm,” album, “Expressions”. Davis’s favorite song on the album is called “Superman” due to its Davis says.

Sadly, his mother didn’t survive, but every personal associations. time he hears that tune, he thinks of her.

“I left the studio crying and while I was As Davis, 44, looks to the future, he hopes driving, I heard the song in my head and to leave a legacy for his wife and children.

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“That was amazing,” Davis says. “She gave us a lot of love in her introduction. She said, ‘Tonight is the night that Louisville takes over Hollywood.’”

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“I want Linkin’ Bridge to be remembered not just as guys who could write and sing songs, but as music legends,” Davis says.

Davis would also like to become financially successful, but not for selfserving reasons. He has all sorts of altruistic plans he’d like to set in motion once he has the finances to do so, such as helping the homeless population.

“I’d like to clean up the streets and buy homes that could be fixed up so people no longer have to sleep outside,” he says.

Davis would also like to open a chain of restaurants that can offer employment opportunities. He envisions opening seven or eight diners with different types of menus including homemade pizza, pasta, burgers, sandwiches, seafood, fish, shrimp and chicken.

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“It’s important that music is heard around the world,” Davis says. “I think without music, our world would be in turmoil.”

For now, however, Davis remains focused on the songs floating around in his head. He says music is important to him for the same reasons as many other people - it serves to soothe, uplift, inspire and heal. That’s why he listens to music when he’s happy, sad, angry or frustrated.

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When the coronavirus made its way into “They started texting me that they had an Kentucky, team members from Hour of idea,” Gahm said. “The next morning we hit Soon, Hour of Need began receiving Need hit the ground running. Beginning hundreds of requests for masks from the ground running.” with just a few individuals, the organization many individuals and organizations such soon grew to include 200 volunteers. as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, St. Gahm began purchasing supplies from JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts, starting with 100% Matthews Fire Department, Louisville Hour of Need’s mission is to create and Metro Police Department, and even cotton, solid-colored fabrics and elastic deliver do-it-yourself face masks for health hospitals based in New York City. straps. Supplies were already limited at the care workers, first responders and essential- store, and two days after her first visit, the to-life public servants, free of charge.

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Hour of Need produced an estimated 18,000 masks by mid-June, having delivered to more than 100 organizations, hospitals, health care facilities, nursing homes, homeless outreach organizations and more, according to the official website.

Gahm says some seamstresses were using the opportunity to make masks and help out the community as a way to cope with the pandemic.

“We were an outreach, checking in on each other’s well being, it was very touching,” she says. “It was really touching to know [the seamstresses’] stories.”

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“It’s grown exponentially - I’m amazed all the time when people say they saw the web site and they think it’s so great,” Venberg says.

Venberg adds that there was a specific production method she used to produce masks promptly.

“I could cut out 50 masks pretty efficiently,” she says. “I got so many masks sewn that way.”

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“People in health care wanted masks that weren’t elastic because they were digging in the back of their head,” Venberg says. “They preferred the ones with the ties on the back.

If they were wearing our masks over the N95 masks, they would protect the N95 with the right sized filter for viruses.”

Levin says being involved with Hour of Need has been a motivating experience.

“To be connected to this human web of positivity, and desire to be connected and to help other people, has been incredibly motivating and incredibly powerful,” Levin says. “It has also helped to normalize the use of masks in this community. That has been the most beautiful and empowering part of it.”

Molly Schroering, a recent graduate of the University of Louisville, was the original logistics volunteer and driver for Hour of Need. She says she never thought the organization would grow to be this big.

“I’m very glad it did,” she says. “I didn’t know we would have a whole web site and be on the news.”

Schroering’s job within the organization is to coordinate volunteer drivers with volunteer seamstresses. She uses a Google spreadsheet to coordinate runs for the day, which includes mask drop-offs and pickups.

In the beginning when she was the only driver, Schroering logged almost 1,000 miles on her car picking up and dropping off masks.

“I think the most empowering part of this is how quickly we got everything together,” she says. “We didn’t have to beg for volunteers. Once we got enough volunteers it started running very smoothly.”

Schroering says another empowering aspect of the project is the appreciation the team has felt from mask recipients.

“People are so thankful - you can see it in their eyes,” she says.

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business restrictions began, that number has raised in two days, and another $20,000 grown to include 382 grants. was given.

APRON Inc., a local 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps local restaurant employees with financial issues due to issues such as illness or injury, is needed now more than ever in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Louisville has been so giving - both corporations and individuals,” Fox says. “We keep emergency backup for floods and fires, but nothing like this. Because of gifts and grants, we’re so lucky to live in Louisville and be part of this community.”

Gary Fox, president of APRON, says the organization was founded after a fundraiser was held for a chef that had fallen on hard times due to a serious accident. As a result, community leaders began considering a charity grant model for those working at independent restaurants and small businesses.

This idea was taken to late chef and restaurateur Dean Corbett, and he wrote a check. In eight years the group has awarded 230 grants totaling approximately $240,000.

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Fox says the typical maximum grant has been $1,500, or about one month’s worth of bills, to help those who have suffered a fire or hospitalization, but now the typical grant is about $500.

“People are giving $5,000, $10,000, $15,000, bigger gifts than we’ve ever gotten, and sweet, wonderful people send $5 individual donations,” he adds. “It’s very heartwarming. We still need ongoing donations, and there are still people out of work, whose unemployment could be running out. We’ll be giving for COVID for quite some time. The need never stops.”

Fox says the Taste of Independents event, which features some of Louisville’s top eateries and is co-organized by APRON leaders, was scheduled for July of this year, but was put on hold due to the pandemic.

“It’s something, a little weight off the shoulders for the month - so many people are out of work in the restaurant business in Kentucky,” says Fox, describing a lawyer Ellen Gill McCarty, a local chef and former whose client donated an anonymous gift of owner of Science Hill Inn in Shelbyville, a $20,000 matching fund. That amount was is battling cancer for the third time, AUGUST 2020

and received some assistance from APRON. “APRON helped me twice, which was wonderful,” she says. “They paid my mortgage and two or three hospital bills. It helped tremendously.”

McCarty’s family ran the Science Hill Inn for 40 years, but when she became ill in 2016, she could no longer handle the demanding duties at the restaurant.

McCarty now handles catering for Crowler Catering and Gill on the Go, and says she’s able to handle her current tasks at her own pace.

“The restaurant business is so crazy,” she says. “With catering, more people are ordering delivery, and I can leave orders in a cooler on the porch. It’s fun too, and keeps me creative. I can say when it’s too much. It’s nice.”

McCarty gives back by volunteering with APRON fundraisers, and she received

Caroline Knop, founder and owner of Simply PR, serves as APRON’s publicist, and also volunteers her time to help local “I was quite honored to receive it,” she says restaurants with their ongoing needs. She of the award. “It’s wonderful how people handles public relations for the group’s come out to help now. I think now more annual fundraisers including the Taste of people know about APRON because of Independents event. the pandemic.”

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Dawn Bianconcini, an APRON board member who works for Heidelberg Distributing Company, agrees.

“We’ve been doing eight years of rehearsal for the past few months,” she says. “It’s slowed down in the last few weeks, but for about eight weeks we had hundreds of applications per day. It’s emotional, going from five to ten applications per month before, because we’re a last-ditch effort. It’s a proud community. Now we are talking to owners and managers and chefs, and they are wanting to take care of everyone. Thank goodness we have the means to help. Every dollar helps, and every volunteer helps.”

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Cox attends Bardstown United Methodist Church, and the church will be collecting socks, gloves and toys for a mission trip Cox recently completed the Juvenile Diabetes to Harlan County in December. A United Methodist church member is from Harlan, Research Foundation (JDRF) gala, and the Jamon Brown Foundation Halloween and asked the church to participate. fundraiser at Glassworks event space.

Cox also organizes community service Cox is the 2018 WLKY Bell Award winner opportunities and mentors participants She collects hats, scarves and gloves for for community service, and she is connected adults at Brown Cancer Center. for Kentucky festival pageants. She is a to one of this year’s winners through the preliminary director in the pageant system pageant system. Brooklyn Roller is a Bell “I have two dads, and both passed away with and for Miss Kentucky.

Award winner for youth service, and a former cancer,” Cox says, adding that she will be Little Miss Kentucky. Roller has helped to collecting desserts for Thanksgiving dinner “I started in pageants at age 40, and I was the organize fundraising efforts for Blessings in a at Wayside Christian Mission. most mature participant in Mrs. Kentucky Backpack, The Dream Factory, Opal’s Dream in my hometown of Bardstown,” she says.

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Cox is also working on an event for Cox is involved in three festival pageants in December for Ardi’s Bears, with book The WLKY Spirit of Louisville Foundation donations to be distributed to a designated Hillview, Bullitt County and the Buttermilk began honoring local volunteers in 1978. elementary school in the Jefferson County Days Festival, which lead directly to Deanna “DeDe” Cox has boundless energy.

In addition to working full time as a paralegal at a personal injury law firm, she organizes charity events and pageants, and she is also a fiction romance writer, having published two books.

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She emphasizes that the key to success in any pageant is the interview.

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Cox has also published two romance novels, with a third in the works. Her oldest son Bo, a pediatric nursing student, is the cover model.

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A screenwriter recently contacted her about adapting her work into a screenplay, and it was sent to three producers.

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“She’s a little ball of service - a ball of energy,” Chandler says of Cox. Chandler describes her book as being for children and families, as “a platform for events with local resources, to raise money, get people together, and spread the word to families looking to adopt dogs.”

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“I was worried it wouldn’t be accepted, because it was about pit bulls,” Chandler says.

The book was released in July.

Cox is also an animal lover. She has two rescue bulldogs, one Victorian and one English, from Indiana Bulldog Rescue.

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I decided to write a book as a teaching point Cox says the unusual spelling of the name for parents. I’ve researched, and there’s a large “DeDe” stems from a responsibility she community, mostly families.” often undertakes among friends.

A friend helped Chandler with the book’s illustrations. She learned that Cox had published a book, and Cox’s publisher loved Chandler’s idea.

“It’s ‘DeDe’ like designated driver,” she says. “I’m always the designated driver, because I don’t drink or smoke or use drugs. I never have.”

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According to Stringer, there are participants in these programs who now have a voice in shaping the future treatment of people with disabilities.

Stringer’s store currently employs seven disabled workers, and she says they love what they do.

“One of my employees has gone to Washington, D.C., to advocate and speak for a group called Y.E.S. [Young Empowered Self-Advocates],” she says.

Many of these employees were working at the location when Stringer took over several years ago, but at that time they were not often given opportunities to take on certain tasks and learn new skills. Now, they can be found successfully running cash registers, delivering food, refilling beverages, preparing food and engaging with guests.

“The guests that frequent our location are very happy that we have many great people with disabilities that are not only employed, but have a work environment that treats them as equals,” Stringer says.

Tyler Levy has been with McAllister’s for more than five years. Last year he went to Washington, D.C., to speak at the National Conference on Independent Living. Levy tears up with pride when speaking of Y.E.S., and of going into Jefferson County high schools to talk to students with disabilities.

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Levy has spoken publicly in Frankfort and believes disability advocacy is the most important thing he can do.

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“A person with a disability - that’s who I am,” he says. “But I don’t let it define me. I just want to make this a better place for persons with disabilities.”

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