He was a founding
member of the world-famous pop
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R and B group Atlantic Starr.
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She traveled the world
as a print and runway model
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for the Ford
Modeling Agency in New York.
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Stay tuned to meet them and
hear their incredible story.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis and
you're watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guests today are
David and Marian Lewis:
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singers, composers, and
a loving couple in ministry
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sharing Jesus. Welcome to
Urban Report David and Marian.
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Hi Yvonne... how're
you doing? Hi... yeah!
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I'm so glad you guys are here.
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It's so wonderful that you've
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taken the time
out to be with us.
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Thank you. Thank you for
having us. Absolutely, Yvonne.
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So you guys have
such a rich history.
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And some of our viewers might
know you because you've been on
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3ABN before but you've never
been on Dare to Dream before.
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So I'm really glad to
have you on Urban Report
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to tell your story. Our
viewers love a great testimony.
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So give us some
of your background...
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tell us your testimony.
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Well, I was raised
in a Christian home -
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a God-fearing
home - and I can't...
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I don't know
when... How can I say it?
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It was... I always in my life...
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being raised in the
church all I knew was church.
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My mom was a single
mom. She raised us...
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My dad died when
I was 3 years old,
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and she had to
raise 6 kids by herself.
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But very strong woman.
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And a little while after that,
Yvonne, my grandmother came
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to help out. And she
was a great inspiration
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in molding and fostering us
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as far as the
things of God are concerned
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and while my
mom was out working.
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And then I was introduced
to music in the home as well
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because there was
always singing in our home.
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You know... during
devotion and prayer
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and so forth. And so that's
where I got my introduction.
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But I started singing
in church at the age of 7.
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I sang a duet with my
brother called Whisper a Prayer
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and the church liked it so much
that they made us do it over
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twice... they
made us sing it twice.
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And from that point, you know, I
started singing in the churches
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in the New York
and tri-state area.
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And from that point I did a show
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called the Ted
Mack's Amateur Hour.
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Oh yeah, I remember
that. In the CBS studio.
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And after I did that there
was a write-up in the paper
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about me. And a
sweet lady - Jewish lady -
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saw that article and
she called my mom and said
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"I saw your son in the paper
and I would like to give him
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piano lessons for free. "
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So that started my
classical piano training
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or my formal music training.
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And then after that...
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Well how old were
you at that point, David?
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When I started playing
piano I was 9 years old
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and I took piano
lessons for about four years.
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And you know, some friends...
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my brother and some friends...
we wanted to start a group.
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So what we did is
we put together a band.
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And, you know, I didn't want
to take classical piano any more
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because I was moving into that
pop music or that R and B music
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vein. I was being
influenced by that.
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So we played in the
group from junior high
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all through high school.
And then after high school
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in '76 I left to board a plane
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headed to L.A. and
played with my brothers
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who were already out there
because they left in the winter
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of '75. But in the summer
of '76 I went out to join them.
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And we played in the
L.A. area for about a year.
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And at the same time
we were making a demo.
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And we shopped the demo...
I'm sorry. That's OK, no no no.
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So where were you in
terms of God at this point?
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By this point you're in
your teens. You're heavily into
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the kind of R and B feel, right?
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Where was your
spiritual life at this point?
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Well as I said, being
raised in a Christian home
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I always knew about God,
but there was that influence
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outside of the home
where you were always hearing
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music that you
didn't hear in your home.
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I was hearing songs
from The Temptations,
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The Supremes, Jackson Five,
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Sly and the Family
Stone, The Beatles.
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That influence was out there
and you can't really get away
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from the influence
outside of the home, so
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although I knew about God
that music was also influencing
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my life as well. And you know,
not having a relationship with
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Christ growing up in the home
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and having that be a part
of your tradition and culture
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was one thing, but having
a relationship with Christ
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came later on in my life.
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So again I was influenced
by that music and wanted to
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actually get into that.
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OK, so when you
went out to California
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and you started really
like "gigging" as they as in the
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music business - like really
working and doing all these
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different sets with
your group. Right? Right.
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Absolutely. So what
happened after that?
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Well, when I got to
California the group was playing
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in clubs all over the L.A. area
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and all over the
place... Santa Ana, Anaheim,
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and different places.
And what we'd have to do is
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sometimes we would go...
We played 3 sets at one club
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and then we'd pack up the
equipment and play 2 or 3 sets
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at another club. And
that went on for about a year.
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But at the same time
we were producing a demo
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for the record companies to
hear so that after we finished
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the demo we would be
able to start shopping a deal.
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Because that was the
reason why we were out there:
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to try and see if we
could secure a record deal.
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Right. For those viewers
that don't know, shopping a deal
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means you're trying to...
you're taking your demo around
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to get a recording contract.
That's the bottom line. Right.
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Right... absolutely.
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And so after we
finished our demo
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we shopped it to a
couple of record companies.
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ABC... I think my manager called
ABC and they were out to lunch
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so he called A and M Records.
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And they set up
an audition for us.
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Well before they set up
an audition we were playing
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out at UCLA and the A and R
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representative from A
and M came out to see us.
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And then he set up an
audition with Herb Alpert
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who was the CEO
of A and M Records.
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And we did the audition
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and I could kind of see
Herb Alpert in the back,
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you know, kind of
bobbing his head a little bit.
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We could all see that
he kind of liked the group.
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And after the audition
was finished we all went back,
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packed up the equipment,
went back into the van
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and kind of waited for
some kind of confirmation
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or word of what was
going to happen next.
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And the A and R person
who set up the audition
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came out and said: "Welcome
to the world of making records.
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Herb Alpert wants
to sign you guys. "
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Wow! And what was the
response when you found out that
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Herb Alpert wanted to sign you?
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Everybody was elated.
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You know, everybody was
very, very, very excited
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about it and we just felt
like this was a dream come true.
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This is what we had
worked for all these years.
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For many years we
dreamed to be recording artists
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and now it had become a reality.
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Isn't it interesting,
David, how you can be targeting
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and focusing all your
efforts toward one thing
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and then you get it.
And tell us what happened
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after you got it? How was
your life after you got that
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record deal? Well, initially
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when you get the deal
and you record the album
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and you hear yourself on
the radio for the first time
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it's the most exciting thing.
I can't even put into words
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how exciting it is to
hear yourself on the radio.
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Yeah. And you
know, you're travelling.
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You're making more money
than you ever made before.
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You're doing TV shows
and radio and making videos
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and all these different
things and it's very exciting.
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But after a while
you become disillusioned
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because it's not what
it's all cracked up to be.
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It's, you know, we as
artists we love writing songs.
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We love being on stage.
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We love doing the creative part.
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But it's also a
business, and you've got to hire
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lawyers and
managers and accountants
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and all these different things.
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And also, too, there's a
part of the promotion part of it
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that is not really creative.
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Personally, I like
being in the studio.
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I like making the
appearances and stuff.
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But when we were
flying all over the world
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and you'd get into a city
and you check into your hotel
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and you take a shower.
And they say you have 3 or 4
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interviews here and then you
have to do an appearance there.
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You know, it starts to
become more than just a notion.
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It's a lot that goes into it.
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You know, again, it's
really interesting because
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the world at large
thinks that it's all glamorous.
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Right. It's all
about glamour and glitz
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and everybody
just looks so happy
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and all of that. But it's so
much more than meets the eye.
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And that's how
Satan is, isn't it?
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Isn't it? I mean,
he presents something
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looks good on the outside,
but once you really find out
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what's behind it
and what's in there
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it's not as
beautiful as it might seem.
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And that's one of the delusions
that a lot of young people
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are under that this is going to
be just the be all and end all.
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Marian, I want to get to
you because I want to hear
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your story as well, and then
I want to tie you two together.
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So we're going to
come back to you, David,
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because I want to find
out how you navigated through
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that world, but let's
talk to Marian. Marian:
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give us some of your background
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'cause you have a very
interesting life as well.
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Tell us about yours. Well,
I was raised in Denver, CO,
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and I started
modeling at a very early age.
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I started working in the
department stores as a high
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fashion model by
the time I was 16.
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And then at 18 as soon as
I graduated from high school
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I went away to
Ebony Fashion Fair.
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And I did that
for about 2-1/2 years.
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I did several cosmetic ads
and you know a lot of print work
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for them as well. And
then I went on to Paris
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to do more of the high
end, high fashion runway work.
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I went to Paris
and Italy and came back
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and just continued to do
fashion. I moved to California
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and ended up
doing music as well.
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So I got with the
group The Brothers Johnson.
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I went on the road with
them as a background vocalist.
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And then I felt like
"Wow, if I'm ever going to
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really really make it big
I've got to go to New York. "
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And so I moved to New York
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and started working for
some really great designers.
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You know, high
fashion designers.
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And I did that for a few years.
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So were you doing music
and modeling concurrently?
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Well, no... it was either
one or the other at the time.
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So I finished singing
with The Brothers Johnson
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and then the modeling picked up.
You know, it was kind of like
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this picked up
then that picked up.
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You know, and so that's
kind of how that went for me.
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So while I was doing the
high fashion work in New York
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I'm doing print, I
was doing commercials,
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and I was doing runway.
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And I did that for a few
years and when I met David.
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Where were you spiritually
when you were doing the music
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and the
modeling? Where were you?
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You know, it's
interesting, Yvonne, because
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you think... you
really think that you
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have a
relationship with the Lord.
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Because I was raised
in the church as well.
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I was raised in
church, but my parents didn't
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give me the same
foundation that David had.
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A whole history.
You know, I mean...
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He had... what's the
word? you know, where...
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Just for generations...
Generations! That's the word
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I was trying to think of.
Just generations, you know.
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His great grandfather... did
Elder Cleveland baptize? Yes.
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Really, like third,
fourth generation in the church.
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And for me it wasn't that way.
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My father didn't attend church.
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My mother took us to
a little Japanese church
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where I really didn't understand
everything that was going on.
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But I went, you know,
'cause mom took us to church.
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So I really didn't have
that relationship either.
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And that's what we talk to
our audiences and congregations
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and young people
about all the time.
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It's really about the relation-
ship, and when you don't have
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the relationship
this is what you get:
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what you think and
not what God wants.
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And so that's why we went out.
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That's why David went
out; that's why I went out
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into the world.
And it wasn't until
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actually we came together.
But that was a "God-thing. "
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Well tell us how you
met. That was a "God-thing. "
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How did you meet?
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Well... thanks for asking.
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Let's see, it was in
1980... It was way back in 19...
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1988- right - the group
Atlantic Starr was searching for
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a new female vocalist
because Barbara Weathers -
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the young lady who
sang Always along with David
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and Secret Lovers - she
went on to a solo career.
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And I was living and
working in Manhattan as a model.
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Some friends of mine told me
that the group Atlantic Starr
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was searching for a
new female vocalist.
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And so I thought:
"Well, I'd like to audition. "
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So I called the studio
where they were recording
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and David Lewis
answered the phone.
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And I didn't know who
David was as an individual.
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I knew the group Atlantic Starr
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but I didn't know
the individual. So...
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when I found out that he
was actually the lead singer
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doing this interview I
thought that, you know,
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it would be nice if I
could come up to the studio
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and audition for them.
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So to make a long story short...
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David drove down... I convinced
him to drive down to Manhattan.
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To come pick me up
and kind of interview me.
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And you know, I had all my
materials. I had a demo tape
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and my picture
and all these things.
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And so we rode
around New York City
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and he listened to my demo tape.
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And at that time they
were looking for someone
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who was really
like a Whitney Houston.
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You know, who
could carry their own.
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And you know, I had a nice
voice... a pleasant voice...
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but I think they were just
looking for a really really
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strong vocalist. But
David and his brothers were
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producing solo artists, and
so they considered producing me
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as a solo artist. And that's
how our work relationship began.
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And then you know, like I
tell people all the time in our
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testimony, we started spending
so much time together that
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you know,
naturally we would have lunch
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and naturally we
would have dinner.
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And then, of course... And
then, you know, we fell in love.
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And it just kind of
just went from there.
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It's just real interesting
because... you know...
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David and I come from
two different backgrounds.
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You know, you're living
these two different lives
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and then God sees fit
to bring you together.
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You know, it's
totally a "God-thing"
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because - yes, yes - we weren't
trying. We didn't expect it.
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We thought we were
going to do music together
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but God had a
bigger plan all along.
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Absolutely. That's
how great our God is.
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He has so many different
ways that He accomplishes
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things. He's just
such an awesome God.
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Tell us how you
came to know Jesus Christ
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and then we want to find
out what you're doing now.
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OK. Well, as Marian
said after we got married
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we joined a Bible study.
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And my sister was going
to a church in Peekskill, NY.
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And she said: "There's a
Bible study up there that we do
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every Wednesday night
so if you want to come
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and be a part of
it you can do that. "
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And I said: "OK. "
And I truly feel that it
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was the right time in my life
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because for me to
actually say: "OK, I'll do that"
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wasn't something that I
would have normally said.
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So I believe everything
has a time and a season,
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Yvonne. Yes.
And that was my time
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and I started taking Bible
studies. I joined a Bible study
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and started reading the Word.
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We were... Marian
had actually started
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the Bible study... or
joined a Bible study as well.
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Started reading the Word,
and the Holy Spirit has a way
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of as you get
into the Word of God
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opening your eyes to
really see what you can't see.
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He allows you to
put on those specs
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that allow you to
have a perspective of life
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that is real. Yes! The
perspective that we have
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in life before God finds
us is jaded. That's right.
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That's what John Newton said.
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"I once was lost
but now I'm found;
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once blind, but now
I see. " That's right.
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And that's what
started to happen.
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As we started to
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associate with
people of like mind
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who were into the
Word, who had a relationship
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with the Lord, that
started to rub off on us.
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And although I hadn't
completely left the business
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I at least started
going back to church again
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on the Sabbath.
And wherever I was
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in the world: if I was
in L.A., if I was in Japan,
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wherever I was I would
find a church to go to.
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And slowly but
surely... God has a winsome way,
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a loving way of just
gradually getting you
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to the point where you become...
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what you're doing - if
it's not in line with Him -
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starts to become
foreign - that's right -
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and uncomfortable. It
started to become uncomfortable
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because the Holy Spirit
was constantly enlightening me
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as to what I should do as
opposed to what I was doing.
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Yes, yes. God has His ways of
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drawing us to Him at the
right time and in His way.
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Absolutely. You
are now writing songs
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and you have written a
song that we're going to show
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the video to.
Set this up for us...
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tell us about this song.
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OK. The song that
we're about to listen to
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is called "I'll Pray For You. "
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And it's a song about my mom.
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She passed away
in August of 2012.
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And just going through
the grief process of it all.
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And one day I was in our kitchen
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I think after devotion,
and God gave me the melody
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to this song or
the melody in the song.
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And I went to the
piano and started playing it
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and it kind of
just came together. Wow.
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And what I did is I
contacted a friend...
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a long-time friend
named Jeff Prusan...
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who was actually our producer's
assistant for our first album.
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And we talked on the
phone a lot about my mom
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and who she was. And he
just asked us a lot of questions
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about her because he
said: "Before I write this song
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I just want to know
who I'm writing about. "
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So we got together
and put it together.
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And it's a beautiful
song... a tribute to her.
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But also it's a tribute to
all the mothers - yes, yes - who
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sacrificed for their children
and planted those seeds of love
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in them to make them the
people that they are today.
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That's awesome.
Let's hear the song.
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I'd love to.
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My grandfather used to
pray for my whole family.
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Even the children... some
of them before they was born
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he prayed for the
children that would come.
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When you have
family and the older ones
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that believe in prayer
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and pray for your children,
that helps to keep them
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together... keep them
going in the right direction
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too, you know.
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The measure of true leadership
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can only be described as one
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who plants the seeds of love
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inside the child's heart.
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The matriarch
of our family tree,
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a voice that shaped our destiny:
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You have brought the Lord
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into our lives.
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She would always
say: "I'll pray for you;
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you pray for me.
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Together we shall overcome
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each obstacle. You'll see
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that your darkest hour
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will turn into a sun shower... "
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"Jesus, I feel
spiritually cleansed
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from the superficial things... "
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Is that beautiful or what?
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And we couldn't
even play the whole song.
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It is beautiful!
Thank you, Yvonne.
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Praise the Lord! You
guys... what do you want
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our viewers to know? We
have just like 30 seconds
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for you to say. What
do you want our viewers
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to know about what you're doing?
About how to get the song.
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Tell us.
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Well, first of all
just want them to know that
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we have a ministry
that we like to go out
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and we like to just
share the good news.
00:26:23.98\00:26:25.65
We tell this
testimony; we do concerts.
00:26:25.68\00:26:29.28
Anywhere anyone
wants to hear a story
00:26:30.29\00:26:32.75
of deliverance we do that.
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This song "I'll Pray For
You" like we said it's dedicated
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to everybody. It's
all mothers; all women,
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all aunties; big-mamas...
everybody who just went that
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extra mile to
sacrifice for their children.
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This song can be
found... I mean, you can go
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onto iTunes and Amazon
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and all of the online stations.
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Yeah, it'll be first released
from our CD entitled One...
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O- N-E. So yeah, we believe
people will really be blessed
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by it. And it's
I'll Pray For You.
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That's right. I'll Pray For You.
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Yeah, and then we
can be found on the Net.
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David and Marian
Lewis. You can find us.
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We're easy to
find. If you Google us
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you'll see everything.
David and Marian Lewis.
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Awesome, awesome. I want
to thank you guys so much
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for coming. Thank you,
too. I wish I had a whole hour
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with you. Yeah,
we appreciate it.
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We appreciate the
time that we had with you.
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You're doing a great
job... a wonderful job.
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Praise the Lord! David
and Marian have shown us
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that money and fame
aren't the way to happiness
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and fulfillment.
Jesus is the only one
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that can fill
that hole in your soul.
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So why not give Him a try today?
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Just ask Him to
come into your heart
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and watch what happens.
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God's got a plan for you.
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Well, that's the
end of our program.
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Thanks for tuning in
and join us next time.
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It just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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