00:00Hi, this is Crystal Waters and you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:04She's the voice behind the timeless hits that defined a generation and keep influencing future ones.
00:12One of nine trailblazing musicians to grace the pages of WMAG recently,
00:17multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and house music legend Crystal Waters is a force to be reckoned with.
00:24I'm a big Debbie Harry fan and to see that I was put in the magazine alongside her, it was like, you know,
00:30that's, that's like a dream come true.
00:32Waters is still proving her staying power with her latest single, You and Me.
00:36She hit the Life Minute studios to tell us all about it and more.
00:40This is a Life Minute with Crystal Waters.
00:43You and Me is the first official single off my album.
00:47It's a song that, um, it's really more about you and me against the world.
00:51I kind of, I was telling someone, it's kind of like I have to do pep talks to myself,
00:56you know, especially doing this last album, like you can do it, you can do it.
00:59So I think it kind of came out of that of me, you know, cheering myself on and it's you and me against the world.
01:05And the name of the album, I'm going back and forth.
01:07I have a couple more songs to write, but I want it to be something like authentic.
01:11It keeps, that keeps going through my brain.
01:13So I'm going to wait till the last song is written before I name it.
01:16Oh, I can't believe it's happening.
01:20Oh, I gotta feel so real.
01:23I wanted to do something different, a little out of the box, so, you know, AI is really big right now.
01:28So I always wanted to be, you know, an avatar.
01:30I always wanted to be a superhero.
01:32So we kind of had the picture with the blonde hair and they turned me in the storm, basically.
01:37But it's a lot of fun and it was really nice.
01:39It's very interesting, you know, to get into that stuff and see how that works.
01:42And turn it into a full body, a cape and me flying through the air.
01:47I know it took thousands and thousands of video footage of streams and renderings to get that to happen.
01:52So it took, it took a while, like a couple of weeks to get that all together.
02:00I am on tour as we speak.
02:02So I'm still out there on the road and I can't wait to see anybody out there.
02:06I don't have a favorite place.
02:08You know, it's usually the crowds, the audiences.
02:10I think, you know, I've been on the road for a while.
02:12So now for me, just to go somewhere that's beautiful, like I'm going to Bermuda, I'm going to Madrid.
02:17So just, I can get a little vacation in there somewhere.
02:20So I'm excited for those locations.
02:27I always remember my sister telling people, she always dressed like that.
02:31And I'm like, dress like what?
02:32We used to call my style urban rock because I kind of, I don't know if it's kind of like urban,
02:38but it's kind of rock and roll-ish, somewhere in between that.
02:41You know, I like the people watch.
02:43I mean, I also use stylists.
02:44So, you know, I do have stylists that help me.
02:46But I'm like a people watch, especially when I come to New York.
02:49I love just to sit and see because New York always has some fashion that I'm like, oh,
02:52okay, that's what's happening now.
02:54And then I kind of go from there.
02:56I mean, when you come to artists, I love Lady Gaga.
02:59She always just pushes the envelope.
03:01I mean, I love Beyonce.
03:03I used to love the style.
03:04I love like Gwen Stefani, kind of like, you know, the tomboy thing.
03:07I think it's self-expression.
03:08I think it's another way to express yourself creatively.
03:12In this world, everybody wants to stand out a little bit different.
03:14It's your chance to, you know, just to be yourself and show the world who you are.
03:18So that's important.
03:23What's the secret?
03:25You know, it goes by so fast.
03:26You know, I want to say loving what you do, but being inspired and allowing yourself to
03:31express yourself the way you want to express yourself and just doing it.
03:35Don't wait around for something else to happen.
03:38You know you want to do some, try it.
03:40Don't be afraid to fail.
03:41You're going to fail 90% of the time, but that 10% on the other end is worth it.
03:46So just do it.
03:47Just try it.
03:48My beauty secrets.
03:50I drink lots of water.
03:51I mean, a lot of water.
03:53I do monthly facials.
03:55I'm micro-needling.
03:56I am dermabrasion.
03:59I am all of it.
04:02I take lots of vitamins and I do take a lot of collagen too, but I think the water, especially
04:08when, you know, you travel a lot, dehydration is a big factor.
04:11So a lot of water.
04:13Favorite album of all time.
04:16Ooh.
04:18I'm going to, I'm going to pick Michael Jackson.
04:20I can't, he can't go wrong with Michael Jackson.
04:22Now, which one?
04:25I don't know.
04:26I don't know which one.
04:26I still love Off the Wall.
04:28Something about it was so fresh and so new that it was very inspiring to me.
04:34I think, I think between Michael and even Prince's early stuff like Dirty Mind and all
04:39that, that was very inspirational for me.
04:46My go-to song at a party.
04:49Can I say Gypsy Woman?
04:51Should I?
04:53You know, I love dance music.
04:55I love Michael Jackson, want to be starting something.
05:00But yeah, I think I'd probably play one of my songs at my party.
05:04Probably a hundred percent.
05:08It started off.
05:09Then I go into my new stuff.
05:12Songs that I put on when I'm sad that cheers me up.
05:16It would probably be like a gospel song, like a Kirk Franklin song.
05:21I can't think of a name, but that's probably something I would play a gospel song.
05:24What's next for me?
05:25I'm on tour.
05:26I got the album.
05:28My podcast is doing very well.
05:30I am, we have over a 10.2 million monthly listeners.
05:34It's called I Am House Radio, my podcast, which plays all new house music.
05:38And we have some throwbacks.
05:39I wanted to do it because I couldn't find a place to hear good new house music.
05:44And I love it so much because I get to hear all the new stuff.
05:47I get to hear the new producers and I also wanted to feature some of the vocalists because
05:52a lot of times you just know the DJ's names these days.
05:55So I wanted to give a name to some of the vocalists and some of the songwriters, you
05:58know, behind it, especially the female ones.
06:00So speaking of that, I also have for my third single off the album, we're doing a DJ remix
06:07contest for only women, only female remixers can apply.
06:11So I'm really excited about that.
06:12I can't wait to see we get back because we want to, you know, uplift women in the music
06:16because I think they need to be seen a little bit more than they are now.
06:20I'm also on SiriusXM Utopia, Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday nights.
06:26I'm really looking into moving into more behind the scenes, things like doing events and things
06:31like that.
06:31So I'm really excited about that side of the creativity part of my career.
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