00:00All right. Well, I'm so excited to be talking with you today. Jamie O'Neill, you're, there is no Arizona, trying to find Atlantis, like a woman. All of these songs are so iconic. How do you think that they have achieved that longevity?
00:16Oh, that's a good question. Um, well, hopefully I feel like if you're distinctive enough to stand out, um, that, and the song means something to you. I mean, I get a lot of letters or not so many letters anymore, more like emails and messages on Facebook, but it used to be like, you know, fan club letters and things like that, or in a meet and greet, people would say, you know, your song, Arizona, I was going through a really hard breakup and I realized that I was with the wrong man. And, you know, that helped me through that time.
00:43Or somebody's hero was about my mom or my, my grandmother. And I just think music takes us back to that time in our lives where we heard the song and we related to what was going on. And it meant something to us because music is so emotional and we all have the songs growing up. So like a lot of girls that I meet that might be 18 or 20 years old, you know, 10 or 12 years ago, we're singing my songs at karaoke or, you know, contests and things like that. So the songs stuck with them, you know? And, um, so I think that it's great.
01:13It's a real honor when I hear that, you know, that, um, my song got them through a hard time or they grew up listening to my, you know, when I think about angels and it was just a fun song that I actually dedicated to my dogs. Um, because my dogs are like angels to me. So, well, it's funny that you mentioned that cause I was saying to the girls outside right before this, that, um, I had a karaoke CD with all of your songs and that was my go-to karaoke. Um, there you go. I hear that a lot. I really do.
01:39Me and my little karaoke machine. There you go.
01:41Your voice is so powerful. How did you kind of achieve those notes, especially in like a woman?
01:48I mean, yelling at my sister, I think is really what, how it started. Um, but I, you know, I had singing lessons when I was young. I had this little old lady. My dad made us go to this little old lady who was supposedly one of the best people.
01:59And she would like grab my chin and tell me not to sing from my face and to sing from my diaphragm. And I was like 10 years old going, what's a diaphragm? So, um, she scared me and, and, but it worked.
02:12It really did work because she made me practice all the time. And so I'm a big advocate for taking singing lessons and working on your craft all the time, every day, singing a little bit every day and doing warmup exercises and things like that.
02:24But I think, um, belting is just something I've worked on, breathing exercises and everything. So yeah. And taking care of your voice clearly because you are still doing this and you are absolutely exactly the same.
02:35Yeah. I've never babied it though. You know, a lot of people are like, oh, I can't eat Thai food or I can't do this or I can't do that.
02:41Or I have to warm up for two hours or have an oxygen mask or whatever it may be. And I'm like, really? I never worked that hard at it. I just don't. I think you just go out there and, you know, if you, you know, having a good time, the audience feels that, you know, if you're entertaining and you're up there, you know, kind of bringing the party with you, then everyone will have a great time.
02:59Love it. Thank you so much, Jamie. Great to chat with you.
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