00:00Music is important because it just is. It does. It inspires. It renews. It restores. It's just everything.
00:21For those that don't know my name, Tweet, is a nickname that my dad gave me when I was a little girl.
00:26When I was growing up, call me Tweet except for Uncle Sam or my mom when I thought I was in trouble.
00:31So my new project is titled Charlene, my government name.
00:35And I decided to title it that because I went back to the basics.
00:39So I said, let me go back and get that inspiration.
00:42And I remember really being in love with music as a young child. So I went back to Charlene.
00:47I felt music and understood music at a young age growing up in church.
00:52And being around my mother and father who were in quartet groups.
00:57And I think that really played a role on my deciding to make music my life choice for what I wanted to do.
01:04Seeing how music just touched people's lives and how important music is to certain people.
01:10Even if you don't have nobody to talk to, you can put on a song or music in general and it'll soothe your soul and things like that.
01:16But I learned at a young age.
01:18What inspires me when I'm working on music are my life experiences.
01:24All of my songs have, if not dead on, to everything that I've been through or a desire to have.
01:33So that's what inspires me. And who inspires me?
01:37Weetha Franklin and Al Green, all of the greats.
01:40I listen daily to Marvin Gaye.
01:42He's the man that really, really kind of shaped my sound a little bit.
01:49Because I think that's where the core of real music is.
01:52There are many songs that I've heard that has changed my life.
01:56Tony's Lord, make me over, make me over, is what changed my life.
02:00That was, I was at a point of really rock bottom.
02:03And that's the record that really gave me the inspiration to surrender and let God take me and make me who He wanted me to be.
02:13Wow, in what way would I like to inspire my fans?
02:16Now, in this new journey that I'm going through,
02:22I just want to allow or let people know that they're not the only ones that go through things.
02:28And then just let my life be a billboard to either how you get through or how you come out or whatever.
02:36But I just want to inspire them by the sound and the lyrics and my life experiences.
02:42That's it.
02:43Working with my daughter, I think she might have been 11 or 12 at the time.
02:47It was great because she, as a young child, even at two, was writing songs.
02:52And she always used to say, Mom, I want to, you know, I want to sing.
02:55I want to be in the business.
02:56And I always used to be like, no, because of what I've been through, my story.
03:00So when I heard the record, the song we have called The Two of Us on my second album,
03:05I immediately heard her voice.
03:06And just to hear her, I cried the entire time.
03:09Even now when we collaborate, it's just, I'm still amazed.
03:13Just to hear her come full-fledged into her talent, into her gift, it's amazing to see.
03:18And I would love to see you.
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