Behind the scenes.

Band rehearsals, Venue scouting, Set design planning, Production planning, OH My!
The funny thing about this whole process is that I had no idea what each next step would look like. God is strategic in that way, if I thought I knew it all, I wouldn't push beyond my own abilities. I would scout out a venue, consider it and God was like "nope, not this one...but ask the front desk what else they have"
I was led to a completely bare room. Nothing in it, but potential. And so the planning beginning.

I knew that I was going to be doing an interview and a song, but that's all I knew initially. What song, what musicians, all that stuff, no clue. But again, God knew. Down to who to contact specifically, he had me reaching out to folks that I had never worked with and some I hadn't worked with in years. And it was all purposeful, even those that declined or were unavailable along the way. I realized that the big picture and lesson was in simply following the instructions. From there all these wonderful things opened up. 

Shout out to my musicians: Drew who I worked with wayyyy back when I first began singing, he's a super star keyboardist and always busy, but when I reached out he was so here for it and held me down every step of the way.  Justin (my drummer) who was just too cool through this whole thing LOL through him I realized that everything was gonna come together and I needed to not panic (a past habit that had to break) And then came Adrian (bass) in the absolute clutch. I don't have rehearsal  of him pics because he got brought on just days before the shoot when some unforeseen circumstances occurred (all purposeful tho) They were here for the vision and believed in what I was doing and I couldn't have asked for a better squad.

Yall, I thought this project was going to be all black and white and silver. ("I" thought.) but as the planning continued it got more and more clear and vivid and in the spirit of breaking out, color was the answer...ALL the colors lol. Even down to my wardrobe, my girl Dominique and I went shopping just looking for stuff (God bless her for journeying with me in a thrift store...intense lol), didnt really find anything. And then I remembered the colors, I just grabbed as much colorful stuff as the thrift store could offer, went home, laid it out, and pulled it together and there it was. Meanwhile, Dom designed a bomb style guide for the band and got them together. I didn't know how it was gonna be done, but step by step I opened my heart to hear and the vision continued to grow. Went to my mom's house and swiped all her fabric (she's a designer) and showed up at the venue with some safety pins and clips LOL