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Guess who’s gonna be a mom!

Around the time we did this interview I guess Yahz would have been about a month along.  If I had known I would have had plenty more questions to ask.

I found this excellent interview of Yahzarah where she talks about anticipating being a mother and the life of motherhood while being a performing artist.

As we continue with this interview and wrap up the session, she tells you where you can find more of her music as well as her words of inspiration to everyone out there.

Part 2- Opportunity and preparation

- Where you can find her

- Words of advice

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I think YahZarah is everything many female vocalists wish they were.

Beautiful.

Sexy.

Classy.

Vocally gifted.

Spiritually sound.

It was some years ago when The Foreign Exchange first dropped their first album Connected, and one of my favorite tracks was “Sincere”.  When I finally saw the video for it my heart jumped like “Whoa!  Who is that girl!?”

Years later I finally got to see The Foreign Exchange live and Yahzarah graced the stage.  It’s as if she retains all the values of engaging the audience that they really only teach in performance schools and acting classes.  Thank goodness for Twitter giving me the ability to connect to her. I told her once she got to L.A. we had to do an interview, and that was that!

Part 1: This gift is not mine.

- How she fell in love with music

- Her inspirations

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It’s a funny story how Neil became Jay’s DJ.  Apparently, the taste-maker and creative spirit extraordinaire Vashtie recommended Neil Armstrong to Jay-Z as he asked who a good DJ would be for him.  She had heard his mixtapes and liked them.  Jay trusted her sense of taste, and the rest was history…

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I can never forget the day.  It was as if it was meant for me to remember.

Around 2004, I was out shopping with some friends on Melrose.  I went into one spot with the homies and they were playing music over the speakers.  They were songs I knew because people had sampled them.  But then I heard a DJ scratching.  I asked the guy at the counter “Is this one of those joints where they play the original samples and stuff?”  He said yeah.  I had heard those kinds of tapes before, so I wasn’t about to get too geeked about it.  But the samples that were being dropped were gems.  Stuff that was hard to find.  And the way they were blended in was seamless.

I asked the guy at the counter “Who is this?”

“DJ Neil Armstrong he said.”

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I got interviewed by my internet homie, The Hoosh!

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